Hearthstone balance designer Chakki recently held a special tournament on Twitter, the contestants are not people, but various versions of the "cancer" deck, after four days of voting has now decided the top eight card deck, because the selection method is the player vote, there will inevitably be subjective factors, but they are indeed the history of the strong deck.
Card deck tournaments
Hearthstone balance designer Chakki's cancer deck tournament was actually inspired by Mortdog, the designer of Genting Games next door, who once held a similar strongest genre poll on Twitter. Hearthstone's deck tournament selected 64 sets of cards that have historically dominated the standard environment, and let players vote for the strongest deck by randomly disrupting the order, which is actually not the strongest, but the hottest or most impressive deck. Qingfeng has also been paying attention to this activity, and has also made a Chinese version of the battle table, but because of the compression of some platform pictures, some places may not be clear.
Chakki also provided representative decks for each deck as it reached the quarterfinals, and while the 8-in-4 vote is now over, it doesn't stop us from talking about the decks that made it to the quarterfinals.
Plagiarism thieves
Plagiarism Thieves is the current version of the popular power card deck, Chakki chose the version with the new big fan and Mr. Heavy Fist, the point of plagiarism is that the master of cross-dressing can reduce the fee for the barbarian jackal, and in the case of unblocking, you can jump on two double-sided spies for 2 fees, and the suppression of the scene is very strong. In the case of more Tianhu, it is really possible to do 2 fees on two 4/5, in many cases just rely on the scene to bulldoze the opponent, not to mention the plagiarism can also get strange cards?
However, Qingfeng feels that the plagiarists can enter the top eight, mainly eating the dividends that are currently hot, many players belong to the residual hatred, retaliatory voting, and many new players do not know the previous deck. The Plagiarists defeated Two Sets of Fishman Riders of Angelo and Odamm, respectively, and the Even-Numbered Sa of the Witch Forest, and these three decks were also very powerful in the environment at that time. However, the plagiarism thief basically came to this point in this competition, because in the 8-in-4, he met a day blind.
Blind for a day
Its practical current group card template can not restore the strength of the demon hunter at that time, the reason why the breeze pipe this deck is called a day blind, the main reason is that the demon hunter was too strong when he first came out, hanging the other nine major classes, resulting in the new class was urgently weakened within 24 hours, such as the vampire knife minus 1 durability, Guldan's skull from 5 fees to 6 fees, the imprisoned Antarn from 5 fees to 6 fees, and then the demon hunters were weakened several times, such as double-edged slashes became 1 fee and so on.
In order to let everyone feel what the demon hunter looked like at that time, Qingfeng found a screenshot of the composition of the deck at that time from the Internet, and it can be seen that many cards have now been weakened, and this deck may be faster than chakki gave. This one-day blindness is also currently the most favorable candidate to win the championship.
Magic Block Magic
Although the magic block art was classified as the witch forest version, in fact, the magic block art had already appeared in the dog-headed version, and there were no new cards in the witch forest in this deck, but in the witch forest, the cost of the enchanted male servant and the ability to return blood from the dark contract were weakened. Magic Block Magic is a set of cards that can be fast or slow, if you pull out the Void Lord, it is the Defensive Supreme, and if you pull out 57 big brothers, then you can directly take you away.
It is worth mentioning that in the 16-into-8 game, the magic block technique defeated the funeral hunt, and the funeral hunting was squeezed into the top 16 by defeating the task technique, and the era of the funeral hunting was not yet in the pit, and it was impossible to describe his feelings, but the funeral hunting has always been the designer's highest winning set in history. But if you compare the magic block technique with the task technique, The Wind is still more inclined to the task art, after all, the task spell destroys the entire version of the Storm City experience with its own strength, and also creates a forbidden card, which may be more difficult to counter than the magic block art. (Of course, it is also possible that the passage of time has diluted my impression of magic blocks)
Punch sa in the face
The set of face-slapping sa given by chkki actually had a more appropriate name called Qinghai Sa at that time, that is, it brought the qingyu system and the pirate system, and there was still a clear difference between the Karazan version of the face-slapping sa. Before the ancient god version, the shaman had been at the bottom, and when the ancient god version shaman got the 477 of the IMBA, he began to embark on the counterattack path, while in the Karazan version, the shaman got the small claws and the large vortex portal that were very useful in the early days, and began to embark on the road of punching faces, and the strongest shaman form at that time was called "Rexa", because he was too fast.
Speaking of which, the face-punching Sa was able to enter the quarterfinals that Qingfeng did not expect, because his top 16 opponent was the Buddha Rider. Seeing this mysterious challenger, I believe that many old players seem to have heard the sentence "Who am I, this has nothing to do with you", and at the same time can imagine the desperate scene of the opposite bag, and this card finally got a good ending unexpectedly, and did not suffer any weakening and stability to escape into the wild. In fact, the voting situation of domestic players is also more inclined to the Buddha riding to advance, perhaps this is the gap between China and foreign countries.
Space Pastoral
In this competition, the priest only has 3 sets of card sets selected (Dark Shepherd, Heart Fire Shepherd, Cosmic Shepherd), which can be said to be the most miserable class, the Cosmic Shepherd was also called Wuba Mu or Walk A Mu that year, through Raz to reduce the skill to 0 fees, and then change DK to turn all the hands into bullets, and the Prophet Viren can also cooperate with the psychic shock and skill damage, 9 fees can hit 20 damage in the empty field, even if you don't use OTK, the other party will be grinded to death in the war of attrition.
Qingfeng was also an old priest player before, when he saw the priest DK, Qingfeng realized that this was a very strong priest card, because this was the most needed means of killing the priest, before Wuba Mu had become a tumor, Qingfeng had been playing Cosmic Mu, of course, Qingfeng's construction was very entertaining, even without shock and wei lun, even such an entertainment card deck had a very good winning rate. However, the priest also had to stop the quarterfinals, because he encountered an underground cave that had collapsed several times.
Quest Thief
Why specifically label the Quest Thief (Angelo)? Because both forms of the mission thief in this competition have successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, the task thief at the beginning did not actually bring the fire feather elf and the fire rock element, and it was only later in the improved version that he brought these two cards as another way to do the task.
And the Witch Forest version of the mission thief, in addition to the shadow dancer Sonia can cooperate with the little wild boar South Sea boatman these stormtroopers to do the task, the fierce scaly beast is also a very important reinforcement, raid blood sucking so that the task thief in the middle and late stages of the task of the task is guaranteed, will not be directly killed in the opening of the mission and the following rounds, but also with the elf chanter high-speed card.
In both sets of mission thieves, there is a high-cost card: Disappear. Disappearing in the task thief card deck in addition to doing tasks and slashing, the control of the scene is also very important, the thief is a rhythm class, and the disappearance of this card can seriously disrupt the rhythm of the other party, so the thief's hero card will disappear back to the standard environment, immediately become the biggest reinforcement of the lock throat thief, at the same time appear in all the thief card groups, I don't know if the next balance patch will move on him?
Qingyude
As the infinite resource deck in Hearthstone, Qingyude has a strong late ability, becoming the speed limiter at that time, so that all the late card groups can not compete with him in the late ability, in the most arrogant era of Qingyude, Hearthstone was once ridiculed as Hearthstone: The Legend of the Jade Hero. And the ultimate infection sets cards, battlefield and recovery in one, and the powerful Laipi ability also guarantees that Qingyude can play unlimited resources.
However, it is also an infinite resource, Qingyude may really be inferior to the current ignition method, after all, Qingyude's body size cannot be directly hit in the face, and the ignition damage is real, but unfortunately, the ignition method was a wild card deck at the beginning, so it failed to participate in this selection.
And these eight decks have also decided on the final four after a day's voting: (One Day) Quick Attack Blind, Magic Block Magic, Mission Thief (Angelo) and Qingyude, I don't know who the champion in your mind is?