In some situations, Shudderwock can use Coldlight Oracle’s battlecry to kill the opponent (or you, if I am being honest) in fatigue. Tim "MrGn0me" Sleeper is an avid card game player and enthusiast. It's no surprise many players have a hard time with mulligans. ” box, you can choose to view stats when going first or second. This quest is fairly easy to complete without making many sacrifices in the early game (excluding, notably, a card in the mulligan). Whereas against other control decks like Control Warrior or Control Shaman, it usually wins in fatigue. To demonstrate, let’s look at the stats of Highlander Hunter: Masked Contender has a 60% win rate which should mean we almost always keep it in the mulligan. If you are certain it is SN1P-SN4P Warlock, keep Bog Slosher if you already have any of the minions mentioned in the General Mulligan. 2. To sum up, the three rules for mulligans are Stats, Context, and Gameplan. The gameplan really changes for every one of the popular meta decks right now. During the mulligan, it’s important to ask: is this card good by itself or good with any of the other cards I’m presented with? Here, Archbishop Benedictus denies me any game plan using Coldlight Oracle to kill my opponent in fatigue. Warpath specifically is crucial in the mid to late stages of the game as it allows you to clear your opponent's board even after they play Soul of the Forest. Now that we know how to navigate through HSReplay let’s use this knowledge to develop 3 rules for mulligans. missing in cases where a card was obviously created. Zola the Gorgon is one of the best value generators available to shaman due to its cheap cost and strong synergy with quest completion. This is an especially helpful tool for new players as you can pick up a deck and already have a good idea of how to mulligan without having to spend countless hours playing the deck beforehand. Generally, you keep or look for cards with a high mulligan win rate. On May 31st we became aware of an issue in our Mulligan Guides containing the card Arch-Villain Rafaam on HSReplay.net. 3 min read, Our good friends at The Angry Chicken had a chance to interview Initial Game Designer Celestalon about the long development history of Zephrys the Great. Most notably, magnetized mechs will lose all buffs when devolved, allowing this card to single handedly destroy Mech Paladins and Mech Hunters. A hand with Secret Keeper, Rat Trap, and Hyena Alpha is worth keeping whereas a hand with Sunreaver Spy, Masked Contender, and Hyena Alpha may not. As a general note, playing Stubbon Gastropod on turn 2 guarantees your 3-drop next turn will stick. I think I learned more through experience than through any sort of statistic. Use that data to help with what cards to mulligan and what cards to keep. While the stats on HSReplay never lie, it is important to remember it matters how those stats are interpreted. We compared data from Arch-Villain Rafaam's top decks from the day before fix to the day after the fix and found that he was significantly overvalued in our Mulligan Guides. To find the mulligan stats, we have to click on one of those decks. At the time, the card Shadowstep boasted a high mulligan win rate but wasn’t kept that often much like Nightmare Amalgam. Many players focus too much on a game plan they built the deck with in mind, and think they’ll hold on to cards until they can play them, when they’re “supposed to” adapt the gameplan with the cards they start with. When deciding which cards to keep during the mulligan, you have to keep all of your card choices in mind. But, if you also have Murloc Tidecaller, a 2 drop Murloc, and Nightmare Amalgam then that’s a pretty good keep especially against Hunter who will have trouble dealing with that kind of curve. How to mulligan correctly is one of the most essential skills to know when playing Hearthstone. The HSReplay.net team would like to announce their newest feature: the Player Initiative filter. With that type of hand, you have none of the payoff cards; however, in some matchups, it may just be worth keeping in the hopes that you draw a secret in the first two turns. Dwarven Sharpshooter: A well-statted 1 drop that'll give you a great deal of flexibility with your Hero Power. It wasn’t odd to see a turn 4, To sum up, the three rules for mulligans are. This will result in some sparse data for the affected cards in the next few days, but at our current game volume the data should become representative again very soon. Some thought you should always keep Shadowstep while others thought it was only worth keeping if you also had a minion to use it on. She is a passable tempo play in the early game and a phenomenal amount or resource generation in the late game if needed. But, if you also have Murloc Tidecaller, a 2 drop Murloc, and Nightmare Amalgam then that’s a pretty good keep especially against Hunter who will have trouble dealing with that kind of curve. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Interview with Peter Whalen and Liv Breeden. Construct a winning gameplan with the cards you have and go with it! For this article, we’ll use. Other cards work best if you already have certain cards in your hand like Hyena Alpha or Sunreaver Spy. Playing Doppelgangster early, when possible, is also often a good play even without Evolve, as it’s a decent tempo play and makes your future Shudderwock into a huge tempo bomb. Our existing processing infrastructure tries really hard to infer the initial card for the cases above and not forget about them, even if the card is transformed again. You could make a case for throwing it back against Paladin in an attempt to draw Devolve, but I would not recommend doing so. This caused a point of contention between pro players. I've found it incredibly helpful as I play, but most of it I found through either stumbling around or a myriad of Google searches. If we click on Murloc Paladin, we’ll get to the general stats page for that deck along with the tab labelled “Mulligan Guide”. As these are usually long and grindy matches that tend to end from fatigue damage, the most important card to keep in your mulligan is by far Dr. Boom, Mad Genius. Clicking on that will show us all of the mulligan stats for every deck variation. HOWEVER- now I really love these stats on hs replay. EVIL Cable Rat is a key tool for completing the quest, and provides quadruple value after quest completion because lackey battlecries and EVIL Cable Rat’s own battlecries are all doubled. Many players focus too much on a game plan they built the deck with in mind, and think they’ll hold on to cards until they can play them, when they’re “supposed to” adapt the gameplan with the cards they start with. Read on for a more comprehensive analysis. Subscribe to Premium today to access the full breadth of stats from HSReplay.net, including mulligan guides, meta filters, personal statistics and more.