HCT Americas Fall Playoffs 2018 - All Deck Lists & Results!

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1. Fridge September 12, 2018

   And they say priest is the worst class... poor Jaina

   1. Stonekeep September 12, 2018

      On the ladder, Priest is definitely the worst class. The thing is, tournament meta is a bit different. Most importantly, line-ups are made with ban in mind (e.g. you can ban Druid and play line-up that's bad against Druid, you can't do the same thing on the ladder), and in the conquest format, you pick certain decks as the counters. Control Priest was much more popular in tournaments than it was on the ladder for a long time.

2. anggadaz September 12, 2018

   why mage is minor? there is many even warlock user, tempo mage will get easy win.
   there is many big druid (taunt/hadronox) too, big spell mage will favourable.
   or big spell mage too many lose against token druid?

   i agreed that paladin is minor, because too many token druid and control deck.
   thats bad for odd paladin.

   i dont know that priest not die yet.

   1. Stonekeep September 12, 2018

      First of all, you need to remember that people submitted the decks without knowing what other players will submit. It means that most of the players had to guess what decks they will have to face. I'm quite sure that most of the players have analyzed the lineups from EU Fall Play-offs, where Zoo Warlock and Odd Rogue were more popular than Even/Control/Cube and Quest Rogues (so the bad matchups for Tempo Mage were more popular than the good ones).

      Yes, there are some Big Druids, which is a positive matchup for Big Spell Mage (but I wouldn't even call it good, it's more like a 55/45 matchup - Taunt Druid is a much better one). but there are twice as many Mill + Token Druids, which on the other hand, are terrible matchups for the deck. And Big Spell Mage wasn't performing too well on the last tournament, so that's another reason why some players might have been reluctant to bring it.

      That's the thing, you can't just look at the full list of decks and say "I wonder why people haven't brought more X" - that would require a knowledge they haven't had before. Picking the right line-up is a very important, but also incredibly difficult skill that pro players need to have.

3. CD001 September 12, 2018

   Quest Rogue - the deck that just will not die :)

4. Force of Will September 12, 2018

   Props to Hockeyboyz3 on bringing those 4 Mecha'thun decks. I hope he does well with them.

   1. Orasha September 12, 2018

      Cheese brought OTK paladin, I hope one or both of them get through lol

5. Orasha September 12, 2018

   I think most of the decks labeled "big druid" are Taunt Druid's with the Oakheart package, but I didn't look at all of them to confirm.

   1. Evident September 16, 2018

      These should be fixed now, sorry about that.

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