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I'm with Lambo on that one - Raggy can fit into a lot of decks.

I mean he can, but there are quite a few legendaries he doesn't have that can fit into many decks, like Harrison and sylvannas

Ragnaros is nice because you get immediate value out of him, silencing him does almost nothing, and he has a solid vanilla value.

I can't really think of a downside to Ragnaros. Even if he gets big game huntered, you still dealt a minimum of 8 damage to something.

Of course Ragnaros has immediate value, I'm saying that there are several other legendaries that go into just as many decks as Rag though, so its no use to rush into Rag if one of those other ones would suit your deck better.

Really? I have yet to see him make as large of an impact in games as other legendaries.

What Drrek said, all around utility. If you're going to craft a Legendary with no other variables to consider then you might as well craft one that can end up in a large amount of decks, both now and in the future. Thalnos' cost, cantrip, and spellpower lends itself to a lot of decks.

But really, the Legendary you need to craft the most should always be the one you need at this exact moment. There is no rush to craft a Legendary blind now, save your dust and just wait until that need arrives.

There is nothing quite as satisfying as trying to climb to Legendary before reset, getting paired against Reynad, and then beating him.

If only he was streaming so I could hear the salt.

I actually really like that card back. I just wish there were more places you could see your own card back than just your deck during matches.

Just lost to Kripp because I had Soulfire'd a Doomguard at 25% chance in the zoo mirror.

Although to be fair, he had to Doomguard a Doomguard.  The main thing was he had a Leeroy too, and I couldn't find my other Doomguard.

Just got ANOTHER Malygos.  Good news is I'm at 2900 dust now.  I'm thinking I'll do Cairne and Sylvanas once I hit the 3200 mark.  Harrison, Thalnos, and Ragnaros are up there, but the first two are really all I need for a solid Priest and Paladin control deck (although I am missing 2 Cabals, but that's doable).  I'm kind of just plugging away right now until I get some more epics, since I need 2 Preps before I can do Miracle, 2 Cabals for Priest, Doomhammer and Lightning Storms for Shaman, etc.

Handlock and Warrior are far, far off in the future (although realistically with Cairne and Sylvanas I can build Kolento's Warrior)

Hey I doubt anyone cares, but I got a webcam and about 700 gold, so I'll be streaming arenas at twitch.tv/drrek0 tomorrow starting around 10 am.


Also did anyone else see the rumors that buzzard and Leeroy nerfs are imminent?

Even at 3/2 Buzzard is still vulnerable to the plethora of 2-damage spells and battlecries AND it now costs 3 more? I don't think I'll even run it in my Hunter deck anymore.

I heard that rumor the other day as well. Not at all a fan of it, the stats on Buzzard are completely irrelevant, but changing UtH to 3 cost was what Buzzard needed to prevent absurdly early draw power. I could understand forcing it on turn 6 or 7, but 5 mana is way too much.  Granted, Hunter already has very nice draw power in Flare and Tracking, Buzzard/UtH is the heart and soul of it. It's not even like Hunter was dominating legendary.  I think they'll change it around in the end, similar to UtH balancing initially.

Leeroy I'm moderately okay with.  I would have preferred a 5/3 or something still at 4 mana, but whatever, it really won't effect any of my current decks in a large way, but I really don't think it was necessary.

Hopefully it will shush miracle rogues and handlocks.

Handlock isn't great in the current meta, but I guess with Hunter out of the way it could dominate. Loatheb has done wonders to decrease Miracle Rogue's dominance already as well.  I really don't think the Leeroy change was necessary.  Force of Nature/Savage Roar does plenty of damage in one swing and they aren't nerfing that.

/rant

#sucksforthosewhojustcraftedLeeroy

This is my latest project. It's more of a fun deck due to how gimmicky it is, but I seem to surprise a lot of people in Casual, and even low levels of Ranked (when I'm ranking up for the card back).

I was thinking to add a second Ancestral Spirit, and I think Cairne Bloodhoof would be a good add (he was my very first legendary from a pack). Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

So if I cut Bloodlust x2 to add Loatheb and Cairne, would that work? Or should a second AS go in before Cairne? I just think his deathrattle synergy is too good to pass up in this deck.

Cairne is more consistent.  If you were running crusher shaman, AS would be required, but this is deathrattle shaman.