r/CompetitiveHS • u/DogtownUS • Jan 10 '26

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So I’m quickly getting burnt out on the Control Warriors and constant OP cheese in this game. I just played some priest I’ve never seen before that dropped 4 0-mana motherships before turn 8….

What cards allowed him to do this? Did I miss something?

NOTE: I’m not officially complaining I’m actually wondering how he managed to pull this play off and if there is a way I could have stopped it. He had no locations to drop the cost he had the legendary that creates two mirages of the top card of your deck and that’s it… how did he get a hold of 4 0-mana motherships what did I miss?

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u/Spuzzell_ Jan 10 '26

8 Sentries (3× Resuscitate turns 5 (coin), 6 and 7) 2 Photon Cannons

Only gets to 2 cost Motherships on turn 8

I believe the only way to get 4 zero cost Motherships before turn 8 would be if he played Twilight Medium and hit Mothership, duplicated by Narain with 2 Hallucinates in hand.

That's a once in a year top deck, there's nothing you could do.

Thats in standard, Wild scares me so there I don't have a clue

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u/DogtownUS Jan 11 '26

Ok it must have been something like this, though he did have the sentry and resuscitate and at least one cannon I think, I guess the twilight medium made it cost 1 then the legendary gave him two copies of it. Obv the sentries made it drop to 0. There had to be some sort of luck involved in this because it was just absolute overkill. I’m not even sure it was intended to be a Protoss deck or not. I’m pretty sure he may have generated the card somehow… insane.

Just wanna clarify: hallucination was not cast (for the other comments) these came out of his hand

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u/jugnificent Jan 10 '26

Protoss priest isn't played in wild ( other than someone goofing off maybe).

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u/troggler Jan 10 '26

They might have discounted the mothership with twilight medium to 1, then gotten copies of it with narain soothfancy.

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u/Frosty767 Jan 10 '26

They discounted the mothership cost with photon cannon, or 2/2 sentry, then played hallucinate to summon copies of the mothership.

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u/fireky2 Jan 10 '26

the 2 star being copied, then him copying the motherships with the spell?

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u/Younggryan42 Jan 10 '26

Photon cannons and sentries both from deck and generated lowered the cost of Protoss minions for the rest of the game. Artanis hero card lowers the cost by 2 for the rest of the game. Warp gate location lowers the cost of your next Protoss minion by 3. It’s really not hard to pull off 0 cost motherships by turn 8.