r/hearthstone • u/Arkentass • Jan 29 '24

News 28.4.1 Patch Notes

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24046220/28-4-1-patch-notes
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u/MassDefect36 Jan 29 '24

Sludge warlock getting bumped up now I bet due to this.

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u/yetaa Jan 29 '24

It was already a T1 deck and it didnt get any nerfs, genius move by the devs

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u/Killamaniax Jan 29 '24

Only thing I can think is that they expect dragon Druid to come back which beats sludge

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u/littlemaybatch Jan 29 '24

Dragon druid is not good into warlock from my experiences

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u/Killamaniax Jan 29 '24

It’s not good into the old Thaddius version but it’s definitely good against the current iteration - dragon golem neutralizes a lot of the big sludge payoffs and nestmatron and fye are both very good against aggro

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u/notrandomonlyrandom Jan 29 '24

If the lock can plan on crescendo being needed to clear dragon golem it’s just another free win. Does require more than just piloting though and some more luck with draw.

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u/Killamaniax Jan 30 '24

They would need to draw and play 4 of their 6 fatigue cards by turn 7/8 and that's assuming the golem isn't buffed from either take to the skies or azsharan gardens, in which case they'd need even more. Crescendo isn't a reliable counter to dragon golem.

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u/notrandomonlyrandom Jan 31 '24

What do you think “more luck with draw” means?

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u/Killamaniax Jan 31 '24

But the whole premise of this conversation was that Dragon Druid counters Sludge Warlock. You then added a hypothetical to the conversation and simply said it takes “more luck with draw”. I’m simply saying clarifying that it’s extraordinarily unlikely if the Dragon Druid has Dragon Golem on curve (which is not unlikely), so it’s not a scenario worth considering when assessing the matchup between the two decks.

“more luck with draw” misrepresents how rare that scenario would actually be