I think Mage and Priest Mech have a lead that I will definitely want to try. It's interesting that they didn't really introduce new silence at all, outside of Recombobluator. I'm tempted to play Shaman once more since they have so much access to silencing effects.

I dunno if I'll ladder until I've got a stable resource of GvG cards so I'm probably gonna farm gold and Arena runs until I feel comfortable.

Here are my rough rough drafts for Priest and Mage.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/126164-mech-control-priest
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/130258-mech-control-mage

~theorycrafting~

Dark cultist AND spider bot seem kinda clunky, and i feel like two shrinkmeisters would be worth it especially with 2 cabals. 2 silences might be a touch much but it might not be depends on how the meta shapes up. not sure i like 2 holy novas either. i feell like the mechs dont really have that much synergy and are kind of just there for the sake of it, like upgraded repair bot is the only card that actually interacts with another mech. I feel like its lacking in tech cards, and two shadow word pain seems kinda clunky.

~theorycrafting~

the mage deck seems a bit more solid. snowchugger doesnt do enough for me, i dont think it does enough. the freeze effect is meh, i'd rather have a sorc apprentice. antique healbot seems really shitty for 5 mana. interesting to see a deck with no secrets and. i feel like a control deck could use polymorph especially in a meta that values silence highly.

~theorycrafting~

I think Gadgetzen nerf is super late. I don't see much miracle at ranks 3-4 or so. But yeah maybe because of spare parts it needed a nerf. Meh.

Soulfire probably needed a nerf but Doomguard was the big one imo.

Got 3 Shrinkmeisters in my arena run. That card is insane. Singlehandley won me some games. I'm 7-2 right now but I'm probably going to wait since I want the GvG pack from arena and not the regular one.

Where the fuck did all the awful Arena players go. Everyone except me gets a Legendary + 2 Hexes + 2 Flamestrikes + 3 Truesilvers.

^

im getting fucked when it comes to like good spell card choices in arena nowadays

i have decks with like 29 minions rofl

So GvG is almost upon us. What are you guys gonna craft first, if anything?

I'll probably try to get a few good Arena runs before crafting any cards.

I've been having a lot of success with a control priest deck: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/133715-shrink-control-priest

Using cabal/sw:pain on cairnes/mech yetis/druid of the claws/yseras is so satisfying. Shrinkmeister is such an insane card in general. Let's you trade into things when they would usually die and you can circle/holy nova after with or without a northshire.

they ruined rogue. Worst class in the game now. they made her a shitty version of zoo. gg blizzard.

Yeah, I instantly put shrinkmeister into my Control Priest, it's insane. Voljin is CRAZY, it's like a 5 mana Fire Elemental - it curves perfectly on turn 5, helping you deal with loatheb and belcher etc.

That new warlock legendary is going make Demonlock maybe a viable archetype, which is a pretty scary thought.

The new Paladin cards are crazy good. 3 1/1s and a 1/4 weapon for 3 mana is crazy value, a midrangey-buff type paladin might be viable now.

Really interested to see how the meta shapes up.

Opened my first pack to find 2 Annoyotrons lol.

I think I'm going to go for a silly / fun RNG Deathrattle Priest.

...if Blizzard ever lets me login.

thanks to GvG i finally got my first 12 win woo
shit rewards tho ):

A few decks that have been working for me on ladder
http://puu.sh/dqFnb/8a94523281.jpg
Darkbomb is nice, a lot better than soulfire in handlock. Antique Healbot is insane, it's like a second jaraxxus sometimes. Loatheb could def be swapped out, maybe for Dr. Boom?

http://puu.sh/dqFkJ/a1e8a6a3d7.jpg
If I had Dr. Boom, i'd definitely put it in this deck, probably the best neutral GvG legendary imo. Probably would swap out whirlwind or brawl depending on how popular aggro is. rest is really standard because i don't have all the new cards yet.

http://puu.sh/dqFi3/ab39c6c708.jpg
i'm pretty happy with this in terms of fine tuning of tech cards. Shrinkmeister is insane. Sometimes I play it as a two-drop if i am desperate though. It's so satisfying to cabal a sludge belcher or a cairne. Might need to slot in a thoughtsteal or two since control warrior is really popular.

Here's the control Warrior deck with all the cards I personally prefer using, been winning a lot with it. There are a lot of different viable cards you can use in CW now that GvG came out, it's really nice.

http://i.imgur.com/zg6bYE4.png

all of that looks pretty good (cards i don't have) but why piloted shredder?

It's a solid 4-drop. A bunch of CWs run Gnomish Inventor or Sen'jin to smoothen out the curve. I might switch it out for a Spellbreaker or perhaps an Owl if it seems necessary.

edit: I've posted my new Paladin deck to Hearthpwn. Go check it out, guys! http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/139048-gvg-healadin-2-0-legendary

What is everyone doing for crafts? I'm really resisting crafting commons and rares I want to use, and because I've had horrid luck with opening cards right after I've crafted them.

I feel like spellbreaker is better than piloted in CW, especially in the current metagame

Apparently there's a hearthstone GvG packs giveaway for Christmas. Post your links here to help each other out I guess?
Also it appears they will run out of codes pretty soon.

http://give-aways.net/hearthstone/index.php?id=CYsOpBFleP

Edit: actually may or may not be legit; surveys n shit

http://give-aways.net/hearthstone/?id=WbxOpHTBx6

sure why not

finally! 216 games later I have achieved #230 legend!
http://i.imgur.com/mSGPONE.jpg

Now I don't know what to do on this game anymore other than come on for the quests. Doesn't seem to be a whole lot to do afterwards other than to keep grinding ranks. :(

edit: if anyone is interested heres the list i used the entire way from rank 6 ish to legend with a record of 94 wins - 47 losses
http://i.imgur.com/Zc0PLKs.png
Left side for full on aggro / face hunter farming.
Right side for control decks. Can also cut a shield block for gorehowl to give you an edge in all control matchups. Gorehowl is too slow to be of use vs aggro so be careful. :(
Pretty much sjow's list with changes for if i queued into heavy amounts of control.

hotboy#1374 feel free to add a bad player

This ladder is impossible to climb rofl @_@. I get 6-10 ranks per win and i drop 50-60 for every loss. How does this work???

by being better than them

70-75% winrate is pretty damn difficult.

I just watched Kripp lose an opener in a 0-0 Arena Priest mirror game to someone who played 3 Shrinkmeisters from his starting hand in the first three turns with value. I think I was laughing and hyperventilating for half a minute there.

Arena can be disgusting sometimes. 3 Yetis in the first 4 turns is so gross.

New content hype? Blackrock Mountain coming soon.

Finally get to see more dragons.

gotta grind some gold now