Hearthstone Freeze Mage: A Game of Inches

Need a Doomsayer early here, Against token Druid (cough cough)
If you have one Doomsayer you win usually, or Frost Nova Doomsayer by turn 5.
Could be Jade, Jade is very very hard. Hehe, The lit squad.
Thin out our deck I¡¯m just looking for Doomsayer.I have Frost Nova Doomsayer turn
5. Savage roar umm,8 Savage roar is 18.
Next turn we can Loot Hoarder. Although, We want to Loot Hoarder this turn if umm¡¦
Flame Geyser kills one, Meteor kills 3 but Meteor costs me my entire turn, Next turn.
Kid Jast, Thanks for the sub. Welcome to the StrifeCrew here is a Cro fist.
OH wait, Do we die?Did we die? Oh, One off Wow okay.I actually counted for Savage Roar,
I didn¡¯t count for charge and Savage Roar. We can¡¯t beat Swipe anymore.This value
trades here.Do we do anything other than. So weird thing is I¡¯m thinking of not even
trading off the Loot Hoarder. I technically can trade both in and then kill
this but we¡¯re losing too much board flat for saving ourselves 1 damage, That doesn¡¯t
make sense. We¡¯ll just try to win the board and keep
our Loot Hoarder up, Hope he doesn¡¯t have Swipe. Most people don¡¯t run swipe (cough).
Our board can trade. Actually, can it trade? Not all the way.
Start by pulling our secrets Ice Block is not the one we want. I don¡¯t think we can
lose our block. If we double trade yeah.. We¡¯ll lose our
okay, so I don¡¯t think he can deal 4. So yeah, let¡¯s do this ¡®cus we have AoE
and stuff. He¡¯s played both marks.If there¡¯s no
marks I should trade here.Is there any more chargers? Patches should be the only charger.I
should probably still do this I don¡¯t see why not.
But losing Block is worse than losing a Frost Nova.Okay, Our board trades so it¡¯s pure
development for me this turn.Almost certainly Ice Block, I would play Barrier over Block.
This takes a while to cycle I to play him early so I can DRAWL for Alex.The moment I
get Alex I should win this game. I might even have to ping my own Bloodmage.
I actually need to clear, Alex doesn¡¯t win the big board.
We¡¯re looking for blizzard right? We should probably start well.. We could get
AI, arcane explosion if we keep our guy alive. Do we even want it over AI? It¡¯s really
good.Explosions way too good here. We¡¯re still getting clocked over 2 turns
though, but we need to clear his board for Alex.
Yeah, we¡¯re looking for Frost Nova Doomsayer too, but only one more Frost Nova.
Blizzard, we have no mana for so I think we have to take this.
He¡¯s not gonna kill my acolyte or my NOVICE so I had to kill my.. He¡¯s not gonna kill
my Blood mage so I had to kill it myself ¡®cus I¡¯m ultimately trying to dig for Alex.Well,
If he has minions I can trade but, he¡¯s not like.. If I left it out I don¡¯t think
he would even play his minions. WOW, he¡¯s trading so (pick?).. What? Now
he¡¯s not not guaranteed to clock me. Is Fledgling stronger? So I have 2, Actually
no, I have Doomsayer I don¡¯t there is any reason that
I would ever Alex this turn ¡®cus Fledgling.Ah.. it¡¯s almost certainly a win too but Doomsayer
means he can¡¯t have any development I think it¡¯s even better.
I might never lose my Block here. So even with living mana, he can¡¯t develop
into Alex.. I mean into the Doomsayer. This is a good match-up for Freeze mage in
general. Like I said any deck with Doomsayer should beat this kind of deck but he had a
good (cough cough)he had a good opening almost got run over.Ultimately (this actually my
living) like Eater of secrets.It is true this line-up beats Eater of secrets or as the other
line maybe doesn¡¯t.I don¡¯t know the point is it¡¯s not really about Eater of
secrets anyways.¡¯Cus there was no chance that he has the Eater of secrets I feel like
it was better getting the Doomsayer off and Alex on empty board Than to Alex into ambitious
Fledgling. Rogue is generally pretty easy for Mage.
I need DRAWL though.
Secret is good ¡®cus I can play it with Valet, Potion of Polymorph if he was going
for the thing to shadow step. It¡¯s also good against Igneous Elemental I feel like
it¡¯s too hard to use. I don¡¯t think I Alex into burn this match-up.
It¡¯s too slow. Barrier is also pretty useless I feel ¡®cus
when Caverns Rogue goes off they do like 30 damage in 1 turn.
Well, i guess if I¡¯m at 30 I go to 38 maybe it keeps my Block up but a lot of the times
Barrier doesn¡¯t keep your Block up ¡®cus their damage is so explosive.So I¡¯m just
going to play Ice Block with intention of potentially never playing Ice barrier the
whole game.So I took this I just wanted to do 9 damage.¡¯Cus Alexstrasza ..I don¡¯t
have time to Alexstrasza into burn. This match-up is all just straight DRAWL burn like right
away. I needed to take pressure with arcanologist
and stuff which I didn¡¯t have.Can do a lot of chip damage like that.I might just
Valeting people in the face. This guy might have done even more damage
if I played it on turn 2 but I had to Glyph and stuff to play.
Turn 3 I might as well play secret into turn 4 Valet.A bit annoying I wanted to play Missiles
this turn for 9 face damage. This is weird.What¡¯s the thing here?
¡®Cus once he starts playing random of minions it¡¯s hard for me to missiles.
Could use this turn to develop barrier but like I said I don¡¯t know about how useful
that is. We can blizzard to clear and then missiles
although he can reflood. I guess we can Blizzard and Doomsayer.It¡¯s only countered by Vanish.
How many minions will he have this turn?Oh, this isn¡¯t bad, I can just Missiles, ping
Missiles.I need to get these Missiles face damage ASAP.This is good enough 6 and I cleared
one minion. All we need is what? Fireball or Bloodmage?
Fireball we have 12. He¡¯s on Southsea Deckhand number 3 right
now. He has Deckhand that¡¯s 7 but it absorbs
7 that¡¯s fine.The other thing is if he spends 7 on Deckhand(I think he means Doomsayer)
if Arcanologist gets in the hit on him that¡¯s super worth.
It¡¯s turning my Doomsayer into 2 damage and 7 life for me.
Skitz001, Thanks for the sub welcome to the StrifeCrew. Here is a CroFist.
Now he¡¯s not the quest off this turn. Wasn¡¯t sure if he had enough.
That still absorbs 10 damage. He shouldn¡¯t be able to burst me at 25
through freezes. So again, I¡¯m never playing Barrier ¡®cus the moment I unfreeze he¡¯ll
be able to do 30. I¡¯m just gonna freeze/burn.Do I have enough damage here?Uhh, I need one
more Fireball or Valet. Ping + Valet so.. I like Blizzard first because I can Frost
Nova with AI together and with like other stuff (Cough Cough).
Let¡¯s see, yeah it¡¯s fine. Caverns Rogue does not really run Swash Burglar
usually.Miracle Rogue sometimes pulls off wins with Swash Burglar into Counter Spells,
Ice Blocks but Caverns Rogue it¡¯s really hard for them.
If I Frost Nova I¡¯m still staying alive. So I have 6 mana to spare.. I don¡¯t have
enough damage. This will pull my last Ice Block. It¡¯s
a DRAWL which thins out my deck.By that logic, I might as well acolyte. Actually, no it¡¯s
still better to do this we have enough damage. ping him to 13 and then we have Uhh.. Bloodmage.
Do we have mana? Yeah, we do.So, Uh.. 9 12 if he was 1 less I had enough damage to just
ping him into the Bloodmage. Wait I would ping to 13 and if I ping him
to 12, 11 9 10 11.. Yeah so it¡¯s 1 damage off from the ping.
I got my last block so there¡¯s no way he wins the game unless he pulls off some crazy
Eater of Secret stuff I feel. ¡®Cus, I¡¯m losing my block next turn
but I have another one and I almost have enough damage.
I even win with just pinging.Actually, no not really(cough).
So I do need to top deck one more damage over two turns and I have
a lot of DRAWL. Oh, another turn.Although, Technically. No
that¡¯s too technical. Maybe, I was thinking I just ping I guess.
Right? Then lose my Block and ping to 12 and then win like that.I think it¡¯s better
to go for DRAWL though, I¡¯m not sure.I guess it¡¯s win either way(cough cough).
Can he possibly?Now that he unfilled his board. Oh, interesting. I still have a block but
it¡¯s not uh.. He can pop my Block here with enough chargers and shadow steps.
Nope, he couldn¡¯t get it. So I
still have 3 turns instead of 2. We barely need more damage. I¡¯m just gonna
throw my spells here and I¡¯m 1 Valet away or 1 Frostbolt away.
Kinda guarantee the win by just pinging.Instead of just pinging him to 2 he pops my Block
then ping to 1 but yeah I just win by pinging him it doesn¡¯t even matter if I play Loot
Hoarders ¡®cus he can always Uhh.. Vanish these DRAWL cards.
Wow.. I
actually never drew any damage but I still win like this. Counter Spell feels most useful
if he somehow runs Swash Burglar into secrets. Hehe, finally got the damage.
It¡¯s actually a lot closer than I thought I just never drew that last damage.

Hearthstone Freeze Mage: A Game of Inches

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