fwerre posted on Jul 25, 2008
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"If you've already played a few matches - won some, lost others - then you've
started putting together the first pieces of the puzzle of what separates a
glorious victory from an agonizing defeat. You're also now ready for our
deckbuilding strategy guide, devoted to helping you make the all-important
decisions that will shape your deck. How can you get the most out of your cards.
How do you find the most powerful card combinations in your collection, and what
ways are there to disrupt your opponent's strategy and to create an advantage
for yourself. The Basics: Threats, Answers, and Inevitability Let's start with a
typical gameplay example. Your opponent managed to reduce your hit points to
four, and she's got Zygore Bladebreaker in play, an ally with an ATK of four.
Unless you find a way out of this situation, your opponent will win the game on
her next turn. Biting your lip, you draw a card, and as luck would have it, you
draw Tristan Rapidstrike, an ally with three ATK and protector. You play your
ally, knowing that even though you're not out of the woods just yet, you've at
least bought yourself some time to possibly turn the tide of battle. This
example illustrates three important concepts: inevitability, threats, and
answers. In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, you win the game when your
opponent's hero either takes damage equal to the hero's health or when your
opponent runs out of cards. Inevitability means establishing a situation in
which you will inevitably win the game, just like in the example above where
your opponent had an ally capable of defeating you and you had nothing to stop
her. The means by which inevitability is established are called ""threats,"" and
the means by which threats are countered are called ""answers."" When building
your first deck, this is the first thing to keep in mind: your deck should
include threats that let you establish inevitability as well as answers to your
opponent's threats.
Sometimes, the lines between threats and answers become blurred.
wow gold For example, you could
have drawn Starfire instead of Tristan Rapidstrike. Normally, Starfire would be
considered a threat, but in this case it can actually be used to counter a
threat, which makes it an answer. The ability of some cards to function as both
threats and answers is called ""versatility""; we'll go into a little more
detail on this aspect later.
wow gold Let's see how different
balances of threats and answers translate into different deck types and play
styles. Types of Decks, Types of Strategies Before you begin building your deck,
you need to take a look at your cards and determine which strategy you'll choose
to establish inevitability. Do you want to quickly overwhelm your opponent with
powerful allies and direct damage abilities, or do your cards favor a strategy
of disruption and of sabotaging your opponent's strategy.
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power leveling In other words, will your strategy rely more on threats or
will it incorporate mostly answers. Brute Force: The Aggro Deck Decks that rely
on a superior number of threats to defeat their opponent are commonly known as
""aggro decks."" These decks usually try to put more threats on the board than
the opponent can answer. Since aggro decks normally don't contain a lot of
answers, most of them try to execute their strategy as quickly as possible so
that the opponent can't play any of his own threats.
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players Inevitability is established very early in the game. Aggro decks are
fairly resilient against disruption, which makes them great counters against
control decks. Divide and Conquer: The Control Deck If you want to build a deck
that consists mostly of answers, you are probably looking at what's called a
""control deck."" Control decks try to win by making the opponent simply run out
of threats by providing an answer to everything that's thrown at them.
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This type off deck excels at disrupting an opponent's strategy, for example by
attacking enemy resources and by reducing the opponent's card impact (more on
both strategies later). Control decks usually establish inevitability over time
in the later stages of a match. The disruptive quality of answer-heavy control
decks allows them to perform very well against the last major deck type: combo
decks.
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Surgical Precision: The Combo Deck A deck that relies on a very specific card
combination to win is called a ""combo deck."" Combo decks may resemble control
decks at first because they often include a decent amount of answers to buy some
time for the combo pieces to fall into place.
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