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[Leafsnail]

Yeah Freeze Mage is sortof similar.  The main difference is that freeze mage is generally purely reactive/controlling while oil rogue plays more of a tempo game.

[frostshotgg]

The difference between the two is that Oil Rogue has just barely enough raw damage in the deck and no way to survive, and freeze mage has plenty of spare damage and lots of defensive tools. Rogue winds up having to spend an eviscerate here to kill the frothing, an oil there to get past the sludge belcher. Freeze mage can afford to fireball the 10/6 void terror, but rarely needs to because it has so many other tools that let it get past it.

[Leafsnail]

Sure, but that's fine because Oil Rogue is capable of being proactive, so it can take control of the board and hit people extremely hard with minions if they can't keep up.  That flexibility makes it a lot less vulnerable than Freeze Mage (which basically dies off as soon as warriors or people with Kezan Mystic in their decks start showing up regularly).

If you look at major tier lists they consistently put Oil Rogue in the top 5 decks because its variety of different options give it a lot of favourable matchups.  It's weak to rush decks and to some extent control warrior which may make it worse if you're trying to play at low ranks, but it has even to favourable matchups against everything else.  In particular it's good against patron warrior which is relevant right now.

[Criptfeind]

New Brawl is out people. And this is.... Sorta fun actually! To me at least. It's pretty much just a pure rng fest. Probably not good for long term appeal. Still, I'm having more fun then the Banana brawl.

What do you guys think?

[frostshotgg]

It's not ESPORTS portal week. Disappoint.

[Leafsnail]

I don't mind silly random game modes, but I'm finding this one too long and grindy to be fun.  And if I wanted to crush someone with a rhino I'd go play Magic: the Gathering

Also Nozdormu is secretly OP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDOZS_vceI

[Orange Wizard]

Nozdormu's power is mostly just getting newbies flustered because they don't understand what's going on.

That said, did I just watch some guy glitch out the turn timer with brewmasters and make Noz attack twice? Because that's pretty darn fantastic.

[ZebioLizard2]

Nozdormu's real power is messing with people on mobile devices.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Criptfeind]

mindgames op bliz plz nerf

[Leafsnail]

Nozdormu's real power is messing with people on mobile devices.

Also Grim Patron combos.  Too bad he arrives too late to do that effectively.

[Orange Wizard]

He wasted his opponent's entire turn with the brewmaster animations and forced them to skip it.

That is also fantastic.

[Leafsnail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oew91YkG7iU

[Aklyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oew91YkG7iU

Wat.

[Leafsnail]

They used Lorewalker Cho to cast Ancestral Spirit on their jugglers a bunch of times.  It's also pretty educational in terms of telling you how Hearthstone resolves its "death phases".