Thoughtsteal is alright in arena. Sure there are better cards, but I'd put it as around average. It is however one of those cards that gives you a lot of something but at a cost - namely it gives you a lot of card advantage at the cost of tempo. So 4 is a bit excessive because you'll wind up with games where 2 of them are just sitting dead in your hand while you have to play all of your other cards to respond to your opponent's board becoming scarier and scarier.
Deck thinning *does* have its advantages though - there was a game I watched Kripp play yesterday in the 8-9 wins bracket in arena, as mage, and he had 4 cards left in his deck, and he could remember two of them were arcane intellect and antique healbot. His opponent was at fatigue and had no board, but was gonna kill him in like 2 or 3 turns due to fatigue. In that case drawing the intellect would be useful because you know exactly what you're going to get (turns out it was the bottom card of his deck, though, although he still won at 1 hp due to damage from a yeti + fatigue).
lightwarden is kinda meh imo. Sure, it's the best 1 drop if you draw nothing else, but if you DO curve out it's a 1/2. And no matter how much it gets buffed off healing it'll only ever have 2 health.
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But see right there you're limiting yourself to a card that's only useful when:
1. You have appropriate buffs
2. You are putting out consistent heals
3. Your opponent has no hard-removal or silences
IMO she takes too long to get rolling, and any situation you
can
get her rolling is typically a win-more scenario. She's too fragile to drop onto a T1/T2 board alone unless you're following up with PW:S, and (for instance) if you drop her onto a T3 board + heal a body for 2 then you should consider her strictly outclassed by an Earthen Ring Farseer.
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Yeah. I'm currently running 2x Light of the Naaru in my Priest Control deck, and I'm very strongly considering taking them out, because I have been consistently unimpressed when I could add Shadow Madness or Recombobulator or a second Lightbomb or really anything that actually makes an impact on the board in those spots, because the Lightwarden just doesn't do enough at the point where you're going to be playing Light of the Naaru.
Unfortunately, Lightwarden is too much of a "Best Case Scenario Mentality" card.
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Is this guide good for arena? It's fairly short compared other guides I saw and looks better and more straight to the point, and has some really nice draft spreadsheets.
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It looks solid enough. No guide will work for everyone, though. I suggest watching someone else play Arena as well, it lets you see things that you might not have seen before.
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In post 1339, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:Is this guide good for arena? It's fairly short compared other guides I saw and looks better and more straight to the point, and has some really nice draft spreadsheets.
No, that one hasn't been updated since Feb 14 last year... we've had Naxxramas and Goblins vs Gnomes come out since then.
This is a really good tier list curated by a bunch of arena players who average 9-10 wins per run.
Although, these stats are from ALL TIME arenas, not recent arenas, so I'd imagine Rogue is probably down a bit and Priest is up pretty high in the new stats.
