One reason I like making new decks is that I really hate the idea that there are only a set few decks that are viable. People there are all playing the same decks. Loads of people try out different things, but not at the high level. PCG: Do you think players at all skill levels of Hearthstone are missing out on some of the fun of deckbuilding because the game rewards netdecking so well?
If you can find a deck that’s strong against those three decks everyone’s playing, it doesn’t matter if it’s weak against other stuff. And then in December I just smashed it and got loads of attention.
I was constantly tweaking it and consistently hitting Legend. I achieved rank #1 Legend with it in December, but I created it five or six months before that. PCG: Is that how your process tends to work? Do you look at the meta and try to make something that counters it? Or for Egg Druid did you just look at Aggro Druid and think “I can make this more annoying”? The reason this camel deck has been so good is because Druid has been insanely popular, and it destroys Druid. Towards the end I’ll play the list that seems to have had the most success. In the middle of the season, when your rank doesn’t really matter, I try out loads of different things on stream. JC: I’m usually pretty relaxed when it comes to that sort of thing. PCG: How do you decide when the time’s right to show a new idea on stream? PCG: Are you surprised more people haven’t tried it out in tournaments? I think Egg Druid is actually a deck that has been very much overlooked when it is genuinely strong. With things like Soul of the Forest there can be no comeback, because usually when you get ahead early you can get punished by AoE spells, but this has so many Deathrattle effects that it completely counters that. With all the early sticky minions and Innervates and buffs it just has the power to completely overwhelm people. Which of your creations do you think is most powerful? PCG: You’ve piloted both Egg Druid and Injured Camel Hunter to #1 legend on EU. This Hunter deck is more minion-based so you can consistently keep applying pressure. I prefer to have a non-reactive hand so you can just chuck things out. Sometimes it’s just awkward and you don’t have anything to play, because they’re very reactive cards. I’ve been trying to make a Control Hunter work, but I found that when I was playing more standard Midrange Hunter lists I’d end up with a lot of secrets, weapons and spells in my hand. JC: Well, I’ve been trying lots of different things out in Hunter for quite a while. (Unless your opponent is an Aggro Shaman and gets a Tunnel Trogg.) It wins by spamming the board with creatures, with the signature combo being an Injured Kvaldir getting summoned by the Desert Camel. Unlike conventional Face, Hybrid or Midrange Hunter decks, the Camel version uses no damage spells. I spoke with him about his creative process, starting to play competitively, and why Ball of Spiders just might be the future.
But J4CKIECHAN now has two to his credit, both of which have carried him to the peak of competitive play. In fact, it’s notable how few pros are associated with signature decks. But the experience is often disheartening because the existing meta decks are so brutally efficient that they tend to crush anything unrefined.Īnd hey, why bother innovating when you can paste something that’s guaranteed to be good from anyone one of dozens of netdeck database sites? Even the top pros tend to just tweak existing archetypes with a couple of tech card choices. Deck building is billed as a key part of the Hearthstone experience, and most of us have fooled around with trying to make homebrew creations work on ladder. Which in itself ought to not be remarkable. You can find him on Twitter here or watch him cook up new decks on Twitch here. The 20 year-old from Nottingham, England, recently joined the Fade 2 Karma team and continues to build his audience as a streamer. He says he’s only been playing seriously for a year though, with university studies taking precedence beforehand. J4CKIECHAN has been playing Hearthstone since the beta, when his brother encouraged him to give it a try.
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