As a Control Priest player, Galakrond was one of my favorite moments to play in Hearthstone, and I especially loved mirrors because it was all about the infinite value and who would use it the best. I understand it’s not what most people were looking for in a game of Heathstone, but I loved it.
I love Galakrong. I think it's neat that a lot of the kronds are similar to one another. Invoke wise, priest and rogue both add a minion to hand, shaman and warlock both summon minions, and shaman and warrior both give immediate damage. Battlecry wise, warlock and shaman still summon minions, rogue and warrior both draw cards and improve them, and priest and shamman provide removal.
Flavorwise, Galakrond might have been my favorite package ever. Working all game towards awakening a draconic monstrosity is cool as hell. It's a shame that by Scholomance, all of them got nerfed, except Priest (which was also fun, but the mirrors were dreadful). I replayed them a bit in March Twist, but I'm still waiting for a Twist format that isn't Wild power level, where they can actually compete.
This may have been one of the coolest expansions in the game's history, but it came at the cost of changing the game forever. There is a very obvious difference in quality between almost every card released before and after DoD. Before, you had Druids basically passing for 4 turns just so they could play a 5 mana 10/10 rush. After, sure, a 5 mana 10/12 Taunt that you can just play. I remember when Amber Watcher was revealed and people were amazed at how much it did for the cost. (premium 4 mana stats, and a 2 mana effect, together, for 5 mana?) It didn't see any play.
Great video. I've play from beta and never touched rogue until Galakrond rogue happened. It was the reason I started playing and feel in love with rogue, good times.
One detail that I would like to add to Galakrond priest, is that it got immensely buffed and was a good deck since Ashes of Outland on standard format, that buff being the removal of the Year of the Raven cards (Witchwood, Boomsday and Rastakhan Rumble), which made the Priest minion pool waaaaaaaaaay better. Out of the 18 minions that rotated out, only Grave Horror was a loss... and maybe Omega Medic if I'm feeling really generous.
id love it if bliz did a twist set around descent of dragons and buffed some of the galakrond support cards (specifically the -1 mana off of both the neutrals and something like making awaken! damage all enemy characters instead of all minions)
@@antusThul enrage warrior fucking sucks. the only good enrage synergies are in skipper decks. skipper deck dont wanna play 3 mana deal 1 to all minions. why would you play awaken! on a skipper yurn over playing a 0 cost minion (which works with light of the phoenix/roaring applause) or aftershocks? the answer is you wouldnt
sir i am here to tell you i absolutly loved playing priest galakrond. have a 40 min game both as and against . the mirror was among the most fun matchups
Galakrond is one of those cards that I would like to see show up nowadays. Maybe they arent good enough, but for Control, Rogue and priest are amazing.
imo it would be cool if blizzard would make galakrond mini set where there would be 6 galatrons and invokes for other classes and maybe some synergies with them
Strong disagree on your Galakrond warlock slander. During the post DH nerfs of Ashes, Galakrond Warlock was the best deck in the game and borderline S-tier for warping standard. Granted it was more the power of prenerf Demonic Pact that broke it, but combined with the Fiendish rites nerf it gives Warlock a strong contender for actually one of the best Galakronds. Its almost impossible to pick a worst Galkrond cuz they were all so good. But id go with Warrior because it was only really good with Scion at 3 and failed to be tier 1 ever again.
@@FlareIsGone best i could find was the april 14th 2020 meta report which was right before the april 20th nerf of sacrificial pact (which i accidentally called demonic pact). data is a bit misleading since galakrond control warrior was the only deck that really beat demon hunter but it was very much tier 1.
I'm pretty sure that demon hunter and evolve shaman were the best decks in the darkmoon fair, not control priest, in fact I'm pretty sure priest was one of the worst classes in the game that expansion if I remember correctly, at least in standard
It was a little different in wild, but not crazy much. Darkmoon is when post nerf darkglare warlock began terrorizing everything all the way until it got nerfed to the ground in late stormwind. Meanwhile quest mage has recently died because illucia existed, making all reno priest games from auto loss from pretty much always insta win. Reno priest was also the second best deck in the game and it would continue to also terrorize the game until stormwind, and it only climbed back from pirate warrior and odd hunter hell in sunken city ( for this reason I think alterac was the worst wild has ever been, pirate warrior and odd hunter were 50%-90% meta depending on your pocket meta, demon seed warlock was at least fun for one side ). Finally for priest, darkmoon revived the big priest archetype with blood of Ghuun, the archetype that has been dead since late ulduum. Relatively comprehensively, that's priest's stance in that era. All in all, priest was the second strongest class and has been for a while, and would continue to be it.
@@istvanvincze7411 oh yeah I forgot about how annoying big priest was at that time in wild, it was so hard to play my funny cthun galakrond nzoth rogue because everyone was just playing big priest in low rank wild and that just completely messed up any fun meme deck that wasn't a silly otk
Yeah. I remember rng control priest being the best deck for high legend on scholomance(maybe) but bad deck anywhere else. As for early darkmoon, the best deck was aggro dh and evolve shaman (a lot of shamanstone meme since custodian powered up most shaman deck at the time)
For the record: Galakrond shaman had 70%+ WR at realese and his worst macth up (50%) was Galakrond shaman itself
Invocation of Frost actually was nerfed to 2 mana
oh shit the nerfed ALL 3 of them I forgot
As a Control Priest player, Galakrond was one of my favorite moments to play in Hearthstone, and I especially loved mirrors because it was all about the infinite value and who would use it the best. I understand it’s not what most people were looking for in a game of Heathstone, but I loved it.
I love Galakrong. I think it's neat that a lot of the kronds are similar to one another. Invoke wise, priest and rogue both add a minion to hand, shaman and warlock both summon minions, and shaman and warrior both give immediate damage. Battlecry wise, warlock and shaman still summon minions, rogue and warrior both draw cards and improve them, and priest and shamman provide removal.
Man the galakrond is such a cool mechanic is crazy to think how do they design so much cool things to the game
Shaman and warrior Galakronds were so satisfying to play
The shaman one can still be good again someday...
The shaman's invoke would be awesome if it could keep up with aggro, but the galakrond effect is probably not good enough
Flavorwise, Galakrond might have been my favorite package ever. Working all game towards awakening a draconic monstrosity is cool as hell.
It's a shame that by Scholomance, all of them got nerfed, except Priest (which was also fun, but the mirrors were dreadful).
I replayed them a bit in March Twist, but I'm still waiting for a Twist format that isn't Wild power level, where they can actually compete.
This may have been one of the coolest expansions in the game's history, but it came at the cost of changing the game forever. There is a very obvious difference in quality between almost every card released before and after DoD. Before, you had Druids basically passing for 4 turns just so they could play a 5 mana 10/10 rush. After, sure, a 5 mana 10/12 Taunt that you can just play. I remember when Amber Watcher was revealed and people were amazed at how much it did for the cost. (premium 4 mana stats, and a 2 mana effect, together, for 5 mana?) It didn't see any play.
Galakrond rogue was my first ever legend, will always have a special place in my heart because of that
I feel like you aren’t giving the Warlock Galakrond his due. Both the warlock invoke cards ended up nerfed if I recall correctly
Great video.
I've play from beta and never touched rogue until Galakrond rogue happened.
It was the reason I started playing and feel in love with rogue, good times.
One detail that I would like to add to Galakrond priest, is that it got immensely buffed and was a good deck since Ashes of Outland on standard format, that buff being the removal of the Year of the Raven cards (Witchwood, Boomsday and Rastakhan Rumble), which made the Priest minion pool waaaaaaaaaay better. Out of the 18 minions that rotated out, only Grave Horror was a loss... and maybe Omega Medic if I'm feeling really generous.
id love it if bliz did a twist set around descent of dragons and buffed some of the galakrond support cards (specifically the -1 mana off of both the neutrals and something like making awaken! damage all enemy characters instead of all minions)
Damaging all minions had some rage warrior sinergies tho
@@antusThul enrage warrior fucking sucks. the only good enrage synergies are in skipper decks. skipper deck dont wanna play 3 mana deal 1 to all minions. why would you play awaken! on a skipper yurn over playing a 0 cost minion (which works with light of the phoenix/roaring applause) or aftershocks? the answer is you wouldnt
Galakrond warrior was my favorite deck of all time. That’s my favorite iteration of enrage warrior
sir i am here to tell you i absolutly loved playing priest galakrond. have a 40 min game both as and against . the mirror was among the most fun matchups
galakrond priest was one of my fav decks oat
Galakrond is one of those cards that I would like to see show up nowadays.
Maybe they arent good enough, but for Control, Rogue and priest are amazing.
imo it would be cool if blizzard would make galakrond mini set where there would be 6 galatrons and invokes for other classes and maybe some synergies with them
Hunter, paladin, druid, mage gets the hero
The league of explorers. Highlander stuuf. To good if you ask me
Everyone always ask what is Galakrond and not HOW is Galakrond....
4:28 I rember when I played this galakrond in token warlock, it was cool
I loved galakrond skipper warrior, so fun!
I also remember there was a deck that played galakrond by itself just to get the hero power for burn damage
And scion of ruins was THE nuts
I loved every minute I played galakrond warrior, scion of ruin was nuts
Galakrond warlock was still good, so much so they nerfed fiendish rites
And unironically the only deck to ever use sacrificial pact the way it was intended
Strong disagree on your Galakrond warlock slander. During the post DH nerfs of Ashes, Galakrond Warlock was the best deck in the game and borderline S-tier for warping standard. Granted it was more the power of prenerf Demonic Pact that broke it, but combined with the Fiendish rites nerf it gives Warlock a strong contender for actually one of the best Galakronds. Its almost impossible to pick a worst Galkrond cuz they were all so good. But id go with Warrior because it was only really good with Scion at 3 and failed to be tier 1 ever again.
im gonna be 100% with you I checked the fuck out during ashes because of DH
@@FlareIsGone best i could find was the april 14th 2020 meta report which was right before the april 20th nerf of sacrificial pact (which i accidentally called demonic pact). data is a bit misleading since galakrond control warrior was the only deck that really beat demon hunter but it was very much tier 1.
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I'm pretty sure that demon hunter and evolve shaman were the best decks in the darkmoon fair, not control priest, in fact I'm pretty sure priest was one of the worst classes in the game that expansion if I remember correctly, at least in standard
It was a little different in wild, but not crazy much. Darkmoon is when post nerf darkglare warlock began terrorizing everything all the way until it got nerfed to the ground in late stormwind. Meanwhile quest mage has recently died because illucia existed, making all reno priest games from auto loss from pretty much always insta win. Reno priest was also the second best deck in the game and it would continue to also terrorize the game until stormwind, and it only climbed back from pirate warrior and odd hunter hell in sunken city ( for this reason I think alterac was the worst wild has ever been, pirate warrior and odd hunter were 50%-90% meta depending on your pocket meta, demon seed warlock was at least fun for one side ). Finally for priest, darkmoon revived the big priest archetype with blood of Ghuun, the archetype that has been dead since late ulduum.
Relatively comprehensively, that's priest's stance in that era. All in all, priest was the second strongest class and has been for a while, and would continue to be it.
standard man what
@@istvanvincze7411 oh yeah I forgot about how annoying big priest was at that time in wild, it was so hard to play my funny cthun galakrond nzoth rogue because everyone was just playing big priest in low rank wild and that just completely messed up any fun meme deck that wasn't a silly otk
Yeah. I remember rng control priest being the best deck for high legend on scholomance(maybe) but bad deck anywhere else.
As for early darkmoon, the best deck was aggro dh and evolve shaman (a lot of shamanstone meme since custodian powered up most shaman deck at the time)
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