Kikoskia’s All-New Hearthstone Adventures: Beware the 1/1s

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Published on June 13, 2019 8:30:04 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDowBMfxHK4

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Hearthstone (2014)

Duration: 23:39

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Heroes powers are an essential tool in your arsenal. While they typically cost two mana and can’t be used more than once per turn, using it doesn’t cost you a card. They can allow you finish off a small or wounded minion, gain some armour, heal up one of your own minions to keep it alive or draw a card at the cost of your health. Many are the uses of hero powers but what if you built a deck almost entirely around the minion created by that hero power? Shaman and paladin are the two classes where this is possible and today we’re going to be looking at the latter.

The silver hand recruit is a 1/1 minion that can be summoned with your hero power, but that’s not the only way you can get them, especially in wild. Some spells summon silver hand recruits while others buff them. There are minions that add them to your hand or summon an extra one when you use your hero power, as well as minions which become cheaper the more of them you have in play. Then there’s synergy with things like knife thrower and before you know it, your little 1/1 is dealing a lot more than a single point of damage each turn. The key to victory is getting on the board and keeping it, trading aggressively to ensure that you can continue to chip away at your opponent’s health unhindered. This plan can fall apart when you face decks with plentiful board clears or hefty taunts, decks which you must try and burst down before they can stabilise. This is easier said than done with 1/1s, but not impossible if you reach a critical mass of them, for most minions can only kill one of them at a time.

All in all, it’s a fun little deck which can have a near endless supply of small fodder minions if you get a good start, a board which will think about your humble hero power in a new light.

Here is a link to the decklist at the time of playing the matches in this video:
https://imgur.com/2Tmv3XE

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