+Tyranoman Who would've thought?

Turns out rafaam wasnt even trying, if he went rafaam unleashed he would have beat the living shit out of kt ( power of the titan)

+Tyranoman More like an intergalactic etheral arch-thief who has a staff with the power of the Titans, against a ressurrected mage. So, no.

+Gabriel Dasaro Not everybody appreciates a sense of humour I guess.

***** Indeed.

lol true

+Blip Blop Weird I always turn one concede as Kel'Thuzad... Mostly because I love a challenge and Rafaam is not that bad when you first get the hang of it

+chrisberg2 played at least 15 games as rafaam, even more against a friend in which I had him even skip turns to see if rafaam could ever accomplish anything useful. rafaam ends up being a sub-par control deck against a ludicrous deck that's on tempo is OP legendaries 99% of the time. is it a trash deck? prolly not, but its definitely trash in the tavern brawl. doesn't matter how well you play

You must have been very unlucky because I tend to make Kel'thuzad topdeck and dominate the board as Rafaam... Even when they get the best possible turn 3 into Heigen I always had it turn into a pit snake. I must admit I sucked with Rafaam in the start untill i watched Trumps first video and suddenly I just kept on pwning Kel'thuzad.

+Blip Blop The true secret is to play your staff as fast as possible regardless of values and start summoning legendary for 4 cost lesser and secondary you need the zero cost aoe on your hands early on or else you will be face rekted which is also rng so to win as rafaam you need both side of rng on your enemy not getting counter spelling your staff and you getting the aoe spell

+SephirothClone Exactly that.

+SephirothClone Hilarious, but no. The correct strategy is to first: realize your deck sucks. Second: Upgrade your staff as FAST as possible. The first staff piece isn't worth using, but the second one is better than most of what you'll draw. And the third one is a HUGE tempo advantage, with very powerful cards. KT has NO board clears, and no real catch-up mechanics. Once he falls behind, he stays there.

+Hellbane224 Serious Sally

+Hellbane224 well the deck doesnt suck its just compared to KT's it cant keep up with that hero power all kel has to do to win is get one of the good legends and just necro it over over and over again

+SephirothClone Every Rafaam concedes and there's no brawl. Good strategy.

+Lennon1398 I've only used 3 spells and killed 5 minions, I can't be sure if its vaporize.

+Handsome Harry lol

+Handsome Harry I win as Rafaam constantly...

+jppfeil I personally find Rafaam to be just fine until opponent kills their Heigan because the tempo is nuts

+jppfeil You opponents must suck.

+Chillaxorita Rafaam just steals Kel'Thuzad's deck like in the adventure lol

+Chillaxorita I actually had a 60% winrate as rafaam, i sucked at kelth.

Rafaam was the better side in this brawl. The KT player has to get somewhat lucky, in that KT is screwed if Rafaam draws the staff pieces before you can secure board control. The moment KT loses control of the board is the moment the game is lost, as he has practically no way to regain it.

epsleon False. wtf even are you talking about. Rafaam can rarely take board control even with his board clear because KT can infinitely spawn legendaries that are stronger than Rafaam's random legendaries, assuming Rafaam even has time to upgrade and play his hero power before dying. Even when Rafaam has his full hero power, KT's pay 2 mana for a broken legendary is strictly stronger than Rafaam's pay 2 mana + more mana to play a random balanced legendary as long as you don't get baited into playing bad cards or you don't get pit snaked. The only advantage Rafaam had in the entire brawl was efficient aoe damage, which still isn't good enough if you aren't lucky enough to draw pit snake-morph early and effectively lock out KT's hero power and duplicates. AND even if you do, KT naturally gets broken legendaries just by drawing each turn, so he can repopulate his board and win even without his broken hero power.

+Chillaxorita as rafaam the 2 staffs are like always in your first 10 cards. the winning tactic is that you collect board clear and cheap legendaries and make your big overrun turn, clear almost everything, and take control of the board. kelthuzat has almost no way to claim it back properly

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+Nerdnumberone You win by not playing bad as Rafaam

chrisberg2 How to win as Rafaam: Don't be Rafaam, be Jaraxxus.

YOU FACE JARAXXUS!

I feel you...

+Adam Pawn I too miss the days where trump wasn't running for president.

I have the anti-Trump application from donaldjdrumpf.com and it's awkward using it while watching Trump play Hearthstone.

Trump Trump Trump Trump! Build that Wall!

agreed

+danielchen3350 should of written should have, ayy lmao

+Daniel Ma I think rag wanted to be included in this brawl since last time people shat on his brawl :3

+Daniel Ma Nice attempt to troll people into playing majordomo :P

Jeroen Verschaeve the majordomo was in the tavern brawl so it used the ragnaros files from the ragnaros vs nefarion brawl when my friend got him the opponent thought it would make him a 8 health 8 armor ragnaros but it didn't the majordomo was good for the tavern brawl but can be worse in ranked

Daniel Ma I would very much like to see footage of that.

Jeroen Verschaeve 1. my friend told this to me so i wouldn't be the one to have footage 2. if it did happen to me, i don't have recording equipment 3. i play casually on hs so i didn't play the brawl too much as rafaam either way sorry but i don't have footage brawl is over anyways so it's unimportant

+Issun McGoodmage but then you wont win as Rafaam

***** He had the opportunity to, therefore, it was basically a win. A tie would be cooler anyway.

He wouldn't either way since he was playing as Jaraxxus :P

Or hero power deathwing.

+andrejoss475 If you get reasonable hand, you can outvalue him. Idealy you must at turn 5 be at your max upgraded hero power and just spam legendaries. Also easy way to counter KT partialy is to simply do not kill his first minions. If KTs hero power remains inactive until turn 8, you will be able to deal even with heigans on board. KT has only 6 direct damage cards (two frostbolts) so you can stay quite low on health for long time. And if he will play more stuff, then you can start killing lesser threats to make sure that he will never know what comes up from his necromancy.

iglidor inactive hero power until turn 8 ???? do you really think you can not do anything until turn 8 and still get away with it ? you would have to be so incredibly lucky to not get killed during that time since all of his damage comes from minions and for it to be inactive you need to kill some minions

andrejoss475 I never said "do nothing" But depending on what oponent plays, you should not play minion with attack that can kill his, you should upgrade your hero power to max and simply wait. Of course if oponent startts playing more that just that one card, go wild. Main problem is when KT knows for 100% what he will get from his necromqancy. I mean even playing just Saphiron alongside his Heagan the Unclean (or whatever is his name) will allow you to start outvaluing him. Point is to not get into graveyard just that one single superOP minion and nothing else. If oponent does not play anything else till turn 8, great for you. if he starts playing then jsut kill all

+MyViolador So many times I was on the Deathwing believing side,horrible fucking brawl for poor Rafaam,just plain horrible.

+MyViolador True.

+MyViolador I think KelThuzads' hero power should have costed 3 mana to make it a bit more balanced.

I actually got deathwing and ragnaros 2 turns in a row so i won hard against kel

Oguz FaN That could work too.

+Itama The only easy games as Rafaam, are the ones that the opponent is a completely noob and have crappy hand at the same time

+IgnatzKolisch His Heroic is more fun indeed. I really love gathering all staff pieces and getting hyped for the next Legendary. Would be neat if you could face Rafaam vs Rafaam.

+LolokarSK Nefarian would probably wreck KT. Nefarian has tons of removal and even better hero power than KT.

If Nefarian started out with the extra mana he'd win. Ragnaros would easily win, his cards are even more OP than kelhuzad's

Of course it would need some balance changes oh my good...

I'd listen to that quote for my whole life

+Huy Phan He's so delightfully handicapped

+Huy Phan It's not his voice though, it's an announcer. The tavern dude, to be more specific.

Edeinawc Nonono! The part where he goes: "RAFAAM! THE SUPREME ARCHAEOLOGIST!"

Huy Phan I know, I'm just saying that it's not Rafaam's own voice there. :3 It's an announcer. I meant Innkeeper, not tavern dude. I think it's his voice, thought I'm not 100% sure. Just see the difference between the timbre of the voice between the announcement and his own personal quotes.

+NumdegasedUHC And then how to deal with Thadius?

+NumdegasedUHC It would have summoned another thaddius had he not pit snake-d stalagg

+3Durka1 shadow word death

+bob smith That was a fight that deserved a draw at the end. Silly chat and their love of milling.

+Frogger well the luck there is ridiculous, there are plenty of doubles in rafaam's deck

+deamonyoshi876 I'm not sure why they added the yellow border to Reno. It seems super confusing to me. That and 18 deck slots is just more than I can handle at any one time. The turn I got Reno was green. I draw one card and BAM yellow. If there wasn't a new border, I wouldn't have known how salty I should have been.

I haven't lost as Rafaam... You just have to wait it out and overwhelm him with legendarys. AOE and board control is everything.

+deamonyoshi876 I know, that's what I'm saying. You have to get incredibly lucky to win against a half decent player

A swear word slipped out in that one

it's a private part! that's why!

Those ideas seem great, if I was blizz I'd put them in a future brawl. Also thematically fits rafaam since he steals everyone's shit

+Sean Finch They could've also added actual voice clips, what's your point

+Jho _ because Kappa is an idiot... thats why trump has won that game

I won as rafaam for one reason, I friends my opponent told him I rolled rafaam 5 time in a row and lost, so I begged him to concede.

+Quin Decim As well as Counterspell against the Staff Piece spells.

Dude all Kel thuzad needs to is play one broken minion then abuse the hero power for the rest of the game. No amount of removal is going to save you the game from an endless swarm of op minions.

+ievimonkey pit snake spell stops that. also entomb is good in this TB

My fav KT win condition is duping the Instructor for 60 health in runeblades.

+Quin Decim Good luck ever drawing your removals, just watch Trump playing there how long it took to get flamestrike or those lothars greaves to appear, game usually ends long before that, only reason he stayed the game is Kappa purposely playing badly.

inferno!

Daniel Leyde What's funny is that that 6/6 for two mana is probably going to be better on average than what legendaries Rafaam's hero power could get you.

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HighLanderPony ikr

U should try using coin

+CYЯEO you should be sad if you are dumb enough not to check for counter spell when you want to play the staff piece

+videotroll72 had a friend get it counterspelled dueling me two games in a row with the coin in his hand. You better believe I didn't let him live that down.

+flamefoot12 That's the way to play with Rafaam, build the staff asap, use lots of removal (particularly turn x creature into a random creature / pit snake) and steadily build up an advantage.

+Rohit Kalra he need all his boss from his expansion too

+Wyatt “Batt” Burr The first piece is guaranteed on first turn but the second piece is certainly not fixed in the deck. I had a guy coin the first piece on turn 2 then play the second piece on turn 3.

+Jonny Harris That means that he kept either both pieces or just the second piece in his opening hand.

+Jonny Harris Alright, here's how it works: If you don't have a piece in your hand, you will draw one in your first turn and you draw normally until turn 8, when if you didn't draw the second piece, you will 100% draw it. Basically, you draw the piece on turn 1 and turn 8 if you didn't randomly draw it. The game forces you to draw the staff piece.

+NinjadoPantanoPlays I got to 10 cards left in my deck before I drew the second part last game

+RKBock Rafaam just passes/upgrades first 5 turns and transforms your great minions into junk with the 5 mana 5/5 minion or with the pit snake.

that is, if he gets them i had this chance only 3 times. two times it worked with no resistance and once he tried to stop it with the 5/5 naga, but it was too lat as i already had thaddius. so the chances were for me, as well as the other cards i had. (finished it with the sword)