You winning that tournament for me was one of the most iconic moments in hearthstone. So many standard players were smack talking the wild guys. It was the best.
Really want to watch it now! But I can't seem to find it. Do you remember which tournament that was? EDIT: Never mind, I think I got it. The History of Hearthstone tournament, back in 2018, right?
Deathstalker Rexxar was absolutely my favourite archetype of hunter and it is a shame that control hunter never came back with the same force as it had back in knights of the frozen throne.
control hunter. Bro. Hunter never had and still dont any aoe, heal, taunt, armor. He may received some removals, there is no way to say "control hunter". Big hunter is a thing, combo/deathrattle hunter is a thing. But any way, it kills you way before turn 10. Or at least turn 10. The most competitive list on a scaling hunter was mech/darkmoon. And it still doing well as a strong and unknown combo.. but it kills on turn 7. The reason why control hunter never existed, and why deathstalker couldnt realy fit anytime... It's because hunter doesnt lack value. Every hunter, even the most braindead big hunter is about all in. And, even in this one where you can miss some value, rather deal dmg to finish off than try to play the board. So, i'm sorry bro. But, by definition, hunter isnt and will never get called control. Any amount of value he has got to go face asap. It's just easier to face with 1 drops.
? Deathstalker Rexxar was virtually unplayable for KotFT and KnC. It took Witchwood adding lifesteal beasts to the pool (mainly the rush one) for the card to see play.
@@amethonys2798 technically KotFT had bloodworm but your main point still stands as paying 5 mana for 4/4 and lifesteal was not good especially compared to 1 mana 2/1 lifesteal or 2 mana 1/3 rush and lifesteal. Witchwood also gave other rush options including one with echo which was pretty big
@@amethonys2798 Yeah the only Lifesteal beast in Frozen throne was that terrible blood worm. Definitely improved a little with KnC and that the 1 mana Lifesteal beast but that 1/3 Lifesteal rush pushed it into actually good for sure.
Yes that one’s cool! I think smothering starfish was a bigger deal than that one though. I haven’t played it since the nerf but I imagine even with the nerf it’s really useful, especially with all the mammoths and crabs that are offered. Pelican Diver is also pretty neat as an “untouchable” second-pick minion that you can play while you have poisonous dreadscale in-play as a punishment if they remove the dreadscale, OR when you have a tundra rhino (or zombeast equivalent) in-hand for a big finisher. Even better is if it *is* the tundra rhino zombeast, or any other super valuable ongoing text like the spooder that makes deathrattle cards cost 2 less
Haven’t watched yet, but the weirdest additions to rexxar are helmet hermit and that 1 mana 4/1 diving bird in the 2nd pick, and frozen mammoth available in BOTH first and second picks. For the latter I put explosive trap and explosive shot in my deck.
Post-watch: wow all of these showed up except helmet hermit! Surprised Dane didn’t note how weird they were since most people don’t consider “dormant for 1 turn” or “frozen until you play a fire spell” to be keywords
@@ShuckleShellAnemia Dormant and Frozen are definitely keywords though. Bolded and everything innit. Otherwise I agree with you, especially on the Mammoth being in both buckets
@@kourii Dormant is a weird case though because it includes a qualifier for when it stops being dormant, whereas if a beast says “has taunt while you have 2 other minions” that would definitely put it in the “text” bucket even though taunt is a keyword. Kind of like how Battlecry is a keyword but always includes text and therefore first pick; spell damage+X or overloadX would be an even closer comparison but neither of those show up in build-a-beast. Not saying pelican is a “bug”, just… unusual. It also has weird visual bugs because the go dormant/wake up animations sometimes trigger animations the “base” beast uses for other things lol.
I have a midrange(?) deathrattle hunter that uses Rexxar as one of its value generators for the late game. It's definitely remained my favourite hero card.
There are actually specific exclusions to DK rexxar. 6 mana beasts and higher can’t be discovered, as that could have led to cards that were too expensive. Additionally, any beast with card text and key words together can’t be discovered. An instance of this would be witchwood grizzly- the taunt beast that has battlecry: lose one health for each card in your opponent’s hand. (I think thats the effect)
Deathstalker Rexxar vids will forever be in my top favorite Hearthstone content. I wish they would rotate back death knights into standard somehow but I know some of them were too op vs. others so it's but a dream.
I started playing back in Un'Guro, and I absolutely loved Quest hunter, when Frozen Throne came out, I got deathstalker as my free Death Knight, and it's the most fun I've ever had playing hearthstone
In the history of hearthstone pro's you have like 6 guys who all claimed to be the originator of handlock and said they're a genius for it. You though, you have made and continue to make the most Innovative wild decks along with the funnest. Love you man. Thanks for being an original innovator instead of piggybacking off obvious deck lists for clout.
Sadly it is so slow. You're going to fail behind on tempo by playing the deathknight instead of gaining an advantage. Clearing the enemy board and then not doing anything as Hunter is not very good
Build-a-beast never preferred class cards, even when Discover effects did. In fact, Build-a-Beast offering Hunter and Neutral cards is hard-coded, so even if you swap or copy the hero power as a non-Hunter, the power will work the same.
It’s very enjoyable, do you have the questline? I disenchanted it when it was nerfed but there’s a fun deck you can do that tutors out Rexx then sets build-a-beast to 0-mana.
My goal day 1 of this expansion was to stitch Red Herring and another beast. The minion would be called Zombeast (not Red Herring) so my theory was that it would stealth itself and all your other minions for a perma-stealthing board, but I don't think they included it
The hero power is only able to stitch together beasts of 5 or less mana. If it wasn't capped you could end up screwed with a bunch of cards you can't play
Before questline nerf I was playing a questline deck that tutors Rexx out (typically using that scholomance dude that re-orders your deck) so I can build zombeasts for 0 mana. Top end was explosive shot so I can guarantee quest progress after rexx and to thaw out mammoth zombeasts, bottom end was that 0 mana spell that makes a beast poisonous so I could dredge it with the wep and make God Zombeasts
Well... Anduin is still playable for Raza decks. Malfurion was played up until Guff became the new defacto Druid Hero. Gul'dan is still nutty. Uther is awkward because it is basically just about the OTK (Which is clunky and slow compared to most Wild OTK's)... Jaina and Valeera could be playable with buffs, since their main problem is they're too slow. Lowered mana cost and better Battlecries could help them see play. Rexxar also has the issue of being slow, perhaps he could also do with similar buff. Garrosh and Thrall are kind of just bad. Maybe a cheaper Garrosh might be playable in Enrage Warrior. Thrall is a meme even for Evolve decks (Especially since summoning a totem is actually useful as it gives an extra target for your Evolves compared to Thrall's HP of needing something in play to evolve)
@@GaussianEntity If this happens, for Rexxar specifically going back to Standard might be good enough of a buff. I feel like it suffers a lot from the beast pool being too diluted in Wild.
Definite missed lethal in the 1st game, and the opponent realized it when they emoted at 4:38. Should have played Draka before the Prize Plunderer so Plunderer would have done 1 more damage to the taunt, then the taunt could be cleared by the 3/3 dagger leaving 11 damage to go face for lethal. The bad ordering meant he had to overkill the Taunt and was 1 short of lethal.
I generally hate rng card creation, Rexxar is the exception, and the only reason for that is that he creates experiences which are not possible without him
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Deathstalker Rexxar is still one of the most unique cards.
I keep track of all the beasts they print every expansion and miniset, hoping they'd be OP with another one stitched onto them by Rexxar
@@TheMasterpiecePD even if the are super op with him the chance of getting it from rexxar is crazy low so wouldnt be consistant enough to be viable
Unique in a sense that that card alone can win games
@@TheMasterpiecePD unfortunately a lot of the best beasts nowadays have both keywords and text
It's a card.
You winning that tournament for me was one of the most iconic moments in hearthstone. So many standard players were smack talking the wild guys. It was the best.
Really want to watch it now! But I can't seem to find it. Do you remember which tournament that was?
EDIT: Never mind, I think I got it. The History of Hearthstone tournament, back in 2018, right?
@@Phagocytosis yea. He has a video with him describing how his match with zilea went down that is classic
Deathstalker Rexxar was absolutely my favourite archetype of hunter and it is a shame that control hunter never came back with the same force as it had back in knights of the frozen throne.
Control hunter was the best deck in the game in the Witchwood-Boomsday era.
control hunter.
Bro.
Hunter never had and still dont any aoe, heal, taunt, armor.
He may received some removals, there is no way to say "control hunter".
Big hunter is a thing, combo/deathrattle hunter is a thing.
But any way, it kills you way before turn 10. Or at least turn 10.
The most competitive list on a scaling hunter was mech/darkmoon.
And it still doing well as a strong and unknown combo.. but it kills on turn 7.
The reason why control hunter never existed, and why deathstalker couldnt realy fit anytime...
It's because hunter doesnt lack value.
Every hunter, even the most braindead big hunter is about all in.
And, even in this one where you can miss some value, rather deal dmg to finish off than try to play the board.
So, i'm sorry bro.
But, by definition, hunter isnt and will never get called control.
Any amount of value he has got to go face asap.
It's just easier to face with 1 drops.
? Deathstalker Rexxar was virtually unplayable for KotFT and KnC. It took Witchwood adding lifesteal beasts to the pool (mainly the rush one) for the card to see play.
@@amethonys2798 technically KotFT had bloodworm but your main point still stands as paying 5 mana for 4/4 and lifesteal was not good especially compared to 1 mana 2/1 lifesteal or 2 mana 1/3 rush and lifesteal. Witchwood also gave other rush options including one with echo which was pretty big
@@amethonys2798 Yeah the only Lifesteal beast in Frozen throne was that terrible blood worm. Definitely improved a little with KnC and that the 1 mana Lifesteal beast but that 1/3 Lifesteal rush pushed it into actually good for sure.
Deathstalker Rexxar is my favorite card they’ve ever printed.
I still go back and watch the echo weasels break the commentators during the History of Hearthstone tournament
I’m shocked when my opponent plays the echo weasels back at me. As if I care about dead (heh) draws as DK Rexxar.
The most recent beast additions are pretty insane. Constrictor in particular is pretty useful in control matchups.
Yes that one’s cool! I think smothering starfish was a bigger deal than that one though. I haven’t played it since the nerf but I imagine even with the nerf it’s really useful, especially with all the mammoths and crabs that are offered.
Pelican Diver is also pretty neat as an “untouchable” second-pick minion that you can play while you have poisonous dreadscale in-play as a punishment if they remove the dreadscale, OR when you have a tundra rhino (or zombeast equivalent) in-hand for a big finisher.
Even better is if it *is* the tundra rhino zombeast, or any other super valuable ongoing text like the spooder that makes deathrattle cards cost 2 less
Haven’t watched yet, but the weirdest additions to rexxar are helmet hermit and that 1 mana 4/1 diving bird in the 2nd pick, and frozen mammoth available in BOTH first and second picks. For the latter I put explosive trap and explosive shot in my deck.
Post-watch: wow all of these showed up except helmet hermit! Surprised Dane didn’t note how weird they were since most people don’t consider “dormant for 1 turn” or “frozen until you play a fire spell” to be keywords
@@ShuckleShellAnemia Dormant and Frozen are definitely keywords though. Bolded and everything innit. Otherwise I agree with you, especially on the Mammoth being in both buckets
@@kourii Dormant is a weird case though because it includes a qualifier for when it stops being dormant, whereas if a beast says “has taunt while you have 2 other minions” that would definitely put it in the “text” bucket even though taunt is a keyword. Kind of like how Battlecry is a keyword but always includes text and therefore first pick; spell damage+X or overloadX would be an even closer comparison but neither of those show up in build-a-beast. Not saying pelican is a “bug”, just… unusual. It also has weird visual bugs because the go dormant/wake up animations sometimes trigger animations the “base” beast uses for other things lol.
classic Dane's comeback from 1 hp, just like old times
World’s most satisfying “+39”
I have a midrange(?) deathrattle hunter that uses Rexxar as one of its value generators for the late game. It's definitely remained my favourite hero card.
My heart says Blizzard is not actually updating Rexxar but Rexxar's algorithm just simply includes every card in the game flagged as a beast.
There are actually specific exclusions to DK rexxar. 6 mana beasts and higher can’t be discovered, as that could have led to cards that were too expensive. Additionally, any beast with card text and key words together can’t be discovered. An instance of this would be witchwood grizzly- the taunt beast that has battlecry: lose one health for each card in your opponent’s hand. (I think thats the effect)
10:11 the audacity of this man to say "not even close" HOLY gigachad
Deathstalker Rexxar vids will forever be in my top favorite Hearthstone content. I wish they would rotate back death knights into standard somehow but I know some of them were too op vs. others so it's but a dream.
Your dream come true
rexxar is unironically my favorite card and i have been thinking about making it golden.
Oooh good idea with the new-ish upgrade-to-golden feature
@@ShuckleShellAnemia every deck i put him into bascially sucks tho...
edit: i did it. crafted him in golden, playing him in secret reno hunter.
I started playing back in Un'Guro, and I absolutely loved Quest hunter, when Frozen Throne came out, I got deathstalker as my free Death Knight, and it's the most fun I've ever had playing hearthstone
I miss when shit like that first game would happen all the time with all the reno decks running around
There was less hand damage back then so often you'd be able to risk getting down to those really low health numbers for the heal swing.
Renathal has really improved fun in Wild recently imo
Really fun seeing the Rexxar games. I hope you upload the brawl run here id love to see it
That was me in game one! I probably misplayed, it was my second game with the deck
I have good memories of Deathstalker Rexxar from when he was standard, the first good deck i remember playing was spell hunter and rexxar was in there
the reno hunter was the deck that i played to legend with back when i still played. also was awesome to see you win the wild tournament with it
do You have a decklist for this deck ?
In the history of hearthstone pro's you have like 6 guys who all claimed to be the originator of handlock and said they're a genius for it.
You though, you have made and continue to make the most Innovative wild decks along with the funnest. Love you man. Thanks for being an original innovator instead of piggybacking off obvious deck lists for clout.
5:08 Sex is great and all, but have you tried...
I just wish discover effects preferred class cards again 😔 the build a beasts feel so weak
Sadly it is so slow. You're going to fail behind on tempo by playing the deathknight instead of gaining an advantage. Clearing the enemy board and then not doing anything as Hunter is not very good
@@TheMasterpiecePD If only the bug that made it from poisonous was still in the game.
Build-a-beast never preferred class cards, even when Discover effects did. In fact, Build-a-Beast offering Hunter and Neutral cards is hard-coded, so even if you swap or copy the hero power as a non-Hunter, the power will work the same.
decklist?
Where is your deck?
Deathstalker Rex is my second favorite deck of all time. Maybe I will go to wild just to play it again.
It’s very enjoyable, do you have the questline? I disenchanted it when it was nerfed but there’s a fun deck you can do that tutors out Rexx then sets build-a-beast to 0-mana.
Which tournament did Dane win? Any vod available?
Tempo Storm's "History of Hearthstone" tournament. VoDs are available on the Tempo Strategy channel on TH-cam.
@@tarille1043 thx
Does it win vs big priest?
my fav part about Dane, his evil laugh 🌝
It's funny how with 40 cards Highlander deck it's almost like you're playing a new deck everyone, because you'll never get the same cards again XD
Can some1 gimme deck code cuz somehow i cant join his disc
I genuinely think Houndmaster Shaw should give ALL your minions Rush, so that he himself gets it as well.
Mr Smite gave himself charge so I'd be good with that.
Can't wait for the Brawliseum decklist
I haven’t played hearthstone in a couple years but god watching that warlock deck did not make me want to rush back
Rifts etc. should cast when drawn by redraw effects, like Finley or Secret Passage. It’s a stupid interaction.
I agree it should work w Finley but secret passage is broken enough imo
Garrote Rogue and similar decks would rule the meta if it worked like this.
Finley doesn’t draw cards. Not all interactions need to be beneficial to the player, sometimes consistency is better.
My goal day 1 of this expansion was to stitch Red Herring and another beast. The minion would be called Zombeast (not Red Herring) so my theory was that it would stealth itself and all your other minions for a perma-stealthing board, but I don't think they included it
The hero power is only able to stitch together beasts of 5 or less mana. If it wasn't capped you could end up screwed with a bunch of cards you can't play
@@mastercheif978 I never knew that but it makes sense, ty
Lad, how tf do you get legend so fast?
The man, the myth, the Rexxar
So... We are back to the little dance at the end of the video, 🕺
Not the "auntie" reno (meant to be anti-reno, but Dane left it like that) LOL
I never play any hunter decks without Deathstalker Rexxar
Before questline nerf I was playing a questline deck that tutors Rexx out (typically using that scholomance dude that re-orders your deck) so I can build zombeasts for 0 mana. Top end was explosive shot so I can guarantee quest progress after rexx and to thaw out mammoth zombeasts, bottom end was that 0 mana spell that makes a beast poisonous so I could dredge it with the wep and make God Zombeasts
@@ShuckleShellAnemia that's actually a really cool way to play the hunter questline, much more fun than everyone else plays it.
Alright la
Good video
That first game….i wanted to eat and watch….i just watched, and food is cold now🥹
I couldn't believe it.
Ah yes, I remember well the day that Dane became the greatest player in the History of Hearthstone.
I hope they do forever even if it’s once a year!
Hey, Hunter has ONE highlander support card
Which is it?
@@BK-ku1zt Dinotamer Brann
@@ShuckleShellAnemia ahh true
i thought they stopped updating deathstalker rexxar a long time ago, well time to copy the eventual list
honestly wish the OG death knight heros would get buffed
Make them dual-class when Death Knight class drops
Well... Anduin is still playable for Raza decks. Malfurion was played up until Guff became the new defacto Druid Hero. Gul'dan is still nutty. Uther is awkward because it is basically just about the OTK (Which is clunky and slow compared to most Wild OTK's)...
Jaina and Valeera could be playable with buffs, since their main problem is they're too slow. Lowered mana cost and better Battlecries could help them see play. Rexxar also has the issue of being slow, perhaps he could also do with similar buff.
Garrosh and Thrall are kind of just bad. Maybe a cheaper Garrosh might be playable in Enrage Warrior. Thrall is a meme even for Evolve decks (Especially since summoning a totem is actually useful as it gives an extra target for your Evolves compared to Thrall's HP of needing something in play to evolve)
@@tarille1043 i played wild for several months and honestly didnt see any of them
They will get buffed if they're ever brought back to Standard. My prediction is that they release Death Knight, then bring them back next year.
@@GaussianEntity If this happens, for Rexxar specifically going back to Standard might be good enough of a buff. I feel like it suffers a lot from the beast pool being too diluted in Wild.
i still have the reno hunter in my decks lol (edit: oh boi the deck changed so much lol)
I could use a video of a really long game with deathstalker rexxar
love is in the air
Definite missed lethal in the 1st game, and the opponent realized it when they emoted at 4:38. Should have played Draka before the Prize Plunderer so Plunderer would have done 1 more damage to the taunt, then the taunt could be cleared by the 3/3 dagger leaving 11 damage to go face for lethal. The bad ordering meant he had to overkill the Taunt and was 1 short of lethal.
Wouldn't it be 2/3 dagger then?
But if they play Draka first then it is only a 2/3 weapon meaning they still cannot kill the taunt.
I generally hate rng card creation, Rexxar is the exception, and the only reason for that is that he creates experiences which are not possible without him
It's also pretty expensive card generation limited to 1 a turn so it's not as egregious as a lot of other stuff imo.
13:00 3k IQ plays.
25:40 :D
I’m waiting for 2028 so I can finally play a viable control hunter in wild!
:(
I love that Reddit made this happen!
still can't believe we had to fight the devs on this one, and very glad they gave in and decided to let it update
topdecks reno
plays it
no reaction
"cool Reno players don't look back at topdeck Reno"
Reno's in the deck, you've got to top deck it some time.