Tempo Storms Sealed Deck format once again shone in last weekends Red Bull Team
Brawl, the second significant tournament run in this Hearthstone format.
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time, the home team won, with Tempo Storm beating Team Liquid 3-1 after
squeezing into the finals.What is Sealed Deck format? When developing a
Hearthstone version of Sealed Deck, Tempo Storm borrowed from Magic: The
Gatherings Sealed Deck format, one of my personal favorite limited formats in
card games. Each team opens a series of virtual packs to form a 240-card pool
from which they must build three decks with only those cards.What makes this a
compelling format is that it highlights the deckbuilding itself, rather than
simply piloting a constructed, refined deck, in which most players almost
entirely know the majority of a players deck after a few turns, if not before.
Forcing players to build decks from a random, limited pool, creates interesting
scenarios. And as a team format, with the players miced up, you both get to see
direct teamwork, fairly unusual in Hearthstone, and hear the players
thoughts.Tempo StormAndrey Reynad Yanyuk Haiyun Eloise Tang Victor VLPS
LopezTempo Storm may have won the tournament, but it was a very near thing, as
they only advanced to the final match against Team Liquid by virtue of winning a
tiebreaker as three of the four teams involved went 1-2 in the Round Robin (Team
Liquid went undefeated).The team felt they had enough Mechs to put together a
kind of hybrid Mech/Token Shaman that could swarm the board and make beneficial
trades, with Thunder Bluff Valiant and Muklas Champion leveraging the tokens.
Mech Shaman had been a thing in the past, a straight aggro deck during the days
of Goblins vs. Gnomes, but without a Rockbiter Weapon or Whirling Zap-o-Matic,
Tempo Storm couldnt go a straight-up with the aggression.Tempo Storms Mage did
manage to get a Mad Scientist, useful to exploit the Duplicates, and the two
Flamestrikes were key to making the deck work. The only thing really missing was
direct burn damage to the face outside of the two Forgotten Torches; there was
no Fireball in this deck. But the two Flame Lances came in handy several times
over the weekend -- an important thing to remember about Hearthstone is that
there are a lot of cards that never see play in Constructed, but only because
there are cards that are simply a smidgen better.Druid was the deck Tempo Storm
worried the most about, a deck full of large minions and not a lot of ways to
catch up.Im going to play the most expensive thing in my hand every single turn
until hopefully my opponent dies. The only thing thats missing is any kind of
decision-making, commented Reynad before the tournament started on how theyd win
with the deck. In the end, they went 3-3 with it.After going 6-7 in games during
the Round Robin, Tempo Storm tinkered with all three of their decks (they were
allowed to make changes before the finals using the same card pools), making
them more aggressive, notably including Bloodlust in Shaman to push the token
theme. The Bloodlust proved to be a key card in the final against Team Liquid,
as the team didnt get too greedy and used Bloodlust for important minion removal
rather than simply for the burst damage to face.Team LiquidJeffrey Trump Shih
David Dog Caero Janne Savjz MikkonenTeam Liquids deck all shared in a theme in
that their card pool was really suffering for lack of area-of-effect clears, the
type that could help the games if they fell behind. So they focused on decks
that built a solid curve that could maintain board control with minion-on-minion
combat.You could see this issue in Team Liquids Mage deck, which had very high
minion quality, but no Flamestrikes, no Fireballs, and only Blizzard for a
dependable board clear, albeit one that would likely need some kind of board
presence.Team Liquid was also fortunate to draw both Reno Jackson and Lord
Jaraxxus, enabling them to put together a fairly decent Renolock deck with a bit
of Dragon synergy. One problem which didnt hit them early: the lack of board
clear in the form of Hellfire, Shadowflame, or Twisting Nether. But if they
could survive and get to Jaraxxus, they stood a good chance of winning. In
practice, it proved tricky and the deck only was around .500 in the end.During
the round robin portion, the general deck plan proved effective, the team going
9-3 over the course of their three preliminary matches. As it turned out, the
quick aggressive decks that would punish the decks early were nowhere to be
seen. Tempo Storm going for a smaller curve in the finals proved to be their
undoing.Team BMKBrian Kibler Rumay Hafu Wang Tom MartellWith one of the best
Arena players in Hearthstone in Hafu to go along with two very experienced Magic
players, this seemed like an ideal format for this makeshift team.The deck that
worked out the best for Team BMK was their Priest deck, the only Priest played
in the tournament. While the class has been the whipping boy of Constructed for
the last six months or so, they were able to collect many of the elements for a
Resurrect Priest, with many of the standard cards for that archetype being
available without substitutions. The Priest went 2-1, so wasnt the problem.Nor
was the problem the Shaman deck, which went 3-1 with some powerful late game
cards, a total of nine minions of five-or-more mana. Without a lot of aggressive
decks to play against, they were able to reach that endgame more often than
not.What sunk Team BMK was the Mage deck, a deck that get out-tempoed early if
they couldnt get a Fallen Hero or Stormchugger, easily their best early-game
minions, to stick. And thats a problem as with no Fireball, Frostbolt, or
Blizzard, the team fell regularly behind and would lose if they didnt happen to
have Flamestrike. Even with two Flamestrikes, this happened quite a bit, leaving
the Mage deck to go 1-6, the worst performance of any deck for the day.The other
problem turned out to be the secrets. While Tempo Storm had two Duplicates to go
along with their Mad Scientist, Team BMK had two of the weakest secrets -- Id
argue the absolute weakest -- in Vaporize and Spellbender. After the initial
surprise in their first match given that these cards are never played in
Constructed, both Tempo Storm and Team Liquid were able to play around the
secrets quite easily.Cloud9James Firebat Kostesich Cong Strifecro Shu Andrew
TidesofTime BiessenerCloud9s plan for their Druid was simple: put as many giant
minions, preferably with taunt, on the board as possible and dare the opponent
to have enough removal to get them all. And it worked out more often than not,
the deck winning three of its five games. With Dark Arakkoa, Captured Mormungar,
two Ironbark Protectors, and two Volcanic Lumberers, their opponents tended to
run out of removal.But against a fearless, aggressive opponent with a bit of
reach, the deck ran into trouble. Tempo Storm didnt have spell options to remove
Cloud9s big minions in their mirror match, so the former used their two Savage
Combatants to use their heros health pool as a removal tool. And they did this
to the tune of 25 self-damage just to retain board.Like Team Liquid, Cloud9 got
a Lord Jaraxxus to use, but the combination of a smaller curve without enough
aggression to put the game away early, they had a harder time geting to their
Jaraxxus.Cloud9s last deck, yet another grinding-style Mage was a deck we didnt
get to see a lot of, only geting two games in. Which is kind of a shame as they
were able to work in five Dragons and two Blackwing Technicians, something that
caused Team Liquid a great deal of trouble in the very first game of the day.
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