I tried to show Duelyst to a friend

[raviel1234]

I faced ~3 Vaaths who got one or two General attacks off on me and did the rest with Rush minions + Thumping Wave. I faced a Starhorn who ramped out a Juggernaut on his second turn (2 flash reincarnations+1 mana tile). I faced a Lillith who did 19 face damage over 2 turns while sitting in the opposite corner (Dark Seed(6), Dark Seed(4), 2x Void Pulse(3), FlameBlood Warlock). I faced at least one Faie who used some sort of removal on everything that I played then spammed Meltdown. I faced a Kara that summoned 4 illusions and 4 Gravity wells in one turn–I said that was normal but since only one card in my deck would make that not instant death, it didn’t help. There was also a Songhai match that I don’t really remember.

I was walking him through what I was doing but he pointed out that despite accounting for everything I could, I kept getting wrecked by things I could not see coming. There were a handful of games where I did something pretty great to get out of a bind in good shape then died to something out of hand that invalidated the whole thing.

Seems like you had some interesting games there,
Not typical meta decks. Turn 2 Juggernaut is indeed gg most of the time, it isn’t something that happens often so wouldn’t judge the balance for it.

The game is becoming harder continuously, taking everything into account becomes harder, even experienced streamers sometimes miss some things so if you didn’t predict all opponent’s moves properly it doesn’t necessarily mean the game is broken, often you just need more experience and to try harder.

Sometimes they just get the perfect hands like literally play all cards in hand for lethal, it happens too often for my taste but you can improve your chances in case they don’t…

Not sure how you convince someone to play. I’d say there is a nice variety of play styles and a strategic side of managing treats and positioning to limit opponent’s options.
Streams could help, but you need a none salty streamer, maybe hsuku. Grincherz is good at the game but very salty so wouldn’t rely on him convincing someone to play.

[galaxydueler]

Yup!

He summoned a dragonbone golem against my faie deck. So I just said “I don’t like golems!” and did aspect of the fox.

He died laughing

Then he lost because that was his win con

[phayze]

Abusing Faie. Still hardstuck gold 10, feelsbadman
3.14/10 needsMoarBurst.
Keep struggling bby.

[galaxydueler]

It was just a fun match friend

shut up phayze

[edward4244]

For changing sprites search “skin by an owl” on the forum.

Burn decks are pretty easy to play and are often on high tiers…
But there are a lot of other viable decktypes, but they require a good resource managment and deckbuilding to really work,

(like, actual songhai can do 16 dmg on 7 mana with good general positioning, but it’s not immediate to pull of as it’s a 3 cards combo (i’m using that deck and it’s preatty good too) and you don’t have a lot of removal options,

Or battlepet magmar, it’s really really fun but it isn’t competitive)