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Video walkthrough on clearing Heroic Archaedus in the Uldaman Wing in Hearthstone's League of Explorer's adventure.
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Alright, week 2 League of Explorers, we are now on the final encounter, Heroic Arcadius
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Kind of a mess really, we're going to go with a Druid deck on this one
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I'll explain to you the game plan in a moment, once we load in here
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I'll start by explaining some of the key differences between Heroic and normal
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For number 1, as you may have guessed, he does start with armor
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And he also summons statues. Except the statues on Heroic that he receives are 05 minions
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And the ones that we receive are 02 minions. So, yeah, there's that
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Alright, a bit of a game plan here. You can see the decklist on the side
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And our overall strategy right now is... A number of these spells have the ability to buff some of the existing minions that we get
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So you can play something like a Paladin or a Priest, for example
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Cards that buff existing minions and use those to either maintain board control or go right for Arcadius
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Let's see what we've got here. Swipe. Hmm, we can also Savage Roar
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Okay, so if we play this just right here... It's going to go like that, and we'll need that
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And that gives us the ability to go after these statues. It's a tricky balance between maintaining board control and putting damage on Arcadius
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Oh, there goes one statue. That's alright, I suppose. Now we can do something like Swipe
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He's got a spell called Shattering Spree. And what that does is it will destroy all the statues, and for each statue destroyed it will deal 3 damage to the target
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So you've got to keep an eye out at your health here
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And see how much damage these statues can do to you. So with 5 statues on the board, it can do a potential 15 damage
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But I am technically safe for the time being, so I don't have to worry about that just yet
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In fact, what I'm going to do is drop a Soul of the Forest
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Oh, maybe not yet. I feel like he's going to do it soon, though
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But let's play the Direwolf Alpha first. And attack him. Because I will not be able to kill a statue with the 3 damage that I have here anyways
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Alright, so now I've got to be careful. I'm just going to animate Earthen, which is fine
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Oh, there it is. It's all 21 damage right there. All the statues are gone
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Well, that's alright I suppose. No major minions yet, so I'll do this
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I'm just going to keep putting out some more statues here. There's the Earth Elemental that I was waiting for
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That's kind of what this Naturalize was meant to take care of. I'm just going to go ahead and pop that guy
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Destroy it. 2, 3, 4, 5. Yeah, let's go ahead and kill that
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2 damage. Oh, I misplayed that entirely. I should have placed the Keeper of the Grove on the left side of the wolf
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See, that's just me not thinking. 3 statues. That puts me at a possible 9 damage here
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Hmm. Alright, we're going to go ahead and use Soul of the Forest
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Gives them all deathrattle stuff. This is tricky
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If he statues and uses the Shattering Spree next turn, I'm essentially dead because that's 15 damage
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So Doomsayer itself may not be able to save me. I've got to remove some of these statues right now
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I'm going to have to do that. Yep, no other way around it
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4. If I remove this statue, he summons 2 more. That's 12 damage
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I'm sitting at 12 effective health right now. I need to suicide so many statues
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Okay, no other way around it. Hmm. Whirlwind. That puts it at 3
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That puts it at 4. Can't kill that statue just yet. Yeah, we're not going to have Poison Seeds just yet
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We're going to go ahead and do this. Whirlwind it for now
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Aerate this. And... Let's go ahead and kill that statue
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Get that guy out of the way here. Okay. A little bit of breathing room now
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Oh, just entombed one of my guys. Sure. I'm going to have to swipe this fellow
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Attack it for 1. And go 1, 2, 1, 4, 4. 4 statues again
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That's another 12 damage potential. There's the Giant Earth Elemental. Hmm
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I think I'm going to have to use Poison Seeds right now
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Or I can heal up. Healing up puts me at 19. 1, 2, 3, 4 statues
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He will get 2 more, which makes 6 statues. Giving him 18 potential damage
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Not enough with the Earth Elemental in play, though. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to use Poison Seeds here and go all the way around it
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Oh, well. Yeah, alright, let's do it
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So now I get a whole row of trees. So now I get a whole row of trees
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That's a good time for a Savage Roar. That's another way you can dodge these statues
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If you have a full board on your side and you can't summon any more statues on your end
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That's a good time for a Savage Roar. I'm going to draw some cards now
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Or actually get some health back, forget that. Aww, no! Dropped a Direwolf Alpha this time
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Let's go ahead and remove that. And start resuming the offense. Wipes the statues, I get 5, that's okay
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Sure. And where is that Savage Roar
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Ooh, this is even better. Let's use Force of Nature. And so will the forest
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Remove the Raptor. Take out those guys right there. So I get my trees back, which is nice
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So we summon a statue. I don't get a statue since my entire board is gone
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And I bet you that is probably a Sacred Trial. Sure, let's see. Let's go ahead and remove that from play
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And it comes back to life. And it comes back to life
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We should probably get rid of these. I can't risk attacking yet either
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Okay, get rid of that. This is probably going to die here
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Yeah, destroy it. Give me a card. Excellent. I'm going to attack him and hope he does not have Shattering Spree in hand
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Yep, end of turn. This is very dangerous right now since I'm exposed with 6 health
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Play a Treant. Summon a Vigil, sure. Okay, works for me
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I'm going to go ahead and drop a Keeper of the Grove on the wolf
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Armor up a little faster too. I'm just going to go ahead and eliminate some more statues
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Slowly but surely, we're in the middle of the way at our total health
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I actually don't know how many copies of Shattering Spear are in the deck
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So far, 2 have been played. I'm also well within lethal range again, which is scary
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I've got to play that Ancient of Lore. Yeah, let's do it
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Give me 5 health, please. We're going to eliminate that. Go ahead and naturalize him. Let him draw 2 more cards
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Draw 2 more cards. Take that and put some more damage into Arcadius
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Like so. Where is that Savage Roar? 11 cards left in my deck
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He's got none. Okay, this is interesting. Oh, even better. How convenient
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Remove him. Add one of these into Arc. Yeah
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Alright, let's get rid of this. Slowly but surely, choking away. He's out of 3 cards now. He's got nothing else in his hand
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Now we just finish him off. Like so. And that is Heroic Arcadius
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Yeah, look for cards that will buff your minions. Priest, Paladin, Druids are good ones
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And you want to look for enablers or cards that you can use to sacrifice your statues with
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The Direwolf Alpha, for example, is a good one. Flametongue Totems as well
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And yeah, for more Hearthstone guides, check us out over at BlizzardWatch.com
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We will see you next time for Week 3, The Ruined City, which opens, I believe
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sometime in December. Thanks for watching
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