The New Sludge Warlock OTK is a Problem 

It's almost like Thaddius has been a problematic design since its inception, and any sort of effect that can reduce costs to 0 is impossible to balance.

Pyrotechnician died for this

Guys I'm starting to think Thaddius was the problem and not pyrotechnician...

"President Blizzard, we've intercepted a coded message from the balancing team we keep locked in the basement. We've only managed to partially decode it, but it reads, 'B_N TH_DDIUS'" "Bon Thoddius? What could that possibly mean?"

Dev Comment: "Sludge Warlock is a cool deck that hasn’t landed. We didn’t think there was a good way to make the deck performant without changing the Sludges themselves, but we didn’t want to push them too far and turn this into an OTK deck."

What a fun and interactive game.

You can't expect devs to actually understand their game

I like how the warlocks cast mortal eradications on an empty board. Peak hearthstone interaction.

This is ridiculous. They really need to nerf amorphous slime. That card is a serious problem.

Every second I go without a Chump upload is a problem.

Well time to nerf the Barrel of Sludge to 5 mana deal 3.

There is a serious problem when combo can reliably beat aggro. Standard needs more tech like Loatheb to keep combo in check when the devs aren't available to nanny

Hey guys...remember when Denathrius came out...and his ability to hit face coupled with Brann made the combo extremely broken....and they kept nerfing other little cards around the combo but not touching the combo at all....and every other broken interaction Brann enabled....and instead of just removing Brann from Standard they kept skirting the issue....Glad they learned from that lesson.

I think I had a brain lag and merged the previous two videos in my head so I was sure this was a re-upload, then I clicked it and heard "uhoh" and immediately knew it was a new one.

HS players: Thaddius is the issue. HS devs: We hear you, we'll nerf every other card in HS accordingly.

Thaddius should be reduce the cost of your odd/even cards by half, rounded down.

Thaddius combos extremely effectively with cards that cost odd or even amounts of mana

Everything that makes cards go to zero mana is a problem if its not limited to certain cards or a certain class. But even that is risky. I think Thaddius was a super strong card in its original state. The nerf actually made it broken

Merry Christmas Chump!

Just pulled off the combo turn 6 it’s kinda toxic

Heyyy, just a question, Loken isn't better than thaelan ? Because you summon an 11/11 and draw your minion immediatly for only one more mana 🤔

Just got pwned by this deck, opened RU-vid and your video is the first hit 😮

when combo deck beats aggro something has to be fixed for sure

How to assist in fixing thaddius Add a line that says "but never less than 1" Means if something is reduced with say, Thaurissan, it still is forced to have some resources spent

I am struggling to get this to work. I just never seem to hit lethal or do it in the wrong order?

Keep up the good work Chump

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎁

Chaddius strikes again!

Hmmm I wonder if Thaddius is a problem 🤔🤔🤔

alright surely thaddeus gets reworked again after this or banned right?

Wait, didn't Thaddius use to change polarity in hand?

This seems better and easier than the druid version

time for early rotation for Thad o7

The three biggest issues with Hearthstone for the longest time has been 0 Cost Cards, Infinite Value Cards, and Alternative Win Conditions. 0 Mana Cards leads to Combo oversaturation until the point where they win faster than Aggro decks, and Infinite Value Cards are a tool for Aggro decks to utilize to never run out of resources and keep doing things long after they should have run out of cards which punishes Control decks for trying to grind and out resource their opponent, and Alternative Win Conditions are for Control decks to address the Infinite Value problem by giving them a way to end the game before it even becomes a problem, they just need to stall long enough until it becomes active, which results in them being able to beat Aggro decks but they get shafted even harder by Combo decks. This is not a very well-balanced game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Sometimes Paper somehow ends up beating Scissors by dismantling it before it can even do anything.

My guess is they’re going to make Thaddius only discount other undead.

Thanks for the deck, I took the legend

Time to ban amorphis slime to directly remove the problem 😅

i just got turn 5 otk by this deck i would like to thank the devs

Didnt you just have leathal in the last game after playing finley?

tip: use acolyte of pain instead of finley

You should put second slime in an etc so you have access to steam cleaner

And now every deck is trying to Counter them with Plague, Warrior Armor or Druid Aggression.

I have crafted this deck, seems like it is just luck on how good your card draw is.... And I dont have that great draw, I get stuck with the 1 cost spells every game

Fun and interactive. /s

You make it look so easy lol. Maybe my draws are just bad.

Combo winter boys

Just simple rules of design: Don't make cards that make things cost 0. And be careful making cards that make things cheaper.

If I had a nickel for every time warlock broke standard.... I'd have less than a dollar but quite a few nickels still

Don't mind me - just waiting for all the morons to flood the comments with "This deck has a sub-50% winrate, so actually it's not a problem that it's massively toxic and unfun to play against."

I guess I will just not play until Thaddius rotates since they seem to refuse to fix him

hi Chumbo your friend, Jumbo

Back to playing solitaire HS

wins game: "ok well that was probably one of the worst games of hearthstone ive ever played."

Cards should always cost mana.

Wait, but pyro was...banned...

Reduce the cost of cards to 1, not 0. Silly devs

Never say "shoot my slime" again😅

They need to ban thadius till the end of season

I'm O and 5 with this lmao

I literally uninstalled the game after losing on turn 6 against this deck, Standard mode having an OTK on turn 6 is a complete joke I used to play ranked Wild but got tired of seeing bs broken decks in wild so i switched back to standard, but it seems like there's no difference between these 2 game modes lol

it is surely frustrating and thaddius IS the problem but this deck is abysmal and simply can't win unless oppo draws so bad that concedes before you even close the otk.

Bruh sludge on wheels needs a ban already

I just gave it a try and literally lost two games only because of animations and rope. If the stupid animations and time weren't there, I'd have won.

went couple games against dk, always lost, bad card draws looking for combo, so deck really luck dependable, and atm 90% decks run against dk, deck need improvements

Don't mind it at all. Keeps control in check

how is this a thing btw xd

YAY!

well. I'm not as good a player as chump but this deck really wasn't consistent for me. the meta still feels very aggro and this deck has low amont of response to that

game is unplayable until they fix this... great video though!

No!

Tbh unban Pyro Tec. and Ban Thaddius.

uploading games where u have Thaddius and Slime in your hand, arent representative. Been playing this a bit and while i suck at the deck, its nowhere near as consistent as you make it out to be.

I played someone who played this very badly earlier. Always fun to observe

death knight is the absolute worst matchup for this deck

This would piss me off to die to lol

let's go in the next patch they will ban sludge 🤡

Play The Jailer. 2 TJ

Every second opponent is playing this toxic crap. HS not worth playing till Blizz fixes this. This is at diamond rank anyway

I hate warlock with a passion. Every iteration has cards with absolutely no counter. Sludge warlock literally wins on turn 5 without playing a single card beforehand. How did they not nerf this a long time ago? Change the cost of card so they're not all odd. It's ridiculous.

I think a reasonable nerf to the Arcanist would be changing its Battlecry. "Your spells can't damage heroes this turn" So you can aim spells at their face all you want, their damage will be zero. It weakens or disables a lot of kills from hand, something Blizzard said they wanted to do away with.

Mobile code?

This deck requires at least four specific cards in your hand within the first 5 turns. If you're missing even one of them, the deck doesn't work.

This Otk is way better with the Robot that tosees everything Out of Your Deck that didnt start there even playable in this Deck with the 11 mana 11 Hand cards card

omg

It's not that much of a problem. It's very susceptible to disruption and other otk decks can be equally fast. It also needs practice, you can easily mess up your go off turn as animations are really slow. But yes, if you get good draws, and opponent is slow or doesn't play disruption, you will have some free wins.

Hot(?) take: I like Thaddius. I miss the days of shirvallah OTK paladin, malygos druid, topsy turvy priest. I also hated the Stormwind meta enough to quit the game for several months, so i don't just find combo metas inherently fun. It's possible he does need a nerf and I'm ok with that if so. I just think people are reacting the way they do when they get OTK'd by any deck. It's just the mana cheat cards that are really exacerbating the problem, but they aren't the card that actually "wins" the game, so they don't get the heat.

Sludge isnt that good. It's literally 50/50

What’s up with RU-vidrs not knowing mobile after years

I still don't think they need to change thaddius, the bigger problem rn is paladin which is really annoying

This is why this game is dead and will stay dead. Zero fun, broken decks and devs who have no idea what they are doing.

delete thaddius

Classic holidays meta incoming, let's focking go!

BECAUSE OF THAT DECK I QUITT HEARTHSTONE. Ballanced