When to run one card instead of 2
So I haven't been playing hearthstone for that long, but I've played a lot of other card games before. One thing I'm confused about is the prevalence of high-level decks that run 1 copy of a (non-legendary) card. In many other card games, you generally want to run the maximum number of copies of each card, because otherwise you're introducing too much uncertainty into your deck.
Can someone explain to me the prevalence of using 1 card instead of 2, and what situations you would do this in? I like to build all of my own decks, and this seems to be an important concept.
Best Answer
Sometimes you have to run only one card because of the limited numbers of card in a deck. This is mostly due to how much this card synergizes with the rest of the deck.
For example if you want to make a Shaman deck with mana tide totem i suggest you only take one, because you don't want to waste any more slots, better take a card that has more board influence.
Another example is Holy Fire, it is a good card to make damage and heal yourself, but it is high cost and has no board influence, its basically an expensive execute / heal. Many times you will have it in your hand but you won't use it because you have power words or Big game hunter and so on.
That means it is a strong, but very situational card which will prove itself useless in some situation and useful in others.
So in summary, I recommend to only use one when:
- The card is very situational
- It's effect is not always gonna work ( see mind control tech for example, very unlikely to be used twice in the same game )
- You already have similar card and don't want too many of that type ( see starfall for example, 2 swipes and a starfall is usually more than enough to clear board as druid )
I will eventually update my answer it anything else comes to my mind while playing
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