Ritual of Servitude

[Pink Kandy]

Most top tier deck (check the in-game) chart use Ritual of Servitude (2 mana) to spam 9/7 mana creatures. I'mp laying and enjoying this game a lot and i'm trying to find a solution against this kind of decks ...
Any counter or good suggestion?

[JustATextBox]

From my experience they aren't particularly strong if you just keep hold of bridges, they really have no way to bridge grab so you gain a lot of value from your perk 1/2

Cursebearer is pretty good, a lot of big drops = high health, which cursebearer is good against

Lightning bolt basically gives you a free win against the 7+ servitude decks

Ghost is also insanely good

Stuns for the Mordar based ones

Combustion works against some of them (but meh combustion kinda sucks now)

Hordes work pretty damn well against a lot of them

Snake druid works against some of them

Air units are pretty good against some of them

Wizard puff

Wheel of doom answers Bahra

Morgrul answers Thelec

Fireball (or chain, or poison) answers dragon pack

Defenso answers dragon pack, howling moon, wreckinator

Memestorm does really well against a lot of them

Muskateer does against all the melee based ones

Laser Turret

Stun Lancers

Uhh.. that's all I can think of right now, I'm sure there's more though

[Euphytose]

"Spam".

With a cycle that's this expensive, it cannot be called spam. Those decks are easy to counter, just very annoying because they force you to play a certain way.

[Pink Kandy]

Thankyou! Btw seems there are 5/6 players in top 10 using It :/

[Girthquake]

I run a deck like that, usually it ends up a pretty quick steam roll, but the times i get a loss are definitely from swarms. Have all 7 mana cards means not taking cards that you would normally take to deal with swarms like lightning bolt or dagger fall. A smart way to run the big deck is hanging on to a colossus since they can sweep the whole swarm, but you are forcing me to play that card when I don't want to.

Hope that helps.

[Girthquake]

Originally posted by Euphytose:

"Spam".

With a cycle that's this expensive, it cannot be called spam. Those decks are easy to counter, just very annoying because they force you to play a certain way.

Yeah, i think instead of spam, they could say 'snowball' the end result looks like you spammed them, but it's just a combination of placement and timing and luck of the draw opening hand the 2-mana - 7 drop minion.

[Pink Kandy]

Its really awesome find nice player to chat about strategies. maybe due to my bar english i missed the most important detail: team match against a team with 1 player with R. of Servitude! I missed usually play premade team :/

[Thymaius]

I'm trying that type of deck, for now I found 2 big counters, the 4 cost ghost that steal something and the aggro decks that spams like crazy.
The ghost can turn the game in one good steal, and because you play a heavy deck, isn't easy kill it faster, and the aggro decks its almost the same, if they play the 0 cost imps your only chance its to start with a good rotation and get lucky with the ritual.

[Pink Kandy]

Ghosts can be good but not so good in team :(

When a player summon creatures the other one "spam" 8/9 mana creatures. The point IMO is that Ritual of Servitude should be "one shot" like Future Present (i really don't know the right name in english).
Summon a 9 mana creature with 2 mana is simply too much in my opinion.

Really hope a mana rise for the card or a remake.

Check top decks, 50%/60% are made with this combo XD

[Thymaius]

Originally posted by Pink Kandy:

Ghosts can be good but not so good in team :(

When a player summon creatures the other one "spam" 8/9 mana creatures. The point IMO is that Ritual of Servitude should be "one shot" like Future Present (i really don't know the right name in english).
Summon a 9 mana creature with 2 mana is simply too much in my opinion.

Really hope a mana rise for the card or a remake.

Check top decks, 50%/60% are made with this combo XD

In 2vs2 7 drop ritual isn't that good, the other team have more spam that in 1vs1, if you check the actual ladder, only 30-40% use ritual, and the 55-70% of those decks use 3 o 4 drop ritual. Those big drops are really easy to beat, the problem its the people don't know how to counter it yet.
If they nerf ritual, we will never see it again in play, its ok at this moment.

[JustATextBox]

Originally posted by Pink Kandy:

Check top decks, 50%/60% are made with this combo XD

16 / 60 = 26.66%

16 out of the 60 players on the leaderboard use it, a little over 1/4. Seems about right imo, considering it's a unique card that was only just released, makes sense that people would be using it and having fun with it

[Pink Kandy]

I will do my best to try to counter it :D

I don't want to polemize about percentage, i noticed top decks change very fast and today I stated less rituals are on top :)

Myabe is my fault this is why I asked about counter this (very used) strategy.

About nerf: i think play a 9 mana minion with 2 mana (one shot) is not that bad, considering you can put it up to three same card in a deck ... :)

[Thymaius]

Originally posted by Pink Kandy:

I will do my best to try to counter it :D

I don't want to polemize about percentage, i noticed top decks change very fast and today I stated less rituals are on top :)

Myabe is my fault this is why I asked about counter this (very used) strategy.

About nerf: i think play a 9 mana minion with 2 mana (one shot) is not that bad, considering you can put it up to three same card in a deck ... :)

Bad idea, if you put 3 of that card, it will summon a 2cost, also one shot will kill the card and the deck, to pull a 7, 8 or 9 drop you need that middle cost in the deck.

[Shi]

Too much "Ritual of Servitude" decks. I feel boring when fight only 1 deck type.

[Kuro]

In 1v1 use bridge control decks, Volco with combustion is a very hard counter. In 2v2 it's very tough, you will generally lose against premades anyway unless you are also playing a premade.

[Pink Kandy]

Originally posted by Shi:

Too much "Ritual of Servitude" decks. I feel boring when fight only 1 deck type.

I agree with you, seems this card really need a change asap.

As an average player (i'm working hard to Master, now I'm diamond 1), its really impossible deal with R.o.Servitude.

Talking about counters: ok i know there are, but i can't build a deck thinking ONLY about that card, this is not count as counter. (My english is terrible sorry XD)

So is pretty impossible deal with same rank players with Ritual of Servitude. This is my conclusion after many hours of play.

Hope they will nerf the card at the end of the season :)