Hearthstone

That's amazing... and thanks to the RNG of Knife Juggler... could have just as easily been a OTK for the other guy.

(It's a setup to demonstrate how it works, based on a recent Hearthstone Science vid.)


In other news, this tavern brawl doesn't like me:
http://i.imgur.com/UXDV5La.jpg

What's the theme? I haven't checked into this week's.

Every spell you cast summons a minion of the same mana cost. So people are running 24-30 spell decks, it's crazy and very random.

Sounds almost perfect for my miracle rogue deck... though warlock might be better for the guaranteed card draw...

Most people are playing Mage. Cost reductions like Sorceror's Apprentice reduce the value of the minion summoned, by the way. Prep-Fan of Knives is likely to get you two Wisps.

The very first deck I created when I saw the format was a Mage with Counterspells and Spelbenders as the secrets. I ran up against someone who was using Duplicate, which I didn't understand at all. I've tried every class except Priest so far. Warrior is a joke, can barely manage. Druid is pretty good, though.

It's a very board-floody format, although it also kind of rewards high cost spells.

Twisting Nether pls.

Nope. Minion is summoned before the spell takes effect. Unless you're the lucky bastard who gets Sneed's Old Shredder, you just get an empty board.

And if you're up against a Druid a board clear will just mean 7 enemy Treants, anyway.

think most classes are fine. at first I had the same idea s worldie and built a rogue deck with vanish. but yeah, doesn't work like spells do. in this case the trigger comes first and then the spell resolves. played against a warrior, seemed more then fine. slam, cleave, shield block, execute, mortal strike, crush, battle rage, the draw a card and creatures can't go below 1 health. there's quite a few good spells.

My wife and I have been annihilating as Priest. The funniest game was when my opponent and I both ended up with Lorewalker Cho on the board. I ended up getting off about 3 or 4 Unstable Portals, which came in really handy when one of them gave me Velen. You'd be surprised what Velen + Velen's Chosen + several stolen Arcane Explosions can do.

The funniest is watching someone's face when they plop down Antonidas or Kel'Thuzad and then stealing it with Mind Control and getting a Deathwing for free.

First couple games I played a mage with basically every mage spell I own. Lots of freezing/aoe/direct damage spells. Added in a couple Mana Wyrms and Flamewaker. Probably could have been better, but it won my first game (vs rogue) and lost my second (vs priest.) Then tried to build a paladin deck that just failed horribly. I might have forgotten to put in Consecration...

I played Priest in the Brawl last night and it's the most fun I've had in this game in ages. Just keep playing it non-stop now.

It's amazing how many people are playing Thaurissan and Sorcerer's Apprentices... You WANT expensive spells. I had to thank the guy who turned my Shadow Word Death into Rag.

Yeah, I had a game where Loatheb turned my Smite into a Thaurissan. Which eventually turned all my minions into 1 drops and Wisps, unfortunately.

KysenMurrin wrote:I played Priest in the Brawl last night and it's the most fun I've had in this game in ages. Just keep playing it non-stop now.

This is the best Brawl yet. It's great when Mass Dispel is one of the best cards in the game LOL.

I played completely broken OP Druid, of course. Innervate and Wild Growth spawning guys is sick, Soul of the Forest is insane (it spawns the guy first), and Recycle is a full silence + hard removal + if they actually draw the guy again it sucks. Starfire and Nourish are both also insane.

Had a friend go Coin->Innervate->Soul on turn 1. The Soul spawned a Pit Lord. Ow.

Hard countered by the Priest who waits until you empty your hand to cast Mass Dispel, though, haha.

that....


that... looks.. very VERY unintended... O.o

I actually found a situation where you can play Millhouse without being too scared of his effect, haha.

Tavern Brawl! (Just realised you can't tell from the picture - that's turn 2.)

The matchmaking seems odd today. My games have been Mage vs Priest x 5, then Shaman vs Warlock x 2.

Thoughts on the new stuff revealed so far?

The Shaman stuff looks really good. Golem is probably great, and Tuskarr is borderline OP (which is fine, Shaman needed something). I personally think the Valiant is a great great card but we'll see.


For this week's Brawl: Best cards are Turn 1 Alex, MC, and ... Annoy-o-tron of all things. HELLO blocks all the big stuff everyone's running while allowing you to play Boom or KT or whatever on the same turn.

Yeah, Shaman got a lot of love with these first few new cards. They probably put good Shaman cards in the first reveal on purpose. Not sure about the revealed cards overall - we're missing a lot of the picture.

The Hunter cards are odd, because they don't fit the current Hunter archetype, so we can't really say if they're playable until we see more.

Not really loving this week's tavern brawl, can't really wrap my head around building a decent deck, and with Legendaries etc... thin on the ground in my collection, it's a bit annoying. But I've loved pretty much all the previous ones.

Excited about the new cards, but wondering if there is any plan to give newbies a bit of a catch-up mechanic as the number of cards increases...

Not a fan of this brawl either (But in general I'm not liking the ones where you got to build your own deck).

In my own opinion, the easiest to win deck is Priest. With Mind Controls, very cheap removals and two 2 card draws (thoughtsteal) it's very easy to get ahead of the opponent and then just snowball down.