#44 - The Angry Chicken: “Soon for Months”
• Garrett • Dills • Jocelyn
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Season 6 CAARRRRRD Back ...yarrrr
Season 6 of Ranked Play will include a pirate-themed card back reward for reaching Rank 20 during September - Avast, ye fowl of foul mood!
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Arachnid Quarter not free in one month
The Naxxramas launch event that awards free access to the Arachnid Quarter will be ending on September 30th. If you haven't experienced The Curse of Naxxramas yet, make sure to log in and get this first wing for free!
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OTK Shades
Hey Chickens!
Just wanted to say that I am loving the Shade of Naxxramas. I put 2 of them in a Paladin deck along with Avenge and Echoing Ooze, along with some buffs and heals, and not only is the deck doing fairly well, I am finding that one game in three, thanks to Blessing of Kings, and Blessed Champion, I've been able to crank my Shades up to 30 or 40 attack. An OTK opponents see coming for the entire game.
I think I'll call it the Damocles Deck, because that Shade hangs over the opponent like an unshakable judgement of doom. It seems to be playing psychological havoc, as I am often seeing strange plays and errors as they try to deal with the Shades.
Yours, James
The Angriest of Chickens
(FYI Angry Chicken is the current Reddit challenge)
Hello podcasters! I wanna share an interesting story regarding your namesake card! The angry chicken was in the very first expert pack I opened, so naturally I saw that it was epic and thought it must be this amazing card; I put it into my priest deck with relatively little success for a few games, until finally one game I played it and it didn't immediately die. I was able to buff it up the next turn with two power word shields. The cards I drew were of course divine spirit and inner fire, in addition to another divine spirit in my hand. Soon I played both divine spirits and the inner fire for a 20/20 chicken. I used it to take out a senjin shieldmasta for a 25/17. Needless to say I won next turn. Thanks for the awesome podcast!
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Danny
How do you feel about infinite combos in hearthstone? If you're not aware, there already is one in the game -- 4x Sorcerer's apprentice (you can get this with duplicate or faceless manipulators) and Antonidas is infinite free fireballs. Now this clearly isn't game breaking or anything, who would ever manage to get 4 sorcerer's apprentice into play at the same time anyway? But is this something that should be addressed? If not, how 'good' does an infinite combo have to be before Blizzard allows it to exist?
Agent
Hi clucks,
Just finished up the heroic naxx fights and went back to the ladder to immediately be matched against a player whose tag cannot be mentioned on show and it made me wonder why there is no way to report inappropriate tags! This is not my first encounter with a tag that made me genuinely uncomfortable for the 15 mins I was forced to stare at it. Has blizz ever mentioned implementing a system where these tags can be flagged?
Love the show keep it up! (Dills come back to ITN)
Sergentzimm
Howdy cluckers. With the rush of Naxxramas died down, I am back to my usual habit of playing to rank 20 once a month and doing quests. I am not a fan of Arena right now, as I have all the cards I need, only missing a handful of legendaries.
This brings me to my issue, I expect to have a lot of gold when the next expansion is announced at Blizzcon, I would wager, let alone when it hits. If we get new cards before December I will be shocked.
So the question is, how are they going to combat the inherent gold inflation as they introduce new sets in typical blizzard fashion, ie soon for months. I love Blizzard products, but one thing they can't do is quick.
Keep up the good show.
Thejayonce: what is side boarding? You mention it a lot, but I don't know what it is!
Bryanfromalaska: Question - isn't the next expansion of 100+ new cards a HUGE amount?
Ninja_bob: Q: Do you think the Naxx map should be included in the regular map rotation? I was thinking that beating all of Naxx on heroic should unlock it.
Ghostbom: @Amovetv Favourite thing to do along with a Hearthstone
Xrandalthor: With the upcoming influx of new cards, do you want to know every card and its attributes before release, or would you like to be surprised by some of them?
Ophidian0807: Do you plan on streaming a few games of HS among TAC host?
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