#126 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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Letters to Santa Brode
Joce
Dear Santa Brode;
Your enthusiasm is infectious, your laugh is so jolly, but Hearthstone lacks something, and I think that's folly.
I love all the TAC cluckers, and want to crown the best of the best. They are smart and they're kind, by the light we've been blessed. My wish is to join them, through some kind of mode, that would take a group of my choosing, letting one claim the gold.
Results without screenshots! I could choose my own rules! Perhaps that is too much power to hold...
But maybe, just maybe, we call it, "Tournament Mode"?
Garrett
Dear Santa Brode,
It has been quite a year,
There’s been tournaments, exploring, and frostbitten cheer.
What I’d like for Winter Veil,
Is to ascend Kharazhan,
Join Moroes’ banquet and keep partying on.
Dear Santa Brode,
For Xmas this year I only want one thing. I've been a good boy, I haven't played any taunt or healed since those are cheating and I hit all the faces as hard as I could. I even got golden hunter. I assume that's what you wanted from us after GvG. But now I'm confused. You gave us Reno Jackson and a golden monkey and now I've lost my power to SMOrc so Santa Brode, all I want for Xmas is my SMOrc back. And more deck slots and tournament mode and like 100 new cards or so and fraggle stick car. That's all. Oh and tell Santa Woo and Santa Iksar I said hello.
Love,
Dills
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QuietSong (Reddit)
For no reason in particular, I threw an Elise Starseeker into my ramp druid. I don't really feel like playing any of the more refined golden monkey decks out there, but my druid is a taunty deck that often goes into late game - so why not? A few games in, I realized I was living the dream: turn 7 and I've already got the monkey in my hand. I call my 9 year old (also a Hearthstone player) over before playing the golden monkey, since he's never seen it before, and we're like kids on Christmas morning looking to see what my hand fills up with.
A few turns later, everything's great. I've played Aviana, so I'm unloading my hand with great abandon: Nefarion, Mal'Ganis, Icehowl, Gahz'rilla, Eadric, and Cairne join her on my side of the board. His side of the board is empty.
He plays Brawl.
And Bouncing Blade.
Suddenly, all I have is a handful of crazy expensive cards and a 4/2 Baine Bloodhoof against a dragon warrior. My son turns to me and asks, "Mom, why are you laughing so much? What's so funny about him killing all your stuff?"
I still don't think he understands how awesome that loss was.......
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Casey
Hey guys big fan i have an idea about why the joust mechanic failed. I think blizzard designed the mechanic differently but could not implement it due to server and technical limitations. My theory is that originally the joust was going to reveal the most expensive minion in each rewarding the players with slower decks. However the same server limits currently stopping reno jackson from glowing in hand stopped blizzard from implementing this type of mechanic. However they had already designed the cards and pushed out the useless mechanic
What do you guys think?
Golden Common
Hello TAC!
I've taken the liberty of updating a holiday classic in the spirit of our favorite childrens' card game:
♫ On the twelfth day of Winter Veil, Hearthstone gave to me:
Twelve Warlocks tapping,
Eleven BM friend requests,
Ten Murlocs mrrglgrrgl,
Nine frickin’ deck slots,
Eight Ben Brodes laughing,
Seven 40-dust packs,
Six “always Huffers,”
Five roping Warriors,
Four unplayable legendaries,
Three arena losses,
Two disconnects,
And a topdeck for exact lethal ♫
Happy Feast of Winter Veil, champions!
Jean-Gabriel
Hey guys,
Any day a new TAC episode comes out is just like Christmas; Kringle ain't got nothin on ya.
My question is this: Is there a Kripparian for kids?
The kid and I are trying to get better in ladder/arena, and watching streamers that explain the plays and misplays seems like the way to go. Krip is especially nice to listen to when he starts his youtube videos. He's all smiles, he sounds like our friend and gives great info. He even wishes us well and reassures us he'll be back tomorrow. So smooth, like a non-creepy jazz uncle. But once the game starts, there's a 50% chance the first word will be fuck, followed by fuck that fucking card and fuck it. I call it the FRNG.
Now, I love swearing, and people swearing is great. Pretty sure my mother was swearing while I was being born. Not trying to change anyone or anything. This is NOT political.
Just wondering if there is a great explainer like Krip out there that doesn't (or rarely) swears that you guys know about.
Thanks, happy holidays, hope you all get a pony.
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