#103 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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I think I’m more of an Aggro player now...
Dills is a golden hunter! Also, finally got my first 12 win arena post-TGT. News flash, pally and specifically Murloc Knight is really good.
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ATLC Grand Finals
The majority of the weekend event went quite smoothly! Unfortunately the finals last night were plagued with stream issues.
Highlights
New Archon Team League coming January 2016.
Links
Ben Brode put out his first Design Insight video
Brode talked a lot about the initial community reaction to the release of TGT and the new cards. He talked a great deal about power creep, and the struggle to keep the game accessible to new players while still keeping it interesting for us seasoned players.
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Strategy
Dragon Priest
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Mason
Hello TAC crew,
Played a game today with the craziest portals today. I was paying Tempo Mage vs a rogue running burgle and cutpurse. Turn 2 I got an Ironbark Protector from a portal which got assassinated after I played it, then turn 6 I got Malganis from my portal. His burgle pulled an unstable portal which coincidentally pulled a 6 mana Malygos. Do you have any idea how devastating a rogue with a 6 mana Malygos can be? A 7 damage blade flurry wiped my board and set me to 10. I played Malganis, and cloaked him with a spare part along with a mad scientist hoping I could kill the Malygos on the next turn. He played the wee spellstopper he got from burgle to make malygos immune to spells and then another 7 damage blade flurry wiped my board and I was out of options.
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CodeVirus
Hello,
Love the podcast. You guys are doing a great job.
I would like to get your opinion on card backs as rewards and incentives to play more of certain formats: ranked, arena, tavern brawl. Would you play more of these modes if there were 3 card backs that would change depending on how you do in those games. For example, for ranked, it would display the best rank you've hit ever (if you hit legendary - it would show how many times did you hit legendary). For arena, it would show your best run (5,9,12 wins?) etc. i know something like that would push me to do better than my current record of rank 13. How about you? Do you think this could work?
Thank you for helping me get through my long commute.
Windfall
Hey TAC Crew,
I got into a discussion about Murloc Knight in pally arena decks recently, and I was reminded of all those arena drafts where I got screwed into picking Hungry Crab.
Recently, I got a hungry Crab from a webspinner (from an unstable portal, of course.) and demolished a Murloc Knight with it, turning the game in my favor.
The Question is: Hungry Crab new arena meta?
You guys are the best!
Tom
Hey All,
After listening to the episode with Kripp an idea popped up on how to improve ranked play. How about steal from the wow role incentive in LFD and add a bonus to 1-2 classes being less represented on ladder at that moment. Keep it simple like; 2 wins gets you 10 gold (instead of 3 wins)
Hopefully see you all at Blizzcon again and keep up the great show!
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Dill’s where else can everyone find you?
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