Coin Concede - Episode 462 “Making Fetch Happen”

Edelweiss* WickedGood* Magesa*

Intro (~10 min)

Welcome to Episode 462 of Coin Concede, a Hearthstone podcast dedicated to making the competitive side of the game more accessible to you.

It is Wednesday August 28th, 2024 in the evening!

Coming to you from Gnomeregan, Ohio, it's me, Edelweiss!

From Northrend, Massachusetts, we have WickedGood!

From Teldrassil, California we have Magesa!

And from all around the world we have you, dear listeners.

This week's episode is brought to you by our producers nmbrthry, Kresh, Beefsquatch, David P,  Waalou, Jeremy T, bottlecaps, GrumpyMonk, TheBurgerClub, KercReagan, ChrizzleyBear, Tyleniphe, and SSJ5GOKU, and by our Patrons of the Week, mdprime and Stephen Cabrera! You can go to patreon.com/coinconcede to get perks like a thank you at the top of the show, early access to new episodes, one on one coaching sessions, and help support the show in the process!

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How's life and ladder? -

Edelweiss - Climbed with WorldEight’s Shaman

Wickedgood - Climbing some with FFU, went to a retro games convention, TakeThis needs help https://www.takethis.org/2024/08/take-this-is-in-danger-of-closing-forever/

Magesa - mostly coachings, including one with W8 on the pally he’s still tweaking; also played a couple interesting games of Zarimi. Also Cookie betrayed me, how dare he after Wicked and Edel and I brought him into this world!

News Highlights -  

Balance Patch - In decksplanations

• BGs changes:

• Now that players have started to get the hang of Trinkets, turn timers have been reduced back to their normal lengths.
• Guff Runetotem (hero) was buffed from “After you buy 30 Tiers’ worth of cards, get a Triple Reward” to “After you buy 25 Tiers’ worth of cards, get a Triple Reward”
• Upbeat Frontdrake and Corrupted Myrmidon have been returned to the minion pool
• Go read the notes for lots of trinket changes, minion changes, and armor changes

• Bug fixes:

• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Miniaturize and Gigantify didn’t work after a card went backwards into a zone (like bouncing from field to hand or moving from hand into deck)
• Also a few BGs fixes

Wild Heroic Tavern Brawl cheating

• It was just one person and they’ve been banned - https://x.com/ben_heathstone/status/1828197901471756390
• Players who encountered them have been granted 1000 gold (later corrected to per encounter by Celestalon) 

Treasure Hunt event is live

• Remember that the event quests are now weekly quests intended to take a week to complete; you are not intended to play or destroy 75 pirates in one day!
• If you complete a weekly quest before the end of a week, you need to wait until the end of the week to get the next one. However, if you don’t complete it in time, don’t worry – once you do complete it, the next one will open up right away, so you can catch up.

Shop updates - https://x.com/ben_heathstone/status/1828479099775447123

Tournaments

CCLS - “All You Can Beat Buffet”

Lineups:

• Popular brings:

• Popular classes:
• Other classes:

Results:

• Americas players undefeated after week 3:

SSJ5GOKU, bhongwater, pylet712, DoctorBOMD

• EU finalists: 

d0nkey and rebobson!

Highlights:

None this week, hopefully we have some more next week!

• If we want we can say: Titosantana is casting SSJ5GOKU vs pylet712 to see which of them will remain undefeated this evening (Wednesday August 28th) so go back and check out the vod if you’re interested!

Decksplanations

Patch 30.2.2

Nerfs (Standard)

Dev Comment: The Standard metagame has a variety of decks that are feeling balanced against one another. Because of that, we're only changing a couple cards that are leading to unhealthy play patterns that we want to address. Tidepool Pupil is quite strong, and is allowing decks to copy key cards too easily and play them too many times per game. We hope this change doesn't delete the card from the metagame entirely, but does make it less effective as an enabler for combos and spells that are particularly effective when repeated many times per game. Doomkin isn't as much a statistical outlier, but is causing more frustration. The card seems to have overstayed its welcome, so we are slowing it down by a turn to decrease its popularity.

• Tidepool Pupil: 1 mana 2/1 -> 2 mana 2/2
• Doomkin: 6 mana 3/4 -> 7 mana 4/5

Nerfs (Wild)

Dev Comment: On the Wild side, we've identified a few play patterns that are over the line even for the powerful Wild format. Secret Passage has been a focal point across almost all Rogue decks since its creation, enabling an unhealthy power level across the class as a whole. On top of that, Wildpaw Gnoll could too easily be played on turn 1, keeping opponents from developing onto the board from the start of the game. This change makes the turn 1 Gnoll less common and makes playing multiple Gnolls less efficient. The sheer volume of spells that Sorcerer's Apprentice allows is something we think should be addressed, so we're making it no longer go to 0. With that change, we think it's safe to return to its original mana cost.

• Wildpaw Gnoll: 5 mana -> 6 mana
• Secret Passage: 1 mana -> 2 mana
• Sorcerer’s Apprentice: 4 mana -> 2 mana, spells can’t be reduced below 1

Buffs

Dev Comment: Since our last round of changes, there are a few classes that still don't have as many competitive options as others. These changes focus primarily (but not entirely) on bolstering those classes' new Perils in Paradise offerings.

• Treasure Hunter Eudora: 6 mana -> 5 mana
• Maestra, Mask Merchant: 6 mana -> 5 mana
• Metal Detector: 2/2 -> 3/2

• Furious Fowls: 3/2 birds -> 3/3 birds
• Mystery Egg: 5 mana, reduce by 5 -> 4 mana, reduce by 4
• Fetch!: 2 mana -> 1 mana

• Ryecleaver: 4 mana sandwich -> 3 mana sandwich
• Food Fight: Summon a 0/6 -> Summon a 0/4
• Boom Wrench: 4 mana -> 3 mana

• Watercolor Artist: 4 mana -> 3 mana
• Raylla, Sand Sculptor: 2/5 -> 2/6
• Marooned Archmage: 3/3 -> ¾
• DJ Manastorm: 10 mana -> 9 mana

• Ci’Cigi: Deathrattle: get 3 -> Battlecry, Outcast, Deathrattle: get 1

Outro (~5min) - Thanks and contact!

We have many folks we'd like to thank - check out our THANKS! section on the website at www.coinconcede.com, where you can also find our contact info, our show notes, and our Patreon information!

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Coin Concedes (Shout Outs):

CHEERS -

RAIDS -

SUBS -

WickedGood -

Edelweiss - Clark

Magesa - Edelweiss and Dawn for holding down the fort next week while Steve and I are out! Steve for hanging in there at work! And good luck WorldEight in THL vs some 15-year-old kid named maxiebon1234, I’m sure it’ll be a breeze

Keep Calm and…

And if you see us on ladder…

“Coin Concede” WickedGood

“Coin Concede” Edelweiss

“Coin Concede” Magesa