#97 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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Hearthstone at Gamescom
So much awesome shit...
Links
Joust
Joust is not a visible keyword anywhere on the cards shown at Gamescom. But it’s a consistent effect across multiple cards. “Joust” minions cause both players to reveal a random minion from their deck. If the player who played the Joust minion’s revealed minion costs more Mana then their opponent’s the Joust minion’s effect triggers.
Joust Clarifications
Ranked Chest and Rewards
How the Chest Works
Our Quest Logs will now display the highest rank we have achieved during the season. Meaning that it does not change if we lose ranks.
The Rewards
If you go beyond rank 20 you will now start receiving bonus rewards at the end of each Ranked season, based on how high your rank is by the end of said season. You will be rewarded Golden Cards and dust. The amount of both will increase for players at higher ranks, stopping at rank 5.
Blizzard showed two examples at Gamescom. One with a Rank 17 player receiving one Golden Card (Common rarity), 20 dust, and the season’s card back; and another showing a Rank 5 player receiving 3 Golden Cards (2 Common and 1 Epic), 5 dust, and the season’s card back.
All of this, by the way, starts this month. Our August rankings will yield us rewards!
Mike Donais Icy Veins Interview
Icy Veins recently sat down with Senior Hearthstone Designer Mike Donais and he opened up about Tournament Mode.
Strategy
More TGT Cards
Start from the bottom at: http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?display=3&filter-premium=1&filter-set=103&filter-unreleased=1&sort=-cost
Crazy Game Stories
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CJ
Hello aaaaa cluckers!
Just finished my first game with the new tavern brawl (disguises) and I got a great story out of it. I play the good Doctor Boom, and end my turn. Next turn, my opponent destroys him, sending him to practice medicine in the sky, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! The disguise is revealed to be, none other than ...
MIMIRON'S HEAD.
My turn starts, and I GET VOLTRON, or whatever. Needless to say, I won that game, and in my pack, I got my first golden legendary - freaking Rag. Love it when a plan comes together.
Emails
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Kevin
Dear Plucked Cockerels,
I am a casual player, and don't have time to play regularly. As a result, I am far from having all the cards and accumulate dust slowly. But I have been saving up my dust and was about to finally craft Dr. Boom when suddenly the new expansion was announced. Knowing it is just around the corner, I now wonder if I should go ahead and craft Dr. Boom, or if I will have buyers remorse and wish I had waited to craft a new shiny and better Legendary in just a few weeks. Or perhaps stretch the dust further and get a couple of new Epics or even several rares.
What do you think?
Sam
Hi Disgruntled Poultry,
A new patron warrior alternative has been posted on reddit today, and it revolves around the angry chicken card instead of grim patron. Thought you might be interested in talking about it on the show. Here is a link to the post and the deck.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/283650-chicken-warrior
Kyle
Now that Hearthstone is a proven success in the market, what do you think the chances would be of Blizzard some day introducing a new class in Hearthstone *first* and then in WOW?
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Personal Stuff
Dill’s where else can everyone find you?
Follow Dills @WillieDills
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Joce where can you be found?
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The Gamers’ Inn
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NOMOONart.com for Garrett’s stream designs.
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