#38 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Dills • Jocelyn
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News
Curse of Naxxramas Finally Outlined Officially by Blizzard
Naxxramas will open its gates one wing at a time, with a new wing opening each week.
Wing Release Schedule
Cost
Heroic Mode
Links
HearthStats June Report w/ Chris Frantz
Top 3 Most Played Classes in Arena and in Constructed haven’t changed.
Arena: 1.) Mage 2.) Paladin 3.) Druid
Constructed: 1.) Warlock 2.) Druid 3.) Rogue
Games logged haven’t changed more than 10k in either direction. (Except Druid in Constructed. Just under 12k more game recorded)
Global Win Rates
Constructed
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Links
Strategy
Kolento Paladin
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Crazy Game Stories
Garrett
Killed a Mircale Rogue’s Leeroy with Knives from my Knife Juggler on my opponent’s turn.
Jean-Sebastien
Had to dramatically edit this email for time but Jean has had a rough year. Jean had surgery on his left eye last November for a torn retina. That kept Jean away from the computer, and in a lot of unbearable pain. But apparently our show helped out a lot during that time.
Tomorrow (sent last Thursday).. I’m going through surgery again, same thing, other eye. Even tho i got laser surgery in Jan 2014 to prevent my retina to go all crazy in my other eye... its peeling anyway. So its going to be an other pain train for the next 2months. I know you guys will keep me from going insane once again and i want to thank you so much for it doing so.
Jean’s Crazy Game Story
I’m playing a mid range shaman vs RDU Freeze mage. I lost 2 Unbound Elementals and wasted a Lightning Bolt due to a misplay against the Doomsayer. The Freeze Mage BM’s by spamming “Thank You” over and over. So i say FINE THEN we are going full BM mode. RDU mage is a slowish deck, so, from this point i take 90 seconds turn, every turn.
A solid mid game happens with multiple large Shaman minions eating a lot of the Mage’s damage spell. My Rag lands 16 damage to my opponents face before being taken out by a Fireball and another Minion.
The End game.
Hes down at 8 hp all of his minions big and small are dead, except for Alexstraza and he has a Pyroblast left. But he has 2 mirror image, 2 secrets down: iceblock and ice barrier, he’s playing the exact list from DreamHack RDU mage and its not counterspell because i tried to trigger it before. I have a Fire Elemental, Hex and bloodlust, shattered sun cleric in hand, he play Alexstrasza, putting me down to 15hp, he end turn. I hex Alexstraza, put the cleric down i get my 3rd totem up and pass.
So im counting my bloodlust dmg while hes playing to see if i can do 16 dmg (8hp+8from secret) but he clear everything with doom (i forgot about this one) + frost nova. Im now screwd,and my only hope to win is now Fatigue. There is no way i can go trought 8hp, ice block and ice barrier and 3 taunt (mirror + frog) with what i have left in my hand and in my deck. He his on 8 hp
i totem up and pass,
Mage 8hp: He pyro my face, im now down to 5, he end turn.
Me 5hp: i totem up and pass.
Mage 8hp: He does something irrelevant, i think he icelance my face for 0 and play vaporize and ping me to 4 in his hand i know he has an ice block and i think he has a blizzard left also.
Me 4hp: i totem up and pass, (i did draw lightning storm that turn)
Mage 8hp: He take 1 fatigue, hes down to 7, he ping me to 3.
Me 3hp: so, then i... totem up and pass.
Mage 7hp: take 2 dmg from fatigue, he is down to 5hp, he ping my face to 2hp
Me 2hp: I take 1 from fatigue im down to a single hp
Me 1hp: Hes now at 5hp. I play fire elemental and do 3 dmg to his face, hes down to 2 hp now. When my turn end, after the fuse, since secrets dont activate on your turn anymore, ice block fail to activate! He take 3 dmg from fatigue, killling him! Soooooo GG!
Conclusion :
Be nice, dont Bm or you just might end up playing a 42min game and lose just because you are being a smart ass! Sometimes the best play is to do.. nothing!
Emails
Ken
Hey TAC, thanks a lot for the awesome podcast - without doubt the best Hearthstone podcast available and, in my opinion, one of the best podcasts around period!
I've been wondering whether something akin to Magic sets might be an interesting addition to the game.
Imagine a new game mode akin to Ranked now, but with a rotating card pool for, say, every 2 or 3 seasons. It wouldn't really be feasible until we have a proper expansion (adventures don't really offer enough cards), but it would help emphasise the deck building skill, which has taken a bit of a back seat in the very well established meta we have currently.
Each 'set' would be different, maybe one has a yeti, another doesn't etc. Obvious complications would be rewards, participation seeing as the card pool is restricted, Blizzard having to 'create' sets.
Still, I feel it could make for a unique experience somewhere in between Ranked and Arena, with the player having to evaluate a set and build something that could work with those particular cards and in that meta.
Is this something you would want?
Keep up the amazing work!
- Ken
theJEN
Mirror matches! I seem to do great with a deck, but everything falls apart when I come up against the same deck that I am playing. This seems to be happening most when I play Zoo lock. Any suggestions on how to win mirror matches?
Love the show!
-theJEN
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Dill’s where else can everyone find you?
The Instance - The World of Warcraft podcast so you don’t have to
TortureCast - A podcast by and for fans of the San Francisco Giants
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The Gamers’ Inn
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