#40 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Dills • Jocelyn
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News
The Plague Quarter Opens
The Plague Quarter has opened, and the Military Quarter is close behind, opening tomorrow, Tuesday the 5th!
Links
Season Five Begins
Season Five of ranked play began on August 1st, rewarding those who made rank 20 or above in July with the Naxxramas card back. Reaching rank 20 or above in August's season will reward an Icrecrown card back.
This is also the last month to qualify for the Championship Qualifier Tournament through Ranked Play.
Links
Strategy
Plague Quarter Set Review
http://www.hearthhead.com/news=242339/the-plague-is-here-and-its-name-is-loatheb
We’re going to take a page from Magic shows and give a letter grade to the new cards. We’ll be reviewing the new Naxx cards week to week. Each card will get a grade for both Constructed and Arena from each of us.
A - Stellar card. Good play if you’re behind. Stabilizes the board.
Ex. Most wrath effects, Cairne Bloodhoof, Thalnos, Old Nat Pagle or Tinkmaster
B - Plays a large role in the construction of your deck. (Play around me card) Or efficiently costed.
Ex. Leeroy Jenkins, Knife Juggler, Soulfire, Defender of Argus
C - Deck filler. Decent cards.
Ex. Dire Wolf Alpha, Abusive Sergeant, Dark Iron Dwarf, Earthen Ring Farseer
D - Playable but you would prefer not to play.
Ex. Bloodsail Raider, Thrallmar Farseer, Nightblade
F - Unplayable
Ex. Eye for an Eye, Alarm-o-Bot, Angry Chicken
Awarded from defeating Noth the Plaguebringer on Normal.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | C | C+ |
Garrett | D | C |
Jocelyn | C | D |
Awarded from defeating Heigan the Unclean on Normal.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | B | B- |
Garrett | B | C+ |
Jocelyn | D | D |
Awarded from defeating Loatheb on Normal.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | A- | A |
Garrett | B | B |
Jocelyn | A | A |
Awarded from defeating Loatheb on Normal.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | A+ | A+ |
Garrett | A | B- |
Jocelyn | A | B |
Awarded from completing the Hunter class challenge.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | B- | C |
Garrett | C+ | C+ |
Jocelyn | C | B |
Awarded from completing the Mage class challenge.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | C | C+ |
Garrett | F | D- |
Jocelyn | D | D |
Emails
Jim
Howdy Chickenators,
I was playing the Mage challenge and stalling when I had the game won. I ended up having 5 different secrets out (due to mad scientists), when I drew a 6th different secret.
The game will not let you play a 6th different secret.
Mad Scientist seems overpowered. It's a 2 mana 2/2, and the deathrattle draws a secret card, and plays it for 0 mana. That's like 5 mana worth of deathrattle. Kirin Tor Mage and Ethereal Arcanist seem really strong too. Duplicate is really good if it gives you back two of your secret creatures. I think Mage secret decks will be strong once Mad Scientist is available.
Do you think Mad Scientist is costed appropriately?
thanks,
Jim D
Justin
I discovered an interesting card interaction between voidcaller and duplicate while playing against Heigan the Unclean in wing 2 of Naxx.
Playing as Mage, I had summoned a voidcaller using mirror entity. Duplicate was in play.
The next term Heigan killed the voidcaller. I thought that all deathrattles would resolve prior to secrets, but it turns out that, after the voidcaller died, my duplicate activated (bringing two voidcallers into my hand) and THEN the voidcaller's deathrattle activated, so a new voidcaller went into play immediately (with the additional duplicated voidcaller still in my hand).
This raised a question for me: Do secrets also obey the same "stack" (for lack of a better term) rules as deathrattles after the Naxx patch? In other words, if I had played duplicate after obtaining the voidcaller, would the result have been the same, or different? Do secrets always activate before deathrattles?
I thought that maybe a rulebook was unnecessary, but things are going to get very complicated as new cards are released.
You guys do a great, fun, and informative show. Thanks for the hard work that you guys have obviously put into making TAC a success.
Eric
Hello TAC! Last week, you guys had an email asking about tinkmaster and echoing ooze. While there is no way to test that specific combination right now, the druid challenge deck has both an echoing ooze and a keeper of the grove. If you play the ooze, and silence it with the keeper, the slime covering it disappears, and you don't get the ooze copy at end of turn. So while it's not the exact same thing, I think that's about as definitive of a "no, it won't work" we can get right now. Enjoy TAC, ITN, and Amove radio, keep it up!
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Dill’s where else can everyone find you?
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