#39 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Dills • Jocelyn
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News
Naxxramas is out!
Last Tuesday Blizzard rolled out the first "adventure", The Curse of Naxxramas. The first wing, the Arachnid Quarter, is currently available and the next wing (the Plague Quarter) will be available for purchase with gold or real money this Tuesday (tomorrow).
The Arachnid Quarter is currently free for a limited time, so make sure to log in as soon as possible to activate it.
The Arachnid Quarter
- Bosses
- Anub'Rekhan
- Grand Widow Faerlina
- Maexxna
- Heroic Bosses
- More powerful Hero abilities
- 45 health instead of the standard 30.
- Generally, the normal version of the bosses haven't given people very much trouble, but the Heroic versions (especially Maexxna) have seen many very specialized decks built to conquer them.
- Class Challenges
- Druid
- Rogue
Links
Eaglehorn Bow Change
Eaglehorn Bow now reads “Whenever a friendly Secret is revealed, gain +1 Durability”.
Due to the changes to this card, until August 7th, disenchanting it will return the full dust value instead of the normal half amount.
Links
Other Changes
Marking yourself as “Busy” within the Battle.net desktop app will suppress incoming chat messages and toasts for friend requests.
The order in which Deathrattle abilities resolve has been updated to be more consistent.
Additional music tracks have been added.
Links
Strategy
http://www.hearthhead.com/news=242186/an-itsy-bitsy-meta-shift
Arachnid Quarter Cards
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 Anub’Rekhan on Normal.
- Neutral Minion
- Common Rarity
- 2 Mana
- 1 Attack / 2 Health
- Deathrattle: Summon two 1/1 Spectral Spiders.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | B | B- |
Garrett | C | B+ |
Jocelyn | B | B+ |
Awarded from defeating Grand Widow Faerlina on Normal
- Neutral Minion
- Common Rarity
- 2 Mana
- 1 Attack / 4 Health
- Minions with Battlecry cost (2) more.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | C- | D |
Garrett | D | D |
Jocelyn | B | D |
Awarded from defeating Maexxna on Normal
- Neutral Minion
- Rare Rarity
- 2 Mana
- 0 Attack / 2 Health
- Deathrattle: Summon a 4/4 Nerubian.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | A | B- |
Garrett | B- | C- |
Jocelyn | C | D |
Awarded from defeating Maexxna on Normal
- Neutral Minion
- Legendary Rarity
- 6 Mana
- 2 Attack / 8 Health
- Destroy any minion damaged by this minion.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | C- | C |
Garrett | C | B- |
Jocelyn | C+ | B+ |
Awarded from clearing the Druid class challenge against Grand Widow Faerlina
- Druid Spell
- Common Rarity
- 4 Mana
- Destroy all minions and summon 2/2 Treants to replace them.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | D | D |
Garrett | B+ | B+ |
Jocelyn | A | A |
Awarded from clearing the Rogue class challenge against Maexxna
- Rogue Minion
- Common Rarity
- 4 Mana
- 5 Attack / 5 Health
- Deathrattle: Return a random friendly minion to your hand.
TAC Grade | Constructed | Arena |
Dills | C+ | B |
Garrett | C | B- |
Jocelyn | X | X |
Emails
David M
Faerie Dragon gets targeted by Heroic Maexxna’s hero power, how do you report bugs?!
Harrison B
Hey guys. Long time listener first time emailer. I had an idea for an awesome combo and am wondering if it is possible. One of the new cards in Naxx is the Echoing Ooze, which summons an exact copy of itself at the end of the turn. Would it be possible then to summon a Tinkmaster, turn the Ooze into a 5/5, and then have it copy that? The reason I think it could work is that the "summon an exact copy" attribute is a Battlecry, meaning it happens as soon as the card is played. While the Tinkmaster essentially silences anything it targets I don't believe that would apply here since the action has already been played when the card was drawn (hence the battlecry).
Let me know what you guys think. A turn 5 Ooze plus Tink play could get you two 5/5's on the board if I'm understanding the card right. Although I doubt this will make Tinkmaster anymore viable in constructed, it could make for some really weird and fun plays.
Thanks, love the show.
- H from Canada
Felix M
Dear TAC crew!
My cuz and I were chatting about the Shaman and we got onto the topic of Totems. As it goes, you can only get one totem at a time. So in the interest of science, I suggested we try my Shammy deck and I would try to take a totem off the board using one of the Panda cards... "return a friendly minion etc...".
I put down a healing totem and took it off the board... then (eventually) played another healing totem.
SUCCESS!!
Then I noticed that I had two Faceless Manipulators in my hand... and here is the pic.
This has actually brought up more questions.
Is this a bug? Should this happen if it isn't a bug?
Was funny to see heals going off.
LOVE THE SHOW FELIXIUS
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