Coin Concede - Episode 436 “Grom With a Mustache”

Edelweiss* WickedGood* Magesa*

Intro (~10 min)

Welcome to Episode 436 of Coin Concede, a Hearthstone podcast dedicated to making the competitive side of the game more accessible to you.

It is Thursday, February 29th, 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.

Thanks for reviews

How's life and ladder? -

Edelweiss -

Wickedgood - Thief Priest, Spell DH, Last Epoch

Magesa - Spell DH, and you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain (aka I am playing energy shaper mage)

News Highlights -  

• Patch 28.6.3 (hotfix) - https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/2863-patch-notes/121812

• BGs adjustments

• Shop updates

• New signature bundles - Sheriff Barrelbrim, Reska, Kangor Dancing King, Freya Keeper of Nature
• New Portraits - Anniversary Malfurion and Anniversary Gul’dan
• Returning Portraits - Sabertender Illidan and Little Lion Anduin 😍 🦁 (I didn’t see them in the shop just now)

• Anniversary event is live

• Rewards are golden gift cards and a new coin
• All details: https://twitter.com/ben_heathstone/status/1762539622997901492 
• Golden birthday coin animation coming https://twitter.com/SongbirdCora/status/1763353156594049462

Tournaments

Decksplanations

• Quick note on miniaturize: it works like manathirst, that it is, it happens when the minion is played like a battlecry and not on summon, but it doesn’t interact with anything that affects battlecries (like Brann)
• Also:

• Card Reveals

• Legendaries

• Wheel of Death

• Tony is still in Standard btw

• Joymancer Jepetto
• Li’Na, Shop Manager

• Neutrals

• Interesting cards (feel free to add to this list)

• Treasure Distributor (have fun Wild)
• Sing Along Buddy
• Clearance Promoter
• Card Grader
• Floppy Hydra
• Giggling Toymaker
• Playhouse Giant
• Caricature Artist
• Scarab Keychain
• Plucky Paintfin
• Origami Crane, Origami Dragon
• Workshop Janitor
• Note that there’s this cool ‘nostalgic’ theme (though the cards aren’t super powerful)

WARRIOR:

• Warrior Cards:

• Legendaries

• Botface

• Mech/Deathrattle

• Wreck ‘em and Deck ‘em
• Boom Wrench
• Testing Dummy
• Chemical Spill

• Armor gain

• Lab Patron
• Safety Goggles

• Other

• Quality Assurance

• Warrior Notes:

• Mechs Available to Warrior:

• 5 mana or above:

• Great to cheat out, damage, or kill: Fireworker, Testing Dummy, Botface, Containment Unit, Factory Assemblybot, Zilliax (if built right, perfect + recursive maybe?).

• Non-mechs: Therazane?

• Not great to cheat out: Playhouse Giant (okay), Forgotten Animatronic (okay), Flame Behemoth, One-Amalgam Band, Wargear, Tram Operator, Burrow Buster

• 4 mana or below:

• Detonation Juggernaut, Furious Furnace, Frequency Oscillator, Bronze Gatekeeper, Replicating Menace, Mecha-leaper, Drone Deconstructor, Mechagnome Guide, Metrognome, Gorillabot, Sing-Along Buddy, Invent-o-matic, Horseshoe Slinger, Audio Amplifier, Annoy-o-Tron, Annoying Fan

• Taunt Minions/Cards:

• Some Taunts: Testing Dummy, Botface, perfect module Zilliax, stone drake, thunderbringer, origami crane, azerite chain gang, blast tortoise, abyssal bassist, bronze gatekeeper
• Potatocat had an abyssal bassist mech warrior in the deck lab forum

• Other relevant minions:

• Town Crier (draw a rush minion) might be relevant? (Zilliax, maybe Minotauren, Burrow Buster)
• Caricature Artist
• Jepetto for the minis

DRUID:

• Druid Cards:

• Legendaries:

• Sky Mother Aviana
• Owlonius

• Spell Damage

• Sparkling Phial
• Woodland Wonders
• Magical Dollhouse
• Bottomless Toy Chest

• Other

• Wind-up Sapling
• Jade Display
• Ensmallen

• Druid notes:

• Spell damage package:

• All druid-accessible spells that benefit from spell damage:

• ​​Can go face: swipe (regular or from malfurion's gift), living roots, sparkling phial, snake oil from miracle salesman, sludge from tram mechanic
• Minions only: jasper spellstone, wrath
• Discounts from spell damage: woodland wonders (insane on 2)

• Other relevant types of cards:

• Grants Spell Damage: Magical Dollhouse, Chia Drake, Owlonius, Thalnos/Geomancer (but why)
• Copies spells: dryscale deputy, bottomless toy chest, Fizzle, Freya (copy hand, remember Nourish is leaving)
• Might grant more damage spells: wandmaker, raven idol, pyrotechnician, Flint, sweetened snowflurry (no)
• Mana cheat: spell discounts (clearance promoter, sparkling phial, lifebinder’s gift), greedy partner, refresh (funnel cake, contaminated lasher, wind-up sapling), and ramp (malfurion’s gift for wild growth, crystal cluster, whelp, doomkin)
• Activates from casting spells: contaminated lasher, card grader (tutor), nostalgic initiate, prison breaker
• Choose-One Synergy: embrace of nature, disciple of eonar (for lifebinder’s gift, chia drake, freya?)
• Don’t forget the rumble cards are insane clears; it might be this is more of a clear and finisher effect than the point of the deck, which is maybe Aviana, or beetles, or Ignis, or Jades, or hell floppy hydras, who knows
• 

• Ensmallen: so it’s slower than ramp, but has a multiplicative effect when multiple minions are played on a turn.

• Jade Displays will be free, obvious use
• Can combo Eonar with things now even without refresh
• Doomkin early
• Combo with buffs like in dragon druid and maybe worth it!
• Get your owlonius down early, plus support minions for that deck
• Aviana legendaries are now free
• Beetles?

• Jade Display:

• Need a lot of draw, but this is druid
• Sharp-eyed Seeker exists
• We don’t have finley but we do have gravekeeper
• Copy effects: celestial projectionist, bottomless toy chest, freya, fizzle, shattered reflections, ravenous kraken (doubles deathrattle), zola, cover artist

Outro (~5min) - Thanks and contact!

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BIG THANKS to our producers nmbrthry, Kresh, Beefsquatch, David P,  Waalou, Jeremy T, bottlecaps, GrumpyMonk, TheBurgerClub, KercReagan, 4given1, ChrizzleyBear, TheGrandArcanum, and our newest producer, Tyleniphe!!!

Coin Concedes (Shout Outs):

RAIDS -

SUBS - WashintheWind, ohm51, contiguity

Edelweiss -

WickedGood - RayC and Ike, Ben Hearthstone, ChrizzlyBear

Magesa - Ohm51 for the first-time legend, blisterguy rocking the reveals as always, Edel feel better!

Keep Calm and…

And if you see us on ladder… 

“Coin Concede” WickedGood

“Coin Concede” Edelweiss

“Coin Concede” Magesa