Coin Concede - Episode 368 TBD

Hat * Botticus * Edelweiss* WickedGood* Guest*

Intro (~10 min)

Welcome to Episode 368 of Coin Concede, a Hearthstone podcast dedicated to making the competitive side of the game more accessible to you.

It is Thu 11/3/2022 in the evening!

Joining us from Gadgetzan, New York, it’s RidiculousHat!

Also joining us -from Karazhan, California it’s Botticus!

And joining us from Gnomeregan, Ohio, it's Edelweiss!

And joining us from Northrend, Massachusetts, it's WickedGood!

PATREON HERE

Thanks for reviews

How's life and ladder? -

Hat -

Botticus -

Edelweiss -

Wickedgood -

News Highlights -  (~30 min)

• New Class: Death Knights (reordered from stream notes to fit blog post for scrolling purposes)
• Hero Power: Summon a 1/1 Ghoul with Charge. Dies at end of turn.
• Corpses

• New mechanic, count is under mana bar
• Used to unlock other abilities
• Resource to be consumed
• Many cards that spend corpses

• Death Knights have three types of runes, they are a deck building condition that control what DK cards can be put in your deck
• Generally speaking, the deeper you go into a particular Rune, the more you can tap into the types of things that Runes specializes in

• Blood

• Control style
• Board control effects
• Health manipulation (yours and the opponent’s)
• Large minions

• Frost

• Powerful burst potential
• Lots of spell synergies
• Direct damage
• Card draw
• Mana manipulation
• Freeze effects

• Unholy

• Greatest command of the Undead armies
• Very good at summoning Undead minions
• Summoning swarms of minions
• Generating and spending Corpses.

• Decks have three rune slots, which can have any combination of blood, frost, and unholy
• Cards are flagged with runes under the mana gem, and can’t be put into the deck if you don’t have the runic power to use them

• Runes are updated under your deck name based on the cards you add to your deck
• I.e. you have already added a 1 frost rune card and a 1 unholy rune card, you can’t then add a 2 blood rune card because you only have one rune type left available.
• The deckbuilder will dynamically filter cards that are available to you based on your chosen runes, or you can opt to see your runes and all DK cards while you tinker with your deck
• Cards have one rune type, and then varying condition of 1 through 3 runes of that type
• Once your deck has been built, that’s the extent of runes

• You can discover from the whole pool of DK cards when you’re in a game, not just those that fit your deck building condition

• Solo adventure telling the Arthas story as a prologue intro to the DK class

• Free to play, play as the DK class, introduces mechanics
• When complete, unlocks class and core set

• 32 cards in DK core, larger than the others

• 3 different decks unlocked here as well

• Path of Arthas bundle includes cards to build 3 advanced DK decks

• Costs 2000 gold or 1500 Runestones (no real money option)
• Golden version can be purchased for real money or 7000 Runestones

• Also includes Diamond Lady Deathwhisper (can be purchased separately)

• DK has 68 cards on launch, 50% more than DH including 10 legendaries

Expansion: March of the Lich King

• Undead minion type

• “If a friendly undead minion died after your last turn” is common on new undead cards

• So on your opponent’s turn or your current turn

• The Undead minion type has been added to past sets
• Dual type minions are a thing now!

• Joce would like icons, not words

• There’s a time and a place for icons and it’s called Runeterra

• The Reborn keyword is back, and is now evergreen
• Keyword: Manathirst

• Do something extra if you have a certain number of mana crystals

• Classes will have an Alignment, either choosing the Scourge or the Blood Elves a la Mean Streets/Descent of Dragons, etc
• Scourge

• Undead synergies
• Priest, Warlock, Druid, Rogue, Shaman

• Blood elves

• Use the new keyword
• Mages, Hunters, Paladins, Warrior, Demon Hunter

• Sunwell

• Legendary, first neutral spell
• Free today!

• Signature cards

• 18 signature cards
• 15 Legendaries
• Not craftable
• Showcase full art
• Golden packs are now upgraded to signature packs
• https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/additional-details-on-signature-cards/97159

Links

• https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23852696/death-knight-deep-dive
• https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23852695/announcing-march-of-the-lich-king-hearthstone-s-next-expansion

Patch 24.6

• Bundles (live now)

• Bundles are entirely Constructed related, no more extras for other modes
• Pre-order $50

• Card back
• 2 random legendaries
• 60 packs

• Mega Bundle $80

• Path of Arthas (49 cards, 3 decks)
• Card back
• Lothermar (?) hunter hero
• 2 random signature cards
• 5 Signature packs
• 80 packs

• Will be available for a week after the expansion launches as well

• Legendary Hero Skins

• Animated, like REALLY animated
• Unique hero tray
• New voicelines
• New portrait frame
• First one is Arthas, available to buy November 8 in an Arthas Menethil Bundle (not useable until the expansion launches)

• Events

• New system and interface
• Replace journal button until clicked
• Scroll pops up that explains event
• Separate from your quests
• Complete event quests and an event specific rewards track

• You get to see everything, as well as your progress
• Event quests also show together with your normal quests for a one stop quest shop

• Knights of Hallow’s End

• Rewards

• two Battlegrounds Emotes, a Standard Card Pack, a Murder at Castle Nathria Pack, two March of the Lich King Packs, and a Banshee Tyrande Hearthstone Hero Skin

• Rewards track will last for two weeks, but the entire Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is in Standard until March of the Lich King launches
• Found in the Core set, don’t accidentally go into Wild! Though you can if you want, it’s a great mode.

Patch Extras

• Go To There button on quests
• Shop revamp
• Battlegrounds Updates (we will cover our thoughts on these next week probably because I don’t think we will have time)
• Mercs Updates - Talked about this last week
• Arena Updates - Dual Class is back for Hallow’s End!

• Hotfixes have already come out for mobile issues

• Hat will link KI post here too https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/246-known-issues/97048 
• Level 100 portraits

• Theotar and Ice Revenant nerfs coming in 25.0 along with minion type changes for older cards

• https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1588300774286598144

• Cosplay contest https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23866591 

Tournaments and the meta

• Fall Championships

• Winner: Bunnyhoppor - Thief Rogue, Control Shaman, Big Spell Mage, Naga Priest
• Runner up: Habugabu - Enrage Warrior and three other decks (Aggro DH, Naga Priest, Miracle Rogue)

• Neither lineup had warlock
• All top 4 lineups had Naga Priest, all had rogue (though Bunny brought Thief instead of Miracle)

• 3rd/4th - XMG and Xiaobai
• Pocket Train and Furyhunter both brough Boar Priest, neither made it out of groups

• Supergirl Gamer Pro

• Constructed

• 
• https://twitter.com/WitchiMurloc/status/1586868105720086529

• Battlegrounds

Decksplanations

• WHAT DO I DO IN KFT WORLD

• Keleseth
• Spreading Plague
• Defile
• Animated Berserker in Enrage Warrior
• Big Priest
• Or just play whatever you were playing last week because it’s probably fine

Outro (~5min) - Thanks and contact!

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Coin Concedes (Shout Outs):

RAIDS -

SUBS - syahjordan, rahulng

Hat - https://www.etsy.com/listing/780177185/slay-the-spire-map-magnets?click_key=79b3bf1443c5045055e59ae118ba03631e5250bb%3A780177185&click_sum=4ac2dc50&ref=shop_home_active_1&bes=1&sts=1 

Edelweiss -  UX/UI designers on Team 5

WickedGood - CDMoyer

Keep Calm and

And if you see us on ladder…

“Coin Concede” Hat

“Coin Concede” Botticus  

“Coin Concede” Edelweiss

“Coin Concede” WickedGood