#402 - The Angry Chicken: “Hello Fellow Humans”

02/03/2021

• Garrett • Jocelyn

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Intro

Welcome to The Angry Chicken!

Top of the Show Topic:

Garrett Note

Jocelyn Note

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News

BlizzConline Bundles Available

• Three levels available, $20, $40, $60USD
• Hearthstone bonuses

• 10 Madness Packs - Essentials Pack
• Random Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Legendary Card - Heroic Pack
• 5 Golden Madness at the Darkmoon Faire card packs - Epic Pack

Links

• https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/celebration-collection?p=142347

Iksar AMA

• From a player-metrics perspective, it seems like Demon Hunter was successful
• Highlander Hunter has been (or been close to) a tier 1 deck for 5 expansions, and has a reasonable argument to be considered one of the best decks in Hearthstone history.
• They don't want to introduce a "pack voucher" because the majority of rewards are gold anyways and if there are pre-selected packs, you don't need to make a decision. You already have a lot of decision making in the game (gold, dust) and this is the fun part, where you don't need to decide what you want/need - It should be the minority of rewards though
• They made the call to let Hysteria slip through, even though they knew about the Wretched Tiller and other interactions. They made this call because they tend not to "round all edges" ahead of the set launch in order to keep the game interesting. This time it didn't work out.
• Khadgar might be deleted soon but they are still exploring a couple of solutions. They will have more details in the next couple of weeks
• Hearthstone's team is positive about Demon Hunter and will probably make another new class in the future

• They've talked about Death Knight, Monk, or even the idea of inventing something new
• There is no new-class in development today, and they work about a year ahead of schedule, so don't expect a new class anytime soon.

• New Modes - They don't mind fragmenting the player base with new modes because Hearthstone is a big enough game, hence they don't need to worry about matchmaking times, etc
• They want to add achievements for past single-player content, but weren't sure if adding gameplay achievements for things like GvG would be very enjoyable
• They could do the same thing for older cards but the power level of cards these days could make getting TGT or GvG achievements in Wild a painful experience

Links

• https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/7858-weekly-community-ama-from-dean-iksar-ayala-new

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Strategy

So you want to beat Ramp Pally?

• Looking like your best chance is for a close matchup.
• According to HSreplay the worst matchup for Ramp Pally is Token Druid with a 47% WR against the archetype.

Popular Options

• Token Druid - Also an affordable option
• Stealth (Weapon) Rogue
• Guardian Druid - Can go toe to toe again Ramp with a lot of the same 9+ minions if its a Noz game.

Big Priest - Mini Set List

Big Priest - Old List     From CompHS

• Convincing Infiltrator is still a bastard and you should mulligan for it
• Hysteria is still great
• Throw back Blood of G’huuns. You want to Idol them out.
• Vargoth is a nasty Idol target as well.
• Palm Reading brings some much needed flex.

• Can find much needed removal, shenanigans (Soul Mirror), or just give you more Insights or heals.

• Insight can be gas. But can also pull G’huuns and be a bummer.
• Idol of Y’Shaarj

Versus Ramp Pally

• Similar to Guardian Druid, Big Priest has some high mana bombs that can punish a Nozdormu giving both the Pally and the Priest 10 Mana.
• Remember that you get to play with the 10 Mana first when Noz comes down.
• Keep: Plague of Death
• Consider keeping: Shadow Word: Death, Khartut & Bone Wraith for the resurrects.

• Double Breath gets a shout out here. Cause if the Pally Alura’s one turn late Double Breath clears the Crabriders.

• There’s no health buffing aura effects. Just the Attack off Warleaders. So the Crabriders stay at 4 Health.

• Keep the usual: Infiltrator & Hysteria
• Pulling a Blood of G’huun off Insight is no longer a bummer once Noz comes down.
• Plague of Death clears the Murloc board. But, again… only in the Noz situations. You won’t have the mana if Scales casts off Alura.

Emails

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Pi Letter

King Doopliss

Hello unprepared fowls,

With demon hunter being almost a year old I thought now would be the best time to ask this question.

Now that we've seen demon hunter's launch and first year of cards what lessons do you think need to be learned or addressed for when they are building a full classic (core)/basic set for the class after seeing how it's turned out in its first year.

And a follow up question as I know Joce's lesson is delete the class from the game, when they (hopefully) get around to another new class in death knight or monk do you think they will treat them the same way with both style/number of cards released for them in their first year and also do you think they will shoot high on the power scale again for the whole first year for them as well? Or do you think they will scale back a bit seeing with how they way over shot on demon hunter.

MuckfootMallardo

First off, I loved the idea of a Battlegrounds brawl when you talked about it on the show. Second, what would be the equivalent of a pack as a reward for a Battlegrounds brawl (Brawl-tlegrounds? that pun seems just awful enough for Blizzard to use it)? Since Battlegrounds-only players don't necessarily care about their card collection, is there some sort of in-game consumable they could make use of? Maybe a single-use token that guarantees a particular hero will be offered to them in their next game?

War Eagle Joel DMed on Patreon

When will we see Mana regeneration cards? Example: 3-cost 2/4 that regenerates 1 mana per turn. When have some refresh cards like the Warlock one.  

Trivia via Hachikumo

Outro

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