Coin Concede - Episode 419 “My Eyes! The Goggles Do Nothing!”

Edelweiss* WickedGood* Magesa* Guest*

Intro (~10 min)

Welcome to Episode 419 of Coin Concede, a Hearthstone podcast dedicated to making the competitive side of the game more accessible to you.

It is Friday, October 27th, 2023 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 - Root Canal, 86 legend in Twist

Wickedgood - I’m not dead, N’zoth Shaman to Twist legend, Enrage Warrior in Standard

Magesa - Now I understand what Hat always meant on the podcast by playing the social media reveal season more than the game itself. I did try the N’Zoth control shaman and undead priest, saw mech pally but only one XL mage. Lists I haven’t tried yet: attack DH, egg/crooked cook paladin

News Highlights -  

• Balance change - https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/2762-patch-notes/115062

• We’ll be at Blizzcon!

• New Players’ Blog - https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24017017/welcome-to-the-players-tavern
• Shop updates

• Another free pack
• Garona w/gold
• Mok’nathal Garrosh bundle
• Baroness Vashj with gold

Tournaments

• Bad (?) news first: HS Esports pages are down https://x.com/JamesRFPS/status/1717595334518378568?s=20 
• Masters Tour this weekend - https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-gb/news/24008689

• Lineups - https://www.d0nkey.top/battlefy/tournament/653708cd1138c96e02a38e28/lineups
• Warrior - 16
•         Odyn - 10
•         Enrage - 6
• Mage - 15
•         Rainbow - 14
•         Naga - 1 (CJkaka ofc)
• Rogue - 14
•         Secret - 6
•         Miracle - 1 (Casie)
•         Mech - 7
• Shaman - 7
•         Nature - 7+
• Priest - 3
•         Shadow - 1
•         XL Control - 2
• Hunter - 3
•         Arcane - 3
• DH - 3
•         Relic - 1
•         Outcast - 1
•         Spell - 1
• Druid - 2
•         Drum - 2
• Warlock - 1
•         Control - 1 (Mesmile)
• Paladin - 0

Decksplanations

New cards!

• Neutrals

• Ogre-Gang

• Ogre-Gang Outlaw
• Ogre-Gang Rider
• Ogre-Gang Ace
• Kingpin Pud

• Partners

• Greedy Partner
• Linedance Partner
• Rowdy Partner

• Misc

• Bunny Stomper
• Miracle Salesman
• Snake Oil Seller
• Gaslight Gatekeeper

• We’re still missing one legendary!

• Priest

• Bottles/1 cost cards

• Invasive Shadeleaf
• Swarm of Lightbugs
• Holy Springwater

• Clarification: Gallon tweeted that the original templating on the second half of this was wrong; the second half can restore health to any character, not just a damaged one.
• Clarification 2: If you have an effect that changes healing into damage, you cannot overheal, so you do not get any excess. (Code literally says return overheal amount.) E.g., auchenai cards, or in Standard, the new miniset card Shadowtouched Kvaldir.

• Thirsty Drifter
• Pip the Potent

• Clarification: It looks at the actual number in the corner and not the original cost of the card

• Thief Priest things

• Benevolent Banker
• Tram Heist
• Posse Possession

• Death Knight

• Corpses matter

• Fistful of Corpses
• Corpse Farm
• Maw and Paw
• Crop Rotation

• Misc/Excavate

• Riska, the Pit Boss
• Skeleton Crew
• Pile of Bones

• Clarification: This is not Thori; it leaves the board and does not go dormant after it dies. The deathrattle puts on a player enchantment that listens for an excavation and then summons a new pile of bones. If your board is full, you miss the summon (like playing a colossal on a full board). TheBurgerClub says: “Thori is one Phoenix that keeps coming back, the pile of bones I see as you found another skeleton you resurrected in your dig site. Named character vs generic.”
• Clarification pt 2: Hat said that if you spread this deathrattle to another minion (e.g. with Death Growl or Boneshredder), when that minion dies it will place an enchantment to summon a new, plain copy of itself, not a pile of bones.

• Shaman

• Elementals

• Minecart Cruiser
• Walking Mountain
• Skar, the Catastrophe

• Clarification: this *does* reset if you miss a turn, same with the giant

• (from initial reveals, living prairie)

• Tutor/Discover

• Cactus Cutter
• Trusty Companion

• Clarification: Only draws one card, even if target has multiple types

• Amphibious Elixir

• Misc

• Giant Tumbleweed
• Doctor Hollidae

• Clarification: for those ambitious enough to want to equip *two* staves, the buff is on the staff itself, not the player, so a new staff restarts at 1.

• Hunter

• 2/3rds of the Hunter reveals were delayed to 10/31, which is also Rogue day

• Warlock

• Excavate

• Mo’arg Drillfist
• Smokestack
• Gerry the Tram Conductor
• Azerite Snake (legendary excavate treasure)

• Clarification: it affects max health. As such, it also ignores armor (0 or negative health means you’re dead regardless of armor).
• Also reminder, treasures reset after 4 so you have to excavate 8 times to get 2 of these

• Played/Discarded/Destroyed

• Barrel of Sludge (non-collectible)

• Clarification: yes, being destroyed in the deck counts, as does being milled

• Disposal Assistant
• Fracking (deep cut reference to the original Tracking)
• Popgar the Putrid

• Warlock Fel spells in Standard: Smokestack, Crescendo, Fiendish Circle, Demonic Dynamics, Barrel of Sludge
• Apparently this used to cost 3 in testing and “was very strong”

• Furnace Fuel
• Waste Remover
• Sludge on Wheels

Outro (~5min) - Thanks and contact!

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Coin Concedes (Shout Outs):

RAIDS -

SUBS -

Edelweiss -

WickedGood - Ben_Heathstone, Lorinda, my parents

Magesa - MT players, Edel & Wicked

Keep Calm and…

And if you see us on ladder… 

“Coin Concede” WickedGood

“Coin Concede” Edelweiss

“Coin Concede” Magesa