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Coldrazor

Rafaam win vs rag turn 3 victory: 3 boom bots at the start, Rafaams curse ticking away, 1 mana sacrifice warlock 1/1 minion on one of the bots turn 1 and hero power a 20/20 on turn 2.

forty

Dibby wrote: »

um, wow

i wanna say this is an inherently good effect, but we also need to see what sort of other taunts/taunt support cards exist first

i think it has extremely high potential though

Holy hell, I timed that well bringing up Shieldbreaker and the "lack of taunts" discussion this morning.

forty

So Armagedillo is clearly a decent card in a vacuum, but it only really seems like it makes the cut in a world where Warriors are playing at least a few Taunts, and right now the only Taunt any Warriors are playing is Zilliax. Or whatever Taunt they might happen to get from Omega Assembly/Boom. Maybe we'll see some good taunts this year that might warrant shifting around the Control Warrior cards enough to include this? Dunno. I don't feel like Bomb Warrior has the wiggle room to work in some sort of Dillo/Taunt package and still be Bomb Warrior.

The Dillo would have been really good when Un'goro was still in Standard and Taunt Warrior was a thing. But Taunt warrior without the inevitability and pressure of the Rag hero power doesn't really have any more win condition than Control Warrior, so it just seems like another deck that would win by stalling and Fatiguing your opponent. And until next April, Boom is still the best single card for a Fatigue based strategy anyway, so it's hard to envision what exactly a Taunt Warrior would do better than today's Control Warrior.

MNC Dover

I’m okay with pushing Taunt Warrior as long as the don’t push armor gain with it. Only one source of health protection per cycle please.

PiptheFair

beat it first go with rafaam

gloves of mugging on turn 1 is brutal and his hero power is absurd

also I beat it in 40 minutes so I get to go back to not playing this bad game for another week

forty

I don't think there's any timed reward this week.

I needed anime to post.

there is not

PiptheFair

forty wrote: »

I don't think there's any timed reward this week.

I didn't finish a run last week

forty

PiptheFair wrote: »

forty wrote: »

I don't think there's any timed reward this week.

I didn't finish a run last week

Oh, are last week's timed rewards still available this week?

forty

Wait, so this version of Ragnaros only has 40 health, but Golemagg still costs 50 mana? That's hilarious. It's basically a dead card to him.

Dibby

bwanie wrote: »

Whats the magepun?

Armage(ddon)dillo, not Armagedillo

forty

I guess I missed this meme the first time around but I found it funny and it's become relevant again with Armagedillo.

Beasteh

I started a Rafaam run, got to Vael, went to bed woke up finished the run and got a time of 11 hours

Speed strats

Phyphor

9 loyal henchmen in the deck makes for an interesting experience

forty

Do you draw them all (milling some) at the start of the game or do you only draw them until you have a full hand?

Phyphor

You draw them all and mill any that can't fit + turn 1 draw. Vs atramedes you draw them all and don't get the special weapon destruction cards

MMMig

Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder what happens if you take the deathrattle triggers twice, twice.

SCIENCE!


ed: aw booo.... it doesn't stack.
they don't even trigger three times! BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Thawmus

MMMig wrote: »

Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder what happens if you take the deathrattle triggers twice, twice.

SCIENCE!


ed: aw booo.... it doesn't stack.
they don't even trigger three times! BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

That's pretty consistent with the other doublers. They only ever double.

It's why you never go double Shark.

And should probably not even bother with single Shark.

MNC Dover

Is there any way to watch the Hearthstone voice actor panel at noon today?

Yilias

That's the panel where they're spoilering their character legendaries yeah? Surely they would stream that.

Dibby

MNC Dover wrote: »

Is there any way to watch the Hearthstone voice actor panel at noon today?

Yilias wrote: »

That's the panel where they're spoilering their character legendaries yeah? Surely they would stream that.

Thawmus

Ow, my feels. :sad:

MNC Dover

Another turn 4 massacre:



Well actually....Hagatha's Scheme into Healing Rain is a huge set of comeback turns.

Luckily, I was able to scrape out a win in the end by getting +3 Attack adapt on Old-Murk Eye and the Murloc Ninja.

Dibby

New card's been revealed:

Reno the Relicologist

Class: Mage

Card type: Minion

Rarity: Legendary

Mana cost: 6

Attack: 4 HP: 6

Card text: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, deal 10 damage randomly split among all enemy minions

Source: San Diego Comic Con Hearthstone Panel

highlander is back and boy is it underwhelming

PiptheFair

Dibby wrote: »

New card's been revealed:

Reno the Relicologist

Class: Mage

Card type: Minion

Rarity: Legendary

Mana cost: 6

Attack: 4 HP: 6

Card text: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, deal 10 damage randomly split among all enemy minions

Source: San Diego Comic Con Hearthstone Panel

highlander is back and boy is it underwhelming

the other highlander cards are much better and bran and finley both look potentially game-breaking(yet-again)

Shadowhope

Dibby wrote: »

New card's been revealed:

Reno the Relicologist

Class: Mage

Card type: Minion

Rarity: Legendary

Mana cost: 6

Attack: 4 HP: 6

Card text: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, deal 10 damage randomly split among all enemy minions

Source: San Diego Comic Con Hearthstone Panel

highlander is back and boy is it underwhelming

Thank god. OG Reno is the worst Hearthstone card ever printed.

Dibby

Other cards:





WOWZA


Also Reno's actual card:



edit: finley kinda scares me a bit ngl. i guess the only saving grace there will be discover and you won't always get The Broken Thing, but

KoopahTroopah

Yeah, Reno got the short end of the stick there. The other three seem legit good, I dunno if highlander exists without more cards though.

Dibby

honestly New Reno isn't even that bad, just underwhelming compared to the other three (who have very exciting effects)

that's still quite a strong effect. that's literally Better Meteorologist, no handsize conditional. those missiles can't go face either.

that's actually a really strong board clear effect without a tempo loss.

I needed anime to post.

Oh thank god i was worried this set would have a new idea

Shadowhope

Finley honestly isn’t that good IMO. It’s Discover an upgraded hero power, so you can’t really plan your deck around it. Elise looks promising - I can see her going into Wild Jade decks.

Brann looks like he’s designed for someone at Blizzard who really wants to play Wild Odd Aggro Highlander Hunter (WOAHH). Also, he works really well with himself: Brann + Brann = King Krush + King Krush.

Dehumanized

None of those highlander cards look to read as "Win The Game"*, so there's at least that. I guess most of the new quests have been the same.

*Well, Brann is close in the same way Kathrena usually was

GoodKingJayIII

I hate to say it, but retreading quests and highlander feels pretty lame.

Phyphor

There are a lot of solid upgraded hero powers. Rogue, hunter, paladin are excellent for an aggro deck and you hit one of those 76% of the time. Mage & druid are pretty decent, warlock's card draw is never bad. The only truly bad ones for an aggressive deck are shaman, priest & warrior and you only draw exactly that 1% of the time

Thawmus

GoodKingJayIII wrote: »

I hate to say it, but retreading quests and highlander feels pretty lame.

I think it'd feel a good deal less lame if they didn't abandon concepts all the time. But they do, so a re-tread stinks.

PiptheFair

Shadowhope wrote: »

Finley honestly isn’t that good IMO. It’s Discover an upgraded hero power, so you can’t really plan your deck around it. Elise looks promising - I can see her going into Wild Jade decks.

Brann looks like he’s designed for someone at Blizzard who really wants to play Wild Odd Aggro Highlander Hunter (WOAHH). Also, he works really well with himself: Brann + Brann = King Krush + King Krush.

literally all the upgraded hero powers are game-breaking, regardless of what you get

ObiFett

GoodKingJayIII wrote: »

I hate to say it, but retreading quests and highlander feels pretty lame.

Highlander, yes.

Quests, no. I think Quests are a cool mechanic that has a ton more design space. There should be quests of all rarities, imo.

Dibby

Shadowhope wrote: »

Finley honestly isn’t that good IMO. It’s Discover an upgraded hero power, so you can’t really plan your deck around it. Elise looks promising - I can see her going into Wild Jade decks.

Brann looks like he’s designed for someone at Blizzard who really wants to play Wild Odd Aggro Highlander Hunter (WOAHH). Also, he works really well with himself: Brann + Brann = King Krush + King Krush.

sure, but, consider that there's enough aggro-y and control-y HPs out there to allow you to still pick something Good that will benefit you most of the time

it's a pool of 3 out of 9 total HPs so chances are yer gonna get something you can use. imagine a fast Paladin deck with 2 Mana Draw a Card as their HP. or 2 mana equip a 2/2 weapon, or deal 3 face damage, or gain 2 armor/2 attack this turn. there's usable stuff in there for sure.

(honestly, even the upgraded Paladin HP won't be that obnoxious as it was, because your deck won't be built around it. you're not gonna have Level Up or Quartermaster or Raid Leader or whatever else.)

except totems. never totems.

if old Finley saw play, new Finley will see play, 100%.

Phyphor

I think all of those will see play, except reno without more support. Random board clear pings aren't that great, does magic dart frog even see play in cyclone mage anymore? It can't go face and you have to give up half your deck for a better dyn-o-matic, plus there are arguably better answers for both wide and tall boards already

edit: also meteorologist can go face

Dibby

Phyphor wrote: »

I think all of those will see play, except reno without more support. Random board clear pings aren't that great, does magic dart frog even see play in cyclone mage anymore? It can't go face and you have to give up half your deck for a better dyn-o-matic, plus there are arguably better answers for both wide and tall boards already

edit: also meteorologist can go face

i'd call not going face a boon, honestly

i do agree that there might need to be more support but honestly, a 10 split-damage board clear + a 4/6 in play on turn 6 can be pretty backbreaking

it's obviously a control-slanted card but control mage doesn't exist right now, so i'll make a judgement call once all the mage cards have been revealed.

i think Reno is good enough, though.