Hearthstone

[frank spruce]

amazing card name

[sick violet]

So this was my final enemy. I'd just beaten two other players who were playing mech. Hadn't fought this guy before, didn't know what to expect. This is pretty decent stuff.

On the other hand, me.

[frank spruce]

Debating if I wanna get the preorder and play some constructed again or not

been like 15 months since last time could be fun

[sick violet]

Might be hard, you'd be missing cards from the last 1-2 xpacs which generally feature in a lot of decks

[frank spruce]

ye but I also have 13 thousand gold

[sick violet]

that'll get you plenty of packs from the old ones too then. Might not get everything mind you but still

[frank spruce]

I got this. Pretty nice art

[raw notch]

oh right i need to open my damn packs

[sick violet]

32 packs with gold, 3 leggos. Priest and mage titnas... guess i know what classes i'll be doing for quests

[raw notch]

lol, lmao even

Been hearing crazy thing s about this card so I'm happy to get it, Signature moreso

[frank spruce]

been trying it for an hour seems pretty ass

Not really him but rogue

[sick violet]

I got him in non signature 😐

[raw notch]

signitures are a scam anyway

[sick violet]

Your face is a scam!

[frank spruce]

I think the scam is Loken pulling 18/18 stats with taunt on turn 6

Maybe thats normal now I havent played for 15 months

[lusty magnet]

Sounds pretty normal, I remember rogues doing that every day

[sick violet]

Yeah rogues are bullshit

[raw notch]

TWO LEGENDARIES IN A ROW

IS THIS STREAMER LUCK

oh wait this is just regular hc luck, i fucking got Blade in Star Rail earlier today from the free pulls and my buddy was MALDING

11 legendaries from ~88 packs

Well, nine not counting preorder bonuses

wait, 8

Which I mean
Still an insane haul, ngl

Already got all of Shaman's cards

all but one Rogue Epic

i swear this game has a Russian bot problem
first game today and it's fucking obvious this dude is botting
instant plays with no thought of hesitation

oh well
BOT THIS, FUCKER

[dense trellis]

https://outplayed.tv/media/YoGnlY
I'm genuinely losing it

[frank spruce]

thats why this guy is bronze 9 and im silver 9

(I have never seen that card before)

[raw notch]

ahhh ok

so it has a flat +1/+1 for each other version of that card summoned

So it's not a Battlecry like Pogo Hopper

So when the sax tried to change it to 3/3, it did!

... then the card's effect gave it +1/+1 again

[frank spruce]

hey do priests have mind blast these days I have 7 hp

[raw notch]

Nah

Just checked their Core set

[frank spruce]

I turned into Jaraxxus hes doomed

[raw notch]

Part of me is surprised since they do have this

Which you know
Supposed to rotate out with United With Stormwind but I guess they wanted to keep it in Standard another year to give people Shaodw Priest PTSD

[frank spruce]

Very strong first day lets keep up the good work tomorrow everyone

[raw notch]

5-8 we stay winning

also i need to use my deck tracker more

got like 15 wins before I hit 1k on Mage

not that i'll use the 1k portrait

oh my god there's 337 hero portraits in the game

[frank spruce]

I missed out on the Gladiator Valeera window and have been waiting for it to come back for years

[raw notch]

anyway
Virgin Fire Mage Jaina vs. Chad Saraad

Man I rememebr getting so hype when pulling Nexus Champion Saraad randomly during games
LET'S NEGOTIATE: YOU CONCEDE AND I'LL LET YOU LIVE.

and the fact his hero intro has a reference to that

oooh I never fought Varian as Saraad (prolly because Varian is a Legendary portrait) but MORE TGT REFERENCES!

and look at the full hero art compared to his original card form
ahhh it makes me squeal

[raw notch]

[sick violet]

hax

[frank spruce]

woah

he looks good

visually, idk what the card does

[frank spruce]

Hearthstone when they charge you 50 dollars for 3 cards and call it +30% value

[eternal holly]

Today chicken dinners

[sick violet]

The +1+1 on damage one always seems to be scarce for me

[eternal holly]

Indeed he is

I always obtain him on late game by luck

[sick violet]

I once had like +150 stats in a winning game... from ONE SINGLE ONE OF THOSE GUYS

This game

[raw notch]

when it dies, it resummons any minions that didn't start in your deck

so like for instance
The new Priest mech that gains +1/+1 for every other you've summoned
If you clone one that starts in your deck and that dies and then you drop Ra-den later (and he dies, ofc), you'll get the copies back on board

just the idea of the card when it was revealed gave me "Pogo Hopper 2.0" vibes and while the deck is a tad inconsistent rn because of the reliance of having to draw the d00d, my GOD is it FUN

and as someone who loved trying to make a good Pogo Hopper deck in wild, having an insanely good mech like Astral Automaton in the game FINALLY lets me live out the dream!

turn 4 btw

[eternal holly]

ikr

[raw notch]

me when

i love how sarcastic SI 7 Anduin is

well that's an interesting turn of events
Ra-den specifies minions that didn't start in your deck, yeah?
So if I ressurect a minion and that dies, it doesn't count because while it was revived, it technically started in my deck. For it to trigger properly, I would need to copy the minion first, then it'd count as not starting in my deck

alternatively i just steal my opponent's shit and use it against them, Classic Priest Move for Dickheads like me

[frank spruce]

Alright everyone I think I've played this deck enough to declare it the new best deck

[raw notch]

Pure Paladin's been a thing since Murder at Castle Whatever

Though I can imagine the Forge card that rezzes Paladin minions helps a lot

"Man, Zilliax would be amazing on this card in Pure Pala- oh wait"

I can imagine Mech Paladin getting a bit of a resurgance if Pure Paladin falls off or gets nerfed, tho

Espeically with Zilliax being in Standard again this year

Hell he's already been amazing in my Automaton Priest since you can just slap him on a 1 mana dood and just wreck face

[frank spruce]

I think Crusader Aura is new its really good

Makes sense it was the 2nd best paladin spell in WoW

the best one was Divine Shield and thats a mechanic not a card

[raw notch]

Ahhh yeah the new Core cards they added this patch

I haven't played much Paladin, too busy ruining people's days with LARGER AND LARGER MEN

i swear the bots infesting this game are dumber than the actual AI

like yes, that is the correct move...
but did you not read DIVINE SHIELD

annnd my trash internet cost me that game

"Oh your internet went off for 30 seconds? Welp, can't reconnect you, we'll just say you lost"

[frank spruce]

i dont think ive met any bots in my 20 games so far luckily

wait is that one of those blizzard bots I saw people talk about

or is murloc tidecaller in a real deck 😂

the blizzard bots had names like Hastymage etc though not cryllic

[raw notch]

like 90% of my games are against german and russain bots

[raw notch]

The most Priest victory for the 500.
Stolen dudes from the opponent for exact lethal

[frank spruce]

oh grats

I might have 500 on priest too

[raw notch]

about 10 wins off 1k on Mage, too

haven't played much Wild since the expansion launched and I basically hard force Secret Mage on my unwilling foes without consent

[dense trellis]

Anduin SMASH

[frank spruce]

Seems like they have those events pretty often

the Ulduar one just went up

trying to open it crashed my game though

[raw notch]

HOW MANY FUCKING SECRETS

i mean
it was Yogg
because yes

ten wins until 1k Mage
also got the achievement for 1000 tavern levels

today's been super productive!

[frank spruce]

this tiger has a top hat lol

[raw notch]

it's not a TIGER it's a-

PANTHER

so Tiger Dark Mode

i don't know why i felt like being pedantic, i'm sorry

[frank spruce]

[raw notch]

also i'm way too proud of "Tiger Dark Mode"

[frank spruce]

heres the day 3 meta report

dont invest in rogue

[frank spruce]

hold on rogue might be back in a big way

[eternal holly]

Was had 1 shield left and it's slowing down my refresher with the damn animation

[frank spruce]

Alright everybrony show your progress screens

As you can see I love solitaire

[sick violet]

[eternal holly]

[sick violet]

It almost went well. 5th place because some other fuckers took the beasts I was after

[raw notch]

I CAN PLAY BIG PRIEST

bless you random free pack

also lol, that flavor

people are no longer running Big Priest
windows XP shutdown noises

tho i suppose #fuckbigpriest so it's a boon that it's finally dead and buried in the meta For Now™️

[frank spruce]

Just diamond 2 rogue opponent things

[raw notch]

hey you need that 3 mana off

it's not Preperation > Coin value but

[frank spruce]

Let's go!!

thats a lot of people for the 6th day of the season

[raw notch]

[raw notch]

I knew taht I wasn't being gaslit!

I KNEW THERE WERE BOTS ON LADDER

[sick violet]

My hand had a 110/110ish cleave pirate

[dense trellis]

When Priest is better at playing pirates than pirate warrior

[eternal holly]

why you put him in last?

[sick violet]

Because the 5th mob there is the one that gives stats to a mob in your hand when others lose divine shield

So if he was last, those other DS mobs would still grant stats to the one in my hand and it would keep growing

4th mob is the one that deathrattle spawns 3 bots with DS too

So that was potentially +14/+14 by the time the murloc summoned it from my hand

[eternal holly]

ah i see

grindin

[raw notch]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLXCmw0O5fRjDiekPmJ6vdbRHF5Fajl3g

my favourite Hearthstone card, Your Mother

[lusty magnet]

I used to watch Rarran

[raw notch]

Rarran is still good
i like these "Former HS/Other Card Game Player Tries To Guess Cards"

[frank spruce]

Rarran makes Reynad play Hearthstone bless him

[lusty magnet]

That is ironically the reason why I stopped watching his videos

I do think his videos are mostly pretty good tho

[raw notch]

Not your cuppa tea, I get it

But the fake "Your Mother" card got such a fucking reaction

[lusty magnet]

The problem I had with it was that he and his collaborators started to bring some borderline cards to make it more interesting and harder

Which made the evaluation a bit too subjective

[frank spruce]

the thumbnail doesnt really fit the appearance of the guest as well as they usually do

[lusty magnet]

He did become a bit more clickbait-y

[frank spruce]

im not complaining I was just sure he had a female guest with that 🤣

[lusty magnet]

I mean I can kind of assume that the guest is a runeterra player from that

[frank spruce]

these are the real videos

[lusty magnet]

Yeah Reynad ones are fun

Although it makes me wonder if I am watching Rarran channel or Reynad channel

[frank spruce]

Well I would be watching the Reynad channel if it existed

this is the next best!

Rarran definitely seems to be the only HS creator who tries to come up with unique ideas rather than just playing the game hes a great content creator

[lusty magnet]

Yeah reynad's channel died after his game got its own channel

It seems his game is actually coming out

this year

[lusty magnet]

That is just because the game is dead I do think he make cool videos, it just stopped being interesting for me

[frank spruce]

😹

just steal paladin minions too

[sick violet]

He's a DK though

[raw notch]

just keep getting Paladin minions from RNG

[dense trellis]

Golden pack wasn't just 1 rare for once

[raw notch]

meanwhile i regret buying packs (+ bonus Jerma reference)

how do i get duplicates when the set wasn't even technically complete

i mean
i did have Blightfang at one point but I dusted it after the nerf
STILL
WHY DID IT GIVE ME A NON GOLDEN DRAGON AND THE MAGE DUDE
AS WELL AS A SIGNITURE BLOOD MAIDEN

[eternal holly]

yeah this infinite secret meta is busted

[raw notch]

I forget that the Outcast effect overwrites the mana decrease so instead of cositing 0 it costs 1.

At least I don't need the Outcast effect anymore!

[frank spruce]

Nerubian vizier is such a nice guy

[raw notch]

until he gives your opponent lethal

gg

Lab Constructor a totally fair and balanced card.

[frank spruce]

now it is

on 4 it was kinda strong

[raw notch]

Mimitron probably needs a nerf too

Or at least
The little spark dude that gives Stealth

[frank spruce]

idk rogue kinda has 49% winrate on hsreplay

I had to stop playing mech rogue pre-nerf on diamond rank because I could barely get 50% winrate and I changed to hunter

[raw notch]

Hmm, yeah it is kind of an all or nothing deck I feel like
Which still isn't great balance wise but ehhh

[frank spruce]

this DK is playing some meme deck with renethal and algalon so ofc he gets trucked by the newest aggro deck, you play against another meta deck and they draw early removal you're so doomed

once you're behind as rogue you'll never come back

I played that deck a lot and I think the only unfair thing was lab man on 4. Permant stealth 1 drop is also very strong but its so random to get it

The mirror was so funny you'd just drop lab constructor on 3 or 4 and they were screwed unless they had bone spike

[raw notch]

rate my 100% winrate deck

The theme is
"Fuck you. Secrets."

[frank spruce]

really good definitely something id make if I got a play 10 secrets quest

[raw notch]

Disgusting. Fucking. Disgusting lethal.

Tonk > Play Dead
Last rocket hits face
Evis.

AND THAT'S WHY WE RUN EVISERATE IN MAH SECRET DECK.

[raw notch]

So Mecha-Leaper can buff itself with its Deathrattle.

Do with that what you will.

I'm sure you can make some broken ass combo deck with Hunter at least, this was just me fuckin' around with an AFK opponent

[sick violet]

https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1431892-legend-storm-giant-priest i played a match with this, it went just about as near perfectly as the guide suggested (what i pulled from the deck that is)

I can't imagine it'll rise through the ranks but that was fun

[raw notch]

I did this but with Dr00d

the spell that summons all your (2) or less minions is great with Storm Giant

[sick violet]

don't want to summon them all from hand, you can keep forging even if it's at 0 cost

[raw notch]

but why would yhou keep forging when they already cost 0

[sick violet]

Infinite army

yeah this deck isn't good against anything with even a slight amount of speed

[raw notch]

Ohhhh, right that dude

Kinda forgot lol

"my brother in christ it's the core of the deck"
I KNOW I JUST PLAYED LIKE ONE GAME WHILE HAMMERED

[sick violet]

[raw notch]

pun unintented

(for once)

Punintended even

[sick violet]

Dang, 2nd place in demon vs demon

enemy had this

[raw notch]

I never thought I'd get this far ;-;

[eternal holly]

felbat works with that trigger end of your turn multiple times dude? this always confused me

[sick violet]

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/hearthstone/23987536/announcing-battlegrounds-season-5

...tier 7?

[raw notch]

This is to go
EVEN FURTHER
B E Y O N D

65 gold is a lot but so is dropping a fuckin' Papa Bear in a Beast Build

[sick violet]

And we've only seen a few cards so far, looking forward to see how this mixes shit up

(haven't watched kripp in a while... might have to again once this starts )

[sick violet]

[frank spruce]

vroom vroom

[raw notch]

bumper cars

Guessing the Gold version will have MEGA WINDFURY

[sick violet]

Nah i think that's been removed completely

[raw notch]

damn

[raw notch]

"Wait, would it cast the Warlock Hero Power for every enemy...?"
it did.

Throwing the game for fun and profit

[sick violet]

[sick violet]

https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/10276-major-minion-mix-up-all-the-changed-battlegrounds the known minions so far if you scroll down

[eternal holly]

damn i was just close to reach 8k this season

[sick violet]

I'm stuck at 6k

[raw notch]

Caverns of Time is a new type of Hearthstone expansion, including card reprints, new cards, and some new card cosmetics! It’s also Hearthstone’s first-ever direct-to-Wild expansion, meaning that the cards in it will not be legal in Standard (and can be balanced towards Wild). Caverns of Time launches on August 31, and it includes 147 cards: 113 buffed reprints* and 34 brand new cards!

my wallet is crying rn

oh nvm
only 34 new cards

Flame Lance Deal 25 damage to a minion.

reminder this card currently deals 8...

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-gb/news/23987537#COT honestly there's way too much for a peanut gallery for me to cover, it's a big patch even aside from CoT

[sick violet]

HE'S BACK

[raw notch]

fear

[eternal holly]

[sick violet]

This one was wild

So the two rewards I got were Yogg and the "what you buy gets an increasing +1/+1 for every purchase" (like, first you buy gets +1+1, 20th you buy gets +20+20)

Yog was doing his thing but one of the rewards I got was replace your hero power. Now here I thought - quest reward does not equal hero power, right? But it does.

So it replaced the +stats one I was getting ;_; but my guys had been fairly big enough already so at that point I was trying to do the murloc that gains stats in your hand to increase the size of the middle murloc

Last enemy made the mistake of being reborn poison taunters.... and my first guy was the perfect counter to that. He didn't know I had it

[sick violet]

this got second place. Goddamn huge mechs

And it took way too long to find the first tidemistress

[raw notch]

OH NO I KNOW WHAT DECK I'M TAKING TO STANDARD TONIGHT

[sick violet]

New BG stuff is out

[raw notch]

Persona 4 The Golden (arena)

[eternal holly]

[eternal holly]

I don't even wanna know how

[sick violet]

Turn 1

[raw notch]

Hunter is now my 4th Golden after Mage, Shaman and Priest.

[sick violet]

Dang gigahuge quillboars

[sick violet]

the anomaly equalizes the HP of the leftmost and rightmost mob at the end of each turn

[eternal holly]

All I need was just one more bran, then I could beat those bigass murlocs with lime

[sick violet]

wait, that golden murloc works on non murloc battlecries now?

Huh, it does

[eternal holly]

I thought it's already like that since the beginning of his existence

[eternal holly]

THIS MF SHOULD NOT BE WORKING WITH DS

HE JUST KILLED MY RIGHT MOST MINION AND THEN

The rest of his minions aren't even up to 20+ hp/dmg

wasted 25dmg i just did to myself

[sick violet]

Nah, he used to be only for murloc battlecries, I think

[sick violet]

Belatedly:

[sick violet]

only taverns 3 to 6 available

[eternal holly]

They called me a madman

I should not get Bran cause Bran also triggers the battlecry twice, not for extra times like baron 2.0 which trigger the deathrattle for extra times

[sick violet]

Both the brann and baron shouldn't work extra time if you have Moira

[sick violet]

Ah, baron does work

[eternal holly]

[raw notch]

meanwhile me

[eternal holly]

Too much blood

[lusty magnet]

Holy shit you can unpack multiple card packs simultaneously now???

Gamechanger, best game ever, 15/10

[sick violet]

o.O?

[sick violet]

Finally, after a losing streak

[eternal holly]

[sick violet]

Had a 4th then 8th place, then redemption! anomaly was double battlecries AND deathrattles

So by the time that taunt beast died (triggers adjacent battlecries)... stuff was in the 200s

[sick violet]

Hard fought victory! Me and last enemy down to 1-3 hp each

Enemy's last board. Third naga's stats was double that because of its effect... Leeroy had a 50/50 chance to hit either the giga naga or one of the remaining 100-ish stat ones

And it rolled in my favor

[frank spruce]

its all ogre

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qm2JLbP8Tg

This is the most disgusting thing i've ever seen

[sick violet]

Got that mob that you can sell to discover something of an increasing tier (the adventure gnome?). Got the bristlebach to the right, made him golden with the Goldenizer anomaly thing

I didn't have leeroy for a number of turns and it was against this guy

Thankfully leeroy got mob #2 and the refreshing Divine Shields were able to survive long enough that I could kill the remaining big guy (mine would have 200-300+ damage by the end of the round due to how many bloodgems the bristlebachs were adding

[dense trellis]

NEW YOGG

[raw notch]

fuck i have to craft that golden now

[sick violet]

Oh jesus

[eternal holly]

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGVZ31ZKrBc what the fuck is this anomaly

[sick violet]

Now this was a fun game

Got an early "Make X golden" and put it on brann... murloc/dragon gets +1/+1 (2/2 golden) when I play a battlecry. Fourth mob gives everything health when it gets attack. Kalecgos gives stats when a battlecry is triggered, so it's automatically 3 times thanks to brann

#2 is a cleave dragon

And amalgadon is self explanatory. 12/12 is just the slot I use to put down battlecries and this was the best mob to have for the next turn but I won the game

(anomaly was tier 7 was available)

[raw notch]

Couldn't have given me a gold Countess?

I see how it is.

Kicker is that I have the Signature Kangor already.

What does the gold version of Starlight Groove do for me anyway?
It's the same damn shield

god, even the animation is shit... easiest disenchant even aside from the card being garbage

[eternal holly]

this clutch

if you know, then you know

[sick violet]

[eternal holly]

They really need to add a warning for the "Concede" button, was trying to press the option

[sick violet]

Can you tell i like murlocs

[eternal holly]

Murk-Eye got a new friend now

[sick violet]

I was doing alright for a while but then those two popped up and it went better 😄

Although the last guy had pretty huge pirates, including a big cleave, but that's why the rightmost venom murloc got the reborn slot

[sick violet]

https://twitter.com/BellularGaming/status/1706815870025207953

Michael (@BellularGaming)

We’re seeing reports of layoffs at Blizzard, seemingly focused on the Hearthstone team.

We don’t know the extent of this yet.

Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 11:39 PM

[sick violet]

So.... if you target the shaker with sea witch's thing, it works. You get a copy of the shaker, but the shaker's effect of copying the spellcraft happens too , even while in the tavern

Thank you, tier 7

[sick violet]

I'm sorry what

[sick violet]

After 8 or so fucking games of finishing 5th to 8th

Tunnel blaster because I was vs a George with demons too and he was being trigger happy on divine shields 😛

But yeah, per turn about 12x blood refreshes, reversed by the 2nd demon, and those twelve refreshes grant me +2/+2 each time. Felbat was just icing on cake 😄

[eternal holly]

i can see you're having an enemy with many minions that has DS

[sick violet]

George's hero power, yes

I tripled the tier7 demon to that gives +20/20 total to stuff in bob's tavern, but that was long before and didn't have any felbats until late

Plus as Denathrius I had the + gold every turn quest so I had at that point 12 blood refreshes and 27 gold to find shit

[eternal holly]

what a sacrifice to be made

[sick violet]

won a 88% chance to lose round and won the match

[raw notch]

[sick violet]

Anomaly was minions cost 2, can't refresh manually, gets refreshed every time you buy a minion

So obviously i had to Deryl with all the buying. No one was even close to beating me except the last guy, who had banana slamma build

[eternal holly]

All of those numbers are from hat tricks?

[sick violet]

Not all of them but I'd say about 40-50 of the health total in there is from hat trick, I was buying a lot of minions to trigger the pink man's damage

Possibly higher honestly. But the rest of the big stats from that are from the tier 5 demon giving +2/+2 to all demons when i take damage (from pink man + the pirate demon)

[eternal holly]

Poor Pink Guy

that what i was wondering, those number are too big for that demon pirate and hat tricks

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpH0BIOKbU0

[sick violet]

It's all about synergy for demons. 1 are sources of damage against me, the player. Pink guy does damage whenever I play a demon , and he gains stats. pirate demon does 1 damage at end of turn, gives me a gold coin

2 is stats buffer. Whenever my character (not minions) takes damage, it gives +1/+1 to all demons. +2/2 when golden.

3 is the reversal. If I take damage while that thing is alive, it reverses the damage done and gains +1 health (2 if golden). So I'm constantly damaging myself and reversing the damage while buffing minions

And since minions were 2 gold the entire time, it was very easy to get plenty. Playing deryl was a buff ON TOP of that, because every time I buy a minion, hero power gives +1/+1 to it. If I sell the minion, that +1/+1 jumps to something else

[eternal holly]

ouh yeah i almost forgot the first dude is also damaging you

[sick violet]

https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/10367-27-6-patch-notes-expansion-pre-order-battlegrounds new patch, lots of new minions

[eternal holly]

she's back!

[raw notch]

[sick violet]

[sick violet]

My enemy

Me

Had the secret that destroys a mob if it does more than 3 damage.. it hit his gigahuge mob

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR92-WKJPyI

[raw notch]

oh god the gnome card

[sick violet]

I like the very last card

[raw notch]

explosive hero

[raw notch]

SPIN THE WHEEL
YEAAAAAAH

[sick violet]

The anomaly was "choose a quest reward each turn". I went denathrius to get an extra quest reward as well

My default reward was... evil twin. So at the start, it would copy that turtle and the bannana slamma was golden, plus got boosted by the (non golden) bear soooo

I'd start with a 41/239 and a 123/717

and the octosari would spawn ever increasingly huge stuff 180/180 by the last round

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3IgjYkHZhc man, the pivot is absolutely disgusting

[sick violet]

One guess who my enemy was in the last game

[sick violet]

https://www.twitch.tv/nl_kripp Kripp showing BG duos

Though apparently he needs help with something?

[sick violet]

Anomaly was start with 10 gold, so obviously had to pick thorim. Picked the demon that gave all minions in bob's board +10/+10. Eventually found the rest of the demons including the felbat and it was all over for the enemies by then

[raw notch]

For context
Anomoly was "Occasionally helpful refreshes"
(which you know, agree to disagree)

I did score two copies of the tier 7 lass though, which was probably overkill and I did end up not being able to fully take advantage due to how much shit needed to be cycled

STILL WON BAYBEE

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IViURzMjBh4

[sick violet]

[TCHAIKOVSKY'S 1812 OVERTURE INTENSIFIES]

Golden macaw, non golden macaw, bird that triggers deathrattles, golden boombot, golden baron

Not only was I launching off like a dozen of bombs each salvo, they happened multiple times, and the omega bot in the middle buffed the bots up massively

This certainly helped, and one reason why my bombs were so effective... i kept shooting off the shields with it

[sick violet]

Waited until i got to tier 6, found a tidemistress. Tripled something, found another tidemistress. I'd been trying to get some quillboars first but quickly pivoted at that point aaaaand annihilated folks

[sick violet]

Kripp hitting the jackpot

[raw notch]

streamer luck, smh

[sick violet]

I mean, the Khadgarball is helping but still, yeah

[raw notch]

ik it's the fuckin' chadgarball but still, lmao

[sick violet]

I mean, his face speaks volumes

[cedar shadow]

https://vxtwitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1724494912836551127

[sick violet]

You can get 5 to 50 cards per pack. I got 5 in ever pack. I am going to assume since I got a fair number of packs from the other sets that this includes, that I got fewer cards because I'm not missing as many

Vs say a person who skipped th e last 3-4 xpacs and is coming back

[cedar shadow]

Yeah, I've not played in literal years, so I may get more if I sign in.

[raw notch]

Well, free dust is free dust

Well, not "free" but you know

Wish they had this when I came back to the game after Lich King dropped, LMAO

[sick violet]

Do tell me when you do! I'm curious to see your numbers

[sick violet]

how it starts. And the above, how it ends

Damn, 2nd place. Big elementals got me

[sick violet]

fucking scam murlocs

[eternal holly]

First match after weeks off

Endless nightmare

[raw notch]

First Battlegrounds game of the new season

last guy literally left on me 💀

[sick violet]

I haven't played bg in 2 weeks vacation blues

[raw notch]

lol

[sick violet]

Huh. Opened a pack I have no idea where i got it from. Legendary signature card o.O

[raw notch]

oh hey i got that from my pre-order packs

Fucking Worthless btw

[sick violet]

Indeed

This is broken as fuck btw

[sick violet]

russian name, plays a card and hero power without fail every turn despite my having an overwhelming board, and the card they play making no difference... hello, bot

[raw notch]

Yeah, HS has had a lot of bots lately

[sick violet]

https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/10588-28-2-2-patch-notes-battlegrounds-arena-balance-bug meanwhile... (see attached video)

[raw notch]

tae'thalan is temporarily tae'tha-banned

[sick violet]

Off to a good turn 1...

[raw notch]

God I hope Paladin falls off after rotation.

i am so sick of pure paladin decks i stg

[sick violet]

It did indeed go well

[sick violet]

[sick violet]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24033779/28-2-3-patch-notes

[raw notch]

Old: Deathrattle: Summon each other minion you’ve played this game that didn’t start in your deck.
New: Taunt. Deathrattle: Summon each other minion you’ve played this game that didn’t start in your deck.
happy Priest noises

also Mining Rogue is getting buffed too, P o g

[raw notch]

Damn, I thought I had the Diamond Doc, ah well

[raw notch]

Pop'gar is less pog because I already have them Golden, but Glugg is pretty hype, I think he still sees some play

Mostly in Highlander, unsurprising

[raw notch]

Poor Chu.
What's even better is that the Anomoly for this run is "Heroes take double damage"

YEAH THAT TRACKS, OUCH

Such devastation...

[raw notch]

300 damage in one run baybee!

[raw notch]

Ah shit, they changed the festive Brawl so you can't cheese it with Warlock, lol

[raw notch]

hahaha
Muhuhuhuahahaha
HAHAHAHAHHA
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!

I am become death! Destroyer of worlds!

HAHAHAHHAHAHA! TURN 2 AND THEIR DECK?
GONE

[raw notch]

THE 🅱️AINCENT ONE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg02NzsXrJk

how do you throw this hard

[sick violet]

Funny you should post that

Lemme find my most recent win

[raw notch]

Fellow undead enjoyer

🤝

[sick violet]

[raw notch]

gets random gold minion spell
uses it
useless golden for my Quillboar build
get a T6 naga that generates a spell
gets a second random gold minion spell

dies anyway

[raw notch]

this buff is a godsend, lmao

[raw notch]

fuck yo otk

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD7siDTAflg holy shit, after 7 months

[sick violet]

[lusty magnet]

That is one hella YouTube video title

[raw notch]

YOU'D BE A FOOL IF YOU DON'T USE GRUUUUL
IT'S GOLD, JERRY, GOLD!

[raw notch]

WE
STAY
WINNING

gold cheating is fun

[sick violet]

Meanwhile, 7th place

[raw notch]

i love bullying people with Undead

[sick violet]

Meanwhile, in murlocland

I had another murky in my hand so I was just one away from a full gold board

[sick violet]

Let's hope I don't fucking die next turn...

..i live by 1 hp!

And dead next turn. Absolute garbage rng

[raw notch]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24033780/duels-runs-coming-to-an-end

fuckin' Mercenaries is still around tho

[sick violet]

I mean, these days it's just standard + BGs

[lusty magnet]

Hey you can't just ignore Arena like that

[sick violet]

I just did.

[sick violet]

[sick violet]

after a terrible 8th place...

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RrRF_liD0

[dense trellis]

Ouch

[sick violet]

This is one of the most utterly bullshit cards i've seen in a while

[sick violet]

got the quest quick, and reward was double battlecries... got it like turn 5 or so 😄

[sick violet]

T7 minion, battlecry + deathrattle is +1/+1 to all blood gems... it was +20/+23 per gem at the end of the game

[raw notch]

damn

[sick violet]

Good ol' murlocs.

[sick violet]

Ye olde pirate strat

[cedar shadow]

Okay, I've literally not played in years, but I'm going to fire it up, beacause I know I've got craptons of card packs to open.

[raw notch]

ho lee

wish you luck with the card gods

if you need some ideas of what the meta looks like, I'd fire up HSReplay and see what's trending

[cedar shadow]

[raw notch]

Primus is pretty good

Problem is he's mostly used in Rainbow DK which uses a lot of expensive cards if I recall

[sick violet]

Good way to see is open your collection then just type "new" in the search bar, that'll show everything new you got

[sick violet]

bristlebach at the end MVP. Was quillboar vs quillboar and getting some shields back sealed the deal

[raw notch]

... Fuck.

nvm lol

also got the BEST ACHIEVEMENT NAME

[sick violet]

[raw notch]

i'm only a few wins from gold Warlock too

[sick violet]

I AM DRAGONLORD

In a game that had like 4 dragon players, including a Ysera

(She ended up being the last enemy)

[lusty magnet]

I was going to say Dragonborn, but then realized that it's a different company, then again realized they are both Microsoft now

Yes I know that Elder Scroll didn't invent Dragonborn

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHYTFzG7-s absolutely disgusting

[dense trellis]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24056181/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-pegasus

[raw notch]

pega sus

[frank spruce]

justicar trueheart is back

and even more powerful than ever (one more hp)

[raw notch]

WRATH OF AIR TOTEM

[raw notch]

I think she used to cost 6 as well

[sick violet]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-gb/expansions-adventures/whizbangs-workshop

[sick violet]

huhwhat, they brought quests back for battlegrounds

https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/10667-28-6-patch-notes-expansion-pre-order-anniversary

[sick violet]

[raw notch]

Neat.

[sick violet]

HC luck

[sick violet]

Left quest: first card I buy, i get a second copy. Right quest: start of my noncombat turn, random minion in my hand gets +12/+12. unimportant here

The mechs had quite a few magnetizations each, end of turn triggered them to be even stronger, they also had plenty of the +gold at start of turn. Then the felbat to make the demons bigger, and the dragon was just growing bigger from whatever I bought

duplication quest worked on tavern spells too, so whenever I saw one that was "give all your minions +4/+4" for 4 gold, was worth it to give all +8/+8

Some close calls but eventually, VICTOLY

[sick violet]

Good ol' dragons

[raw notch]

Hehehehe
memes

[sick violet]

https://vxtwitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1760363842536632665

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6RQfjhU9E

[raw notch]

i feel genuinely evil after this play

(I used Reign of Chaos on Rag, for reference)

[raw notch]

oh shit they're actually making Elusive a proper Keyword now?
Only took ten fucking years, lmao

was it really that hard to change "Cannot be targeted by spells or Hero Powers" to "Elusive"?

i fucking love Wronchi

[dense trellis]

https://outplayed.tv/media/EwrnM5
Playing death knight for the first time, am I doing this right?

[sick violet]

Wouldn't know, I live in battlegrounds

[sick violet]

Guys. I think I might be highrolling.

[sick violet]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24064740

[raw notch]

do it
no balls

[Hearthstone] All Mini minions now have a banana in their art, for scale.
dying

[sick violet]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24077473

Duos!

REEEE

[sick violet]

new BG season starts today

[frank spruce]

with duos

[sick violet]

[raw notch]

rip Duels

[frank spruce]

I might beat this guy we'll see

[sick violet]

[frank spruce]

Ye I won

[sick violet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMr64DdmKgM that first one

[sick violet]

Duos, teammate had a build going on for the first half of the game pretty much to generate cards and just support me. It worked

[sick violet]

https://vxtwitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1824506502796730754 oh shit what

[sick violet]

...I think trinkets make naga stupid strong

[hollow rover]

Sooo I picked up the game after a very long while and they gave me a free deck
A couple of days later and... Wow (all the way from bronze 10)

Wish me luck pones

Gonna try for legend

[frank spruce]

the hearthstone thread is so back

[hollow rover]

We about to cook

I always thought the default in-game deck templates were trash but apparently they have top tier deck lists now?

[frank spruce]

havent played since titans

[raw notch]

Haven't played since Badlands, I think

you know, typical burnout

[hollow rover]

Yeah this is a "play for a few weeks and don't touch it for a year" type of game

At least for me

[hollow rover]

You guys aren't gonna believe this shit

I literally did it

I just kept getting away with my shenanigans almost every game

Last game was insane

Almost missed lethal and it was JUST enough

And all of that with a deck I got for free... lol

Lmao, even

[hollow rover]

No way it's that easy

[frank spruce]

nice nice

[sick violet]

I stopped getting any of the expansions like 3-4 of them ago, even with gold. I think they've stopped that method

Still playing battleground though, daily

In fact, i'ma play a round now while having dinner! 😤

[sick violet]

Ow, 5th place

[raw notch]

[sick violet]

beetle build is disgusting

...Oh.

His beetles are bigger

[frank spruce]

I had these yesterday

[sick violet]

See? Disgusting

[frank spruce]

well I had golden brann and it went all the way to turn 16

I dont think theyre better than quills or pirates or elementals

[sick violet]

KEK. last guy was doing beasts/beetles and to be fair, his beetles were about 200/170 stats ish

But I was BIGGER and he wasn't spawning enough beetles. Too much boardspace devoted to buffing them and not enough spawning. Also helps that he had no barons, compared to my four~

[frank spruce]

wad a game am I right fellas

[sick violet]

I haven't managed to get one of those going yet

[eternal holly]

lost to a beetles

[eternal holly]

max win

[eternal holly]

stats too big, we broke the game