Roujin wrote:

The balance is fine, the challenge is building a deck that is better at stealing gifts. There's no point putting a conventional deck into the brawl as the stuff that drops from the crates are going to be your win conditions.

I know that. My deck is both ace and useless in equal measure though depending on the first few draws.

I have such terrible luck with the legendaries im getting. 2 x King Mukla, 2 x the Skeleton Knight and 1 Acid Maw. The only not shit one i've got is Van Cleef, but as i never play Rogue he's not that useful.

Echo mage?


I've been having fun with a Rogue ambush/deathrattle deck. Wil post the details when I get home, does okay, but I haven't played much this month so it's only been tested against dumpster ranks.

I'm still enjoying just playing tavern brawl and arena. I've got about 2500 gold, seems best spent on arena tickets. Are any of the add ons I can get worth it?

Looks a fun deck Roujin. Will dabble.

Naxx has some good cards, Daddy. Mad scientist, belchers and Loatheb. Changed the meta considerably in its' day and they're still used.

Had a bad season so far. Trying to pull it back with one of those Flamewalker Tempo mages. Most likely low teens for me.

Much easier for the dev this way. 
I.e. Release new cards, one of them turns out to be OTT when used with some other card they didn't foresee, so they limit and phase out that card.

The combination of cards and decks must be a bitch to play test. They've given themselves a get out of jail card here.

Its interesting, I like the idea, creates interesting deck choices and stops the meta stagnating in theory.

It is bullshit for f2p players though who like to compete for ranks, unless wild mode is going to have its own ranking ladder. But thens the breaks.

All hail the return of Taz Dingo and Yeti!

Also this males it way easier to balance the game as super weak and/or op cards can be left in the game as they drop out of the main competitive card pool eventually.

I am still loving this. But if there's one thing i dont like, it's the fucking community who make celebrities out of people who stream this.

Anyone that's into Hearthstone really needs to check out Duelyst:



Only on Steam atm but its coming to ios, android, xbox and ps4.

Anyone playing the Elder Scrolls: Legends beta? I've been loving the single player but have yet to venture into multi.

Blue Swirl wrote:

Anyone playing the Elder Scrolls: Legends beta? I've been loving the single player but have yet to venture into multi.

Its looks interesting but seems a bit too similar to Hearthstone for me, although the 2 line idea could be interesting.  How is it?  Gwent is the one I'm looking forward to.

Downsides I've noticed so far
- it'll kick you out of a game if you lose 'net connection, even if you're in single player. On the upside, it does remember where you were in your game and returns you right to the point when you do get back in.
- downloading patches takes an age (it estimated 19 hours for 300 MB), and is prone to failure. Pitfalls of beta software, I guess.

And if you do try Deulyst, use curiousmachine as a referral code for some free monies.

Well I streamed a bit more hearthstone last night since I enjoyed it on Sunday. My homebrew greedy healadin managed to go about 6-3 although for some reason there was way less shitty aggro on the ladder last night compared to Sunday. This deck is hilarious when it works, but it really stretches out the games! Here are the best two from the set if anyone is bothered.




The decklist itself is:

2x Equality
2x Wild Pyromancer
2x Aldor Peacekeeper
2x Consecrate
2x Keeper of Uldaman
2x Murloc Knight
2x Refreshment Vendor
1x Senjin Shieldmaster
2x Truesilver Champion
1x Prince Malchezaar
1x Tuskarr Jouster
2x Guardian of Kings
2x White Knight
1x Enter the Coliseum
1x Sylvanas
1x Tyrion Fordring
1x Rag Lightlord
1x Medivh the Guardian
2x Lay on Hands

The deck has almost no early game, literally turn two and three are just making dudes or an emergency Aldor in case of super aggro Tunnel Trog or Mana Wyrm starts and then after than I'm relying of refreshment vendor healing and body size, Senjin taunt and Truesilver to keep the board from getting out of control, either by soaking up minions or by drawing out removal and from the opponent and stalling their turn which will allow my big boys at the end to finish the match. Mid game I drop murloc knights and make dudes or play white knights for healing and finishing for spells, Guardian of Kings have decent bodies, draw more removal off the opponent and heal me, Prince Malchezaar as well except without the heal. The aim is for me to arrive at the late game with either a decent health pool, or a board clear in the form of equality +pyro/consectrate or Enter the Coliseum in hand. By then I should hopefully have Rag Lightlord, Medivh or Tyrion in hand, having exhausted most of the removal or the direct threats from my opponent. End game I try to setup a situation where I drop Medivh followed by a lay on hands to gain a chunk of life, draw 3 cards and then have Mediv's staff summon an 8 mana minion onto the board to keep the pressure up from the previous turn which they had to spend dealing with Medivh's 7/7 body. Or I get Rag down for more than one turn and am basically at full health and I just ride out the rest of the game until my opponent runs out of cards or threats, Prince Malchezaar and my lack of draw until late game ensure that I don't run out of cards first against most decks.

The deck gets completely destroyed by control priest however due to their tools, my deck is heavy so every throughsteal hurts and I don't have enough removal of my own to counter their bit minions, plus what they steal or entomb from me and my deck is too slow without any real burst unless I draw something off a white knight to finish the game quickly.

It also seems to get rekt by mid-range hunter which is just a bit too fast to keep up with because it's minions are more sticky than a full on aggro deck.

Needless to say if you are playing against aggro and you don't draw your board clears or something like Senjin + Truesilver then you are probably dead before you can get your health total back up out of burst range in the mid to late game.

And that is surprisingly more than I thought I was going to end up writing about a deck I made for the lulz in a game that I keep half an eye on and half a hand in here and there.