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Tavern Brawl - Pick a Hand, Any Hand
Since the brawl is wild, I simply used Automaton Priest:
# 2x (0) Raise Dead
# 1x (1) Animate Dead
# 2x (1) Astral Automaton
# 2x (2) Creation Protocol
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Tavern Brawl - The Haunted Carousel
The direction of the rotation can be different from game to game. I do not know exactly how, I think it depends on wheather you play the first turn or not. This is why I suggested to wait for the right game which rotates counter-clockwise for you.
I admit, this tactic can’t win all or most of the games, because it depends on luck, but it is a super easy way to win at least one game with very little effort to get the reward pack.
Tavern Brawl - The Haunted Carousel
With the addition of Death Knight, this brawl became completely broken. Here is the ultimate strategy: play Death Knight, and wait for a game when your minions rotate counter-clockwise, so you give your right-most minion to your opponent. Whatever cards you have, just be sure to use your hero power everey turn to summon a ghoul. It will be put on the rightmost position, and, because rotation happens before its automatic death, you can effetively steal all minions on the board for yourself. easy win.
Shop Update: New Rogue Skin Bundle and Wild Pack Bundles
Because they are stingy and greedy 😀
Two New Cards Added to Paladin's Core Set, Auras Replace Secrets As A Part Of Paladin's Class Identity
Dear Stonekeep, there was also a shop update on July 18, you can buy KelThuzad+card back for gold (and maybe other skins I already have).
(Winner Announced) Round 3 of "Choose Your Titan" Voting Is Now Live, Pick A Titan And Get Up To 6 Free Card Packs
I did not get the first one either, maybe at the end of the vote, on july 10th.
Aman'Thul
It should be because of Death Knight. Since 3-rune cards are part of standard, but specifically banned from all discover pools, this might mean an exception, so this card can discover all legal-in-format legendary minions, including 3-rune Death Knight ones.
Blizzard Announces A New, Rotating Hearthstone Format - "Twist" Is Coming Out This Month With "New Age" Beta Season
I am VERY, TRULY DISAPPOINTED about this. Oh, not because of the new mode itself, but the replacement of Classic. This was the only ladder format where you could have any hope as a F2P user to eventually collect the cards for a competitive deck and reach legend without actually spending real money – and they took it away. And for completely no reason: why couldn’t they just put in the new format and leave Classic as it was? How would this be any worse?…
Well, I am totally angry. Tank you very much, dear Activision.
(Updated) Shop Update: Three New Skins (Mage, Druid, Priest), One Returning Skin (Hunter)
Dear Stonekeep,
Do we know anything in particular about all the old adventures available for gold in the in-game shop? Will it stay from now, or it is only temporary?
Tavern Brawl - Yellow-Brick Brawl
Great idea with this Plaguemaw, I will try it. Even better then the endless Dreadsteed 😀
Shop Update: Headliner's Tour Skin + Pack Bundles (Druid, Mage, Warrior)
Dear Stonekeep, in the description you wrote “5x Druid packs” to all bundles by mistake.
Festival of Legends Card Reveal Stream, Theorycrafting, and Pre-Release Festivities - Lots of Free Hearthstone Packs From Twitch Drops!
It is sad that I still didn’t get one of my two claimed packs from the previous music live. They did it again 🙁
(Last Chance) You Can Claim A Free Random Standard Epic From Amazon Prime Gaming
There will be another giveaway: today (march 25.), 6 PM – 9:30 PM Central European time, two free packs of the coming expansion will be available as twitch drops! I do not know exactly where, but probably on Hearthstone’s own Twitch channel.
Festival of Legends Guide - New Hearthstone Expansion - Cards, Reveals, Release Date, New Mechanics, and More!
Do we have any hint or guess when will the new gameplay achievements revealed?
Tavern Brawl - Top 2 - Deck Ideas!
You get it totally wrong. Warlock with ”The soularium” + ”Soul Barrage´´ is not just great, it is practically unstoppable 😀
March of the Lich King Expansion Launch Guide - Release Time, Freebies, New Class, Mechanics & Decks
Dear Stonekeep,
it seems there is some kind of problem with standard and class decks:
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-disables-standard-hearthstone-packs-because-they-were-dishing-out-new-signature-cards-like-candy/
How To Unlock Death Knight in Hearthstone & Best Death Knight Decks To Try Out On Day 1
What a pain is this about the legendaries – I have benn planning to craft the Mage minion for its achievement 🙁
How To Unlock Death Knight in Hearthstone & Best Death Knight Decks To Try Out On Day 1
“26 more cards are unlocked from Path of Arthas >>mini-set<<."
Does this mean there will be no "regular" mini-set in the middle time of the expansion?
And, by the way, do we know if there will be a full dust refund period for the legendaries you can claim from the rewards track? Or this mechanic is replaced with the new re-roll system?
Patch 24.6 Preview - Expansion Announcement Next Week, Hallow's End, Battlegrounds Battle Bash, Mercenaries Rework, Loaner Decks
The article says that the pack dropping stream “kicks off on November 1 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time” – can someone tell me what time it will be in CEST?
The main problem with this line of thinking is not that it is cynical, but also counterproductive. About a year ago, just before Microsoft acquired Activision, I saw a video discussion about the story of Blizzard, their games and the economics of the company under different managements and owners.
Its main conclusion was that the profitability of these namely F2P games is depending on the “whales” you mentioned above, players who buy everything and spend huge amounts of money – and they are a relatively small portion even among the paying players.
If I were the company leader, I would ask myself: “Why do the whales (or all the paying people) play the game and pay?” Because they just love to lose their money? No, they are here because they enjoy the game, the competitive play against decent opponents. They won’t do that if all their opponents were bots or “casual noobs”.
As a developer, I have two choices to build and maintain a decent playerbase: sell the game so cheap, almosr everyone can afford it – or sell the real good stuff for high price, and spend some of the income from the whales to “feed” many F2P/casual players, and give them a real chance to be competitive (ideally just a bit less than a paying one). If I cut them down like ballast, eventually I will lose the whales as well.
Or could it be that the long-term goal is to slowly let Hearthstone die, without causing a uproar by just shutting it down – because it is not very profitable anymore compared to their other products?…