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Dragon Masters Bundle is Available - Masters Tour Crowdfunding - 25x Year of the Dragon Card Pack + Random DoD Legendary for $19.99
Yeah, no portrait is a deal breaker for me ๐ I don’t really need more Year of the Dragon packs, but I would definitely buy it if it had a cool portrait (like last year).
Galakrond's Awakening Week 2 Preview - Clash at Wyrmrest - New Cards, Decks / Strategies, Bosses
First of all, I rated RIsing Winds 7/10 when reviewing it, and I certainly don’t think I underrated it. I mentioned Token Druid specifically when reviewing it, saying that the card will be good in the deck. If you mean 5 stars out of 5 stars, then that’s definitely not it, or at least not in the way I rate cards. For me, a card rated at max has to be an absolutely amazing one, a metabreaker, not just a “solid card that fits into a a single, good archetype”. If you rated it 5/5 (or 10/10 in my scale) it would mean that it’s on the same power level as pre-nerf Corridor Creeper or Giggling Inventor, for example. And there’s no way that’s true.
But in this comment chain we were talking about Embiggen Druid, not Token Druid.
Galakrond's Awakening Week 2 Preview - Clash at Wyrmrest - New Cards, Decks / Strategies, Bosses
Players who aren’t going to buy it got one wing for free – buying players did “overpay” in a way, but they have added 3 bonus cards to the paid wing to compensate for other being free. So free wing had 4 cards, paid wing had 7 cards.
Galakrond's Awakening Week 2 Preview - Clash at Wyrmrest - New Cards, Decks / Strategies, Bosses
If you face Druid mirrors commonly then I’d say that Poacher is a very good tech. Mirror is all about gaining a tempo edge over the opponent, the deck has basically no comeback mechanics so if you get ahead on the board you will be able to dictate all the trades and get even further ahead or even just kill the opponent over 2-3 turns. And, obviously, 4 mana 8/8 with Rush is a great tempo tool ๐ E.g. you can clear their T4 Evasive Feywing and still get an 8/3 on the board. The issue is, of course, that the card is really bad against builds that don’t run many Dragons or don’t run Dragons at all. So you really need to look at your own matchup stats before deciding whether to play it or not (just like with any other tech card).
Galakrond's Awakening Week 2 Preview - Clash at Wyrmrest - New Cards, Decks / Strategies, Bosses
Yeah, Quest Druid will totally dig the card, 2 mana 3/2 that draws a card and adds another 2 mana 3/2 that draws a card to your hand… it’s really great. And in the worst case scenario you could even play it on T3 to summon something against Aggro or draw against Control (e.g. to look for Nourish) if you have nothing better to do.
The only issue is where to fit it, that’s always the problem at the end of Standard year when there’s just so many cards.
Galakrond's Awakening Week 2 Preview - Clash at Wyrmrest - New Cards, Decks / Strategies, Bosses
The problem is that 4 mana to draw 2 cards is not an amazing draw engine, and 3/2 from the spell obviously won’t benefit from Embiggen. The flexibility is – of course – a big upside, but I think that the card would only REALLY shine in Quest version. Then there’s an issue of fitting it – what would you cut to play it?
And I honestly didn’t have card draw issues when playing the deck. Played it like 15 times so far (I know, not a huge sample size, but I didn’t have much time lately) and ran out of cards maybe once or twice. It has a pretty high curve for a Midrange deck, plus it has Big Ol’ Whelp and Emerald Explorer.
Galakrond's Awakening Meta Decks (Week 1) - Best Hearthstone Pro & Streamer Deck Lists For All Classes
Because that’s how Adventures work – you can’t craft cards from them. There would be no point buying them if you could just craft the cards you need :p
Galakrond's Awakening Meta Decks (Week 1) - Best Hearthstone Pro & Streamer Deck Lists For All Classes
It’s technically not intended, but it’s also not a big deal so Blizzard decided to leave it the way it is.
E.g. Blizzard has informed pro players (Masters Tour Arlington starts next Friday) that they are aware of that and that it will Discovering / Generating cards will work like that and that they shouldn’t worry.
Galakrond's Awakening Meta Decks (Week 1) - Best Hearthstone Pro & Streamer Deck Lists For All Classes
Ever since Conjurer’s Calling and Luna’s Pocket Galaxy nerf in Saviors of Uldum, the class wasn’t doing too well. While Highlander Mage is okay, it’s also very expensive and not many players run it. Plus it didn’t get any new cards yet – I imagine that some of the new cards might be playable in the deck (like new Reno will definitely get tested), then we should see more Mage decks.
Activision Blizzard Esports Streams (including Hearthstone) Move from Twitch to YouTube
Yeah, YT does have drops, but they weren’t implemented for Blizzard games yet.
As for the second part, what TV do you have? I think that you should be able to watch Twitch on most of them. Even if not through an app, then through a web browser. I thought that I can’t watch Twitch on my LG TV and then I found that there’s an app for that (called Backseat Gamer).
Midrange Hunter - wiRer - Galakrond's W1
Sorry, but I have never heard of him. I don’t know who played it first, wiRer shared it on Twitter and didn’t mention that he took the deck from someone else. And both this video and the wiRer’s Tweet were posted on January 22.
Celebrating Lunar New Year in Hearthstone - Tavern Brawl & 8 Special Quests - January 29
Even if it’s normal Quest, I’m not sure if rolling will really change that. If there are eight of them in total, it might mean that if you finish all of them you will get regular Quests until the event is over.
But I hope that we’ll learn more about them before the event starts.
Celebrating Lunar New Year in Hearthstone - Tavern Brawl & 8 Special Quests - January 29
Wait, actually, now that I think about it I’m not sure how they will do it. They didn’t mention Legendary Quests in the update info. And I honestly don’t remember how they did it a year ago.
Sorry about the confusion, I guess that we’ll just have to wait until next week and see.
Celebrating Lunar New Year in Hearthstone - Tavern Brawl & 8 Special Quests - January 29
Quests aren’t tied to each day. E.g. you can finish Quest 1 on Day 1, then skip Day 2 and on Day 3 you will still have Quest 2. Then you will be one day “behind” and you will get everything done on Day 9. Skip 2 days and you will be done on Day 10. Not sure how to explain it better…
It means that if you skip a few days because you won’t be able to play the game etc. you will still be able to get all Quests done.
Reno Jackson is a Dragon - Fan Theory Confirmed?!
That’s way too perfect. Blizzard needs to do it.
Reno Jackson is a Dragon - Fan Theory Confirmed?!
Maybe he hit his head and forgot that he’s a Dragon? That would be so true to his goofy character.
Reno Jackson is a Dragon - Fan Theory Confirmed?!
That sounds really cool. I’m glad that they decided to make Reno a Dragon after all, it’s amazing that they decided to turn a 3.5 years old fan theory into a reality and in such a big way. I can’t wait to play the rest of chapters ๐
Patch 16.2 is Out! Galakrond's Awakening Launch, Two New Battlegrounds Heroes and Minions, Bug Fixes and Improvements
You forgot about Boogeymonster! I agree that his minion pool isn’t great, but at the same time, the HP is overpowered. 1 mana for +1/+1 to every minion is huge. We’ll see how it works in practice – whether his Hero Power will be able to carry him.
And yeah, Millhouse looks fun, but 2 gold rolling HURTS :/ It might be good for the early game, but in the late game you start rolling much more than buying.
Wow, that’s some nice luck, congratz! I don’t think that Legendary opening rate is higher, they would probably mention it. 2 Legendaries were guaranteed (one for buying the bundle and one in the first 10 packs) but besides that it just really depends on RNG ๐