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Yes Timmy, The Hearthstone Murloc Yule Log Is Real But You Need To Believe!

File this Hearthstone Murloc Yule log video under "things that absolutely needed to happen." We've all seen the fireplace videos on Netflix and YouTube but what if they contained Murloc and the Murlocs sang holiday classic such as "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," "Away In a Manger" and "Deck The Halls." "But wait" you ask, is that all there is, just Murlocs sining around a fire, perhaps there's more?" Well yes Timmy there is more as the Murloc occasionally leave things in front of the fireplace. I don't want to spoil the entirety of the 53 minute video but they also drop off items in front of the hearth like cookies and swords.

But don't take my word for it Timmy,... Read All

The Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Hearthstone Expansion Drops This Thursday!

Blizzard dropped the date of the upcoming Gadgetzan launch date in a recent game stream and amazingly enough, it's this Thursday! In the stream there were many cards revealed and afterward Blizzard made them available to see on Facebook. You can check out all the Gadgetzan cards on the Blizzard Facebook page or Reddit linked below.

I love that we are getting more Hearthstone cards and that the meta will be changing again, hopefully for the better. I've usually enjoyed each expansion theme and this one is the first I haven't really connected with. Never been into crime noir or gangster stuff and it seems so strange mixing that in a fantasy world. That said, the cards... Read All

Watch DrHippi vs. Pavel in the Hearthstone 2016 World Championship Finals

The Hearthstone world championship finals ended this year at Blizzcon with a nail biting set of matches between Pavel and DrHippi. I don't want to spoil the ending but if you like awesome comebacks, these final matches will be something you need to watch.

Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Is The Next Hearthstone Expansion

There was a lot of news out of this years BlizzCon and the bit that was most interesting to me was next Hearthstone expansion Mean Streets of Gagetzan. As with the last expansion Whispers of the Old Gods, Gadgetzan is a 132 card expansion that looks to contain some really fun elements that should mix up the current meta.

"All in the Family: Each class belongs to one of the city's three factions. Your class cards and neutral minions all fall into that faction's theme. The affiliations are:

Grimy Goons: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior
Kabal: Mage, Priest, Warlock
Jade Lotus: Druid, Rogue, Shaman

Faction Specials: Aside from class affiliations, the three factions each have their own... Read All There was a lot of news out of this years BlizzCon and the bit that was most interesting to me was next Hearthstone expansion Mean Streets of Gagetzan. As with the last expansion Whispers of the Old Gods, Gadgetzan is a 132 card expansion that looks to contain some really fun elements that should mix up the current meta.

"All in the Family: Each class belongs to one of the city's three factions. Your class cards and neutral minions all fall into that faction's theme. The affiliations are:

Grimy Goons: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior
Kabal: Mage, Priest, Warlock
Jade Lotus: Druid, Rogue, Shaman

Faction Specials: Aside from class affiliations, the three factions each have their own unique twist.

Multi-Class Cards: Some neutral minions are only available to members of their faction; for example, a Grimestreet Informant (a member of the Grimy Goons) can only be in Hunter, Paladin, or Warrior decks."

I like that this expansion allows you many more uses for the cards in that certain cards can be used by multiple classes. From the cards they've revealed so far the expansion looks to make Priest a much more viable class. Some say Priest is headed for tier 1 status and from the cards they've revealed, that's a solid possibility. So far Blizzard hasn't dropped a release date yet but if they are keeping with the two expansions and an adventure release clip it should be out this month. Currently I have over 6k gold so on Gadgetzan launch I should be able to open over 60 packs! Whereas I won't be able to get every card I will get many of them and opening that many packs is always a lot of fun.

If you are looking to get back in to Hearthstone I recommend you check it out as Blizzard recently added quests that make it much easier to get gold. Many quests are now things like "Play 10 pirates" or "Play 20 battlecry minions" making the game much easier to run through your dailies. You might need to re-roll your quests if you have a full roster of old "Win X Games" quests but if you stepped away because Hearthstone was too hard a grind, it might be more accessible to you now.

Someone on Reddit is updating the link below with all the new Gadgetzan cards so head over there if you are curious what will be coming in the expansion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/5b5mlg/the_mean_prerelease_reveal_chart_all_currently/

Get New Hearthstone Hero Tyrande Whisperwind Free- w Twitch Prime

After Amazon bought Twitch I was wondering what that had in store for Twitch as when a company is bought out it usually has a big effect on the child company. Today Amazon is launching Twitch Prime which is an extension of the Amazon Prime yearly service. Basically if you have Amazon Prime you get Twitch Prime included as part of the package, which is a nice bonus for Amazon Prime members. Twitch Prime gives you an exclusive ad free experience and every so often you get free games and exclusive in game items. For the launch of Twitch Prime you can get the free Hearthstone hero Tyrande Whisperwind free until November 5th. If you have Amazon Prime but don't care about... Read All

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/01/2016 at 05:36pm

I read about this last night. I have Amazon Prime, but not a Twitch account, so I think I'm going to create one. I do have the Twitch app on the PS3, but I've never used it. I haven't watched any Twitch channels, but I suppose I could start. If nothing else, the game bonuses would be nice to get.

*Update* I created my account and found one of my favorite YouTubers to follow for free. I claimed my free Hearthstone gift, but am waiting for Battle.net to update.

>Tyrande and she is a fun new hero that makes losing as Priest a bit easier to handle.

What do you mean by this?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/02/2016 at 12:45am

It's a sort of inside joke about the current state of Priest not being very good. In fact I didn't have a Priest deck even made before this. I made a Rez death rattle deck and it's not amazing but fun!

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/02/2016 at 01:13am

Ah. That's the funny thing about this game, you'd think the Priest would be one of the best because his ability is to heal yourself. Also, you'd expect Gul'dan to be the worst because his ability to draw a card causes you to lose life. It seems that's apparently not true, from what I've seen and you've said.

Speaking of Gul'dan, I'm thinking about posting about the Warcraft movie, because I recently rented it via Amazon Prime (see I mentioned AP, too, so this is even more relevant). He was in it and I thought it was a cool movie.

As for Twitch, I'm all signed up and have my AP account linked. My user name is "gregopeck" and I've already subscribed to one of my favorite YouTubers and followed another. Let me know if you're on there, or send me a friend request. :)

Back to Hearthstone, since I got Tyrande, I switched out the Priest and selected her. I also changed the card back for all of my decks to the one you get when you unlock her. That one is beautifully blue, even better than the Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void card back.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/02/2016 at 05:55pm

> Ah. That's the funny thing about this game, you'd think the Priest would be one of the best because his ability is to heal yourself.

It's a fine ability later game but not great early game. Nearly any other classes hero power is better early game. Turn 2 comes around and you have nothing to play? Well with Rogue you get a 1/2 weapon. Druid gets a 1 attack 1 armor weapon. Warlock can draw a card. Paladin gets a 1/1 minion. Shaman gets a Totem. Mage can hit face with a fireball. Warrior gets 2 armor. Priest's healing is USELESS turn two because you nearly never need to heal anything.

Warlocks ability seems to me to be terrible until you realize how incredible drawing a card is.

> Speaking of Gul'dan, I'm thinking about posting about the Warcraft movie, because I recently rented it via Amazon Prime (see I mentioned AP, too, so this is even more relevant). He was in it and I thought it was a cool movie.

Interested in reading what you think of it. I was thinking of buying it straight up because of getting the Hearthstone Midevh hero for free with the Bluray.

> Back to Hearthstone, since I got Tyrande, I switched out the Priest and selected her. I also changed the card back for all of my decks to the one you get when you unlock her. That one is beautifully blue, even better than the Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void card back.

It's a very cool card back. Currently what I am playing with for all my decks too.

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/02/2016 at 07:01pm

I think Midevh was in it, too. I don't really have much to say about it. I liked it and thought it was cool. I liked things that were in it that reminded me of the Warcraft games I've played (I haven't played all of them), including Hearthstone. Other than that, there's not much else to say about it. I think if you like Warcraft, you probably won't be disappointed. From what little I've seen about it online, it seems that it is pretty popular.

JaBo wrote on 10/13/2016 at 11:25pm

I did not like WoW, but I do like the traditional Warcraft series. Would the movie still be good without an appreciation for WoW?

GregoPeck Super Member wrote on 10/13/2016 at 11:28pm

Yeah! I've never played WoW, but I've played the first two games and Hearthstone, so I was able to appreciate the movie as a Warcraft fan.

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Upcoming Hearthstone Nerf's In Patch 6.1.3

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For quite some time Hearthstone players have noted that some cards are a bit overpowered. Chief among the cards most cited as massively overpowered are Yogg Saron, Tuskar Totemic and Call of the Wild. Blizzard seems to have agreed because today they dropped information about some upcoming balancing changes to the cards I cited. I never felt that Yogg or Call of the Wild were overpowered but I don't really mind the changes made to both cards. In the case of Call of the Wild Blizzard increased the mana cost to 9 still making it a very powerful late game card but it now competes with other Hunter cards like King Krush. One change I really liked is the nerf to Abusive... Read All

JaBo wrote on 09/30/2016 at 07:32am

So, I agree with all the nerfs except Yogg. I can't justify playing Yogg after this. Before, I could kill myself with Yogg or do some great things. It typically averaged out that if I had 10+ spells, I could hope to wipe the board at the least. But, I've killed myself by over drawing my deck and fatigueing myself out more than a few times.

Now though, it's like servant of yogg. Could have 20 spells to cast, but the 1st one could kill Yogg and then done. I can't spend 10 mana to do nothing in a game. So now, the odds will be more likely that Yogg is a flop or a negative effect than ever. It was barely a competitive card as is... I'm not sure why C'Thun can be powerful, N'Zoth can be powerful, but not Yogg.

The rest are nice changes though. So sick of Shaman decks, FUUUU hahah.

Call of the Wild is way powerful, so it going to 9 is actually reasonable.

Btw, the best way to stop that Worgen OTK is with mage or hunter secrets :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/01/2016 at 04:07pm

> So, I agree with all the nerfs except Yogg. I can't justify playing Yogg after this. Before, I could kill myself with Yogg or do some great things. It typically averaged out that if I had 10+ spells, I could hope to wipe the board at the least. But, I've killed myself by over drawing my deck and fatigueing myself out more than a few times.

Yogg often kills himself early on, so you're right, this is a pretty big nerf to Yogg. Firstly I don't have Yogg and was sort of considering crafting him. This doesn't change that, but I might craft another more essential card. Yogg always seemed like a #yolocatchup card, this does change that but it seems.. honestly it seems more fair to me. Typically when people prayed to Yogg I never felt like the outcome was very good, I mean sometimes it was but generally it was a pile of nothing. That said, when Yogg works it's incredible and people seemed really upset by that.

> The rest are nice changes though. So sick of Shaman decks, FUUUU hahah.

Agreed. The deck is so much value on value it's gross. I am not sure these changes really fix the main issues but when standard rotates GOODBYE TROGG AND TOTEM GOLEM! Honestly liked Totem Golem before Tunnel Trogg and when they added Tunnel Trogg Shaman still wasn't amazing but those cards combined with others make it so hard to out value. Shaman used to be my favorite class but it feels like such cheese now I have a hard time playing it.

> Btw, the best way to stop that Worgen OTK is with mage or hunter secrets :D

Or a later game taunt. Once I knew what to look out for with Worgen OTK I don't think anyone ever killed me with the combo again.

JaBo wrote on 10/02/2016 at 10:48pm

http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/30/twitch-prime-users-get-new-hearthstone-priest-hero-tyrande-whisperwind/

I already had amazon prime, so yay for free hero

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/03/2016 at 12:52am

Totally. I picked her up. She's a fun hero.

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Hello Welcome Bundle - My Latest 3 Legendaries

Today Blizzard released a new Hearthstone game update featuring the Welcome Bundle. The Welcome Bundle is $5 and can only be purchased once per account and contains 10 classic packs and one random class Legendary. This is a really good way for new players to pay a bit and get some cards for cheap. Most free to play games have this sort of starter pack and it's nice to see Hearthstone finally get one.

I am a pretty happy doing the Hearthstone free to play thing but I really wanted those packs and a shot at a cool Legendary so I dropped some Google Play credit I had from taking free surveys through the Google Opinion Rewards app. Am I still free to play because I haven't... Read All

JaBo wrote on 09/16/2016 at 07:19am

huh, I didn't know about this lol.

Sweet pulls for you! I've used King Krush in a hunter deck and he's still powerful as a finisher. He's not Tier 1, but flavor wise he's awesome and he can pack the punch.

I also pulled two leggies in my 10 packs oddly (not a gold tho)

http://imgur.com/a/ICjgS

And classic are still the best packs to open. Since they don't rotate, it's the best place to get all the legendaries and if they nerf cards, it will likely be from classic (as the wilds rotate and are less impacting), so you can get bonus gold for dusting nerfed cards (you get the full craft value.

I had a golden epic that got nerfed... was nice collecting that 1600 dust, so you never know. Classic has best value and longest returns imo.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/16/2016 at 03:15pm

I agree with you about that classic value as most of my crafted legendaries st this point are classic. My last lengebdaru I crafted before The Welcome pack was Ragnaros.

Cool you got Jaraxxus, that's one on my list for sure but I think the NEXT legendary on my list to craft will be Ysera.

JaBo wrote on 09/16/2016 at 04:59pm

Ysera was my first crafted as I played control priest pretty exclusively the first year of the game.

I'm pretty addicted to gold cards lol. I justify spending the money I do by saying I'm not playing magic anymore and I was spending $120/ month on magic on average. Every 3 months a new set comes out, I'd spend $210 on boxes of packs, plus $50 for pretelease events, and then likely another $100 on singles or a new play mat, etc.

So, hearthstone can eat some of that and I'm ok. Having all the cool cards makes it harder for me to stick to a deck tho and not play all the fun ones.

Like you caught me yesterday grinding beast Hunter. I really want to try to get legendary. My best is rank 5 with 5 stars (they take away win streak bonus at rank 5 it seems, btw). My matches are 70% shaman, 20% hunter, 5% druid, 5% warlock, .01% mage. So I'm SICK of shamans right now.

I also find I get rematches more often now, so that's funny.

I'm about 20 wins from 500 on Hunter. Might switch decks after to focus another class.

Also, OH MY GAED, I want that new priest!!! It better not be another device specific one. I'll be making a trip to Sprint if it is lol

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/17/2016 at 08:48pm

The new Priest hero looks great. I wonder how we'll be able to get it?

Not too long ago I got the the point where I had enough commons, rares & epics so I could craft a Legendary. The first three I crafted were Sylvanis, N'Zoth and Twin Emperor Veklor. More recently Ragnaros and then these.

For my play style it makes sense to craft what I did but I REALLY want Ysera as it's such a cool card.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/18/2016 at 05:58am

Here is the Hunter deck I made that features King Krush called "Face is the Place." It should really have two Call of the Wild's but I only have one of those. Basically it's a face deck with some answers to help clear taunts and big minions that make it hard to go face. The answers being Hunter's Mark & On The Hunt to take down anything big or a taunt as well as 2 Deadly Shots.

It's not too bad but Krush doesn't come up as much as i'd like but when he does it's nearly always the finisher that is immensely satisfying.

http://i.imgur.com/txwnFlu.png

JaBo wrote on 09/18/2016 at 08:30am

Got there, finally!

http://imgur.com/a/CqZSR

So now I have Priest, Mage, Hunter at gold. Think I might try druid next, at around 400 and been playing against a portal/yogg/N'Zoth druid deck that looks fun, so trying that.

Face hunter can be a fun change of pace for a bit. It's funny to me that I got it to 500 actually (I did play Dragon Hunter for a long time too tho).

Your list looks solid. I'd consider swapping out the Argent Riders for Toads maybe. a 2 drop 3/2 beast with a deathrattle vs a 2/1 charge/shield for 3 mana. Kinda depends, but in my experience, getting a minion out on T1 or T2 is key. You currently run 12 3-mana cards and only 7 2-mana cards.

Plus, 2 more beasts give you synergy with Kill Command and Hound Master. And with coin, the Toad is a great T1 play against any deck.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/21/2016 at 12:05pm

That's a good idea. The horses have mattered some when they had charge but the deck does not suffer much from having minions that have to wait a turn.

Also, congrats on the 500 ranked wins. Golden heroes are a fun achievement.

JaBo wrote on 09/21/2016 at 06:30pm

Thanks. kinda bummed now, I tried druid out a bunch and went from rank 4-5 to 8. Cannot find a good enough druid deck to play.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/22/2016 at 12:39pm

Token Druid seems to be the highest ranked Druid deck right now.

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We Need To Talk About Hearthstone - One Night In Karazhan Adventure Review

jdodson gives this a solid "Rad" on the Ghost Scale

This is fun, with very few issues, and is well worth your time.

jdodson gives this a "Rad" on the Ghost Scale

This is fun, with very few issues, and is well worth your time.

Last week the final wing of the new Hearthstone Adventure One Night in Karazhan was released wrapping up a full month of new cards. I like the way Blizzard launches Adventures in that they release one new wing of cards per week giving us a full month of new content. There have been a few complaints about the new adventure, the main one being that the campaign is way too easy. This is entirely accurate as I completed nearly each fight the first time. Even though the wings were easy I did enjoy the Adventure and have replayed quite a bit of it.

Each Hearthstone adventure is a bit of story mixed with with unique boss battles and new cards but for me the Adventures hang on... Read All

JaBo wrote on 09/08/2016 at 07:02pm

Priest of the Feast, Onyx Bishop, and Barnes have made a huge new priest resurrect deck. It can be a pain to play around. T2 coin-injured blademaster. Then either Circle of Healing it or they typically just want it to die. Then resurrect a 4/7 next turn. Or, I've seen T3 coin out Barnes, get Ysera or Sylvannas. You kill the 1/1 then T4 they double resurrect.

Best thing to do against this deck is polymorph something and kill a sheep on their side (or hex). Kill as many as the weak enemies as possible. The Loot Hoarders they sometimes run or Barnes himself.

The new warlock discard deck looks fun, excited to try that one at some point. It's really inconsistent though. I played it before the Imp was released and I had 4 cards in hand, 2 were free spells if discarded, 2 were discard when play. I played one (Soulfire) and discarded the other discard enabler, making me then lose a card plus have to pay mana for the other 2. Where as I could have basically got 4 cards played for only paying for 2 (plus getting +1/+1 on the one guy and drawing cards if Imp is out). So, it relies on praying to RNGesus.

Firelands Portal and Babbling Book are both great for Mage. I crafted golds of each (I love cards that produce other cards, so I tend to try to get gold versions because it then generates gold rando cards for you). Both were ok in Tempo Mage, the Babbling Book with Brann is great, and Brann isn't bad in Tempo Mage anyways.

Medivh is one I'm testing in reno-pally. It's pretty solid. 8 mana for a 7/7 is only 1 more than a war golem, plus you get that awesome weapon.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/09/2016 at 04:22am

Medivh is a great card if you can get him out. During the Adventure and the first week after I had a blast playing new decks and did quite a bit of winning. That said, now that meta is solidifying people are going back to really fast aggro decks and I haven't done as well. I really was enjoying not having to netdeck as much for wins but I haven't won a single match today.

I find that really fun decks are not as well optimized as the netdeck aggro decks therefore you lose in a longer match because you can't out value your opponent. Hopefully quests can turn less into win based and more into playing based so people are less incentivized to simply play the most winningest decks and maybe try something a bit more fun. Because whereas I get how to play aggro Shaman or Aggro Pally, I really like other builds of that class more.

JaBo wrote on 09/09/2016 at 05:21am

Yup, I'm fully with you there. I hate the aggro decks. Magic and Hearthstone both suffer from this problem. I tend to aim for the fun decks while trying to still be competitive, but it's a hard line to walk.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/09/2016 at 05:49am

It is. I keep pace with the meta to have at least a couple decks then experiment outside that.

Hopefully the next expansion slows things down but that was what the thought was for WoToG and it didn't really.

JaBo wrote on 09/09/2016 at 09:28pm

Yeah, I always dreamt that magic would slow down. Every time the format changed it was only a matter of time until someone found a combo that could be a T3 win. I like winning, but I like interacting with the board and player more than just stomping damage in for the fastest win.

I am playing the discolock deck right now, tho. It's fun!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/10/2016 at 04:24am

Share your deck! I'd love to see it.

Personally I like matches that go to fatigue and the. You have to manage when to play and when to hold.

JaBo wrote on 09/12/2016 at 12:15am

http://hss.io/d/13884440

See if that links properly. I net decked it. I used to be completely against netdecking as I love designing my own decks. My tempo mage for instance is my own design and it's 60-70% win rate.

This warlock deck is crazy fun though.

Oh, here's a screenshot of the list: http://i.imgur.com/07mXmRq.png

JaBo wrote on 09/12/2016 at 12:17am

I've had this happen:

2 Malchezaar Imps in play. Hand is Doomguard and 2 Silverware Golems. The dream, right? 5 mana to get a 5/7 charge, 2 3/3s and draw 4 cards? So good haha

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/13/2016 at 03:52am

Yeah, that is the discard dream. That and 4 opponent health and then discard cost of jaraxxus.

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Watch Hearthstone's "Pull Up a Chair" Played By Video Games Live on YouTube in 360 Viewing Mode

At this years Gamescom 2016 Video Games Live performed a cut from the Hearthstone score called "Pull Up a Chair." It was recorded in VR and you can watch the performance in 360 degree view on YouTube. Even if you don't have VR you can move the video around and watch the performance from any angle you can making for a really interesting experience.

If someone is able to watch this with some VR glasses i'd be interested in hearing how that turned out.

My first Golden Deck

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http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/617572-nards-yogg-tempo-mage

Nard's Yogg-Tempo Mage

2 x Sorcerer's Apprentice

2 x Mirror Image

2 x Frostbolt

2 x Mana Wyrm

2 x Arcane Intellect

2 x Arcane Missiles

2 x Polymorph

2 x Flamewaker

2 x Spellslinger

2 x Arcane Blast

2 x Forgotten Torch

2 x Ethereal Conjurer

2 x Cabalist's Tome

1 x Yogg-Saron, Hope's End

2 x Cult Sorcerer

1 x Arcane Giant

I put this one together and then looked at some other lists, I've modified my list, gone back to my list, modified and modified.

I've gotten in 150-200 games in the last few days with versions of this. I'm only averaging 60% win with it. Gone from rank 10-7. I've never hit... Read All

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Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Is The Next Hearthstone Expansion

Get New Hearthstone Hero Tyrande Whisperwind Free- w Twitch Prime

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