Hearthstone Specialist - The New Competitive Format for 2019
A new format has been announced for Competitive Hearthstone! The Conquest Format is being replaced by Specialist this year, and brings a form of side-board Hearthstone.
Blizzard says they are excited to see how it performs and that they are eager to implement community feedback as needed. Here's how it works.
- Players bring three 30 card decks to bring to the tournament.
- All decks must be from the same class.
- The decks are designated as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
- The Primary is your main deck that you are bringing to the tournament.
- The Secondary and Tertiary decks must have 25 cards found in the Primary deck, with the remaining 5 being your choice.
- For the first game, both players must use their Primary deck.
- In following games you are free to choose your Secondary or Tertiary decks, or continue using the Primary.
- Your opponent will not know which you choose.
The format begins post-world championship.
Nice to see this new content that is only for top 0.05% players of the whole playerbase.
For these who didn't get it, its not a mode inside the game, it's for tournaments only so you wont be able to play it
then getgud and play tournaments
Well, as a Rogue player only this new format It's something I've been waiting for a long time. I'm really hyped to this one!
play control and add 5 card to the bottom of your deck
Ease up, Tex.
fuck i cant read that much can someone give me a tldr
"The end is coming!"
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brilliant ***** A+
This format heavily depends on how well Blizzard can balance the classes. If they make a class "jack of all trades" like Druid few months ago then it would be a disaster. Honestly I don't have any confidence in balance team of Blizzard.
This new format reminds me a lottery with chosing a class like it was in Brawliseums.
Shame that in most decks replacing 5 cards only makes the deck weaker :D
Seems really boring to watch in all honesty. Sideboards aren't going to create as much of an interesting match to watch as 4 different classes currently does.
If I wanted to watch just one class play out multiple matches I'd simply waste money subbing to a streamer that rarely deviates what they play on Twitch.
I think it might be just for qualifying online? its interesting however. About time something different arrives for this old game.
As someone else posted on reddit
Nice comic. :)
Lol @ the HS plebs not understanding sideboards and how situational tech cards can affect/overcome matchup weaknesses. Let me translate - you know when you go Tempo Storm's meta snapshot and the deck listing has that "versus Control" and "versus Aggro" card swaps? Imagine you built a version of the deck with those changes and brought all 3 to a tournament - that's what this is.
Now we just need cards/classes that aren't broken and maybe the game will be good again!
If one class is dominant in the meta, as has been often the case in the past, won't this format be quite dull to play and watch? Too many mirrors.
It's obviously a concern, but when you think about it 5 cards are a lot and if your tertiary and secondary are well thought you can overcome a lot of decks your primary can't beat in the first place.
For instance if your primary deck is some kind of buff or secret paladin, you could turn into an OTK pally as your secondary to beat control and into a very defensive version to beat aggro.
In current system we see dominant classes because some classes have decks that can beat anything (hunter mid for instance) but the new system will be about finding decks that will target specific decks, it might give us more variety.
Also, the fact that you won't know what will your opponent play in game 2 and 3 will add to the uncertainty.
So only time will tell...
Maybe this will all make sense once the new expansion is announced. At the moment I can't imagine this to be a good format with the actual set of cards.
So they are essentially introducing sideboarding. A common occurrence in many TCGs.
As Wikipedia puts it:
"A sideboard, side deck, or side is a set of cards in a collectible card game that are separate from a player's primary deck. It is used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck."