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.
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So I should bring 3 decks to bring?
Really don't like this. Sideboards is definitely a good idea of course, but limiting to one class is a huge step backwards for tournaments. Some classes naturally have disadvantages against others and Hearthstone is never going to be a game with top tier balance... so if you bring a class against someone who matches up against you well, how is the option of Tech cards going to make a huge difference?
Exactly you Bring a Rouge that has no healing limited lifesteal cards and get matched agaianst a mage that is a dead lose, not only are you waysting 1 game's worth now you can play 3 worthless ones
Definitively welcome to Hunterstone! no other classes can compete with these rules
Not true
You right! Hunters and decks to counter them... start a tournament and pray to join a match against a few classes. If match up is wrong, concede T1 to save time
Tempo mage
Control mage
Tempo rogue probably (idk if could be competitive in that scenary)
OTK druid (malygos, tog, and mechathun share the same cards at 90%)
Even paladin could be mounted in different ways
Hunter obv
Priest as control priest with dragons and big minions or just otk (same card list but different minions)
Control shaman can be built in different ways
You see, there is a lot of decks to try in this challenge and i will be happy to see some cool stuff
If you know your opponents are largely bringing Hunter decks and you can't counter that, you're simply an abysmal player. If 99 players brought only Hunter decks, and one player brought a Hunter counter, they'd clean up that tournament easily. That's why the tournament meta NEVER devolves into a single class dominating. You're also acting like they didn't test this format at all - they've been testing it for MONTHS. Have a little faith and use your brain.
So, Magic basically axed Bo3 and Sideboards, while Hearthstone decided to use Bo3 and Sideboards... Such a funny moment when two major competitors believed their rival had a better competitive format and copied each other almost at the same time.
Huh? I haven't seen anything about MTG axing sideboards, they were present at the 2018 world cup and they are still present in current day tournament play?
They did not and backed off immediately after the backlash. They even added Ranked Bo3 which is progressively becoming the main format because of how polarized and simplistic Bo1 is. They did try but it's definitely not going to happen afterall. I also wouldn't call this joke of a format that Blizzard is trying to introduce Bo3/Sideboard, it's so simplistic and won't change a thing.
Oh, they absolutely did, as the latest info on the subject is as follows:
Would be so cool to have a Bo3 implemented in the game that way !
Odd Warrior has a lot of variety, odd mech, odd dragon, odd taunt. Just change there and there, and you got three ruthless odd warrior decks.
ho no
Don't do this in constructed, though. When you have two different decks and so many shared cards (like Togwaggle and Malygos Druid), this will lead to people complaining that a given class always uses the same cards, and as a result, Blizzard will nerf the class hard.
This must be fun to practice for. When you found a strong core and good variations, you have to pray that the core won't get butchered before the tournament starts.