Hearthpwn

The Art of Warfare Hearthstone community is recruiting new members.

The requirements to oin are simple. They include: being mature,  attending one mandatory practice per week (Wednesday’s @ 9PM EST for the North American server and Tuesday’s @ 21:00 CET for the European server), being a team player, and  going through a simple training process.

The Hearthstone division currently has over 60 players(~40 NA, ~24 EU). Everyone is welcome to join regardless of rank or skill.

We offer a full website and forum, a TeamSpeak 3 Server with active players each day and special events which include:

Individual and group coaching - For those wanting to improve their play and ladder ranking

Team Hearthstone In House Tournaments - For those looking to play in a team system where you work together to beat another team in a team league format

In House Individual Tournaments - For those wanting practice in Conquest format tournaments

If you have any questions or comments feel free to post here, add Zospo#1701 (North American server) or Pharao#2959 (European server) for further explanation.

This card is easily one of my favorites in the game. No matter what meta, this Cabal always seems to get some sort of value. I've been rocking this card ever since late beta when I started using Priest as my main class. #PriestsUnite

TAW Presents: The Heart of Battle

The Hearthstone division of The Art of Warfare (TAW) is hosting its very first prized open tournament! You are not required to join TAW to participate in the tournament however if you have a good time and enjoy yourself, feel free to apply!

The Hearth of Battle will most likely be broadcast on TAW's twitch channel, http://www.twitch.tv/tawtv, or one of our members accounts. I'll keep you informed the date of the tournament approaches.

The tournament will take place on Wednesday, February 11th at 8:20pm EST.

General Information:

What's Required:
The only thing we require from our participants is that they have Teamspeak and will be able to use it during the tournament. We want to make this event fun and interesting for everyone so communication is a must.

Prize:
The winner (1st Place) will receive two (2) $20 Bnet gift cards
The runner-up (2nd Place) will receive one (1) $20 Bnet gift card
The second runner-up (3rd Place) will receive one (1) pat on the back

Region:
The tournament will be held on the North American server

Format:
Best of three, single elimination brackets
The winner must retain their deck, however the loser cannot use the same deck or class again
No sideboarding
The finals will be the same format, except the round will be best of 5

Dropping:
Check-In will be 30 minutes before the start of the tournament. If you do not check in before the official start of the tournament, you will be dropped.
If you fail to appear for a match within the 15 minute forfeit window, you will be dropped from the tournament.

Registration:
*You must read the TAW Code Of Ethics before participating*

TAW CoE & Google Sign Up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1czlXSyCNFWsVqU9TVuLZrj-FTC4r80Ulhhlm5JSNZKM/viewform

Challonge Sign Up & Brackets: http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/L0BoLNMwNa

Sign up will close two days before the day of the tournament. We will send out emails as a reminder to the participants.

I'll keep this post updated as time draws closer to the start of the tournament. If you have any questions or concerns about this event, post in this forum or email me at conceited@taw.net.

I've been playing almost daily ever since open beta. So from about December 2013 to Janurary 13th, 2015 (today), I've never opened a golden legendary. To make up for it, I got myself three golden classes.

This message not only goes out to the OP, but anyone else that's looking for a Hearthstone Team:

Yeah the backbone of this deck has some ties in the well-know Tempo Rogue. Its hard to create a totally original deck these days, you know? I, like you, just more so molded the deck to my liking and switched the play style around a bit which is why I don't just call this a straight up Tempo Rogue. But yeah, I appreciate the comparison to Tempo, it's something I love playing! 

Well played! :D

Yes, my teammate added that card in for just the sake of having it in, I suppose. With this deck it might be tough to deal with the 3/3 unless you have your spell damage boost + backstab or deadly poison weapon, which just seems unnecessary since that should be used on your opponents minions rather than something you played yourself. If you want a more suitable replacement for The Beast then a Black Knight might help if your facing a ton of Druids. A Faceless or Sylvannas would work in that spot as well.

With priest you're going to want to mulligan hard for your backstabs, deadly posions, SI:7 Agents. The deadly posion can deal with an early cleric with your weapon, as with a backstab + weapon. The matchup versus a Priest deck should be quite high since a lot of the minions are at four attack (Chillwind Yeti, Azure Drake, ect.) Use your sap sparingly however, you don't want to sap something unless you know for sure you cannot deal with it and it poses a big threat.  

Actually, yes. I'm currently working on a guide for this deck. It should be posted within the next two days.

Hello!Hello!Hello

Hi, I was wondering if I could join this team despite my being in South-East Asia. I play on the NA server though but was just wondering if my location mattered in any way.

In Magic the Gathering apart from cheating mana as the first most powerful ability in the game. Minion or spell replication was always a close second usually assisting in some sort of infinite combo. Eventhough the two games are not entirely the same because of different life totals starts and whatnot a lot of the same values exist in comparison with each game.

With replication and repeated value a strong second like mentioned earlier on this card is only bad at first glance and is probably actually going to become a "sleeper" meta card dependant upon the printing of the other Warlock cards in TGT.

The real value in this card other than its deathrattle ability is the fact that it is also a demon which makes it easier to synergize with the majority of your class cards and even some neutral ones previously printed.

That being said all it is going to take is one wrong miss-step in card development to make this OP

Simply put the potential for this cards "power creep" is well above 9,000.   

   -vOLT~

Yoh again!  Thanks for another amazing deck guide :3 !  This deck is really fun but mostly innovative I have never played a grim patron mage be4 today and it is awesome!  Your opponent has no idea what to expect and I ended up having a lot of people trying to play around mirror entity as my secret when it was usually counterspell.  When they found out it was counterspell it was too late :p !  Great deck keep up the hard work & enjoy the gameplay ;P !

This is the best deck post i have ever read. Not just because of the build, which is awsome and fun to play, but specially for the dedication in the post. It shows that you dont only care about making a good build, but also care about the community and the state of the game. This motivates me to try new original decks and be creative. Congrats man!

Everyone,

After playing this deck a bit this season, I can definitely confirm it's success in a lot of matchups on high ladder this season.  If you find yourself struggling with this deck, keep in mind that this deck is a guide.  So, make substitutions if you find that some cards underperform compared to other ideas that you may have that are more suitable for your meta.  Good luck climbing with this deck, guys.  With time and practice, you will surely gain ranks with this deck.

- [AcB] dlineman

Sent you an application on the site. Hope to play with you guys this saturday!

I would highly recommend the shammy deck.  If you can't win with that then you just aren't trying.  Kel + The windlord equals an almost guaranteed win.

Someone already had the audacity to  -1 it though which is the main reason I stopped writing decks for the community. I was sick and tired my proven decks that I grinded all the way to legend with or let someone else use them to make legend receive negative feedback when every slot was optimal no matter how much commentary I put in describing why to use what and when and even all the subsitutions,mulligan strategies and win ratio vs each class etc.

Then the thing happend that pissed me off the most at the community as they sheepishly down rate your deck yet give you no reason as to why  so I could improve a couple of the slots in the deck incase they wasn't optimal. Downrating a deck people is not a good thing to do and helps NO ONE unless you provide proper feedback as to" Why " you did it?   All it does is prove you are a coward or a really passive/agressive person and it really hurts the community and discourages a lot of deck designers to happily do their thing for you all. 

In my opinion you shouldn't be allowed to down vote a deck or up rate one until you have commented. This would really help the community and all of the discouraged deck designers like myself.

"Great deck Vittles. Keep it up bro"

     ~Voltarin~

Please explain the face hunter matchup.  It's the only one I have difficulty with, literally 100 percent loss.  

Here are my main questions.

Current face hunter runs 24 dmg that goes through taunt in cards 
2x Quickshot = 6 dmg
2x Leper = 4 dmg
2x KC = 10 dmg
2x Explosive = 4 dmg (Yes I know you can steal one of these)

My main concern is BELCHER just isn't working.  There nukes, in addition to there standard 4 charge minions (not counting companion) just race me down too fast.  Sure I can use spells, control the board, kill there minions, but it's like they just don't care and the pressure keeps coming.  Without a SINGLE heal, it turns into a race, one which you are destined to lose.  The number of games I've lost where I've had lethal next turn yet the Hunter just does 10 dmg OUT of nowhere (no board pressence) with golem, golem, abusive, drives me insane.  

I know there is a trick, there has to be, because I keep hearing and reading about tempo mages beating up face hunters regularly, but I am beginning to think this is all some sort of elaborate conspiracy, or there is some hidden technique in this game that I have yet to understand.

TLDR;
Include a guide on how to beat Face Hunter.