Hearthpwn

I feel like these cards exist solely because they thought of the puns rather than thinking Hunters have any reason to use them.

There definitely some cheating you can do with the bundle of Priest cards just revealed, but the only true shenanigans where I can see this being meme-tier is if you have the fortunes and a turn 10 or later consists of Lorekeeper Polkelt and Twilight Medium after a discount or something.

Add this to the list of reasons why I love Hearthstone’s card text for flashy effects. Time to make Subway Warrior a thing!

I would imagine the location durability can exceed 8 should its health get buffed right?

Craft a custom matryoshka doll

I’m glad they’re finally willing to add “Once per game” clauses on cards. I think even going back and giving busted ass cards this text would make some things much less frustrating to play against but still playable

Temporus was in shambles the day he was released

As the Hearthpwn team’s self-proclaimed ambassador of underrepresented game modes, I SERIOUSLY apologize for having initial deck lists that don’t work. I built them knowing that Day 1 would be Legacy only, so I built Wild Decks in February where I picked Legacy in expansion selection and only used those cards. I didn’t know they were referring specifically to old fashioned “basic cards”. At the very least, the rest of the list should still be functional as a way to build up the archetypes I focused on even when they won’t be as strong on Day 1.

It would’ve been nice to have gotten any real details of this from Blizzard due to how a single paragraph makes it hard to plan an entire around guide around when not everything is made clear. I had to make “my best guess” when considering whether or not Galakrond’s Awakening or Caverns of Time were gonna be a part of it too.

Anyways, I hope this article helps, even if it’s just a little bit. I’d like to keep making things like this as a way to provide content for those who actually like these lesser played game mode (as my Duels Guide, my biggest contribution to Hearthpwn, gradually approaches obscurity). Even if there are some glaring flaws in this one, let me know if you’re a Twist player who might actually want more things like this.

Bold move to make a 9 cost minion that needs a follow up on the turn it’s played when the original Rotface was cheaper, summoned things straight onto the board, and still wasn’t good. There’s too many destroy effects and Reno decks running around for this to cost so much. Would’ve been nice for them to have made it not suck on its own instead of forcing you to summon it with Chemical Spill or whatever else there’s gonna be.

As much as I hate playing against them, I don’t necessarily mind the mere existence of instant win cards. We see combos that do exactly that a lot. Three Spell Damage based OTK decks made it into standard this past year alone. The Hearthstone Team doesn’t let these kinds of decks run around the meta for very long either. But at least previous “destroy the enemy hero” cards like Uther of the Ebon Blade and Seek Guidance were far more interesting to use. Using Wheel of Death just gets rid of your cards and requires that you just don’t die for a while. That just doesn’t seem like a fun time for either player.

While I don’t hate the concept they had as far as runes are concerned, it’d be nice for there to be actual diversity in combinations like 2 Unholy 1 Blood or something and everyone tries different things. What we actually get is dumping everything into 1 Rune, forcing you into a combination like with the original Plagues, and Rainbow Death Knight because of one card.

If you’re looking to take FULL advantage of fixing your draws, here’s what I did.

Have Sir Finley, Sea Guide as your only 1-cost, Steam Guardian as your only 3-cost, and Blackrock 'n' Roll as your only spell. Turn 3: Draw the spell. Turn 4, play it. Turn 5, swap your hand with big boys.

As much as Shadow Word: Steal is such a terribly unfun card, I’m at least glad it costs mana and requires the opponent to spend mana to play the card. Yep, that’s how I’m coping. Just reminding myself it’s not as horrifying as the pre-nerfed Yogg Titan

Welp, there goes my biggest continuous project on Hearthpwn :( I’ll give my guide a proper send off; Viking Funeral.

I’m coming up with ideas for what to replace it with since I’ll have time to singlehandedly facilitate a whole new series of posts. I do have my own ideas, but I might as well ask in case some of you have thoughts to share …

What content would YOU like to see me make as a new hearthpwn series?

Just having fun in the tavern bruh