What a Birthday it was
Sharing the Joy
Hearthstone World Championship Behind the Scenes
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Visit your local gym on a daily basis :)
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i think its because they played in 2017 to qualify for the tournament. So this is the 2017 year(Year of the mammoth) world tournament. So games after this one is for the next standard year's wold tournaments 2018.
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Don't try to beat the meta. You'll go mad trying to do so, since you'll inevitably queue into whatever decks you're not metagaming against. Don't ever tech for the same reason, unless whatever your list was using was already teched, e.g. your Hunter list had two Golakka Crawlers.
If your sole interest is to get Legend, then figure out what the best aggro deck is in the format, get as good as you can be with it, then just grind. Grind a LOT. You're in a good spot being rank 5+ relatively early in the month, so you can build from there.
The main reason you want to play an Aggro deck is because of the concept of Free Wins. If you're playing against an aggro deck, you can keep up because you have early drops too. If you're playing against a control deck, they can draw a hand of trash and you can sometimes just kill them on turn 5 before they do anything meaningful. If you're playing with a control or combo deck, all your games will develop into full games because you will take some time to get going, so you won't ever get the "opponent has nothing" games.
The secondary reason to play an Aggro deck is because games are quick. The quicker your games, the more games you can play, the more efficient your grinding is.
[Edit: Also, make sure you're playing to win. Figuring out good trades is relatively easy, but make sure that you can actually still win if you make the obvious play. Sometimes going face is right even when it looks dumb.]
If you lose 3 games in a row, take a break. Not "Play another deck", not "Play arena", not "watch Youtube". Put whatever you're playing on down and go do something else unrelated to gaming. Also stop whenever you climb a full rank. The reason for this is you'll get tired (or tilted, in the case of losing games) and make mistakes, and there's no reason to let that happen when you have enough time in the month to stay refreshed. If you don't do this, you might just lose more time by having to play games to recover stars.
If you have anything in your life that you feel you need to do on any conscious or unconscious level, as small as sending an email or as large as losing weight, then do it instead of grinding. Otherwise you'll get distracted, or you might also get Legend and then go "Oh yeah, but I didn't manage to do x/y/z, so it's meaningless". Nullifying the achievement you're going for is really bad for your mental health, so prioritise other stuff first.
Lastly, don't forget to screenshot like crazy when you make it. Because you'll want to hold onto that shot for a very, VERY long time.
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Heroic Magic Mirror (Rogue Mill)
Mill Rogue Deck
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(Budget) Heroic Magic Mirror (Druid Mill)
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by Zelgraz - Jan 17, 2018
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Blizzard doesn't make decks, the players do. It is a collective effort involving a large number of individuals including some very clever players to get the ball rolling. There are simply not enough people on a development team to figure out the 'best' decks, even if they are veteran players.
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Hey guys, i've seen some video of OTK with Ancient Shade, but i don't know who made it or the decklist, so, i've made my Own deck with this card, had some Success on casual. Do not want it to be competitive btw, it's just a fun deck, and i want to know what you think about it, if you would change something or not... thanks !
Ancient Shade OTK
Ramp Druid Deck
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I apologize in advance for any wrong pronunciation, english is not my native language, but i did my best to do this video explaining how the deck works:
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How it Works:
With this deck, you can use Ancient Shade to do an "OTK" combo with Druid ! but the OTK will happen on the enemy turn (so, can kill even mages with Ice Block and rogues with Evasion )! Thanks to the new King Togwaggle card, it's a meme deck and hard to execute, but it's really fun and gratifying when done right !
You'll need Aviana to set minion cost to 1 + Kun the Forgotten King (or a 1 left of durability) Twig of the World Tree to refresh your mana crystals + Brann Bronzebeard to double the curses of ancient shade ----- now, when you're near fatigue ,might as well use your draw power with cards like Nourish and Branching Paths and other cards to help you draw more, to hit fatigue (yes, you want to have 0 cards left in your deck, to make the OTK combo effective).
So, if you hit fatigue, you need to set this up. Then, set the combo, and you should now use 2 Ancient Shade's with brann, you'll have now 28 damage of Ancient Curse's , so, if you want to add Youthful Brewmaster or Ancient Brewmaster to your deck, you can drop ancient shades again on the board, this might be good, because this can guaranteee more than 4 curses (at least 42 damage, if you have 6 curses now, for example) it's ok, since your objective is to stall your opponent until you hit fatigue, so, your opponent can still have a lot of health, since we're playing on defensive mode in this deck.
And last, with all the curses ready in your deck, you should destroy your own Brann Bronzebeard, i recommend a card like Naturalize for this, because it costs you just 1 mana do destroy Brann, Mulch can be used too (so, you can use either 2 naturalizes or 2 mulchs in your deck, it's your choice, but you should have at least 1 naturalize or 1 mulch left to kill brann, it's part of the combo). So, you need to destroy Brann to play the last card : King Togwaggle, to swap decks, (if your brann was alive, it would swap deck to your opponent, and swap back to you again, you don't want curses back in your deck again do you ??? lol =P).
finally, pass your turn and watch the cursed enemy fall, without knowing what hit him/her !!!
Final tips: Just remember that, if you really want to hit fatigue to do the combo, you'll need a lot of removal, draw power, Ramp and healing or taunts in your deck in order to survive that long. I also use Tree of Life (someone remember this card) ? xD, it's a full heal that helps you stall the game even more. More defensive Cards like: Swipe, Wrath, Spreading Plague, Starfall, Doomsayer and the Druid DK: Malfurion the Pestilent are great too.
Just to remember your combo cards, that you should have in your hand while in fatigue mode:
------------------------------------------------- COMBO CARDS-------------------------------------------------
0 - You should have no cards left on your deck (Fatigue mode), be careful to not mill your combo cards.
1- Aviana
2 - Kun the Forgotten King or 1 left of durability Twig of the World Tree
4 - 2x Ancient Shade's
5 - (depends of the situation) - in case your enemy has more than 28 HP left, you should have 1x Youthful Brewmaster left in your hand to pull back ancient shade, to do the max of 42 damage with Brann (so in this case, you can really OTK and kill Full 30 HP enemies or 30 HP enemies with 12 Armor in the worst case). But in the case your opponent is an Armor Cheater (Control Warrior), you should have 2x Youthful Brewmaster, to do the max of 56 damage to your enemy (so, you can destroy a max of 30 HP and 26 Armor left of the enemy, in the worst case).
6 - You should have either 1x Naturalize or 1x Mulch remaining in your hand.
7 - King Togwaggle
-------------------------------------------------DRAW POWER CARDS-------------------------------------------------
1 - 2x Nourish
2 - 2x Branching Paths
3 - 2x Wrath
4 - 2x Wild Growth (can ramp or draw)
6 - harrison jones (possible draw) - Changed for Doomsayer
Obs-1: Tech Substitution: You can add:
6 - +2x Azure Drake's to your deck, is a good card that can add more draw power plus, spell damage to your deck.
Suggestion: to put 2x Azure Drakes you can swap for -2x Stonehill Defender or -1x Tree of Life -1xSpreading Plague, however, you'll be more vulnerable to aggressive decks.
Obs-2: tested Ultimate Infestation with this deck, but ended up as a really heavy card that can burn your combo pieces, so, was not worth to add it to de deck at all
-------------------------------SINGLE TARGET REMOVAL CARDS AND AOE CARDS----------------------------
1- 2x Wrath
2 - 2x Swipe
3 - 1x Starfall
4 - 1x Naturalize (do not use this for removal if you used one Mulch already)
5- 1x Mulch (do not use this for removal if you used one Naturalize already)
Obs-3: Tech Substitution:
1X Naturalize AND 1x Mulch VS 2x Naturalize vs 2X Mulch
Usually, i consider using 1x naturalize and 1x mulch option better, because helps you to remember if you used one of the options early on easier. Also, while Naturalize is cheaper, it can also give your opponent card advantage, so watch out for this. But, as a 1 mana cost hard removal, still great, and can save you sometimes, in rare situations can also help to burn/mill your opponent's cards.
Mulch this card will usually give your opponent crap minions (they can get strong ones too, sure. but the random chance of getting bad cards is greater than good cards, since there is way more cheap minions on the game than high cost minions), so, this will give something out of the enemy deck, while naturalize helps the enemy to get their answers of their decks faster, but mulch is an Epic card, and it's a 3 mana cost card, and has this random minion factor with it.
So, it's your choice, i like the 1 of each option, but you're free to change the deck as you like.
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2 - 1x Tree of Life
3 - 2x Branching Paths
4 - 2x Spreading Plague
5 - 2x Stonehill Defender
6 - 2x Doomsayer
6 - 1x sludge belcher - Changed for Doomsayer
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1- Cards You don't want: Any combo cards in your starting hand, because they're "dead cards" until you hit fatigue and find all your combo pieces. You don't want any other high cost cards too, like Tree of Life.
2- Cards You want: cheap mana cards to start with ,you'll always want defensive and early removal and maybe some ramp. So, cards like: Doomsayer, Wrath, Stonehill Defender, Swipe and Wild Growth are great must keeps.
3 - OK Cards to Keep: Bloodmage Thalnos Can force your opponent to trade, because, usually, they're afraid of the spell power he gives, he also helps you to draw and the spell power makes Wrath and other removals stronger.
1x Naturalize or 1x Mulch, if you feel, your opponent might be Aggro, and has scarry early game drops with 4+ of HP (that Wrath, cant get rid), like Totem Golem or buffed murlocs or any other cards that must be removed immediately, keep one of this cards, However, if your opponent is more like Midrange or Control, you want to use one of this removals only on really strong targets, remember this is the only 'Hard removal' you have on this deck.
just 1x Youthful Brewmaster, you can keep and use him If your enemy is not a control warrior. You can use this card for early board presence and he can also pull back Stonehill Defender for more taunts or pull back and "SAVE" any of your combo cards, remember Deathlord and Dirty Rat ? they can ruin your combo by forcing cards like Aviana on the board, in this case, however, one Brewmaster can save your day, while the other brewmaster must not be kept on your mulligan, to free your hand of combo pieces and ensure a combo against 29+ HP enemies later on.
Branching Paths You should use the Eat the Mushroom option almost always, as we want to draw the deck as faster as we can. But the Loot the Chest option can save you quite sometimes against burst face damage mages and aggro decks . You can also use it rarely to give minions +1/+1 with the Explore the Darkness option, (often, only good after a Spreading Plague wall of Scarab Beetle survives, since your deck do not have strong board presence).
4 - Greedy, sometimes "OK" Options to keep: Malfurion the Pestilent The Druid DK can give you "Tons of Armor" or the favorable trades you need to stay alive early on, so, if you feel your opponent is not hyper aggro, you might want to keep this card.
Starfall, is your second most important AOE removal spell, (after the 2 Swipe's you have), so, keeping a 5 cost card sometimes is bad, but if have some of the "CARDS YOU WANT" already in your hand and you're afraid to find Swipe later, it's ok to keep.
Nourish it's the most powerfull draw engine of your deck, that's it. You do not want to use the ramp option (gain 2 mana crystals) with this deck. You'll want to draw 3 cards 99% of the time. so if you're feeling safe and a bit greedy to draw your combo faster, keep this card, but, just like starfall, make sure you already have one of the "CARDS YOU WANT", greed can cost you the game, so be careful.
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Have fun with the deck ! Hope you guys like it !
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I've been in the same boat, wanted to cash in some playvig credit, and wasn't sure if I could do it in USD instead of EUR.
So I've made a ticket, and turns out it's perfectly ok.
Interestingly, the gamemasters themselves were unaware, but finally confirmed it. (I just kept on logic'ing :D)
So yeah, go for it.
See transcript below:
Hey, I'm trying out the PlayVIG service, that awards additional PayPal balance for the daily gold grind. (Note that I've never used PayPal before) If I were to use the online shop (which I also don't use, I usually pay through Google Play) with PayPal, can I use the US shop and send the packs to my EU account? I'm from Hungary, so it should technically be EU, but 2 packs are 2.99 in both EUR and USD, so it would mean a 16% discount if I could use the us.shop.battle.net site and USD. Is this "legal", can I do this? Can I buy like this for myself or should someone gift it to me? Are there any regional restrictions? You get my point... Thanks,
Howdy, howdy, Thanks for taking the time to write to us. My name is <snip> and it's my pleasure looking into your request. Hearthstone packs can definitely add up so wanting to get the most bang for your money is always desirable. ;D Looking into this, your account is European so purchases for your European Hearthstone game must be in Euro. You could purchase card packs in USD though they'll be delivered to the wrong account and not your European one where your collection is. With PlayVIG, I suppose they give you credits to purchase packs for later, be sure to pick up the correct European type or you may not see the packs in-game. Thanks again for contacting us and I hope this helped make sense of our situation. If there is anything else we can look over with ya, feel free to reach out to us again in the future.
Hiya, I'm a bit confused then, because there is still a region selection dropdown on the us.shop as well, where I could theoretically have the packs delivered on my EU account, couldn't I?
Greetings, I'm <snip> and I just got your Ticket, thanks for your patience so far, you should not worry anymore as I'm here to help \(^o^)/ As mentioned in the chat earlier, as long as you keep the correct region selected you can make the purchase in the currency you preffer, just make sure that you card will not charge you any additional fee for international transaction and it should work fine :D I hope my help was enough to resolve your issue, however if any further support is necessary in the future, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
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Is there any thing in Blizzards Terms of Service agains doing so?
Will they care at all? otherwise it will be a nice way to save a little
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This is the first time that a card of mine got into the polls, so I'm happy no matter the result ^^
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I dont think you will be able to do that. It will possibly be like E.T.C and be a blizzcon exclusive
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imagene the meta today if we played with all cards pre nerfs, i think it could be a fun annerversary event.
Hope that it is something Blizzard would do in the future.
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ohh what a throwback, ended up watching a bunch of the first episodes. Really interesting seeing the old interaction of secrets, 8 mana pyroblast and so much other shit. the game sure have changed since the early days.
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I would have hoped for something which would have explored some of the old instances, but with the resent reveals it have turned towards pirats...
Time to find my Captain's Parrot and some Hungry Crab's
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I ended up opening my pack collection when they made the wild packs available from the blizzard store. The novelty of it were gone at that point as it might as well have been packs I just have bought.
Maybe I will save this one...