Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016
The Asia-Pacific Spring Championships are taking place this weekend and Blizzard has sent over all the decklists for us to share with you. We've compiled them all onto the site and we've also sorted through the decks and come up with some fun information about them.
A special thanks to ShadowsOfSense and xskarma for assisting with this post!
Participants
Eight of the top players from the Spring preliminaries have made it to the championships. Who will be crowned king?
Pinpingho
Handsomeguy
Killer Hero
Jako1910
Heisnotaxel
Foot
EdwardElric
Caster
Schedule
The Asia-Pacific Spring Championship runs on June 17 & 18 and it will be streamed on Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
Looking for brackets? Blizzard is hosting them over on Battlefy.
- June 17 - Games start at 9 PM PDT (04:00 UTC, 06:00 CEST)
- June 18 - Games start at 9 PM PDT (04:00 UTC, 06:00 CEST)
Class Breakdown
Below are some interesting facts about the classes we see in this weekend's event including a pretty pie chart of class distribution.
- Hello there old friend! Priest makes a surprising appearance.
- Compared to the EU Spring Champs, Paladin and Druid have swapped places.
- Shaman, unsurprisingly, remains at the top for most popular class to bring, tied with Warrior.
- Heisnotaxel is the only player who didn't bring a Shaman deck, yet brought Paladin and Priest.
Archetype Breakdown
- Hunter: All the Hunter decks are Midrange. This is the most popular single deck archetype, just like it was during the EU Spring HCT.
- Yogg-Saron: Three Yogg-specific decks are here, 2 of the Mage flavor and another of Druid. Mmmm. Old God Flesh.
- Warrior: The widest range of decks from all the classes. Fun!
Competitor Decklists
All decklists for this tournament can be found below!
- Foot's Midrange Hunter - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 1940
- Foot's N'Zoth Rogue - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 8340
- Foot's Midrange Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 2980
- Foot's Renolock - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 8700
- Foot's C'Thun Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 8640
- Pinpingho's C'thun Druid - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 7360
- Pinpingho's Midrange Hunter - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 3540
- Pinpingho's Midrange Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6120
- Pinpingho's Reno-C'thunlock - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 9120
- Pinpingho's C'thun Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 8740
- KillerHero's Midrange Hunter - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6560
- KillerHero's Yogg-Saron Mage - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6060
- KillerHero's Aggro Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 4600
- KillerHero's Zoolock - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 4740
- KillerHero's C'Thun Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 9180
- Jako1910's Yogg Druid - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6960
- Jako1910's Midrange Hunter - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 1780
- Jako1910's Miracle Rogue - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 9820
- Jako1910's Midrange Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 2940
- Jako1910's Midrange Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 10520
- Handsomeguy's C'Thun Druid - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 4860
- Handsomeguy's Miracle Rogue - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6620
- Handsomeguy's Aggro Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 2000
- Handsomeguy's Zoo Warlock - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 4820
- Handsomeguy's Midrange Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 8900
- EdwardElric's Freeze Mage - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 5320
- EdwardElric's Miracle Rogue - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6620
- EdwardElric's Aggro Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 2260
- EdwardElric's Zoo Warlock - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 4780
- EdwardElric's Dragon Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6640
- Heisnotaxel's Midrange Hunter - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 3460
- Heisnotaxel's Yogg Mage - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6200
- Heisnotaxel's Murloc Paladin - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 5620
- Heisnotaxel's N'Zoth Priest - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 7120
- Heisnotaxel's Control Warrior - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 15920
- Caster's C'Thun Druid - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 5220
- Caster's Midrange Hunter - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 1940
- Caster's Malygos Freeze Mage - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 6880
- Caster's Aggro Shaman - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 2000
- Caster's Renolock - Asia-Pacific Spring Championships 2016 10100
Card Design Competition Season 3 Finale
We must crown a champion! It's been a competitive past 6 months and now it is time that we crown a winner in our third season of the HearthPwn Card Design Competition. If you could swing on by the voting thread and check out everyone's winning entries from this season and cast a vote on the ones you think deserve to win, we'd love you a long time!
Head on over to the voting thread, it ends in just over a week! Check out the thread for further instructions.
I like how 3 of the Old Gods see play at the top level, since there were so many people who claimed they were all garbage.
Nobody claimed C'thun would be garbage.
About N'zoth everybody thought "could be meh, could be good, we'll see"
About Yogg everybody thought he would be a coin flip and you either win or lose the game, which is exactly what he turned out to be.
And that 4th dude that nobody remembers is just... Wait did they forget to put him in the game or something...?
Just some random quotes from the "called it" thread on this site:
- C'Thun will suck ass.
- N'zoth is wayyy over hyped, just like Varian was.
- N'zoth will see Value in Wild more than Standard because lets be honest: Is 10 Mana really worth a 5/7 and maybe like a 2/3 and a 6/6?
- N'Zoth the Corruptor is pretty useless and will rarely see any play.
- Yogg-Saron, Hope's End will never see competitive play
- Yogg-Saron will be the Old God of Build Brawls
- I would make more predictions but basically there's nothing for me to call because thus far the card reveals have been obviously bad or obviously mediocre. C'Thun for instance is exactly what you'd expect, powerful if you draw the right cards in the right order or shitty if you don't.
- C'Thun is a great card for newbie decks. BGH, SW:D, Rend, Polymorph, Execute, Hex etc. limit his viability against top tier decks.
- N'Zoth is missing a few good midrangey Deathrattles for standard
- , N'zoth the corrupter sucks , too slow and the deathrattle board fantasy already proved to be too slow for hearthstone
That's just from the first three pages of the 9-page thread.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how retarded is it to say that a big minion (which even has the best battlecry in the game) is not good because it can get hexed...?
That's besides the point. You claimed nobody was saying it would be bad. That thread proved otherwise.
That's the problem with saying things like "everybody says" and "everyone knows." It leaves you no wiggle room for your argument. I'm fully aware a lot of people accurately predicted how those cards would perform, but I also know a lot of people were completely wrong.
I'm not trying to attack you, but I've been told my writing style can come off like that, so please don't take offense :) (not native English speaker, harder to put thoughts into words).
Dude... You're taking stuff way too serious. No need to take the time to copy a shitload of quotes.
Besides, the public opinion about C'thun was pretty much divided before WoG release. And to be honest, the people who thought he would be unplayable are pretty much idiots...The only reason why you could have expected him to not be top tier is if you wouldn't have seen all the C'thun related cards yet, and expected those to suck. And Blizzard obviously wouldn't have let that happen, since C'thun is pretty much the center of this expansion.
And as it turns out, i'm pretty sure that C'thun by itself is the strongest minion in the game. His only handicap is that you need to build a deck around him, but those cards are all pretty decent as well.
Ofc I read your comment fully, I was just mocking people who you quoted in my post😃
Frak, he lost 4-3 in the first round to KillerHero. I was rooting for him too. Don't know which decks won or lost yet.
Found the games on YouTube. The Priest deck won a narrow victory, after KillerHero's Yogg killed the summoner. In the end it was Heisnotaxel's Paladin deck that let him down.
Yogg would be too much RNG for me to bring it to a tournament where I want consistency.
Something Midrange Hunter is atm the best example for. You can see this more in depth here if you have a look at the Hunter decks. Nearly everyone brought Stranglethorn Tiger and everyone put Tundra Rhino out of the list. So we will see board fighting hunters with good curves and a CotW finish.
I think most people include Yogg as a come-back card. Like, you won't play it when you're ahead, but it can sometimes steal games you would've otherwise lost.
I wish all decks were as viable on ladder as they are in tournaments
I just.... Really, really can not understand why somebody would want to bring a Yogg deck to a tournament?
That dude is pretty much just "Flip a coin: 30% chance you win the game, 20% chance your opponent wins the game, 50% chance something funny happens and the game goes on".
It's fun to watch for the Twitch audience, but i can't see why you would risk winning or losing a tournament with a coin flip based on one single card...
You only play it when you're behind. Like, you're about to lose in the next 1-3 turns. That way, without playing it, you'd lose 100% (okay, 99%, excusing misplays and miracles), but by playing it you have a 30% chance to win the game (to keep using your percentages). 30% is greater than 1% :)
yeah - also if you play him in the right deck (with many spells) he's pretty consistently clearing the board and drawing cards - so the chance of your opponent winning the game because of your Yogg get really slim if you played enough spells
Go Anyfin Pala!
PinPingHo brings THREE C'Thun decks to compete.
C'Thun is alive
Bravo to the only player who has the courage to bring the Priest deck to the Tournament scene. Good luck to him! Make them surprise!