HearthPwn and ManaGrind Team Up!
HearthPwn is teaming up with ManaGrind, the pioneers of competitive Hearthstone, to bring you the best in competitive Hearthstone coverage, right here on your favourite Hearthstone news and database website!
Starting this week, you will be able to find the content that was previously available on the ManaGrind website, right here on HearthPwn! HearthPwn will now be your one-stop shop for everything Hearthstone, including general strategy, metagame breakdowns, interviews with the latest tournament winners, and tournament level decklists. If you want to turn your Hearthstone game up a notch, you’ll love what’s in store for our daily news!
ManaGrind will also be taking a larger role on our forums, with their own section dedicated to high-level Articles, Videos, Interviews, and general ManaGrind community discussion for their various events.
We hope that you’ll find this content enjoyable, and look forward to seeing your feedback! If you’d like to follow ManaGrind on social media to stay up to date with their happenings, be sure to check them out on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch. Also, you're invited to talk about Hearthstone on the ManaGrind teamspeak 3 server, which can be found at IP: ManaGrind.com Port: 9987.
To celebrate our partnership, we're going to be giving away some Hearthstone Beta Keys!
Beta Key Giveaway
If you'd like a chance to win a Hearthstone beta key, you best enter our contest tonight! Simply answer the following question in a comment on this news post for your chance to win. What type of competitive content would you like to see here on HearthPwn?
How To Enter
- Respond in a comment to this news post with your answer to the following question: What type of competitive content would you like to see here on HearthPwn?
How To Win
- Contest closes on December 11th at 10 PM EST.
- Winners will be chosen randomly and sent a private message here on HearthPwn.
- You are allowed one entry into this contest. If you are found to have entered more than once, you will be disqualified and you will be banned.
- Winners will have 48 hours to respond to their private messages before their keys will be given out to someone else.
Upcoming Changes in the Next Hearthstone Patch
If you missed Blizzard's post earlier today, don't worry, we've got you covered. From what we've been told so far, the next patch is going to have some overdue card changes that were talked about at BlizzCon, and an earnings cap for gold obtained through winning games. We've got the gist of the changes below, for more in-depth information, please read the original post.
The Next Hearthstone Patch
- Gold earned through winning games is now capped at 100 gold per day.
- The following cards are going to be receiving changes: Shattered Sun Cleric, Flame Imp, Argent Commander, Mind Control, Starving Buzzard, Unleash the Hounds.
Reminder: Eric Dodds on ManaCast Tomorrow at 2PM EST
ManaGrind will be interviewing Hearthstone's Lead Producer, Eric Dodds, live on ManaCast, at 2PM EST on Tuesday, December 10 - Tomorrow! Make sure to follow the ManaGrind Twitch channel so that you get notified when they go live. We will be tweeting over on our twitter account right before the interview begins, and we'll have a recap in tomorrow's news with the juicy details.
ESGN Hearthstone King of the Hill this January
The newly launched ESports Global Network, a partnership which includes ESL, GomTV, and GameFy, will be running a Hearthstone King of the Hill beginning next month as a part of their first season of content coverage. They have also announced that one of the players that will be present in the King of the Hill series in none other than the BlizzCon Hearthstone Innkeeper's Invitational champion, Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski. This is not same content that Blizzard announced OnGameNet would be producing next year. Check out the press release, which was obtained from their official press kit, below!
Quote from ESports Global NetworkFilmed at the ESGN Studios in Germany, ESGN Fight Nights will become the first of many entertaining new show formats we have in the pipeline for 2014. Fight Nights will combine serious gameplay with entertaining game show antics in a King of the Hill style battle airing across several weeks. The first season of ESGN Fight Nights will feature Blizzard Entertainment’s upcoming new game ‘Hearthstone’ and will include the world’s best Hearthstone players, including reigning BlizzCon champion Dan ‘Artosis’ Stemkoski. Future seasons will include other eSport titles such as StarCraft II, Street Fighter IV, DOTA 2 and League of Legends. Look forward to Season 1 of ESGN Fight Nights airing from January 2014.
MLG/ManaGrind EU #7 Winner's Decklists
If you saw yesterday's decklists from the North American tournament on Saturday, it won't come as much of a surprise that the top of the European tournament was also dominated by none other than Miss Jaina Proudmoore.
Thanks to Auhdit for compiling these!
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Quote from TimboltI used the same decks as Gnimsh had in NA tourney. I used Ragnaros the Firelord instead of Alexstrasza, though, because I don't have it.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)More decks pls.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)More coverage of tournament streams? I mean, you're doing a pretty good job of it as it is, but maybe more coverage of the non-NA/EU tourneys that have been going on would be nice.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)I would also like 2v2.... not sure how to balance it to make it fair tho. :/
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)i would like to see more competitive play and maybe some team play.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)I would enjoy seeing some team games, possibly with a shared life pool. It would also be cool so see drafted or arena style tournaments.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)It would be great to see statistics about the results of tournaments (classes, cards, what tended to be knocked out first). Of course, thats easier said than done
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)id like to see some type of 1v1v1 in casual mode
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)I would like to see a draft tournament where competitors are picking from the same pool of cards, so you choices have to be based on the deck you are creating and preventing your opponent from creating a strong combo.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)Open invitation tournaments would be nice to see!
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)Would love to see current deck coverage in terms of deck composition in tournaments - who's playing what sort of decks, what's doing well / upcoming etc.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)Open invitation tourneys would be cool
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)For a more professional competition I would personally like to see elimination tournaments which have some sort of reward for the top placing players, higher the position, the higher the reward. For a more light-hearted competition have players play a random hero with a random deck. If they could have some commentary and be archived for people to watch later.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)Maybe this is not competitive content per-say...but i think it would be really interesting to have an article about, called Reverse of Meta or something. The point would be a player would play control warlock if aggro warlock was what was in meta at the time. Or basically play decks that feel super different from the meta just to give players ideas of what kinds of synergies cards could have.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)id like to see the competitive aspect so for me id like to see more tournaments and stuff like that
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)Arena Content with unique prizes
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)I'd like to see a competition where you have to play your opponents deck.
It would basically mean that you would have to construct the worst possible decks. Or even better a deck that's very vulnerable to what is considered the worst possible deck, it would create some sort of reversed meta
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)I'd like to see elimination tournaments, maybe with complete log of every game.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)more arena and ways to follow live streams
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)I would like to see something like a 2v2 mode, where people can put cards down with good synergy, and use teamwork to win the game.
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Posted Dec 11, 2013 (Beta Patch 4217)more single elimination tournaments