This week's brawl is A Less Friendly Game of Chess!
Rules:
Things have gotten a little underhanded at Medivh's Magical Chessboard. Bring 6 unique cards and hide them under the table, they could swing the match in your favor!
Rewards:
A Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.
If you have a great deck for this brawl, create it in our deckbuilder, and share it with the world! Just make sure to label the Deck Type as a "Tavern Brawl" while saving and it might show up on the front page!
My first idea was to use priest and topsy-turvy to kill/set to 1/2 hp an enemy piece, or use cabal shadow priest to steal a rook, and my game was against a rogue who had [flik skyshiv[/card] and Togwaggle's Scheme to literally empty my hand and deck of pawns, bishops, rooks and queens.
fun
usually a company should not punish the faitful players that play and pay for your game for year. ignoring 52 pack each year is not a smart choice
Plague Scientist and Plaguebringer: "Oh, hello there!"
It would be nice if Blizzard gave us 1 pack from Tavern Brawls and let us decide what expansion it's from
Yeah, I agree
Thank you for the poisonous suggestion everyone. I couldn't stand this brawl but used Rogue Poisonous and got the one and done win.
Good riddance.
Lets try the queen's gambit.
I don't even see the reason to devote a special button to Tavern Brawls. They should be moved with the other alternative gameplays like Battlegrounds. Also receiving a classic pack is really a downside (I completed the classic set long before the 1st expansion)
I disagree, although I see your point on it having a special button. But it's a space suited for a weekly event. The event could perhaps change now and then, but i digress.
The reason as to why I disagree has to do with the classic pack reward. Firstly it's more free packs for those that don't have the entire classic set.
Secondly, even someone like me that have played the game since the start and I have spent a lot of money buying the expansions, (I've even bought 'classic' bundles), I still am missing a few cards (legendaries). Yes I have the resources to craft them, but I'm garanteed to get one of them within the next 40 packs. I'm not in a rush. I try to be as economical as possible, save as much dust and gold as I can and only spend it on what I want and need.
Just having an additional alternativ way of playing does not hurt anyone.
Sure, I (like many others), usually play the TB once and then we're done with it for that week. But every now and then there is a brawl that i find really fun to play (like the co-op one) and I play it several times.
I welcome all additional free resources wherever they come from, and all additional ways of playing the game.
Just ignore them then. You completed your classic set doesn't mean everybody has
Yeah, as someone who started playing just over a year ago, I don't have a full classic set, and since I'm literally never buying classic packs, this is the way that I will be able to slowly get more of these cards.
And even if they changed TBs to give current standard packs, one pack a week isn't going to make or break anyone's collection anyway, so it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Sure, you could give your pieces poison, but you could not buff them. Or, you could buff them, but the buff didn't count in their damage. So my first thought of building a paladin with a few buff cards did not work at all.
I do like this tawern brawl, but would like the pure verion, with only chess pieces!
They've had a plain version before and probably will again. Like some have said, repeats aren't as fun for those of us that have been around forever, but newer people haven't had a chance, and some are a lot of fun.
Maybe I’m the only one, but this is my favorite brawl. Outside of any poisonous cheese, you can play Tickatus with some board clears. As long as you are confident in your positioning then the game should go long and you’ll fatigue them. At that point even if they take the board you can just block with your own pieces.
They also play gang up and togwaggle's scheme. You're not fatiguing them.
Could use a Less Boring Game of Tavern Brawl.
Seems kinda silly they banned all the evolve cards but then forgot/couldn't be bothered to do the new shaman weapon. EZ wins with it and a few of the good value minions.
Well, that was fun. I did a poison rogue build and sure enough, my opponent conceded the second I dropped the first poison-giving guy.
Fastest one-and-done classic pack of my life.
Yea, just happened to me as well... Turn 4, gave one of my minions poisonous, opponent instantly concedes. Sometimes they dont really think these tawern brawls through.
This one is fine. It's just fine.
I love the chess piece minion mechanics, and using poisonous rogue is still a crushing swing strategy. It's extremely consistent, and the amount of created by in the main game and most TB's has conditioned us to expect that from everything in HS.
EZ 530 dust pack, btw (legendary, epic, rare, and two common! high roll city)