Hearthstone Tournament - starts WEDNESDAY night

[mjmjr25]

Gotcha, Jim,

FYI, i've been playing Jim a little bit this week and he's got the hang of it pretty well - just needs a few more cards and he'll be able to compete w/any of us.

[dogman91]

I'm in... maybe this time the tournament will actually commence unlike June's?

BTW for people new to the game, a new card of the upcoming expansion was revealed that seems pretty dang good for new players, as it's a 'Common' high-cost creature that Hearthstone doesn't have a lot of TBH (they're mostly Epics and Legendaries):

[noiseredux]

http://www.shacknews.com/article/90520/ ... -the-cards

[Fragems]

I decided to give it a try I'll probably be a squishy bits opponent, but I'll join in to make it an even number.


Edit:
Maybe I won't be so squishy. Sunk some time into it and now have a pretty solid Mage and Shaman deck. I'm winning probably 80% of my matches. Game really seems to rely on luck a lot. The cards you start with really determine how the games going to go . Plus whoever goes second has a major advantage in my opinion since it's easy to start off with no playable cards at all .

Got around 4-5 booster packs so far, but nothing to impressive .

[Fragems]

: So I played ranked a bit and after a nice win streak got me to rank 20 I stopped so I can qualify for the card backs.

Man I'm starting to see what you mean about the quality of your cards having a huge impact on the game. It's pairing me with people that have 4+ legendary grade cards in there deck sometimes and the second those start coming out I start getting wrecked. With the right cards I can counter a couple of them popping up pretty easily, but 50% of the time I just get to watch them tear my minions a new one .

[chupon]

I'm in. If you'll have me. Also down for $5. You can take my money.

Chupon Blizzard ID: DickArmy#1134

Evenings after 8pm EST work best for me.


*Edit - FYI I haven't spent a dollar on this game yet. Up to four legendary cards. My kids open the digital packs and their lucky fingers have got me three. I dusted the other one.

[mjmjr25]

Do your kids dig it too, Forrest? My kids will watch me non-stop - they love it and my oldest son has a really good eye for things and has won me a few matches.

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I'll make up a bracket tomorrow night. OP updated with those whom are in...

[chupon]

The kids love opening the packs and revealing the cards. They always want me to use the legendaries they opened but they usually don't come out till late game.

I think I started around the same time as you mike. Early June maybe.

Lately I've been having a rough time completing the daily quests which has been frustrating. I think I'll need to tweak my decks a little before this event.

I've played Magic (non competitive) for 20 years hence why this seems to appeal to me. Mike - if you think this is addictive - don't play Magic.

[mjmjr25]

Yeah, i've never been into Magic and really had no idea what it was...but i'm hearing that a lot and am fighting the urge to try it out.

I used to be only be decent with Priest and Mage. Now I feel comfortable with everyone except Rogue and Druid.

I keep experimenting with new decks and yeah, my kids are the same - they want me to put big minions and legendaries in all the decks. I have a Legendary/Deathrattle deck that's pretty mean - BUT, I have just as much chance of getting killed as killing them. It's really weak against an aggressive Hunter. It's all about that balance.

My best deck right now is a Shaman Windfury Mech deck. I'm ending a lot of games on turn 5.

Cogmaster - 1
Whirling Zapomatic - 2
Flametongue Totem - 3
Windspeaker (on cogmaster) - 4
Bloodlust - 5

Match over. It's super aggressive and most guys are just trying to play defense, rebuilding armor, playing a 1-attack minion like Northshire Cleric, Voidwalker or Mana Wyrm (Which I can take out w/o killing my minions).

I run into a lot of Hunters with similar aggressiveness and what I find is that you definitely can't rely on legendaries or big minions / big spells.

[mjmjr25]

BRACKET IS UP:

http://challonge.com/racketboy

Spacebooger and Stark have 1st Round byes
Everyone else has a match that can start tomorrow - please PM your opponent to coordinate a time to play
Best of 3
All decks available

Please post in thread the score and who won your match.