Hello everyone! Usually I’m talk about Hearthstone but last weekend was GP Portland and I wanted to share my experiences and talk a little about my deck choice and the metagame. First, the elephants in the room are obviously the energy decks (4-color, Temur, or Sultai) followed by mono red aggro of some flavor. I…
It’s preview season! Time to get unreasonably excited about cards, pronounce others overpowered without ever testing them, and dismiss out of hand cards that will eventually be metagame defining. On a more serious note the next expansion, Kobolds and Catacombs, had a bunch of cards previewed at Blizzcon and the hype train has started. We…
Information is usually a great thing. When we have information we can make informed decisions that steadily approach optimal. Information lets us accurately analyze costs and benefits and continue to improve. Information is vital in allowing players to get their best results possible and is a powerful weapon when it’s hidden from opponents. But what…
Hello everyone! Today’s topic is a little bit more abstract than our usual, so my apologies in advance for the wall of text. This is a concept that isn’t limited to just Hearthstone or just card games, but actually exists in the majority of the games people play (both digital and analogue). It’s not a…
Hello everyone! Have you ever played a game of Hearthstone, felt good about the opening turns, and then randomly lost because of a turn 3 10/10? What about having your opponent dead for multiple turns only to be forced to wait turn after turn only to end up losing to 30 points of burn? Have…
Hello! The HCT Summer Championships are happening as I’m typing featuring some of the best players in the world battling for seats to the world championships and a share of a giant prize purse. These players have brought highly tuned decks that they feel give them the best chances to win with a few meta…
Hello! Today I have two topics I want to talk about coming off the heels of the HCT summer championships decklists announcement (which you can find on the main Blizzard site here). The first is a noticeable meta shift that might not exactly be what people expected. When the nerfs went out to Innervate and…
This past weekend, I was at a fighting games tournament (Northwest Majors) with a friend. I don’t play a lot of fighting games but I dabble a bit and I find them entertaining to watch. What struck me, however was the perception of Street Fighter 5 among a lot of players: “it’s super random,” or…
In the beginning, there was zoo. In Hearthstone’s early beta zoo was omnipresent, the baseline that every deck had to clear before being a viable contender. Eventually, freeze mage became the first counter to zoo (utilizing two mana Frost Nova, five mana Blizzard, and three mana Cone of Cold, all of which have been since…
For the second time in three years, Purple has captured the Hearthstone Americas Championship. After months of grinding ladders and tournaments capped by a brutal tournament with a ton of incredibly skilled players, he emerged on top playing four decks you’d expect…but optimized for tournament play with some interesting tech choices: Druid was the class…
