Hearthstone Arena Walkthrough: Shaman - game 7

we're gonna go a little different this time. i'm just going to show the slides and you follow along. post in the comments if i made a misplay.

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Complaining about the Journey to Nyx Prerelease

As you can guess from the title I am little pissed about my prerelease experience I will save you the full deck and match recap and get right to the details. I chose blue and build a Blue/Black grind em' down deck. The best card was a Hythonia, and my favorite card was the Shipwrecked Singer.

 and 

My favorite new card is sigiled starfish.

For like the 8 millionth straight tournament I went 3-1. I should be happy with a 75% showing. But you gotta remember that the earlier rounds are easier, so even if I'm rocking a 75% win rate if I'm 0-12 in round 4, then I'm not reallying winning 75% now, am I?

So the reason why I'm mad today is how I lost the match that I lost. My opponent is rocking a super sweet mana base. 8/5/4. He would later talk about how he balanced the forests (5) to match the number of green cards in his deck (also 5). Uggs.

Game 1 - I curve out a 2/3/4 and I'm feeling good. Meanwhile he hits all his colors on turns 1/2/4, gross. I then whiff on land to go to 5 (I kept a 3 lander btw). He continues to rock out his mana and beats me. I was upset but maybe it was just a splash on that third color. Whatever

Game 2 - I rock a turn 1 unblockable dude and a turn 2 ordeal (I'm not proud but that's how it goes). He abysmally fails on mana and looses. Cursing his "bad luck"

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I managed to pull this off 3 times in the tournament and it got me there every time. I often shielded my dude with the Brian Wong approved Necrobite.

Game 3 - Essentially a carbon copy of game 1 except he got is lands 1/2/3. I started out playing some nice stuff and then whiff on my 5th land drop 4 times in a row. I built my deck normally with a typical curve and in this game I kept a 4 lander. He wasn't quite playing the devils mana base but still.

And to top it all off I never played my Hythonia. I had her in hand once but didn't even need to pay her to win.ugggg. Still the prere was a blast. I'm super excited for the next one because it's a core set and we get to watch R&D build a set with pieces that they understand how to use. Should be good stuff.

Happy Birthday to Us!

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It was one year ago today that our humble blog started out. I was trying to figure out what to do to celebrate and I went back through all our old history. I wanted to highlight a few posts from the past.

• Return to Ravnica Bloc Token Review
• my game with marshall
• The shift to Hearthstone
• Our first popular recurring feature: What's the Pick?
• Hearthstone Arena Expectations
• Frederik's First Magic Game

Also I wanted to lift the hood and show some our readers what our statistics are looking like.

who are the bozo's using internet explorer

lookit that, the top post has 770 pageviews. @ Marshall: thanks for the repost

And finally I wanted to say thank you to all who have contributed to the blog this year. What's next for us as we venture into our second year? There is only one way to go from a blog. We will be starting a podcast.

Prerelease Time

Hello faithful readers. That time is upon us again. The best day of the magical calendar. PRERELEASE! We'll be playing over at Card Kingdom, they sell tickets online so head over to: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/602014 to get yours day. We're gonna play the 5pm Saturday tournament, stop by and say hello if you have a chance.


Also congrats to that brave soul who signed up solo for a midnight prerelease.

At CK each tourney is 72 max. Hopefully this dudes friends are also signing up. If not may he meet a friend that night.

Hearthstone Arena Walkthrough: Shaman - game 6

Welcome back everyone. I have taken a hiatus from this series but we're gonna finish it off. I recorded a full run as a shaman and have been going through each step:

• draft
• round 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

There's now been quite a while since I started this so my thoughts may have drifted. We left off with a record of  4-1. The deck was bit crazy (not crazy good, just crazy) with 4 swamp oozes, 2 rockbiter weapons and 2 fire elements. Let's go...

 It was tough mulling away the best card in the deck, but i need to get to six. Could have kept the flametonge.

 Got some really good early stuff here. and a sweeper to play towards. should go nice against the hunters rush strategy. however the axe is tricky because i have to trade life to use it.

 all i can really do is totem or ooze. let's start the beats

 he coins out a random beastie

 It's got 4 toughness so I can remove it with axe + rockbiter, but that feels a little much so I just go to his face

 he makes a dude and the race is on

 hmmm bloodthirst. gonna be tough for him to win this race

 i elected to make a weapon and put the rest into his face

 he comes back with a really sweet removal spell. he probably should killed my totem first then used it, but whatever. it worked and his dude killed my totem.

 fortunately I rolled up another spell totem making the bolt lethal on his dude

 he tracks

 and worgens

here's what it looked like on my turn

 I went with totem and ooze.

 Bam! multi-shot number 2

 and a hero power

 look at that a worgen of my own. so far things are going  so so. I'm not pulling ahead but he's not doing anything strong either.

 he comes back with a juggler

 and a keldon warlord

 there we go. that's a card!  We could drop the Flametongue and bloodthrist and get in for 14, dropping him to 2 then finish him off with the axe next turn.

 but i apparently chose to play it a little less aggressive. Trading for a creature and bringing him down to 9

 He trades away my Flametonge

 and drops a couple weak dudes

 and another dude. Bummer for him i've got a bloodthirst.

 Hmm, again super close but not quite.

 I play out my hand except for the rocketeer and bring him down to 1.

 He plays an irrelevant card

 and another irrelevant card

and another irrelevant card. Wooot

W 5-1

wow, the amount of forensics I would have to do to really give a good recap is quite substantial. if you see a misplay throw up a comment.