This week Avanties and Zerotio revisit the communities feelings about the rewards track after a week, and we check out a fun Highlander Hunter decklist from Andrew Brown.

News and Discussion

  • Rewards System: Brief reminder of current community feelings
    • Discussion: Where are we on the rewards track? (Last week: Z 25, A 23)
    • Discussion: How do we “Feel” about the system, as it is, after 2 Weeks?
    • Discussion: Do we feel any “Changes” need to be made, after 2 Weeks?
  • Tavern Brawl: Half & Half
    • Create a deck of 15 cards. At the start of the game, we’ll complete your deck with a copy of your opponent’s!

Decklist:
[Adorable Infestation] x 1
[Blazing Battlemage] x 1
[Demon Companion] x 1
[Dwarven Sharpshooter] x 1
[Guardian Augmerchant] x 1
[Intrepid Initiate] x 1
[Mystery Winner] x 1
[Tour Guide] x 1
[Wolpertinger] x 1
[Bonechewer Brawler] x 1
[Freezing Trap] x 1
[Imprisoned Felmaw] x 1
[Open the Cages] x 1
[Pack Tactics] x 1
[Phase Stalker] x 1
[Scavenger’s Ingenuity] x 1
[Snake Trap] x 1
[Voracious Reader] x 1
[Wriggling Horror] x 1
[Zephrys the Great] x 1
[Animal Companion] x 1
[Eaglehorn Bow] x 1
[Inconspicuous Rider] x 1
[Kill Command] x 1
[Petting Zoo] x 1
[Unleash the Hounds] x 1
[Hyena Alpha] x 1
[Lorekeeper Polkelt] x 1
[Rinling’s Rifle] x 1
[Dinotamer Brann] x 1

If you would like to build this deck in Hearthstone you can copy the following string of code to your clipboard and then open My Collection and select New Deck, you will then be prompted if you wish to create the deck saved to your clipboard, just click yes.
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If you have any questions about this deck or questions about Hearthstone in general you can email us at: HeroPowerPodcast@gmail.com or use the Contact Us form on this site and we will answer them on the next show.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire has arrived and that means it is time to check out the new meta, what decks lie in store for unsuspecting Hearthstone players? Avanties and Zerotio breakdown what they have been playing and playing against in the new meta, as well as talk about the backlash against the new Progression and Rewards system.

During the play portion of the show it is a literal Clown Fiesta.

News and Discussion

  • Progression and Rewards System
    • Hearthstone Communities in an outrage over new Rewards Track System
    • Ben Lee responds on Blizzard Forums
    • The changes of Packs in late areas of the track has already been changed to Gold, instead of older set packs (Year of the Dragon Packs)
    • Discussion: After a Week of the new System, what are our stance/feelings?
  • Madness at the Darkmoon Faire: Live 11/17
    • Set has been out almost a full week
    • Discussion: How has this set impacted the Meta?
    • Discussion: How are we enjoying the set and what are we playing?
  • Darkmoon Duel-Fest
    • Nov 24th @ 10am PDT
    • Broadcast on both Playhearthstone Twitch and YouTube
    • 24 Content Creators and Pro Players compete for a $200k Prize Pool
    • Casters: Sottle and Darroch Brown
    • Format: Last Duelist Standing – Players play through 3 Closed Circuit Duels Runs, until one player remains, or more than one reach 12 Wins
    • Final Scores decided after all 3 Runs have been completed
    • Discussion: … WHAT?!?… Closed Circuit Duels?!? Do we think this will come to the Hearthstone Client?
  • 2020 Hearthstone World Championship: Dec 12-13
  • Tavern Brawl: ‘Servant of Yogg-Saron’ Tryouts
    • Help Yogg-Sarron find a servant! Your deck is full of wannabes who cast a random spell at a random target when played.

Decklist:
[Innervate] x 2
[Lightning Bloom] x 2
[Nature Studies] x 2
[Guess the Weight] x 2
[Moontouched Amulet] x 2
[Wild Growth] x 2
[Overgrowth] x 2
[Anubisath Defender] x 2
[Overflow] x 2
[Strongman] x 2
[Umbral Owl] x 2
[Cenarion Ward] x 2
[Carnival Clown] x 2
[Survival of the Fittest] x 2
[Yogg-Saron, Master of Fate] x 1
[Y’Shaarj, the Defiler] x 1

If you would like to build this deck in Hearthstone you can copy the following string of code to your clipboard and then open My Collection and select New Deck, you will then be prompted if you wish to create the deck saved to your clipboard, just click yes.
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If you have any questions about this deck or questions about Hearthstone in general you can email us at: HeroPowerPodcast@gmail.com or use the Contact Us form on this site and we will answer them on the next show.

The final card dump for Madness at the Darkmoon Faire has happened and Avanties and Zerotio give you their thoughts this week in what is probably our longest episode ever, we also take a look at what Patch 19.0 brought.

News and Discussion

  • Updated Free Deck for New and Returning Players
  • Patch 19.0: Live 11/12
    • Duels: 
      • Now live for all players. 
      • Whispers of the Old Gods is now an eligible set. 
      • Darkmoon Faire now in “Buckets”, goes live 11/17.
      • One New Hero Power and Two Treasures able to be unlocked per class
    • Battlegrounds:
      • New Hero: Silas Darkmoon – [Passive] Darkmoon Tickets are in the Tavern! Get 3 to Discover a minion from your Tavern Tier.
    • Progression and Reward Revamp:
      • Discussion: Initial feelings about New Progression and Reward System?
    • Discussion: What Decks are we trying out on Day 1?
  • Tavern Brawl: Gone Fishin’
    • Let’s go fishing! Build a deck of 20 Minions, we’ll give you 10 Random class spells and a rod so you can go fish minions out of your opponent’s deck.

If you have any questions about this deck or questions about Hearthstone in general you can email us at: HeroPowerPodcast@gmail.com or use the Contact Us form on this site and we will answer them on the next show.

The Madness at the Darkmoon Faire is only a few days away now and we continue our look into the cards released so far.

News and Discussion

  • Hearthstone 3rd Quarter saw Hours played up year over year, with BGs seeing sustained strong player engagement. Total Active Users down across all Blizzard titles.
  • Patch 18.6.1 went live on Thursday 11/5
    • Highlights from Zerotio
      • Duels: Shaman Hero Power now summons a “Non-Basic” Totem INSTEAD, if you are overloaded
      • BGs: Wrath Weaver now a 1/3 Minion
    • Highlights from Avanties
      • Mr. Bigglesworth is removed from the treasure pool, if you watched the duel last week you saw we drew him as a treasure… Bad Kitty!
      • In BG’s Rakanishu’s Hero Power now targets a friendly minion instead of a random friendly minion.
  • Tavern Brawl: Brawl of Gaudiness
    • Gaudy? You? Never! You look marvelous in that! Choose a class and get a random deck, all cards cost half but you can only play 2 per turn!

If you have any questions about this deck or questions about Hearthstone in general you can email us at: HeroPowerPodcast@gmail.com or use the Contact Us form on this site and we will answer them on the next show.

This week Avanties and Zerotio take a look at the first few releases of Madness at the Darkmoon Faire, we also take a look the upcoming revamped rewards and progression systems.

During the play portion of the show we check out the new Duels system.

News and Discussion

  • Draw the Giveaway Winner – Congratulations Feirsam
  • Dave Kosak leaving Blizzard Entertainment
  • Revamping Rewards and Progression in Hearthstone
    • Live Nov 12th
    • Achievement System: Tracking In-Game Achievements
    • Reward Track: Earnable rewards outside of Ranked Play
    • New Quest System: Sections for Daily, Weekly and Event Quests
    • Updated Profile Page: Player Info, Ranks and Stats
  • Madness at the Darkmoon Faire: Launch Party
    • Card Reveals Begin: Nov 3rd
    • Final Card Reveal Stream: Nov 11th
      • Hosted by Kripp, Chris Sierra and John McIntyre
    • Theorycrafting Live Stream: Nov 12th
    • Reddit Mega Bundle Giveaways (200 Codes): Nov 13th
    • Creator Mega Bundle Giveaways (200 codes each day): Nov 14th & 15th
    • Twitch Sub Giveaways to Popular Streamers (2000 Gifted Subs): Nov 16th
  • Tavern Brawl: Send In The Murlocs!
    • Murlocs have taken over the tavern! Choose a class and get a deck of random class spells and a whole mess of murlocs!
  • Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Review – Part 1

If you have any questions about this deck or questions about Hearthstone in general you can email us at: HeroPowerPodcast@gmail.com or use the Contact Us form on this site and we will answer them on the next show.