Bloodyface to Fall Championships!

On this episode we welcome 2018 HCT Fall Championship Qualifier and friend, BloodyfaceHS. We discuss his awesome run in the tournament last weekend as well as the big Hearthstone announcement news.

Bloodyface shows us his Quest Rogue deck from Playoffs.

News and Discussion

HCT Americas Fall Playoffs
- Top 8: Bloodyface, Tincho, Justsaiyan, Languagehacker, Pelletire, Purple, ETC, and Seohyun.
- Top 4 moving on to Fall Championships: Bloodyface, Justsaiyan, Languagehacker, and Tincho
So let’s talk with 1 of the finalists, Bloodyface: (Insert questions for players below)
- You had Quest Rogue in your lineup, it was the 2nd most brought deck to the tournament, how did you decide on your lineups?
  - Bloodyface: (Malygos Druid, Cube Hunter, Quest Rogue, and Even Warlock)
  - I have to ask about Tyrantus in your Malygos Druid
  - Describe your thought process on Game 1 end game vs Pelletiere, how tempting was it to go all in on King Crushes.
  - You could tell from the VOD that your opponent in the winners match was starting to lose his composure game 3, could you tell by his play and were you able to exploit that?
  - Now that we know theres no nerfs incoming before the Fall Championship. Who are you most looking forward to facing? What are you expecting from the meta? (without giving away your strategy?
  - How good was your birthday last weekend?

“In the Works” Blog Post
- State of the Meta
  - They are fine with it
- Giggling nerf not happening this cycle, but they have eyes on it.
- Wild Balance,requesting feedback from the community.
  - They feel it is just a powered up standard and not totally different
- Classic Cards being Added to replace Hall of Fame cards.
  - Icicle – 2 mana Epic Mage Spell: Deal 2 Damage to a minion, if its frozen, draw a card.
  - Tomb of Intellect – 1 mana Common Mage Spell: Add a Random Mage Spell to your hand
  - Call of the Void – 1 mana Common Warlock Spell: Add a Random Demon to your hand
  - Pilfer – 1 mana common Rogue Spell: Add a Card to your hand (From your opponent’s class

- New Player Experience
  - Adding Ranks from 50 – 26 with Free Gifts during climb to Rank 25
- Tournament Mode on hold
  - Virsica’s Thoughts
- Private Fireside Gatherings
- Welcome Bundle is back, but with the Classic Dragons as the legendaries
- Hallow’s End is back October 17th
  - Dual Class Arena
  - Headless Horseman Brawl
- New Paladin Hero – Sir Annoy-O
Tavern Brawl: Duel of the Death Knights
- The DKs have all come out to celebrate Days of the Frozen Throne. Choose a class and you’ll get a random deck and start out as a Death Knight!
- Decks appear to be random

Decklist:
Preparation x 2
Shadowstep x 2
Glacial Shard x 2
Southsea Deckhand x 2
Stonetusk Boar x 1
The Caverns Below x 1
Wax Elemental x 2
Novice Engineer x 2
Vicious Scalehide x 2
Youthful Brewmaster x 2
Fan of Knives x 2
Mimic Pod x 1
Sonya Shadowdancer x 1
Zola the Gorgon x 1
Elven Minstrel x 2
Giggling Inventor x 2
Vanish x 2
Valeera the Hollow 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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