Strategy Potluck 3 – The Deep Freeze - Episode 69

Hello!

• Aaron is on the show this week
• Topic: Deck battle!
• Reasons to be happy this week
• News: Whispers of the Old Gods!

Weapons = Card Advantage

Mastermind: Jayme

• Most weapons allow at least 2 attacks.
• Decent weapons are loaded for potential card advantage scenarios.
• Examples: Powermace, Fiery War Axe
• Counterpoints: Health cost, best-case scenarios, Taunt minions, late-game draw, only one weapon slot

Best/Worst Gold Card Animations

Mastermind: Zorin

• Oasis Snapjaw
• Huge Toad
• Target Dummy
• Demonheart
• Defias Ringleader
• Abusive Sergeant

The Joys of Deckbuilding

Mastermind: Josh

• Experimental deckbuilding is fun!
• Not everyone loves it long-term, but I encourage you to try it at least once if you haven’t yet.
• Follow the basic formula we did with Dreadsteed in the previous 2 episodes
• 1) Find an interesting unique card that could be a win condition that you want to try building around.
• 2) Guess what some of the best synergies with that card might be.
• 3) Guess what some of the worst counters to your card/win condition might be. Include cards that counter that counter.
• 4) Playtest it and make changes as you see what cards don’t pull their weight or what decks you’re losing to often.
• There are many ways to have fun in Hearthstone: Adventures, Heroics, Tavern Brawls, Duels, Normals, Wild, Arena.
• The next time you get frustrated in ranked, take a break. Dig through your collection and find a fun card you haven’t built a deck around yet and give it a try
• Just enjoy the feeling of seeing a combo you thought of all by yourself pay off in a game — even if it doesn’t work in every game.

Murlocs Gone for Good?

Mastermind: Zorin

• Nothing is ever “gone for good” in TCGs.
• Swarm decks in general: Token Paladin, Mech Mage, Beast Hunter.
• Paladin and Shaman both got huge murloc cards, and yet they didn’t last for more than a couple weeks.
• Aaron watched a murloc deck against Kolento today on stream at rank play.
• Except maybe during the first few seasons some people were using a murloc deck to get to legend. But it never was a consistent ladder deck.
• Lots of fun to play and I am sure Team 5 will be keeping us supplied with Murlocs

<3 Hearthstone Community

Mastermind: Aaron

• There are so many great content creators that are not just to trying to educate. They’re trying to mainly entertain.
• Streamers: Forsen, Amaz
• Videos: Trolden, Disguised Toast, Nymn HS

Deep Thoughts with Forrest Bates

Why doesn’t Freezing Trap just freeze the attacker?

Community

• iTunes Reviews

Donations

• None

The Dust Bowl

• Jake: 7 Packs
• Corey: 7 Packs

Card of the Week

Farewell

• Contact Aaron on Twitter and add him on Battlenet: #Fritzal1161!
• What you want to see in future episodes
• What hosts you want to visit the show