Hearthstone
A Less Friendly Game of Chess
Things have gotten a little underhanded at Medivh's Magical Chessboard. Bring 6 unique cards and hide them under the table, they could swing the match in your favor!
How It Works
- Select a class and build a 6 card deck; 15 auto-attacking chess piece cards (first introduced in One Night in Karazhan solo content) will be added to it.
- The starting deck will have 8 Pawns, 2 Bishops, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights, and 1 Queen.
- You'll start from 20 Health, and play as White King or Black King. Your Hero Power is Castle.
- Hero Cards, as well as Whizbang and Zayle are banned.
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When We've Seen A Less Friendly Game of Chess
| Week | Started | Ended | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week #159 | Tuesday, June 26, 2018 | Saturday, June 30, 2018 | 1x Classic Pack |
| Week #216 | Wednesday, July 31, 2019 | Wednesday, August 07, 2019 | 1x Classic Pack |
| Week #292 | Wednesday, January 13, 2021 | Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | 1x Classic Pack |
| Week #349 | Wednesday, February 16, 2022 | Wednesday, February 23, 2022 | 1x Year of the Phoenix Pack |
| Week #375 | Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | 1x Standard Pack |
| Week #435 | Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 1x Standard Pack |
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I won with a Kathrena Hunter:
Pretty standard game until turn-8, when I ramped up significantly. Kathrena's death -> Oondasta -> Charged Devilsaur + King Krush from hand was a sudden blast of damage they were ill-equipped to deal with.
The games I played were extremely long. I played a deck similar to, A smashing game of chess, that is listed above. I got the win after 3 or 4 attempts but in the game that I actually won I never played a hunter class card. Due to the games playing out as slow as they did, I would have to say this is not my favorite brawl.
Super fun: try Wailing Soul and Void Ripper. Make sure you've got a decent board of chess pieces on turn 7, then silence them all, swap them into 6/1's etc, then win. I run it in priest with Cleric, Shield, Circle and Binding Heal.
Used Divine Hymn, Holy Nova, Mind Control Tech, Cabal Shadow Priest, Forbidden Words, and Spirit of the Dead.
Inner fire does not work. Had to learn it the hard way. And I thought, this was a no-brainer :D
I put a few removal cards of priest into the deck, worked pretty well regardless (even without inner fire).
I made a druid deck full of board buffs and I was very disappointed when it did not work.
I used Daring Escape, Plaguebringer, Sap, Zilliax, Plague Scientist and Shadowstep. The bounces help you reposition your pieces, and some people insta-concede when they see the poisonous minions drop.
This worked like a charm for me - thanks!
Good card choices. Once you get poison minions in the center line, you pretty much control the board.
I Priested with Vargoth, the stealth guy that sends a 1/1 back after death, the lifesteal spell, a thoughtsteal spell, madam lazul and mind control. My oppo quit after my board stayed full and his whittled down.
won a few games with
Leeroy
Fireball
Sea Giant
Grim Patron
Skelemancer
Faceless Manipulator
the Patron is just there just because it seemed fun and should prolly be replaced with face damage. MCT is also worth considering
My game on NA was loooong. Hopefully will be better on EU and Asia if I bring a better deck.