We'll be mentioning it a few days leading up to it and early on the day of now that we know Blizzard wants to make it official. Hopefully that'll help boost the people that know about it!
This would be a cool addition to the casual ladder for the day.
I'd love to see them experiment more with a new constructed mode that worked exactly like casual but had a rotating ruleset for a day or two. Sort of like a mini Tavern Brawl, but there could be a set rotation of "affixes" that we'd cycle through a few times an expansion, with new sets dropping a rule or two and bringing in new ones that would be thematic.
I know people are like "but Flux, you just described Tavern Brawl, why do we need two versions of it" and I totally get that, but, my issue with Tavern Brawl is we don't have constructed brawls every week. So many brawls are just randomized decks or some variation on it that it feels kinda silly. Also, your brawl deck gets wiped each week, this mode would just let you pull a collection deck. Oh, and there's also the whole part of brawls being inconsistent so you can go a year without seeing a good repeat again.
It would be neat to have a more regularly occurring weekend/day where you could only play Tinyfin decks (Commons and Rares only). Some ideas for a rotation:
Tinyfin - Your decks can only have Common and Rare cards.
Nozdormu - Turns are capped at 15 seconds each.
Maybe have a timebank mechanic so if you play early turns real quick, your later turns can get a little extra time.
Mukla's Snacktime - At the start of your turn, get a Banana.
Watch Post - A random watch tower effect is active during the game. (Barrens-specific effect)
Ranked Spells++ - At the start of the game, a +1 Spell Power modifier is in place. When a player hits 5 mana, they now have +2 Spell Power. At 10 mana, they get +3 Spell Power.
A typical expansion cycle lasts around 17 weeks. With 5 different ways to play, you'll see each of them around 3 times an expansion. You start off with the two flavor ones that are built for that specific expansion.
Perhaps you also rotate the third affix, but do that in the middle of an expansion cycle. Keep Tinyfin for accessibility and Nozdormu for the luls permanently.
Honestly, I think this should be treated like a small event ingame. On the 15th of every month, give everyone a legendary quest that asks you to play a game with with Nozdormu in your deck. Variations upon this idea are forcing Nozdormu players into games with one another on that day, and having the quest require your opponent to have Noz in their deck as well.
Hearthstone's Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages, where this was posted, is their big way to do community outreach. You get people jumping into the game and talking about it with their friends when you see something on a social site. Then you've got places like Reddit and Out of Cards that are going to shine the spotlight on the news, furthering the reach even more. You're going to get a very good chunk of people through that simple act of posting on social media to know about the "event" which makes needing to do something in-game not necessary.
Also, the whole point of this, and the card, is that its silly. We shouldn't take stuff so seriously; What happened to just having fun in games for the sake of having fun? Doing a quest would be, in my opinion, a dumb move because players are now going to feel forced to do it.
Its kinda like Tavern Brawl. I generally don't play repeat brawls because I really don't care enough about that card pack, but one common complaint I've seen over the years from people is along the lines of "ugh, I have to slug through this shitty brawl again so I can get the pack". Putting rewards in front of people can make it a forced interaction which isn't always going to be a good thing.
Plus, another bonus of not having a quest for this is that they can gauge organic interaction with the card. They can get a way better idea of how many people actually want to play speedstone after a few times. Build that dataset and if it looks good, they can potentially turn it into an actual mode inside of Hearthstone - which players have been asking for since what feels like the beginning of time.
Yesterday was the day I took him out of my deck. Since launch found one person running him. Though I play him in ranked. I never have taken my climb seriously. So it was fun to surprise people when I played him.
Maybe ill try in wild. Haven't experimented enough there.
16th April update: Roffle's WILD Taunt Druid, ft. Plaguemaw the Rotting and Hadronox
Plaguemaw the Rotting is now one of my favourite cards in all of Hearthstone. Endless Khartut Defenders? Yes please :-)
This deck can also gain insane amounts of armour, thanks to Solar Eclipse. This gives you enough time to survive, until you play more taunts or trigger Hadronox's deathrattle.
Please note - these games were recorded before the latest nerfs.
If you are active on twitter you could suggest it to the devs, e.g. in Iksar's AMAs. It seems like exactly the sort of thing that would boost the sense of community if there was a special quest for 500-1000XP for playing 3 games with Noz in your deck.
Depends on your draft, generally when on coin, your best recovery turn is turn 3, where you can coin a 4-drop into another 4-drop, or something akin to that.
There isnt really an easy answer to this question, there is a lot of variables in any given matchup: your deck, number of wins for the current game, what you have in your hand, what you have in your hand compared to your deck, who is your opponent, what cards are in the arena pool (what to expect), your experience etc.
98% of the Hearthstone playerbase doesn't give a shit. If they want to promote the card give us a quest or something, not make a post on twitter that a lot of people don't even use or they just don't follow Hearthstone
Honestly, to make this card more appealing to put in your deck they needed to do something to make viable. 7 for an 8/8 with no real value being brought to the game in itself is not worth doing. NOW if they did something like 4 for an 8/8, who wouldn't want that in their deck? The draw back? IF your opponent thought the same thing, now you are both limited to the time of only 15 second turns.
Or even something more fun... make the card a real pain to deal with and one of the few ways to negate it is to use the same card against it making people more inclined to include it in their decks. Other that that, it's just a waste of a card slot even if just for the memes
I made a Wild deck for this day. Dragon Malygos Warlock! It was not good!
However, the deck would likely have had a +50% win rate last night if not for all the APM Mages I faced! At one point I hit about 5 in a row, and each time the killed me by popping off on turn 5!
One fun thing about the deck though was Frizz into drawing 5 mana vanilla 8/8 Noz! The times I got him for 5 mana were the only highlights he had because no one I faced had him!
Ticktakus would be less annoying if Warlock didnt have a bunch of bullshit infinite removals
Agreed. I can deal with Tickatus/Y'shaarj warlocks in the past. I can deal with 15 HP - Lord Jaraxxus warlocks in the past. What I can't ever possibly beat beyond a .5% Lunacy Mage or Rod of Roasting Yogg is Tickatus+Lord J+Y'shaarj.
Having fun so far. Had a few cards to mesh into current decks as well as some stuff to make new decks. White/red aggro and spell are suddenly very good it seems. There's a lot of hate cards for Yorian which is just wonderful. Revel in Silence has proven to help aggro decks absolutely destroy control along with Elite Spellbinder. I like control but Yorian has just been so annoyingly dominant lately.
Hot take though is I'm wondering if there are bans around the corner, particularly for Bonecrusher Giant which seems to fit into so many decks and is in almost every meta standard deck right now. Going to have fun playing around with new styles though!
Of course, I agree with the fact that this has a place in the casual mode, it's just that I'd like to see some sort of special quest given out on the 15th if Blizzard wants people to actually join this initiative.
why dont they code in for each 15th of the month a special matchmaking where if u Q with Nozdormu u will get paired with another person running it. sure it will take more time to find a person but why not? this way i believe u can Q all u want with Noz and u still wont get a single matched opponent
Yeah, seems to be working a lot better this week. I got this week's two free packs immediately after watching for four hours. Now all I've got to do is work out how I'm gonna make use of my shiny new Beastmaster Leoroxx
The card should have taunt I think. I'm very open to this but I dont like the idea of having a dead card in my deck against heavy aggro which is always in the meta. Against a rogue or face hunter if I somehow get to 7 mana and I play a 7 mana 8/8 I will just concede after because my opponent will hit me for assumably 1 point of damage and I die right after that.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
We'll be mentioning it a few days leading up to it and early on the day of now that we know Blizzard wants to make it official. Hopefully that'll help boost the people that know about it!
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
This would be a cool addition to the casual ladder for the day.
I'd love to see them experiment more with a new constructed mode that worked exactly like casual but had a rotating ruleset for a day or two. Sort of like a mini Tavern Brawl, but there could be a set rotation of "affixes" that we'd cycle through a few times an expansion, with new sets dropping a rule or two and bringing in new ones that would be thematic.
I know people are like "but Flux, you just described Tavern Brawl, why do we need two versions of it" and I totally get that, but, my issue with Tavern Brawl is we don't have constructed brawls every week. So many brawls are just randomized decks or some variation on it that it feels kinda silly. Also, your brawl deck gets wiped each week, this mode would just let you pull a collection deck. Oh, and there's also the whole part of brawls being inconsistent so you can go a year without seeing a good repeat again.
It would be neat to have a more regularly occurring weekend/day where you could only play Tinyfin decks (Commons and Rares only). Some ideas for a rotation:
A typical expansion cycle lasts around 17 weeks. With 5 different ways to play, you'll see each of them around 3 times an expansion. You start off with the two flavor ones that are built for that specific expansion.
Perhaps you also rotate the third affix, but do that in the middle of an expansion cycle. Keep Tinyfin for accessibility and Nozdormu for the luls permanently.
drop on youtube?
twp packs for week 2 here as well. No more packs until the last week I understand. Correct?
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Would have been nice if they would have announced before 23:00 on the day. Oh well, hopefully they'll do it earlier next month.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Honestly, I think this should be treated like a small event ingame. On the 15th of every month, give everyone a legendary quest that asks you to play a game with with Nozdormu in your deck. Variations upon this idea are forcing Nozdormu players into games with one another on that day, and having the quest require your opponent to have Noz in their deck as well.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Hearthstone's Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages, where this was posted, is their big way to do community outreach. You get people jumping into the game and talking about it with their friends when you see something on a social site. Then you've got places like Reddit and Out of Cards that are going to shine the spotlight on the news, furthering the reach even more. You're going to get a very good chunk of people through that simple act of posting on social media to know about the "event" which makes needing to do something in-game not necessary.
Also, the whole point of this, and the card, is that its silly. We shouldn't take stuff so seriously; What happened to just having fun in games for the sake of having fun? Doing a quest would be, in my opinion, a dumb move because players are now going to feel forced to do it.
Its kinda like Tavern Brawl. I generally don't play repeat brawls because I really don't care enough about that card pack, but one common complaint I've seen over the years from people is along the lines of "ugh, I have to slug through this shitty brawl again so I can get the pack". Putting rewards in front of people can make it a forced interaction which isn't always going to be a good thing.
Plus, another bonus of not having a quest for this is that they can gauge organic interaction with the card. They can get a way better idea of how many people actually want to play speedstone after a few times. Build that dataset and if it looks good, they can potentially turn it into an actual mode inside of Hearthstone - which players have been asking for since what feels like the beginning of time.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
My processor can't handle it either.
Can't upgrade cos it's biolocked inside my skull.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Yesterday was the day I took him out of my deck. Since launch found one person running him. Though I play him in ranked. I never have taken my climb seriously. So it was fun to surprise people when I played him.
Maybe ill try in wild. Haven't experimented enough there.
Otherwise I look forward to the 15th.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
It helps if you read the article as this was covered.
Blizzard posted about it late in the day yesterday. Us covering it yesterday would have been even dumber than their announcement IMO.
Darkseeker's channel - 13th November update: KOtsosKOtsos' Reno Evolve Shudderwock Shaman - ft. Archivist Elysiana
16th April update: Roffle's WILD Taunt Druid, ft. Plaguemaw the Rotting and Hadronox
Plaguemaw the Rotting is now one of my favourite cards in all of Hearthstone. Endless Khartut Defenders? Yes please :-)
This deck can also gain insane amounts of armour, thanks to Solar Eclipse. This gives you enough time to survive, until you play more taunts or trigger Hadronox's deathrattle.
Please note - these games were recorded before the latest nerfs.
Deck code: AAEBAZICCOCsAsLOAq/TAqCAA9aZA/O7A7bsA8LsAwvpAZ7SAovhAoTmAo3wAr/yAqGhA+i6A5vOA4rgA9ToAwA=
https://youtu.be/HJDAEBJ7T9Y
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
If you are active on twitter you could suggest it to the devs, e.g. in Iksar's AMAs. It seems like exactly the sort of thing that would boost the sense of community if there was a special quest for 500-1000XP for playing 3 games with Noz in your deck.
How to win going second?
Depends on your draft, generally when on coin, your best recovery turn is turn 3, where you can coin a 4-drop into another 4-drop, or something akin to that.
There isnt really an easy answer to this question, there is a lot of variables in any given matchup: your deck, number of wins for the current game, what you have in your hand, what you have in your hand compared to your deck, who is your opponent, what cards are in the arena pool (what to expect), your experience etc.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Reading some of the comments here, God, some people hate fun.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
98% of the Hearthstone playerbase doesn't give a shit. If they want to promote the card give us a quest or something, not make a post on twitter that a lot of people don't even use or they just don't follow Hearthstone
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
The problem with doing the daily every day and week. Is that most days I dont want to play this shitty game.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Uhm, but it's the 16th of April today? So isn't this news a day late?
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Honestly, to make this card more appealing to put in your deck they needed to do something to make viable. 7 for an 8/8 with no real value being brought to the game in itself is not worth doing. NOW if they did something like 4 for an 8/8, who wouldn't want that in their deck? The draw back? IF your opponent thought the same thing, now you are both limited to the time of only 15 second turns.
Or even something more fun... make the card a real pain to deal with and one of the few ways to negate it is to use the same card against it making people more inclined to include it in their decks. Other that that, it's just a waste of a card slot even if just for the memes
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
I made a Wild deck for this day. Dragon Malygos Warlock! It was not good!
However, the deck would likely have had a +50% win rate last night if not for all the APM Mages I faced! At one point I hit about 5 in a row, and each time the killed me by popping off on turn 5!
One fun thing about the deck though was Frizz into drawing 5 mana vanilla 8/8 Noz! The times I got him for 5 mana were the only highlights he had because no one I faced had him!
Hearthstone Standard Meta Update - Mage Drops in Winrate and Playrate, Paladins Cruising, Hunters Dominating, Warlocks ???
Agreed. I can deal with Tickatus/Y'shaarj warlocks in the past. I can deal with 15 HP - Lord Jaraxxus warlocks in the past. What I can't ever possibly beat beyond a .5% Lunacy Mage or Rod of Roasting Yogg is Tickatus+Lord J+Y'shaarj.
Strixhaven Releases Today! Set Survival Guide
Having fun so far. Had a few cards to mesh into current decks as well as some stuff to make new decks. White/red aggro and spell are suddenly very good it seems. There's a lot of hate cards for Yorian which is just wonderful. Revel in Silence has proven to help aggro decks absolutely destroy control along with Elite Spellbinder. I like control but Yorian has just been so annoyingly dominant lately.
Hot take though is I'm wondering if there are bans around the corner, particularly for Bonecrusher Giant which seems to fit into so many decks and is in almost every meta standard deck right now. Going to have fun playing around with new styles though!
drop on youtube?
Yup, I just got my 1st pack within around maybe 15 mins of watching 2 hours.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
Of course, I agree with the fact that this has a place in the casual mode, it's just that I'd like to see some sort of special quest given out on the 15th if Blizzard wants people to actually join this initiative.
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
why dont they code in for each 15th of the month a special matchmaking where if u Q with Nozdormu u will get paired with another person running it. sure it will take more time to find a person but why not? this way i believe u can Q all u want with Noz and u still wont get a single matched opponent
drop on youtube?
Yeah, seems to be working a lot better this week. I got this week's two free packs immediately after watching for four hours. Now all I've got to do is work out how I'm gonna make use of my shiny new Beastmaster Leoroxx
Blizzard Makes it Official - Nozdormu Day is the 15th of Every Month
The card should have taunt I think. I'm very open to this but I dont like the idea of having a dead card in my deck against heavy aggro which is always in the meta. Against a rogue or face hunter if I somehow get to 7 mana and I play a 7 mana 8/8 I will just concede after because my opponent will hit me for assumably 1 point of damage and I die right after that.