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Stats majors rise up :')

Super glad to hear that! Thank you for reading :)

Edit: I'm curious- I've written sections talking about cards I considered but cut for various reasons, but I cut that part out to decrease article length. Would y'all be interested in reading that section too even though those cards aren't included in the final list?

I misunderstood the headline and thought that they canceled Blizzcon and was like "Oh that will go over well."

You know, that's actually a pretty good idea! That deck generates so many Lackeys. I might give that a try.

So far, this event has just made the "Mogu Fleshshaper" meta even worse...

Quote From LyraSilvertongue

So many people are completely ignoring that even if we took the context of everything happening in China out of the equation Blitzchung still broke tournament event rules. Those of you expecting a full reversal is more or less trying to give him a free pass for throwing a charged political statement into a Blizzard event, taking advantage of the full publicity after winning the event. You ask for a reversal of logical consequences for him then you are more or less saying it is okay for other players to blatantly mic drop charged political comments during other events if the timing and situation aligns and calls for it.

I don't care if there are politics I do or do not agree with. I still don't want politics shoved into my entertainment when it is avoidable. Maybe Millenials think it's all cool to just hijack events for their own reasons but I prefer to keep human rights and entertainment in their mostly separate categories in most situations. Wanting these two vastly different topics separate is not saying you agree or disagree with what is going on on the other side of the world, contrary to popular belief. 

 Post the rules then? I skimmed though GRANDMASTERS OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/page_media/w4/W4NWIBHB74T31564507077190.pdf and only found this part 

Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damage’s Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of the player’s prize total to $0 USD, in addition to other remedies which may be provided for under the Handbook and Blizzard’s Website Terms

 It's very vague. Bliztchung didn't even say anything offensively, he said the slogan to show his support for HK protestors. And in term of punishment, there's no part that says Blizzard can ban you 1 year from their tournaments and take away all your prize money. Team America did the same right after, they literally showed "boycott Blizzard" sign on the camera, where was their punishment huh? Because Chinese wasn't offended in this case?

FIFA fined (not suspended) two players in  their 2018 World cup event because they showed Eagle hand gestures to the camera(it was a political statement). FIFA is  much larger (and more corrupted) than Activision Blizzard, 2018 WC was broadcast worldwide, even then they knew where was the borderline. 

By making such extreme punishment I'd say Blizzard has showed their political stand on this one and it's a Pro-china one. This is just pure hypocrisy and you know it. 

So many people are completely ignoring that even if we took the context of everything happening in China out of the equation Blitzchung still broke tournament event rules. Those of you expecting a full reversal is more or less trying to give him a free pass for throwing a charged political statement into a Blizzard event, taking advantage of the full publicity after winning the event. You ask for a reversal of logical consequences for him then you are more or less saying it is okay for other players to blatantly mic drop charged political comments during other events if the timing and situation aligns and calls for it.

I don't care if there are politics I do or do not agree with. I still don't want politics shoved into my entertainment when it is avoidable. Maybe Millenials think it's all cool to just hijack events for their own reasons but I prefer to keep human rights and entertainment in their mostly separate categories in most situations. Wanting these two vastly different topics separate is not saying you agree or disagree with what is going on on the other side of the world, contrary to popular belief. 

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Companies should absolutely be held accountable if they do immoral things.

Immoral? Are we really going to try to put a card game player not getting their winnings when saying something political on the same level of immoral? Want to know real immorality? The actual events of what is going on in China, not some reprimand loosely related to the actual issue when said during a tournament that doesn't want charged political phrases thrown into its events.

Real immorality is when those close to you get assaulted or abused (which has happened to many of those close to me), not some logical consequence handed to a children's card game player safe in a children's card game tournament. Please do not compare the stripping of entertainment monetary winnings to a term which more rightfully so should be used to describe actual mistreatment of individuals or groups.

hit top 200 legend for the first time, and it's in a month where ladder matters more than the last few so that feels kind of good.  pretty early in the month too not sure if that is better or worse.

going for 100 now.  quest shaman best shaman.

Others working fine (twitch, bank, slack). Worse comes to worse I’ll just give it a reinstal

Opened just fine for me, looks like it might be something on your end. Are your other apps working just fine? 

my iPhone app is hanging on the blizzard screen. I have closed and reopened several times. Is this occurring for anyone else / does anyone have any other troubleshooting tips?

I made a quest shaman deck that uses history buff and he has been performing very well! I have no idea why but sometimes my opponents just completely ignore him and I am able to buff a minion by +3/+3 or +4/+4

I am in a good mood! I drafted a mage [Hearthstone Card (Mecha' tun) Not Found] deck and won 3 games with it. First game I just won on board with Flamewaker cannon.

Opponent resigned in hopeless position also having burnt their N'zoth (oopsie).

Second game I actually could play the combo; eventually lost board control against an espionage Rogue, but he kept focussing on my minions did not see it coming and bang. OTK. Nice!

Third game I managed to deal lethal damage with Flamewaker using just lots and lots of cheap spells...this card is the nuts.

You can find the deck I played in my decks section : https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/8131-mechathun-otk

After playing against Jade Shaman again, I've found this to be all too true.

Yeah, I might be miscounting but there are only 29 cards in that deck so I think the N'Zoth is missing.

Ah, I see! I found this list that someone had posted on /CompetitiveHS, just to use as a reference point in my Meta Breaker article. Thanks for letting me know, though!

I like your Excel spreadsheet :)  I'm a sucker for data and notes.

what the fox say

dope

Good spot!  I was just building this one to try out and couldn't figure out why I was only getting 29 cards.  I'm sure N'Zoth was the missing link

Am I blind? Or is Boar not playing N'Zoth in his DR Rogue but is playing Emperor+ Scheme...

Well, thank you for your honesty? ¯\_( '_' )_/¯