I wouldn't call the Microsoft announcement "corporate gibberish." It's just very vague and non-specific. Perfectly understandable English, but you can sum it up as, "We're restructuring and firing some people," with a lot of other words that don't actually mean anything significant, and with no idea what the restructuring involves.
And not because of Elder Dragon himself at all - it's because of his Origin effect.
Specifically, Heisho is totally busted. With ramp and/or sigils, Heisho can be played on turn 6. And then another Heisho can be played immediately for free. And then another <=9 cost unit can be played for free as well.
If you enjoy thrashing your opponents with absolutely gargantuan units, this is your time to shine. I don't know how long Heisho will be left alone without a nerf - probably until after Worlds though. But I expect a swift nerf as soon as Worlds is over.
You and I aren't the target audience for Catch-up.
Whereas, I AM the target audience for these catch-up packs. I haven't played Hearthstone with any regularity in probably 3+ years.
But throwing cards at me isn't even close to enough to get me to come back.
Hearthstone is only still popular because it was the first to break into the digital card market with a game that was better than any others like it at the time - meaning it gathered a large playerbase, which stays loyal due to all of the money they've invested in it (sunk cost).
Objectively, I doubt it's even in the top 5 best CCGs at present, in terms of gameplay and visuals. But it already had its playerbase ages ago - and stale play patterns combined with multiple company scandals are apparently not enough to get most of them to actually withdraw their support.
Some interesting parallels there to a certain politician.
Kaladin is a cool hero and I'm looking forward to seeing his character develop now he's embraced being a knight and no longer sulking and suffering. That got a bit too much for my taste to be honest.
You might need to have a little more patience with him - he's not entirely done with his sulking. But by the end of book 4, it has become more clear the biggest reason why he has been so depressed - and it gets resolved.
Hopefully that's not a spoiler. I was as vague as possible, to say what I wanted to say.
Stormlight is a VERY good series. Kaladin is probably my favorite hero figure from any book series ever. No joke. He just IS the hero. Even when he doesn't want to be, he is THE hero. He gets the most incredible moments.
As far as Scifi you might not know about - are you familiar with Timothy Zahn? One of my favorites by him is the Quadrail Series (5 books, starting with "Night Train to Rigel"). It's a sort of "film noir" type of series - dark mystery, detective, hidden secrets that could destroy the galaxy - that sort of thing.
I looked around and apparently Annie Samira in ionia noxus is the way to go. You aggro the enemy early then tutor wildfire from your deck and finish via wildfire
Yes, that's the popular version of Wildfire. It's crazy fragile though. A real aggro deck will run right over it, and even a midrange deck can aggro it down before it finds enough wildfires. Has basically zero interaction, so any kills spells just resolve, meaning it kinda also loses to control, since control can just kill all their units, leaving them no wincon except finding enough copies of wildfire.
Most of the times I've lost to the deck, they just happened to draw 2 copies of wildfire naturally without any tutors, meaning that their tutors got them up to enough copies to actually kill me. If there is no other nexus damage, and no healing, it requires 6 copies of wildfire to kill the nexus.
I was experimenting so far how well a deck around wildfire can do. Essentially we talk about a ionia noxus with all spell tutors, ways to clone these tutors and some elusives. It can win but it feels quite slow.
You will burn the opponent for like 15 on turn 8 but until then you play a gimmicy deck that will get overrun by these "slighly" overtuned 0 mana 3/1 quickattackers.
Whoever thought these guys are fine really never looked at magic the gathering and the fun scenarios resulting from burning tree emissary
The best deck I've played against with Wildfire was one that was updrafting like crazy in order to find the Wildfire copies. I think it had Janna in it, but not totally sure.
UPDATE- So yeah, not exactly what I had in mind when I made the previous post, but Freljord/Demacia with Volibear and a couple support cards, plus Galio and his army of Formidable dudes -- yeah, it's definitely a good deck for sure.
Plus a trio of badgerbears to help keep those elusive scum in check.
I'm doing OK! I still pop in and out of the website here now and then. I've been playing some LoR lately as well.
Volibear is looking pretty interesting for sure. I'm a bit afraid that Freljord ramp is going to be ... too strong. The ramp strategy was always a bit light on the payoff at the top end, and lacked support along the way toward ramping. But with Volibear and the Titanic keyword support ... I might just need to start learning how to play Freljord ramp lol. Possibly paired with Demacia.
Lab Constructor just needs to not work on the copies, but idk how they'd word that.
They would have to make it summon a Lab Construct (name open to debate) that is a different, non-collectible card with the same stats and most of the same text, but without the copying part. "At the end of your turn, summon a Lab Construct with the same stats and keywords as this." <-- something like that.
I've been messing around in Masters over the past few days (around 150-200 LP) and I just thought it might be helpful for others to know what seems pretty good right now, for my taste.
1. Scouts - this really destroys some of the decks that rely on certain units, because of the many ways to apply challenger. And, of course, challenger works really, really well with Miss Fortune.
2. Targon Elusives, ft. Teemo - this one can highroll pretty well, but man do you have to count out your damage carefully. There is high potential to just get overrun by your opponent before you can piece together enough elusive damage. And removal decks absolutely wreck you, if you're playing this deck. Side note - Teemo is literally just a 1-drop elusive in this deck, nothing more.
3. Kennen Jinx - This one seems strong when I've played against it, but I haven't tried it yet myself. Relies heavily on flooding the board and then burning out the opponent. Any significant lifesteal will defeat this deck almost instantly.
Maybe it's removable, so she can put on a different arm when she needs to do daily tasks. But you'd never see that in the game, since the game is all about fighting (I assume).
I really miss swim honestly. He would have been all like ooooh iceborn legacy back to 5 mana poros are on the menu.
I'm over here playing mostly just poros, and generally kicking people's butts with them. 64% winrate over 72 matches, with a record of 8-3 in my last 11 games.
4. Annie Kat- basically the new Annie exreal that uses bandle instead of P and Z. My experience with pie toss is that it isn't great but hey maybe I'm just not 5 head enough to see this list. Like is running 11 1 dmg pings worth?
It's all about Tybaulk, then copying him with the new 2-cost burst spell and play him again. Suddenly, all of your 1-dmg pings are 3-dmg pings and most of them can hit face.
I meant "okay" as in mentally? Emotionally? I don't even play LoR but I see you constantly having conversations, or seemingly even arguments with yourself in the forums. What is all this, really? Narcisicm? Attention seeking? About 95% of replies on your posts are just you responding to yourself. So what's the goal of all this?!
I'm both genuinely concerned for your well being, and also interested to know what you're after with all these posts.
Best I can figure is that he's a very strong verbal processor, and (like most people who play LoR) he doesn't know anyone IRL that also plays it, so he posts his thoughts on here.
All of that, and also pretending that anyone in this forum has ever been his opponent, which I would seriously doubt. I know that I personally cannot ever have played him, because I'm on the Asia shard.
Newest update - the deck has cooled off to "only" about a 68% winrate over 47 games. Part of the reason for this is quite simple - my MMR was absurdly high. I was still in silver and it was matching me against high Masters players, one of whom is literally the highest ranked player on the entire shard. Yeah, that's fair. Victim of my own success I suppose.
So, needless to say, I started losing quite a few games that way. And one of the losses was just pure stupidity on my part, including at least three different places that I made colossal errors in that game.
At this point, now that my winrate has cooled off, it's just matching me against Diamond players instead of Masters (when I'm in Gold 4).
Coins apart - I too think she is fine but they need to buff other control options. She is only problematic because she costs a mere 5 mana which is a joke compared top other Control cards like Aurelion. WHen other "Win on turn 10" cards come down, they have hardly any mana left to interact but Karma not only is cheaper but has coins...so...something must be done here.
That's a pretty good point, actually. But even if she was a 10-cost card with better stats, all you'd need is 1 spell mana leftover and a stacked coin in hand to just go hog wild anyways, despite her increased cost.
She probably needs to cost 6 again, which was something they did at one point, but then they reverted it.
All that being said, big celestials just got a big buff, so Asol decks might be OK after all.
I wouldn't call the Microsoft announcement "corporate gibberish." It's just very vague and non-specific. Perfectly understandable English, but you can sum it up as, "We're restructuring and firing some people," with a lot of other words that don't actually mean anything significant, and with no idea what the restructuring involves.
And not because of Elder Dragon himself at all - it's because of his Origin effect.
Specifically, Heisho is totally busted. With ramp and/or sigils, Heisho can be played on turn 6. And then another Heisho can be played immediately for free. And then another <=9 cost unit can be played for free as well.
If you enjoy thrashing your opponents with absolutely gargantuan units, this is your time to shine. I don't know how long Heisho will be left alone without a nerf - probably until after Worlds though. But I expect a swift nerf as soon as Worlds is over.
Whereas, I AM the target audience for these catch-up packs. I haven't played Hearthstone with any regularity in probably 3+ years.
But throwing cards at me isn't even close to enough to get me to come back.
Hearthstone is only still popular because it was the first to break into the digital card market with a game that was better than any others like it at the time - meaning it gathered a large playerbase, which stays loyal due to all of the money they've invested in it (sunk cost).
Objectively, I doubt it's even in the top 5 best CCGs at present, in terms of gameplay and visuals. But it already had its playerbase ages ago - and stale play patterns combined with multiple company scandals are apparently not enough to get most of them to actually withdraw their support.
Some interesting parallels there to a certain politician.
You might need to have a little more patience with him - he's not entirely done with his sulking. But by the end of book 4, it has become more clear the biggest reason why he has been so depressed - and it gets resolved.
Hopefully that's not a spoiler. I was as vague as possible, to say what I wanted to say.
@anchorm4n
Stormlight is a VERY good series. Kaladin is probably my favorite hero figure from any book series ever. No joke. He just IS the hero. Even when he doesn't want to be, he is THE hero. He gets the most incredible moments.
As far as Scifi you might not know about - are you familiar with Timothy Zahn? One of my favorites by him is the Quadrail Series (5 books, starting with "Night Train to Rigel"). It's a sort of "film noir" type of series - dark mystery, detective, hidden secrets that could destroy the galaxy - that sort of thing.
Yes, that's the popular version of Wildfire. It's crazy fragile though. A real aggro deck will run right over it, and even a midrange deck can aggro it down before it finds enough wildfires. Has basically zero interaction, so any kills spells just resolve, meaning it kinda also loses to control, since control can just kill all their units, leaving them no wincon except finding enough copies of wildfire.
Most of the times I've lost to the deck, they just happened to draw 2 copies of wildfire naturally without any tutors, meaning that their tutors got them up to enough copies to actually kill me. If there is no other nexus damage, and no healing, it requires 6 copies of wildfire to kill the nexus.
The best deck I've played against with Wildfire was one that was updrafting like crazy in order to find the Wildfire copies. I think it had Janna in it, but not totally sure.
UPDATE- So yeah, not exactly what I had in mind when I made the previous post, but Freljord/Demacia with Volibear and a couple support cards, plus Galio and his army of Formidable dudes -- yeah, it's definitely a good deck for sure.
Plus a trio of badgerbears to help keep those elusive scum in check.
I'm doing OK! I still pop in and out of the website here now and then. I've been playing some LoR lately as well.
Volibear is looking pretty interesting for sure. I'm a bit afraid that Freljord ramp is going to be ... too strong. The ramp strategy was always a bit light on the payoff at the top end, and lacked support along the way toward ramping. But with Volibear and the Titanic keyword support ... I might just need to start learning how to play Freljord ramp lol. Possibly paired with Demacia.
They would have to make it summon a Lab Construct (name open to debate) that is a different, non-collectible card with the same stats and most of the same text, but without the copying part. "At the end of your turn, summon a Lab Construct with the same stats and keywords as this." <-- something like that.
I've been messing around in Masters over the past few days (around 150-200 LP) and I just thought it might be helpful for others to know what seems pretty good right now, for my taste.
1. Scouts - this really destroys some of the decks that rely on certain units, because of the many ways to apply challenger. And, of course, challenger works really, really well with Miss Fortune.
2. Targon Elusives, ft. Teemo - this one can highroll pretty well, but man do you have to count out your damage carefully. There is high potential to just get overrun by your opponent before you can piece together enough elusive damage. And removal decks absolutely wreck you, if you're playing this deck. Side note - Teemo is literally just a 1-drop elusive in this deck, nothing more.
3. Kennen Jinx - This one seems strong when I've played against it, but I haven't tried it yet myself. Relies heavily on flooding the board and then burning out the opponent. Any significant lifesteal will defeat this deck almost instantly.
Maybe it's removable, so she can put on a different arm when she needs to do daily tasks. But you'd never see that in the game, since the game is all about fighting (I assume).
I was just randomly browsing the site for the first time in a couple weeks, and I opened a Nifty thread, and it says Banned under his name.
Is that for real?
Timelines just got hotfixed back to 2 cost, so the 0 champs PnZ deck (as well as the other timelines bull****) should be off the menu again.
I'm over here playing mostly just poros, and generally kicking people's butts with them. 64% winrate over 72 matches, with a record of 8-3 in my last 11 games.
It's all about Tybaulk, then copying him with the new 2-cost burst spell and play him again. Suddenly, all of your 1-dmg pings are 3-dmg pings and most of them can hit face.
Best I can figure is that he's a very strong verbal processor, and (like most people who play LoR) he doesn't know anyone IRL that also plays it, so he posts his thoughts on here.
All of that, and also pretending that anyone in this forum has ever been his opponent, which I would seriously doubt. I know that I personally cannot ever have played him, because I'm on the Asia shard.
Newest update - the deck has cooled off to "only" about a 68% winrate over 47 games. Part of the reason for this is quite simple - my MMR was absurdly high. I was still in silver and it was matching me against high Masters players, one of whom is literally the highest ranked player on the entire shard. Yeah, that's fair. Victim of my own success I suppose.
So, needless to say, I started losing quite a few games that way. And one of the losses was just pure stupidity on my part, including at least three different places that I made colossal errors in that game.
At this point, now that my winrate has cooled off, it's just matching me against Diamond players instead of Masters (when I'm in Gold 4).
Wait, did you start streaming? When did that happen?
That's a pretty good point, actually. But even if she was a 10-cost card with better stats, all you'd need is 1 spell mana leftover and a stacked coin in hand to just go hog wild anyways, despite her increased cost.
She probably needs to cost 6 again, which was something they did at one point, but then they reverted it.
All that being said, big celestials just got a big buff, so Asol decks might be OK after all.