I got them sometime this morning. Just logged and saw them appear. It's just weird to me that YouTube is making a big enough play towards the streaming market that they sign exclusive deals with streamers and esports leagues, but their drops system is so bad
Looking back at old articles trying to see exactly when the exclusive deal ends, Hearthstone was described as being “thrown in for free”. So even when the deal was made, before viewership dropped, it’s like they didn’t really care about HS eSports.
Watched quite a lot of this and despite my accounts being connected, no packs! They don’t really matter, but at the same time they do. I’m sure a lot of f2p people rely on free packs like this to build their collections up.
Hopefully they’re just late, even though it’s been more than 48 hrs at this point. And hopefully Blizzard does not continue their YouTube only deal when it expires!
EDIT: Packs arrived finally. It makes me wonder if they can’t directly proc the packs so instead they ship a data log to Blizz, and someone on their side has to input that somewhere to proc the pack rewards? Would make sense why their system takes so long
Probably generated an Azsharan Defector at some point, it died, and they Dredged it up. Or the opponent was Demon Hunter and had the Sunken Defector in their deck after their Azsharan Defector died, Priest stole a copy of the Sunken minion.
In Wild it can set up a Malygos Warlock combo turn! Not saying that it’ll be good, but I love Maly Warlock decks, so my mind goes there immediately. Could go into Mechathun Lock too. This card, after it dies (or before even) Hemet to thin the deck to 1-2 cards. Draw them and then combo, play Mechathun first so he’s free.
The first one for sure will have reborn. After that it depends on if the opponent kills it to remove the keyword. But yeah, as everyone's been saying the multiple minions with reborn help to reload the the corpses. So ultimately that is a plus. I still think time will tell with this one, and it's going to depend a lot on how you build the deck. To me this seems okay in most decks, potentially pretty good in a board based deck that wants to also play minion buffs.
Well they made a change! You can only include one copy in your deck. Very interesting choice. Won't really know until all the cards are revealed and even released, but I wonder if even including one copy is a good choice for DK. Runeforging helps, but overall it may not be enough. To steal big, impactful targets you need to also face tank the damage. But they will have that new card that increases your hero's HP total by 10, and it can be played twice. So maybe in a super heavy control deck this can be an option. The weapon also becomes more appealing if DKs can buff the weapon and somehow give it Cleave. Which I wouldn't be surprised if a frost rune card is revealed to do just that. I mean, did you see the long ice shard that came off Frostmourne when he first swings at Liadrin in the trailer? Not sure what that ability is called but I could see it being a HS spell and the effect being your hero getting cleave for a turn!
Malignant Horror almost seems anti-synergistic with some of the other cards we’ve seen so far. If it summons a bunch of copies it’ll leave no corpses for some of the other big payoff cards. But then again, if it summons a lot of copies you have board presence that the opponent has to deal with!
Also, because it’s a copy, not “another” that means it may copy without the reborn keyword. So maybe not as sticky as I first thought it might be. It’s definitely a good buff target though!
Second reveal appears to be Frostmourne. So the question is: Will it had any buff to it like reduced cost? Or will it be the exact same (7) 5/3 weapon we already know?
Wouldn’t be surprised if it remains unchanged and is part of the Path of Arthas set. Or it could be Core too, seeing as it has a very crucial role in overall Death Knight lore as the weapon of the Lich King.
If I remember correctly the player was MegaMog, who I used to see regularly on ladder, but haven’t noticed the name in a while. Not sure if Mog was a streamer but I feel like Roffle and a few others knew them. So they probably did play a ton of HS. And maybe it wasn’t quite that early, but it was early! Like, WAAAY earlier than it should have been for someone to have gotten that portrait!
Depending on how strong DK is I bet we see 1,000 win portraits quickly. I remember seeing an opponent with 1,000 win DH portrait less than two weeks into DH’s release.
“Booster Magnet” is probably something you can give a card to increase the chances of getting boosters for that card.
I got them sometime this morning. Just logged and saw them appear. It's just weird to me that YouTube is making a big enough play towards the streaming market that they sign exclusive deals with streamers and esports leagues, but their drops system is so bad
Looking back at old articles trying to see exactly when the exclusive deal ends, Hearthstone was described as being “thrown in for free”. So even when the deal was made, before viewership dropped, it’s like they didn’t really care about HS eSports.
Watched quite a lot of this and despite my accounts being connected, no packs! They don’t really matter, but at the same time they do. I’m sure a lot of f2p people rely on free packs like this to build their collections up.
Hopefully they’re just late, even though it’s been more than 48 hrs at this point. And hopefully Blizzard does not continue their YouTube only deal when it expires!
EDIT: Packs arrived finally. It makes me wonder if they can’t directly proc the packs so instead they ship a data log to Blizz, and someone on their side has to input that somewhere to proc the pack rewards? Would make sense why their system takes so long
Golden The Countess, followed by Grand Magus Antonidas, and Baroness Vashj. Not bad!
Love the tux! Classic Brode.
I had a horde of Standard packs and opened them first at launch. First one had a regular and signature legendary from the new set.
Yeah, it's almost like they forgot to make one for April and repurposed an alternate Playing Koi design.
Probably generated an Azsharan Defector at some point, it died, and they Dredged it up. Or the opponent was Demon Hunter and had the Sunken Defector in their deck after their Azsharan Defector died, Priest stole a copy of the Sunken minion.
Excited to watch the MarkMcK video of the Dra’Khan OTK in 2-3 weeks!
The return of the "You win if you go first" brawl.
Disco Lock in Wild getting some love!
In Wild it can set up a Malygos Warlock combo turn! Not saying that it’ll be good, but I love Maly Warlock decks, so my mind goes there immediately. Could go into Mechathun Lock too. This card, after it dies (or before even) Hemet to thin the deck to 1-2 cards. Draw them and then combo, play Mechathun first so he’s free.
S’theno was the EZ way to go.
The first one for sure will have reborn. After that it depends on if the opponent kills it to remove the keyword. But yeah, as everyone's been saying the multiple minions with reborn help to reload the the corpses. So ultimately that is a plus. I still think time will tell with this one, and it's going to depend a lot on how you build the deck. To me this seems okay in most decks, potentially pretty good in a board based deck that wants to also play minion buffs.
Well they made a change! You can only include one copy in your deck. Very interesting choice. Won't really know until all the cards are revealed and even released, but I wonder if even including one copy is a good choice for DK. Runeforging helps, but overall it may not be enough. To steal big, impactful targets you need to also face tank the damage. But they will have that new card that increases your hero's HP total by 10, and it can be played twice. So maybe in a super heavy control deck this can be an option. The weapon also becomes more appealing if DKs can buff the weapon and somehow give it Cleave. Which I wouldn't be surprised if a frost rune card is revealed to do just that. I mean, did you see the long ice shard that came off Frostmourne when he first swings at Liadrin in the trailer? Not sure what that ability is called but I could see it being a HS spell and the effect being your hero getting cleave for a turn!
Malignant Horror almost seems anti-synergistic with some of the other cards we’ve seen so far. If it summons a bunch of copies it’ll leave no corpses for some of the other big payoff cards. But then again, if it summons a lot of copies you have board presence that the opponent has to deal with!
Also, because it’s a copy, not “another” that means it may copy without the reborn keyword. So maybe not as sticky as I first thought it might be. It’s definitely a good buff target though!
Second reveal appears to be Frostmourne. So the question is: Will it had any buff to it like reduced cost? Or will it be the exact same (7) 5/3 weapon we already know?
Wouldn’t be surprised if it remains unchanged and is part of the Path of Arthas set. Or it could be Core too, seeing as it has a very crucial role in overall Death Knight lore as the weapon of the Lich King.
If I remember correctly the player was MegaMog, who I used to see regularly on ladder, but haven’t noticed the name in a while. Not sure if Mog was a streamer but I feel like Roffle and a few others knew them. So they probably did play a ton of HS. And maybe it wasn’t quite that early, but it was early! Like, WAAAY earlier than it should have been for someone to have gotten that portrait!
Depending on how strong DK is I bet we see 1,000 win portraits quickly. I remember seeing an opponent with 1,000 win DH portrait less than two weeks into DH’s release.