Coin Concede: A Hearthstone Podcast

In Episode 122, Kenny, Botticus, Appa, and Andrew talk about the extensive news announced this week. News covers Ranked Play Updates, Upcoming Balance Changes, A Grand Prize Pack Giveaway, a new card back, Blizzards “Openeing Moves” Week Series, and Blizzard’s “Off-Meta” Deck Spotlight #2. No real tournaments to cover except the drama with a player in the Hearthstone Sydney Stop qualifier. Decksplanations this week is about how to determine what to play after the nerfs.

News

* Ranked Play Updates (VOD)

* Card backs will be earned 5 wins each month

* All ranks have 5 stars

* When a new season starts you will reset back exactly 4 ranks from your highest ranking for the month (including stars) (Brode’s Tweet)

* Ranked rewards go by your highest rank during the season

* Rank inflation? 

* No changes to win streak mechanic

* Ranked floors are still in place

* Brode’s response on why so long 

* Upcoming Balance Changes

* Bonemare now costs 8 mana, up from 7

* Corridor Creeper now has 2 attack, down from 5

* Patches the Pirate no longer has charge, and his voice will be changing

* Raza the Chained’s effect now sets your Hero Power to 1 mana, up from 0

* A 183 Thousand Hearthstone Pack Giveaway

* Grand Prize – one winner

* 3000 card packs – 1k for each set released during Year of the Mammoth

* The Lich King’s Helm – his actual helm from the youtube series here

* Hearthstone Apparel Gift Pack – t-shirt, cap, and pin set

* Mammoth Card Bundle – 1k players will receive 10 card packs from each expansion released during Year of the Mammoth

* Mammoth Pack – 50k players will be receiving 3 card packs from each expansion released during Year of the Mammoth

* Mammoth Card Bundle avail on the shop. (one purchase per account, avail in 10.2 patch)

* Limited to 14 entries per account

* tarting 17:00-GMT/9:00-PST of Feb 1st until 17:00-GMT/9:00-PST Feb 14th

* Khadgar is Available in China HOTS Promo, Again…

* Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is available for pre-order

* Deluxe version gets you an awesome Hearthstone cardback

* Blizzard “Opening Moves” Week Series

* Blizzard “Off-Meta”...

In Episode 121 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus bring on Gerry Thompson as a guest this week to talk about the state of the game and how it’s compared to other card games in the industry. News this week covers IGN’s interview with Peter Whalen and Mike Donais, and StanCifka joining Omnislash. Hat recaps HCT World Championships. Capping the show off is a short Decksplanations about playing too quickly under pressure.

News

* IGN Interview – with Peter Whalen and Mike Donais

* StanCifka Joins Omnislash

Tournaments

* HCT World Champs Playlist – Finals VOD

Decklists

* TOM60229’s Winning Deck Lists

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In Episode 120 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus break down a deck doctor submission and continue on into control warlock to compare. News this week covers the new tavern brawl “Hall of Champions”, more packs for World Championships, and Blizzard’s Off-Meta Spotlight. RidiculousHat breaks down the players, decks, and line-ups for HCT Championships and briefly covers the high level breakdown. To wrap up the show they cover emails and questions from the community.

News

* Hall of Champions Tavern Brawl

* More Free Packs for HTC World Championships

* Blizzards Off-Meta Spotlight

Tournaments

* Decklists, Breakdowns, and Line-Ups

Decklists

* Deck Doctor (Decklist Link)

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In Episode 119 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus have Appa back on as a guest and play “Same, Tame, or Hall of Fame” to review their opinions on if cards should be left alone, changed or removed from the format. News this week covers Ben Brode’s Tweet, Amnesiac leaving NRG, and an update status for Arena Cards from BlizzCon.

News

* A Tweet from Ben Brode

* Amnesiac leaves NRG

* Arena Cards from BlizzCon Update

Tournaments

* Choose Your Champion

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In Episode 118 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus bring on Luker for a prerecorded interview with his experience from WESG and insight with the game. With not much news to go over, we spent some time talking about Hearthstone in 2017. Tournaments this week is about HS Esports Superstars, Rat Race and a bit about Control’s 2nd Wild Invitational. And to wrap up the episode, we take some questions from the community.

News

* 3 Free packs can be claimed now

* 2017 – Year In Review

Tournaments

* Esports Superstars

* Rat Race

* Control’s 2nd Wild Invitational (Day 1, Day 2, Finals)

* DannyDonuts’ Write-up for prepping and winning 

Decklists

* Quest Rogue

* Esports Superstars Full Decklists

* Control’s Wild Invitational Decklists

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In Episode 117 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus have Asmodai on as a guest and talk about his Hearthstone insights. News is short this week with the announcement of free packs for the quest bug later in January, and further explanation of Pro Teams and playoffs for HCT. The recap of tournament is shorter this week as well covering a high-level recap of the HS Invitational run by Blizzard Esports Taiwan, and some insight on the meta composition. To cap the episode off, we’re taking another round with Raza Priest with it’s slight alterations and how it’s performing in the current meta.

News

* 3 Free Packs for Quest Bug

* Clarifications for HCT Pro Teams and playoffs

Tournaments

* Hearthstone 2017 All-Star Invitational (Day 1, Day 2)

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In Episode 116 Kenny, Cora, RidiculousHat, and Botticus talk about the new hotness: Cubelock. News this week covers a behind the scenes look at the Kobolds & Catacombs set release and a couple of professionals leaving their team. Cora and Botticus cover SeatStory Cup, WESG Qualifiers and GCWC.

News

* K&C Behind the Scenes Video

* Ostkaka and Powder leave Alliance

Tournaments

* SeatStory Cup (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4)

* ESG Qualifier

* GCWC

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In Episode 115 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus talk about their first meta impressions, which cards they thought were right/wrong about. News this week covers a new K&C official trailer, a future Deathstalker Rexxar Update, receiving free card packs of a previous set, and Competitive Hearthstone changes for 2018. RidiculousHat cover the Trinity Series results as well as GCWC.

News

* New Kobolds and Catacombs Official Trailer

* A work-around for not receiving quests

* Future Deathstalker Rexxar Update

* 3 Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Packs?

* Competitive Hearthstone changes for 2018

* Multiple paths to the World Championships

* Earning Hearthstone Competitive Points

* Ladder

* Tour Stops

* Seasonal Championships

* World Championships

* Hearthstone Challengers program

* Pro Teams

Tournaments

Trinity Series

* LUL vs Virtus Pro

* Liquid vs Virtus Pro

* LUL vs Team Liquid Finals

GCWC

 

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In Episode 114 Kenny, RidiculousHat, Botticus and guest Grant talk about class winners and losers when it comes to the new cards released for this expansion. News this week covers Kobolds and Catacombs (obviously) going live, Tale of the Fox’s final installment, Spellstones video with Peter Whalen, and the recent Dreamhack drama. RidiculousHat quickly went over the Gold Club World Championship and Dreamhack Winter.

News

* K&C is Live!!!

* Arena draft appearance rates have changed

* Hearth and Home cinematic replaced previous cinematic

* Dungeon Run quests

* Tale of the Fox (Part 4)

* Hearthside Chat with Peter Whalen: Spellstones

* Dreamhack drama

Tournaments

* Gold Club World Championship

* Dreamhack Winter (Sweden)

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In Episode 113 Kenny, RidiculousHat, and Botticus dive into the Kobolds and Catacombs cards that have been announced so far. News this week covers the release date of the expansion as well as what comes with it, a video with Dave Kosak about Dungeon Runs, and the continuation of the written series “Tale of the Fox.” Hat and Kenny also go over the results of Control’s Wild Invitational from last week.

News

* Release Date and Rewards Announced

* Free Legendary Weapon

* 3 Free K&C card packs

* 3 Dungeon Run quests (make sure to clear your quests before release)

* Dungeon Runs Video with Dave Kosak

* Tale of the Fox (Part 2, Part 3)

Tournaments

Control the Board’s 1st Wild Invitational (Day 1, Day 2)

 

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