Intro:  

Welcome to the Legend of the Innkeeper.  We’re glad you could join us for our 98th episode.  

This week we are talking about…

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

News

24 hour stream THIS WEEKEND 17th and 18th to raise money for Blizzcon!

Guest on Cast Royale this week!

State of Hearthstone – Interview with Mike Donais and Peter Whalen http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/10/blizzard-on-the-state-of-hearthstone?abthid=575a67a741047d9d39000016

Big focus currently is Fireside Gatherings and social aspect of play.

The Arena award system mentioned last week in China, is something that China is experimenting with specifically. HS Game director talked with China about it but it’s a China initiative.

New feature coming to the game, called Game Mode ID. It shows an icon beside your name, similar to the rank emblems we see today. They are specific to each game mode; Arena, Tavern Brawl, Adventures and Casual will each get unique icons. Some have extra functionality.

Arena icon shows your current win count and below the icon you can see how many losses you have.

Tavern Brawl lets you mouseover it to view the rules of the current brawl.

Adventure icon shows a custom icon based on the Adventure you are playing.

Hearthstone Brazil posted a ‘fun picture’ on their Facebook feed about an Old Gods Travel Agency which included pictures of several exotic destinations, like Icecrown Citidel, The Dark Portal and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Could this be a hint to something coming in the future? posted a fun picture (UPDATE: Blizzard has officially stated that this is not a preview to the future content. It was created to promote Whispers of the Old Gods)

WotOG: Rogue

This past weekend we had he EU Spring Championships Final. There were 3 Miracle Rogue decks that were played at the tournament. They are all very similar with just a few differences. The final pitted Thijs’s and Iner’s rogue vs rogue for the championship.

Thijs’ Miracle Rogue

Backstab x 2

Preparation x 2

Cold Blood x 2

Conceal x 2

Deadly Poison x 2

Eviscerate x 2

Sap x 2

Edwin VanCleef x 1

Fan of Knives x 2

Shadow Strike x 1

SI:7 Agent x 2

Tomb Pillager x 2

Bloodmage Thalnos x 1

Earthen Ring Farseer x 1

Violet Teacher x 1

Azure Drake x 2

Leeroy Jenkins x 1

Gadgetzan Auctioneer x 2

 

Casie’s Miracle Rogue

Backstab x 2

Preparation x 2

Cold Blood x 2

Conceal x 2

Deadly Poison x 1

Eviscerate x 2

Sap x 2

Shiv x 1

Edwin VanCleef x 1

Fan of Knives x 2

Shadow Strike x 1

SI:7 Agent x 2

Tomb Pillager x 2

Bloodmage Thalnos x 1

Earthen Ring Farseer x 1

Violet Teacher x 1

Azure Drake x 2

Leeroy Jenkins x 1

Gadgetzan Auctioneer x 2

 

Iner’s Miracle Rogue

Backstab x 2

Preparation x 2

Cold Blood x 2

Conceal x 1

Deadly Poison x 1

Eviscerate x 2

Sap x 2

Shiv x 1

Edwin VanCleef x 1

Fan of Knives x 2

Shadow Strike x 1

SI:7 Agent x 2

Tomb Pillager x 2

Xaril, Poisoned Mind x 1

Bloodmage Thalnos x 1

Earthen Ring Farseer x 1

Violet Teacher x 1

Azure Drake x 2

Leeroy Jenkins x 1

Gadgetzan Auctioneer x 2

New Cards with WotOG ( Slide 135)

Xaril, Poisoned Mind (4 mana – 3/2 minion,