LOTI 225 : Year of the Dragon

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Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo: Gold 3800, Shaman 388, Rank 12 (Finished 8 last month)

Vast: Gold 1155, Mage 385, Rank 20

News

HCT Winter Finals – Bunnyhoppor vs Roger, Roger won  (Haha, Roger Rabbit)

HCT World Championships announced

* Location: Taiwan* April 24-27* Top 4 winners from each of the HCT seasonal championships (Summer, Fall, Winter)* $1,000,000 prize pool – Winner, $250,000, 2nd – $150,000, 3rd/4th – $100,000

Year of the Dragon announcements

* 9 cards being sent to the Hall of Fame* Baku the Mooneater* Genn Greymane* Naturalize (Druid)* Doomguard (Warlock)* Divine Favor (Paladin)* Gloom Stag (Druid)* Black Cat (Mage)* Glitter Moth (Priest)* Murkspark Eel (Shaman)* New paid single player content* 5 chapters (1 is free)* Earn packs and more* First solo adventure launches about a month after the first expansion* You can then unlock additional chapters as they are released for 700 gold each or purchase the whole thing for $19.99. * Each chapter comes with 2 all-new characters to play, each with 3 Hero Powers and four starting decks to unlock.* Complete each chapter to earn 3 card packs from the new expansion.* If you complete all five chapters, you get a card back and a Golden Classic pack.* Arena Rotations* The Arena draft pool will contain the following sets* Basic* Classic* Curse of Naxxramas* Whispers of the Old Gods* Mean Streets of Gadgetzan* The Witchwood* The first expansion set* Fireside Gatherings* Pre-release parties of all sizes will continue where you can open your packs ahead of time and play with them at the party for all of this years expansions.* Rerolling Legendary Quests* You can now reroll Legendary quests.  It consumes the reroll for the day* Random card backs* There will be a new option available for Random card backs. Changes the card back each match automatically* Smarter Deck Building* The deck helper suggestion tool when completing decks, will be getting an upgrade.  New details to come in the future.* Winning a game in the Arena will now count towards the total win count of your Golden Hero.* Logging into the game between March 25 and April 2nd, you will get 1 pack from the Journey to Un’Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Kobolds & Catacombs.* And a special Tavern Brawl, Brawl Block – Year of the Mammoth, where only cards from those expansions are allowed.

Shacknews spoke with Mike Donais about the upcoming changes to cards

* Doomguard was replaced because of it’s powerful impact and they can replace it later with another card. * Druids are more about mana creation, not removal. That’s why Naturalize was moved out.* They did talk about removing Malygos, but decided against it again this year.* Mind Blast’s OTK potential is reduced by the rotation of Shadow Visions, however they are watching it.

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