Topdeck Radio - The Hex Talkshow

Topdeck Radio #12 --- Monday July 16, 2018        

News…flashbacks

Dingleton

Community news. New streamer blog crull’s thoughts. https://crull867238236.wordpress.com/blog/

 

Disscussion-

Thank you snake and hacky for shoutcasting

CCS congrats yasi.

 

Discussion topic - Designing decks

Between Shardsworn and DMoE, we’ve made a lot of decks, but never talked about our philosophies and methods for how we go about doing that.

 

What PVE-only cards (2-3) do you think could be brought over to PVP and still be fair?

Thrawn - Taste of Defeat, Howling Head Hunter, Adaptotron

Mani - lightning elemental, volley, te’talca, high inquisitioner

 

Cards of the Week -  Favorite scars of war card we get to keep playing

Mani - From the ashes, rightous outlaw, zoraths recotory

Thrawn - Commander PROMPT, Bride of the Damned, Mystic Naturalist

 

Google Translated Hex

Extinction - Destroy all the bodies  (Eng - japanese - croatian - albanian - english)

Brilliant Annihilix - Large texts are prevented and can not be targeted. (too many to count)

Dogpile - They damage 5 damage to the target units. The call to Rabn Gnolls is equal to all the excess damage. (English - arabic - korean - italian - english)

News…Five Shards weekly changes.

Epic Spell Warz

Community news. https://www.reddit.com/r/hextcg/comments/8wlt66/hexpwncom_collaborate_on_decklists_preview_beta/

http://hexpwn.com/

Shardsworn showdown on hiatus - where do I go from here.

 

Disscussion- A few words

How did it come to this

The $100k Invitational

The Bash and Clash… with NO external promotion (pushing esports too hard too soon)

Paying the Artists

Communication Woes

What do we do from here

Likelihood of seeing kismit or flashback event

Potential things HexEnt could be “expanding” into to increase publisher revenue

 

Cards of the Week -  Favorite Hero Fall card we get to keep playing

Mani - Dreamweaver ancient, eldurathans glory, Psychic ascension

(honorable mention silvertalon adjudicator)

Thrawn - Herofall, Heart of Embers, Matriarch of Flames

News….Ladder Reset

 

Reflections on Doombringer Limited, the constructed meta

Favorite / most hated decks, archetypes

 

How do you prepare for a new set?

 

Cards of the Week -  Top 3 Champions

Mani - kagulichu , the rabid rider, Yarna of the lost voices

Thrawn - Benvolio, Grandfather Elk, Daughter of Stars

 

Hot Take / Bold Prediction

Thrawn’s Prediction -  No Set 10 until August.

Mani- It’s out last week of July

News…. Cornith vs cornith. And questmas

 

Community news… next immortal tears tourney July 6th. https://forums.hextcg.com/index.php?thread/4120-immortal-tears-by-prismatic-tournament/

 

Questions from Twitter / Chat

 

Community spotlight: Blackwood

 

Lore DIscussions

 

How can Hex best develop their lore / worldbuild? Related - what more can Hex do to make their universe a more distinct fantasy universe?

 

Cards of the Week - Prismatic actions/constant

Mani - AA refuel, Hawkward turn, excruciate

Thrawn - Forever’s Bloom, Mass Glaciation, Rotten Rancor

 

Hot Take / Bold Prediction

Thrawn’s Prediction - Spoiler season starts this week.

Mani- All the dragons will get reprinted to defeat the elders (lore tie in)

Questions from Twitter / Chat

“Would you Rather?” Hex Edition

Cards of the Week - Prismatic troops

Mani - howling plains alpha, grimoria, the librarian

Thrawn -  Forever’s Child, Surging Wildfire, Dreamsmoke Mystic

 

Hot Take / Bold Prediction

Thrawn’s Prediction -Hex Ent will leverage their IP in something else by the end of the year. (Hex tie-in physical deckbuilder, boardgame… RPG system?)

Mani- if spoiler season doesn't start next week there may be fires and pitchforks

NEWS

Portal Kombat Merry Melee

5 years… omg it's been that long already.

 

Community -

it's your card. Choosing the cost - covered last week - quick mention only?

Streamer spotlight GriffinBruce aka nephilimarmy

 

Discussion topics -

Quick check on new bash format. Info by Martypunker. (Prepare for unimpressed Thrawn)

What Immortal Cards would you want to see reprinted for Standard? (If Any)

Fun topic: Hex Cross-Overs - If you could have one other game invade Hex, what would it be? If you could bring Hex into another game, what would it be?

Cards of the Week - Ruby constant

Mani- spark of fury. Pool of wrath. Chark Mart.

Thrawn - cerebral Fulmination, Zakiir’s Frenzy, Army of the Arcane CInder

 

Ask Thrawn / Manifesto

Monday June 4, 2018

 

NEWS

Dingleton Merry Melee

immortal gauntlet

 

Community -

it's your card. Choosing the cost

 

Discussion topics -

Splitting in the bash/clash. Personal thoughts how it affects data and a sense of competition

Monetization - what is OK or not OK to charge for?

 

Cards of the Week - wild troops

Mani- songstring warden, rowdy ringmaster, Dreamweaver ancient

Thrawn - Arborean Rootfather, Brosi’s Bouncer, Briar Legion

 

 

Ask Thrawn / Manifesto 

 

Hot Take / Bold Prediction

Thrawn’s Prediction - Spoiler Season starts week of June 25th.

 

Shameless Plugs

NEWS

Signature Decks

Who’s The Boss Merry Melee

 

Community / Thrawn’s Hot Take

Now is a good time for a “State of the Game” address.

 

Discussion topics -

Coin and Sack impressions after the first week

Mani’s Hot Take: Something has to change with siege official forum organization of win trading already started

 

Cards of the Week - Sapphire Actions/quick actions  

Mani- chronic madness. Weave into nothing. PA.

Thrawn - Polymorphic Army, Lanupaw’s Sight, Prison of the Mind

COMMUNITY

Vestris Blog - hexvestris.wordpress.com

 

NEWS

CCS Results

Rewards Update

Ladder Update

 

 

Cards of the Week - (FRA champion of the week (new merry melee discussion))  

Mani- Poet of Gla'aki Reaper Bot Loregoyle Curator

Thrawn - Periwinkle, Doombringer Kha, Archon of Nuulzaan

 

Ask Thrawn / Manifesto - 1 new post in the thread

 

Hot Take / Bold Prediction

Thrawn’s - Hex Needs to learn how to communicate more frequently

                 Hex Needs a State of the Union Address

                 And the forums need to chill out.

Topics Include:

COMMUNITY

Pandemica’s Pit - quick mention 

 

NEWS

Watch / Ban list update

Friday update - Bash / Clash structure change reminder, discuss cards shown

119 Bash (99 Distinct) - 154 Clash (131 Distinct)

 

The final @HexTCG Iconoclash numbers are in. 4173 gautlet runs, and 10666 matches in 10 days. That's over 17 gauntlet runs and 44 matches every hour over the duration of the event.

 

Discussion topics:

Review Bash 4-0 deck lists

Topic of the week - Reward system speculation. What’s all in there? When will we see it?

 

Cards of the Week -  Diamond Action

Manifesto - Sunlit sentence, inner conflict, guidance

Thrawn - Danse Macabre, Trial of Totems, Blinding Light

 

 

Hot Take / Bold Prediction of the week sugarrush wins swiss portion of ccs / next friday 18th new currency patch

 

Shameless Plugs