Learn Hearthstone Ask /r/CompetitiveHS | Thursday, March 15, 2018

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• Ask /r/CompetitiveHS | Thursday, March 15, 2018
• Witchwood Card Reveal Discussion 15/03/2018
• vS Data Reaper Report #84
• On and off player - deciding to try and come back for good, teach me how to adapt
• Interested in getting into Competitive Hearthstone, advice on where to start?
• New to hearthstone. Chicken to Rank 3 in a week. My thoughts and how someone can improve.

Ask /r/CompetitiveHS | Thursday, March 15, 2018 Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:00 AM PDT This is an open thread for any discussion pertaining to Competitive Hearthstone. This is a thread for discussions that don't qualify for a stand-alone post on the subreddit. This thread is sorted by new by default. You can ask for deck reviews, competitive budget replacements, how to mulligan in specific matchups, etc. Anything goes, as long as it's related to playing Hearthstone competitively. Has your question been asked before? Check our FAQ to see if we've got you covered. Or if you're looking for an educational hearthstone read, check out our Timeless Resources There are a few rules: Please be respectful to you your fellow players Please report posts that don't pertain to competitive Hearthstone. Concerns with the subreddit should be directed to modmail If you would like to chat about Hearthstone in real time, then you should check out our official Discord channel. Do you want help from dedicated teachers? Check out our partners - the AskHearthstone Discord Server. submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Witchwood Card Reveal Discussion 15/03/2018 Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:13 AM PDT Reveal Thread Rules: Top level comments must be the spoiler formatted description of a card revealed today. Any other top level comment will be removed. All discussion relating to these cards shall take place as a response to each top level comment. Discuss the revealed cards and their potential implications in competitive play. Karma grab or off-topic comments, as well as discussion about non-competitive Hearthstone should be reported/removed for discussion to be visible. In case you want to catch up, here's the previous card reveal discussion thread Today's New Cards Black Cat - Discussion Class: Mage Card type: Minion Rarity: Common Mana cost: 3 Attack: 3 HP: 3 Card text: Spell Damage +1. Battlecry: If your deck has only odd-Cost cards, draw a card. Other notes: Beast Source: Hearthside Chat with Dean Ayala: Even & Odd Gloom Stag - Discussion Class: Druid Card type: Minion Rarity: Epic Mana cost: 5 Attack: 2 HP: 6 Card text: Taunt. Battlecry: If your deck has only odd-Cost cards, gain +2/+2. Other notes: Beast Source: Hearthside Chat with Dean Ayala: Even & Odd Murkspark Eel - Discussion Class: Shaman Card type: Minion Rarity: Rare Mana cost: 2 Attack: 2 HP: 3 Card text: Battlecry: If your deck has only even-Cost cards, deal 2 damage. Other notes: Beast Source: Hearthside Chat with Dean Ayala: Even & Odd Glitter Moth - Discussion Class: Priest Card type: Minion Rarity: Epic Mana cost: 5 Attack: 4 HP: 4 Card text: Battlecry: If your deck has only odd-Cost cards, double the Health of your other minions. Other notes: Beast Source: Hearthside Chat with Dean Ayala: Even & Odd New Set Information For a limited time after The Witchwood arrives, log in to claim three card packs and a random Class legendary card both from the expansion—for free! Odds & Evens: Several minions in the set will reward you for building a deck using only even- or odd-cost cards. New Keyword - Echo: Echo cards can be played multiple times on the turn you play them. Each time, it'll add a ghostly copy of the card back to your hand that disappears at the end of your turn. New Keyword - Rush: Minions with the Rush keyword can attack other minions immediately after they hit the board, either by being played or summoned. However, they cannot attack heroes until the turn after they enter play. New Transforming Worgen Cards: Each turn they are in your hand, these cards swap their Attack and Health. Spring them on an opponent when their form best matches your desired function. New Singleplayer Content - Monster Hunt: When you start a new Monster Hunt, you venture into the Witchwood as one of four unique new heroes exclusive to this game mode. Your goal is to fight through a series of eight ever more challenging encounters culminating in an epic showdown with a challenging boss fight. Each of the four new heroes has access to a special Hero Power and cards that create completely new playstyles and strategies. Their powers are great, but you will need all the help you can get against the Witchwood's fiendish foes. After you beat an encounter, you choose loot to improve your Monster Hunt deck. Your choice is between three sets of three cards picked randomly from a number of different thematic buckets available to your current hero. Additionally, at certain intervals you get to add special cards to your deck that improve your unique hero power or otherwise synergize with your hero in a powerful way. The Monster Hunt will begin two weeks after the set's launch, and presumably allows you to win a cardback. NEW format for top level comments: **[CARD_NAME](link_to_spoiler)** **Class:** **Card type:** Minion Spell Weapon **Rarity:** Common Rare Epic Legendary **Mana cost:** **Attack:** X **HP:** Y **Dura:** Z **Card text:** **Other notes:** **Source:** submitted by /u/Sonserf369 [link] [comments]

vS Data Reaper Report #84 Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:01 AM PDT Greetings! The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 84th edition of the Data Reaper Report. As always, special thanks to all those who contribute their game data to the project. This project could not succeed without your support. The entire vS Team is eternally grateful for your assistance. This week our data is based off of over 3,400 contributors and over 55,000 games! In this week's report you will find: Deck Library - Decklists & Class/Archetype Radars Class/Archetype Distribution Over All Games Class/Archetype Distribution "By Rank" Games Class Frequency By Day & By Week Interactive Matchup Win-Rate Chart vS Power Rankings - Power Rankings Imgur Link vS Meta Score Analysis/Discussion of each Class Meta Breaker of the Week The full article can be found at: vS Data Reaper Report #84 Data Reaper Live - After you're done with the Report, you can keep an eye on this up-to-date live Meta Tracker throughout the week! As always, thank you all for your fantastic feedback and support. We are looking forward to all the additional content we can provide everyone. Reminder If you haven't already, please sign up to contribute your game data! The more contributors we have the more accurate our data! More data will allow us to answer some more interesting questions. We can now track games with either Track-o-Bot or Hearthstone Deck Tracker. Sign up here, and follow the instructions. Thank you, The Vicious Syndicate Team submitted by /u/ViciousSyndicate [link] [comments]

On and off player - deciding to try and come back for good, teach me how to adapt Posted: 16 Mar 2018 12:44 AM PDT Been a year or 2 since I played hearthstone, and while I've had my moments where I just wanted to play, I always hit a cap where I'm overwhelmed by the new cards and people up the ladder with insurmountable new Legendaries. I've never spent a cent on HS, that's why when the cap hits on my missions, I just quit and forget about it over time. This time though, I wanna try and make my way through it with a bit of seriousness. I wanna climb higher. But each time I re-enter this game, there are so many new mechanics and the meta keeps adjusting and I just dont know how to keep up. Can anyone point me to a direction that teaches me the current meta, and what to look for when adapting to changes? submitted by /u/andrechan [link] [comments]

Interested in getting into Competitive Hearthstone, advice on where to start? Posted: 16 Mar 2018 12:26 AM PDT As the title states I'm pretty interested in getting into competitive Hearthstone I've played ranked and played the game for a bit but never taken the ladder seriously. Interested on where to start. Obviously playing the game more, but is there any tools I can use that will help, also what potential decks I can use to help learn the game or are easier to utilize. And maybe what card packs are good to buy right now? Thanks for the help! submitted by /u/CarbonSky [link] [comments]

New to hearthstone. Chicken to Rank 3 in a week. My thoughts and how someone can improve. Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:20 PM PDT First of all, this is not me bragging. I'm not saying i'm the best at the game. I just want to my thoughts about how someone who is rank 15 can improve in the game. They might have not seen something that I have that allowed me to hit my rank. Second, I have no real proof my actually starting a week ago or no how to prove it. I do have a picture of me hitting rank 3 if needed. I did used to play the game when it first came out but only lasted a week on it. Third, I have a competitive TCG background that help contribute a lot to me climbing. I used to play yugioh and was really successful in a competitive standpoint. Fourth, yes I did spend money to help me get a murloc paladin deck. One of the cheaper tier one decks since i did not want to spend a whole lot of money,I'm a broke college student. So this is the perspective of a murloc paladin player than can be applied to all decks. The reason I started playing hearthstone was because of DisguisedToast. Love the stream and offlineTV all together (Team Joast and Foki). I loved playing yugioh but didnt really had the time to go to my local card shop every week so I thought this was a great alternative. So lets get the tips! You need to spend money or a lot of hours in the game to get to top tier decks. It's the nature of the game. You're in a extreme disadvantage if you aren't playing the right decks. Don't get me wrong, I've lost to decks that aren't top tier because they knew their deck inside out. Again though, you will still be at a disadvantage because of that. How to Mulligan. I'm not even the expert at this myself but I've have improved on this a lot. When I first started, I used to keep my mana 10 card because in my mind I thought it was "broken". High cost cards aren't great starts but it depends on which deck you're playing. Again, I don't know this for other decks. You got to know your deck. As a murloc paladin player, keeping a 6-cost sunkeeper in my hand is awful to start off with. I want to spam and gain board control as early as I can and starting off with sunkeeper is not great for that purpose. Knowing what deck you are against is also important and I will go over that in another tip. Watching streams/youtube. Halfway through the week I was stuck with rank 15. What helped me climb was two variables, watching youtube/streams and another variable that I will go over later. Typing in youtube "how to play murloc paladin" helped improved with my deck and also on which cards to keep in my hand. Also going to low viewer count streamers (high viewer counts are good if you want to watch but low count allows you to ask the streamer questions). I went to multiple streamers asking them question like "how do you play against cublock as agro paladin." They answered most of the time. Think this is the most important tip I can give. Learning every deck and what they do. This allows you to help play around their cards. As soon as I learned what and which cards do I started climbing. I used spam the board all the time thinking that would win games but unfortunately my board just kept getting cleared. Against priest, I'll spill my whole hand into the board by turn 4 without divine favor. Next thing I know i got duskbringered every game and lost. I learned to conserve my cards and not to overextend to decks like warlock and priest. Another example is paladin against paladin. You need call for arms so you need to mulligan your hand to have it. Who ever activates call to arms first in the mirror usually wins. You can usually spam the board because most of the time paladins don't run convocation. Using programs like innkeeper and using it effectively. Innkeeper in a crucial part. Using call to arms and mostly usually knowing what i'm going to summon off it helps out a lot. For those who don't know what innkeeper is, it's basically a program that display what cards you have let in the deck. So if i opened 1 megasaur, it will display on the side that I have 1 megasaur left. Hope that the luck gods on your side. In all seriousness, I've gotten sacked (top decked) so many times. Even if that happened theres always plays that I have done throughout the game that wouldve resulted in a better outcome and not put me in a position like that. Knowing your mistake and improving on it is what you should look into after every game even if you win. Knowing your mistakes can allow you to improve on them so it wont happen again. Thank you for taking time to read my post and I hope it allows you to improve in your ranks or at least gain some knowledge from this. Goodluck on your games! As for me, I'm going to try and hit legend by next week :D. If you want to come watch me, I can post a link to my stream in the comments. I think the rules don't allow me to post it. TL;DR - Top tier decks give advantage - Learn how to mulligan - Watch youtube/streams about your deck - Learn about every deck and the way they work - Use programs like innkeeper - Learn from your mistakes and learn from them - Have a four leaf clover around you and hope it gives you goodluck submitted by /u/TopBunkBed [link] [comments]