TIL:Hearthstone is a weekly video podcast that airs every Thursday @ 9pm EDT on TotallyProtocol's Twitch channel here. We recap Hearthstone community news and spotlight a different Hearthstone streamer each week.
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TotallyProtocol - CFDragon06
Intro: Hey guys what's
going on I'm TotallyProtocol and welcome to TIL: Hearthstone, a new podcast
about Hearthstone. Joining me is my co-host CFDragon06. How's it going Dragon?
It’s going great. I’m
super excited to have the show go live after all of our planning over the last
couple of months. It’s great to be on air with you to discuss such a great game
and community.
So what is TIL:
Hearthstone? It's a weekly video podcast streamed here on Twitch.tv we will
discuss community news and events. Each week we will highlight a streamer in a
streamer spotlight and have them guest host the show with us, they'll bring a
deck and we will discuss it. However, this week we won't have a guest since
it's a pilot episode and we just want to figure everything out and introduce
ourselves to the community. Finally we will complete the phrase "Today I
learned: _____" because if you didn't know TIL stands for Today I Learned
if you've ever been on reddit you probably know that.
So lets get down to
introducing ourselves since you guys have no idea who we are.
As I said earlier I'm
TotallyProtocol, I've been playing Hearthstone since open beta. I have achieved
the legend rank. I have a background in MTG, never anything super cometitive
but I've been to a few prereleases and limited tournaments, but I was more of a
casual play just playing with friends and Friday Night Magic at my local comic
book store. I also have a background in YouTube, commentating over COD gameplay
giving tips and strategies to improve your game.
CFDragon tell us about
yourself.
I’m CFDragon06. Played
Hearthstone since open beta. I have also achieved legend rank and my first 12
win arena run about a week ago. I play Hearthstone entirely free-to-play and in
Season 3, when I hit legend, I finished the season just outside of the top 100.
I have a background in MTG, primarily as an aggro player, usually mono-red. I
played in a couple of tournaments outside of the standard Friday night Magics
and my best showing was a second place in a sealed limited format tournament at
a Mechacon a while back. I’m thankful for HS’s free-to-play option, since MTG
was getting to be too expensive to keep up with.
Excellent. Before we get
into the news I just wanted to throw a shoutout to Chanman. Value Town ended
last week and I will miss that show so much. Chanman put a lot of effort into
creating content for the community and it's sad to see him go. One of the
reasons I wanted to start a podcast was because I felt like I didn't have
enough Hearthstone shows to listen to at work. Now unfortunately there
will be one less, hopefully this show can be half the show Value Town was.
There were quite a few
tournaments over the weekend and this week. What tournaments did you catch
Dragon?
Sunshine Open talk –
Winner, Impact and runner up, Brian Kibbler (former MTG pro and general card
game pro).
Hyper x – Winner, RDU
winning through loser’s bracket
Heroes of Cards -
Production quality vs Community growth ...RDU disconnect drama
Also an announcement this
week was Realz joining the Hearthstone team as an associate game designer.
Thoughts?
Great move for both Realz
and for Team 5. Sad to see a top pro go from the community, but he can help the
development of HS go in a way that is beneficial for the player (thinking in
ways that may not have been the mindset of team 5 beforehand).
Nax Review - overall
thoughts
overall thoughts – high quality,
fun to play and fun challenge, accessible to all players with or without money,
pros and cons of weekly mini release over 5 weeks
Card highlights: Shade of
Nax, Deathsbite, Loatheb
Card highlights: duplicate
and avenge, so of course mad scientist with those, and spectral knight vs.
sludge belcher
Card lowlights: Stoneskin
Gargoyle, Nerub’ar Weblord
Card lowlights: Poison
Seeds, Zombie Chow
Next expansion: 100-ish
cards, separate boosters, unsure about arena rewards as of yet
Possibly leaning towards
even more minion interaction as a continued focus of the next set (pure
speculation)
Today I Learned: Eye for
and Eye is effected by spell damage buffs. While watching the Tabletop earlier
today Total Biscuit had 2 Malygos on the board and an eye for and eye down,
Trolden had a demolisher which hit TB's face which triggered eye for and eye
dealing 12 damage to Trolden giving Total Biscuit the win.
Today I Learned that
silencing a minion that was equalitied, counts as a full heal of the minion.
This is particularly important to note as a shaman playing with earth shock, as
the spell silences the minion first, then deals the damage.
That's gonna do it for
this week. Thanks for stopping by. CFDragon, shout-outs and where can
people find you?
Shout-outs
Find me on twitter
@CFDragon06
Protocol – any shout-outs
and where can people find you?
And just another shout-out
to Chanman for the awesome work he's done for the community. Shoutout to RDU
for winning everything all the time. Seriously though congrats on
another 2 tournaments won. One last shout-out to my friend Marcus for creating
the opening music to the show.
Find me on twitter
@TotallyProtocol
Referenced links:
IHearthU - ihearthu.com
Sunshine Open - http://hearthstoneopen.com/
Hyper X Tourney - http://www.twitch.tv/wellplayedhs
Heroes of Cards - http://heroesofcards.eu/
Blizzard Launch Event Post - http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/15542009
