How did you get your key? - Page 28

On October 23 2013 15:47 Tobberoth wrote:

I must say Mage is very fun, both aggro and control. As an old white/blue MtG player, I feel very comfortable with the control styles in Hearthstone, will probably work on a decent priest control deck as well. I think Mage is a good deck to start out with though, it seems like the basic cards are enough to have a lot of options and just a bit of luck keeps you going.

Nothing more fun than being in a hopeless position where you have 2 life and no minions and no cards, your opponent has 3 minions of which some have taunt, but he has low life. Your turn, you pick the gnome which lets you pick up another card. You place it, get a fireball, win. This happened to me, it's quite fun to GG, place a card just to see what you get, and win.

On October 23 2013 17:35 Ristle wrote:


Nice, it's good that it transitions over well :D

I'd be interested to know if there's any solid use for a life gain deck, since it was an infuriating tactic when used correctly in MtG, but in HS it seems to be a bit lacklustre. Any other solid MtG style mechanics or equivalents that you've found?

On October 23 2013 17:55 Tobberoth wrote:

I think lifegain is suboptimal in Hearthstone because of several reasons... For one, you can't heal past 30 with normal heals, only +hp cards. Second, there's not too many cards which let you do this. Third, there's only 30 cards in a deck, so you can't have too many cards focusing on lifegain, you need to be able to kill your opponent before card fatigue ruins you.

As for other MtG concepts, I'm sure there are a ton which work out, but I don't have much experience outside of control decks, so I can't comment on how well they transfer.

On October 23 2013 18:02 farvacola wrote:

Nope, minions can get fatter real quick.

On October 23 2013 18:34 HornyHerring wrote:
I just got email from blizzard yesterday evening. This game any good?

On October 23 2013 18:02 farvacola wrote:
Nope, minions can get fatter real quick.

On October 23 2013 18:35 Tobberoth wrote:
No, it's true for minions as well. It seems a lot of people don't know this though, played a guy yesterday who used the paladin heal 6 card on his 6/6 with full life. Obviously, nothing happened. That's just hilarious.

On October 24 2013 01:49 Tobberoth wrote:
Just got an optin beta key, must have just been a new wave sent out. EU.

On October 24 2013 03:19 Roe wrote:
I just got my key last night out of nowhere (didn't sign up for anything). Although curiously enough I just spent the last two days watching totalbiscuit's lord of the arena from episode 1-22 and here I find a beta key!