Arena Matchups: Killing Uther
Introduction In the Arena Matchup series, we take a broad overview of the most powerful and most popular cards and combos each class runs in the Arena, and we discuss how and to what degree we should...
View ArticleMidrange Hunter With A Twist
Introduction Hi everyone. Trainerdusk again, this time bringing you a weird and wonderful hunter deck that I’ve had an absolute blast with. As soon as I saw the cards coming in the Naxxramas update, I...
View ArticleNaxx Handlock Comprehensive Guide
Hello, I’m LightsOutAce, and today I want to talk about what I believe is the best deck in Hearthstone currently, Handlock. I piloted this deck to legend during the July season, and have iterated on it...
View ArticleArena Play by Play – Part 3: Overloading and Overcommitting
The Arena Play by Play series covers a complete Arena run with very detailed commentary – more so than the video format would allow. With almost every ingame event showcased on a separate screenshot,...
View ArticleArena Play by Play – Part 4: Please No Bloodlust
The Arena Play by Play series covers a complete Arena run with very detailed commentary – more so than the video format would allow. With almost every ingame event showcased on a separate screenshot,...
View ArticleAdvanced Arena Guide: Achieving The Dream
The Best Draft Ever It was a Friday night, and I was walking back to my dorm. Tiffany, that cute brunette girl in my general education class that I thought was giving me all the right signals, just...
View ArticleDeep Dive: The Art of Planning
A long time ago I played Magic: The Gathering. It was merely a hobby, but I really enjoyed it and invested quite a bit into of money the game. I stopped for many years, but when I got back into it, I...
View ArticleMeta Breakdown – Week of 11th August
So it’s been a couple of days since the release of the latest cards from the Military Quarter. And after playing from Rank 10 to 2, conceded back down to 7 and then up again, checking out fellow...
View ArticleFour Decks for Week Four – New Control Warrior
Introduction Now we move on to the next of this series: The updated Control Warrior! Last week I posted a series of articles of decks that I thought were receiving buffs from the cards that were...
View ArticleHearthstone Fundamentals: Card Advantage
Disclaimer: There will be many parallels with established Magic: The Gathering (MTG) philosophy and concepts in this series, which is perfectly natural. Hearthstone is very much alike MTG in a lot of...
View ArticleFour Decks for Week Four – Control Priest
Introduction So we come to this. The last part of this series is upon us, and while I would like to thank you for coming this far, reading my stuff and helping me testing it, it’s not over yet. We...
View ArticleFour Decks for Week Four – Deathrattle Zoo
Introduction Welcome to the last series of pre-Naxxramas theory crafting I am going to make. Well, now we move on to the most expected deck of all, and while it already got buffed up by some of...
View ArticleUpdated Naxxramas Token Druid
This is an update to my previous deck list and guide – the Legend Token Druid. Read more about it here. The Update After Naxxramas’ 4th week, I decided it was about time to modify the deck and give it...
View ArticleHow to Efficiently Start A New F2P Hearthstone Account
Hi all! I’m takeeacy, a F2P (free to play – meaning that I haven’t spent money) legend player who’s also in medical school – I’m a person with very little time, so I try to be very efficient with the...
View Article[Video Analysis] VGVN Grand Finals
SPOILERS WARNING This article contains heavy spoilers from the recently concluded VGVN Naxxramas Release Tournament. If you have not yet, be sure to watch the games at their Twitch channel. Preface I’m...
View ArticleHow to Counter the Rise of Hunters
The Fourth week of Naxxramas saw a huge surge of Hunters, which is populating all ranks up and down the ladder. We’ll first look at the numerous variations of the Hunter decks, then look at some of the...
View ArticleArena Quiz! Warrior Drafting Guide with MrShine
Class is (back) in session! In this arena draft video I’ll be taking you through a draft with the Warrior class – follow along and make your picks with me and we’ll tally up our scores at the end of...
View ArticleBeginner Deck Tech: Basic Warlock
Introduction Of all our Beginner Deck Techs, Basic Warlock is perhaps the most difficult to play correctly. This is because Warlock’s Hero Power, Life Tap, allows him to draw a card at the expense of 2...
View Article*Updated* Midrange Hunter: Beasty Tactics
Update Update with Mad Scientist release : Inclusion of 2x Mad Scientist as the card brings good card advantage and tempo. Addition of 2x Flare to adapt to the current meta loaded with Hunter using...
View ArticleDeadguy (Aggro) Hunter
“This deck is insane.” This card is insane, too (literally). After weeks of anticipation, the Construct Quarter was released! Finally, I could take those pages and pages of scribbled notes and...
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