Episode 252: Hearthstone's Creation, Destruction, and Changing of Modes

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Welcome to Doctor 3 a Hearthstone podcast dedicated to giving you explosive growth in

climbing the standard ranked ladder. Hosted by Katrina, dragonrider and sendmeyourarms (smarms).

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NEWS:

Aisle of Mischievous Toys event has begun, lasts 3 weeks (ending in just a few days!)
- Earn up to 6 Whizbang packs and the Thunder Ape Shaman hero skin.
- Quest line begins with “Play or Destroy 1 Replicator-inator”
  - Bit difficult to complete, reminder you CAN complete this in friendly games
Twist Season call Whizbang’s Heroes began on June 1st https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24077481
- Pick your hero & play - each hero has a pre-built deck, a unique hero power, and a corresponding passive effect.
- Different life totals
- Decks don’t follow normal deck building rules
- June season started with 19 heroes, which are unlocked by owning that hero as it’s legendary card in the collection.
  - 4 of the heroes unlocked by core cards, so those should be automatically unlocked
  - 2 of the heroes were free login rewards (Kael’Thas Sunstrider and C’Thun) - you can get these by having an Ashes of Outland and Whispers of the Old Gods packs and opening those packs in the pack opening screen if you didn’t earn them via logging in in the past
- Weekly Hero Health adjustments planned to keep things balanced, and other things like hero powers, decklists, passives will be adjusted in the normally scheduled balance patches as needed.
- July Twist season will also be this mode, but with an additional 9 heroes added to June’s list of 19 for a total of 28 heroes in July

Mini Topic

Meta since last standard changes

Main Topic

Hearthstone's creation, destruction, and changing of modes

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