I absolutely love watching TB playing card games like this. He explains everything in depth without wasting too much time and it's obvious that he enjoys it himself, which is very important.
Last game, what you should have done @ 1:04:50 is: use the manipulator 1st to copy your elemental, then trade the other 2 elementals and use forked lightning to get a guaranteed board wipe against him.
I started watching your stuff when Hearthstone went open and I could get a copy. You do really well and I've learned alot watching your videos. Going back and watching these first ones after learning from your later ones makes these drafts just painful
Please TB, more of this lovely game. I tell myself I'm only going to watch one match and then ending up watching your whole hour of footage. I check my e-mail constantly hoping to be invited to the beta exclusively because of your coverage of this. It's so enjoyable to watch. Keep doing what you do!
I know this is an old episode, I'm just starting the series and this is by no means any type of criticism (nor do I expect this to be seen or read), but I don't see the point in conceding. I've seen people do this, but the fact is against a human, the human error can still be accounted here. If you hadn't conceded and he had miscalculated, you could have possibly had a different outcome. We all make mistakes. Just a thought.
I always concede if there is lethal on the board to save time. You'll run into people who drag out kills and it's super annoying. If there isn't lethal on the board however, then yeah, never concede.
Elamdri Well I agree to that, as far as people wanting to troll you or if it's overly obvious, but some players aren't as attentive as others and can easily miscalculate and make other moves instead of going for lethal and with that one extra turn, it can give you the game sometimes.
at 31:20 I would've played the Dalaran Mage and then lightning bolted the wolf to kill it and gain the overlord and get a free mage out there without any backfire.
Really enjoy hearing your thought process through the play. Definitely think that shaman spellpower deck would have some great potential. Maybe one to do for ranked..
It's great seeing how he's progressed by episode 7, now coming back to episode 2 (I missed this one). Hearing him say, "If you can't kill someone with what you've got, you should focus on minions or else you'll burn out before you can finish them" in one of his latest videos is so damn good because that appears to be the golden rule with Hearthstone.
AAAAAAH, I hate when you surrender! I'd at least ride out the match to the end because nothing is certain, the other guy might make a mistake and you'd be able to keep going! That pessimistic gg no re attitude drives me nuts.
***** Brat or not, he's kinda right. There were plenty of misplays. It takes time to learn yes, but doesnt change the fact that the decision making was shabby.
Guitar Guy I see that. he makes many mistakes, and in the end of episodes he does admit many of them. But it's not painful to watch. If he wants to keep watching sure there is something there that he likes. :)
Around 40min; when you were fighting against priest, a tip for you: When he summoned angy chicken and gave him bonus 3 health, you should atack him with you character first, then use lighting something, because then you take only 1 damage from chicken.
At the end, if you'd killed his 2/2, and subsequently kept your 6/5, his 6/3 would have had to smash into your 0/2 taunt. Then, a bloodlust the next turn would have buffed both 6 damage creatures. The other guy had a silence, sure, but he showed he was more than willing to throw that at an elemental for no reason. Anyway, I think that was the best option.
You do not keep the picks. They did this so you weren't torn between picking cards for your collection or for your deck. So you get to keep the prizes (obviously), which always contains a pack plus some gold and arcane dust.
I like how TB said he needs some heavy hitters during the middle of the draft then proceeds to pass on two fire elementals, a venture Co Merc & a Ravenholdt assassin lol.. oh naive the early days. RIP
i find it so crazy everytime i rewatch this series remembering how inconsistantly terrible TB played in these early games, just watching him completely botch that priest game only to then play near perfect against the druid and then immedietly follow it up with an even more misplay heavy mage game where he develops an insane phobia of attacking minions even when it wouldnt kill his own. Its so much fun to watch especially knowing how much better he gets.
Wow when I listened to your vlog about ccgs I thaught who on earth would like to play a card game on pc. But checked one of your heartstone vids and I am hooked. Definitely going to keep an eye on this game.
Totalbiscult, what do you think of the fatigue system the have in the game. If you didn't know, it only limits you to the 30 cards you have, once you have to more you take damaged each turn, just wondering on your opinion
you just need to have the appropriate number of mana crystals (blue gems in the lower right corner). Every turn you get 1 more crystal and the others replenish. Then you can use them every turn to the max. Every card costs an amount of mana (big blue white number on the upper left of every card). In general minion cards (monsters, humans etc) can't attack in the same turn in which they're played. Exception is when the card has the ability "Charge"
Swordsman down might have given the taunting totem some power as well. It's chance-y, but if your taunt creature's got damage, attacking it becomes more tough.
TotalBiscuit. I will give you a pointer. If you have a chance of taking out his minion or hit the hero nearly always rake out the minion. Number of times you left the minion on the field and that cought you. Damage from unit like Fire Elemental or just your own minion attack hit his minions even if there is no taunt. Unless you need to damage enemy hero to take him out otherways don't hit him. It is much much more important to keep the board as clean as possible.
at the 23:00 mark when he silenced your master swordsman, your forget Lightning was glowing in you hand because it does cost 1 mana, and you had 1 mana, meaning you technicaly should able to use it in opponents turn. Have you tried to use anything in your opponents turn?
I am curious, seeing how I don't recall anybody mentioning it and I am not in the Beta, if you get to keep the cards you draft or if you just get the prizes? It would be understandable to only get your rewards seeing how cheap it is to do the Arena but I could see a more expensive one where you also get to keep your drafts. Just curious if anybody knows or has info if they think of making a more expensive one for keeping your cards.
Just a quick observation: Using lightning bolts and stuff on the opponent at 10+ health seems like a waste. The minions are always seem to be the real problem, as their damage potential goes up the longer they live. A fencing analogue... It's like aiming for the heart while ignoring your opponent's thursts. That's what minions in these games are; thursts and jabs. If they're not parried, they will cause you to lose your balance and stumble, leaving you open for enemy onslaught.
That's not always true though, if you're playing someone who has a lot of traps, charge minions, battlecry damaging minions, taunt minions and/or board clearers, your board control won't help you one bit. Honestly I think one of the better strategies would be to keep putting up fairly strong taunts early on and save up your offensive minions, and once the enemy builds up too strong a presence on the board just wipe it, at which point you'd have 6 or so cards against his 1 or 2.
Stomp: Verb: Tread heavily and noisily, typically in order to show anger. Noun: (in jazz or popular music) A tune or song with a fast tempo and a heavy beat.
I think the green 'z's indicate that it's asleep, and can't be used until the next turn because it was just played. I haven't played this game before, but I'm assuming that's how it works.
"Statistics Canada has just released their report on payroll and earnings for December 2012. It turns out that year over year, the average Canadian salary was up by 2.8% to roughly $47,200 or just over $900 a week." Every report has said at least over 800$ per week.
In that last game, right near the end: play the faceless and copy the fire elemental, then use the first elemental to kill the opposing copy, the spell would then have only the two choices and kill both 2/2 minions.
Yes, because they've had such HUGE success with their recent trading / auction house implementations. I think people appreciate that this game is your form of 'anti-social'. It encourages people to play & earn their cards instead of just trading duplicates with others.
Wow. This comment section is really depressing. Everyone is really angry at 6 months ago TotalBiscuit. Don't even think I want to watch the video anymore.
TB, you should use your totems more as the shaman, you had plenty of chances to snowball the overload buffs and neglected them, hindsight i guess, but if you get lots of cheap totems out early you can decimate with the shaman hero
I thought he did rather well since he's hardly played shaman at all. You guys can refrain from the facepalm comments, since he's his own worst critic. Thanks for the content, TB. I'd love to see more.
I don't understand why you didn't use the flame elemental in the first battle. Rogue's minion had 3-1-2 health and the elemental could have killed them all with it's battlecry
you could of won your last game, you could of took out a minion with your totem and leave him with a 2 damage card. Where he used another 2 damage card which would of meant that you had only 4 damage done
In the last game, the main misplay was not trading off boars before playing the forked bolt. If he would have copied the boar, traded it off, THEN played the bolt, he would have been in a much better position.
@ 15:56 he could have won by playing bloodlust and using his weappon to attack the rouge for (2+3)*2 (10 dmg) and using the fire elemental to deal the remaining 3 damage to win the first game to start off 1/0
I believe there could have been a way to win that last game. You could have made sure your forked lightning hit both his smaller minions by first using the Faceless Manipulator to copy your Fire Elemental, then killing his Fire Elemental with your elemental and THEN using lightning spell. You would have had the same minions at the end of your turn but with all his minions gone which in turn would have ensured one more safe turn for your taunt-totem.
Indeed. Even if you got the size equal; there's still a ton of other factors. You'd have to look at some kind of statistic report average for this kind of thing.
I love how you realise your opponents will relentlessly focus on clearing your side of the board, but still blatantly ignore their creatues with fair frequency. :) It's very amusing.
I enjoyed watching this way more than watching crendor plays. 1. Because you re talking about the cards and why you ll do that and why not that, and you usually decide well. 2. You actually hoover over the cards more often so I know what it does when I forgot 3. Its longer, I dont have to keep on switching vids while im eating I Do like Crendor, im not a hater, this is just my opinion.
at 0:16:25 after the enemy played leroy jenkins, couldt tb jsut summoned the fire elemental and killed leroy with the 3 damage, and used his doom hammer to kill the 6/1?
at 1:05:03, if TB had killed the 2/2 creature which would have forced the elemental to target the taunt and next turn played blood lust which would have given 18 damage overall --> winning move?
These early arena runs from Biscuit are hilarious to watch. Hilarious and infuriating. He was pretty bad back then lol.
tbh he's not amazing now either...
Oscar Magnusson
But definitely better and has better chances by a long shot.
To be fair, if I had recorded my first games playing Hearthstone, I would now be yelling at me, too.
I absolutely love watching TB playing card games like this. He explains everything in depth without wasting too much time and it's obvious that he enjoys it himself, which is very important.
can someone animate thrall beating malfurion with totems? please.
Someone done this yet? :)
I have to say, TB presents it so well it's addictive to watch and hear him play
This series has me shouting at my monitor haha, which is a good thing because its really entertaining
My worst hearthstone round: I use all of my cards to bring out a 9/18 void terror as warlock. Then hunter's mark happened.
Last game, what you should have done @ 1:04:50 is: use the manipulator 1st to copy your elemental, then trade the other 2 elementals and use forked lightning to get a guaranteed board wipe against him.
I started watching your stuff when Hearthstone went open and I could get a copy. You do really well and I've learned alot watching your videos. Going back and watching these first ones after learning from your later ones makes these drafts just painful
Please TB, more of this lovely game. I tell myself I'm only going to watch one match and then ending up watching your whole hour of footage. I check my e-mail constantly hoping to be invited to the beta exclusively because of your coverage of this. It's so enjoyable to watch. Keep doing what you do!
I know this is an old episode, I'm just starting the series and this is by no means any type of criticism (nor do I expect this to be seen or read), but I don't see the point in conceding. I've seen people do this, but the fact is against a human, the human error can still be accounted here. If you hadn't conceded and he had miscalculated, you could have possibly had a different outcome. We all make mistakes. Just a thought.
I always concede if there is lethal on the board to save time. You'll run into people who drag out kills and it's super annoying. If there isn't lethal on the board however, then yeah, never concede.
Elamdri Well I agree to that, as far as people wanting to troll you or if it's overly obvious, but some players aren't as attentive as others and can easily miscalculate and make other moves instead of going for lethal and with that one extra turn, it can give you the game sometimes.
Marsman keep in mind TB is uploading these to youtube and has a time constraint.
at 31:20 I would've played the Dalaran Mage and then lightning bolted the wolf to kill it and gain the overlord and get a free mage out there without any backfire.
Yup, me 2
Wow he could have made an epic Murloc deck from that initial draft did you see how many murlocs came up? That never happens lol.
I did see that, yes! Shame it was only after the Murloc Warleader came up.
Bad picks are not big deals. The bad plays were far worse. He literally threw away at least 1 game. Poor play. :(
Really enjoy hearing your thought process through the play. Definitely think that shaman spellpower deck would have some great potential. Maybe one to do for ranked..
It's so painful to watch..
Then it must be deadly to watch me.
seen a lot of throws in the last game there wrong ordering and stuff... that said, commentating would be a distraction.
It hurts my soul seeing him pass on those two Fire Elementals for pretty lackluster taunts.
It's great seeing how he's progressed by episode 7, now coming back to episode 2 (I missed this one). Hearing him say, "If you can't kill someone with what you've got, you should focus on minions or else you'll burn out before you can finish them" in one of his latest videos is so damn good because that appears to be the golden rule with Hearthstone.
The way you discuss which cards you take is very compelling
I don't ever concede. If I'm screwed, I let my opponent have the satisfaction of blowing me up, or BM'ing me if he so wishes. He earned that.
AAAAAAH, I hate when you surrender! I'd at least ride out the match to the end because nothing is certain, the other guy might make a mistake and you'd be able to keep going! That pessimistic gg no re attitude drives me nuts.
... So many misplays
Love this series. Probably wouldn't play the games myself. But that makes me interested in watching it.
54:05
"INFINITE GLASS!" This made me laugh way more than it should have been.
i hope you get better, cos so far this is painful to watch
then don't watch. Seriously, don't watch the next part, because i don't see why you want to watch something that is painful. just leave
***** or... how about fuck you? yeah, i think i'll take the other option, thanks.
And now you throw personal insults. Why am i not suprised. finding litte brats like you online should be something i'm used to. ahh fml
***** Brat or not, he's kinda right. There were plenty of misplays.
It takes time to learn yes, but doesnt change the fact that the decision making was shabby.
Guitar Guy I see that. he makes many mistakes, and in the end of episodes he does admit many of them. But it's not painful to watch. If he wants to keep watching sure there is something there that he likes. :)
these games he played were such facepalm
lol
Worst plays I've ever seen.
then dont watch him
Around 40min; when you were fighting against priest, a tip for you:
When he summoned angy chicken and gave him bonus 3 health, you should atack him with you character first, then use lighting something, because then you take only 1 damage from chicken.
At the end, if you'd killed his 2/2, and subsequently kept your 6/5, his 6/3 would have had to smash into your 0/2 taunt. Then, a bloodlust the next turn would have buffed both 6 damage creatures. The other guy had a silence, sure, but he showed he was more than willing to throw that at an elemental for no reason. Anyway, I think that was the best option.
Just started the download for this game. I have a feeling I'm going to be spending countless hours on it!
You do not keep the picks. They did this so you weren't torn between picking cards for your collection or for your deck. So you get to keep the prizes (obviously), which always contains a pack plus some gold and arcane dust.
I like how TB said he needs some heavy hitters during the middle of the draft then proceeds to pass on two fire elementals, a venture Co Merc & a Ravenholdt assassin lol.. oh naive the early days. RIP
i find it so crazy everytime i rewatch this series remembering how inconsistantly terrible TB played in these early games, just watching him completely botch that priest game only to then play near perfect against the druid and then immedietly follow it up with an even more misplay heavy mage game where he develops an insane phobia of attacking minions even when it wouldnt kill his own. Its so much fun to watch especially knowing how much better he gets.
Wow when I listened to your vlog about ccgs I thaught who on earth would like to play a card game on pc. But checked one of your heartstone vids and I am hooked. Definitely going to keep an eye on this game.
Dear TB,
I Love hearing you play through HS!!! its really awesome! Please keep it up!
Totalbiscult, what do you think of the fatigue system the have in the game. If you didn't know, it only limits you to the 30 cards you have, once you have to more you take damaged each turn, just wondering on your opinion
you just need to have the appropriate number of mana crystals (blue gems in the lower right corner). Every turn you get 1 more crystal and the others replenish. Then you can use them every turn to the max. Every card costs an amount of mana (big blue white number on the upper left of every card). In general minion cards (monsters, humans etc) can't attack in the same turn in which they're played. Exception is when the card has the ability "Charge"
Swordsman down might have given the taunting totem some power as well. It's chance-y, but if your taunt creature's got damage, attacking it becomes more tough.
Dude this is your best series ever!
TotalBiscuit. I will give you a pointer.
If you have a chance of taking out his minion or hit the hero nearly always rake out the minion. Number of times you left the minion on the field and that cought you. Damage from unit like Fire Elemental or just your own minion attack hit his minions even if there is no taunt.
Unless you need to damage enemy hero to take him out otherways don't hit him. It is much much more important to keep the board as clean as possible.
This guy has to be one of the words kinds of players I have ever seen.
if you are talking about the 3 2 stun totem. no. it had summoning sickness that turn.
the last two...awesome. Its like nail biting suspense.
Great stuff. Keep doing hour long videos, we love them!
Conceding an already lost match is a way of showing your opponent respect and considered good etiquette in many game formats.
That moment where total biscuit takes a young dragon hawk......
I'm loving these Hearthstone vids, keep them up!
at the 23:00 mark when he silenced your master swordsman, your forget Lightning was glowing in you hand because it does cost 1 mana, and you had 1 mana, meaning you technicaly should able to use it in opponents turn.
Have you tried to use anything in your opponents turn?
I am curious, seeing how I don't recall anybody mentioning it and I am not in the Beta, if you get to keep the cards you draft or if you just get the prizes? It would be understandable to only get your rewards seeing how cheap it is to do the Arena but I could see a more expensive one where you also get to keep your drafts. Just curious if anybody knows or has info if they think of making a more expensive one for keeping your cards.
I love it! I've been watching Kripp play and headed over to your channel to see more.
Finnaly, a game that is, slow paced, relaxing, and a game you think about, instead of running around shooting.
I didn't know this game until now but it looks interesting. Nice lp btw it makes really fun to watch.
Just a quick observation: Using lightning bolts and stuff on the opponent at 10+ health seems like a waste. The minions are always seem to be the real problem, as their damage potential goes up the longer they live. A fencing analogue... It's like aiming for the heart while ignoring your opponent's thursts. That's what minions in these games are; thursts and jabs. If they're not parried, they will cause you to lose your balance and stumble, leaving you open for enemy onslaught.
That's not always true though, if you're playing someone who has a lot of traps, charge minions, battlecry damaging minions, taunt minions and/or board clearers, your board control won't help you one bit. Honestly I think one of the better strategies would be to keep putting up fairly strong taunts early on and save up your offensive minions, and once the enemy builds up too strong a presence on the board just wipe it, at which point you'd have 6 or so cards against his 1 or 2.
Stomp:
Verb: Tread heavily and noisily, typically in order to show anger.
Noun: (in jazz or popular music) A tune or song with a fast tempo and a heavy beat.
I love how in the fourth game against the Hunter TB was so giddy at the end wanting to use that Fork Lightning so bad XD
the 10 seconds it takes to let the person have the satisfaction of a real win
I think the green 'z's indicate that it's asleep, and can't be used until the next turn because it was just played. I haven't played this game before, but I'm assuming that's how it works.
"Statistics Canada has just released their report on payroll and earnings for December 2012. It turns out that year over year, the average Canadian salary was up by 2.8% to roughly $47,200 or just over $900 a week."
Every report has said at least over 800$ per week.
0:52:04 You summon a creature with Windfury and don't put it next to the Flametongue Totem. I think it would be much better placed next to the totem.
In that last game, right near the end: play the faceless and copy the fire elemental, then use the first elemental to kill the opposing copy, the spell would then have only the two choices and kill both 2/2 minions.
ahh totalbiscuit when he starts hearthstone "murloc raidar is fonomanal!"
Yes, because they've had such HUGE success with their recent trading / auction house implementations.
I think people appreciate that this game is your form of 'anti-social'. It encourages people to play & earn their cards instead of just trading duplicates with others.
love watching your HS vids. Entertaining. Thanks TB.
That bloodlust at the end. I was like: TB nooo! Out of all the possibilities xD. I'm glad you immediately recognized your mistake tho.
Man, I love watching these. Keep it up, TB! :)
can you silence a creature in stealth to remove the stealth or you can't target it?
Wow. This comment section is really depressing. Everyone is really angry at 6 months ago TotalBiscuit. Don't even think I want to watch the video anymore.
TB, you should use your totems more as the shaman, you had plenty of chances to snowball the overload buffs and neglected them, hindsight i guess, but if you get lots of cheap totems out early you can decimate with the shaman hero
why did you not get out the divine shield tauren, then use the windfury hammer to take out the dragonling and leeroy?
Love the arena runs, maybe do one with each character? or more?
What does he mean when he says rng or whatever when he was building his deck like the card mind control tech?
I thought he did rather well since he's hardly played shaman at all. You guys can refrain from the facepalm comments, since he's his own worst critic. Thanks for the content, TB. I'd love to see more.
I don't understand why you didn't use the flame elemental in the first battle.
Rogue's minion had 3-1-2 health and the elemental could have killed them all with it's battlecry
Love these vids TB! Very fun to watch!
"I didn't really have a way of dealing with that." while moving the mouse past your lava burst.
you could of won your last game, you could of took out a minion with your totem and leave him with a 2 damage card. Where he used another 2 damage card which would of meant that you had only 4 damage done
Watching you play Hearthstone is so addicting. TB what have you done to my spare time.
That's impossible to determine because there are innumerable factors that would make a house worth more or less. It can fluctuate a LOT.
In the last game, the main misplay was not trading off boars before playing the forked bolt. If he would have copied the boar, traded it off, THEN played the bolt, he would have been in a much better position.
Mental image: dual wielding Healing Totems and smacking him on the head with it.
This is why we love you, TB. XD
Hey just so you know I didn't get served any ads on this video. I'm more than happy to watch ads, thought maybe you should know.
Thrall beating Malfurion Stormrage over the head with a healing totem is such an awesome mental image. haha
People complaing that TB sucks... this was one of his first games, he has gotten much better.
That last match was awesome very close keep these up i enjoy them a lot lol
It's crazy and annoying how fast the tide turns sometimes, thank you RNG! Not to ignore good vs bad play, but sometimes it's just out of your hand.
That is dependable. If you are a warlock/mage it isn't, as you have a lot of board-clear.
@ 15:56 he could have won by playing bloodlust and using his weappon to attack the rouge for (2+3)*2 (10 dmg) and using the fire elemental to deal the remaining 3 damage to win the first game to start off 1/0
I was thinking the same one but he is NOOB
Sorry to say but read bloodlust again. It only gives it to minions , not friendly characters, So he couldn't have won.
dumbfuck
I believe there could have been a way to win that last game.
You could have made sure your forked lightning hit both his smaller minions by first using the Faceless Manipulator to copy your Fire Elemental, then killing his Fire Elemental with your elemental and THEN using lightning spell. You would have had the same minions at the end of your turn but with all his minions gone which in turn would have ensured one more safe turn for your taunt-totem.
Indeed. Even if you got the size equal; there's still a ton of other factors. You'd have to look at some kind of statistic report average for this kind of thing.
I love how you realise your opponents will relentlessly focus on clearing your side of the board, but still blatantly ignore their creatues with fair frequency. :) It's very amusing.
All the videos I've watched of Hearthstone are like super HD, is there a reason for that?
And I would like yours, did he say in a video why he disabled it? If so, could you link it?
"Dual wielding totems and smacking Malfurion around the head with it"
Gold.
Does skipping an an still give ad revenue or do I need to let it play out all the way?
I enjoyed watching this way more than watching crendor plays. 1. Because you re talking about the cards and why you ll do that and why not that, and you usually decide well.
2. You actually hoover over the cards more often so I know what it does when I forgot
3. Its longer, I dont have to keep on switching vids while im eating
I Do like Crendor, im not a hater, this is just my opinion.
at 0:16:25 after the enemy played leroy jenkins, couldt tb jsut summoned the fire elemental and killed leroy with the 3 damage, and used his doom hammer to kill the 6/1?
at 1:05:03, if TB had killed the 2/2 creature which would have forced the elemental to target the taunt and next turn played blood lust which would have given 18 damage overall --> winning move?
It is agonizing watching you play, but amusing as hell to hear you beat yourself up. Keep at it!
why didnt you use the 3/2 taunt totem to kill the spell breaker