Episode 18!

• TLDL:
• Hearthstone
  • OX and his one week Legend Run
  • Grandmasters 2020 Standings
    • Week 2 finals Lnguagehackr v. gallon
      • Lnguagehackr:
        • Demon Hunter
        • Priest
        • Spell Druid
        • Pirate Warrior Banned
      • Gallon:
        • Highlander Rougue
        • Demon Hunter
        • Pirate Warrior
        • Zoo Lock Banned
    • Top 5 Grandmasters are Gallon, bloodyface, lnguagehackr, empanizado, and eddie; justsaiyan, frozen, pnc, zalae, and muzzy bringing out the top ten.
• MTG:
  • Secret Lair drop: Godzilla lands
  • Good Morning Magic w/Gavin Verhey (sn. Magic Designer)
  • Sunsetting Planeswalker Points and DCI
  • Flash banned in Commander
  • WOTC during COVID_19
    • TCGPlayer warehouse union
• Legends of Runeterra
  • Bilgewater revealed!!
    • New heroes
      • Twisted Fate
      • Miss Fortune
      • Gangplank
      • Nautilus
      • Fizz
  • Iona Heroes!
    • Lee Sin
    • Maybe akali??? Maybe Shen??
• Links:
  • Runeterra Spoilers
    • https://twitter.com/PlayRuneterra/status/1254802737369407489/photo/1
  • Bernie Sanders Rhystic Studies Alter
    • https://twitter.com/UncleItsEvan/status/1250816385497759744
  • WOTC gives back
    • https://www.dndbeyond.com/
  • Grandmasters 2020 week 2 standings
    • https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/esports/standings/?region=NA&seasonId=1&stage=1&year=2020
  • Gavin Verhey twitter
    • https://twitter.com/GavinVerhey
  • Sunsetting Planeswalker Points
    • https://magic.gg/news/sunsetting-planeswalker-points
  • Liquid_Ox new account guide
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveHS/comments/g67kwd/new_f2p_account_to_top_300_legend_in_4_days_with/

Episode 17! 

• Intro
  • HAI!!! Welcome to episode 17 of Hearthwalkers: The hearthstone and Magic the gathering and runeterra podcast! My name is wholfie and we got a jam packed show for you today! With some housekeeping today plz don’t forget to share and rate our podcast on itunes so more people can find the goodness that is card games! Follow us on twitch and subscribe to the youtube channel!!! You can find us on twitter @wholfie and with that being said lets start out with RUNETERRA!!

• Runeterra:
  • New champs!!
    • Quinn
    • Sejuani
    • Vi
    • Swain
    • Moakai
      • All released on twitter along with other cards periodicly
  • Patch Notes:
    • Updates to expedition for further fine tunning and  secondary archetype support
    • Card updates
      • Draven: Can now level up by hitting once with two spinning axes
      • Katarina: Play, add fleeting blades edge in hand.
      • Yasuo: health up from 3-4 | 4-5
      • Kalista: Ive seen 4->3 allies die
      • Ezreal and Karma are on the watchlist for changes
        • `Both cards are extremely usefull in control OTK decks but haven’t hit winrates that need to be managed yet.
      • Quality of life changes to followers including Buffs for freljord followers in health and small buff to lategame noxus followers.
• Hearthstone!
  • The Outland Inn-Vitational is coming April 21 from 9am-2pm
    • Will be pitting two teams of 10 creators, pro’s and community leaders
    • Each player will play only one class for four bo3 rounds
    • On rounds 2 and 4 one team will be only demon hunter.
    • 100,000 prize pool on the line.
  • 17.0.2 patch notes
    • Kael’thas Sunstrider 6->7 mana
    • Bad luck albatross 3-> 4 mana
    • Frenzied Felwing 3 health -> 2 health
    • Demon Hunter –
    • Altruis the Outcast Old: Cost 3 mana, 3 Attack / 2 Health → New: Cost 4 mana. 4 Attack / 2 Health.
    • Battlefiend Old: 2 Attack / 2 Health → New: 1 Attack / 2 Health.
    • Glaivebound Adept Old: 7 Attack / 4 Health → New: 6 Attack / 4 Health.
    • Warlock –
    • Sacrificial Pact Old: Destroy a Demon. Restore 5 Health to your hero. → New: Destroy a friendly Demon. Restore 5 Health to your hero.
    • Bloodbloom Old: Cost 2 mana → New: Cost 4 mana.
    • Paladin –
    • Libram of Justice Old: Cost 6 mana → New: Cost 5 mana.
    • Mage –
    • Open the Waygate Old: Cast 6 spells that didn’t start in your deck. Reward: Time Warp. → New: Cast 8 spells that didn’t start in your deck. Reward: Time Warp.
    • Battlegrounds
    • Millhouse Manastorm Old: Minions cost 2 Gold. Refresh costs 2 Gold. Start with 3 Gold. →
    •  
    • New: Minions cost 2 Gold. Refresh costs 2 Gold. Tavern Tiers cost (1) more. Start with 3 Gold.
  • 
    Grandmasters 2020
    • Starts Friday April 17th!
    • Fridays Saturdays, and Sundays on youtube gaming
    • Casters: 
      • AMERICAS: Dan “Frodan” Chou and TJ “Azumo” Sanders 
      • ASIA-PACIFIC: Jia “Jia” Dee and Darroch “Darroch” Brown
      • EUROPE: Simon “Sottle” Welch and Alex “Raven” Baguley
    • Prize Pool: USD $500,000 in prizing globally for Grandmasters Season 1
    • Swiss rounds for the first 3 weeks, then a round robin for weeks 4-7, with the playoffs in week 8.

Gameplay format changes every week:

• Week 1: Conquest with 1 Ban
• Week 2: Four Deck Last Hero Standing with 1 Ban
• Week 3: Ten Deck Conquest with 6 Bans

Weeks 4 – 7: Round Robin

Weeks 4 –7 will consist of round-robin group play within the two divisions in each region—much like the previous seasons of Grandmasters. 

• Following weeks 1-3, players will be sorted into two divisions based on their points standings. Division A is comprised of the top-8 point-earning players, and Division B will be point total ranks 9-16.
• The two divisions compete in round-robin group play over four weeks. The standings at the of conclusion of these weeks will determine who will go on to compete in Playoffs, and who will be relegated from Season 1.
• The format will stay consistent during round-robin weeks:
  • Bo5 Conquest (4 decks, 1 ban)

Week 8: Season 1 Playoffs

Round-robin weeks lead into Week 8 Playoffs, which will qualify one player per region to the World Championship at the end of the year, while three players from each region will be relegated.

• Top 6 from Division A automatically make it into Playoffs.
• Top 4 from Division B compete in a play-in round to determine who will join the top 6 from Division A in a dual tournament bracket for Playoffs.
• The 7th- and 8th-placed players in Division B at the close of round robin are automatically relegated from Season 1 of Grandmasters.
• Final relegation will be determined via a 3-match Play-In involving the 7th- and 8th-placed from Division A, and 5th- and 6th-placed from Division B.
• The winner of Playoffs from each region will qualify to the Hearthstone World Championships later this year.

• Current Rankings:
• Magic@!!
  • Gavin Verhey on playing Commander at home
  • Ikoria Story through cards article!
  • Patch notes for 1.07.00.00
    • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths available now!
    • Player draft is live
    • Godzilla Series monsters and how to get them.
    • Stay at home, play at home
      • Arena Promo Packs
      • Firesong and Sunspeaker )Brawlers Guildhall)
      • FNM Schedule:
        • April 17, do whatever
        • April 24th: Singleton
        • May 1: Artisan
        • May 8th: Pauper
        • May 15th: Historic Brawl
    • Store champions
    • Advanced filtering
      • New ui
      • Can filter different copies of same card
      • Change deck format within filters
      • Companion in deckbuilder
    • New Card UI for abilityes and keywords

Episode… 16

REVAMP!

Special thanks to Kawaii Overload for Cat’todic, our intro song!

Intro: HI! Welcome Back! New format, lots of stuff happening what we’re doing, what you should be doing. Start the show>

Hearthstone:

• Ashes of Outland IS OUT NOW!!!
• Demon Class is sick and borderline OP
• HotPatches came out right away to help balance.
• Skull of Gul’dan – Now costs 6 mana, up from 5.
• Imprisoned Antaen – Now costs 6 mana, up from 5.
• Eye Beam – Now reads: Lifesteal. Deal 3 damage to a minion. Outcast: This costs (1).
• Aldrachi Warblades – Durability decreased from 3 to 2.
• Meta Report?

Magic:

-Ikoria is COMING!!!

*Not going to be going over specific cards here*

-Showcase cards are in “Comic book” style, with art breaking out of the card borders

-Special Kaiju cards are in partnership with Toho and are Alternate art Kaiju art cards!

-15 in normal Ikoria Set

-1 as a buy a box promo (Zilortha, Strenght Incarnate // Godzilla, king of monsters)

-3 Japan only series cards

-Ikoria Book: Sundered Bond by Django Wexler

Two different bundles for Arena, constructed (Vivian) or limited (Lukka)

– Commander Ikoria is lit!

• Each deck comes with a Secondary Commander, A pair of Partner commanders, free spell cycle, Impetuses cycle, and Planeswalker. 
• Ruthless Regiment (WBR)
  • Nahiri, the Harbinger
  • $187 value
• Arcane Maelstron (URG)
  • Jace, Archtect of thought
  • $180 value
• Symbiotic Swarm (WBG)
  • Ajani Unyielding
  • $165 value before release
• Timeless Wisdom (WUR)
  • Chandra Flamecaller
  • $212 value
• Enchanced Evolution (UBG)
  • Nissa, Steward of Elements
  • $191 value before release

Runeterra:

• Official launch and Mobile port coming April 30th
• Total of 120 new cards are said to be available on release, with 11 new champions.
• No Collection wipe!!!
• Rank Reset and ladder season will be 2 months long.
• Quick tips for new players

Outro:

• A great time to play card games buuuuut. Check out Valorant.
• Please follow on social media @Wholfie
• We stream on twitch.tv/wholfie
• Subscribe and rate on itunes

Legends of Runeterra is finally in open beta, so lets talk about it!!! Hopefully we don’t have to change the name of the podcast to include this game…

Ep.15 – Learning a New Game

• TLDL
• Intro
  • Sorry for the late episode
  • All the Card Games are doing all the things!
  • New Format/Old Format
• MTG
  • Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • Choose your Champion
  • MTG Creator Program/The Greenlight Fund
    • Couple of ideas…
  • Pioneer Official Season!
    • http://manatutors.com/index.php/2020/01/23/the-medium-guide-to-post-beta-pioneer/
    • https://www.cfbevents.com/2020
  • Theros Beyond Death Update
    • What’s the meta like?
      • Sooo many mono red decks
      • A lot of mono black devotion
      • Basicly anything from before is still here
    • Whats the scoop?
      • Settling decks:
        • Mono Black Devotion combined with sultai sacrifice
        • Golgari Escape
        • Mono blue control (steal your stuffs)
        • Gruul aggro
        • Izzet Artifacts?
        • WUBRG Devotion?
        • Enchanted Super Friends
• Hearthstone
  • 16.2 patch!
    • Ch.1 of Galakronds awakening
      • New cards from chapters
    • Battlegrounds!
      • Tirion fordring
      • Millhouse Manastorm
      • New Minions
        • Imprisoner
        • FiendishServant
      • Voidwalker and sir finley removed
      • Scoreboard aand bonus stats
      • Golden copies
        • Brann, baron rivendare, zapp slywick
• Main Topic: Legends of Runeterra
  • Open Beta live now!!! 
  • Quick overview of game/mechanics
  • ranked/
  • Expeditions

Ep14!

Theres so much news going around right now we had to split the episodes in HALF!!! Galakrond’s awakening is coming out soooooon and we need to know WHATS UP!

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Ep.14.1

Theros: Beyond Death is nigh and we’re doing it! We’re talking about the cards! There were a whoooole bunch of them including a lot of Hearthstone stuff this week so we talk about that on a SEPERATE EPISODE!!!

This episode we talk about all the mythics in the set, any notable rares, draft strategy and the state of the meta post TBD. Also theres some news and such we touch on before hand!

Check us out on twitch at:

twitch.tv/wholfie

say hi @Hearthwalkers on twitter

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• Ep.13 – Content Creators worth at least 4 mana
  • TLDR
  • News:
    • MTG
      • We will not talk about spoilers untillll next weeks episode.
      • At Death’s Door, pt1
      • MTGA January Season
        • Theros officially comes out Jan. 24 (Jan 16 on MTGA/O)
        • Mastery Week Events?
        • Our standings last season
    • Hearthstone:
      • HSReplay 2019 graph
        • Hunter in top 3 decks for most of the year
        • Shaman presence only arround Oct
        • DoD Pushed Shaman to above 30% decks played
        • Warlock and Druid lowest on the totem pole
      • Power Syndicate Data Report
        • https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/drr/vs-power-rankings-data-reaper-report/
        • Tier 1
          • Galakrond Warrior
          • Resurect Priest
          • Pirate Warrior
        • Tier 2
          • Galakrond Shaman
          • Deathrattle Rgue
          • Highlander Rogue
          • Zoo Warlock
          • Galakrond Rogue
          • Token Druid
        • Tier 3
          • Highlander Hunter
          • Hand Warlock
          • Mech Paladin
          • Face Hunter
          • Highlander Mage
        • Tier 4
          • Holy wrath Paladin
          • Galakrond Priest
    • Main Topic!
      • Creator Showcase!
        • Hearthstone
          • The Angry Chicken
          • RIP OmniStone
          • RegisKillbin
          • Krip
          • Disguised Toast
          • Lightforge Podcast
        • Magic
          • Loading Ready Run
          • The Command Zone Podcast
          • Quest for the Jankloard
          • Tolarian Community College
          • Rhystic Studies
          • Humans who make Magic
          • Alpha Investments
        • Other
          • Nhymmm
          • Ruggles
          • Cimooooo
          • TheJWittz
          • MTG NerdGirl
        • Non-TCG
          • TheTryGuys
          • David Razi  
          • Multitude Podcasts
            • Potterless
            • Horse
            • Join The Party
            • Spirits
          • Not Another DnD Podcast
          • Wizard and The Bruiser
          • StoryBreak
          • How did this get Played
          • Hello from the magic tavern
          • Do by friday

• Ep.12
  • TLDR
  • News:
    • MtG:
      • Theros Beyond Death Story will not be a novel, moving back to somewhat what Wizards used to do.
      • Challenger Decks coming back BBAY! April 3rd 2020
        • Almost definitly will have Jund Sacrifice
      • MtG companion app (android open beta)
        • Basicly useless right now, but still good to have
      • Theros Beyond Death Buy a Box issues
        • Buy a box promo is supposed to be a foil Athreos, Shroud-Veiled, and one Full Art Foil Nyx land
        • Buy a box promos shipped out non foil lands
        • Foil lands to be sent out in time for PreRelease weekend.

• Pioneer bans
  • Oko (obv) and Nexus of Fate cause not fun
  • No more bans until Jan. 6th
• Hearthstone:
  • New Years Bash Tavern Brawl
    • Co-op brawl to get a high score.
    • Reward – Classic Pack
  • Meta Update!
    • Pirate Warrior 54%
    • Quest Resurrect Priest 54%
    • Secret Highlander Hunter 53%
    • Galakrond ZooLock 53%
    • Galakrond Warrior 53%
    • Mech Paladin 53%
• ESPROTS!
  • MTG
    • 2020 Mythic Invitationals
      • Lead directly into Mythic Championships
      • Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths – May 14-17
      • Core 2021 – July 23-26
      • Zendikar Rising – Oct. 22-25
      • Each event will go from 64 to 128 invitiees (get invitations from Arena Qualifiers, Mythic Points and Ancillary tournaments)
      • Mythic Point Challenges
        • B03 standard event for the top 1200 Ranked players.
        • Get Mythic Points to qualify for Invitationals and even Rivals league and Mythic Championships
    • GP Portland
      • Congrats to Dylan Nollen | Rakdos Knights winner!
      • Jund Sacrifice most played deck
      • Top 8 consisted of 2 BR Knights, 2 Simic Flash, Golgari Midrange, Jeskai Fires, Temur Adventure, and Gruul Adventure.
  • Hearthstone:
    • Team NoProsHere
      • Released a Conquest meta report from data collected between Masters Qualifiers #19-36 this weekend
      • Warrior beating out the spread with Token Druid and Highlander Mage bringing up the rear.
    • Global Games Update
      • Congrats Denmark!
        • No update to website?
• Main Topic!
  • Playing on a budget!
    • What does budget play mean
    • Just because you’re on a budget doesn’t mean it’s a bad deck
      • Commanders Quarters
      • Dusting/Trading
    • F2P players and budget decks
    • How to budget in MtG
    • How to budget in Hearthstone
    • Pokemon??!?
    • What else are you guys playing (Hex?)

Bonus episode on one of the OG card games! Pokemon the Trading Card Game!!!

If you think I got something wrong or would just like to correct me, ask any questions or just say hello! You can swing by and say hai at

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hearthwalkers@gmail.com

or @wholfie / @Hearthwalkers on twitter!

• Ep11
  • TLDR
  • News
    • MtG
      • Theros Beyond Death Magic Arena preorder
        • Elspeth Play Bundle
          •  49.99
          • Mastery pass plus 10 levels
          • 2 Theros beyond death sealed tokens
          • 1 Elspeth, suns nemesis card
          • Elspeth, suns nemesis card style
          • Elspeth Basic Sleeve
        • Ashiok Pack Bundle
          •  49.99
          • 50x Theros beyond death booster packs
          • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare muse card
          • Ashiok, Nightmare muse card style
          • Ashiok basic sleeve
        • Eldraine Mastery info
          • 20 extra standard packs
          • 2000 gems
          • 10,000 gold
          • 25 Card Styles
          • 25 Set mastery orbs
          • 10 Mythic Rare ICR
          • 3 Rares icr (1;8 upgrade)
          • Magic mirror excuisite sleeve
    • Hearthstone
      • Balance Patches!
        • Shaman is a little out of hand
          • Corrupt Elementalist 5->6 mana
          • Sludge Slurper 2->1 atk
          • Faceless Corruptor 5->4atk
          • Mogu Fleshshaper 7->9 mana
        • Battlegrounds updates
          • Boogeymonster  5->4 tavern tier
          • Mechano egg 5->4 tavern tier
          • The Beast 4->3 tavern tier
          • Coldlight Seer 2->3 tavern tier
          • Primalfin lookout 4->5 tavern tier
          • Nightmare Amalgam no longer available
          • Brann Bronzebeard removed from hero pool
          • Bartendotron added back to the pool of heros
      • Hearthpwn Battlegrounds data
        • Brann Bronzebeard – 13.66% winrate
        • Arch villain rafaam 13.61% Winrate
        • Nefarian 13.18% winrate
        • Ragnoros, Sir Finley, Sylvanas Windrunner, and Queen Toggwagle all around 4% winrate
      • The end of OmniStone…
      • Brawlidays event
        • Receive holiday card back!
  • Esports!
    • Hearthstone Global Games?
      • Congrats to Denmark?
        • Combo Priest
        • Tempo Rogue (protected)
        • Holy Wrath Paladin
        • Galakrond Shaman (banned)
      • Championship sunday!
    • Changes to Mythic Qualifiers?
    • Magic Fest Austin
      • Mythic championship Team Series
        • Team Ultimate Guard
          • Andrew Cuneo
          • Reid Duke
          • Jon Finkel
          • William Jensen
          • Paul Rietzl
          • Matt Sperling
        • Hareruya Sword
          • Kelven Chew
          • Jeremy Dezani
          • Javier Dominguez
          • Gregorz Kowalski
          • Andrea Mengucci
          • Lee Shi Tian
        • Sunday Jan. 12 followed by Pre Pre Release
    • World Mythic Championship 
      • 1,000,000 in prize support
        • 300,000 to first place (biggest payout in MtG History)
      • First Worlds on Arena
      • Honolulu Hawaii, Feb 14-16th
  • Main Topic!!!
    • The Gush
    • Your connection with the game
    • Find a connection to the other person
    • Find a hook
    • LETS DUEL!
      • Tips for handling a new player
      • Tips for playing against new players
    • Whats the point?