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Foreword

A friend recently got me back into Hearthstone (a Digital Collectible Card Game), and he thought this deck was interesting enough to post.

Explanation

The star of this deck is Explorer’s Hat. It works well with Zombie Chow and Steamwheedle Sniper to gain board position early. Cards like Wild Pyromancer, Violet Teacher, and Djinni of Zephyrs work well with multiple castings of the Hat. Overall, this deck does well when you draw a hat early since you can make favorable trades.

Combinations

Gahz’rilla can one shot players if you have a Wild Pyromancer and 2 or 3 spells (Hats) to cast. Wild Pyromancer with Hats is also solid AoE damage. Arch-Thief Rafaam works quite nice with Djinni of Zephyrs to get 2 +10/+10 buffs.

Cut Cards

I have been refining this deck for a couple days, and the cards that did not make it are explained below:

Webspinner: The 1/1 stats weren’t doing enough for early game tempo, and the random beast deathrattle wasn’t reliable.
Other Secrets: Mainly the secrets just weren’t reliable enough. Snake Trap and Bear Trap stay in because they are above the curve (3/3 worth of stats for 2 crystals).
Glaivezooka: This was decent, and I could potentially experiment with it more.
Desert Camel: This was frequently not beneficial enough for me because of the strength of my opponent’s class-specific 1 crystal minions.
Ball of Spiders: Same reasoning as the individual Webspinner. The spell aspect wasn’t enough, especially after I cut summoning Stone.
Fjola Lightbane: Didn’t do enough when I didn’t have Hat.
Summoning Stone: Occasionally did great things, but I think replacing it with a second Violet teacher has been slightly better.
Emperor Thaurissan: It just didn’t feel strong enough since my draw is lacking and I need my big minions to win me the game.

Potential Cards

I do not own these cards, but they could work: Feign Death, Lock and Load, Dreadscale, and Eydis Darkbane.

Now that I have built up a comfortable amount of posts, I am going to reduce the minimum number of posts per week to 3. While I will still produce 1+ game reviews and 1+ strategy articles a week, I am going to be focusing on searching for an entry level position in board gaming, making my own games, and beautifying the blog a bit more.

My Epic Card by Card Analysis (Drafting) article has just been updated to include analysis for all of the Wild faction cards. Click the article title in the previous sentence to be directed there.

My analysis of all of the factions against each other will be completed by end of day 2/22/16. I’ll explain why I like certain factions over others and my general drafting philosophy.

My Epic Card by Card Analysis (Drafting) article has just been updated to include analysis for all of the Sage faction cards. Click the article title in the previous sentence to be directed there.

My analysis of the Wild cards will be completed by end of day 2/15/16. The frequently referenced Lightning Storm will finally get its rating and explanation.

My Epic Card by Card Analysis (Drafting) article has just been updated to include analysis for all of the Good faction cards. Click the article title in the previous sentence to be directed there.

My analysis of the Sage cards will be completed by end of day 2/8/16. I will finally get to explain why I talk about Muse and Erase so much.

Who I Am

My name is Tom Sorenson. I am a History, English double major with a computer science minor who gave up a position programming with a major financial software company to follow my passion, games. Currently I am working on designing board games that I can then submit to small game companies to get my foot in the door of the industry. (I am also working part-time at a local Planet Fitness.)

I am creating this blog to serve a few purposes. The obvious selfish one is to create a body of work that I can present to companies to display what I am capable of producing. For everyone else, I want to create a place for people to break into and advance in the hobby of board games. I will primarily be reviewing games in a manner that assumes no familiarity with the subject. While this blog is partly for myself, I honestly want more people to get into the hobby because I believe it is so amazing. In addition to my reviews, I will be including links to good places to buy games, other reviewers/board game websites, conventions, and anything else I believe new gamers might want to access.

My other primary goal of this website is to discuss the Epic Card Game by White Wizard Games. This is by far my favorite game currently, I want more people to play it, I want to discuss strategy, I want to cover competitive play, and I want to compete in it personally. I am unquestionably biased in this regard because I did help to fund the game through Kickstarter.com, I went to their HQ to design a card for a future expansion as a reward, and I like the employees there. I am, however, not receiving any money from them and will be honest about how I feel about their products. For instance, I am not nearly as big a fan of their other game Star Realms as the rest of the gaming community seems to be, but I don’t dislike it.

List of #1 Favorite Games Over the Years

For fellow gamers here is a list of my favorite games over the years to give you an idea of what I generally enjoy *see picture above as well*. The list starts with my current favorite and goes back to Monopoly. It includes board games, computer games, and one sport.

Epic Card game
Race for the Galaxy
Smash Up
Dominion
Civilization 5
Axis and Allies (1940 European and Pacific Combined 2nd Edition)
Racquetball
Magic: The Gathering
Guild Wars
Risk 2210
Stratego
Masterpiece
Monopoly

My High Level Board Game Design Ideas

Jury-Rigging Mech Arena Game
Multi-deck Mill-centric Non-Collectible TCG
Bowling Deck Building Game