Hearthstone: Tavern Brawl 16 September 2015

New edit added to the bottom...

So this will be the first in hopefully a regular blog post about the weekly tavern brawl event in the Blizzard card game, Hearthstone.

These events run Wednesday to Sunday and have unique rules to them and successfully winning a game rewards a Standard card pack, but only one.

So on to this week, it is a repeat of a previous event, or is it?

It is advertised as the unstable portals event but in my two games it was the webspinner event so this is what I shall write about.  

You pick your class and get a pre-constructed deck which is packed full of webspinner cards.  These are 1/1 beasts for 1 mana with a deathrattle of add a random beast to the controlling players hand.  

So you slap down these cheap beasties and hopefully get them killed off to fill your hand with new and improved beasts.

I started with a warlock deck, expecting the portals event, and the deck outside of the spinners had a lot of demon synergy cards but I never saw a demon, not a great start.

The beasts are random so you could end up with Captains Parrot or Ghaz'rilla or anything between.

This event relies a lot on good RNG to be competitive in a lot of cases.   In my 2 games so far first run was a bit poor, no powerful beasts came out so I struggled for board control and eventually lost it in the late game.

The second went a lot better, the RNG gave me King Krush early on so it was a case of holding out for late game, 2 Savage combatants among others helped keep things a bit in my favour until I could get my big dino onto the table to win it.

All in all quite a fun event, may play a few more times for a bit of a laugh but not one of my favourites but should not take long to get the pack.

If it changes back to portals I shall write that up too.

Ok it appears that they have shifted to the portals now.

Still a case of pick a class and get a pre-built deck but instead of lots of spiders it has lots of unstable portals.   This is a 2-mana card that adds a random minion to your hand, the kicker is they cost 3 less (minimum 0).  So you can build yourself quite the stable of cheap high powered minions for some big turns but again watch the board control and hope the RNG favours you!

Enjoy, until next time!