![]() When that Cube is destroyed, though, two Clockwork Automatons will appear.īut Rats doesn’t stop there. Rats uses it to destroy their Clockwork Automaton. But when that Cube is later destroyed, its Deathrattle effect will summon two copies of that minion. It has a tricky ability: When you play it, you must choose one of your other minions to destroy. Escalation: Carnivorous Cube and Faceless ManipulatorĮnter Carnivorous Cube, a very popular card in the current Hearthstone meta, particularly in Warlock decks. But 16 damage isn’t going to win Rats the game (and in any case, Majordomo Executus is still alive it doesn’t have Ragnaros’ hero power yet). Remember Clockwork Automaton? Clockwork Automaton doubles the damage and healing of your hero power. Ragnaros brings his own hero power to the fray: a 2-mana ability that can be activated once per turn called “DIE, INSECT!” This ability does 8 damage to a random enemy character, either minion or hero. ![]() When Executus is destroyed, it transforms its player’s hero into Ragnaros the Firelord, which does a few different things only one of them is important for our purposes. Here, Rats doesn’t care much about Executus as a minion, but rather about Executus’ Deathrattle effect (which only happens when the minion is destroyed). The core of what Rats is doing relies on the interplay between Majordomo Executus and Clockwork Automaton, a new card introduced in Hearthstone’s latest expansion. So here’s the “trick” Set dressing: Aviana and Kun the Forgotten King In other words: No, you couldn’t pull off this particular trick in a Hearthstone tournament. Hearthstone’s other play mode, Standard, only contains the previous two years of cards (roughly), and Standard is the mode in which official Hearthstone competitions are played. The other thing you should know is that Rats and GetMeowth are playing a Wild game, which means that every card in the history of Hearthstone is available to them. They probably sacrificed a lot to get here (including almost all of their health). If all these flipping cards and shifting minions look like Greek to you, there are two things you should know: Rats here has probably been biding their time for most of the game, stalling GetMeowth in various ways as they drew through their deck in order to pull enough of just the right cards to make this work. He just has to survive one turn and his victory is in the bag.Īnd that’s when his opponent, Rats, plays a complicated and devastating combination of cards that not only destroys GetMeowth’s board but delivers 512 damage directly to his hero - 456 more damage than they needed to win. GetMeowth has his full 30 health and a whopping 26 armor on top of that, and a full board of primarily high-health, high-damage taunt minions. His opponent has no minions on the board, and a pitiful 2 health remaining. Twitch streamer GetMeowth seems to be sitting pretty at the end of this Hearthstone match.
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