[Hearthstone]  VFL Weekly #9 HIGHLIGHTS Semi Finals 2 DeadlyKitten vs. Goddraw
Channel: Virtual Fantasy League
Date: 05/09/2016

[Hearthstone]  VFL Weekly #9 August 17, 2016.   HIGHLIGHTS Semi Finals 2 DeadlyKitten vs. Goddraw
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Hearthstone is a free-to-play digital strategy card game that anyone can enjoy. Players choose one of nine epic Warcraft heroes to play as, and then take turns playing cards from their customizable decks to cast potent spells, use heroic weapons or abilities, or summon powerful characters to crush their opponent

The Grand Tournament is the second expansion to Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, featuring 132 collectible cards, as well as 16 uncollectible cards. The expansion was released August 24, 2015, shortly after 10am PDT/7pm CEST.
Based around World of Warcraft's Argent Tournament, the expansion features a strong Hero Power theme, with numerous ways to modify, augment and replace Hero Powers, and introduces the first full keyword since the game's launch, Inspire - a special kind of triggered effect which will activate each time the controlling hero uses their Hero Power. It also introduces a new non-keyword mechanic, Joust. When activated, this ability causes a minion to be revealed from each player's deck, and if the player who initiated the Joust has the higher mana cost minion, a special effect is activated, depending on the Joust minion.

In addition to new cards, the expansion will see changes to the Quest Log and Ranked Play mode, with players who have exceeded Rank 20 that season gaining special rewards at the end of the season, scaling depending on their highest rank. Arena will also be changed to award random card packs, rather than only those from Goblins vs Gnomes.

The expansion introduces numerous characters and races from the Argent Tournament and Northrend in general, such as the tuskarr, val'kyr and kvaldir.

The release of the expansion was preceded by Grand Tournament Match, a special Grand Tournament-themed Tavern Brawl designed to showcase the expansion's two new mechanics: Inspire and Joust. The Brawl allowed players access to certain cards from the expansions before they are otherwise available, through special pre-made decks. The Brawl opened August 19 and closed August 24, several hours before the release of the expansion.
The expansion's data was added to the game with Patch 3.0.0.9786, on August 18.

"We've traversed the tombs of Naxxramas; we've climbed every cliff on Blackrock. Now, the world cries out for heroes, as a new evil rises. There will be danger! There will be doom! There will be ancient temples, filled with relics, treasures and traps! Who will answer the call?"

The League of Explorers (LoE) is an upcoming adventure for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, to be released November 12, 2015.[1] An assortment of boss battles and Class Challenges with both Normal and Heroic modes, the adventure will feature 45 new collectible cards.[2] With a strong theme of exploration, the adventure will bring new battlefields, a new card back, and also a new keyword - Discover. In addition to the usual boss battles, the adventure will also debut a new kind of encounter - where the player must survive through several rounds of traps, ambushes and environmental events to escape to safety.
The adventure sees the player following four famed adventurers - Elise Starseeker, Reno Jackson, Sir Finley Mrrgglton, and Brann Bronzebeard - on a journey through some of Azeroth's most exotic and dangerous locations, on a quest to recover an ancient Titan artifact - the Staff of Origination. As each wing is completed, players will gather pieces of the Staff, and put them on display in the museum. However, the League of Explorers are not the only ones searching for the artifact, and danger waits within the shadows.