7) Hearthstone

The Hearthstone: Whispers of the Old Gods cinematic trailer reveals the latest expansion in the popular card game.

Are you tired of fighting those stupid Alliance loyalists all through Azeroth? Are you sick of getting Night Elf blood all over your new Orgrimmar tabard? Want to take a break from ghetto-stomping gnomes? Come down to the tavern, then, where you can sit back, have a pint, and destroy your opponents in a game of cards!

Hearthstone is a wonderful online card game in which you take control of a class-based deck,  with a hero card featuring an archetypal character found in World of Warcraft, such as Garrosh Hellscream(long may he reign) for the Warrior deck. Each deck is made up of standard cards and class cards, as well as some special cards or legendary cards. For example, I, playing as the Rogue(she may be alliance aligned, but she’s a Blood Elf, so I give it a pass), could play the Frostwolf Grunt card, but so could my opponent playing as the Paladin.

However. If I’m feeling particularly cruel, I can ruin my opponent’s whole life by slapping down an Assassinate on that son of a bitch, which is a rogue-specific card one-shotting one of the opponent’s minions.

To win, you and your deck have to bring the opponent’s hero card down from 30 HP to 0. You can do this in a couple of ways, from damaging spells, to attacking with minions, to using your own hero power(a dagger dealing one damage, for the rogue) to shank a mother.

You can customize your decks, too. In fact, no two decks are the same at all, though there are standard setups and builds. But as long as you like your deck and can win with it, it won’t matter.

Hearthstone has recently released an expansion, “Whispers of the Old Gods”, in which you can add C’Thun to your deck. His “battlecry”(an effect that activates as soon as you play the card) is to deal damage equal to his attack, randomly split among all enemies. Okay, whatever, right? He’s a 6/6(six damage, six health), what’s he gonna do? Well, the thing about that is that Cthun has worshippers, with cards that add +1/+1 to his damage/health at the end of every turn. So if you aren’t careful, you might get smacked the fuck down by a 20/20 Old God, effectively ending the game.

What I’m saying is, Hearthstone is awesome. Play it.

Firelord's about to get OWNED

Video showcasing a warrior deck playing against a rogue, wizard, and shaman deck.