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Joshua Calixto

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Past articles by Josh:

Hearthstone Streamers Respond in Aftermath of Controversial Blitzchung Ruling

After a period of soul-searching, responses have begun to flood in from some of the most visible members in the scene. → Read More

The People Behind Teamfight Tactics Talk Player Expectations And 'Garbage' Characters

Teamfight Tactics has been out for just over a month, and already Riot games’ entry into the auto-battler genre has become one of the top 10 most popular games on Twitch, with a wide-ranging player base and a vibrant community of creators on its hands. But as a new entrant into the fledgling auto-battler canon and with League of Legends-sized shoes to fill, the TFT development squad is faced… → Read More

A New Card Might Make Hearthstone’s Warlock Class Relevant Again

Hearthstone’s Warlock class has seen better days. While it’s historically boasted some of the strongest decks in the game (the Zoo and Handlock varieties have been powerful for much of Hearthstone’s lifetime), the most recent “Rise of Shadows” set failed to give the class good enough cards, and as a result, the class is struggling. Luckily, Warlock is getting a class-exclusive new card from the… → Read More

Upcoming Hearthstone Expansion Will Bring Fresh Mechanics And Resurrect Some Classics

New expansion season has rolled around yet again for Hearthstone. With the “Saviors of Uldum” set, coming August 6, Blizzard’s digital card game is bringing game-changing area-of-effect spells, minions that resummon after dying, and powerful Quest cards that offer a new Hero Power once certain requirements are met. → Read More

Blizzard Responds To Accusations Of Censorship In Hearthstone's Latest Patch

In the lead-up to Hearthstone’s upcoming “Saviors of Uldum” expansion, Blizzard Entertainment released a patch yesterday that ran a couple housekeeping alterations to make way for the new content. The update removed some older cards from the game’s Standard mode, added some new cards to the game’s Classic set, and in a move that’s stirred up tons of controversy, changed the art of eight old… → Read More

Brand New Hearthstone Legendary Card Is Already One Of The Most Popular In The Game

From time to time, Blizzard gives away free Hearthstone cards. Sometimes, they are good. But sometimes, as with the recently released free Legendary card SN1P-SN4P (pronounced “snip-snap”), they are great. Seriously, if you see this thing pop up while you’re playing a game of Hearthstone, you should be scared. → Read More

Blizzard Will Release Significant Hearthstone Buffs For The First Time Since 2014

Yesterday, Blizzard announced that it would be nerfing some of the most powerful cards in Hearthstone in an attempt to break up the dominance of two classes: Rogue and Warrior. If you’ve played the game at all since the release of its latest “Rise of Shadows” expansion, you know that these decks were so powerful that they became oppressive both in tournament and ranked-play settings. While these… → Read More

Hearthstone’s Latest Single-Player Addition Isn’t Free, But It Might Be The Best

With every new Hearthstone expansion, Blizzard makes a habit of releasing free single-player content, mostly as an added draw to bring players back to the fold. In the past, this took the form of grindy deck-building roguelikes and interesting puzzle packs, but the latest expansion, Rise of Shadows, has switched the routine up a bit. The newest Solo Adventure, dubbed The Dalaran Heist, is the… → Read More

Archivist Elysiana Is A Fun Hearthstone Card When Your Opponent Isn't Using It

Up until the launch of this month’s “Rise of Shadows” expansion, Hearthstone was ruled by a few select cards that provide what fans call “infinite” value: Once you played them, you could benefit from their effects for the rest of the game. Deathstalker Rexxar, for example, provided infinite value by letting you add a powerful minion to your hand every turn after you played it. Rexxar is no… → Read More

Hearthstone's New Expansion Is Bringing The Game Back To Its Roots

On its surface, today’s new Hearthstone expansion, Rise of Shadows, looks like just another batch of new cards. But paired with the Year of the Dragon rotation—a major rule change that also drops today and will make some of the game’s most powerful cards illegal in the game’s popular Standard mode—the set looks like it may bring some of the most significant metagame changes that Hearthstone has… → Read More

Magic: The Gathering's Next Expansion Will Radically Alter The Game

Wizards of the Coast is pulling out all the stops for Magic: The Gathering’s April 25 expansion, Ravnica: War of the Spark. The latest is a beautifully animated cinematic lore trailer that launched at PAX East over the weekend. In it, a brooding, sinister take on Linkin Park’s “In The End” plays while Planeswalker Liliana Vess turns her army against Nicol Bolas, an Elder Dragon and one of the… → Read More

Blizzard Removes Two Of Hearthstone's Most Overpowered Cards From Standard Play

Every year, Hearthstone enters a new competitive season that brings sweeping changes and dictates what the game will look like over the coming 12 months. This year, in proclaiming 2019 as the Year of the Dragon, Blizzard has announced a series of changes that will alter powerful cards, switch up the game’s approach to single-player content, change the game’s Arena mode of play, and bring a few… → Read More

Hearthstone's New Tiger Card Will Tear You To Shreds

It was difficult to gauge the quality of Shirvallah, the Tiger before the Hearthstone card released as part of the game’s most recent set, Rastakhan’s Rumble. With its impossibly high Mana cost of 25, it was one of those cards whose strict requirement meant that its true value could only be tested after release. → Read More

Hearthstone Just Got Some Of Its Biggest Nerfs Yet

Yesterday, Blizzard dropped a Hearthstone balance update that could easily qualify as the most significant set of nerfs the game has ever seen. The Druid class, which from Hearthstone’s launch has been defined by the ability to “ramp” up its Mana pool and play more expensive cards at a faster rate than the opponent, will see changes to two of the most important tools in its arsenal. Along with… → Read More

Everything You Need To Know About Hearthstone's Next Expansion, Rastakhan's Rumble

Blizzard has now announced all of the cards from Hearthstone’s upcoming Rastakhan’s Rumble expansion, and once again, it looks like the Hearthstone metagame is in for a huge shake-up once it drops next week. → Read More

Hearthstone's Most Entertaining Card Turns Every Game Into Chaos

Hearthstone games rarely go according to plan. Sometimes you draw the wrong cards and have to make the most of the situation. Sometimes your opponent discards your most important combo piece and you have to find a new way to win the game. Once you play the game enough, you start to get familiar with the decks you’re facing and you learn to avoid your opponent’s potential disruptions. But there… → Read More

When Hearthstone Pros Get Bored, Out Come The Wacky Decks

Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has been live for two months now, and as tends to happen at the end of the expansion cycle, the game is beginning to feel like a waiting room for the December 4 launch of the next set, Rastakhan’s Rumble. Iterations of Hearthstone’s most powerful decks have reigned for months, and while nerfs and a couple new decks have managed to help shake things up,… → Read More

Three Powerful Hearthstone Cards Just Got Nerfed

At the top of the list is the dastardly Giggling Inventor. → Read More

'Zoo Warlock' Is A Powerful Hearthstone Deck That Anyone Can Play

Hearthstone decks come and go, but certain strategies are so prevalent that they never really disappear. Minion-heavy “Zoo Warlock” decks have always been around in some way or another, but throughout the game’s current Boomsday Project expansion, it’s been one of the strongest decks in the game. → Read More

Hearthstone Is Getting New Classic Cards And A More Beginner-Friendly Ranking System

New Hearthstone expansions come out all the time, but it’s fairly rare for the base experience of the game to change outside of that. Earlier this week, Blizzard announced a few changes—including some new cards and tweaks to the ranked ladder system—that set the tone for how the game will evolve in the future. These changes should help ease new players into the competitive experience. → Read More