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Hero rankings:

Bullshit tier:

Rogue. Key cards: Backstab, shiv, spell and weapon synergy cards. Rogues are the easiest class to 9-x with, they have tons of options to keep the board clear of enemy creatures and tons of wonderful synergies and bullshit. Coin + defias, dagger mastery + deadly poison, spell power + all the removal. For this reason they're also really common since a lot of people seem to know how imba this class is.

Pretty good tier

Warrior. Key cards: Fiery War axe... [Read More]

HS is the League of Legends to Magic the Gathering's Dota and I feel it's important to make this comparison because the first thing a lot of people will think when they see or hear about HS is "gee this seems a lot like Magic".

Like magic you take turns drawing cards and summoning creatures and cast spells and try and turn your opponents life total to 0, but HS is a much more accessible game in basically every way. It takes about 5 seconds to learn the rules and it's free to play whereas... [Read More]

Most people are shit at draft. Here is an attempt to fix that a little.

Tips!

MOST CREATURES WITH TAUNT SUCK.

Goldshire footman, frostwolf Grunt, Shieldbearer, Mogu'shan warlord are all unplayable garbage. Fen Creeper, ironfur grizzly, Lord of the Arena and Booty Bay body guard are all mediocre but can be played if nothing else is there to pick. Sen'jin shieldmasta is one of the best cards in the game. Sunwalker and Abomination are alright.

This is probably the most important tip I... [Read More]

EDIT: holy **** this is enormous. I'm gonna cut it up into sections.

It seems that writing about ACL melbourne is what all the cool people do so I figure I'd join in but my natural desire is to show off so I have decided to talk about not one, not two, but FOUR tournaments! I don't normally do this but it's been the best few months for me career-wise and that's more interesting then my usual story of "beat a few zergs but not enough, infestors overpowered, bleh".

TL;DR:





IEM... [Read More]

I meant to get a haircut a few years ago but I got sort of lazy. Now it's about 2 feet long and getting kind of irritating so I want to get rid of it, but I'd rather sell it for a few dollars rather then watch some hairdresser sweep it all into a bin.

I googled "sell hair sydney" but it doesn't seem to be helpful direct information about where to go or who to talk to. There's a website called thehairtrader.com but it seems kind of scammy so that's unhelpful. So now I'm confused, but maybe... [Read More]

I get asked "hey iaguz do you coach?" a lot. I usually don't since time spent coaching could be spent playing/studying starcraft but seeing as the next month is pretty quiet, I might give it a go again. After all, I do like money, and coaching is easy.

So how does this work?

WHAT YOU NEED

* Specific problems. Basically don't just say "oh I want to be better" or "my mechanics suck", I need some indepth stuff I can tear into. Replays are helpful in this respect.
* Money. 25 bucks an... [Read More]

GG

An exhaustive analysis, concluded after watching every vod I could find (except leenock vs innovation g2 that simply disappeared).

Terran still sucks.

First we make a castle. We place it where those Order dogs are sure to attack.





THE ORDER, IS ATTACKING THROUGH THE PASS. PUSH THEM BACK.



YOUR MALFORMED SKULL IS UNFIT FOR MY PISS-POT



Then we sally forth



For Agatha!... [Read More]

Hello.

About a week ago my PC started having this issue where it would instantly restart itself suddenly and without any warning, no BSOD, no windows just snap restart. I didn't know what was causing this but I've since changed the Power Supply Unit, added some more RAM, upgraded the GFX card and switched from a 32 bit OS to a 64 bit OS. The problems have been getting worse, occuring approximately once of every hour or two and it is a tremendous bother.

Originally it would only do this if... [Read More]

I'm ******* good at procrastinating. Extremely good at it, and it affects how much I might train in a given day. I train more the closer to a tourney but that's bad, you should train a lot because you want to be as good as you can. I read about a study that concluded that negatives for failure are more motivational then rewards for success, essentially a Carrot and Stick system but inverted. The carrot is poisonous and we want to avoid eating it.

So starting from tomorrow (it's 3:30 am here... [Read More]

I'm currently located in the arse end of New South Wales with barely much to do at all except listen to nieces/nephew cry an awful lot and get drained dry by mosquitoes so here's a simplified power ranking for us all to not argue over at all. If you do debate my clearly irrefutable findings then I will get Tgun to ban you. He'll do it.

NOT SHIT TIER

Glade. There's nothing to discuss here is there? Glade won some things he played in and unlike the rest of us useless bastards can actually... [Read More]

With the qualifiers for IEM Poland coming up I'm going to devote all my time to practicing for that so don't expect any more of these blogs for a while. I doubt I'll qualify because, well, Zergs, but hey you gotta try right?

I think I'm done with chivalry. ******* fun game though. I noticed a few people are playing it after I wrote my review on it, which is neat. It makes me think someone owes me money though, but I'm not quite sure who.


So tonight I got together with my regular gaming... [Read More]

I've been playing a few games not called starcraft recently (but still some Starcraft!). I messed around with Scribblenauts unlimited (boring, mostly because instead of trying to find the most imaginative answer I just get the first thing that comes to mind and it's pitifully easy that way), CoD BLOPS 2 (the most unintentionally hilarious release all year), Dota 2 (which is dota and requires no explanation!) and Chivalry, as suggested by a few mates.

Ahhh chivalry. It's a good one. Let's... [Read More]

Tgun. Mafia. Glade. PiG.

Everyone else in Aus should (but won't) quit Starcraft 2 immediately.

Yes that includes me.

Another pleasant evening spent with my brother Joshua, another set of boardgames.

First off we played Galaxy Truckers, which we didn't have any fun playing because it was not the sort of game we wanted to play. So far Shut up and Sit Down are 0 for 2 with boardgame recommendations. Hmm...

But we did get to play the Battlestar Galactica boardgame including a few expansion bits which still remains my favourite board game I've ever played. However I'd only played vanilla BSG and not the... [Read More]

Since there's a major tournament coming up this weekend my sleep gets completely ruined so I can't ******* sleep atm. Instead I felt like writing up a boardgame recommendation for people who like Boardgames. I've also been watching far too much Shut up and Sit Down recently and goddammit that pair knows how to make boardgames seem like the funnest bestest thing ever.

So on thursday this week I went to a place with my brother Joshua to get our cardboard duelling on and play us some boardgames... [Read More]

And you should all play it. It just came out on PC if you're some sort of person who doesn't own a PS3/360, so you have no excuse now.

That is all.

I lost 4 games straight and was sad all weekend.

Moar fans plox.

So in case no one's heard it yet, I'm currently without a team having finished my 12 months with xG and wondering if any other team wants me and what they can offer me (I, of course, am already fully aware of what I can offer them).

For the record I have really enjoyed my time on Xeria Gaming and can only sing it's praises at this point, Benji is a dedicated manager who looks after his people and if I don't find another team I'll happily re-sign onto xG without any qualms.

And... I guess... [Read More]

A picture is worth a thousand words so in a way here's 10 blogs. Now shut up.

Pretty much what the title says. I'm lazy and stingy and curious to see if anyone wouldn't mind sparing a couch I could use for 2 nights whilst I'm down at melbourne for ACL and GESC.

Blanket would also be appreciated. I hear it gets a bit nippy down there.

Ah I love being able to do one of these. Recently tgun was lamenting the lack of Bielsko in SEA tournaments. And to be sure the guy could come up with some clever stuff. But I think I found his Asian doppelganger.



Someone should tell him that pylons don't have "lower depot"



Proxy robo bay....



**** it TWO robo bays!



Load up let's go! Note that this is the first part of the game that he'd actually scouted any part of what I had. He had literally no idea what strategy I... [Read More]