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    Artifact - WePlay! Artifact Mighty Triad: Agility - Day Five

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    WePlay! Artifact Mighty Triad: Agility - Day Five

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 06:34 AM PST

    WePlay! Artifact Mighty Triad: Agility - Day Five

    Stream
    Twitch

    Resources
    Liquidpedia | Decklists - Courtesy of Jazz | Official Announcement

    Format

    • Two-deck format - Conquest [They must win with each deck.]

    • 18 invited players

    • 14 qualified players

    • 8 Groups

      • Top 2 players from each group moves to Playoffs

    • Matches are BO3

    • Single elimination Playoffs

    Talent
    Commentators:

    • SUNSfan (Shannon Scotten)

    • RobAJG (Roberto Gonzales)

    • SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)

    • ImpetuousPanda (David Nolskog)

    • CHARM3R (Darick Oswalt)

    Groups

    Group 1 2 3 4
    A Petrify MyGoodMate_ Rename Gela
    B Hoej Mogwai Naiman TenShi
    C LifeCoach Real_man DrHippi swim
    D StanCifka VinKelsier Baize MaggoGX
    E Hyped Shana dpmlicious Berry
    F Xixo Teddy Lumi Stormlike-
    G MieGod Mugibaby MrYagut Soey
    H SuperJJ f1asco StrifeCro AndyWand

    Today's Schedule

    ID Player vs Player Result (CET) PST EST GMT SGT AEDT
    M1 AndyWand vs Petrify 0-2 14:00 5:00 8:00 13:00 21:00 24:00
    M2 Shana vs Baize 2-1 15:00 6:00 9:00 14:00 22:00 01:00
    M3 Real_MAN vs Stormlike- 1-2 16:00 7:00 10:00 15:00 23:00 02:00
    M4 MieGod vs Hoej 1-2 17:00 8:00 11:00 16:00 24:00 03:00
    M5 MaggoGx vs Berry 2-1 18:00 9:00 12:00 17:00 01:00 04:00
    M6 MyGoodMate vs SuperJJ 2-0 19:00 10:00 13:00 18:00 02:00 05:00
    M7 TenShi vs Mugibaby 2-1 20:00 11:00 14:00 19:00 03:00 06:00
    M8 Lumi vs swim 1-2 21:00 12:00 15:00 20:00 04:00 07:00
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    Valve should thank WePlay for keeping this game alive for them. Thank you WePlay!

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 05:43 AM PST

    Slacks appreciation thread

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 12:45 PM PST

    Slacks is the best thing that happened to this tournament, i love him and his commentary.

    ps. Slacks haters out

    ​

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    Aphotic shield in action

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 10:03 AM PST

    Anyone else noticed/disappointed that you can only choose your recently unlocked icons, and not all your "unlocked" ones?

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 12:46 PM PST

    I'm quitting school to become a Professional Artifact Player.

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 06:49 AM PST

    Like the title says, I have decided to quit university to become a professional esport Artifact player. I have never been good at anything in my life but I feel this is my chance to shine. I know a lot of people will tell me this is a big mistake... but I will try my hardest and even if I fail I will still be one of the top 2000 Artifact players in the world (since that's the number of active player base at the moment). Personally this is my best odds of becoming someone famous and successful. I will be aiming for the $1 million TI tournament. Wish me luck.

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    The little animation tweaks did make the gameplay more exciting.

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 09:50 AM PST

    Extremely fond of the decisions the dev team made in this patch. I see my number of games per day increasing easily to 5 or 6 all the way up from 2 or 3. (Just finished my 7th game)

    It makes they gameplay much more fast paced and energetic, and I don't seem to be getting bored very quickly.

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    The Results of 1/16 stage and the schedule of 1/8 stage of WePlay! Artifact MT Agility tournament!

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:18 PM PST

    Hello guys,

    Today we saw 8 amazing matches of the 1/16 stage. Lots of twists, lots of upsets and only 8 participants advanced to the next stage. Please welcome!

    Schedule of the 1/8 stage - January 20th

    Time (CET) Player 1 Player 2
    14:00 Petrify (Deck 1, Deck 2) Swim (Deck 1, Deck 2)
    15:00 MyGoodMate (Deck 1, Deck 2) Stormlike (Deck 1, Deck 2)
    16:00 Shana (Deck 1, Deck 2) Hoej (Deck 1, Deck 2)
    17:00 TenShi (Deck 1, Deck 2) MaggoGx (Deck 1, Deck 2)

    Watch on www.twitch.tv/weplayesport_en

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    Artifact reminds me about why I love TCG's in the first place.

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 04:30 PM PST

    Just yesterday I posted and questioned you guys on why twitter is dead and if the game still has players. And after playing I just have to say, yes, it has its flaws, but at its core its a masterpiece.

    I am used to f2p CCG's, all of them, HS, Gwent, TES Legends, Shadowverse etc and each has its own rank ladder, cosmetics and a bunch of Grinding to be number one on the leader board. While I play them I sometimes forget why I play card games in the first place.

    Artifact has a real comic book store, table top TCG feel to it. You can sit down and talk with your opponent while you play and discuss the meta, the state of the game you both love and some weird combo's you are trying while having a friendly laugh while you at it. I remember why I love card games everytime I jump into a game of Artifact! Whether you win or lose it doesn't matter, you and the person you played with get some XP that contribute to a few packs every other week. There is no stigma about being number one or not losing. And no struting around showing off your huge ego with borders and titles. The experience of playing Artifact is the reward.

    While other card games try to make your experience rewarding by giving you tons of packs worth not a cent or meaningless cosmetics to show off, Artifact brings you back to the very reason we all enjoy TCG's.

    I don't know how many of you can still enjoy Magic at your local comic book store with tons of people to play with or against but I can't (Those places are where it all started years ago) and this is the only game that reminds me even vagualy about those days.

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    Patch 1/18/2019 - Quality of Life

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 09:45 AM PST

    Yesterdays patch is the largest quality of life improvement the game has seen since release. The game runs smooth, transitions from screen to screen are on point and the game just feels more 'complete/polished'.

    Thanks for listening Valve, this is step one. We have a large staircase to climb, and we will get there, one step at a time.

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    Suggestion: Please show the five second delay counter beside the timer.

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 01:09 PM PST

    With the current way we don't know when the time is gonna run out resulting in making the move too quick when actually you had couple more seconds left or you take a bit more time and loose on time.

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    Production quality

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 01:11 PM PST

    My inventory after WePlay

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 10:12 AM PST

    New Site: Artimatch.com where you vote for which card is better, and then it ranks all the cards based on everyone's vote

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 01:11 PM PST

    Aphotic Shield OP

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 10:05 AM PST

    Monogreen actually winning

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:31 PM PST

    https://www.playartifact.com/d/ADCJecRPrgCg08MDHC7AkZGqQGTgUyYQUFxAa4CbQGYW0ddIE1pbmlvbiBLaWxsZXI_

    I named this deck Minion Killer, because that's what it does; kills minions and survives long enough to widdle out your opponent.

    I have been dabbling in many monogreen versions for weeks now. I think I finally found one that actually works. I tried many different heroes including dark seer, abaddon, magnus, rix, even farvhan. Some of the 3x cards became 0x like soul of spring, and even cheating death started as a 3x, then a 1x, later a 0x, and now its a 2x. This is probably the most polished deck of monogreen I have made so far.

    Heroes

    Lycan - Lycan is important as a flop hero because his passive makes your minions kill opponents minions. His minion, Savage Wolf, is important as a blocker or as an early card to gain control over a lane.

    Omniknight - Omni is important as a flop hero because he can't die on the flop unless you get very unlucky. Omni will usually be your stall hero, going to a lane to die and stall the game one more turn.

    Treant - Treant is important as a flop hero to keep your minions alive but mostly just for the health. Treant is played for his sig, Roseleaf Druid, which is an important ramp card in any matchup.

    Drow - Drow is a turn hero because of 2 reasons. You have 3x mist of avernus + drow aura to help your new minions kill opponents new/old minions. The second reason is to keep drow safe with cheating death or steal strength which cost 4.

    Chen - Chen is important for his card, NOT for his ability. His ability is utter trash, but can "win" by taking a blocker away from your opponent. Hand of God, chen's sig, is important if you don't draw your payoffs, or if you ramp and need to stall for one more turn. Now, I know all of you are saying, "Just run divine intervention". Divine Intervention is not a good stall card because it doesn't heal your units. With hand of god, your units will most likely survive for 2+ turns, not necessarily with divine intervention.

    Win Conditions

    You have a lot of win conditions in this deck. Emissary and both thunderhides in the deck means you have constant minion pressure, which can also be used as blockers and/or hero killers in the late game. You also have 2x intimidation. This used to be a 3x, but with the drow inclusion and her sig, Gust, you don't need more than 2 intimidation. Try to save intimidation for the late game, or to be really aggressive and shove an enemy hero into a lane that the opponent has already won.

    Tech Cards and Interactions

    Cheating Death - Cheating death is a 2x in this deck. You will use cheating death to keep heroes alive, keep minions alive, or to counter things like annihilation and coup de grace. "Condemn" effects are counted as a death, and the death shield says "When a unit dies, instead it lives with 1 health" So, you can use cheating death to save a hero or unit from death if your worried about those cards. Important: Regeneration does not count after combat, so if the unit has regeneration and cheating death, it will still live at 1 health assuming it would die. Retaliate does not count after the death shield procs, so retaliate does not kill the unit with death shield after the combat phase. Stonehall Cloak is VERY IMPORTANT to put on a hero that you will use cheating death on because it makes said hero live with 3 health instead of 1 health, assuming it would die, to counter things like ignite and march of the machines.

    Ramp - This deck runs the standard ramp cards like the RG Ramp decks. 3x Stars Align, 3x Selemenes Favor, and 3x Roseleaf Druid. It is very important to get your ramp out immediately, even if you have to sacrifice a hero for it. This is because you have a lot of top end. That doesn't mean you are useless if you don't draw your ramp because you can survive/stall for a long time with allseeing one's favor, cheating death, steal strength, and mist of avernus. Important: This deck BEATS RG Ramp. Why? Because it is more flexible of where it ramps. It being 5 green heroes means any lane can be a ramping lane, not just the first lane like RG Ramp usually does. More flexibility means more consistency, which means most of the time you will win the game assuming proper play.

    Intimidation - This is the "gust to the next level" card. Most of the time when you silence a hero, it will get jasper'd and you just wasted 4 mana. With intimidation, it can't be jasper'd because, well, the enemy hero isn't in the active lane anymore. Intimidation is mostly used on blue heroes that are looking to annihilate or in the BU matchup where vestures are undoubtedly going to be on the field. It could also be useful if you are worried about a card and want to get rid of enemy plays for a lane.

    Emissary or Thunderhide - I have 8 mana and both cards in my hand, what do I do? Ask yourself some questions, can I take the tower? If yes, usually thunderhide. Does my opponent have any counterplays? If no, usually emissary. Can I 80? If yes, usually emissary. Emissary is usually the better play, but in some cases thunderhide is better.

    Mist of avernus - This is a weird card because of the drow aura and the fact that your heroes aren't always the strongest fighters. If you can use it to trade early game, DO IT. If you can use it to 80, DO IT. If there is a lane with cheating death already in it, most of the time you will also want to use mist there. This is because you can save creeps with cheating death to keep getting mist value.

    Item Deck

    You have a very cheap item deck. 2x Revtel Signet Rings and 3x Stonehall Cloaks are in the deck because you want to keep your heroes alive, especially your drow and chen. Usually you will play stonehall cloak on drow, lycan, and treant and ring chen. Omni usually doesn't need any items because of his health and active, but late game Omni is usually the "stall the lane" so it might need it. Blink dagger is a 2x, because you are about barely surviving, not dueling a hero and blinking to another lane. So, 2x blink dagger is enough. Jasper is there for obvious reasons, the purge is nice and the pierce is really good.

    It is a very satisfying deck to play and win with. I know this was long, and if you made it this far, ENJOY!

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    ARTIFACT - Funny & WTF Moments - EP.14|WePlay highlights at 1:26

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:03 PM PST

    ASAP Artifact Podcast #8: "Interview with Gela"

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 11:26 AM PST

    Steam Market manipulation hurts the game for new players.

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 04:22 PM PST

    https://imgur.com/a/wx0TwDI

    If you played Dota 2 or CS:GO you know how the steam market works. You know the vast amount of websites that sell cosmetics for real money cheaper than steam prices. And you probably know these websites use bots/traders to maintain steam accounts that buy steam market goods cheap and sell them high to users.

    Now in those games those people don't really matter, cosmetics are unimportant, you can have as many colored TB arcanas you want, if you're a 400 GPM scrub carry you'll still lose the game.

    But in Artifact is different, you need the cards to be play the game fully. Having "xxxx bitskins.com" bot/trader buying 50 axes a day and trying to sell it 15.5% more expensive for a whooping 0.05% profit ensures that the market prices fall down to their organic, equilibrium prices much slower. The goal of the cards in Artifact are to be played and to end up in the players collections, not to be used as trading stocks where manipulators try to get <15% value trades day and night.

    With the demand for cards as low as it is right now the prices would be lower if it wasn't for the market manipulators. Someone could reply and say "Valve makes %15 off of every trade, why would they stop the market manipulation?" And it's a choice they have to make but the game's longevity depends on people more people playing and in the position they're in, their decisions should be player focused rather than market focused.

    I'll point out one thing that hasn't been talked for a while, which is the prices for the game in third world countries. While $95.57 dollars for the full collection is great for americans and europeans, the collection costs: 509.29 Liras (turkish money), 358.67 Reais (brazilian money), 6324.31 Russian rubles, 5028.28 phillipines pesos. You don't need to live in a third world country to realize these prices are much more impactful for those people. Keep in mind that those countries have huge populations and make up for a HUGE share of the people that play Dota 2 and CS:GO. Even the $2 price per pack is a lot for people from those countries but that's for another discussion...

    TL;DR: Steam Market Manipulators prevent prices from going lower faster; Lower prices make the game more accessible for more people, specially in developing countries

    Now some possible solutions to this:

    • Valve pays someone to search and ban traders accounts. Which Valve is not going to do because that's just not what Valve ever does. And it's probably not even a good idea since it would permanently remove the cards from the market.

    • Valve creates market regulations that would prevent these traders to do their "jobs". Like not allowing anyone to buy more than 5 copies of the same card or putting a cooldown on buying and selling the same card, idk, It's their job to find the answer to this.

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    Thanks for Thunder God's Wrath animation fix when killing heroes

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:34 AM PST

    Now it's way better. Thanks

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    Anyone here from Singapore?

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:05 PM PST

    PM me if u live in SG!

    The original group that I started out with only left me and one other friend. It would be nice if we can find fellow Singaporeans here :)

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    RobAJG talking about Artifact, WePlay and Ukraine

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 10:47 AM PST

    ABL USD 2K Main Event Open Qualifier by dpmlicious & HotMEOWTH - 21 Jan 0800 PST / 1700 CEST / 2400 SGT

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 06:11 PM PST

    Ê•´•á´¥•`ʔσ" USD 2,000 up for grabs in the Artifact Bitcoin League Main Event. HotMEOWTH and I, dpmlicious, are hosting an open qualifier with one invite to the Main Event and three invites to the Closed Qualifier #2. Watch with us on dpmlicious and HotMEOWTH Twitch channels.

    PRIZES

    1st: Invite to the Artifact Bitcoin League Main Event (29 Jan – 3 Feb @ 1000 PST)

    2nd – 4th: Invite to the Artifact Bitcoin League Closed Qualifier #2 (26-27 Jan, Sat & Sun @ 1000 PST)

    Date: 21 Jan 0800 PST / 1700 CEST / 2400 SGT

    Click here to see the time for your location

    Players: 128

    Deck Type: Draft

    Format

    • Phase 1: Draft, Swiss BO2, 3 Rounds

    • Phase 2: Redraft, Swiss BO2, 3 Rounds

    • Phase 3: Redraft, Swiss BO2, 3 Rounds

    • Players must be in the tournament Steam chat and appear online in Steam and Artifact 10 min before the start of the tournament.
    • 20 min per draft phase
    • 5 min to queue for a game before being kicked
    • We reserve the right to add or amend rules.

    Registration link will be posted in the Artifact Bitcoin League discord one hour before the tournament. Then posted on our social media. You can join their discord channel here -> https://discord.gg/N8Xg3mb

    Some slots might become available right before the tournament, as those not appearing online both Artifact and Steam will be kicked.

    For more information on the Artifact Bitcoin League main event, closed qualifier, other open qualifiers and their smaller events, follow their website and twitter. They run many events that you might be interested in. Ê•´•á´¥•`ʔσ"

    You feedback is most welcome and will be appreciated. I will also run two qualifiers for StanCifka's upcoming draft challenge and hope to bring more to our community. I'm all ears. Ê•♡˙á´¥˙♡Ê”

    If our qualifier date or time does not suit you, there are still more! =)

    • Jan 20, Sun 1800 UTC
    • Jan 23, Wed 1700 UTC - KnowMe (EU)
    • Jan 24, Thur - Wifecoach (EU)
    • Jan 25, Fri 0100 UTC - Sparrow's Rum (AUS)
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    What's the interaction between removing HP modifer buffs/items and Damage Immunity?

    Posted: 19 Jan 2019 05:11 PM PST

    After watching that Aphotic Shield play against the ToT Bristleback it got me thinking what the interaction is with Damage Immunity/Death Shield with removing HP modifiers.

    Is the removed HP damage blocked by Damage Immunity? Could have Death Shield saved Bristleback?

    Also we would probably get negative HP modifiers from Undying's Decay. So that's fun to think about.

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