Giving the Opponent the BIRD! Sasquawk OTK Combo!

[@MarkMcKz]

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[@reidbrinkley8652]

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[@niceCockroach]

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[@superzee247]

Arcane rush has p2w where paying gold literally increases the stats on your cards. Do not support this game

[@DaXurk]

that deck name is a war crime

[@endmylife6630]

A crime against humanity itself

[@uslhtdg]

exquisite deck naming Mark

[@alexmartinezgomez2251]

I miss negative hp...

[@KrakenHS]

Good combo Marck.

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

Definitely a Marcqk classic

[@7UPDoge]

I'll never forgive blizzard for removing negative HP

[@admiraltonydawning3847]

That last Priest opponent's deck looked like a full legendary one.

[@saythealphabet776]

What a story Mark!

[@hackebeilhaus]

the deck name tho👀

[@electricVGC]

I miss negative numbers, Blizzard, why must you taunt us like this

[@TrooAgony]

Nice combo! Hope you're okay from the hurricane, Mark!

[@tarille1043]

I wonder if it's possible to do a Mill strat with Shudderblock + Sasquawk? Like, maybe if you could reduce the cost of From De Other Side and play 2 copies on the set up turn with a hand that has Umbra, Selfish Shellfish and Dancing Blades in it.

[@anglerhs]

Ive been playing a standard version of this deck. At some ppint on the game you play shudderblock. In the setup turn you play 2 novice zappers and 3 magmas (if vs a warrior or druid cow is also in the deck so you can use some coins on the setup turn) and next turn you Just play sasquawk tuah for the otk

[@anglerhs]

Or the 3tk idk

[@SplashyKozue]

you didnt need to sneak in tuah i hate you

[@dmike3507]

That was a pretty sick combo

[@Margonite]

This one is pretty cool, and has a nice deck name too!

[@extrasuperpowr]

Crafting this deck right tf now

[@TheKillerman3333]

This combo started as an accident and became a deck

[@Fairbranksthecat]

I've been playing a standard version of that, I juste use 2 1 mana 3/2 spell damage instead of Radiance

[@goggypoggy]

you that's sick, i wish i had a sasquack to play this deck

[@extrasuperpowr]

​@@goggypoggy I'm gonna go craft sasquack right now. I haven't even seen it until this video. It's like Tess for Shaman.

[@pattaz46117]

Isnt it a hunter card?

[@Ribicus]

Bird

[@Kabuster]

could this be done in standard as well?

[@KingPlushy]

Yes There is spell damage in standard

[@KrakenHS]

I played one time in standard.

[@timeorite]

There is no card that could reduce the cost for shaman So even if you could do a combo it would be extremely slow

[@Fairbranksthecat]

@@timeorite Hunter location and Shaman location are enough mana reduction in standard, the setup turn is a board clear, the deck got me from plat 5 to diamond 5, Big spell mage is an easy match up with all the aoe shaman got.

[@amethonys2798]

​@timeorite you don't need reduction though. Your "combo" is only 8 mana with the mini and sasquawk. Double Zapper+4 Magmas is a 12 damage board clear and the "combo" does MINIMUM 36 (4+12+20) assuming you got 4x Magma into the Zappers every cycle.

[@dreamyangel1858]

battlecry should trigger without damaging the enemy hero 3 times after Shudderblock... Why is it working ?

[@loganvogt4369]

Likely because the bird recasts the spell - so it isn’t the battlecry doing the damage, it’s the spell being cast by the battlecry so it gets around the restriction

[@obviousbear1289]

It's Hearthstone performing malicious compliance by rule lawyering itself. Shudderblock deactivates all battlecries that would deal direct damage (either aimed or random targeted). When you do something like Macaw, Shudderblock basically sits there, going 'uhm actually they didn't cast a battlecry that dealt damage, I would totally have blocked that. They just __repeated a spell__ with their battlecry. Not my job to check what the spell ultimately does. "

[@loganvogt4369]

@@obviousbear1289 I mean, yeah. It's likely not an intentional design choice and more of an oversight though. The code probably just says "Set all damage the battlecry I'm triggering would do to 0", and doesn't incorporate this edge case. Honestly I think it's alright though. It's a niche edge case and opens the door to interesting combos, none of which are fast or cheap enough to do reliably imo. As far as I know the only card Shaman has access to that does replay cards this way is the parrot.

[@johnnyray9107]

​@@loganvogt4369It's not unintentional, they recognize the interaction would happen and continue to let it happen

[@chadwolf3840]

I thought shudder couldn’t enable face damage…lol

[@АнтонБурмистров-ю1л]

Shudder doesn't enable face damage only if it's done directly through battlecries.

[@MsMassacre-j9y]

It’s not supposed to, but you know mark finds them wacky combos that break the game sometimes.

[@amethonys2798]

I mean if you can point to me where it says on Sasquawk where it says it guarantees face damage we might have a case, but the battlecry doesn't inherently do damage. This is completely consistent with every other shudderblock combo for the past like 6 months or whenever Wizzbang came out.

[@Sorra1-Mods]

i must say i didnt like that bird. because when you read it it say he played the cards was logical must be included battlecrys. but because hearstone cant write correct and had weird rules that are not descripted in the game itself it only summons the minions new. but didnt "play" them new.