So I hear we're having another Fri·day today... I would like to partake of this Fri·day... that's how its pronounced correct? FRI-DAY? yes I believe I will do the FRIDAY!!!*starts rubbing peanut-butter on face* ahhh traditional FRIDAY BUTTER FACE... my celebration is in full regalia now!As you know we are prone to celebrating here at HEX HQ on Fridays... and what could be more fun than AMATEUR MEDICAL CHECK UP FRIDAY!! yes, we have excellent health insurance here at HEX but who has time to wait at the doctors office when you can get a quick check up right here from ME!!!So I started off with Jared and some amateur X-RAYS (fun fact if you run the microwave with the door open and put your "patents" head RIGHT IN FRONT of the opening then put a piece of photo paper on the other side you get a half way decent X-RAY!) let take a peek a-boo inside...AHA! just as I expected Jared has a full grown King Cobra living in his head, it all makes sense now, the spitting, the slithering... the susceptibility to flute based music......my diagnosis... TOTALLY Awesome! I mean shit... Jared has a poisonous COBRA living in his goddamn head... rock on Jared.... you will probably be dead soon but know you lived to the snakey MAX!!!OK enough of that horseshit!lets get to the Friday Update UPDATE!!!and WOW its a big one, I mean its to be expected now that we have entered the "spoiler season" *dramatic music Que*We really took of like rocket for Dead of Winter... spoiling the champions AND the key words!Let me start off by saying... PORTALS! its going to be so much fun, you have ZERO idea, its amazing and I am so looking forward to 8-8-7 draft... I know! how can we pull ourselves away from Kismet Draft?!? well let me tell you the new format is going to be insane... so much fun.also, wait until you get play with Verdict hahahahaa... such a crazy design space, going to make for some interesting games.the champions look great, I think Adoni-Zeddek is going to be the all-star but we will see... that's my prediction so stock up on him now before the price goes up!and if you want to know more about our Twilight friends be sure to read the amazing lore articles we also have Armies of Myth and Primal Dawn rotating out... I shed a salty tear (I know its healthy but its so hard to say goodbye)there needs to be a slow motion "in-Memorial" for some of these cards... gone to soon*slow pan and fade shot* Windsinger... Vampire Princess... Syzygy... Phenteo... Periwinkle... Crocosaur... Balthasar... Rune Ear Hierophant... High Infinitrix... Artisanal Cheesesmythe... Tribunal Magistrate... actual good... fuck the magistrate!so many good cards, thank goodness we have the immortal format and we hope to keep making it better and better! more tournaments and more prizes! we want it to be amazing!oh before I forget please take a moment to go HERE and vote for the next Ladder Sleeve, clearly there is only one "correct" choice!so next up we announced the FIGHT NIGHT! a really fun new format for the HEX Primal crew with a rich ROCK flavor, the perfect way to try out competitive play for the "newish" HEX fan.Also, we sort of accidentally rained on Funktion's rock parade and that made me sad *tears* so we are working on a cool little weirdo format that he can run Tuesdays! look for it in a month or so...oh back to IMMORTAL, should have done this part before when I mentioned rotation... the Primal Championship happened! ya I was talking about Immortal before should have brought it up then, but I am to lazy to re-write this, and now I have written all this explaining that I should have gone back and re-written it... damn, I could have just re-written it in the time I did all this...ANYWAY!...looks at those winners... Grats Metronomy!enjoy the AA Rune Ear!we have another BIG tournament coming up the COSMIC CROWN SHOWDOWN!!! I did grind my way to cosmic with my puck rush deck, BUT I am not qualified, I think I'm in the mid 300s... DAMN! I could use that sweet prize moneyanyway if you ARE qualified save the date Nov. 11th and 12th!!!Not sure if you heard but we have a pretty cool charity stream going on... thanks to the amazing HEX community... I am always blown away by how giving and generous this community is, we have so many awesome people playing HEX and the show of generosity and caring this event creates every year is beyond great... I feel incredible privileged that each of you has dedicated so much time to HEX, I have said it 100000 times but in my 25 years in the video game business I have NEVER seen a community like we have in HEX, its truly unique.and thanks again for allowing me to kick things off with HAVOC and Funktion... and thanks to coach for the "sum up" on the forum... that worked out welljust kidding... I know Coach had the best of intentions (I love you)... I could only stick with that thread for a couple of pages tho...I hope you like the Diamonds favor AA and sleeve, secret side note the bird is going to eat that little dog... sorry... its the truth... CAN YOU HANDLE IT!!! 36 page forum thread...GO!HAHAHHAHAAH!!!I love you all, shit almost forgot here is a spoiler... LOOK AT THIS MADMAN!BEAST MODE!and last but not least... how about those standard animated cards for the ENTITY!!!We really wanted to push the conceptual boundaries of what the entities could look like.. I mean what the HELL are they? I think it turned out so very very cool, I hope you love them.let me know if you like the idea of fun stuff like this in the standard pack or do you think we should always save it for rewards?...again Love you all, and hope you have the best weekend possible-cory