Friday Update – Family Matters

Welcome to a round up of the week! We have our final Exalted player for the year, new VIP Alternate Arts, and more:

Come Join the Team!

We are looking for a few more dedicated and passionate individuals to join the HEX team for the Visual Effects and Technical Artist positions. As you know, we like to pull from the community whenever possible, so if you have the skills and experience to help make fantastic things for our players, you should definitely check this out! Follow the above links or visit our careers page and submit your resume today.

VIP Rotation

Our VIP Alternate Arts are rotating next week. This upcoming VIP Sealed tournament will be the first time you can get your hands on the beautiful but deadly AA Massacre and AA Orchi-Notion!

Now you can dream stompy, ramp dreams with a stylish Orchi-Notion. One should always dream big, am I right? If that much cuteness isn’t lethal, you can finish the job with the ultimate dragon breath. That Uruunaz doesn’t mess around! With his help, you can answer your opponent’s troop swarms with a “wide” smile of your own. Join our VIP program and prepare to win your own beautiful AA copies next weekend.

You can learn more about our VIP program here or by visiting our VIP FAQ.

Lazgar’s Vengeance Ban

On Tuesday, Corey Burkhart joined us once again for a Watch & Ban List update, where he announced some pretty big news. On Monday, September 18th at 10am Pacific, Lazgar’s Vengeance will be banned from the Standard Format.

Lazgar’s has been deemed too restrictive for the current meta, so in the interest of promoting archetype diversity, it is going to be removed. Banning a card is not something we do lightly, but we feel that this decision will create a better constructed environment for everyone to enjoy. For full details on the team’s reasoning on this announcement, be sure to check out Burkhart’s full write-up.

Pick Me, Coach!

Community member CoachFliperon has been creating excellent PvE content on his own for some time. Now he is looking to jump-start this passion with a group of like-minded individuals looking to build a bigger PvE community. If you’ve ever thought about creating guides, decks, or videos about HEX’s campaign, you should definitely read his thread over on the HEX forums. Even if you just want to hang out with others who’ve been bitten by the campaign bug, the thread is worth a look. CoachFliperon is giving away a veritable hoard of gold. Come help name the group and get involved for some of the 1,000,000 gold he is giving away!

The HEX Bash and HEX Clash are back once more! Saturday and Sunday, starting at 8am PT (Timezone Conversion), you have another chance to prove your mettle and walk away with cash and exclusive prizes! Will you end up a proud owner of these fine cosmetics like last week’s Bash or Clash winners?

Join us this weekend and find out!

For full details on prizing, please check out our tournament pages here and here.

Tournament Support

Please note: if you happen to have technical issues with the Clash or Bash events, our support team requests that you submit an output log from that same day along with your ticket. This is essential, not only to ensure your ticket gets resolved in a timely fashion, but also to help us prevent similar problems from occurring in the future. Output, error, and crash logs can be found in the HEX: Shards of Fate program install folder on your machine.

Need a Hero

Our third and final Exalted this year is someone who joined our community relatively recently, but whose impact has been felt deeply in that time. They have been a tireless proponent of the game from the moment they joined and have continually striven to help others play at a competitive level. This player writes extensively, whether it is articles covering the latest constructed tech or programs for displaying decklists just a little bit easier, and they have even compiled resources for players looking to break into the constructed scene. As if that weren’t enough, they also find time to stream regularly to showcase exciting new decks and help move the meta forward. For this unwavering outreach in the constructed realm, we are happy to announce that Jeff Hoogland is this year’s Exalted Player:

You entertain, inform, and help make HEX constructed easier for everyone to pick up, which is why we are pleased to grant a vanity card in your honor. Thank you so much for your insightful play and extraordinary commitment to showcasing what HEX has to offer.

See you in the battlegrounds~

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