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A Joust in progress
Joust is an ability A selection of minions, each with its own ability. From left to right: Divine Shield, Deathrattle, a triggered effect, and Spell Damage. Abilities are special effects, powers, or behaviors found on cards. For spell cards, 
that causes a minion Bloodfen Raptor, a simple minion card. A Beast-type minion, it has 3 Attack, 2 Health and a mana cost of 2. Minions are persistent creatures on the battlefield that will fight for their hero. Minion 
to be revealed at random Yogg-Saron, arguably the most random card ever released Random effects are effects which include some degree of randomness or RNG (random number generation). Random effects introduce an element of chance into Hearthstone. They can be 
from the deck A deck is a collection of exactly 30 cards. All cards drawn by the player during a game come from their deck. Each deck is tied to a specific class. Decks can be created and 
of each player. If the player who initiated the Joust has the higher mana cost The mana cost of a card or Hero Power determines how much mana is required to play that card from the hand or to use that Hero Power. The number is displayed inside a blue 
minion, a special secondary effect will be activated, depending on the Joust card. Once the Joust is complete, the two Jousting minions are shuffled back into their respective decks.
Jousts are triggered through other abilities, most commonly Battlecry Battlecry is an ability where a particular effect activates when the card with the Battlecry is played directly from the hand. Although mostly limited to minions, some weapons also have Battlecries. Activation of Battlecries are , but at least one card uses Deathrattle A Loot Hoarder displaying the Deathrattle icon Deathrattle is an ability where the stated effect occurs when the minion or weapon is destroyed. Cards with Deathrattle appear with a skull and crossbones when in play. 
to Joust.
Joust does not exist as a keyword A selection of minions, each with its own ability. From left to right: Divine Shield, Deathrattle, a triggered effect, and Spell Damage. Abilities are special effects, powers, or behaviors found on cards. For spell cards, , but is the official term for the card text, "Reveal a minion in each deck. If yours costs more, secondary effect."
Notes
- The basic rule for Joust is that in order to win the Joust, the initiating player must reveal a higher mana cost minion than the opponent. If this is not achieved, for whatever reason, the initiating player will not win the Joust, and the Joust effect will not be activated. It is not possible to "draw" in a Joust; the initiating player either wins or does not.
- If the minion is lower cost, or the two are of equal cost, the secondary effect will not activate.
- If the initiating player has no minion left to reveal, they will automatically lose the Joust, and no minions will be revealed for either player. If neither player has minions left to reveal, the initiating player will lose the Joust. If the opponent has no minion left to reveal, but the initiating player does, the initiating player will win the Joust by default.
- This means that with two identical decks, initiating a Joust has a less than 50% chance of success.
- Jousting uses the base mana cost The mana cost of a card or Hero Power determines how much mana is required to play that card from the hand or to use that Hero Power. The number is displayed inside a blue
of the minion cards, regardless of any cost-modifying effect that can affect cards in a deck (such as Renounce Darkness Renounce Darkness Set: Whispers of the Old Gods Type: Spell Class: Warlock Rarity: Epic Cost: 2 Abilities: Modify cost, Replace, Replace Hero Power Tags: Class-related, Hero Power-related, Random Replace your Hero Power and Warlock cards ) or hand (such as Molten Giant Molten Giant Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Epic Cost: 25 Attack: 8 Health: 8 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Health-related, In-hand effect, Ongoing effect Costs (1) less for each damage your hero has taken.He gets terrible ). - During a Joust, both minions are revealed to both players.
- Jousting reveals a minion from each player`s unused deck. The minions are selected at random, not by order of placement in the deck.
- Following a Joust, the minions are shuffled back into the players` decks, effectively incorporating a shuffle into deck Shuffle into deck effects place cards into a player s deck, with its placement randomly determined. While not stated in card text, the randomness of the card s placement is achieved through subsequently shuffling the entire deck. effect. This has a high very chance of altering the order of those two cards, depending on the number of cards remaining in each player`s deck. Be that as it may, since it is not possible to know their previous positions in their decks, this has no practical significance.
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- This section contains information exclusive to Wild format Wild format or Wild is one of Hearthstone s two game formats, the other being Standard format. Wild format appears in game modes in which players are allowed to play decks without the deck restrictions of .
Hearthstone
- No tournament (especially one as grand as The Grand Tournament "From east to west, heroes are sent, seeking glory in the greatest of events... there are knights on noble steeds; those who will bring them to their knees; there are monsters to test their mettle ) would be complete without the time-honored tradition of jousting!
- Minions Joust by emerging from their decks, creating a brief contest within a contest wherein players each reveal a minion from their deck. In order to win, the minion who initiated the Joust must reveal a minion with a higher mana cost. The rewards are varied based on the minion starting the Joust, but players will want to emerge victorious from the lists as often as possible!
- There are many ways for a knight to prove their valor, but there⃢₀ₙs only one true test of mounted might! An aspiring champion may face off against raging beasts in the arena or best skilled challengers in melee combat, but nothing shows off one⃢₀ₙs heroic grandeur like mounting a noble steed and charging with a leveled lance in the ultimate chivalrous contest: the joust!
World of Warcraft
From Wowpedia:
- Jousting is a form of combat introduced with the Argent Tournament, using the vehicle game mechanics.
- At the time of its introduction, jousting was the vehicle used the most in World of Warcraft World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Blizzard Entertainment. The game was first released Nov. 2004, and has since seen six expansions: The Burning Crusade (2007), Wrath of . Opinions range from hating it because of the difficulty, to loving it because it is a challenging event, and because gear and class do not make a difference; only skill makes a difference in jousting.
- Justicar Mariel Trueheart Justicar Trueheart Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 3 Abilities: Battlecry, Replace Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related Battlecry: Replace your starting Hero Power with a better one.It s like directs players to the pavilion for their respective faction. Once there, they are entered into the Argent Tournament rolls as an Aspirant.
- Aspirants
- The task of an aspirant Darnassus Aspirant Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Minion Class: Druid Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 3 Abilities: Battlecry, Deathrattle Tags: Mana-related Battlecry: Gain an empty Mana Crystal. Deathrattle: Lose a Mana Crystal.She loves is to practice the mechanics of jousting. Other tasks assigned aspirants include defeating a number of Scourge forces in the field, and retrieving weapons suitable to knights.
- Valiants
- Upon defeating the valiant Thunder Bluff Valiant Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Minion Class: Shaman Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 3 Health: 6 Abilities: Inspire Tags: Hero Power-related, Totem-related Inspire: Give your Totems +2 Attack.Allowing totems to attack is , the character is promoted to the ranks of the valiants, representing their racial city, and are eligible to complete quests for tokens to advance to the rank of champion. They are eligible to joust with their race`s favored mount.
- Where aspirants are tasked to practice upon targets, valiants face live foes. While valiants are still tasked to retrieve weapons and defeat Scourge, they also practice mounted combat amongst themselves, and face mounted scourge forces in the field.
- As a valiant completes quests, they earn Valiant`s Seals, much like aspirants did. Upon completing enough (proving their ability), a valiant is challenged to defeat an Argent Champion.
- Champions
- Upon defeating the Argent Champion, the character is awarded the rank of Champion (of their city), and may thereafter continue to use their race`s jousting mount at the Argent Tournament. If the character is Exalted with their race`s faction, they earn the achievement Exalted Champion of (their city), and earn a corresponding title.
- Champions face most of the same foes as valiants, but more difficult. They continue to train amongst themselves and battle scourge in general. At the Court of Bones, they are expected to challenge and defeat commanders of the Boneguard forces.
- Additionally, champions may choose to qualify with other races of their faction, gaining the ability to ride their mounts, and eventually gaining the title of Champion to the other cities and access to the other race`s tournament vendors.
Trivia
- The developers came up with the idea of Jousting after choosing the Grand Tournament as the setting for the new expansion. With the key involvement of jousting in the original Argent Tournament the developers knew that they had to have "some kind of jousting" featureSpecial attraction in the expansion. Earlier designs included "a lot of stuff with Charge For the card of the same name, see Charge (card) Charge is an ability allowing a minion to attack the same turn it is summoned. Charge is available to all classes, but is most strongly ", with some earlier versions becoming non-Joust minions in the set, such as Argent Horserider Argent Horserider Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 1 Abilities: Charge, Divine Shield ChargeDivine ShieldHis horse s name is Betsy.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Argent Horserider is . The developers eventually settled on a process by which both players revealed a card, and whichever had the highest cost gained an extra effect; this was later changed to include only minions, as this allowed players to focus on including higher cost minions while still including lower cost spells.
- Most Joust minions are mounted, helping to reinforce the theme.
- Joust was not made into a keyword A selection of minions, each with its own ability. From left to right: Divine Shield, Deathrattle, a triggered effect, and Spell Damage. Abilities are special effects, powers, or behaviors found on cards. For spell cards, partly because of a lack of synergy with established keywords, and partly because it is "more in depth" than other keywords. It may also not have featured on a large enough range of cards.
- After the releaseAnnounce of The Grand Tournament "From east to west, heroes are sent, seeking glory in the greatest of events... there are knights on noble steeds; those who will bring them to their knees; there are monsters to test their mettle , Some players exploited the length of the jousting animation by playing Nozdormu Nozdormu Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 8 Health: 8 Tags: Ongoing effect Players only have 15 seconds to take their turns.Time to write some flavor text.See this card on and following it up with a Joust card, forcing their opponent to skip their next turn. During the player`s subsequent turns, they would continue to play Joust cards and repeatedly force their opponent to miss turns until they won the game. This was eventually hotfixed.
