A New Year Bash

The subject of this article is only available in Tavern Brawls.

"The party is here! Work together with another player to decorate the tavern and kickoff a grand New Year of Hearthstone."

A Mammoth of a New Year is a Tavern Brawl. It made its debut on March 29, 2017.

History

Tavern Brawl	Start	End	Notes
94	March 29, 2017	April 3, 2017	Journey to Un'Goro pack reward

Overview

This cooperative Brawl revolves around decorating the Tavern while fighting with Party Crashers. After decorating the Tavern with 25 pieces, the Piñata Golem Boss appears. One player will play as druid, and the other as rogue.

Special cards

Piñata Golem

Boss

Cards

Player cards

Uncollectible

Player Hero Powers

Decks

The players' starting decks, listed below, contain 28 cards each. However, once the Piñata Golem boss spawns, two Party Supplies cards are shuffled into each player's deck, without any shuffling animation. Therefore, the decks can be "considered" to contain 30 cards each.

Druid

Class	Mana	Card	Number
Druid	1	Jade Idol	2
	1	Naturalize	2
	3	Grove Tender	2
	3	Healing Touch	2
	3	Jade Blossom	2
	10	Kun the Forgotten King	1
Neutral	1	Mistress of Mixtures	2
	3	Arcane Golem	1
	3	Dancing Swords	1
	4	Daring Reporter	1
	4	Jade Spirit	4
	4	Refreshment Vendor	1
	5	Antique Healbot	1
	5	Azure Drake	2
	5	Corrupted Healbot	2
	6	Aya Blackpaw	1
	9	Icehowl	1

Total: 28/28

Rogue

Class	Mana	Card	Number
Rogue	0	Shadowstep	1
	2	Sap	1
	3	Beneath the Grounds	1
	3	Shadow Strike	2
	4	Tomb Pillager	2
	6	Trade Prince Gallywix	1
	9	Anub'arak	1
Neutral	1	Mistress of Mixtures	2
	2	Nat, the Darkfisher	1
	3	Coldlight Oracle	1
	3	Earthen Ring Farseer	1
	3	King Mukla	1
	4	Daring Reporter	1
	4	Gormok the Impaler	1
	4	Twilight Drake	2
	5	Antique Healbot	1
	5	Burgly Bully	1
	5	Corrupted Healbot	1
	5	Frostwolf Warlord	1
	5	Gurubashi Berserker	1
	5	Spiked Hogrider	1
	6	Drakonid Crusher	1
	6	The Beast	1
	9	North Sea Kraken	1

Total: 28/28

Notes

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• The starting Hero Power, Decorate, always costs all of the current player's available mana, and adds that many decorations to the shared pool.
• Starting on the second player's second turn (2-mana), at the start of each player's turn, if that player has fewer than 2 Party Crashers and fewer than 7 minions, a Party Crasher is spawned for that player.
• At the end of each player's turn, all Party Crasher cards in both players' hands are automatically discarded.
• At Stage 2 of the Brawl, when the Piñata Golem boss spawns, two Party Supplies cards are shuffled into each player's deck. This occurs without any shuffling animation, but it can be seen that the deck sizes of the players' decks have each increased by two.
• After Stage 2 of the Brawl, new Party Crashers become 5/7 minions via an enchantment.
• If the boss tries to spawn or move into a player's field which has a full board of 7 minions, all of that player's minions will be destroyed by Noise Complaint. This includes Party Crashers, but the destroy effect occurs after the Party Crashers attack.
• To clarify, the order of events is as follows:

1. The current player's Party Crashers attack the teammate at the end of the turn.
2. Party Crashers spawn for the teammate at the start of the teammate's turn.
3. The Piñata Golem boss moves to the opposite side of the board. This means that the Piñata Golem can get in the way of a Party Crasher spawning for the teammate.

Strategy

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• Cooperate! You need to watch both your and your teammate's hand, board and HP.
• Don't haste the first stage, get 10 mana and some board control.
• If your opponent has a full board and one Crasher, don't destroy it. Your opponent can't gain a second Crasher on a full board, and killing it would just cause it to respawn. Consider killing off small minions to make room for larger ones.
• Similarly, if the opponent has two Party Crashers and both cannot be killed off in a single turn, it is best not to kill one of them. This is because another Party Crasher will spawn for the opponent at the start of the next turn if the opponent has less than two Party Crashers on the field. Another one won't spawn if there are exactly two, so it is best to avoid wasting a turn killing one. The player can, however, damage one to set up destroying both of them on the next turn.
• Be careful not to burn any of your teammate's cards.
• Each deck has enough ways to draw or make cards that Grove Tender should almost always be used for Mana if played with less than 7 mana available. Also remember that the extra crystal can be used the same turn since it is a full Mana Crystal.
• While playing as Druid consider saving your spells until Rogue plays Trade Prince Gallywix, give him a Jade Idol.
• Always use Shadowstep and Sap to remove Party Crasher, or to return a damaged Icehowl to the Druid's hand
• Pay attention to how many times you can hit boss with a minion, remember that every turn he does 2 damage to the board, if your minion have 7 HP that might be a good time to give him 1 more with some Bananas!
• The damage each turn via Something in the Punch, is useful to activate some minion's effects, like Gurubashi Berserker.
• Heal only heroes, unless healing a large Daring Reporter would guarantee lethal the following turn without killing either player.
• At the beginning of the second phase and during all of it, make sure you do not have 7 minions. If when the boss appears or moves there is no space for him, the 7 minions on the board will be destroyed; losing your whole board is more painful than sacrificing one minion, even if it's high value.
• Do not attack with Daring Reporter when she's still on low value of attack, consider keeping her alive until her attack and health has increased sufficiently. Then her real power can be shown.
• During Stage 1, if you have enough mana to eliminate your Party Crasher and then play minions until you have 7, doing so can be very strong, preventing future Party Crashers from spawning on your side. Caution: your opponent may need to be able to trade into your Party Crasher to stay under 7 minions for Stage 2.
• Similarly, in Stage 2, one can maintain a board of 6 minions other than Party Crasher to prevent any from spawning. Caution: this will cause a greater vulnerability to Something in the Punch, which is then likely to destroy a minion, freeing space for a Party Crasher.

Trivia

• This Brawl looks like an altered version of Mechazod Brawls.
• The Piñata Golem was the first Tavern Brawl Boss to include Taunt in its card text, unlike Gearmaster Mechazod.
• This Brawl takes place on the Stranglethorn battlefield, decorated with party banners and stringed lights.
• Before its official release, this Brawl appeared on some streamers' gameplay when they were at the Bahamas to attend the HCT Winter Championship.