Hearthstone is great, in part, because itâs so damn fast. If you donât make a move in 90 seconds, tough luck. One player, however, has figured out how to make a single turn last more than 40 hours.
As
Eurogamer discovered, a player named Mamytwink is trying to breakâor shred into a breathable mist of virtual cardboard flakes, as it wereâthe world record for longest Hearthstone turn ever. His plan involves setting off a chain reaction of attacks that will take more than 40 hours to complete.
The short version? Mamytwink has seven Prophet Velens in play, each of which double the number of arcane missiles he, as a mage, fires. Heâs buffed each Velen with numerous other cards to boost damage even further. To set things in motion, he played nine arcane missile cards in this one turn, whichâthanks to all the Prophet Velens and their buffsâcomes out to 28,752 missiles (258,768 points of damage). If Mamytwinkâs math is correct, it should take somewhere in the ballpark of 43 hours for the animation of all those missiles firing to complete.
Hereâs the math, if youâre interested:
Now, you might be wondering why his opponent isnât a charred pile of stardustâa few thousand times overâat this point. Itâs because theyâre using
Ice Block, which staves off even the most certain of dooms for one turn. Sitting through said eternal turn, though? Sorry, thatâs beyond the limits of Ice Blockâs powers.
So far, the turnâs been going for over six hours, which is already ridiculous by most metrics. And yet, itâs only getting started. If youâre wondering where Mamytwink is, well, heâs out or sleeping or something. I canât blame him. Youâd have to be nuts to sit there and watch sparkly wooshy beams ineffectually ping off an absentee opponent for 43 hours. Anyway, Iâm gonna get back to watching this stream of sparkly wooshy beams ineffectually pinging off an absentee opponent for 43 hours.
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