Hearthstone Exploit Lets You Skip Your Opponent's Turn

Roping other players in

By Hope Corrigan

During one of his Hearthstone streams, Disguised Toast stumbled upon an exploit allowing him to skip his Opponent's turns.

The streamer orchestrated a situation in which the in-game animations caused by the cards he was playing effectively locked the other player out of their turn.  This is possible because the countdown timer starts as soon as an opponents turn is over, however, all animations must finish before an opposing player can make any moves.

In this case, Disguised Toast was using a combination of the cards, Shadow Vision to make copies of itself, and Radiant Elemental to make this process free of mana.  This created a loop, which, when done quickly enough, allowed him to spam cards until the animations built up to the point he could deny the other player a turn.

This exploit was made possible by cards released with the latest expansion, Journey to Un'Goro, just a few days ago. There are two more Hearthstone expansions to come this year.

We have reached out to Blizzard for comment on the exploit.

Hope Corrigan is a freelancer for IGN who plays mostly Mage and Priest. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch.

Let's block ads! (Why?)