In Blizzard’s free card game Hearthstone, two players teamed up to see how far they can push the damage points in the game.
Among Hearthstone players, the phrase “That’s why you never go full Northshire” has become established, based on a joke from “Tropic Thunder”. One should never play “fully handicapped” if they want an Oscar, they explain – just a bit handicapped like Rain Man or Forrest Gump. “Northshire Cleric” – the cleric from Northshire usually ensures that the priest can draw cards when a minion is healed on the field. With the 1-mana drop, he gains a card advantage.
However, if you play two of these clerics at the same time and the opponent has a few tricks up their sleeve, they can ensure that the priest draws more cards with the two clerics than is good for him. Then he burns excess cards and ultimately suffers damage.
Pushing the principle of “You never go full Northshire” to the limit, two players have now demonstrated this in this video. 7 Northshire Clerics indeed cause a huge card draw and likely a record damage sum of 312417 so far.
Needless to say, the video is staged and would never occur in a “real” match where both players want to win.
