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If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
Ok, I disliked the location borders because of how hard it is to tell what card it belongs to, but REALLY HATE the Golden version. Hopefully it's a temporary thing.
I totally forget how much I missed these "livestream" reveals to start off and hopefully also end a reveal sesaon. Seeing the cards being played in a dedicated deck just hits different than just reading the cardtexsts and maybe get a 5 sec video that highlights the animations
All good points. Honestly, I glossed over most of their explanations (why doesn't this word have an 'i' in the first half?), because there were sooooo many cards, and I started writing the article pretty late my time, so I wanted to be quick about it. I also don't play play the game at all, most of my exposure to it is trough Mogwai, so I wouldn't know how any QoL changes affect the game, but I probably should've mentioned them.
Anima, drawn from wayward souls, powers all the Shadowlands—and those who consume it! Cards with the Infuse keyword sit in your hand and absorb anima from your friendly minions as they die. After the specified number of friendly minions die while the Infuse card is in your hand, the Infuse card transforms into a more powerful version. Infuse your cards to unlock their full power!
100%, this card is a way to test an upcoming mechanic.
We used to see things like this in Tavern Brawl, like when we got the Discover debut in Captain Blackheart's Treasure, so precedence in mechanic testing is definitely a thing.
Hearthstone has gotten more complicated over the years and the vast combinations of cards just lets too much crazy stuff happen and it's been very clear they can't predict much of it anymore since they have to balance cards more than ever. The move to 40 health will be a huge positive for the health of the aging game and might lure players in to give it a try - I'd love to see the metrics on who came back for the new legendary.
I fully expect them to debut this with Hearthstone's next year in 2023. That'll be the year they switch to 4 expansions per year, 40 health on heroes, and do a significant core set rework. We should also see the new rotating format during 2023, with Classic being kicked to the curb.
Remember that this year's final expansion is going to be bigger than ever, which is probably going to help give us a huge push in diversity so when they drop the number of cards we're seeing at the start of next year, it doesn't feel like there are no cards in the game anymore. If Hearthstone's 4 sets a year drop the total cards in a set back to 135 (removing the extra 35 from the mini-sets), it's going to feel like there are not enough options midway through the new set.
Yeah, I'm a little off-topic here but there you have it, my predictions that I can link back to in 2023 when this is all true.
Can we please start getting some new characters for portraits? I do not want 5 different versions of most of these characters. I would rather have hero portraits of characters like Tirion, Dr. Boom, Rotface, or Sneed to name a few.
IMO dumb face decks are burn shaman, quest hunter, those on which you can't interact that much since the only thing they do is smack in the face with spells.
Although I dislike the decks you mentioned, at least they require the skill of knowing when to not over-extend, when to do value trades, value accumulation (shark turns), etc... They are dumb? Yeah, maybe. The dumbest? Don't think so.
Prince Renathal may actually get a nerf in future, because the balancing act will eventually get ridiculous. Hearthstone has for the most part been designed around 30 health, and a change in the health total has a significant impact on power levels introduced.
No matter how you cut it, aggro decks are meant to gas out just around the time where the opponent's health is reduced to somewhere around 12 or less, and if everyone is jamming this card to reach 40 health it means team5 have to, as a consequence, design cards for aggro decks to compete with it, so aggro will only get stronger, not weaker the longer 40 health becomes the norm. Soon having 4/5s on 3 will be more common, or some form of disruption like Revenant Rascal will get printed more often.
Will it promote more midrange decks? Not necessarily. I think control benefits the most from it, because the 40 cards penalty actually matters less to them while the additional 10 health remains significant. Midrange wants to curve out, and that 40 cards cuts its consistency enough that I think the best midrange decks would probably not have renathal in it.
I dont really like rock-paper-scissors metas myself, but I think the main thing is about diversity, interaction, and avoiding those 'draw card and win' decks that has plagued druid for years. This new 40 health fad won't change this, but for what its worth its at very least allowing some bit of diversity, and a little more nonce when deckbuilding, which is good.
But in my opinion, the card will likely get changed, or get banned from standard after about a year. Like genn/baku did before it, such gameplay alterations not only affects balance, it can also make the game feel stale. At its very worst it can promote that same feeling of helplessness felt whenever baku warrior comes up and games starts lasting in excess of 15-30 minutes each. No one wants that, surely.
I'm curious which aggro decks you consider "dumb face decks"? Because the current iteration of 'aggro' decks (murloc shaman, mech mage, mech paladin...) have very low skill floors & ceilings.
Unlike shadow priest & face hunter of the previous meta.
Anyway, right now it doesn't seem like any 40 health deck is good besides prestor druid which is barely playable. We'll see if they print more support for it otherwise they may very well die out already come next expansion.
Yes, agro will be stronger in boards than on direct damage, and that's exactly what I said, and I find it good actually. Playing the board game is more fun than healing and armoring up all game, which is the only "counter" against direct damage (apart from Renathal).
I'll add onto this, thanks to Nirast for picking up the slack!
Normally Riot sends us notes in advance of them being publicly announced which is why we're normally able to get them up nicely formatted on the moment they drop (there was one time where we posted on the embargo time and Riot didn't... that was some nice traffic). That hasn't happened a few times now, receiving them after they go live. I'm not sure what's up with the change since it doesn't even seem to be consistent. But because of that, there was just a lot of other things going on at the time LoR posted their notes and it wasn't stuff I could jump off of. Many other folks here too are busy with other things or are around on a more limited basis so we were able to get to them when we could.
I agree though, it's not a great look for us, especially when I've prided my content career on the fact that I've been first to break a lot of news and generally speaking, we're still damn fast. I know our Runeterra coverage has also just been close to non-existent over the past half year or so, maybe a bit longer. When we lost our primary for covering the game, we just weren't in a great spot to bring someone else on at that point in time, and LoR traffic has just been downhill both here and in general, so hard committing to a new person is a very risky play. Riot pushing forward on a more PVP focus for the game in their recent announcement is nice to see though because that makes me more hopeful they're trying to figure out what to do with the game instead of just letting it die out.
Actions speak louder than words though, and not only does that apply to Riot here, but us too. On that action side of things, there hasn't been much of it and it is my hope that we can turn that around by finding some new people who want to cover LoR on Out of Cards.
New Mage Spell - Frozen Touch
A new Common Mage Spell, Frozen Touch, has been revealed!
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New Mage Spell - Deathborne
A new Rare Mage Spell, Deathborne, has been revealed!
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New Mage Spell - Cold Case
A new Common Mage Spell, Cold Case, has been revealed!
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New Priest Location - Cathedral of Atonement
A new Rare Priest Location, Cathedral of Atonement, has been revealed!
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3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
They updated technologies now... They did it once before I think
3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
Ok, I disliked the location borders because of how hard it is to tell what card it belongs to, but REALLY HATE the Golden version. Hopefully it's a temporary thing.
Otherwise, the set looks like it'll be fun!
3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
A livestream match this early into the reveal season?
That's something you don't see very much.
3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
pls give rogue a usable deathrattle
3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
(4) is just count of how many skeletons died so far
3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
what is the meaning of
... explode ! (4)
Kel'Thuzad of course :(
tks
3 New Location Cards Revealed for Castle Nathria by Kibler - 10 New Cards in Total!
I totally forget how much I missed these "livestream" reveals to start off and hopefully also end a reveal sesaon. Seeing the cards being played in a dedicated deck just hits different than just reading the cardtexsts and maybe get a 5 sec video that highlights the animations
Hearthstone’s Fire Festival for Summer 2022 Is Underway - Free Packs and Hero Skins
'Tis the season of having 6 unopenable packs sitting on my homescreen, flashing that notification over . . . and over . . . and OVER.
grrrrr
Legends of Runeterra’s Patch 3.10 Brings Over 40 Balance Changes, More Than Half of Them Buffs
All good points. Honestly, I glossed over most of their explanations (why doesn't this word have an 'i' in the first half?), because there were sooooo many cards, and I started writing the article pretty late my time, so I wanted to be quick about it. I also don't play play the game at all, most of my exposure to it is trough Mogwai, so I wouldn't know how any QoL changes affect the game, but I probably should've mentioned them.
Murder at Castle Nathria
Had to look this up myself:
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23817874/
In particular:
Hearthstone Battlegrounds Developer Q&A Recap - Seasonal Heroes, Squelch, Buddies, Silverback Patriarch, & More
It was mainly in combination with the water effect and 'finishing' on your opponent's face.
Hearthstone Battlegrounds Developer Q&A Recap - Seasonal Heroes, Squelch, Buddies, Silverback Patriarch, & More
Sexual innuendo. Many laughs were had and several Battlegrounds streamers were being way over the top about it too.
IMO 40 Health is the best that happened
100%, this card is a way to test an upcoming mechanic.
We used to see things like this in Tavern Brawl, like when we got the Discover debut in Captain Blackheart's Treasure, so precedence in mechanic testing is definitely a thing.
Hearthstone has gotten more complicated over the years and the vast combinations of cards just lets too much crazy stuff happen and it's been very clear they can't predict much of it anymore since they have to balance cards more than ever. The move to 40 health will be a huge positive for the health of the aging game and might lure players in to give it a try - I'd love to see the metrics on who came back for the new legendary.
I fully expect them to debut this with Hearthstone's next year in 2023. That'll be the year they switch to 4 expansions per year, 40 health on heroes, and do a significant core set rework. We should also see the new rotating format during 2023, with Classic being kicked to the curb.
Remember that this year's final expansion is going to be bigger than ever, which is probably going to help give us a huge push in diversity so when they drop the number of cards we're seeing at the start of next year, it doesn't feel like there are no cards in the game anymore. If Hearthstone's 4 sets a year drop the total cards in a set back to 135 (removing the extra 35 from the mini-sets), it's going to feel like there are not enough options midway through the new set.
Yeah, I'm a little off-topic here but there you have it, my predictions that I can link back to in 2023 when this is all true.
Hearthstone Battlegrounds Developer Q&A Recap - Seasonal Heroes, Squelch, Buddies, Silverback Patriarch, & More
I think I'm missing the joke about "finishers", what happened with that?
I was wrong the game is fixed
I stand by my argument that the buffs are exceptionally low impact.
But the nerfs that occurred essentially made the game playable again.
1. Disintegrate is now a 2 of
2. Barrier bro is lower impact.
3. Challenger rock bird is a formidable card
4. Buff drakes can't get overwhelm
5. Legion whatever was a dumb card
This means that while burst tricks still suck, you literally run 0 right now, unless you really need them for synergy
You can build decks fairly easily that follow the play scary things, removal, card advantage template and not get punished.
Or play aggro, or high synergy, or control, or midrange or whatever you want.
Brewing is viable again, vanilla stuff playable, and overall you can have fun.
Thank God.
Here's 3 decks for you to try that perform well:
Hearthstone’s Fire Festival for Summer 2022 Is Underway - Free Packs and Hero Skins
SNEED
Hearthstone’s Fire Festival for Summer 2022 Is Underway - Free Packs and Hero Skins
Can we please start getting some new characters for portraits? I do not want 5 different versions of most of these characters. I would rather have hero portraits of characters like Tirion, Dr. Boom, Rotface, or Sneed to name a few.
IMO 40 Health is the best that happened
IMO dumb face decks are burn shaman, quest hunter, those on which you can't interact that much since the only thing they do is smack in the face with spells.
Although I dislike the decks you mentioned, at least they require the skill of knowing when to not over-extend, when to do value trades, value accumulation (shark turns), etc... They are dumb? Yeah, maybe. The dumbest? Don't think so.
Yes, agro will be stronger in boards than on direct damage, and that's exactly what I said, and I find it good actually. Playing the board game is more fun than healing and armoring up all game, which is the only "counter" against direct damage (apart from Renathal).
List of Runeterra Daily Quests
Attack with Tentacles to unleash the Mother Serpent OR
Attack with champions
0/5 OR
0/12
Legends of Runeterra Adds Rift Quest Skins to the Game - Tabletop RPG Themed Skins!
These are probably my favorite cosmetics alongside the arcade ones and Zilian emote is perfect for whenever you face mono Shurima xD.
I would loved a card back to go withthem but I guess the ones that you get for completing POC 1.0 could fit.
Legends of Runeterra’s Patch 3.10 Brings Over 40 Balance Changes, More Than Half of Them Buffs
I'll add onto this, thanks to Nirast for picking up the slack!
Normally Riot sends us notes in advance of them being publicly announced which is why we're normally able to get them up nicely formatted on the moment they drop (there was one time where we posted on the embargo time and Riot didn't... that was some nice traffic). That hasn't happened a few times now, receiving them after they go live. I'm not sure what's up with the change since it doesn't even seem to be consistent. But because of that, there was just a lot of other things going on at the time LoR posted their notes and it wasn't stuff I could jump off of. Many other folks here too are busy with other things or are around on a more limited basis so we were able to get to them when we could.
I agree though, it's not a great look for us, especially when I've prided my content career on the fact that I've been first to break a lot of news and generally speaking, we're still damn fast. I know our Runeterra coverage has also just been close to non-existent over the past half year or so, maybe a bit longer. When we lost our primary for covering the game, we just weren't in a great spot to bring someone else on at that point in time, and LoR traffic has just been downhill both here and in general, so hard committing to a new person is a very risky play. Riot pushing forward on a more PVP focus for the game in their recent announcement is nice to see though because that makes me more hopeful they're trying to figure out what to do with the game instead of just letting it die out.
Actions speak louder than words though, and not only does that apply to Riot here, but us too. On that action side of things, there hasn't been much of it and it is my hope that we can turn that around by finding some new people who want to cover LoR on Out of Cards.