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This looks great; very interested in playing it! Hearthstone on my 15-minute work break is practically impossible, but 3-minutes per game is definitely doable. Gonna see if I can sneak into the beta :D

That was awesome, but he didn't laugh. 1 star!

As far as I understood both players play cards at the same time and once everyone finished their turn the cards get revealed, which can trigger "on reveal" effects. There are also cards with passive effects like how Iron Man doubles all of the friendly attack damage for a zone.

The goal is to control 2 zones after 6 turns by having more attack power in front of them than your opponent, by either playing your own cards or destroying the ones your opponent has.

The rank system is also quite unique. Your rank point are "qubes". The amount of qubes you get by winning or loose by loosing the match is always the same for each player, but it changes throughout the fight. During the first 5 turns you can win/loose only 1 qube, on the final turn the number raises to 2. If players are confident that they are winning, then each of them can double the stakes to up to 8 qubes. So there is this aspect of do I concede early to not loose too many qubes, do I play save and potentially only win/loose 2 qubes or do I go all in and double the stakes, because I know that I can win this game for sure...only to loose it.

Looks fun!  Excited to see Ben Brode back in action with a new card game.

Nerfs are fine, practically foreseeable.

Buffs though, so many of them. This is either a concerted and tested effort to push out newer decks, or a rampant rush to make archetypes playable. Serpent Wig is already pretty good on its own, now it looks potentially monstrous. Unfortunately, team5 have decided to buff the curse cards, though admitably not really extensively, but this can come back to bite them later when warlock can finally draw well. And for some reason, they decide to buff Harpoon Gun so its even more swingy when it strikes on a beast. Let's hope all this doesn't require renerfing later

As for the others;

- Xhilag is now incredible. In fact, if for whatever reason you've decided to leave this alive then chances are you're dead. Raging Felscreamer into this on 5 may well be completely unanswerable for most decks.

- Shadowcloth Needle never needed buffs, it needs shadow spells. And currently there's just too few shadow cards available to justify even a one mana cloth. So, this will either take over the meta later, but be completely forgotten despite the buff. Why'd they choose to do it then?

- Blackwater Behemoth not getting a stat nerf along with the buff is scary. Fortunately for us the only two decks he'll likely be in is highlander and quest. At least he'll fit the 7 mana slot now, where priest really sucks at.

- Tess to 7 mana is weird. Ive not done enough thief rogue to comment, but I get the feeling that it'll more likely be problematic in wild than in standard. Looks like there's someone in team5 that really really wanted this card to see play. Unfortunately, I think it'll always remain a meme in standard. Is there really a reason to run tess over Contraband Stash nowadays?

- Murlocs in warlock being buffed is the correct choice. But the absence of enough good 1 drops and the inability to draw well, it doesn't really look too good for them. All the archetype needs now is a card that puts murlocs into the hand. Hopefully in the midset?

I'm most excited about the Duels impact-the Shadowcloth Needle cost reduction gives Elise another 1-mana weapon to blow up Twig of the World Tree. Combining that with the cost reductions to Blackwater Behemoth and Whirlpool means that quest Elise will get even better in Duels.