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What you're saying is exactly what I was getting at: the easiest way to nerf only the OwlTK deck is to make Owl not do face damage. If they take that route, will Phylactery still be a meta-relevant card or will it only be useful for memes? I do like meme decks, but I generally use legendaries that I already have rather than crafting them for a meme deck.

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I've opened 57-ish Alterac packs since launch. 4 legendaries which is a better rate than usual and strong ones as well: Lightforged Cariel, Dreadlich Tamsin, Shadowcrafter Scabbs and (well...) Najak Hexxen. Looking forward to my freebie at lvl 20 later today.

Also 12 epics which feels avarage at it's best, including double Ur'zul Giant, The Lobotomizer, Mass Polymorph and Spring the Trap. Weirdly enough I'm still missing 5 Rares or so... 

I kept my tradition with getting Warlock legendaries from the reward track (3 times in 4 sets) and got Tamsin's Phylactery. I guess that means... Hoot hoot!

Another "bug" i've noticed is not really gameplay impacting, but the Edwin Vancleef hero portrait shows up as either an empty slot or as a default jaina when selecting your deck. Only when your ingame you will see the correct edwin portrait.

I originally thought maybe it might be a "feature" because i had Maestra of the Masquerade in my deck (which i.m.o. would have been a pretty cool feature honestly), but after some testing this "theory" proved wrong. When i switched to other valeera/scabbs portraits or Maiev it did work normally, BUT whenever i switch to the edwin portrait it keeps bugging out. And yes i also removed Maestra from my deck during testing, and the Edwin skin kept bugging out so it's not maestra related. They somehow managed to break a hero skin/portrait.

This deck seems degenerate. But since I opened both Tamsin and her Phylactery I guess I have no other choice than to play it. RNGsus demands it!

"You are not worthy" (Lightforged Cariel one can't be completed either)

…a StarCraft card set was also presented once upon a time.

In an alternate reality, this would have been released and I would've been over the moon.

Kerrigan could totally pull off a Demon Hunter vibe. Raynor would work as a Warrior... ah the dream...

Dreadlich Tamsin will remain a good card even if owlock is nerfed (as long as it dodges the nerf itself). Draw 3 for 6 is already decent, being able to do a 3 damage AoE at the same time shouldn't be able to exist, what more if you drew at least one 3/3 all in the same turn. Even brukan does less at 8 mana.

But I don't think owlock would be nerfed to be honest. Its basically fatiguelock, with the same gameplan and nearly the same cards. The only thing different here is that owlock needs to satisfy more conditions to succeed and can be played around using Mutanus and Rustrot Viper whereas fatiguelock is nearly solitaire at its finest.

If anything, I expect nerfs to either Dreadlich Tamsin or Runed Mithril Rod, the latter or which is straight up insane, even at 4 mana. Dont think anything would happen to owl itself, because if owl gets hit everyone would just go play fatiguelock instead and nothing changes.

I would say one thing though. If I have viper in hand, owlock isn't really too much of a threat as long as you have a decent gameplan yourself. I used to run double viper in my corrupt freeze shaman and just steamroll owls to death.

This is nearly imposible imo :D 

Nice Shiro card back.

There's also been random disconnects throughout. None of them bad enough that I'll lose turns because of it, but certainly very close. Not sure why all these disconnects tend to happen when its my turn.

This is getting weird. Seems like the number of bugs are getting worse with each passing major patch. Wonder how long we have to wait for this all to get fixed. Jerry Rig Carpenter took nearly 2 weeks.

They could've also done a "Fix Your Bugs" hackathon before this expansion's release.

Ahh, classic team 5 incompetence

Hello,

I was doing fine with 0.0.3, but now I have an error with 0.0.5 version.
Not sure if I am doing something wrong.

And for some reason, my collection reset to 0.
(I also tried to use JSON importer this may be why)

This is what HDT wrote (excerpt) :

Out of Cards 0.0.5 threw an exception.

Make sure you are using the latest version of the Plugin and HDT.

System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
à System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
à OutOfCardsPlugin.OutOfCardsOAuth.<RefreshAuthTokens>d__12.MoveNext()
— Fin de la trace de la pile à partir de l'emplacement précédent au niveau duquel l'exception a été levée —
à System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
à System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
à System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ValidateEnd(Task task)
à OutOfCardsPlugin.CardCollection.<SyncCollection>d__1.MoveNext()

edit : completed error message and added info

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One funny bug ive seen is rogue discovering rogue cards when shouldn't. E.g. I have been having fun with the 1/4 secret guy (I have him in golden but can't remember his name lulz) and when I play secrets I often get offered rogue secrets. I think it's because Maestra.

+1 to Riffraff here - I think Shadowjeweler Hanar's text refers to the secret you play. The text is "After you play a Secret, Discover a Secret from a different class." So if you aren't playing a Rogue secret, you'll see one in the discover pool.

I don't think that's a bug. He rotates classes (secrets offered) depending on what you picked previously.

Honestly, I only played that TB because of what it was. I want to see more like it. Though, I see how watching an AI play the game for you could be unpopular...

Thanks, FortyDust. I've been out of the Twitch scene for too long. I will knock the dust off and check out Dekkster or find it on YT.

Last streamer I watched was Zetalot. Bet he's still jamming out while only playing Priest!

it was funny, but it was one and done for me... luckily... some people played it a lot because they couldn't get a win, because AI would ocnstantly screw up

As usual, an excellent article from Goliath! 
10/10 

One funny bug ive seen is rogue discovering rogue cards when shouldn't. E.g. I have been having fun with the 1/4 secret guy (I have him in golden but can't remember his name lulz) and when I play secrets I often get offered rogue secrets. I think it's because Maestra.

Oh no. The fairy tale brawl was one of the most-played of the year. They think it was a success. 

Dekkster has it featured in a video. I'm sure he's not the only one.

Trump played his own version, but I would not recommend that.

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Honestly, I think it is too early to decide whether or not OTK Warlock is an issue. It absolutely crumples to Libram Paladin and Quest Mage, and I imagine once people start playing Face Hunter it will suffer even more. Currently I feel like it is only good against grindy decks who win through attrition. 

This is exactly the kind of argument I and many others were making about Questline Warlock at the start of United in Stormwind, and we all know where that went. That's not to say the Owl OTK will need some kind of nerfs, per se, but it's clear Warlock is a problem. When it was just Questline Warlock, you could at least argue the deck was consistent because it always started with its win condition (i.e. the quest) in hand. But the success of Owl OTK makes it clear that Warlock is just way too good at consistently and rapidly drawing their whole deck.

It reminds me a bit of that brief time when Gonk OTK and Maly OTK Druids were both surprisingly effective decks because they shared a fairly OP shell of draw and defensive tools.

In other words, Stormwind-era Warlock.