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So...am I missing something or did Tavish just get shafted and left behind in terms of portraits? 

I hope there is an achivement for building snowman's that references frozen in some way

Strong card, set your hero power to 0 and give it freeze is a very strong tempo move. Very good indeed

Being an spell maybe it's easy to use the honorable kill mechanic, but maybe it will become a dead card in your hand if you can't find a good moment to use it

Basically, you have two Hero Powers: yours and your opponent's. Not sure, because this kind of cards that try to be too clever don't usually do well, but I'd like to know your opinion nevertheless.

Edit: Reduced the cost to 3. Just realized the effect isn't all that impactful, despite being active through the whole game.

Good standalone card fro big spell mage, or with any spell costs mage

Congratulations to Wailor!

Phrasing comes from Dart Trap. The left card is a callback to A. F. Kay and her Idle Hero Power, while the right card is a callback to Mindbreaker. The first version is definitely more impactful, which is good because not all decks care about their Hero Power, but it could also be hard-countering certain decks, so I made a second one just in case.

Then again, how many would be upset if Nap Time reined in Questline Warlock, Questline Hunter, and/or Shadow Priest?

Unfortunately not this time. Duels got a tavern ticket coz Diablo was added to the mode. They also usually state if Duels gets a reset but didn't mention that in the above patch notes.

Hmm still nothing on the changes to pack openings... which they hinted at in the last big patch. 

Competition Theme: Fight The Power

We're all about keeping our opponent's Power in check this time - stay on target!

• You must create a card which refers to your opponent's Hero Power
  • While most cards will likely hinder your opponent, you could help them if you were feeling generous
• Your card cannot have a symmetrical effect
  
  • Cards like Grizzled Wizard do not count - stick to one Power at a time!

Jhamel said they were struggling for a theme, as they were feeling pretty... uninspired. The pun was all they needed.

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Hey, popping in to say that the event runs until the next expansion launches. A winner of AV is declared when the mini-set launches, but you can keep working towards rewards.

So we might have time to grind this. 

Toally overpriced, so I don't bother with them! 

Ooooh I get it. There's a "become a Grunt" quest and also a "Grunt" achievement (and same for all the other ranks). The honor totals for the quests are standalone -- "Okay, you're a Grunt, now you have to earn 80 more honor to be a Sergeant". The honor totals for the achievements are all-inclusive -- to be a Sergeant you have to have earned a total of 120 honor all told. And so on all the way up. (A newly minted Stone Guard needs to earn 500 more honor to become a Blood Guard, at which point they'll have 1460 honor in total, which is the amount needed for the Blood Guard achievement.)

Maybe I'm missing something. What do the Quest - Honor Quota and Achievement - Honor Quota columns mean? Ordinarily I'd assume it means something like either "You need X honor, and no more than Y can come from quests/achievements", or else "You need X honor, and at least Y must come from quests/achievements." But there isn't an X listed.

That said, it does seem to imply you can get honor from quests and from achievements, besides the honor  you get from just playing and winning games, so maybe that reduces the number of games we have to grind through...

I'm glad they're adding some flair to those boring boards. 

And, to my read, even if I don't buy anything, I'll still get to see it when I play an opponent who did. 

Is it possible to get Vanndar Stormpike non-golden down the road? With all the info dump happening this month, I might have missed it. 

Same here: I could do 10 games on one particular day, but not keep up an average of 10 games per day for a month. And free time isn't even the bottleneck, as I have a lot of holidays saved up; I just don't want to spend so much of it playing Hearthstone.

Let's hope that there are additional sources or multipliers that we don't know about yet.

Same.  Even if I didn't have to work, that's quite a grind.

As someone who dabbles in all game modes (with a major focus on constructed), this is a great deal. I have bought each tavern pass that has been offered to date with no regrets (the XP bonus has been well worth it, and I have enjoyed *some* of the cosmetics), and I will be grabbing this one too. 

That could be an answer, but at the same time I would not like them to turn all passives into small bland buffs, which are hardly even noticeable. Duels is, for me, where I go to play something crazy. It's all about that insane tempo or unbelievable swings. Games and plays that you can't see in either standard or wild, more akin to the old solo adventures that the mode is based on.

That's a nice play on the original WoW pvp ranks!

Its weird that despite the extra stuff on it, we dont have any tavish portaits in the pass here.

So tavish is/would be the only mercenary without any portaits,even more odd since AV is half about the stormpike dwarves which he is.