Up to Flux if he wants to add new buttons for the text editor for either/both.
Yeah, this is a fun problem to figure out a good solution for. The editor is already packed full of nonsense!
We are likely to put in place a logic change so that the bbcode will prefer the core set over others so we ensure we have the correct card icons showing up. that will make it much easier for people to easily use bbcode with simple card names; That's a start.
Slowly I start to believe that the crimson archetype is the mtg lifegain deck of LoR: never a good deck but always one of the archetypes that get the best standalone cards
This card exists just for the lulz. Like imagine playing a friendly match where both players play this card... gonna be fun for sure. outside of friendly matches this is a great way to make sure you stay in iron
I actually agree. While the new art is certainly awesome, the old ones were somehow more unique and iconic for each one. Maybe we only feel that way because we're used the old ones.
As for the cards themselves, I dig them. I never played WoW, but I imagine the new Onyxia feels much like a raid boss for your opponent, just endlessly spawning whelps until you deal with her. The new Nozdormu is just hilarious. It's almost like there's now a separate mode for "speed games" if you and your opponent are both down. And if it's just you, I guess a 7 mana 8/8 is ok?
Concurrent Timelines in Corina Ledros is a really funny concept. It got confirmed by devs that if you play Ledros and get offered Dreadway, it will just kill the opponent. I know what deck I'll be running day 1.
I'm going to copy and paste this comment from Onyxia's page because I'm curious whether folks agree or disagree with me.
They really did these new dragons dirty with the art. It's great art, don't get me wrong - just not on a card.
It's too detailed. There are too many colors for us to imagine a simple and majestic image with just the card's thumbnail. Compare to the old Malygos. The subject is the same (dragon breathing fire), but it's colored all in shades of blue. Some detail is omitted and the camera is zoomed in so that it reads on a small card. On this new Onyxia, almost the whole dragon is shown, with every part in full detail.
It's also too stereotypical. Look at the new dragons altogether. Notice how there are only two poses? They're the most typical poses, too. Sitting or breathing fire. Some of the old dragons share those poses, but they're twisting, turning, more sinuous and beautiful. Old Onyxia, for example - look how there are three distinct levels of detail to the pose. The head is most detailed, and then the body in the mid-ground, and then finally the tail whipping out. It's a sinuous and beautiful arrangement that guides your eye along the dragon's form. New Onyxia is a chonky block with a huge foreground, a tiny mid ground, and no background at all.
Finally, just look at the freaking pretty abstraction of a dragon that is old Deathwing. None of this new art comes close to that level of beauty. He is a looming, undeniable, animalistic force of nature. We read him differently because he looks different than what we know 'dragon' looks like. He's special. He's Deathwing. Deathwing the Destroyer, while undeniably produced by a skilled artist, lacks the spirit of individuality that set the old one apart. The artist drew a dragon, but he didn't go so far as to ask, "How can I represent the spiritual form as well as the physical?" "What holistic decisions can I make that will produce a unique whole?" In the old art, those radical decisions were the symmetry and the geometry (look at how the V of his jaw extends all down the chest. Not natural, obviously, but beautiful!).
Anyway, I'll stop spewing my thoughts on the keyboard now. I'm a l'il disappointed at the lack of artistry, but that's okey. The new ones are still pretty.
Has anyone started to address the challenge of specifying card versions?
Yeah, this is a fun problem to figure out a good solution for. The editor is already packed full of nonsense!
We are likely to put in place a logic change so that the bbcode will prefer the core set over others so we ensure we have the correct card icons showing up. that will make it much easier for people to easily use bbcode with simple card names; That's a start.
Forged in the Barrens
Rewards aren't up yet - we'll have those once the reveal season fully kicks off!
You can at least start tracking your progress here =)
New Noxus Card - Shrieking Spinner
Strong in spider decks... but what is a spider deck these days?
New Noxus Card - Crimson Bloodletter
Slowly I start to believe that the crimson archetype is the mtg lifegain deck of LoR: never a good deck but always one of the archetypes that get the best standalone cards
New Druid Minion - Nordrassil Druid
No Savage Roar, though. I don't know if Token Druid is going to be consistent enough when they're down a finisher.
New Bilgewater Spell - Lost Riches
This looks amazing for deep decks. Like it is Shipwreck Hoarder without body but infinitely better at the job to generate treasures.
I think this will be very viable in deep decks
New Mage Minion - Aegwynn, the Guardian
I like the card art, and I hope she has a unique opening line when played against Medhiv.
Or even if Medhiv plays her...
New Piltover & Zaun Spell - Concurrent Timelines
This card exists just for the lulz. Like imagine playing a friendly match where both players play this card... gonna be fun for sure. outside of friendly matches this is a great way to make sure you stay in iron
New Neutral Minion - Deathwing the Destroyer
The best of the Dragon changes, will see proper amount of play.
New Neutral Minion - Ysera the Dreamer
Dream after you play it? Amazing. Aside from that, if control decks run this I;m not sure the'll have the hand space for it.
New Neutral Minion - Malygos the Spellweaver
This seems better with decks with few spells, like Chtun pieces like others mention.
Or you can just die to bombs or things like that.
New Neutral Minion - Onyxia the Broodmother
It's just a direct buff compared to previous Onixya, but still not good enough.
New Neutral Minion - Alexstrasza the Life-Binder
That it can remove a big enemy minion threat is great, nice change.
New Neutral Minion - Nozdormu the Eternal
Card for Trolden Compilation videos? I would have loved if this did something extra, anything, or at least be a 9/9 I dunno.
New Piltover & Zaun Spell - Production Surge
This.... is weird.
Does it also consider challenger turrets?
Don't underestimate this card, it might find a weird niche
New Neutral Minion - Taelan Fordring
Yeah I wonder if this is because they said they are trying to reduce RNG and that includes generated cards.
New Demacia Card - Towering Stonehorn
It is kinda like Armored Tuskrider great in Limited useless in constructed
All the New Core Set Cards Coming to Hearthstone in Year of the Gryphon + Full 235 Cards Reveal
Fogsail Freebooter will be most impactful one in my opinion.
New Freljord Spell - Ancestral Boon
The artwork is amazing,
...unlike the card it is on
New Shadow Isles Card - Sea Scarab
This look REALLY strong in deep decks... like it is a toss engine for 2 with deep?! Looks nuts in that deck
Alexstrasza, Nozdormu, and Onyxia All Received Remakes - How Well Will They Do?
I actually agree. While the new art is certainly awesome, the old ones were somehow more unique and iconic for each one. Maybe we only feel that way because we're used the old ones.
As for the cards themselves, I dig them. I never played WoW, but I imagine the new Onyxia feels much like a raid boss for your opponent, just endlessly spawning whelps until you deal with her. The new Nozdormu is just hilarious. It's almost like there's now a separate mode for "speed games" if you and your opponent are both down. And if it's just you, I guess a 7 mana 8/8 is ok?
17 New Cards Revealed for Runeterra's Empires of the Ascended Expansion - Multiple Regions!
FINALLY MORE LEGION MARAUDER SUPPORT LEZGOOOO
17 New Cards Revealed for Runeterra's Empires of the Ascended Expansion - Multiple Regions!
Concurrent Timelines in Corina Ledros is a really funny concept. It got confirmed by devs that if you play Ledros and get offered Dreadway, it will just kill the opponent. I know what deck I'll be running day 1.
New Demacia Card - Dragon Chow
It is so adorable :o
WHY would you make us kill it riot?
Alexstrasza, Nozdormu, and Onyxia All Received Remakes - How Well Will They Do?
I'm going to copy and paste this comment from Onyxia's page because I'm curious whether folks agree or disagree with me.