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But you said “Johnny was an anomaly, he barely survived”... oh whatever, poetic license I suppose 

This Ysera wouldn't be included in big priest, so I'd say it's a win! 

Battlecry: Destroy a trifling gnome and gain his life.

Holy shit we are lucky you're not a card designer. 

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I hope they don't rework him too much! But having seen how gracefully they treated our lovely Dragons (discounting the new art), I'm not worried. 

Really, simply lowering his mana cost to 8 and increasing his health to 20 would create a very playable Jaraxxus. Playing him should be a risk - here's wishing they don't give him the generic "Battlecry: Gain 5 armor" treatment.

just set it to 8mana and make him not cap yoru Hp at all.

The limitign health is one of the bigegst reason he has been terrible for ages now.

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Wonder if this card has a special interaction with Apotheosis. Would you heal from the damage triggered by the frenzy effect?

as long as Frenzy is consistent with other abilities then yes. Abilities are usually coded to be part of the minion and as such will apply any added keywords (such as lifesteal and poisonous).

If Rogue gets a cheap spell to give a minion poisonous this could be very interesting

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Nope, nope and nope.

Anomaly is the word, but not that anomaly.

Asides from that, stop thinking too much in elementals.

 

Edit: Didn't see the post of @anchorm4n it is Cosmic Anomaly, not the final answer but part of the riddle nonetheless. 

Never said it was the card, I said it was tied to the final answer, which it is.

But then why did you say that Johnny WAS the Anomaly?

No, that's been indeed stated by Celestalon. But maybe he just meant there was still another brand new mode incoming.

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The simulator is just for fun. We value goldens like crazy and there are multipliers when you get multiple goldens to make packs go real crazy.

Don't read into it too much :D Just know that each pack opening uses the same rates of appearance as the real deal, we just don't take into account collections or pity timers because to do so would be against the point!

It might be fun for you, but I am deadly serious!

(too much?)

Indeed, that's the right order, the last part of the riddle (face to face) was to point out why it survived, that hunter is known to be the "face" class just adds flavor to it.

The deck idea is awesome!

Ahhhhh, Lol, yeah, that's right, sorry. I wrote this when I woke up, I thought they're remaking him as a new card in hero card form, my bad 

What? Why? Where’s the Anomaly here?

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BTW There’s also some art shown in a Mercenaries reveal confirming Vol'jin, Ragnaros and Gruul as Mercenaries

Sure, and the official press kit (https://blizzard.gamespress.com/Hearthstone-BlizzConline-Press-Kit) shows art for the 3 tiers of Gruul, King Krush, Rag and Sylvanas. Based on his stage 3 art, my money's on Krush having something to do with the adapt keyword, though what that translates to in the game mode I have no idea.

Using the same name to describe both those characters and the game mode is a bit annoying really. I know why they did it, but was it really so bad to use different names to avoid confusion and ambiguity?

I'm not sold yet on this upgrade effect. For Chain Lightning (Rank 3) dealing 8 damage to 2 minions on turn 10 might not be enough to remove the big minions one would expect at 10 mana. Ofc you are only paying 2 mana to deal 8 damage across 2 bodies, but I feel we'd need additional cards to completely remove the 2 minions. There's also that 50/50 on which adjacent minion gets hit, if you target the middle minion 

Wonder if this card has a special interaction with Apotheosis. Would you heal from the damage triggered by the frenzy effect?

Exactly!

Added him to my Deck of Chaos warlock, and have to say, pretty great at a 3 mana 5/6

But that's not even close to the original card. He's being tuned for balance purposes, not completely reworked.

BTW There’s also some art shown in a Mercenaries reveal confirming Vol'jin, Ragnaros and Gruul as Mercenaries

(9) 5 Armor 

Battlecry: Destroy every DH on earth and bring back fellas from oblivion.

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It just sounds like its shaping up to be a glorified dungeon run

Well, it's neither a rogue-like nor a deck building mode and the combat system alone differantiates it a lot from the other modes(the pve and pvp will also play differently from each other). So I don't think it's fair to say that it will just be another Dungeon run mode.