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Sooo 3 mana albatross righttt ;)

Rhymes never caught my attention, but this was my type of riddle, it was fun staying until the end to see the answer. Also, clever hints, keeping it tense. Well thought out, DestroyerR :)

Mythgard is probably the most underrated card game out there.

meanwhile others are like "oops we didnt want that interaction to happen, a fix will be deployed soon"

Riot is constantly tweaking, so it's interesting to see that they consciously allow stuff like this to happen. They seem to never let things get TOO busted for too long.

Neat insight.

Yes, but its also the biggest attraction of HS for most now so its only natual they want to show the biggest number. If you want the factual stats check their quarterly actionists report. 

Teemo's sentiment is perfect for LoR. He wins.

I would say, if anything, it's the opposite. They want to make all the games compare best to Battlegrounds, so they used matches over hours. They don't want to present an infographic that has one mode at too insane of a lead. But you also don't want to under-represent a mode like BG and make people think it is being played a lot less than it actually is

Interesting choice for a riddle, a shame I'm not a native maybe it would have put things easier.

what first treasure do you use? which hero power do you use?

I think that combos like this are fun at first and shake up the meta, but if they don’t get nerfed soon it becomes problematic. Although I know this isn’t the best example, when Lee Sin first got buffed it was pretty fun for the first two weeks or so. However, after that it got really annoying and the nerf didn’t come soon enough (and debatably wasn’t a big enough nerf).

Copied. This is what rank for floors are all about! Diamond 10? This should be good.... :D

The nostalgia will definitely be fun. I'll probably go with Handlock or Wallet Warrior just to enjoy the fun of control when it had a bit better chance to maintain control. Far less OTK, far less swarm (because minions were way less sticky), and less resource generation (discover, shuffle into deck, etc.) available to opponents. 

I always hated zoo, though. Not sure how long a stint I'll be able to do without getting retro-raged-out. lol

That's a good summary of something I planned to look into myself over the weekend. I guess I'll chip in a few of my immediate thoughts while I'm here.

Neutral Basic

• The murlocs look unimpressive, but aside from Murloc Raider these little guys are always an important backbone to murloc decks. 
• I'd actually be more surprised to see Stonetusk Boar stick around than any others here, since that card has long been cited as a major limit on design space, even though it looks innocuous.
  • Maybe they'll take the opportunity to remove charge completely? (Except for Kayn Sunfury.)
• The fact they got 13 cards from here indicates they either want to retain some of the old favourites in order to keep a clear idea of what the vanilla stat-line is (e.g. Yeti, Sen'jin), or they will hand out quite a few buffs to those that are quite interesting but way too weak to see play anymore.

Priest

• I guess priest had it easy since they were prepared for this last year. 
• My guess is Shadowform is being reworked a bit, hence why it is allowed back from the HoF. Then they'll print some cards that behave differently based on whether you're in shadowform or not.

Mage

Whatever happens, I just hope Sorcerer's Apprentice finally leaves Standard. That card has dodged do many bullets over the years it's not even funny.

OG Warlock demons

Honestly, I miss how demons were designed at the start. I appreciate it didn't work out very often, but it made them so much more interesting and flavourful than the demons we've got since. They had a tribal identity of being strong at a cost (basically converting some of the mana cost into something else, e.g. a discard), but nowadays demons are just another tribe with nothing really setting them apart.

I haven't got much to say regarding what I expect to see in the Core set here. Just airing a pet peeve.

Secrets

• The number of secrets needed is something we've been able to test in rogue, and it looks like you can indeed get away with just 3 total, so long as they are all relevant. Note they can include Year of the Phoenix secrets in the count too, and they don't actually need enough within the Core set itself.
• It is possible they will drop paladin secrets next year. They are certainly able to now they have the Core set mechanism.
• I wondered whether they'll bring back any of the K&C secrets for rogue. Probably not since Cheat Death is stupid OP alongside Shadowjeweler Hanar, and Evasion is a bit too similar to Cloak of Shadows unless they really want an OTK rogue to exist this year. Sudden Betrayal would be fine, but I'm not sure how much it would add.

General comment

I guess they haven't said all the original 9 classes will get the same number from each of Basic, Classic and Wild. Granted the 54 from Classic and 36 from Wild are both divisible by 9 - so they probably will - but we can at least entertain the possibility that they won't. It could certainly help with some of the classes whose Basic/Classic sets haven't held up so well.

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I guess I'll try out some of the classics since I've only joined some time around Blackrock Mountain. As a Hunter main that certainly means Undertaker Hunter, but I'm also curious about Patron Warrior and Miracle or Oil Rogue. 

No Undertaker, as he was Curse of Naxxramas. Face hunter is still on the table, just without the 1 drop that accelerated insanely. 

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As an f2p player who joined HS during Kobolds and Catacombs, I am really looking forward to being able to experience what HS was like at the beginning. What cards and decks are you guys and gals going to be playing when it releases? 

I'm probably going to be messing around with some cards which get their nerfs reverted like Warsong Commander.

You may be disappointed by Warsong Commander in a true vanilla meta. The nerf was due to an interaction with Grim Patron and Frothing Berserker that allowed warrior to build a board of patrons that all had charge to hammer away and trigger Frothing.

There will tons of Zoolock featuring 3/2 Knife Juggler, lots of freeze mage, and plenty of Force of Nature druid. The warrior deck of choice will likely be Wallet Warrior, which is full on control and resource depletion. Miracle Rogue... not sure I want to go back to any of that. lol

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I guess I'll try out some of the classics since I've only joined some time around Blackrock Mountain. As a Hunter main that certainly means Undertaker Hunter, but I'm also curious about Patron Warrior and Miracle or Oil Rogue. 

Sadly* it's a flat no on all of those except Miracle Rogue. Undertaker, Tinker's Sharpsword Oil and Grim Patron were from Naxx, GvG and Blackrock respectively.

* That's a complete lie that it is sad you won't be able to play Undertaker Hunter. We all agreed never to go there again... until they printed Tunnel Trogg of course, and caused more or less the exact same problem. But since then, never again. For realsies this time.

Detto. I casted my "snowball storm" like this.

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