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why? They are going to keep the exact mm they have today. The only difference is that you can't see your mmr anymore. It's a pure visual change

and what about that Al'Akir making the parrot attack twice and probably survive... that will be fun!

Some needed changes but i feel like they could have gone in a different direction for Druid. Nerfing Twilight Runner to 6 or Overgrowth to 5 would probably be a lot better. Guardian Animals is also a Hunter card and Hunter doesn't have access to ramp to play it faster which makes the increased cost a lot more devastating to them. The card is dead for Hunter before it even started seeing some real experimentation.

I'm not sad in the slightest that Turtle Mage is dead. But Pilgrim also seems a lot worse for any Control/Highlander Mage. Instead of providing a high value battlecry that makes high cost spells more worthwhile, now it will remove the spell and increase your fatigue counter by 1. That's a big deal against other control decks. I don't think it's worth using it anymore.

👏TAVERN REVIEW 👏

Alright, it looks like Elementals are a strange hybrid of both Pirates and Murlocs, it meshes the economy aspect of pirates and the board-buffing aspect of Murlocs, but does not really excel at either of them. However besides big stats, I don’t really see Elementals being able to compete with the Divine Shields and massive stats of dragons or being able to beat Amalgadon, the most played strategy right now. Unless it ends up being a very strong midrange strategy, I can see it potentially flopping. I’m not going to look into the individual cards, but most of them show a lot of promise, especially since their discover/draw effects are very targeted and low tiered.

Heroes:

Ragnaros: 3/5

Could potentially be very strong, actually! You can activate this hero power by turns 5-6 and this is a massive power spike as you just get so much free stats over the course of the game. However, seeing how fast the meta is at the moment, it could be a problem of “too little, too late” as you are forced to go without a hero power for so many turns. I am optimistic for this hero, especially since there are so many tokens that your opponents will be running. Not amazing probably, but has potential.

Chenvaala: 2/5

I am not very sold on this hero. He has crazy highroll potential provided you receive elementals. I will not write him off as of course, power-leveling is the meta right now, and if done correctly, can allow you to really pop off. However, he seems rather inconsistent and relies on the elemental tribe which I believe will not be that good. I suspect you will just use his hero power to quickly switch off elementals into Amalgadon or a Beast build and try to win from there. Very skeptical overall due to how inconsistent the strat is as you will probably die before you can really pop off.

Rakanishu: 1/5

Hero power is way too slow and at 2 gold is not even worth it. Edwin is much better in that sense, and even he is struggling right now.

Al’akir: 4/5

We have established that free stuff is awesome! This is very similar to the Lich King’s hero power and just buffs your dude for free. It can allow you to survive the early game easily (which we established was a problem) and reach those late game builds much safer. I would say he has the most potential to succeed among the heroes shown here is Rag or Chenvaala don’t blow my expectations out of the water. However, the hero power can also prove to be a hinderance in certain situations, but they are rare and few. You have Divine Shield to survive a first hit and Windfury to ensure the minion will always get its swings in.

So, Elementals are just another version of lategame Dragons. Boring.

I can understand the nerf to turtle mage as the deck is just super unfun to lose to. But the rest of the meta was, again, so good. No top tier decks and like 7/10 classes had highly competitive decks. Druid really didn't feel like it needed another nerf this early.

Just click the dialogue box and it should skip it. I assume it works the same on a phone, if that applies to you, but I'm not certain.

I completely agree, but while I love watching Flik's shadowy stabby-stab-stabs fill the screen, I also considered turtle mage the least fun deck to play against in HS's entire history otherwise... and that's saying something. So on balance I have to say it's worth it.

Hello? No nerf for Jandice? Who makes up the entire Tier 1 on HSReplay? Who has a 3.5 average placement compared to the theoretically balanced 4.5, which is absolutely crazy? For comparison, Maiev, at second place, has 3.88, and she's really strong.

So it's going to be shitty just like ranked, got it.

This, this is the kind of stuff we need. No more spaghetti code, bring us quality of life updates. A complete game-changer in deckbuilding, makes everything 5x faster. IMO this is worth more than the entire patch barring Battlegrounds.

Sellemental? So this is the dialogue i d imagine happened in dev team :

- Hey, Josh, remember this new BG 1 drop elemental?

- The one that gives you a token for selling? Yeah, i do.

- How the hell should we name it?

- Dunno, call it... ehhhh... Sellemental for now , i ll think about something legit later

- Ahahah, OK, Josh, sure !

[ Narrator's note : Josh did not thought about something legit later. ]

Same, i love dual-class.. pretty much only time i play arena

Thank God, tortollan mage is gone. One of the dumbest decks in Hearthstone, no argument here.

As always, I hope they plan to undo these nerfs when the cards rotate into wild.

Turtle mage was an interesting deck that I never got a chance to really use, and the card's only other real use was generating more copies of ice block, which it now cannot do.

I forgot Ragnaros was already a Battlegrounds character until a few minutes ago lol

I wish we could buy that Hero bundle with gold.

Guardian Animals still op

You can do a Hadronox Druid or Odd Hadronox Druid without focusing on a beast base. Carnivorous Cube and Witching Hour are both odd so you can just chain-res Hadronoxes.

Can't wait for the "Dual-Class Arena Continues" content

Could that Uther/Horseman from the Trailer be the "Horseman Uther" Skin you datamined a while ago? Through it would be weird if they didn't advertise it.

No more Flik making turtle mage cry. I understood the nerfs of course, but theres a sense of happiness when u throw Flik into the turtles that is hard to replicate

Well... there goes my odd Beast druid deck....feelsbadman :-( ....Crafted Hadronox for that...

Should be fun - can we skip the dialogue though if we want to?  Replaying on multiple regions gets a bit wearing otherwise :P