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You can do a lot with this card like increase damage or give it poisonous.

Exactly the combo I was looking for

"We want to remove charge from the game" Charge and Ignore taunts : /

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They already mixed Zaun with Piltover... Soooooo.

Yes, they do have a precedent, but with P&Z there's not much difference theme-wise.  OK, I know Zaun is supposed to be like Piltover's dark underbelly, but in practice Jinx and Heimerdinger both fit a "wild crazy stuff happens" scheme, as do the spells and followers for P&Z.  Teemo is actually from Bandle City, so it's not like they were even strictly limiting themselves to standing cannon.

Perhaps the most interesting question is: exactly how deep do they expect the rosters for each of these regions to be?  Currently, there's ~20 champions affiliated with P&Z combined which implies that The Void would need to shore up its roster to be comparable--however, the same would be said about Shadow Isles.  My suspicion is that they are going to continue on with what they did with P&Z and Teemo: doing what feels right in-game rather than restricting themselves to existing lore and keeping all factions' rosters roughly same size.  For illustration, here's some charts that I'm totally stealing from Reddit:

 Regions/Factions already in:

Regions/factions not in:

I mean yeah it is all upsides and I am glad to not have to worry about opening a third epic. But this isn't the huge economy change I thought we would get. It is good, but I just don't think it is enough to make the game more accessible to F2P players. 

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For classes without silence, this is a slow game-ender. If a Control Warrior became oppressively good, I would bet that some decks might run this card against it... or maybe that's my GvG brain thinking, but still - I don't think we can write off any kind of infinite value. 

Plus, think of the meme decks we can pull off! 

Its bad because all your opponent has to do is deal 6 damage and it's dead. Sure it is a bit harder to kill than some other cards, but it isn't that much harder to kill than say, [Hearthstone Card (glass knight) Not Found] or Cobalt Guardian. It is just too easy for your opponent to deal with a 0/3. And even if it does survive, it doesn't have rush or anything so you would have to wait a whole nother turn before you even get to attack with it.

This one makes houndmaster shaw look really bad 

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His effect is a battlecry, so you won't be able to use any other effects after the fact,  he needs to be buffed in hand prior to being played.

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It's not preposterous for a board to be empty before this minion is played, only to follow it with alchemist the turn after, hitting for 10 damage on turn 4. I mean of course it's not easy to pull off, I wasn't suggesting it's a viable strategy, just pointing out a possible interaction, even if it will only eventually be a part of a single trolden video but jeez, lighten up people!!! 

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Exactly what I'm thinking. I'm more than happy to spend 100 gold on an old pack if I know I'll get the commons/rare I'm missing, with a reasonable chance I get a bonus epic too.

I wonder if dust farming for future nerfs on commons and rares becomes sensible. If even just a common of a set is nerfed, you can keep opening packs 1 at a time, each pretty much guaranteed to give 2x the nerfed card and hence a minimum of 110 dust. Even better because any golden commons will likely be the nerfed card too.

On a related note: if you open enough packs to have all the commons and there are any you want golden, keep dusting them between packs 'til you open the golden versions! Can do the same with rares if/when you get all of those, though that's a much slower process.

I didn't think of that. Wow, that' s true, it's actually a great way of farming dust. Wonder if Blizzard might change the protection when it comes to nerfed cards.

My understanding is that protection is for cards given, or opened. Then it becomes random. So if you dust, you will have to wait until you have a full set, and then hope for a random drop. It's not what is in your collection, it is what cards have already been generated.

I know people are downvoting me for pointing this out, but hey ho. 

I was about to comment how low getting 3 packs from new expansion is, but remember, because of that new duplicate protection, packs are now much more worth it. Especially first 25-50

And they say rigging doesn't happen.

I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. If nothing else it's high-grade memes

So about the duplicate protection, if I open all of the commons, will it not give me any more commons until I have every other card? Because if not, then I don't see this system helping as much as people think. I don't think too many people have trouble getting all of the commons and rares in a set already. All the protection would do would make your collection a little bit better for the first few weeks of the expansion and also stop you from getting super unlucky with epics.

*edit* I was collecting some downvotes so I just want to clarify that I am not complaining or saying that this free stuff isn't enough and blizzard needs to give us more free stuff. But I am a bit concerned that this may not be quite enough to help players like me who don't spend money, but still play the game a lot, build up their collection. I can already collect all of the commons and rares without much difficulty, so the protection on those won't really help me get more cards, it will just help me get them faster. But in the long run it comes out the same. I understand that this update will have a lot more of an impact for people who don't play as much and so don't get as many packs because it will drastically reduce the number of packs you will need to get a full collection of commons/rares but I am just concerned that for the rest of us the protection will mostly only help with epics and I am concerned that this may not be enough.

This actually looks awesome! Cool burgle synergy, good flavor, and the best flavor text so far.

”What is a shadowjeweler? A miserable pile of secrets.

Ding ding ding!

Exactly those two!

Master Oakheart benefits directly from summoning Hadronox in Taunt Druid, and Oaken Summons is used in a lot of stalling decks for adventures summoning Ironwood Golem or Crypt Lord.

The big then small is a pure numbers thing, 6 armor 4 cost minion, 9 mana 1-2-3 attack minions.

And the smile part was specifically to denote Oakheart, cause I couldn't find a better way to call him out.

I didn't know that there is a reveal countdown schedule. Thanks for information. :)

Good flavor, and pretty art, but goodness me is this weak. Imagine if they changed both parts to 4 Health instead.

I mean, Murloc Paladin has worked in the past, but we live in very different times now. Good card without a home, aka a Paladin epic

Features > Bugs ^^

Jinkies that's strong. If nerfed, my hope is it goes to a 1/2 instead of a 2/1, but I'm digging this guy nonetheless.

They already mixed Zaun with Piltover... Soooooo.

This is one of those cards where I'll rate it well, but only because the effect seems strong. I have no idea where exactly this goes or if it will work, but if all goes to plan this guy is terrifying. Catch me running Consume Magic.