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Just to give OP some comfort, this same topic of debate has come up with Hearthstone every year since about 2016 and it has yet to go anywhere.  Has it lost some audience?  Sure, it's almost 9 years old (I think almost 10 if you count original beta time) and several popular content creators have moved on or changed game modes, but it's still fine.  When one streamer leaves another usually rises to fill the void, or multiple rise up and split their audience.  A few streamers leaving from time to time will happen, but it is not necessarily a sign that a mass exodus is or will happen.  The people streaming are also playing the game a lot more than most of the player base as streaming it is their job.  So they are more likely to move on sooner than most other players because they get super fatigued by playing the same game every day.

Glad to see this site doing well again. I chime to out of cards for every Hearthstone news.

As for the Death Knight class, it seems like a jack of all trades but is limited by the rune system. My initial thought is that I dislike the rune system because it heavily limits deckbuilding, and deckbuilding is by far my favorite aspect of Hearthstone. But the more I think about it, the more I feel like it's actually the opposite. The limitations that the rune system put on deckbuilding actually encourage experimentation way more than other classes. It's going to be very fun for me to go through all of the different combinations of runes and see which one is going to be the most efficient at achieving certain deck goals.

The rune system is supposed to be the tradeoff for printing cards that are over their mana value with cards like Horn of Winter, Vampiric Blood, Frost Strike etc. And on top of that, it's also a neat balancing mechanic for cards. If a certain runed card has a broken synergy with another runed card, they can just tune the rune value of the cards instead of just changing the numbers.

I'm very excited for the Death Knight class, very possible that it's going to be my favorite class.

Its rather unfortunate to suffer an attack during such a major event, one that only ever happens once perhaps every two years.

But nevertheless, its nice to know there's somewhere I can go just to see all the revealed cards, rather than scrolling reddit's deep pits.

Im a little skeptical about the rune system, because it doesn't really encourage diverse deckbuilding, more like streamlining certain cards towards certain decks. Like how certain cards like overseer frigidara would only ever be in frost decks even if it can easily be in other rune decks. And if you're going to play a frost deck, you'll always have frostwrym's fury in it, why wouldn't it? Even the archetype is more or less determined by design; you'll never really play an aggro frost deck, even if frostwyrm's fury is perfectly legitimate an addition into any aggro deck.

What the rune system does allow, is an easier time for devs to create and balance decks while having very powerful effects like vampiric blood. But only time will tell if this system ends up a success story for future classes to emulate.

As for the path of arthas set...my wallet doesn't like it. I feel stuff like these should be part of core, or at least obtainable via packs/dust. Events post microsoft takeover is starting to stink, and I hope hearthstone doesn't get any more expensive as it is.

Signature cards though, are as cool as they are completely optional. That's fine for me. But I do pity those omega whales who now have to drop god knows how much more to get all 18 of those things every expansion.

Every expansion should be like this, excitement overload!

I was looking through the playhearthstone card library, and noticed one peculiar thing, Theotar is shown as a 6 mana 4/4

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/cards?set=standard&sort=name%3Aasc%2Cclasses%3Aasc%2CgroupByClass%3Aasc&textFilter=theotar

I tried to post a screenshot of it but I couldn't figure out how to here.