It was an issue then, and it still is now, but perhaps I did a poor job of explaining that this isn't the only consideration, and clearly (as we've nerfed cards every so often) doesn't stop us from making changes. I was only mentioning it as one of the things that we think about, trying to give a complete picture of the pros and cons of this type of change.

I think that's a reasonable argument.

We've tested many things recently in the Arena (more spells, less neutral classic/basic minions, more rares, less commons, standard-only, and some other crazy stuff), and several of these are coming soon to Arena near you!

We mentioned it on the stream, but this is not us saying "guys we figured out what is best and are sure we are right!" This is a test, and we're hoping to see how it feels in a live environment. I think we were surprised how fun Standard Arena felt in our testing, and I'm hoping folks find that they like it too. At the very least, it'll give us a little mix-up in the Arena for a while until we revert it or decide to experiment in another direction.

I think this is reference to the Molten Giant/Blade Flurry question. I was attempting to give you guys all of the things we think/talk about.

We didn't say Yes or No to this question because we really don't know what the right thing to do is. I think there are pros and cons. I just enumerated all the pros and cons, and that is one of them. It's far from the only one, and alone, may not be enough of a reason to do or not do something, but not talking about the effect of a change on a category of player that doesn't often have a voice is just not being complete.

Another component to this is that I think we can make it feel less like a grind and still keep it at a month. I think monthly rewards and monthly card backs and stuff feels pretty cool, so if we can keep it there and make it feel less grindy, is there still a benefit to doing longer seasons?

4th highest win rate is around 51.5% right now.

It's an Anyfin Paladin variant. RDU mentioned it in a tweet earlier as well. It was a small population size (like 0.7%) but at the 4th highest win rate. 0.7% play rate is still a large sample though.

The hardest thing about that stream was figuring out what to do with my face and hands when not answering questions. Hopefully it went well! Any feedback is appreciated.