Bluetracker
Tracks Blizzard employees across various accounts.
Blizzard is not stupid and are not out of ideas
I don't understand how so many people think they know what's great for the game because they've spent an hour thinking about it. Did you know their developers spend 8+ hours and 5 days a week thinking about the game?
They do all kinds of alpha, beta and even potential patches to the game all the time and test it internally. Do you honestly think they've never thought about "discover a card in your hand and discard it" ?
Do you honestly think they didn't try replacements for blade flurry?
The current state of the game is intentional, it's not accidental. They aren't printing more silverback patriarchs here, they're printing interesting cards and we haven't seen the rest of the set. Reddit is so unbelievably wrong about cards each expansion mostly because they didn't try it yet in a world where all the other cards are around to support it. Blizzard does test everything they can to make sure it's a good mechanic. Maybe they're not always 100% right but they do a damn good job of trying
Not only are the developers seasoned veterans, legend players and professionals, but they're obviously passionate about making games or else they wouldn't have fought to get a job at blizzard at all.
Iksar
I think the point of that comment was to say we tested Thistle Tea in quest rogue and circumstances like that were memorable because hilarious and probably the wrong answer for that deck.
Iksar
For something like quest rogue is was pretty important that anything that could be reasonably considered by playtested. In the end if there was anything that might not have been tested extensively enough it was the impact Vanish had on the deck. We tried it along with a bunch of other things including builds with Coldlight, Wisp, Thistle Tea, Elementals, late-game completion, etc.
Iksar
Creates some fun moments. The anticipation for what you get off Thistle Tea is really high. Card draw effects and repetitive effects are dangerous for a giant bucket of reasons but we still kept it because of the fun anticipation, just at a power level we thought would be experimented with and not end up in your average Rogue deck. Not all cards we aim power level for end up where we thought, but this one was pretty close.
Iksar
It's a good place to casually interact with the people most engaged in the game. I read a lot here, but also in the official forums, ios reviews, game-news sites, twitter, etc. Feedback is wildly different depending on the medium. I would say twitter and here share the most similarities.