A new Rare Shurima Unit, Rampaging Baccai, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Unit, Baccai Reaper, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Spell, Siphoning Strike, has been revealed!

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A new Champion Shurima Unit, Nasus, has been revealed!

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Previously I had said that Freijord needed an identity shake up and boy howdy is this it.

Finally, a reason to run a full on Freijord stall/control deck

 If you have an 8 turn countdown to summon an 8/8 at 1 mana

You can't cheat that with ramp, it's gonna be all avalanches, ice quakes, harsh winds, and healing, plus countdown synergy.

https://youtu.be/Zlmey1DDfp0

This is great design.

A new Common Freljord Spell, Cold Resistance, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Freljord Spell, Three Sisters, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Freljord Landmark, Blighted Ravine, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Freljord Unit, Draklorn Inquisitor, has been revealed!

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A new Common Freljord Spell, Ice Shard, has been revealed!

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A new Common Freljord Landmark, Frozen Thrall, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Freljord Spell, Entomb, has been revealed!

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A new Champion Freljord Unit, Lissandra, has been revealed!

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I don't think Warlock is currently OP, but I have come to dread these match-ups just as I did Priest because it typically means I'm going to face endless removal and healing until they can maybe pull off a win through value attrition (a la the Prime card, Envoy Rustwix, or Galakrond).  I know Warlock has always had strengths in these areas, but for some reason I haven't dreaded the match-up until this expansion.  Anyone else?

I think it's really the quantity of removal options that I find dispiriting as I see (2 copies of) these cards pretty much every match:

• Plague of Flames
• Soul Shear
• Dark Skies
• Hysteria
• School Spirits
• Cascading Disaster 
• Soulciologist Malicia

And then sometimes these ones:

• Fire Breather
• Twisting Nether
• Brittlebone Destroyer

Add to this a string of Soul Fragments negating a lethal set-up and the specter of Tickatus milling your outs and you have levels of annoyance I traditionally associated with Priest.  Again, it's not that I think current Warlock decks are too strong, but rather that I fear Team 5 has created another "fun and interactive" class identity.  Have you had a similar experience this expansion?

I recently stumbled across this passage in an InvenGlobal article, and it left me shaking my head:

By making the upcoming Core Set free to all players, Blizzard is looking to invite new players into their Hearthstone ecosystem while giving old players who have spent a great deal of money on the game a little break from opening their wallets.

"A little break from opening their wallets"? In what way, exactly? After all, old players who have spent a great deal of money on the game already had complete Classic collections. Hell, even free players who have been around since launch probably had all the Classic cards they would ever need. This move to a Core set does absolutely nothing for veteran players in terms of saving money, and it's disturbing how often I see the lie repeated.

Don't get me wrong: I think the Core set is a great move, a necessary move, for the game. I'm definitely looking forward to a meta that will get refreshed on an annual basis, adding even more meaning to the "Year of ..." paradigm. But can we please stop pretending this is some kind of cost savings for those of us who have actually supported the game for nearly seven years?

Now let's talk about Classic mode. Yes, some people are excited about it. How long that excitement can continue in a mode that is static by definition remains to be seen. But make no mistake: Blizzard didn't do this because they saw a demand for it. Basically no one was asking for anything like Classic mode, and if they were, it was a very tiny minority. Classic mode had to happen because the Core set is about to remove the one very large chunk of every Standard player's assets they could always count on, and Blizzard would have looked fairly villainous if they'd relegated all those cards to Wild and given nothing back. So now we have yet another "apology" game mode that requires no upkeep at Blizzard's end and that will see only a small fraction of the play Standard gets. But hey, at least they did something, right?

Again, I'm not even mad at the business decisions. They did what they had to do to move forward. I'm just pointing out the reality behind Activision's PR propaganda as they try to spin this in a more celebratory direction. The Core set, in and of itself, is worthy of celebration. The virtual removal of 373 cards from your collection is not. It is a necessary evil, and I think it's important to remember that 240 of those cards were not free. Making the Core set free to all isn't generosity; it's actually the very least Blizzard can do.

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I won 2 games with this so far but both were against slow priest decks so I'm trying to improve it. If you think you see any changes I can make feel free to let me know.

COMBO: Shadow Hunter Vol'jin the Wisp to summon Malygos then use Innervate ( Coin and Lightning Bloom work as well just depends on the match but you have to keep one of those for the combo. ) to play Solar Eclipse + Germination to copy it and double Moonfire face.

Having a Imprisoned Satyr to play two turns before the combo is good sometimes too for more damage but it is purely RNG I was lucky enough to have it hit my Shadow Hunter Vol'jin and I was able to Solar Eclipse Moonfire and  Malygos for way more damage in the first iteration of the deck where I included it but I cut it out to attempt to have a stronger early game with Lunar Eclipse

I included cards like Bone Wraith, Winged Guardian, and Circus Amalgam for stall but there are probably better options. I originally had Teacher's Pet instead of Circus Amalgam and it was probably a bad change and there are probably better options to stall than both of those.

We know there are many changes in store for the reward system as the year rotates. The one thing I want more than any other change is this:

The ability to opt out of weekly quests for different game modes.

I don't want to deprive anyone of such quests if they enjoy them, but it's supremely annoying that I have to reroll a weekly quest several times before I get one that involves the primary game mode. More than once this has left me with just three or four days to complete a quest that I would normally have the whole week to work on.

Coercion is not the best way to get people to like something.

This is my concept for a Battlegrounds-exclusive tribe: Treants.

All the stuff is featured in this Google Docs Presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12B0VTqK3lDhB2n8PTtO4NtudFyNUU2eqZZ5tNZOwb2Y/edit?usp=sharing

I started this small project a while ago (around September or October can't really remember), but abandoned it because my early concepts were way too complicated. I came back to it after creating my Core Set the other day and really streamlined the mechanics down to what they are now. I'm not completely sure about balance but I am very happy with the flavour and mechanics. Any feedback would be much appreciated, especially from the Battlegrounds crowd as this is my first foray into designing cards for that particular game mode.

Last time I had said that these landmarks would be really average if they only went off once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlU1lEFyDWg

Now if finally makes sense

Taliyah will duplicate those little pieces of land on play

This is great reminds me a lot of dirt decks from Shadowverse

Just go look at all the new cards yourself they are fantastic

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Will basic cards unlocked by level-up change? I'm asking,because I would like to know if I should rush leveling DH to 60 before next rotation. What's estimated date of next rotation?

A new Rare Shurima Spell, Ancient Hourglass, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Spell, Unraveled Earth, has been revealed!

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A new Common Shurima Unit, Rock Hopper, has been revealed!

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A new Common Shurima Landmark, Salt Spire, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Unit, Desert Naturalist, has been revealed!

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