A new Rare Bilgewater Unit, Marai Songstress, has been revealed!

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A new Common Bilgewater Unit, Journeying Sandhopper, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Bilgewater Unit, Fleet Admiral Shelly, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Bilgewater Unit, Avatar of the Tides, has been revealed!

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A new Common Bilgewater Unit, Abyssal Guard, has been revealed!

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A new Common Bilgewater Spell, Ebb, has been revealed!

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A new Champion Bilgewater Unit, Nami, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Bandle City Unit, Mirror Mage, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Ionia Unit, Tail-Cloak Matriarch, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Bandle City Unit, Curious Shellfolk, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Noxus Unit, The Lady of Blood, has been revealed!

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Blizzard often talks about improving the "new player experience" but do they ever do anything?

My daughter (11) recently got back into the game after a couple years absence. She has a very small collection and not much dust or gold to improve it. At Bronze 10, we face Questline Hunter and Questline Warlock, both using all the top-tier epics and legendaries (like Flesh Giant, still an abomination of a card after the nerf). The best way to grow your collection (while staying F2P) is to earn XP, like that juicy 2500 each week for 5 ranked wins. This goal is literally impossible when you're facing these top tier Questline decks. What are these players doing at Bronze 10?!?!?! How is a new player supposed to get a toe-hold in this game?

how this balance update was ever put through is beyond me. by nerfing so many decks substantially while leaving questline warlock nearly untouched (in terms of how the actual changes affect the deck; e.g. the two nerfs on questline warlock did much less to nerf the deck than the single nerf to incanter's flow did to nerf every tempo/combo mage list in both formats) they've paved the way for the deck to completely stomp the meta twice as hard as it was before. this is even more of a problem in wild where:

• evenlock was hit much harder from losing flesh giant than questlock was by the cost increase
• apm/tempo mage decks have a much harder time playing incanters flow while dealing with aggressive warlock/priest/hunter boards
• odd questline hunter somehow went completely untouched, resulting in even more games against drooling brainlets playing the skill equivalent of cookie clicker (sorry not sorry)

i could go on, but you get the picture. for the first time in a very long time, blizzard has butchered a balance update so badly that the meta has devolved into mostly the two same decks not only in one format, but in both of them. furthermore, the decks before this patch such as miracle mage and secret paladin that could stand up to the more overpowered decks without being too powerful (by blizzard's own statistics!) have been nerfed so much harder than their already more powerful counterparts that they've been stomped into a minuscule portion of the meta. so thanks blizzard, and thanks to all the players complaining about uninteractive mage decks, tax paladins and other decks with no actual statistical reason to be nerfed. i hope you enjoy the god awful meta you helped create. i, for one, will not be making legend for the first time in a while, because its not even close to worth the frustration of playing against the same 2-3 decks every single game regardless of what format im playing.

edit: i understand that the tone of this post is apparently too aggressive and i apologize. ill be rewriting my thoughts on this subject in a new, calmer post and will likely delete this one afterwards

A new Common Noxus Spell, Weapons of the Lost, has been revealed!

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A new Common Noxus Unit, Grave Physician, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Noxus Spell, Salt And Stitches, has been revealed!

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A new Common Noxus Unit, Reborn Grenadier, has been revealed!

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A new Common Noxus Unit, Noble Rebel, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Noxus Unit, Lost Soul, has been revealed!

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A new Common Noxus Unit, Fallen Rider, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Noxus Unit, Fallen Reckoner, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Noxus Unit, Ancient Warmonger, has been revealed!

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A new Common Noxus Spell, Roar of the Slayer, has been revealed!

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A new Champion Noxus Unit, Sion, has been revealed!

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Now that the meta has settled down which cards do feel need adjustment? Here is my personal list.

Sivir: I don't understand why they buffed Sivir in first place she was a fine champion before, now she level very quickly and when she do she can give a whole board spellshield, double attack or elusive which is game over against any deck expect plunder. Even without a board she can push for frighting amount of damage if you have Ghost and Flurry of Fists.

Merciless Hunter: This is a card that I like quit a bit because it forces all those back row champions into combat, still it has premium stat line, one the best keywords and the ability to grant any unit vulnerable, all of that definitely makes her overturned. I do hope that they can nerf her without making her unplayable because card that force combat makes the game more interactive. 

Emperor's Dais: After so many nerfs Azir/Irelia finally went from broken BS into... tier 1, that should tell how powerful the deck was. The deck is definitely manageable now. Still turn 2 dais into turn Azir followed by any blade dance unit will usually allow them to snow ball the game before the opposition could do anything about it, so dais going to 3 would disrupt that curve and allow for more counterplay.

Twin Disciplines: Many players were asking for this card to be buffed and as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for. The card allow you to push for damage, secure trad, protect your unit from removal at a very cheap price but the most frustrating part is how elusive aggro deck can abuse this card, normally in exchange for their ability to close the game quickly aggro are supposed to be vulnerable to removal and trading. both weakness are negated by twin disciplines, and let's get into how this card make something like Lee Sin and eye of dragon even more difficult to deal with.

Lee Sin and Eye of the Dragon: I decided into put them in same same spot because they are part of the same deck and have the same issue. Any time a good burst speed spell get's made you can count on these two to abuse it. As soon as turn 3 you can have two eye of the dragon on the board by playing the first and tutoring the second from the deck using Gifts From Beyond into Crescendum triggering their effect immediately allowing the player to stall indefinitely until a level up Lee Sin came in to close the show.

So what do you guys think? And more importantly what cards would like to see adjusted?