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Yeah, but then new cards being inspired by old cards and some of the designs being cyclical has been a known pattern, and not just in Hearthstone. It's hard to avoid past a certain point.

Technically Naaru also aren't classified as Elementals in the existing Warcraft/Hearthstone lore. Guess they weren't trying to break the mold at all cost. 

Added some trivia and developer insights from Cora. She is quick! 

It's a common problem that I find happening when either your software/hardware or network bandwidth become overwhelmed. Hearthstone client is very sensitive nowadays (and I'd add unwieldy), it does not like sharing. So say you have another game or app …

It doesn't matter as much whether it's Bronze or higher levels, since the matchups are based on your internal MMR. So having a decent streak of wins over the past months or year would've contributed to getting better opponents. 
Other …

Both fine points (Scholo has been too overpowered for my taste as well). The meta has been okay, though not to everybody's taste, and that's alright. Sooner or later that always changes; in a major fashion once rotation hits. 

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It's always been more dark red/scarlet bordering on purple, to my eye. Whitemane's staff also tends to look slightly different below the gems part. The models in World of Warcraft had some updates throughout the years. 

They are indeed very similar, but the color hue itself more closely follows that of Onyxia/Prestor than Whitemane.

Very creative! I like the idea a lot (now we definitely need baby Old Gods to become canon). Something tells me I might enjoy playing or facing this one a lot more than the still-evil-Illucia in our current Duels landscape. 

The original plan is still - I believe - to first have all available sets join in the party, see how that feels, then consider another route going forward. Tabayrak at least seemed open to the idea (in a tweet …

(We are definitely onto Guff's dark secrets now)

I thought so too, looking at that image! All credit goes to Sinti for coming up with the idea on the fly. 

I wasn't convinced whether Owlock had a good place in this meta yet, and next to the Handlock power it did not seem as proficient. But there was somebody reporting decent results with it at high Legend (link in …

Hmm, somehow I haven't seen these notifications until I checked back and went over the comments manually. Sorry about that! 

And yes, absolutely, you both make very fair points. I know we've skipped a few shop offerings in recent …

Daniel Duffin (whom we've referred to in articles several times by now) mentioned this a while ago in one of his tweets:

"But QA is not a lot of people, we all work on everything and a lot of QA …

It does seem like Activision (and many gaming companies in general) just treat QA and bug testing as an afterthought. It's better for them to release sooner and with bugs abound than painstakingly comb through everything; players are usually lenient …

Afraid not anymore, unless you have somehow managed to avoid updating to patch 22.2 on your devices and could still access the previous version.

One of the bugs, I believe. Don't try to put the ones you don't have in there, I heard it could cause game crashes. 

It does sound like it could be balance hotfix worthy to be sure, confirming all our concerns. I already saw somebody talk about chained Yoggs, and such... Can't be too fun to be on the receiving end. 

Ooh, yes. That could be it. There is actually a line about it in the patch notes: 

• Duels Achievements will be updated to be hero-specific, instead of class-specific. Various in-game text will be updated to mention hero names …

Seeing reports that the patch should be finally available on all mobile devices (updated the text accordingly). Or almost all, since the Play Store for Android was still lagging behind. Aside from the night owls of the EU region, most …