Kazakusan? How about slight change, make him discover a treasure for each dragon played that game. You play only him? You will discover one treasure. Played ten dragons? You got a 20 card new deck with 10 treasures.
All he said was that they try to make the game appealing to all kinds of players and that aggro decks are so popular because most people enjoy shorter matches, while also saying that they want other deck types to be viable as well. Nowhere was it stated that they want aggro specifically to be stronger than other decks. Or in other words: Even if the game was 100% balanced, you would still play against aggro decks in the majority of your games.
There is no problem for aggro strategies to be popular, problem is that they are extremely powerful. Just look at pirate warrior, it was the best deck last months and now it only improved. This leads to extremely repetitive games, where you encounter the same cards, same strategies all the time.
My most recent game. I'm playing Pirate steal rogue, nicely fidging his life total. But this is not aggro and I cannot kill opponent in first 4 turns, I play more like value oriented decks.
0 mana Annoy-o-Tron, 9 damage, 33 damage total, my board is cleared.
I conceded.
Is this OK on turn 5? How could I play around this? And this is not an unusual situation, even without the third Mecha-Shark on turn 5 I would be totally screwed. And a lot of mech mage games end up like this sooner or later. To wait until next expansion when the mech pool may dillute or some even more broke stuff will be created?
I would like to have fun at least the first few days of expansion but at least 2 out of 3 matches are against the same decklist of mech mage.
I understand, that this supersynergistic deck works well, but this is the pirate warrior experience again - same deck, same play patterns, very few cards I face. Ugh.
Ended up with level 225, achievments at 38% - it is not fun to grind achievments with weak cards.
But I'm excited for the new expansion, only cloud on the horizon is that the badly designed Stormwind quests are not being nerfed. It is very boring to play against them and especially in wild I encounter them A LOT. Like a LOT LOT, especially Warrior and Hunter ones.
TIL that the Immune keyword not only shields from damage but also from destroy effects. (I.e. You can't destroy an immune minion with Shadow Words, albeit it reading "cannot be damaged").
You are wrong. Immune does not shield from destroy effect, you can destroy an Immune creature with Shadow Word: Ruin or Twisting Nether.
Immune is basically permanent Divine Shield and permanent Stealth meaning enemy cannot target the minion and it cannot be damaged. Untargeted destroy effect work fine.
Can someone try to explain the process of completing “instant gratification” using mindrender illucia?
She gives you a copy of your opponents hand until the end of turn, right?
Assuming they’ve already played Xyrella, how are you supposed to obtain her or her “purified shard” via playing illucia? why is it necessary to wait until they’ve already played Xyrella? Wouldn’t she be easier to obtain if you played illucia while she was still in their hand? Am I missing something spectacularly obvious here? because I don’t seem to be able to see how it would work using this process.
This was written back before Illusia nerf when she used to switch the hand and deck for one turn
Text changed to "Battlecry: Replace your hand with a copy of your opponent's until end of turn." (Was "Battlecry: Swap hands and decks with your opponent until your next turn.")
This is a card that allows you to Dredge a card after drawing. Shuffles the library after each draw to refresh the Dredge choices.
2x Amalgam and Onyxia is still only 3 dragons.
Removing the Druids will hurt the consistency a lot.
Kazakusan? How about slight change, make him discover a treasure for each dragon played that game. You play only him? You will discover one treasure. Played ten dragons? You got a 20 card new deck with 10 treasures.
There is no problem for aggro strategies to be popular, problem is that they are extremely powerful. Just look at pirate warrior, it was the best deck last months and now it only improved. This leads to extremely repetitive games, where you encounter the same cards, same strategies all the time.
Zeddy explanation why aggro is so relevant based on Blizzard communication (important start is at 4:56)
My most recent game. I'm playing Pirate steal rogue, nicely fidging his life total. But this is not aggro and I cannot kill opponent in first 4 turns, I play more like value oriented decks.
Turn 5, opponent
1 mana Mecha-Shark
1 mana Mecha-Shark, 3 damage
0 mana Amalgam of the Deep, 6 damage, 9 damage total
3 mana Mecha-Shark (discovered by Amalgam one step before), 6 damage, 15 damage total
0 mana Annoy-o-Tron, 9 damage, 24 damage total
0 mana Annoy-o-Tron, 9 damage, 33 damage total, my board is cleared.
I conceded.
Is this OK on turn 5? How could I play around this? And this is not an unusual situation, even without the third Mecha-Shark on turn 5 I would be totally screwed. And a lot of mech mage games end up like this sooner or later. To wait until next expansion when the mech pool may dillute or some even more broke stuff will be created?
I would like to have fun at least the first few days of expansion but at least 2 out of 3 matches are against the same decklist of mech mage.
I understand, that this supersynergistic deck works well, but this is the pirate warrior experience again - same deck, same play patterns, very few cards I face. Ugh.
You can dust Faelin for full value but only for day or two
Ended up with level 225, achievments at 38% - it is not fun to grind achievments with weak cards.
But I'm excited for the new expansion, only cloud on the horizon is that the badly designed Stormwind quests are not being nerfed. It is very boring to play against them and especially in wild I encounter them A LOT. Like a LOT LOT, especially Warrior and Hunter ones.
Yes, Preorder will work until Tuesday April 12th 18.59 CET when the expansion releases.
That would be a buff, because you could discover spells that are in your deck but you already cast them.
You are wrong. Immune does not shield from destroy effect, you can destroy an Immune creature with Shadow Word: Ruin or Twisting Nether.
Immune is basically permanent Divine Shield and permanent Stealth meaning enemy cannot target the minion and it cannot be damaged. Untargeted destroy effect work fine.
Last year Core and Barrens launched on the same day.
https://outof.cards/forums/hearthstone/hearthstone-general/19337-surprise-patch-planned-must-have-changes
Big names in digital CCGs are
Hearthstone
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Runeterra
https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23765271/22-6-1-1-1-1-patch-notes
Lots of QoL changes, like this one:
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
This makes complete sense, this is how I do it, too.
This was written back before Illusia nerf when she used to switch the hand and deck for one turn
Text changed to "Battlecry: Replace your hand with a copy of your opponent's until end of turn." (Was "Battlecry: Swap hands and decks with your opponent until your next turn.")
No. One thing you can do is to start the Free trial 2 days before this reward ends so you claim this reward and next months rewards. Otherwise, no.
So basically Immune is like combined "Cannot be damaged" and "Stealth" on one target