I don't normally bother to try and climb too high (If I get to 10 I usually stop), but I've had a surprising amount of success with my Wild Overload Shaman so am currently sitting at rank 12 - might try to push to 10 but pretty pleased with how it's turned out this month.
As someone who played a lot of WC3, I don't think I'm picking this one up. For "direct remake with no real updates/changes beyond graphics," the game has to be something I can't currently play and I can still play the original WC3 just fine when I get the odd compulsion to do so.
Even Rez Priest is like less than 10% of the ladder.
Everyone's playing Rogue now because it beats all of those decks (and most others)
There's a new druid deck revolving around witching hour and the new druid taunt.
So then what I'm hearing is that *I* should by Quest Res Priest too and stock up on Plague of Death, Mass Dispel, etc? Can do!
/s
But for real though my take on "cancerous meta" is one where there are ONLY 1-2 viable decks that stomp everything - like pre-nerf Shamanstone, or the Halloween Deathrattle/N'zoth Priest. If the meta has 4-7 good competitive decks (Res Priest, Pirate Warrior, Taunt Druid, Galakrond Rogue, etc) then I think it's fine. But i'm also someone who fucks around in ranks 20-15 by design since I like to play "less optimized" decks and memey stuff, so take my opinion for what it's worth...
It was a cool idea, but I have no idea how I was supposed to figure that out without just guessing random letters and hoping it's right.
Generally a good way to start is with the common short words - like if you see one letter by itself, it HAS to be "I" or "A". 3-letter words are often "the" or "and" so you can match them up like that. So in mine you could have seen the "d" by itself and then a 3-letter "dys" and gotten that was "a" and "and". Now you also know that y = n and s = d (plus that since d = a, it must be that v = i since that's another letter by itself) and then gone on from there with other longer words filled in.
But "D" could have been "I". and "dys" could have been "Its"
There is never a single answer, there are just too many possibilities.
Well not really since in that case s = s and you can't have a letter equal itself. But yes a big part of the puzzle is trying out different combinations to figure out what makes sense and what's the most likely to be true. Starting the puzzle mean looking for what's common/frequent in the English language (i.e. the most common letters are r, s, t, l, n, & e & common words and such). Like in that one it could have been "ink" but then if you tried to slot a "k" in where the "d" should be a bunch of other words wouldn't make any sense. And that's the crux of this kind of puzzle: each individual word might have many possibilities, but the likelihood of the entire puzzle making any sense (or even making actual words) when you get letters wrong is nill.
But yeah that's fine if others agree this wasn't a good fit I don't have to do another one. No big deal
It was a cool idea, but I have no idea how I was supposed to figure that out without just guessing random letters and hoping it's right.
Generally a good way to start is with the common short words - like if you see one letter by itself, it HAS to be "I" or "A". 3-letter words are often "the" or "and" so you can match them up like that. So in mine you could have seen the "d" by itself and then a 3-letter "dys" and gotten that was "a" and "and". Now you also know that y = n and s = d (plus that since d = a, it must be that v = i since that's another letter by itself) and then gone on from there with other longer words filled in.
For everyone else, when unscrambled the message was:
Step forward. Confess! Once I was a mere servant of the Light. Now I alone stand in judgement. Arise my Four Horsemen and let us deliver our Grave Vengeance!
ETA: Did this suck? I always liked these kind of ciphers but if they aren't everyone else's thing I will avoid repeating this idea - just let me know.
Fiery minion that obviously has a long tail, Mage card, "cheap treats" would be getting value from cheap spells, and "up to 2" is the deal 2 dmg effect
Made of fire (so "hot") and art looks like he has a tail of fire, "proud maid" is Jaina Proudmoore (who has a lot of elemental synergy), and does 2 dmg to all enemies.
That's what I figured - so guess #2 on the same reasoning would be Waxadred.
This is tricky because if my reasoning is right there's about 3-5 cards this might potentiality be. I'll start with Scion of Ruin?
Line 1 - descent (as opposed to descend) mean from DoD + wings = dragon or other flying minion
Line 2 - one and many meaning one card that generates multiple copies
Line 3 - again being dragon, plus Scion (or other red dragon) appears in Molten Breath
Line 4 - must clear or Dragon Breeder(s) can produce a ton more.
I don't normally bother to try and climb too high (If I get to 10 I usually stop), but I've had a surprising amount of success with my Wild Overload Shaman so am currently sitting at rank 12 - might try to push to 10 but pretty pleased with how it's turned out this month.
As someone who played a lot of WC3, I don't think I'm picking this one up. For "direct remake with no real updates/changes beyond graphics," the game has to be something I can't currently play and I can still play the original WC3 just fine when I get the odd compulsion to do so.
So then what I'm hearing is that *I* should by Quest Res Priest too and stock up on Plague of Death, Mass Dispel, etc? Can do!
/s
But for real though my take on "cancerous meta" is one where there are ONLY 1-2 viable decks that stomp everything - like pre-nerf Shamanstone, or the Halloween Deathrattle/N'zoth Priest. If the meta has 4-7 good competitive decks (Res Priest, Pirate Warrior, Taunt Druid, Galakrond Rogue, etc) then I think it's fine. But i'm also someone who fucks around in ranks 20-15 by design since I like to play "less optimized" decks and memey stuff, so take my opinion for what it's worth...
Giant Mastodon?
Still salty about it not being the "Year of the Mastodon."
So the double meaning is salt as a seasoning and as an emotion that we have all experienced I'm sure
Polymorph - basic so has to be first I assume?
There was going to be a pun in this flavor text, but it just came out baa-d.
Well not really since in that case s = s and you can't have a letter equal itself. But yes a big part of the puzzle is trying out different combinations to figure out what makes sense and what's the most likely to be true. Starting the puzzle mean looking for what's common/frequent in the English language (i.e. the most common letters are r, s, t, l, n, & e & common words and such). Like in that one it could have been "ink" but then if you tried to slot a "k" in where the "d" should be a bunch of other words wouldn't make any sense. And that's the crux of this kind of puzzle: each individual word might have many possibilities, but the likelihood of the entire puzzle making any sense (or even making actual words) when you get letters wrong is nill.
But yeah that's fine if others agree this wasn't a good fit I don't have to do another one. No big deal
Generally a good way to start is with the common short words - like if you see one letter by itself, it HAS to be "I" or "A". 3-letter words are often "the" or "and" so you can match them up like that. So in mine you could have seen the "d" by itself and then a 3-letter "dys" and gotten that was "a" and "and". Now you also know that y = n and s = d (plus that since d = a, it must be that v = i since that's another letter by itself) and then gone on from there with other longer words filled in.
Welp guess that was easy! Good job DestroyerR.
For everyone else, when unscrambled the message was:
Step forward. Confess! Once I was a mere servant of the Light. Now I alone stand in judgement. Arise my Four Horsemen and let us deliver our Grave Vengeance!
ETA: Did this suck? I always liked these kind of ciphers but if they aren't everyone else's thing I will avoid repeating this idea - just let me know.
Nice! Since we’re trying out new riddle modes, I’ve always loved cryptograms. For those who are unfamiliar it’s a letter-swapping cipher puzzle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogram
So solve the puzzle and you’ll know the card.
Zrml puhxdhs. Euypmzz! Uyem v xdz d qmhm zmhfdyr up ram wvbar. Yux v dwuym zrdys vy kosbmqmyr. Dhvzm qt Puoh Auhzmqmy dys wmr oz smwvfmh uoh Bhdfm Fmybmdyem!
Aha think I've got it:
Flamewaker?
Fiery minion that obviously has a long tail, Mage card, "cheap treats" would be getting value from cheap spells, and "up to 2" is the deal 2 dmg effect
Fire Plume Phoenix?
Baron Geddon?
Made of fire (so "hot") and art looks like he has a tail of fire, "proud maid" is Jaina Proudmoore (who has a lot of elemental synergy), and does 2 dmg to all enemies.
Annoy-o-Module?
That is correct and so is your reasoning for each line's clue - including the shitty "leaf"/"leave" pun in line 4 :)
Look man: it's 2020. We don't kink-shame anymore - and we certainly don't beat them with shovels!
Nope - but that's an interesting observation I hadn't thought about!
When it's time to rumble
I won't ever mumble.
My power creates mighty out of that which was humble,
And before you leave your enemies will crumble!
Volcanic Lumberer?
Basic brother would be Ironbark Protector at 1 more attack + 1 lower cost
Need to reduce the cost per effect for it to be playable
A big board clear could have you playing this super early since it count minions on both sides
But Druid struggles with real (cheap) board clear