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Three Cards Revealed by Roger for Castle Nathria, Including New Demon Hunter Legendary

IMO, Demon Hunter -- the class based on people who are training-obsessed edgelords who will straight-up unironically tell you that while you were indulging yourself they studied the blade -- should have been a buff class built around their minions …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Three Cards Revealed by Roger for Castle Nathria, Including New Demon Hunter Legendary

[card]Razorfen Beastmaster[/card] exists, but it's stranded. Trust me, Deathrattle DH has been getting punched in the nethers for a year now (as if its questionable theming wasn't pain enough). The rest of the DR package won't justify this stand-out.

3 years, 9 months ago
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Kael'thas Sinstrider is a New Legendary Card Revealed by LoveStorm for Murder at Castle Nathria

Going to reply to myself here in case this info isn't accurate: the editor, above, is apparently wrong and I'm hearing reports that the card text isn't accurate and that the reduction-to-zero only happens once per turn, which is still …

3 years, 9 months ago
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The Harvester of Envy is a New Legendary Priest Card Revealed by RPP for Castle Nathria

Team 5 will print broken mana acceleration that everyone hates that only gets nerfed 2 years later when it finally breaks Wild. Team 5 will print fuck-you hand-stealing effects that, as you point out, either don't work at all or …

3 years, 9 months ago
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The Harvester of Envy is a New Legendary Priest Card Revealed by RPP for Castle Nathria

[card]Thoughtsteal[/card] isn't in standard.

The truth of the matter is that most Priest steal cards in Standard are bad and problematic and punish the Priest to a large extent. [card]Drakonid Operative[/card] requires a dragon package that won't win you …

3 years, 9 months ago
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The Stonewright is a New Legendary Shaman Card Revealed by PCGamer for Castle Nathria

Agreed. Either you need a) far more Totem synergies that will come up reliably such that you don't care if this is the last card in the deck, b) this card needs to have other powers and synergies unrelated to …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Leo Robles Gives Us An Imp-ortant Clarification On Imp King Rafaam and Other Imp Synergies

Card games from 20 years back solved this with simple bold text. Hearthstone can throw tribes to hover-text if there's not enough space. Hero cards don't have space for their hero powers so we're already there.

3 years, 9 months ago
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Third Fire Festival Constructed Skin Bundle Is Now Available in Hearthstone's In-Game Shop

Gnomes in WoW don't survive close analysis. They're scary baby people that only look acceptable from carefully-considered angles.

 

Wonder why some of the displays have no life totals, 30 life, and 40 life. Not important, just curious.

3 years, 9 months ago
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Boon of the Ascended is a New Priest Hearthstone Card Revealed by LookSam for Castle Nathria

If the new set has any Stealth or Dormant minions, those actually might be worth trying out with these new cards alongside the previous dormant minions. It seems much too slow to actually win and has no obvious win conditions …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Hearthstone's Newest Card Reveal is Dispossessed Soul for Castle Nathria by Vinz & Odemian

Quest Priest just got another sliver of hope that it might not suck.

The [card]Cathedral of Atonement[/card] was already a must-play -- competetive-cost, value at any time, pays for the card loss with a future profit -- but now …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Blizzard Reveals The Mysterious Demon Hunter 'Relics' in Murder at Castle Nathria

[quote from="sense124"]Seems like to me you're only thinking in the worst-case scenario.[/quote]

Since my opening was about the worst-case draw scenario, one likely to come up slightly less than 50% of the time, that's correct, but I don't think …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Blizzard Reveals 9 More Murder at Castle Nathria Cards in a Hearthside Chat, Including Warlock Legendary

Imp King Rafaam . . . is an Imp. Is that . . . is that a biological change? Do energy beings have biology? He's an imp that's not a demon, too. They'll probably pre-release errata that.

What is …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Blizzard Reveals The Mysterious Demon Hunter 'Relics' in Murder at Castle Nathria

Not even close to worth it on their own. The problem is that the payoff is too far in the future AND too inconsistent.

Consider the worst-case scenario where the cheap relics come late. Notice anything about them? They …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Blizzard Reveals A New Castle Nathria Location Card for Demon Hunter - Relic Vault

It's entirely possible that relics are such absolute poop that casting one twice literally accomplishes nothing. Proving Grounds cast twice is still Proving Grounds.

Also, Relic had better be a keyword lest we get grammar chafing from this card …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Murder at Castle Nathria Card Reveals Continue With Sire Denathrius - Endlessly Infuse?!

As if we needed another reason to hate on Team 5's Druid design.

 

Because this card is massively better in Druid than any other deck. Druid can make 10-mana plays alongside other cards, can create stall decks …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Hearthstone Rolls Out Patch 23.6.1 - Power Level of Arena Drafts Adjusted, Battlegrounds Armor & Minion Updates, Duels Unlocks, Various Hotfixes

Indeed. Dopplegangster is more dangerous than actual Heroic bossfights and it's not interesting to playthrough and it can ruin lengthy runs. Blizz acknowledges that it made a design mistake by making this change but . . . doesn't fix anything. …

3 years, 9 months ago
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Tasks for the Yogg-Saron Mercenaries Event Datamined - Prepare Yourself for the Challenge!

It's not difficult; it's Cookie on Bounty 1, Match 1 with a summoned fish reduced to a health point or two. That applies to all of the non-boss content, of course.

 

Now, doing it extemporaneously, during non-task-grinding …

3 years, 10 months ago
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Dean Ayala’s Hearthstone Q&A Recap #44 - Alternate Art, Dr. Boom, Dungeon Run, Tough Weapon Designs, & More

Losing a Merc is simply too big a penalty in PvE when you're running anything less than the most optimized comps. PvE needs another penalty besides just "1/6th of your team is now gone."

Further, PvE is far too …

3 years, 10 months ago