Somehow I know these warrior cards would be bad. We know Team 5 make expansion sets a few months to a year in advance so I had a feeling they wouldn't be able to react fast enough to the tragedy that is warrior
My main concern for this core set is that is not gonna feel as "fresh" of a rotation as prior years coz all the tradable cards are staying in the core set (unless someone can correct me on this, I believe it's every tradable card from UiS staying) and lots of DMF cards are returning to Standard from a 1 year hiatus. We'll have Solar Eclipse with Dew Process combos again among other things.
What I'm getting at is it'd be nice to see more cards from BRM, JtU, WotOG etc, even if they had to be buffed to compete with current power level.
Poor Warrior, first seeing Blackrock 'n' Roll and now these "riff" cards (which imo is a weird word to begin with). Guess team 5 was to silently delete warrior as a class and that feels bad man...
I’m going to disagree, mainly because it’ll cost more money on a yearly basis. That wouldn’t bother me if Hearthstone had more ways to play with the cards I have (I know you’ve heard this from me before), but we don’t. Standard, Wild, Duels which I consider a waste of dev time, Tavern Brawl which only stays around because players would have a meltdown if they couldn’t get their weekly free pack, are the only modes in which our cards matter.
Standard rotates every year and Wild where broken decks exist (sometimes) are the main two formats. There are literally thousands of cards in the collection manager but the devs waste time on Mercenaries, Duels, and yet another forgettable Tavern Brawl, instead of giving us formats that fully utilize our collections. Not to mention I don’t think it has dawned on some of them that if they gave actual reasons for players to buy more packs, they’d buy more packs because they wanted to, not just to keep up with expansions/metas
I also can’t say Hearthstone is actively dying but rather it’s almost to the point where the majority of players who call it their ‘main game’ are the people fully invested, similar to the players who kept WoW alive when it had a few bad expansions (I’ve only heard good things about Dragonflight).
Edit: I mean hell, Tournament mode, formats, guilds. Basic things they can add within a year each and they choose not to do it but instead try to sell us more cards
That is why I said provided they don't increase the overall cost the same. If they effectively increase the price of playing by 33% with the additional set, that's a super hard pass from me.
They really do just need to stick another format in the game. Rotate the sets in it every couple of months and it'll be a breath of fresh air. I suspect they are too afraid to do it because it might end up making Standard look like a joke and we certainly can't have that happen! The best part is if they rotate content on a good enough schedule, you never need to balance anything! You could do card bans to keep the super annoying stuff out but that's fairly low effort.
Ah that flavor text made me chuckle inside. We all knew this type of mechanic was coming thanks to Death Beetle and if control ever see the light of day in standard again, this might be a good tech card to start with.
Thank you Flux for sharing this detailed insight about the site. It saddens me that this awesome site isn't getting the traffic is deserves but I do understand this game is almost 10 years old and things are not what they used to be. I do look forward to the OoC experience on OoG and look forward to how we can keep the HS content and this community alive going forward.
Very flexible location and as seen in the HSreplay live data section, locations are the most played cards in standard atm, so this will definitely see play.
This buff can be very good on a couple key minions like Nerubian Swarmguard. It's 8/8 in stats for 3 mana regardless of it's in harmonic or dissonance form. Blizz really committed to making hand buff DK a thing.
Somehow I know these warrior cards would be bad. We know Team 5 make expansion sets a few months to a year in advance so I had a feeling they wouldn't be able to react fast enough to the tragedy that is warrior
Very good
Some decent mage and priest cards. Only one giving me BSM trauma is Audio Splitter
(Thank Yogg Rune of the Archmage is rotating)
Big beast hunter won't be dead come rotation. I'm OK with that
Mister Mukla is actually nuts. You're guaranteed to burn one of your opponent's cards and the bigger their hand, the less bananas they get
My main concern for this core set is that is not gonna feel as "fresh" of a rotation as prior years coz all the tradable cards are staying in the core set (unless someone can correct me on this, I believe it's every tradable card from UiS staying) and lots of DMF cards are returning to Standard from a 1 year hiatus. We'll have Solar Eclipse with Dew Process combos again among other things.
What I'm getting at is it'd be nice to see more cards from BRM, JtU, WotOG etc, even if they had to be buffed to compete with current power level.
Edit: Least most tradable cards are rotating like Need for Greed and Drakefire Amulet for eg
Out of these cards only Rush the Stage seems pretty broken
Can definitely see a grindy achievements for Infinitize the Maxitude
Well... Shadowstep remains in core which everyone and their dog were asking to be removed 😓 makes me concerned...
Some other weird things going on with this core set too:
And one random bit of info is that all tradable cards aren't actually rotating.
Least we might get some Dirty Rat shenanigans again. And those warrior replacements look... promising
Love the flavor of this legendary spell and I do hope it sees play coz who doesn't enjoy a good ol' Rag 🔥
Poor Warrior, first seeing Blackrock 'n' Roll and now these "riff" cards (which imo is a weird word to begin with). Guess team 5 was to silently delete warrior as a class and that feels bad man...
Every time I face a BSM I keep saying to myself: "Good riddance to this awful deck, I just need to wait a few more weeks!"
God, I can't wait for Rune of the Archmage to rotate, it's my only hype for this standard rotation.
I've been asking for a rotating sets format since the very first tavern brawl block, with my favorite being https://outof.cards/hearthstone/tavern-brawls/117-brawl-block-gods-gadgetzan-gurubashi
Really am hoping they change classic into this format and soon...
And... Warrior is looking like a forgotten class yet again... Warrior is the new priest 😅 RIP
Not only you. This card is gonna be hellava annoying for aggro to deal with. Good thing we now have a side board for everyone to tech in a silence :)
I'd like to praise the creative thinking of using hearthcards custom cards as the promotion thumbnail for reveal season 👍
Ah that flavor text made me chuckle inside. We all knew this type of mechanic was coming thanks to Death Beetle and if control ever see the light of day in standard again, this might be a good tech card to start with.
Some interesting cards so far but if only we knew what was in a core set for this year, we could start doing theory crafting 🙃
It's a specific tutor so it's good and will see play
Thank you Flux for sharing this detailed insight about the site. It saddens me that this awesome site isn't getting the traffic is deserves but I do understand this game is almost 10 years old and things are not what they used to be. I do look forward to the OoC experience on OoG and look forward to how we can keep the HS content and this community alive going forward.
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Very flexible location and as seen in the HSreplay live data section, locations are the most played cards in standard atm, so this will definitely see play.
This buff can be very good on a couple key minions like Nerubian Swarmguard. It's 8/8 in stats for 3 mana regardless of it's in harmonic or dissonance form. Blizz really committed to making hand buff DK a thing.