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I think the new ranking system is supposed to allow players to climb ladder fast, back to where they were previously. It took me only 2 days to reach diamond, but I'm not complaining.

The new MMR system matches you to players around your actual rank. I've been facing high level decks all around my climb to diamond, and …

A little disappointed that the final battle with Cenarius wasnt a 'supposed to lose' fight.

At least we can see a little deeper how [card]Maiev shadowsong[/card] came to hate this guy.

Mage cards are solid, very solid. But that only depends on whether a minionless-mage build can rise above meme level, the same way hunters did. Two very solid cards in [card]apexis blast[/card] and [card]font of power[/card] works best in that archetype, and are the main reasons why you would want to play this kind of deck. Unfortunately, it will likely …

I watch those streams not merely to get deckbuilding ideas, but also to watch how matches can turn up. Besides, its the only stream available if you want to get a feel for cards, especially since aggro decks tend to flourish in the first few weeks of a new expansion.

I'm specifically looking at the first few turns of …

I hesitate to disagree, but after watching Kibler's theorycraft stream, I'm afraid its just not happening.

Priest have a better chance of matching aggro dhunters in my opinion. God, that's weird to say.

A fair opinion. But I rather rely on [card]king krush[/card] for 8 to the face and comes down 1 turn earlier.

Its only really powerful played on turn 1, if you go first. But against dhunters, its just coin [card]battlefiend[/card] into hp. Your next best move would be to play a 3/4 [card]phase stalker[/card], which the [card]battlefiend[/card] will immediately trade if dhunters have either [card]umberwing[/card], or just plain hp. It gets worse if they have [card]eye beam[/card] but that card is …

barring demon hunters you mean.

and rogue

and some say mage

No, not you priest. Maybe next time.

Card unlikely to see play:-

[card]Imprisoned felmaw[/card] makes me sad. On the one hand it seemed like a decent aggressive card that has potential to hit face. On the other hand, its greatest weakness is not that its attack is random but its a demon, and therefore unlikely to ever see play in any hunter bar the low end …

I actually love this brawl. A small insight of what could have been had team5 went all in with the shrine concept. I think they did, but at the end concluded its too dependent on the shrine staying on board and nearly everyone's gonna run stuff that destroy it.

Jenalai's mantle basically destroys Zul'jin. Too bad its basically bad against nearly everyone else.

Hireek's hunger can work well against Zul'jin too. But I've not had a chance to test this. Basically warlock doesnt even need to attack to destroy others.

It makes sense that you only get 1 [card]excess mana[/card]. With 2, you can actually setup some insane malygos-kaelthas strats.

Still, my fingers crossed that you can get 2. The card is already good on its own, if it gives 2 [card]excess mana[/card], then it might well just be broken.

The sad thing about [card]ysiel windsinger[/card] in standard is that [card]kael'thas sunstrider[/card] can probably do it better.

The best way to play her in my opinion is to draw towards your win condition, with expensive cards like [card]overflow[/card]. That's it really.

Lots of people (myself included) overlook [card]overgrowth[/card] and [card]bogbeam[/card], but I think its likely we'll be seeing more of these cards than we think.

[card]Overgrowth[/card] is a turn 4 ramp for 2, with an effect on 10 that is not yet confirmed (2 [card]excess mana[/card] or 1). Disregarding that last point, its still a ramp for 2, and considering …

Just a few questions on how the MMR works;

- from the article, does that mean that currently the MMR is not yet active, so if I start ranking up around 5 days from now, will I be expected to play against genuine newbies (genuine bronze players) rather than diamond players (my rank)?

- from May onwards, assuming …

I think the interaction is:

If you already drew with [card]wondrous wand[/card] and made 3 cards 0 cost, and your opponent then plays [card]boompistol bully[/card], your 0 cost battlecry cards will now cost 5.

However, if you play [card]boompistol bully[/card] and then they play [card]wondrous wand[/card], those cards that would have cost 5 more becomes 0.

If …

Great article as usual. I've been haunting your demon hunter card reviews for the past two articles, and pretty much already made my views clear. So just to recap a little here;

[card]Eye beam[/card], [card]imprisoned antaen[/card], [card]priestess of fury[/card], [card]skull of gul'dan[/card], [card]coilfang warlord[/card], dhunters having lifesteal and weapons, access to one of the best aggro packages, etc.

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I reroll "difficult" quests ALL THE TIME. The 10 gold doesn't matter to me in the slightest

[quote from="davidwizard"]Stop assuming your experience is universal - it's one of the most basic fallacies in life.[/quote]

Agreed. Your points are no doubt invaluable to this community. Now, follow your own advice …

Just a few observations:

Impeccable doomguard - I like the idea. But I dont get why you didnt just give [card]pit lord[/card] taunt, since every pit lord in the game have taunt for some reason. Seemed a better fit than this card.

Drain soul - Might as well have just buff [card]drain life[/card] to 2 mana. There's really …

No one rerolls a 'difficult' quest, blizzard.

When I first started and have no cards, I rely solely on the tavern brawls to get me pass those 'win 3 games with warrior' quests that is otherwise absolutely impossible without good cards. Now the requirement is but to PLAY those classes. Win or lose, doesnt matter. That's substantially easier than …