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That is if we actually get there without first dying from sheer apathy. Its been a rough year. Dont think Ive ever felt so lethargic to even bother climbing ladder.

Point taken about power levels, but theres something more sinister afoot I suspect. Ungoro wasnt simply suffering from poor power levels, its just straight up boring to play. Feels …

Without shadow of a doubt, got to be the worst expansion paired with an even worse miniset.

Now, there should be some method to this madness of team5's current strat of lowering power levels, and Im guessing its because it makes it easier to balance wild, introduce legacy cards into standard without buffing them, and perhaps allow more design …

Okay, finally the miniset is upon us. Cant say how much more I can take out of the current standard.

Beast Speaker Taka - Its not flashy. The only good thing about this card is that its a 7 drop, which most decks tend to want. The beast it will summon is pretty much forgettable since you have to …

Well that's it really, if you needed any further evidence that something systemic is wrong with hearthstone, just look at the massive list of buffs and nerfs that are coming our way merely a week after launch.

Of course theyd have to do it, because the current expansion is pretty much the shittiest Ive ever experienced. Its hard to …

Game was dead before it began. Im surprised it took this long

At least mercs held my interest for that brief period while it was alive. Never even bothered with this one.

Unsurprising that his contract is not renewed, because microsoft is the kind of scum that would get rid of community managers that earn the trust and likability of its customer base.

Hope to see him back at vshearthstone at some point, likely next year.

First impressions:

• Rogue looks screwed. The quest in game looks and feels like shit. Quest is slow as fuck, forces you to play poor cards, and the quest reward cant match the value of other decks, not to mention that even getting there is already a mountain in of itself. Im almost certain its gonna be buffed because …

I just find it funny that the first cool thing added to the game and theyre charging an extortionate 158 bucks for it .

Because lets be real, no matter how incredible pets will be in hearthstone, no ones gonna pay that amount for it. Especially for any serious players out there, past turn 3 you'll most likely just …

Thats fair if you dont like the term. Top legend is often a skewed list of maybe 2-3 decks playing against each other. Hence why if you use the hsguru site for decklists, you often see weird tech inclusions into otherwise standard competitive decks. Its not my intention to make my opinions sound elitist or anything like that. Specifically on …

[card]Opu the Unseen[/card] - You cant ignore a board swing card that draws you 3 cards. One way or another this card will see some play as long as rogue remains a viable class on the tiers 1-2.

[card]Lie in Wait[/card] - I really like the design, but really, this card will likely be competitively viable only for the …

Shellnado - Its not as good as so many of the other AoEs relying on armour that have been printed in the past, but it has certain niches. For one thing, this card deals 1 damage multiple times which means it'll kill off reborn, divine shield, and deathrattle minions fairly well. And secondly, warrior doesnt really have any good AoE …

Archaios - Not quite Amet, in fact not that great at all. The fact that it requires the minion to attack in order to gain the buff, and that the buff isnt even that good, what is this card even supposed to do? It seemed to be the sort of card that will only be good if it stays on …

Gonna just comment on the quest first.

May be premature to say this, but I think the quest is not good, mostly because the murloc pool is not good enough. You'll never have enough murlocs to make this deck work and stuffing your deck with them makes your mid-end game completely redundant. Just think about menagerie priest with its …

The Food Chain - I have no idea where team5 are going with this. The conditions arent difficult to fulfill, its just that the reward is so wildly inconsistent whyd you want to build a deck around it? Seems to me that the deck is just going to be an ordinary beast midrange deck that will likely be destroyed by …

Cursed Catacombs - Zero mana draw a card, its gonna see play. Even if the card can only be played in the mid-late game, its still worth it.

Escape the Underfel - Its a bit of a weird one, because though the reward is very powerful I dont think the deck is gonna be very good. The conditions requires …

Unleash the Colossus - On first impression the card might be shit. The quest conditions are so specific, dealing up to 30 damage with very specific cards. Not all of those damage need go to face of course, but what if your opponent's a control deck that doesnt play minions until turn 5-6? The quest reward may not even come …

Restore the Wild - Alright heres the thing. This card wants you to flood the board, and the reward presumes that youre gonna win by board control. And yet, not only does this card take up your first turn, the subsequent cards revealed are so slow as fuck its hard to imagine this quest being completed any earlier than turn …

Bralma Searstone - Its only here because of the seering elementals, without which shes basically just raid leader for a deck that presumably plays similarly to elemental mage. Occasionally, you play this on 4 + an elemental and it sticks, then you punish them by following up into slagclaw for good damage that might take tempo from board, or just …

The Forbidden Sequence - Its probably playable, but its also well, shit. Or at very least it wont win you the game. Either way, its not difficult for mage to play the card off tempo on 1 so you'll probably just play it because mage already play so many discover cards to begin with. The reward is hardly gamebreaking, and …

Fair, knew that the comma meant something.