My joke was headed in a "Yogg forbid women do anything" direction. 

I like the idea of the full set of elemental lords. But could I shove them all in one deck? 

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Elemental dragons and mushroom forests sounds like excellent Hearthstone art is on the way. 

One of the current Hunter achievement titles mentions Deathwing, so maybe we'll see further references to that storyline. 

Also, I love your description of a planet as a parfait. I'm storing that away for future use. 

Any lore experts wanna share some fun facts about Deepholm? 

I read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, by Patricia C Wrede, and those are some charming books, y'all. Dragon politics, wizard scheming, and magic swords tumbled together in a fairytale setting. These books are written for young people, so a very nice choice to read with your nieces/nephews/etc and then chat about later. 

I'm also continuing to enjoy a wander through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Here's to many interesting books in 2024!

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 If Blizzard wanted to take the smarter approach here, and make some new tech, maybe they could make Mercenaries an optional download (it's a lot of data, images, code) which would slim down the mobile install of the game.

An optional download would be a great solution, but I don't expect them to implement this unless they get the feature almost for free because they already have the infrastructure. Hearthstone has some live content download support, but it still requires frequent client upgrades, so the system probably has some limitations.

I believe this has already happened. When I click the Modes button, I can enter Arena or Duels, but the buttons for Mercenaries and Solo Adventures say "Download" as of a couple months ago. 

Maybe this change only impacts mobile players?

I haven't played much Wild this season, so thanks for the ideas! 

Ice dancing and bobsleigh are both Olympic sports, don-cha-kno? 

Thanks for the list! That took me from Platinum up to Diamond. 

I wonder if Sludge could go in other directions, maybe as mill or discard support? 

I tried tossing the Sludge cards into the base of the Undead Warlock deck, and was not too impressed with the results. What are you running? 

I opened an extra Whelp in my Tavern Brawl pack, and decided to flip to Wild when I searched "refund" and to my surprise there were some Stormwind cards in there. 

I don't recall patch notes nerfing a Rogue weapon and more, yet here we are with additional dust. 

I'm surprised they're still selling Mercenaries bundles. Same as you, I never bought any with actual money, and then when the mode hit a point where you had to re-download all the components I decided that was the right time to stop. 

I'm sure we'll never see any of the player or purchase data! 

When Keeper's Strength was announced, I thought: this won't see play since Paladins don't want to clear their own boards. 

I was wrong. 

I would throw a few snowballs... if I could figure out how. 

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I have no memory of the Apprentice Ranks. There was, at one point, a progress bar under each class as you levelled them up and unlocked class cards, maybe that was it. 

The new track looks great! I hope it's in addition to the seasonal rewards track (not replacing it) so new players don't miss out on all the fun. 

If you, like me, are mainly interested in Hearthstone and not the many other games available from the homepage, just use 

https://outof.games/hearthstone/

as your spot. Bookmark it, leave the tab open, whatever. 

As to the video-vs-text split, I'm firmly on the side of text. I read fast, and I like my life quiet. 

This is one of the least toxic gaming communities on the Interwebz, and I absolutely appreciate how much effort that takes to maintain. 

Best of luck to the future of Out of Games. I'll be here, with whatever frequency and budget that life allows. 

My guesses: 

Order in the Court will no longer draw a card. Might also cost one mana more. 

Blindeye Sharpshooter will drop "Then switch" from its text. 

Always a Bigger Jormungar will see a mana increase, but this will solve nothing, as the problem is the fact that it can also hit adjacent minions. How would the text limit that? 

The Azerite Snake will become an end of turn effect. 

I have zero thoughts on the attorney. 

I got it on a non-Legendary card, it did turn gold in the drawing process, and I think it was the second card Lil Dude managed to draw.  

Onward to summoning Bovine Skeletons! 

Here's the forum for all your Badlands achievements notes, questions, thoughts and triumphs. 

My starting question: what is Gold Rush asking us to do? It says "Strike gold with Gold Panner" so I tried it in a deck with plenty of golden cards, but either this one is bugged or it does not mean "use Gold Panner to draw a golden card". 

Have you gotten this one to work? 

Leaving the snake on the board also opens up the possibility that your opponent will steal it, via Sylvanas or similar. 

And from Blizzard's perspective, yes, it's a change, but less of a nerf than some of the other suggestions mentioned here.