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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Slow card, but has some potential with scaling cards like Wolpertinger, Felsteel Executioner and Carnival Clown. The question will be if the scaling pay-off will be worth the weak body upfront in any decks.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Crazy strong card in soul DH, basically gives your Aldrachi Warblades windfury and is quite expensive to remove because of having lifesteal itself and its big body. Also gives a chance for OTK DH to return. This card + Warblades + Twin Slice + second slice + hero power is a 3 card 14 damage combo, with muuuuuch higher potential when adding in Skull of Gul'dan discounts or pre-equipped Warblades.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Interesting card, it allows combo decks a turn of set-up, while giving aggro decks a turn of survival in the mirror. 3 mana is quite expensive though, but it might see play in slower rogue decks because of the lack of other good surival tools in the class.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Absolute trash, goes against everything that a murloc deck tries to do (early game tempo, explosive wide boards) and what does it give you in return? Random expensive cards that usually require synergies that aren't in your deck to be any good.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Mage does not really need more single-target removal, and 5 mana cards are quite hard to corrupt. Don't see this seeing any play.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Basically 2 more copies of Kirin Tor Mage, with slightly weaker body and slightly higher removal priority. This won't make secret mage strong, but it will be a strong card in the deck if it comes to fruition.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago
    Quote From Fluxflashor
    Card games by nature are expensive

    I don't think this is a fair point. You might make the argument that physical card games need to a bit expensive to offset the cost of printing, packaging and shipping the packs, but especially for digital card games this is not the case. There is nothing inherent in the nature of card games that forces them to be expensive, quite the contrary actually when you consider the development costs of a digital card game compared to a AAA game like GTA or RDR. Pretty much all card games are expensive, yes, but that's more of a consequence from MTG showing that people are willing to shell out that much money for them than something inherent to the genre. They could sell the complete expansion every 4 months for €50 and it would not change the nature of the gameplay, only the collection aspect by making it less predatory. I think saying that card games are expensive by nature is a dangerous thing to say, because it convinces people that it's normal to have to pay €600 a year to fully play the game, while this would be rightfully considered ridiculous in any other genre. I love card games, but the cost is absurd to a degree it does not need to be.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Love this idea! I have a question about certain tribes though. Have you considered adding [Hearthstone Card (Felsoul Insquisitor) Not Found] as a demon and Tar Creeper as an elemental, and adding the new N'zoth as a top-end?

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    The 12th, so Thursday. Based on normal patch times, around 10:00 PT which is 19:00 CET.

    In reply to New reward scheme?
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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Eh, an 8/8 taunt divine shield is much better than a random 8 drop and healing is more flexible than armor since you can heal minions. Also the main reason that Libram of Hope is played is because you can reduce its cost. I don't think this card is nearly as good, and that big druid wants better pay-off cards than this.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Seems like a very strong card, especially when combined with the other secret synergy cards. It won't carry a Secret Hunter archetype by itself (Petting Zoo will do a much better job at it than this), but if a secret-based Face Hunter exists I definitely see this being played in it. It's 4 damage for 4 mana, as well as a secret of your choosing, which you can tailor to your specific match-up and current situation.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Rinling is the Darkmoon Faire guy who runs the shooting booth!

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I had that in an earlier version of the list, but I ultimately chose to cut it for the simple reason that Tour Guide is a battlecry minion. We desperately need battlecry minions to advance the quest, and now you can use one tour guide to advance the quest in the early game giving you an extra card draw from one of your other battlecry minions as soon as the quest is completed.  I also felt like Lightning Bloom might only be good with C'Thun, the Shattered himself, because as a reactive control deck we don't want to cheat out stuff in the early game, which is Lightning Bloom's primary function. However, we might find through playtesting that it indeed fits the list better, or new card reveals might lead us to change up the entire list (still no Shaman reveals besides Dunk Tank!). I'm definitely open to swapping out Tour Guide for Lightning Bloom though.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    What the heck, this card is insane. What warlock cards all have much higher cost than effect? Lord Jaraxxus? Archwitch Willow? Voidlord? Of course, who could forget the potential of a 4-cost Malygos?

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    This card seems pretty good in Standard, especially since we see a bit more Silver Hand Recruit synergy in this new set. However, it seems absolutely flat-out busted in Odd Paladin in Wild. Is that still a strong deck? Important to note that it doesn't just affect the Hero Power, but all Silver Hand Recruits.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Huge support for N'zoth Warrior. Which minons do we want to pull and buff with these?

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Shuffle means shuffle. I understand your frustration, but this is not a bug. Also, in a real card game you always shuffle your entire deck, if you just put it in a random spot you know where it approximately is. If you shuffle it it could be on the top or the bottom without you knowing so. This effect is implemented correctly, and this thread makes me not want to play real card games with you since you don't seem to grasp how shuffling works.

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I like the deck, except for one detail: the Felosophy setup. Felosophy is simply a bad card, which is completely useless besides the combo. This got me thinking of a different combo which fits into the same shell. With double Mo'arg Artificer, the minimum damage we need to do is 8 to deal 32 damage with the Silas Darkmoon-Soulbound Ashtongue combo. This led me to think of two cards, which are both playable in warlock by themselves and very strong together even without the combo: Flesh Giant and Shadowflame. This requires the same amount of set-up cards, but replaces the weaker Felosophy and Soulfire cards with replacements that are stronger by themselves. Have you thought about this replacement? What do you think of it?

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    This deck looks like a lot of fun. Could you maybe add a mulligan guide and some possible card substitutions, while explaining which cards are absolutely core?

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    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I can't speak much for Hearthpwn, as I always refrained from using it much beyond card reveals as it was slow as shit, but I do have some things why I think that the engagement with decks is lower here.

    The first is that, as somebody who posts decks quite regularly, I often don't get notifications when somebody leaves a comment. This leads to me missing comments on my decks and to people who leave comments feeling that their feedback doesn't get listened to, sometimes because the creator didn't get a notification and sometimes because the commenter didn't get a notification of the creator's reply. This causes people to post fewer decks because they think nobody cares about them, and people to comment less on decks because they think nobody reads their comments anyway.

    Another thing that I think might help is a more personalised deck feed. Right now, if I go to the homepage, I might see decks for wild (which I don't play), duels (which a lot of people don't have access too yet) and for classes I don't play. If this feed was catered to me more, either through algorithmic learning or, probably easier to implement, personally customised settings, I would be more inclined to engage with the decks. Give me the option to only see standard Hearthstone decks, and I'll be far more inclined to look at the decks than when I see a bunch of Runeterra, wild and duels decks.

    The third is article-decks mixing in with the "regular" decks, but the discussion staying separate. For instance, yesterday the admins published an article on the fastest decks in standard. The comments on this article might lead to an interesting discussion. However, these decks also show up in the deck feed, where a separate discussion might take place. I'm not sure how, but it would be nice if these two were linked somehow, so that I don't need to figure out myself which of the two links I need to click to figure out where the best discussion is found.

    Lastly, I would like more incentives for discussing decks. Every expansion release cycle you guys do a great job in incentivising users to discuss the newly revealed cards, with titles and stuff. I think if you would add similar incentives to regularly voting and commenting on decks, that would drive up engagement with them. Even if just one person is incentivised through this to comment on a deck, that would lead to more people commenting as a result, since people are more likely to comment on a deck on which already has been commented. The precise implementation of these incentives I do not have a developed idea for though.