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Oohh, Diamond Cards was the Spell Locked item from Phase 1. Don't get me wrong, I'm always hyped for a new expansion, but I don't expect anything to be discussed beyond that and Battlegrounds. Hope I'm wrong.

Looked back at the Year of the Gryphon road map, and there's nothing exciting to discuss from Phase 2.

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23622607/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-gryphon

Although, there was something "Spell Locked" from Phase 1, and I don't remember if that was …

I won on my second attempt using the 1/1 freeze guys. Prioritize face, only trade/freeze when necessary (poison/lifesteal).

Can't remember the last time I lost one of these battles, but A Party of Adventurers did me in.

Zeddy claims to have inside info that it's not coming out until November at the earliest. He could be wrong, but consider the survey about the "battlepass" (Rewards Track and Tavern Pass) was leaked in August 2020. I think we're …

This looks great, really great. However, it brings me back to ideas (not complaints) I had during the outrage around the launch of the Rewards Track. 1) How do different game modes get supported and incentivized. 2) Is the business …

Four [card]Oh My Yogg![/card] nerf suggestions with brief commentary on my logic:

Secret: After your opponent casts a spell, cast a random one that costs less. [AFTER; Doesn't trigger on 0-cost spells; Can't cast a 10-mana spell]

Secret: …

All the core mechanics? Where's my 2/2 Adventurerer with Overload (1)?

I believe this is the only site I have whitelisted for ads. I know it's not much, but I do visit daily, often multiple pages. The whole team here is fantastic, and this is still just the beginning.

I've been playing Menagerie Paladin, and while I'm near-certain subbing Mutanus would make the deck worse, it would still work decently because the deck runs [card]Animated Broomstick[/card]. I think any deck that runs brooms can safely run Mutanus for fun …

I hard agree with an [card]Oh My Yogg![/card] nerf. We have terrible data on how effective it is since the HSReplay data focuses on Mulligan win-rate and played win-rate, and it's always going to be a superior win-rate when it's …

I think the meta is decent right now, but it's telling that neither Blizzard nor OoC has had a good "off-meta decks to try" article in awhile. It's not that the class balance is that bad (except Paladin and Shaman …

N'Zoth wasn't meta, but he was played in Clown decks to activate Clown. Feels like a nerf to Clown decks. Clown move Blizzard, clown move.

I think we have a good handle on what the nerfs will be (Crabrider and Mankrik for sure) and what they won't be (Tickatus, Illucia, Il'Gynoth).

Ten buffs is A LOT, and I would guess five of them are …

Is a 2-mana 0/2 [card]Mana Tide Totem[/card] too broken? Lack of draw is the class' biggest problem. I think Vashj Prime is fine how she is. I just never seem to draw her.

I like the Paglevan suggestion. 0/4 is the right kind of annoying.

I agree with the entire article except about Paladin cards (I agree with the Crab Rider nerf). There are three extremely strong archetypes - Secret Paladin, Secret Libram Paladin, and Aggro Paladin. [card]Conviction (Rank 1)[/card] is only run in one …

Memory unlocked: One of my friends on the group project drew this fantastic cartoon of Jonathan Edwards nearly falling off of cupped hands over a pit of fire for our poster presentation.

This isn't going to be a point by point rebuttal of what you wrote, but some things to consider in response to the points you raised assuming they're made in good faith.

I'm in my late 30s, and I'm …

That's what I thought when it was announced, and I'm not overly interested in the mode, but Vicious Syndicate had an interesting meta report that indicates that Classic may not have been as solved as we thought. It's still mostly …