FortyDust

There's always someone who's willing to complain about progress. It is not that complicated.

• Arcane spells are bright pinkish purple. (Mage, Druid)
• Fel spells are a distinctive shade of yellowish green. (Demon Hunter, Warlock)
• Fire spells …

All I can say is, I'm very glad you people aren't the ones making the decisions.

Many of these choices are perfect examples of how many players don't even understand the role of the Core Set.

Duels didn't become fun until this year, so it's no surprise to me. In 2020, it was extremely lopsided and monotonous.

I'm not saying it will happen, only that it should.

However, I do find it interesting that Iksar tweeted that question a few months ago about what it would take for former players to come back to the game. …

Quote From Ethardoth

Merging doubles into golden would make them never nerf anything, since we would get enourmous profits from merging those 9+ duplicates.

That's easy enough to fix. Just make it so you cannot …

[quote from="Iksar"]Ideally when you open a pack the cards that come it in are exciting for a variety of reasons[/quote]

Hard disagree. Opening packs is a painful chore, and I hate it. The one time in twenty that you …

You can already upgrade normal cards into golden. You disenchant the normal one and use the dust (plus a ton more dust) to make the golden one. You can also already use gold to do this. You buy some packs, …

Well, [card]Fel Reaver[/card] cannot be allowed to exist in the same meta as [card]Silas Darkmoon[/card], so that's out.

It was recently mentioned that Team 5 prefers to take breaks between releases of Hero cards, so [card]Dr. Boom, Mad Genius[/card] …

Quote From Zelgadis

A deck containing only cards from the Core Set may not be competitive, but I'm sure there will be budget decks that do reasonably well. You don't need to play top tier decks to ladder: …

If it's a Core-only card, the golden version would share the same fate as the regular version. At this time, that fate has not been decided, but the plan is to move them to Wild.

I would assume that …

For returning players, it depends on the state of their collection before they quit. If they had already collected most of Classic, this does not help them at all.

And everyone playing Standard still has to pay a pretty …

Quote From Alfi

 Even the name of the Core set 😀

You only get half credit for that because you hedged and said "maybe Basic."

Plenty of people are unhappy about the number of useless cards they are required to buy.

The good news is, fewer people are willing to continue buying them because it's finally sinking in what a scam random packs are. …

[quote from="Celestalon"]Since Core is refreshed each year, we can make Core cards more consistently impactful and relevant to the current meta.[/quote]

Note that "can" is not the same as "will." Mark my words: You're still going to need just …

You are correct. The Classic meta was very much solved within a couple of months. It's going to be a lot of the same over and over again, only without the "figuring out" period you would normally see at launch.

There are 343 cards in Basic + Classic. There will be 235 cards in the Core set. That's a much smaller chunk, not bigger.

Maybe you mean you believe the Core cards will be more impactful than the current …

What all of this means is:

1. Free players who have a full or nearly full collection of Classic can now enjoy a mode where they are at no disadvantage whatsoever, while still gaining Reward Track XP that can …

Quote From Thonson

You mean to tell me, that I've been holding onto Classic packs for no GODDAMN REASON?!?!?!

To be fair, there was never any goddamn reason, so ...

Since Classic packs are now for the Classic/Wild game modes only, any card that was in the game in 2014 will be obtainable from Classic packs. The Hall of Fame no longer exists.

Quote From Psymon

The staff that Aegwynn carries is [card]Atiesh[/card] instead [card]Aluneth[/card], no? Or am I wrong?

She originally used Aluneth, but it began to resist her when it was time to fight Sargeras, so …