As the title suggests, I am kinda inexperienced, when it comes to hs battlegrounds, and I would appreciate some tips on how to improve my gameplay. Very often I feel like I am making crucial mistakes in the mid game, only because I don't know how to manage my board, how to position some minions and what direction I should take.
Before I continue, I would like to clarify, that I am not interested in achieving a high rating. I just want to try out the cool late-game builds more often. However, I don't always get good or synergistic minions at start and I have absolutely no clue what to buy, in order to increase my chances to survive. In some cases I feel like I am receiving too much damage (cuz my build is probably weak) and I decide to roll and find better minions to replace the current weaker ones instead of upgrading my tavern tier. The problem is, that sometimes I don't get anything good and I fall behind even more so than before.
I wish I could've shared some of my games with you, in order to be more specific, but, sadly, I don't use a deck tracker. Though, I could try to remember some minion choices and mention them here. Before I continue, I would like to add, that I am following the general strategy for the first few rounds: On turn 1, I buy either a token generator or a well-statted minion. On turn 2, I usually upgrade my tier. On turn 3, I sell the bought minion and buy two new ones (if the presented choices are better than my tier 1 minion, that is). If the presented choices are overall weak, then I reroll and try to find a good addition. On turn 4, I usually buy two minions. On turn 5, I upgrade my tavern tier and buy a minion. From there onwards (up until I reach the fifth tier), things become confusing for me. Sometimes I can't evaluate which minion from a certain tribe underperforms and needs to be replaced. This becomes more apparent, when I get stuck with a menagerie build.
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Example 1: Yesterday on turn 4 I had the possibility to buy two from these three minions - harvest golem, gambler and imprisoner. I picked the latter two, because I thought I needed a taunt and I could always replace the pirate with a more synergistic minion. I think the demon was a good choice, but the 3/3 pirate didn't prove to be that useful. A few rerolls later, I saw a replicating menace, which would have been used as an argument to go for the golem.
Example 2: In one game, I had really shitty minion offerings on turn 4. Like, the only good minion was the 2/2 bomb; all others were pogo-level bad. So I considered upgrading my tavern tier instead. I don't remember how the game went for me, but what do you think of this play?
Like I said, I get confused with the minion positioning too. Normally I put the stickier minions in front of the more fragile ones, because they can take several hits. The exceptions are minions, that I use to get rid of divine shields from taunts, being in front, provocative minions (soul juggler) being last and deathrattles that fall in one of those categories. I am also very careful with the taunt positioning, in order to play around cleave, and I try to have only one taunt. But there are many other exceptions to those rules, which I am not knowledgeable in. Like, where should I put poisonous minions? Or big taunts? - I have seen streamers putting them first and last. Where do I keep a hydra in a goldrin-macaw build - after the macaw or the goldrin? I have seen some streamers putting their cleave between both goldrins.
I am sure I am missing a lot more things to talk about, so your help will be much appreciated. I don't consider myself a beginner, I think I just need more advanced tips. If you understood my case and know some helpful links, I will gladly check them out.
I have heard of the book named after Illidan, but since I don't own it, I wasn't aware of all lore-related things mentioned there. In the past I was interested in learning more about the backstory of Illidan and Kael'thas, so I found some videos from Nobbel87 and hirumaredx, that referenced the book. However, neither of those youtubers talked more specifically about Illidan's henchmen except maybe the felorcs, the Illidaris, and Shade of Akama. That Illidan built a soul container, that could fuel the portals for his invasions, was really exciting to read.
I have another question and I would like to hear your personal opinion on it. I admit, that the storytelling in tbc could have been better, but wasn't it a good idea to throw the players in a cloud of mystery surrounding their favourite character? I mean, Illidan was really secretive and couldn't trust some of his own allies (like Kael), yet alone outsiders. So, there was no way to know what we were actually dealing with, we could have only speculated what was going on based on the results of his actions. That's why I think, many of the lore details were intentionally left out. If people knew what Illidan was trying to prevent, they wouldn't have stopped him. What do you think?
Nice job, GoliathTheDwarf. I have two questions I would like to ask: Why didn't this article appear on the front page? I found it by clicking on your forum signature. Where did you find the information about the lore of Reliquary of Souls? I remember trying to read more about that thing in the past, but I only found boss related mechanics and such.
As Goliath said, AQ will be released in Classic WoW pretty soon. I'll just post this, if someone is interested in the "opening the gates of AQ" event. People have to complete a bizarre quest
and both factions have to bring some war supplies.
I'd recommend checking the video out, as it is very informative and funny.
Yea, I don´t get it either. In may I finished D5 in Wild and D1 in Standard - got 9 stars for both, all good. Last season I didnt have much free time to play, so I finished Plat 3 on Standard and only Gold 5 on Wild... I expected to get 7 stars for Standard and 5 for Wild... But to my surprise I still got 9 stars for both ladders just like the previous season.. Is it intended? Aren´t we suppose to lose stars if we derank previous season?
It's intended. It was stated, that skipping one season won't affect your mmr whatsoever. If you decide to idle for a longer period of time, however, it will decrease slowly.
So, if someone is still curious - the reason for his suicide can be found here:
1:43-2:55 5:55
So, according to this video it all started with Reckful's recent tweet. He wanted to propose to a girl, people made fun of him, and since he was suffering from a manic-depression, he took those comments very personally. Hence he decided to end his life.
Reckful was manic-depressive. He wanted to propose to a girl, some people ridiculed him in the comment section of his recent tweets and he felt humiliated and decided to end his life. This explains the quote, which Flux shared with us.
My condolences for Reckful's death. It's kinda weird to see him die due to a suicide attempt, because one or two weeks ago I went to his youtube channel and I saw a video, whose title stated, that Reckful was overcoming his depression. I guess, he was feeling relieved only temporarily, but the real problem wasn't solved. RIP.
Will complete them tomorrow. I really hope those will prove to be challenging (as their name suggests). I really missed the hardcore linear adventures.
Alright, so I finally got round to finishing the adventure. Here's a few thoughts;
- The rhymes are neat, and I'd imagine it couldn't have been easy to write and make it work. There's some hit and misses but overall, I'm a little impressed. Unfortunately, its one thing to hear a rhyme, its quite another to hear the same fucking thing over and over each time you're forced to restart. They just get in the way of your game and there are some sequences that last more than my patience can take. Wish blizz would just get rid of all the dialogue on the second time playing.
- Its not a dungeon run where you build your deck, so that's a little less interactivity there. But it does mean that team5 has better control of what you get so you're not facing Jaraxxus with a bs deck that can never win. But it also means there's less stakes involved. You can easily just cheese each battle by restarting until you get the perfect hand i.e. mostly if you can get a 2 drop on 2, or get one of your outcasts heros you're pretty much going to win (if you can get karnuk to spawn that imprisoned antaen on curve, the match is heavily in your favor from there). Also it eliminates most of the replayability, since you're essentially playing the same deck on the same boss.
- Story is bland, like really bland. Spoilers ahead, so if you don't care about the story just click below.
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So we follow the adventures of Arrana, sister to Elise Starseeker, who for reasons only known to her, travels to the dangerous world of outland to do…something…and on her travels saves, meets, and groups together with alleged outcasts of various races/species and for very unconvincing reasons decides to ride to the black temple to accomplish…uhhh…power and success? a place to call home? to have a cup of coffee? Self evident reasons, I guess.
Half way down the line, Baduu, who by the way just joined up like 2 missions ago, decides that she doens't want to join up with Illidan (probably because she recognizes how vacuous the idea seems to be) and leaves. And the way the game portrays this is to fix it so she is drawn into your hand on turn 5-6 (cant remember) and is promptly removed from your hand. And if you lose that fight, you get to see this over and over again until you win. I don't get why this isn't handled outside of the battle or at the end of the battle so technically you're only going to see this once. As it stands, I've seen her leave like 3 times in my playthrough, so whatever emotions I have for her (which is nill, since we only seen her like twice. I've never even got to play her for fuck sake) is just dragged through the mud until I just wanted to get it over with.
Then you meet Illidan, and he trains you to be dhunters. Apparently the process involves you fighting each other until you lose your eyes and sprout horns on your head. I'm no lore expert in WoW, but I'm pretty sure this is not how one becomes a demon hunter.
So with better powers she fights through the rusted legion, defeats Jaraxxus with the power of friendship, and ONLY THEN she realised that Illidan's a bit of a nutter. She then fight him, and depending on your luck she might actually beat him but I've heard it doens't really matter (I did it on my first try, so I couldn't confirm if its a supposed to lose fight) and by your stark powers of reasoning actually made him see the error of his ways. Which is entirely bs to be honest.
The best way to describe the story is that it feels safe. It pulls no punches and takes no risks. Suffice to say you're the good guy fighting the bad guys. No attempts have been made to make Arrana or the other outcasts even slightly relatable, likable, or unique. It almost feels disney-esque; a heroine (because of course it is) with a rag-tag group of diverse races, genders and religions complete with mascot-like comedic sidekick for that sweet merch sales, fighting against a self-evident and proudly villainous bad guy.
- Arrana as a character is paper thin and about as relatable as a piece of cardboard. Her motives to become a demon hunter is almost nonexistent; her motives in general for risking life and limb in outland is nill, other than the vague "must be better than my sis" thing. Almost no effort has been made to make Arrana feel weak or remotely human; she literally becomes leader of a group of similar cardboard cutouts from the outset, beats foes with merciless ease, highly intelligent, and even manages to out-argue the lord of angst himself. From this adventure, it seems like Aranna can do anything. And we are led to belief that her sister Elise can do even more. One wonders why they haven't just team up and be queens of Azeroth yet.
- Is it fun? Well, its something. I confess its not entirely bad or boring. But I won't be coming back for more, unfortunately. Its not as engaging as the final boss battle against Hagatha in Witchwood (probably the best way a story is handled in hearthstone), not as fun as Rastakhan's adventure (which I think the character Rikkar is a better character and features a better story than this), and there's no fun villain like in KotFT and Naxx.
Quite a forgettable experience, but hey at least its free.
I agree with most what you said. I think the reason why Baduu ditched her team in the Black Temple was because of the history of the Draenei. I believe she didn't want to train in a formerly sacred, now a blemished place and become that, what she despised.
She saw Illidan as yet another tyrant influenced by demons and didn't want to have anything in common with him. Now, this spills other questions - like why didn't she try to assassinate him in the BT? If she wanted to leave so badly, why didn't she leave before going in? I mean, Elise Aranna told her group where they were heading to, why was she surprised? If she was disgusted by Illidan's doings and the actions of his trainees, why didn't she stop Aranna's group after hearing about their plans? How did the rusted legion capture Baduu and bend her will? So many questions left unanswered, so I agree that the story wasn't well thought out.
Yeah, I saw him too. That's why I think it would be best, if someone just copy/pasted the blacklist here, so that we don't have to switch sites every time we decide to check certain battletags and inexperienced players would know where to look, in order not to get scammed. Chimera created it, so I don't see anything wrong in making the same list here.
I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.
So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.
What?! How does one "bring a bat" anywhere. How do you catch it? You just have a spare bird cage lying around or what? How would you get him in? They should come for it, no? Damn i would have been creeped the hell out
I just asked my father about the bat and he told me, that it was from these species:
As you can see, it has a size smaller than the human hand and that's how my father brought it to those people (he used gloves though, since bats can be carrier of diseases). The reason why it didn't fly away was because it was dehydrated and malnourished, since it was winter back then. We found it lying ill near my father's plants.
I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.
So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.
The rhyming is especially annoying in the final battle, when you have to listen to it on repeat every time you lose. The opening part being mandatory - where you don't get your cards until they're done talking - is the worst. I just want to retry the fight for the fifth/sixth/seventh time; making me sit through the dialogue over and over is just mean. I liked the rhyming for the most part - it made the script interesting - but it had run its course by the end.
I was not so fortunate against the final confrontation as you were: it honestly felt like a "supposed to lose" fight for a while, because his hand/draws were just perfect time and again. I couldn't get a foothold to defend myself properly, and was quickly overwhelmed…
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…only to discover you don't have to win, just survive long enough. Kind of made it anti-climatic, 'cause I probably would have lost that round as well. I would say "at least it's over now", but it really only lasted about two and a half hours of my time. Back to being bored…
I agree with what you said about the final confrontation. It was kinda a letdown.
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I defeated Illidan on my second try, but I was on the brick of death back then. Imagine me sitting on 2 health with the lifesteal weapon and desperately trying to gain as much life as possible, in order to survive the hits of the twin blades of Azzinoth. I was about to die in two turns, had it not been for the final RP. When it started, I remember thinking "Oh, God, I am almost dead. What will Illidan throw at me now?". I certainly wasn't expecting an apology from him and a victory screen. I was starring at my screen baffled by how the battle had concluded. I expected something exciting during the second phase - like in the lich king or in the Kel'Thuzad encounters - and not a "You were right. Now I see my mistakes" moment.
On the one hand I liked the idea, that the student is not powerful enough to defeat her master, but the ending made it so, that Illidan is just suffering from anger management issues and still living in the past. And all it took was someone (a complete stranger) to reason with him and he would feel bad for his previous outburst and stop his Outland purging plan? What?
I admit, that I forgot some details in Illidan's lore. I know, that he followed the moto "The end justifies all means" during TBC and Legion, which included capturing orcs and infusing them with Magtheridon's blood, enslaving Akama's soul, pumping out the waters in Zangarmarsh, but iirc he would never run amok and kill anyone infected by fel, including innocents, just like that. In WoW he wanted to dismantle the legion by bringing the war in its own domain and dealing with its lieutenants. Did Illidan want to start a genocide war against all corrupted beings after imprisoning Sargeras? Was he ever thinking of purging everyone corrupted like Arthas did in Stratholme? I didn't like how Illidan was portrayed in the solo adventure. He was presented as a tyrant, who still suffers from the events of the pass and can't control himself.
Finally. Fucking finally. After so many failed attempts, Chameleos finally turned into Time Warp. Luckily for me my opponent didn't have an Ice Block, so I defeated them on the following turn.
FYI, I specifically chose Vargoth from Drakonid Operative's battlecry just for this specific outcome. It wasn't certain, but that's why sometimes you have to go for the memes and the game delivered them.
At the end of my bonus turns, I was left with this:
Both Alex were copied by Archbishop Benedictus. The opponent's upgraded hero power cast Vanish, so that's why you see him in hand. Anyway, I won at the end. :P It wasn't in ranked, but still very satisfying.
You forgot about all the censorship that happened in Hearthstone as well.
Still waiting for that un-nerfed Jaina, doubt it'll happen
I haven't, but, unless I am mistaken, certain hearthstone artwork got changed only because it showed too much female skin/body. Yu-Gi-Oh! is well known for its massive censorship of its cards due to one thing or another.
Its always slightly amusing to me how the entertainment industry is always reacting to world events by washing away all hints of cultural/gender/religious/political themes in their product so everything is as safe as it can be in a vain hope of keeping all sides happy and free from potential boycotts.
I'm a little curious. Does these industry even care enough to ask minorities if they are even slightly offended by depictions, themes, and images of what can only be a sliver of resemblance (if at all) to what they are or practiced?
The entertainment industry is strangely coming close to the disney romance where all minorities are universally adapted into heroic positions while all villains are as absurdly generalized as possible from any racial/religious hints.
+1
I also don't mind historical references in (card) games, as, I believe, those could be used for informational reasons. Like, depicting or just hinting such events could kindle the curiosity of some individuals and they could decide to inform themselves more about those events (I know, that I would). That's why I would be really interested in seeing such design more often, but I guess not all people are open-minded and some can take those things personally. And, tbh, I don't blame them. A person has to be very careful how they approach such design - for example, it should be clear that the designer doesn't sympathize with the illustrated mistreatment and they are just making an innocent reference. But I guess this might not be possible, as everyone interprets those references in their own way and those could still find a reason to get offended no matter how innocent or well presented the said reference is.
Btw, you probably know this, but censorship is something very common for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, so for me it's not really surprising how Wizards decided to do the same to their own game.
Hey, all.
As the title suggests, I am kinda inexperienced, when it comes to hs battlegrounds, and I would appreciate some tips on how to improve my gameplay. Very often I feel like I am making crucial mistakes in the mid game, only because I don't know how to manage my board, how to position some minions and what direction I should take.
Before I continue, I would like to clarify, that I am not interested in achieving a high rating. I just want to try out the cool late-game builds more often. However, I don't always get good or synergistic minions at start and I have absolutely no clue what to buy, in order to increase my chances to survive. In some cases I feel like I am receiving too much damage (cuz my build is probably weak) and I decide to roll and find better minions to replace the current weaker ones instead of upgrading my tavern tier. The problem is, that sometimes I don't get anything good and I fall behind even more so than before.
I wish I could've shared some of my games with you, in order to be more specific, but, sadly, I don't use a deck tracker. Though, I could try to remember some minion choices and mention them here. Before I continue, I would like to add, that I am following the general strategy for the first few rounds: On turn 1, I buy either a token generator or a well-statted minion. On turn 2, I usually upgrade my tier. On turn 3, I sell the bought minion and buy two new ones (if the presented choices are better than my tier 1 minion, that is). If the presented choices are overall weak, then I reroll and try to find a good addition. On turn 4, I usually buy two minions. On turn 5, I upgrade my tavern tier and buy a minion. From there onwards (up until I reach the fifth tier), things become confusing for me. Sometimes I can't evaluate which minion from a certain tribe underperforms and needs to be replaced. This becomes more apparent, when I get stuck with a menagerie build.
Example 1: Yesterday on turn 4 I had the possibility to buy two from these three minions - harvest golem, gambler and imprisoner. I picked the latter two, because I thought I needed a taunt and I could always replace the pirate with a more synergistic minion. I think the demon was a good choice, but the 3/3 pirate didn't prove to be that useful. A few rerolls later, I saw a replicating menace, which would have been used as an argument to go for the golem.
Example 2: In one game, I had really shitty minion offerings on turn 4. Like, the only good minion was the 2/2 bomb; all others were pogo-level bad. So I considered upgrading my tavern tier instead. I don't remember how the game went for me, but what do you think of this play?
Like I said, I get confused with the minion positioning too. Normally I put the stickier minions in front of the more fragile ones, because they can take several hits. The exceptions are minions, that I use to get rid of divine shields from taunts, being in front, provocative minions (soul juggler) being last and deathrattles that fall in one of those categories. I am also very careful with the taunt positioning, in order to play around cleave, and I try to have only one taunt. But there are many other exceptions to those rules, which I am not knowledgeable in. Like, where should I put poisonous minions? Or big taunts? - I have seen streamers putting them first and last. Where do I keep a hydra in a goldrin-macaw build - after the macaw or the goldrin? I have seen some streamers putting their cleave between both goldrins.
I am sure I am missing a lot more things to talk about, so your help will be much appreciated. I don't consider myself a beginner, I think I just need more advanced tips. If you understood my case and know some helpful links, I will gladly check them out.
Thanks for the info.
I have heard of the book named after Illidan, but since I don't own it, I wasn't aware of all lore-related things mentioned there. In the past I was interested in learning more about the backstory of Illidan and Kael'thas, so I found some videos from Nobbel87 and hirumaredx, that referenced the book. However, neither of those youtubers talked more specifically about Illidan's henchmen except maybe the felorcs, the Illidaris, and Shade of Akama. That Illidan built a soul container, that could fuel the portals for his invasions, was really exciting to read.
I have another question and I would like to hear your personal opinion on it. I admit, that the storytelling in tbc could have been better, but wasn't it a good idea to throw the players in a cloud of mystery surrounding their favourite character? I mean, Illidan was really secretive and couldn't trust some of his own allies (like Kael), yet alone outsiders. So, there was no way to know what we were actually dealing with, we could have only speculated what was going on based on the results of his actions. That's why I think, many of the lore details were intentionally left out. If people knew what Illidan was trying to prevent, they wouldn't have stopped him. What do you think?
Nice job, GoliathTheDwarf. I have two questions I would like to ask: Why didn't this article appear on the front page? I found it by clicking on your forum signature. Where did you find the information about the lore of Reliquary of Souls? I remember trying to read more about that thing in the past, but I only found boss related mechanics and such.
As Goliath said, AQ will be released in Classic WoW pretty soon. I'll just post this, if someone is interested in the "opening the gates of AQ" event. People have to complete a bizarre quest
and both factions have to bring some war supplies.
I'd recommend checking the video out, as it is very informative and funny.
It's intended. It was stated, that skipping one season won't affect your mmr whatsoever. If you decide to idle for a longer period of time, however, it will decrease slowly.
Yeah, link is right. This is only temporary; you will get your old emote back, once the event finishes.
Btw, if you want to feel better about the "Let it burn" emote, I would suggest watching the following video.
Sylvanas loves setting things on fire. ;)
So, if someone is still curious - the reason for his suicide can be found here:
1:43-2:55 5:55
So, according to this video it all started with Reckful's recent tweet. He wanted to propose to a girl, people made fun of him, and since he was suffering from a manic-depression, he took those comments very personally. Hence he decided to end his life.
According to Asmongold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUofRGb_qI0
2:20 5:55
Reckful was manic-depressive. He wanted to propose to a girl, some people ridiculed him in the comment section of his recent tweets and he felt humiliated and decided to end his life. This explains the quote, which Flux shared with us.
My condolences for Reckful's death. It's kinda weird to see him die due to a suicide attempt, because one or two weeks ago I went to his youtube channel and I saw a video, whose title stated, that Reckful was overcoming his depression. I guess, he was feeling relieved only temporarily, but the real problem wasn't solved. RIP.
Done. Ty, Osh92.
Will complete them tomorrow. I really hope those will prove to be challenging (as their name suggests). I really missed the hardcore linear adventures.
I agree with most what you said. I think the reason why Baduu ditched her team in the Black Temple was because of the history of the Draenei. I believe she didn't want to train in a formerly sacred, now a blemished place and become that, what she despised.
She saw Illidan as yet another tyrant influenced by demons and didn't want to have anything in common with him. Now, this spills other questions - like why didn't she try to assassinate him in the BT? If she wanted to leave so badly, why didn't she leave before going in? I mean, Elise Aranna told her group where they were heading to, why was she surprised? If she was disgusted by Illidan's doings and the actions of his trainees, why didn't she stop Aranna's group after hearing about their plans? How did the rusted legion capture Baduu and bend her will? So many questions left unanswered, so I agree that the story wasn't well thought out.
Yeah, I saw him too. That's why I think it would be best, if someone just copy/pasted the blacklist here, so that we don't have to switch sites every time we decide to check certain battletags and inexperienced players would know where to look, in order not to get scammed. Chimera created it, so I don't see anything wrong in making the same list here.
Done. Ty, Osh92.
I just asked my father about the bat and he told me, that it was from these species:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhl%27s_pipistrelle
https://www.eurobats.org/about_eurobats/protected_bat_species/pipistrellus_kuhlii
As you can see, it has a size smaller than the human hand and that's how my father brought it to those people (he used gloves though, since bats can be carrier of diseases). The reason why it didn't fly away was because it was dehydrated and malnourished, since it was winter back then. We found it lying ill near my father's plants.
I'd call an animal organisation, if I were you. My father found a bat on his balcony two years ago and he wanted it to be in some place safe. He called the animal organisation in our city and he was advised to bring the bat there.
So, if you contact the experts in your country, they could tell you what to do with this "lobster". They might even decide to go to your place and pick it up for themselves.
I agree with what you said about the final confrontation. It was kinda a letdown.
On the one hand I liked the idea, that the student is not powerful enough to defeat her master, but the ending made it so, that Illidan is just suffering from anger management issues and still living in the past. And all it took was someone (a complete stranger) to reason with him and he would feel bad for his previous outburst and stop his Outland purging plan? What?
I admit, that I forgot some details in Illidan's lore. I know, that he followed the moto "The end justifies all means" during TBC and Legion, which included capturing orcs and infusing them with Magtheridon's blood, enslaving Akama's soul, pumping out the waters in Zangarmarsh, but iirc he would never run amok and kill anyone infected by fel, including innocents, just like that. In WoW he wanted to dismantle the legion by bringing the war in its own domain and dealing with its lieutenants. Did Illidan want to start a genocide war against all corrupted beings after imprisoning Sargeras? Was he ever thinking of purging everyone corrupted like Arthas did in Stratholme? I didn't like how Illidan was portrayed in the solo adventure. He was presented as a tyrant, who still suffers from the events of the pass and can't control himself.
Take two:
Archmage Vargoth and Time Warp (Chameleos) in hand.
FYI, I specifically chose Vargoth from Drakonid Operative's battlecry just for this specific outcome. It wasn't certain, but that's why sometimes you have to go for the memes and the game delivered them.
At the end of my bonus turns, I was left with this:
Both Alex were copied by Archbishop Benedictus. The opponent's upgraded hero power cast Vanish, so that's why you see him in hand. Anyway, I won at the end. :P It wasn't in ranked, but still very satisfying.
I haven't, but, unless I am mistaken, certain hearthstone artwork got changed only because it showed too much female skin/body. Yu-Gi-Oh! is well known for its massive censorship of its cards due to one thing or another.
+1
I also don't mind historical references in (card) games, as, I believe, those could be used for informational reasons. Like, depicting or just hinting such events could kindle the curiosity of some individuals and they could decide to inform themselves more about those events (I know, that I would). That's why I would be really interested in seeing such design more often, but I guess not all people are open-minded and some can take those things personally. And, tbh, I don't blame them. A person has to be very careful how they approach such design - for example, it should be clear that the designer doesn't sympathize with the illustrated mistreatment and they are just making an innocent reference. But I guess this might not be possible, as everyone interprets those references in their own way and those could still find a reason to get offended no matter how innocent or well presented the said reference is.
Btw, you probably know this, but censorship is something very common for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, so for me it's not really surprising how Wizards decided to do the same to their own game.