Nevin

We had a season reset around the release of Barrens, but we still stuck with the Scholomance theme. I don’t expect to see it change anytime soon. We’ve heard explanations that they don’t have time to make new Brawls because …

If you care about budget decks, you should absolutely follow what Old Guardian does. He usually makes a budget list with each expansion, and one of his accounts (which regularly goes to Legend) is dedicated to budget decks only. He …

The reveal of the rewards track today was GREAT. I was mentally preparing myself to buy some of the great cosmetics in the patch notes, and they all turned out to be in the pass.

Plus, the OOC summary …

This is a cool idea, but I think it will be nothing but unfun auto-win decks before long. I played two games: First I lost to someone with LOCUUSTS!, and then I got the deck and used the same card …

If you feel like being really sad today, just search for the full art and flavor text that go with this card.

And if you don’t feel like being sad? Just tell yourself that they chose to wrap up …

If there’s any company that knows how to profit off of cosmetic sales, it’s Riot. I don’t believe they’d put so much focus on the game if it’s first year hadn’t been successful. Right now, Runeterra seems to be at …

FWIW, Runeterra seems to have proven itself. It’s been over a year since beta, and it’s still successful and growing (as far as I can tell). Of course, it helps that they have a large company and fantasy world behind …

My hopes for a Riven-Akshan deck may be realistic after all. 

You’re thinking that you can summon the Warlord’s Palace early, and then only play Akshan when it’s time for the countdown to complete? That does sound pretty nice. I think he’ll be viable even without that trick, as the Palace …

Those are some really powerful abilities… on a 5-cost unit that needs to stay on the board for a little while to level up. I’ll be curious to see how this works, but right now I have a hard time …

“Card reveals will continue until July 14.” Wow, I wonder how many cards will be in this event total.

I really want to see how the opening animation looks. My favorite is still the little scarab spreading its wings on the Uldum packs. Most recent packs have had a more generic “explode open” effect that wasn’t nearly as fun …

They give us a new free hero skin and your complaint is that they’re greedy for not giving us a better hero skin?

Yes, corporations are greedy and profit-driven. There are a lot of things I’d change about the …

Man, these are some good balance changes. I’m a bit nervous about restoring Miss Fortune’s Overwhelm (especially alongside a buff to her spell), and I dislike the idea of making Howling Abyss playable, but I can see the arguments for …

Yes, but it’s hard to tell what to make of that. When I hear “Slay the Spire”, my first impression is that you must be adding cards to a deck over multiple battles. That’s the core of the game to …

I understand that Blizzard doesn’t want to tell us a lot about Mercenaries, but they have told us enough by now that they should have mentioned “This mode will be fun because _____” or “People who like ____ will also …

The main criticism around Lurk seems to be they people don’t see it triggering often enough. The buff is capped at one time per round, and you have to assume that on some of your rounds you won’t have a …

I’m not yet sold on Lurk - It could be strong now that Predict has some support, but it doesn’t feel amazing. However, it is a new thing that will be hard to visualize until I’ve tried it. (And remember, …

The phrasing “I start a free attack” should mean that you can’t add any other units to the attack. So the Snapjaw Swarm is nice with attack synergies like Azir or Miss Fortune, but otherwise the card is entirely dependent …

It’s not another auto-battler, but just like Battlegrounds it IS a big departure from traditional Hearthstone gameplay. We’re still waiting for an explanation of what this gameplay will be.