I think the new Expansion's made HS really fun.

The only class that doesn't have a tier 1 or 2 deck is Warlock, but everyone else has gotten some powerful new tools and toys for a mix of aggro decks, combo, control and ramp. 

I can't wait to watch this.

and by watch, I mean login to twitch and have it play in the BG while I work from home.

FANTASTIC!

Got Mozaki, Master Duelist AND Instructor Fireheart! 

I was hoping to pull Mozaki during the first week and play with spell damage mage, now I don't have to craft her. 

the only other legendary I got was The BoomReaver, which I pulled a golden one during the ROS pack opening last year. Ah well, it's a free epic of my choice.

Not as many legendaries as some of the other members, but I did get a lot of golden cards, so I'll take those

if you want to play Reliquary of souls that badly just craft First Day of school and play Paladin.

Every paladin I've fought this weekend seemed to get that legendary from that zero mana spell.

OR you can play Shaman with Fist of Ra-Den and cast lightning bolt.

Illucia just feels bad to play against. 

I've mentioned my encounters with her in the nerf announcement thread already, but TL;DR she steals your opponents turn, and in a game of cards that can make you lose the entire game 

personally I'd like it more if they implemented the battle pass along with the daily quests.

Shadowverse, which is the only other card game I've played online - has a system that gives you daily quests to earn in game currency, along with login rewards AND a system that rewards you for earning experience in that month, which is usually card backs, new icons, and extra resources and packs for the next expansion.

I doubt Blizzard will ever give login rewards that weren't part of an event, but having the battle pass run alongside their current daily quests would be acceptable to me.

Edit: Also having the hero portraits be behind the paywall kinda blows.

And after you get to level 100 the gold rewards is diminished SEVERELY. I'm guessing they're wanting people to play the Arena for the extra gold rewards, too.

Which is a shame, I don't like Arena

Oh this is amazing, now I don't have to hunt down specific clips from youtube 

I'm thrilled with these changes.

Arcane Cannon was a problem, Gentle Megasaur could make the murlocs ridiculously strong if you weren't prepared for them.

didn't care for Lady Vashj. 

having pack leader at 2 now instead of 3? perfect, beasts needed the buff

Also now that Mama bear can be found a tier sooner and the wolf gives more stats is amazing. 

Nat Pagle adding a random minion to your hand is pretty interesting, giving you at least an extra gold if you want to just sell the minion. 

I played a ton of druid this weekend, they'll be fine with this nerf.

Druid's got plenty of spells that are free that give mana, and they're academic book that makes the next spell played cost 1 less has synergy with his effect, since he'll reduce the cost of spells to one, but not less than one. 

it's true that you won't be able to cheat out Kael on 3  and play overflow to refill your hand but honestly that rarely happens anyway  

I've had her played against me on the ladder. 

The problem with her is that against aggro she's able to dump your hand.

Against Ramp she totally kills your ramp turn.

Against combo she wastes combo pieces. 

And because the deck she's in is super slow there's usually nothing in the priests hand to use when they've played her, making you waste a turn. 

Now I can't Arcane Breath into Arcane Breath into Arcane Breath for a nice removal and cyclone turn

BUMMER

Would they just use Arthas as the Lich King for the hero? 

Or would they use Ner'Zhul? 

I ain't opposed to having an undead tribal tag, but most of the  tags usually have a class that they work really well with :

Demons are for Warlocks and Demon Hunters

Beasts are for Druids and Hunters

Dragons for Priests

Elementals for Mages and Shaman

Mechs for Warriors

Murlocs for Paladins

Pirates for Rogues and Warriors

Totems are for Shaman

So if we added the undead tribal tag, which class would they gravitate towards? Priests? Warlocks? they received the raise dead spell in scholomance which is the iconic necromancer spell from Warcraft 3

Oh right, him.

You could give him a special line of dialogue if played against Hunters with the Sylvannas Windrunner portrait

I personally believe that they'll have Silas Darkmoon as a Rogue Alt Portrait if they do the Darkmoon faire.

They've been using characters who appear in the expansion as alt portraits since Rise of Shadows (Madame Lazul, Elise Starseeker, Deathwing, Lady Vashj, Kel'thuzad), and he'd be the mascot for that set.

But Lillian Voss isn't a bad suggestion.

Personally if I had my pick I'd like Trade Prince Gallywix

Awesome, this will help make the average and casual players happy.

Extra rewards for playing have been a thing for almost all the other online card games, I'm glad HS is finally giving some extra incentives to keep playing

Really? Did they change that or something?

All of the information on Initiate set says that they're considered part of the year of the dragon and rotates out at the end of the year

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1246941993948725249

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1242524018441256960

this is nice, now I can add guys like Hazelbark, Sylvannas and Khadgar to my collection.

But man I was kinda hoping for any news on a new hero for Rogue. They did a little tongue in cheek tease for the Tauren druid hero but Rogue's the only class out of the original 9 with less than 2 hero portraits.  

WOW! 

this could change....EVERYTHING 

I wonder if this is the team's way to make a set of Classic cards for Demon Hunter, since with next rotation the initiate cards will rotate to wild?

I have a golden Polkelt, I guess I can take that aggro list for a swing. 

Shame I didn't pull Rattlegore in my pack opening, guess I'll have to craft him for my "play 2 10 cost cards" daily quest