Wait, so they've now added Poisonous to the Basic set, and they said they wouldn't add more keywords to the Basic set.
This also raises some implications in terms of fan created classes.
Oh how i hate this (not the card itself, but what it represents), now whenever i point out that some custom keyword shouldnt be on a Basic card, ppl can counter with this :( I guess it opens up more possibilities for custom classes, but at the same time ppl will try to make OP cards for Basic set and i dont like that idea :(
I actually think that the cost is good. Anything less and the card is broken AF. It might very well be quite strong rn and odd cost lets it slip into odd paladin decks. But as said already, this card can either be a total dud or a god tier, depending on what other cards are in the mix. This card will be a sleeper card till one day where it will break something ahaha.
This card looks like Purify 2.0, but it might actually be run in Nomi priest to cycle faster. Still a horrible card overall, but i guess Flash Heal and Binding Heal were already a thing, so they "had to" make it "different" lul.
So with new cards being introduced in the basic and classic set, lets discuss their impact on arena. Most of them seem at least playable, some of them quite strong. The fact that they will be in arena every rotation, since they are part of the core sets, is important as well.
Let me share my first thoughts after seeing these beauties :)
Plaguebringer (1): Plague Scientist was a pretty ok arena card, but never an exceptional one due to the combo activation. This will be much better, since it is a battlecry. Stats r not that bad considering the effect, but you will have to be at least on board to take advantage of it. It will definitely be a heavy snowball card, that is for sure.
Radiance (5): Priest got the shortest of sticks here. I dont think anything can save this card in arena, i would probably rather have Purify than this and Purify was removed from the drafting pool back in a day for how bad it was. Just no :D
Siegebreaker (1): This card will be pretty strong in warlock. It is not the best 7 mana taunt we've ever seen, but the demon tag and the potential Raid Leader ability for demons might more than make up for that. In general, warlock does not have consistent access to strong taunts and this is a good one. And the potential demon synergy that will always be there, since Classic set is a core set and does not rotate, needs to be kept in mind.
Gift of the Wild (1): This card will be Silver Sword level broken, mark my words. Yes, it is coslty AF and you probably dont want more than 1 (max 2) copies of it in your deck, but you want it in your deck. Everyfin is Awesome was being played for 7 mana back in a day and it was a powerful buff card. Druid with its swarmy style, where you want to be wide on the board most of the time, will love this card. Not only can it act as a finisher (expensive Savage Roar), but more importantly, it can be used pro-actively, buffing your minions out of AOE range or help them trade up, survive the trade and/or push some more face damage all in the same turn depending on how you need to distribute your attacks. This card will make an impact.
Righteousness (3): We knew this card was coming sooner or later, it was just logical. I personally was curious what cost would it end up having and i think 5 mana is fair overall. It might be hard(er) to get decent value out of it in arena, but it can be a powerful win more card. Free trades into enemy minions or a pro-active protection from aoes? Even if (when) it lands on small minions, it will be SO annoying to get rid of them, cause you will have to spend more resources than you would like to, leaving minions up for paladin is always asking for trouble.
High Inquisitor Whitemane (1): Another super powerful win more card. You kinda need to be on board to get full advantage of it and you need to be able to trade the minions off, which is not what you usually want to do, but you can get an insane swing turn with this, literally Kel'Thuzad for 1 less mana that will trigger once. Often times might just win you the game on the spot. The base stats are actually good enough to play this card naked, so literally any minion you get from the battlecry makes this insanely powerful.
Barrens Stablehand (3): Little bit too RNG for my taste, but looks like an ok card on average. I can already see the trollden King Krush lethals from nowhere.
SI:7 Infiltrator (3): Very good card. Nothing amazing, but very nice card to have in the mix. Decent stats and nice ability to squash those secret lovers.
Arcane Devourer (5): I dont think we will see this card very often in arena. Maybe when you get it via random effect and you are so far ahead (or so far behind) that you will eventually play this. But 8 mana is just damn too high to combo it with anything on the turn you play it, not to mention that spells are kinda sparse in arena overall.
So, there you have it! Obviously a big portion of power level of each card will also depend on the power bucket placement, if they are placed properly, you might not see many of them too often, cause other as powerul (or more) and/or more versatile cards might be picked over them, but most of the new cards seem to have a strong potential in arena. Only time will tell :)
This card is actually insane for arena purposes. Yes, we've seen better taunts, but it is still damn good stats, has a demon tag and more importantly, never rotates lol. WL didnt have a consistent way to get powerful taunts. Well, now he has. Damn.
Not myself, but why not. Some motifs from HS are quite nice looking and it could be as simple as HS swirl or as complex as a full character. Iv seen ppl get tattoos of weirder things, this would not even be that. So i say go for it, if you feel like it. Just make sure to pick an experienced tattoo artist, so you dont end up something like this :D
The Threads and Posts-link in my profil are both linking to: https://outof.cards/members/phil/threads
Im not exactly sure, if Posts section is there just as a placeholder for now, or if it is indeed an oversight, will make note of that, thanks for pointing that out ;-)
I'm guessing that now that decks can be associated with brawls, it would mostly be a simple copy and paste job to get it working with constructed adventures. Though I suppose that's pretty low priority since almost everyone is long done with those. It's probably best to at least get deck search by Tavern Brawl working before that (right now I can view a list of all brawl decks, but there's no way to filter by a specific brawl).
I could have sworn the Tavern Brawl listing had a seen column in it before I started writing this post. It was saying 1 for each brawl, and brawls that had been recycled are listed multiple times. Same issue with the Tavern Brawl dropdown when creating a deck.
Will make a note about the first part.
TB listing had been temporarily removed, since it didnt count properly (all brawls were listed as seen once), but when you click on the individual brawl's page, all the times when it was seen are listed there. It will go back once we have this fixed.
What about TB drop down in deckbuilder? That one seems to work fine.
Not sure if you want to consider the fact, that you would literally make zero money, if all cards would cost gold and were not possible to get from packs :o
Oh, that. Hm, was that ever actually useful? You can kinda guess what will be in the deck based on its name most of the time and the mana curve depiction would be so small that imho it is not worth the time trying to examine it, just click on the deck you are interested in and see whats in there. I will add it on a list of requested features, but personally, i think this one is not useful (the mana curve on the actual deck page is a different matter, that one is useful).
Another small bit: What about the "number of comments" in Deck-Overview? I really liked that info because you see if there is some discussion going on.
Same goes for the "mana-curve"
I suppose why not (comments), but what do you mean by "mana curve"?
I always pick big minions so whenever I get Robes of Gaudiness, I have a pretty strong deck in my hands. I've never had an autowin deck though like some of you posting before me.
One funny deck that I had included a 5/5 Feral Gibberer. I think I only drew it once in my opening hand but that match was worth it :D
Did it add a 5/5 or a 1/1 to your hand? id think 1/1, right? Not entirely the point, but just wondering :)
Oh how i hate this (not the card itself, but what it represents), now whenever i point out that some custom keyword shouldnt be on a Basic card, ppl can counter with this :( I guess it opens up more possibilities for custom classes, but at the same time ppl will try to make OP cards for Basic set and i dont like that idea :(
Hell yeah! Begone secret lovers!
I actually think that the cost is good. Anything less and the card is broken AF. It might very well be quite strong rn and odd cost lets it slip into odd paladin decks. But as said already, this card can either be a total dud or a god tier, depending on what other cards are in the mix. This card will be a sleeper card till one day where it will break something ahaha.
This card looks like Purify 2.0, but it might actually be run in Nomi priest to cycle faster. Still a horrible card overall, but i guess Flash Heal and Binding Heal were already a thing, so they "had to" make it "different" lul.
So with new cards being introduced in the basic and classic set, lets discuss their impact on arena. Most of them seem at least playable, some of them quite strong. The fact that they will be in arena every rotation, since they are part of the core sets, is important as well.
Let me share my first thoughts after seeing these beauties :)
Rating (1=excellent, 2=good, 3=average, 4=poor, 5=terrible)
Plaguebringer (1): Plague Scientist was a pretty ok arena card, but never an exceptional one due to the combo activation. This will be much better, since it is a battlecry. Stats r not that bad considering the effect, but you will have to be at least on board to take advantage of it. It will definitely be a heavy snowball card, that is for sure.
Radiance (5): Priest got the shortest of sticks here. I dont think anything can save this card in arena, i would probably rather have Purify than this and Purify was removed from the drafting pool back in a day for how bad it was. Just no :D
Siegebreaker (1): This card will be pretty strong in warlock. It is not the best 7 mana taunt we've ever seen, but the demon tag and the potential Raid Leader ability for demons might more than make up for that. In general, warlock does not have consistent access to strong taunts and this is a good one. And the potential demon synergy that will always be there, since Classic set is a core set and does not rotate, needs to be kept in mind.
Gift of the Wild (1): This card will be Silver Sword level broken, mark my words. Yes, it is coslty AF and you probably dont want more than 1 (max 2) copies of it in your deck, but you want it in your deck. Everyfin is Awesome was being played for 7 mana back in a day and it was a powerful buff card. Druid with its swarmy style, where you want to be wide on the board most of the time, will love this card. Not only can it act as a finisher (expensive Savage Roar), but more importantly, it can be used pro-actively, buffing your minions out of AOE range or help them trade up, survive the trade and/or push some more face damage all in the same turn depending on how you need to distribute your attacks. This card will make an impact.
Righteousness (3): We knew this card was coming sooner or later, it was just logical. I personally was curious what cost would it end up having and i think 5 mana is fair overall. It might be hard(er) to get decent value out of it in arena, but it can be a powerful win more card. Free trades into enemy minions or a pro-active protection from aoes? Even if (when) it lands on small minions, it will be SO annoying to get rid of them, cause you will have to spend more resources than you would like to, leaving minions up for paladin is always asking for trouble.
Brightwing (2): Decent value generator. It is no Messenger Raven, but close enough.
High Inquisitor Whitemane (1): Another super powerful win more card. You kinda need to be on board to get full advantage of it and you need to be able to trade the minions off, which is not what you usually want to do, but you can get an insane swing turn with this, literally Kel'Thuzad for 1 less mana that will trigger once. Often times might just win you the game on the spot. The base stats are actually good enough to play this card naked, so literally any minion you get from the battlecry makes this insanely powerful.
Barrens Stablehand (3): Little bit too RNG for my taste, but looks like an ok card on average. I can already see the trollden King Krush lethals from nowhere.
SI:7 Infiltrator (3): Very good card. Nothing amazing, but very nice card to have in the mix. Decent stats and nice ability to squash those secret lovers.
Arcane Devourer (5): I dont think we will see this card very often in arena. Maybe when you get it via random effect and you are so far ahead (or so far behind) that you will eventually play this. But 8 mana is just damn too high to combo it with anything on the turn you play it, not to mention that spells are kinda sparse in arena overall.
So, there you have it! Obviously a big portion of power level of each card will also depend on the power bucket placement, if they are placed properly, you might not see many of them too often, cause other as powerul (or more) and/or more versatile cards might be picked over them, but most of the new cards seem to have a strong potential in arena. Only time will tell :)
What are your thoughts on new cards?
This card is actually insane for arena purposes. Yes, we've seen better taunts, but it is still damn good stats, has a demon tag and more importantly, never rotates lol. WL didnt have a consistent way to get powerful taunts. Well, now he has. Damn.
Decent card for Arena Rogue, definitely better than Vanish :) Priest one is a joke, but i guess basic set is basic set.
Not myself, but why not. Some motifs from HS are quite nice looking and it could be as simple as HS swirl or as complex as a full character. Iv seen ppl get tattoos of weirder things, this would not even be that. So i say go for it, if you feel like it. Just make sure to pick an experienced tattoo artist, so you dont end up something like this :D
Yup, something we already have on list of things to implement :) Will get done eventually ;-)
Im not exactly sure, if Posts section is there just as a placeholder for now, or if it is indeed an oversight, will make note of that, thanks for pointing that out ;-)
Will make a note about the first part.
TB listing had been temporarily removed, since it didnt count properly (all brawls were listed as seen once), but when you click on the individual brawl's page, all the times when it was seen are listed there. It will go back once we have this fixed.
What about TB drop down in deckbuilder? That one seems to work fine.
I did (or rather didnt?), dont worry ;-)
Not sure if you want to consider the fact, that you would literally make zero money, if all cards would cost gold and were not possible to get from packs :o
Yes, notifications are planned, they are one of the features that will come very soon, so stay tuned! :)
Good idea! :)
Like i said, i did note it as a requested feature, it might get implemented eventually ;-) More stuff is always good in the end :)
Yeah, it seems a parameter was not set correctly :) Thanks for pointing that out, we will get it fixed later on.
Oh, that. Hm, was that ever actually useful? You can kinda guess what will be in the deck based on its name most of the time and the mana curve depiction would be so small that imho it is not worth the time trying to examine it, just click on the deck you are interested in and see whats in there. I will add it on a list of requested features, but personally, i think this one is not useful (the mana curve on the actual deck page is a different matter, that one is useful).
I suppose why not (comments), but what do you mean by "mana curve"?
Did it add a 5/5 or a 1/1 to your hand? id think 1/1, right? Not entirely the point, but just wondering :)