Is there anything stopping you from playing "Wild" and just continue as you used to?

That's kinda underwhelming for a HS year announcement. Don't get me wrong, the core-set changes look cool, but that was a expected announcement. After they canceled the Blizzcon the new HS year announcements became the only time in the year that created big hype moments.

Just think about the big Year of the pheonix announcement stream. Bam! first ever new class. Bam! new expansion. Bam! Full duplicate protection. Bam! free deck for new and returning players. Bam! Priest classic set rework. Bam! Rank rework. And here is 15 minutes of new gameplay while we are at it. Also don't forget the new mode that's coming in the next expansion, aswell as the progression rework and Achivements in the 3. Expansion. And just wait until you find out what the spell locked things for the 2. and 3. Phase are.

Meanwhile here everything they said was essentially "We are going to change the core-set and there will be a big Battlegrounds update each expansion. Oh, and there will also be some wild changes sometime this year". Sure, there are some unannounced things on the Roadmap (that they didn't even show in the video), but it's hard to get excited over something that we don't know anything about.

That's supposed to come with the widescreen UI

Remember the day 1 datamined and forever unreleased ETC Mercenary? I remember.

Kang sounds like the objectively strongest card in the game, atleast in theory. Mainly because of 2 confirmed interactions:

• Kang resets any snaps, meaning that you can bluff your opponent without any risks
• Kang resets your draws. So while you don't get Kang again, he essentially allows you to run a 11 card deck without any downsides

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At least, I don't think tribe entirely determines Horde/Alliance

As of right now it actually does. And yes, this does lead to some canonnically horde characters to get aliance buffs.

Atleast they quickly (as in 1 month after launch...) made Horde/Alliance keywords. So when you hover over thse treasures you can see which tribes get these bonuses.

Atleast the boss rush should keep me entertained for a bit with random bosses and random modifiers. Personally I wished it would also include less agency in which mercs you have in your team. Maybe like only starting with 3 mercs and you discover a new merc for your team after every boss. I always had the most fun when not playing with optimal comps. Oh well, I guess it's too late now.

You mean the game that won the 2022 Game Awards for best mobile game, even surpassing giants like Genshin Impact?

Nerfs, or atleast the Patchnotes, are coming this Thursday and the mini-set release is roughly 3 weeks away from now. The rule of thumb is:

Week 0: Expansion release

Week 4: Battlegrounds Season

Week 8: Mini-set + big Mercs Update

Week 12: Announcement of the next Expansion.

Works as intented, though that intention is going to change in a future update if I remember correctly. Right now the shop first rolls the series (including Ultimate variants) and then offers a random card from that series that wasn't offered before, until everything was offered once, which then resets the list for that series. You just rolled series 4 a bunch of times recently, which is why it offers you the cards more often than usual.

Definetely my favorite one from this Season as a Ultron fan and since I make over 6k tokens a month (because I completed Series 3) it would be a no-brainer for me to buy this as soon as possible. However the next season update was datamined to be Antman themed and some of the speculated Season 5 cards are one of the most interesting I've seen yet across all of the datamined ones. So I'm probably waiting for the next Season announcement before I get her.

Most notably because of Kang the Conqueror (5/0: On reveal look at what your opponent did and restart the turn without Kang) and the living Tribunal (at the end of the game split your total power evenly among all locations).

He does have one.

For the last couple years the patch order was:

X Expansion launch

X.2 Battlegrounds update

X.4 Mini-set

X.6 Preperation for the next expansion

X.4 patches were announced as "Mercs time to shine" in the year of the hydra announcement post. In practice it meant that the patch will get announced as the "mini-set patch" and all of the mercs stuff will only be part of the patchnotes. However, unless plans have changed, the pve endgame system (which is confirmed to also use the renown currency) is still supposed to launch during this HS year, so patch 25.4 would be the last big opportunity to release it. Maybe Mercs even gets a teeny tiny bit of spotlight, because of it.

That's fine, I guess. I only really play BG every now and then, but the big new features like Darkmoon Prices, Quests and especially buddies are what hold my interest of the mode for atleast a month or so. More dedicated players are probably more excited about a new BG tribe than I am, but more of the same (as in: no gamechanging new mechanic across all games) probably doesn't cut it for me anymore.

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You play a highly competitive decklist or you lose

I mean, I've been playing with nothing but homebrew Galactus (low tier 2) and hazmat (not even on this tierlist) decks for a month or so now and I'm still able to climb the ladder with them. Knowing when and when not to snap is a important skill that you can generally transfer to all of your decks.

Sometimes when you move your mercs during the deployment phase the game reacts too slowly to the changes you made and reverts them, especially if you have a unstable internet connection (from what I've heard the mobile client especially has issues with that). Most of the time it auto-corrects itself. There is also the situation that if you change your position between the revert and the auto-correction that both the original and the just made changes get made, which can feel very unintuitiv. In short: Just wait a second or two before confirming the positions and you should be fine. That's atleast the experience I have.

I've been playing nothing but Galactus decks ever since his release (as a collectible card). I'm definetely grabbing this one as soon as possible.

Future signature cards will apparently also be animated.

Yes, they will have golden-style animations.