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The Problem here is that you can't make challanging adventures that uses your own decks, because of the gigantic cardpool. They tried to fix this problem by only allowing standard decks in GA, but that didn't really worked out that well.

I mean, they made shaman a top tier class with just two cards. It's also important to keep in mind that questlines also gives you small rewards while completing them. Plus they teased that there are going to be "tempo" questline decks like with the (yet to be revealed) warrior questline for example.

They already confirmed August 3. as the release date

"United in Stormwind will launch worldwide on August 3 with 135 new collectible cards! "

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23686109

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My question for Tradeable is whether or not they can only be traded once, or if the keyword goes away after it's first use. I would assume it would only work once, but some confirmation would be nice.

What makes you think that? The Keyword says "Drag this into your deck to spend (1) Mana and draw a new card". There is no indication whatsoever that you can only use it once.

He was one of the original heroes, but got removed pretty early on. Probably for being to weak.

And that's one of the reasons why the mode is still in beta. It allowes them to change fundamental parts of the mode like the (permanent) 25% darkmoon prices chance and now this.

"One month into the expansion" also goes well with the Ve'nari bartender skin which comes out in the end of august accoarding the store description.

It certainly has its playerbase aswell as people who play it every now and then (a dev said around 1 million games per day in march) . Not the most popular mode ≠ dead mode.

It might be worth mentioning that they cancled/delayed the "spell locked" feature they previously planned for the third phase.

You can probably again change a file on pc to get the huawai cardback.

I only play the mode every now and then, but I'm probably still getting the Ticklord Ragnaros skin because he is just so cool hot

The patch looks great to me. The free minion is a solide control card, Battlegrounds skins and especially the (sometimes) Darkmoon prices for BG sound awesome, and I like that they continue to introduce new skin bundles just like they did earlier this year and this one even includes Ragnaros as a new hero. The fact that malfurion is free is also nice.

But it seems like they removed the "spell locked" part of the 3. phase. My guesses are that it's either because of the mercenaries delay or it was supposed to be the battlegrounds cosmetics (though they didn't highlight them in the phase 2 of the roadmap)

calling it now, the frame he/she draws is the opening of the trailer which will fluitly start after the countdown...or atleast that would be cool.

Just noticed that the post litterally said phase 2

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As such, we’re now expecting Hearthstone Mercenaries to be released in Phase 2 of the Year of the Gryphon and won’t be quite ready to share details on the mode during the stream on July 1.

uhm, they havn't talked about the news yet...

Also, what's wrong with adding another tribe? That's the most gameplay impacting change they could possibly do.

I guess that's technically true, but when I hear Fall I'm definetly not thinking about december. I also think that an dedicated stream in November wouldn't make much sense since that would either be 2 weeks before or after the 3. expansion release, which would be way too close to each other.

Fall definetly means second phase. Darkmoon faire was released in mit november which I would consider winter already. Or atleast the following month, which would be the earliest "Phase 3" non-expansion release I can think of. Oh, and it's definetely a big mode as it has been in the works for well over a year now.

The "Spell locked" one are the diamond cards. Blizzard also stated previously that they see Duels, Arena and Tavern Brawls as secondary gamemodes (as in, you play a around every once in a while), while Mercenaries, Battlegrounds and Duels are primary ones (like main modes).

There is also the fire-festival which should start anytime soon.

*sad mercenaries fan noices*. Atleast I can still hope for another expansion song, I really missed that in the FitB trailer.