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After seeing the outstanding cinematic trailer I thought explorer's classes were pretty clear:

Elise has a magic book-> she is a mage,
Brann rides a dinosaur-> he is an hunter,
Finley seem to have something to do with animals and nature-> he is a druid,
Reno has a cannon with crystals that generate light-> he is a pally.

But seeing the whole announcement trailer I noticed the druid quest has Elise in its art, so I relized she had to be a druid, but this created a lot of other problems, since no one else seems to be a mage; Reading the comments under the videos and here on out of cards it seems there is a consensus on the classes (elise as druid, finley as pally for the golden fish, reno as mage, since he has those magic crystals and brann as hunter); but even this scheme does not make that much sense to me, because druids don't use magic books(I might be mistaken since I'm not a wow player, but I don't remember a single druid with a book in hs), pallies don't have animals and crystals that generate light have nothing to do with mages, so I had an idea: "What if Explorers were bi-class?" and after seeing the trailer dozens of time I noticed something else: the weapons have characteristics from various classes:

Finley's golden fish sword is an animal, but is golden and seems to be enchanted with light(druid-pally)
Elise's magic book seems to have both etheral powers and nature-related ones(mage-druid, plus she also rides an horse)
Reno's gun has crystals and generates light, but it's also an hunter weapon (pally-hunter, and he also fights with animals in the part where he is alone)
Brann is the problematic one, since he has less screentime than the others (he just appears with other explorers while finley, elise and reno have a solo part during the trailer) and he has not a consistent weapon (at the start he has a whip and at the end a shotgun) and even if I guess its main "weapon" is the dinosaur (which has nothing to do with mages, unless it's not something like a magical dinosaur, but it does not look like that, and it's fully grown up at the start and just an egg at the end), Brann's class choice might have a deeper meaning.

Except for Brann, who's not highlighted as the others, I can't unsee the double nature of the explorers' weapons anymore.
What do you think?

A new Epic Druid Hero, Elise Starseeker, has been revealed!

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An interesting side note in the new update notes:

"Downtime for Tavern Brawls has been reduced to 1 hour per week. Tavern Brawls will now begin every week on Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT and end the following Wednesday at 8:00 AM PDT  (times and dates will vary by region)"

I'm quite excited for this change. I wonder what you all think?

I am quite puzzled. Before HoF rotations, if you kept rotating cards, only max crafting value of them would be refunded. Say, if you kept 2 golden Black Cat and 2 normal Black Cat, you would get 800 dust. With recent patch, however, I didn't earn 1600 dust since I had golden copies of Mind Blast and Vanish. I know patch notes regarding HoF cards btw:

• If you have Wild unlocked, you’ll keep Vanish and Mind Blast as Hall of Fame Commons. If not, you’ll receive an equivalent amount of dust.

So, I will ask to all of you: People who didn't have these cards will receive dust whereas people who had these cards didn't earn dust. Is that fair or am I missing the picture here? Also, what is the "equivalent amount of dust"? How is it calculated? Like, crafting value (HoF standards) or disenchanting values? Based on only golden cards or only normal cards or both?

Saviors of Uldum is Hearthstone's twelfth expansion and is set to release on August 6, 2019.

New Keyword: Reborn - After a minion with Reborn dies for the first time, it gets resurrected at 1 Health.
Quests Are Back: - These Quests change your Hero Power. They will be removed from Arena drafting pool! Question is, if cards interacting with them will be too.
Plague Cards: The five villain classes (Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock and Warrior) all get a special plague card that can clear the board.
Arena: The cardpool availability will change to include the following sets:

• Basic
• Classic
• League of Explorers
• Journey to Un'Goro
• Kobolds and Catacombs
• Rastakhan's Rumble
• Saviors of Uldum

This thread is dedicated to discussing the impact of these cards on the ARENA environment.

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You can read each Mod's detailed card evaluation by clicking on the links below.

Below you will find links for all of the cards that have been revealed so far.

This is a work in progress!

First Jaina now.. some cards. (well they are not that hidden but they weren't announced before)

RIP [Hearthstone Card (succubus) Not Found], Secretkeeper, Windfury Harpy and [Hearthstone Card (mistress of pain) Not Found], also RIP card arts with blood... I can understand why blizzard would do it, but it's still a nerf of sort for people who prefer their game to be more mature.

I like the new art (windfury harpy was ugly anyway) but the decision behind the changes MEH.. who is afraid of some blood and it's not like 10 years old didn't see boobs in the internet yet...

on the other hand it's just cards it's not like you really need them to be violent or sexual.. just be cool right?

What do you think of the new art/names? you like it? want [Hearthstone Card (succubus) Not Found] back?

A new Legendary Warlock Spell, Supreme Archaeology, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Druid Spell, Untapped Potential, has been revealed!

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The next xpac looks amazing to me, and the patch looks like it'll add or fix a nice amount of stuff, but, but why the card art changes? Are these responses to some people complaining about succubus card images or something? They are a legit and essential warlock pet in WoW lore. I'll bet the other ones involved removing blood or something as well. I guess that's ok, but I don't see anything wrong with the way they were before either. If any art is going to get changed, it should be for those early cards like Gruul that have art of the wrong character on them in the first place.

A new Rare Neutral Minion, Questing Explorer, has been revealed!

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A new Common Warrior Minion, Restless Mummy, has been revealed!

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A new Common Neutral Minion, Jar Dealer, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Mage Spell, Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Priest Spell, Plague of Death, has been revealed!

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A new Common Shaman Minion, EVIL Totem, has been revealed!

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While we're waiting for official card design contests to become a feature on this site, I propose a little design game. I'm loving the art-based challenge in another thread, but I wish to offer an alternative challenge. It seems that a lot of cards, both in the game and in people's custom creations, are created from scratch for Hearthstone. There's nothing wrong with this, of course, as Hearthstone is it's own fun, lighthearted entity and has a distinct identity from it's parent World of Warcraft. However, I do enjoy going back to the roots of the lore and theme and therefor issue a challenge to design spell cards named after-- and with a similar effect to-- actual spells from that game. 

Here are the rules:

1. The spells may be taken from any point in Wow's history including talents. Enemy or boss-unique spells are also allowed. 

2. The name must be exact and the effect reflective to what the spell does in the game.

3. Each submission will consist of one card and the choice of category for the next submission. (ie, picking a class for the spell to be from, a talent, from X expansion, from X dungeon/raid, etc.) 

4. Art is ideally of Warcraft directly, but other fantasy art is acceptable as long as it shows a fantasy-type picture in a related art style that demonstrates the spell's effects well, (ie, no photos or cartoons/anime please)

To demonstrate, here is my own concept of the pally spell "Cleanse Toxins". 

Next submission must be a warrior ability. Have fun everyone. :)

So today will Blizzard probably announce the new expansion (see more here: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/150-are-the-league-of-explorers-taking-on-the-league-of-evil-expansion-teaser)

Also, it will be probably League of Explorers themed (more here: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/151-expansion-speculation-where-are-we-heading-to)

I'm excited.

How many gold you saved yet for the next expansion (me - from daily quests like 4850 gold)

I believe we will get an update with the new cards for classic/basic sets together with the preorder for new expansion.

And what do you expect from the preorder? Will you preorder?

Hey.

What's the go with people spamming the WOW button, or the Well Played button after every single card I play?

They are also the ones that usually end up losing the match 99% of the time.

Are they former COD players and this is their version of smack talk?

It seems so odd to me.

This may come off as a rant but I'm a little tired of Mech Warrior still being so proliferate as it is.  It's just not fun when they get Boom on curve and then proceed to just grind out the rest of the game with constant nearly infinite answers.  Nerfing Archivist to 9 mana didn't change much.  All it did was force warriors who get the coin to just hold onto it.

As for Dr Boom Mad Genius himself.  I honestly don't see how he wasn't hit with the recent nerfs a few weeks ago.  Not only that but it restricts design space and balance for the next 2 expansions this year for any neutral or warrior mechs releases, since they have to assume rush will be in play when that mech is used in warrior decks, thus lowering the power of any possible neutral mechs in the future.

My proposal is simple:  Warriors are a control class, but they don't need a passive RUSH mechanic given to every mech they play the rest of the game.  An easy, simple, elegant solution is to take away the passive of Dr Boom (No more rush) which forces warriors to play more proactively.  The hero power can stay roughly the same as it was with ONE exception.

Since my suggestion would take away the passive of ALL mechs the warrior plays no longer having rush I would suggest that the hero power Micro Squad be given rush instead.  That way warriors can still magnetize onto them and have rush in a RNG fashion, which fits in with Dr Boom's theme of being "random and crazy".

Sorry if this comes off as a rant.  It probably is in retrospect.  I'm just tired of facing them game after game.  Sure I can win against them sometimes, but that doesn't negate the fact that the card as it stands is overly oppressive in the meta.