I believe it to be reasonable that they will give away these cards, as with rotation a lot of players will be gutted for resources. not everyone has the Ice Blocks and so on to bounce some dust back from this loss as well, and releasing a big set that might be very oriented towards this mechanic but not give away the thing that might make it viable - could be a too big hit for a lot of people to bother playing.
on the other hand though we have a suspicion that we will be given 20 packs (and when Whispers was around we got around 12 + C'Thun I believe) so it is quite possible we will have enough resources to build anything. we also must assume that this even-odd thing is too janky and there will be way more reasonable curve decks around.
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Blizzard has already stated that they'll just give everyone 1 free class legendary, so no neutral ones. Also the parallel with C'Thun doesn't work: without that single legendary some minions from WotOG would have been completly unplayable while here you can build an even/odd-only deck anyway with what you have and make the mechanic works.
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For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
My biggest fear is them printing an odd and an even legendary for each class. It would be the most forced meta ever with no experimentation. I hope I am wrong.
Well, Blizzard does generally give a signature legendary for each set for free, so I'm wondering what they'll do.
Not they don't marin is not a signature legendary, they did that 2 expansions.. doesn't mean they will continue doing it.
Even/Odd decks are probably unplayable without genn or baku, they fill the void in the odd/even turns.. and they are probably the ace card of the deck.
This is part of the set, and yet not the whole set really it's like C"thun was only really played in druid and warrior and some budget decks in the end, although having 16 cards specifically naming him, this will be similar, around 3 decks will be playing either of those. and you can do other decks with 135 new cards and fewer jades and pirates.
My biggest fear is them printing an odd and an even legendary for each class. It would be the most forced meta ever with no experimentation. I hope I am wrong.
The chance of them doing that is almost 0. it’s pretty unlikely they will even do that for more than one class legendary.
So far they look decent,but nothing close to a refined Cubelock,Secretmage,or Dudepaladin.
Just a clarification,secret mage and dude paladin are a rip after rotation.
Why? I see Mage loses a couple cards that supported the secret package, but they still have Mana Wyrm and Aluneth.
And what does dude Paladin loses again??? The 3 mana3/3 ,give your 1 hp minions divineshield Steward , and maybe Rallying Blade. Token Paladin will stay t1 100%.
My biggest fear is them printing an odd and an even legendary for each class. It would be the most forced meta ever with no experimentation. I hope I am wrong.
The chance of them doing that is almost 0. it’s pretty unlikely they will even do that for more than one class legendary.
I hope so otherwise it will be so forced and expensive.
So far they look decent,but nothing close to a refined Cubelock,Secretmage,or Dudepaladin.
Just a clarification,secret mage and dude paladin are a rip after rotation.
Why? I see Mage loses a couple cards that supported the secret package, but they still have Mana Wyrm and Aluneth.
And what does dude Paladin loses again??? The 3 mana3/3 ,give your 1 hp minions divineshield Steward , and maybe Rallying Blade. Token Paladin will stay t1 100%.
Dude Paladin in HSReplay has 2x Stand Against Darkness, 2x Steward and 2x Rallying Blade. That's 6 cards, and unless they will print more cards to support it, deck will be much weaker.
Secret Mage in HSR has 2x Kabal Lackey, 2x Medivh's Valet (this card is crazy strong in that deck), 1x Ice Block, 1x Potion of Polymorph, 2x Kabal Crystal Runner and 1x Firelands Portal. 9 cards in total. I think secret mage will die. With Aluneth, Mana Wyrm, Apprentice and all those burn cards, there will be a new form of tempo mage. We'll see if it will be as strong as this one.
My biggest fear is them printing an odd and an even legendary for each class. It would be the most forced meta ever with no experimentation. I hope I am wrong.
The chance of them doing that is almost 0. it’s pretty unlikely they will even do that for more than one class legendary.
Yap , I just read on Reddit that Mike Donais said they don’t have many more even/odd cards to follow, and some classes don’t get any class specific even/odd cards at all.
So many of the new cards require the synergy with the legendaries, I think the expansion could feel unpayable without them. Thoughts?
So far they look decent,but nothing close to a refined Cubelock,Secretmage,or Dudepaladin.
If i got it right, they stated we'll get a few packs and a class legendary for free, and that's all.
So no Baku/Genn for free.
And no, only few decks will turn out to be good in their new Odd/Even lists. The vast majority of classes will do well or better without them.
I believe it to be reasonable that they will give away these cards, as with rotation a lot of players will be gutted for resources. not everyone has the Ice Blocks and so on to bounce some dust back from this loss as well, and releasing a big set that might be very oriented towards this mechanic but not give away the thing that might make it viable - could be a too big hit for a lot of people to bother playing.
on the other hand though we have a suspicion that we will be given 20 packs (and when Whispers was around we got around 12 + C'Thun I believe) so it is quite possible we will have enough resources to build anything. we also must assume that this even-odd thing is too janky and there will be way more reasonable curve decks around.
''He traded sands for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand.''
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I definitely hope so.
I K&C, they gave us 2 free legendaries : Marin the fox, and a weapon.
So maybe we could have 1 or 2 free "even/odd" legendary ? That would be awesome !
Blizzard has already stated that they'll just give everyone 1 free class legendary, so no neutral ones. Also the parallel with C'Thun doesn't work: without that single legendary some minions from WotOG would have been completly unplayable while here you can build an even/odd-only deck anyway with what you have and make the mechanic works.
For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
My biggest fear is them printing an odd and an even legendary for each class. It would be the most forced meta ever with no experimentation. I hope I am wrong.
They must give them for free
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