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Either up the cost of the spell cast in return, e.g.
<pre>(...) cast a random spell that costs 1 mana more.</pre>Or restrict the trigger for the secret, e.g.
Whenever your opponent plays a spell that costs 3 or less (...)
Whenever your opponent plays a spell that costs 3 or more (...)
The first one in theory can make playing a spell into it still worth it, though the balance is difficult here. At 1 mana more Yogg still feels powerful, the resulting spell still most likely will be garbage, inconsequential to the game state. At 2 mana more Yogg becomes a questionable inclusion in a deck, because it can present a serious tempo swing for the opponent or an opportunity to gain a lot of value.
The second one I feel is the better approach. Yogg no longer counters the whole spectrum of spells and while it still is powerful, there are spells that escape its effect, therefore it becomes less valuable in some situations and against some decks.
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"A while back" is the key here. I don't think they can continue on without printing effects like this. Besides, it's healthy - there are more and more hand-related mechanics that the opponent has no interaction with.
Though, I do agree, this card looks broken - the aspect of opponent redrawing just 4 cards, even if they have a full hand, needs to go. If it weren't for that, this would have been an extra interesting and very deep card, that can be used in loads of cool ways. As it stands, it looks like a no-brainer auto-play in many games.
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Looks like lackeys aren't going away anytime soon...
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I believe there aren't any filters / macros for mass dusting sets, classes or anything like that. There's only the button for dusting all duplicates.
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It's because they have a broken core card set (basic + classic). There are essentially no core cards in that set, there are no build up cards and you could argue there is no identity to the class. However, there are loads of finishers and super efficient burst. That means that in order for Shaman to work, you need to introduce in large numbers very strong core and build up cards in expansion sets. Once there's enough of those, Shaman suddenly becomes broken because of all the available burst. It's all or nothing with this class.
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176 packs
7 legendaries, no golden ones
Got my first leg in the 10th pack, and then 3 times I had to wait for 38 packs to open a leg.
I was regreting the prepurchase just before the expansion launched - it feels really underwhelming and frankly boring. The ladder experience recently was terrible - even worse than usual.
And after this... I don't even feel like playing the game.
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same thing
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They are selling singles, it's called crafting and it's pretty expensive, so they don't put the price upfront.
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https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/4474-save-those-dailies-year-of-the-raven-celebratory
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The dude-a-din deck is pretty scary and I'm sure the guy on the other end would love to post this story to the salt thread.
First off the deck is fun because it uses a lot of cards that always looked promissing but never seemed to work.
Well, some of the cards have seen so little play that I've messed up. I've messed up really, really badly.
The board was empty, it's my turn, I've got 5 mana and I've got 3 or 4 cards in hand.
To the left I've got the 5 mana spam-the-dudes spell and right next to it is the 5 mana buff-the-dudes spell.
Guess which one I've played? Yeap - 5 mana-do-nothing.
I felt like just conceding the game, but i gave it a try and... won.
Though honestly the deck might be really broken good against Dragon Priest because how easily it floods the board. My opponent was a pro (golden cardback) and had decent answers and still lost that game.
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1 in 38, hype train derailed
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Let's say I'm overestimating these factors, though I don't think so. Let's say that a total of 20% of games is either way based purely on both players draws. That means that 2 out of 10 games you've played mean nothing - they are either too easy or frustrating and you feel either overpowered or underpowered despite facing an opponent with a very similar deck and probably at a similar skill level. That means that 20% of the time you spend in the game isn't even remotely fun, quite contrary, it's annoying, it's like a job you hate. Let's say you play 100 games a season - 20 games, 6 minutes each -roughly 2 hours wasted entirely, 2 hours of frustration and making the best of a hopeless situation. And I'm not counting regular gaming stuff, these aren't regular losses, these aren't regular lucky wins. These are the extremes.
About the decks - this is the first time since Christmas Tree Paladin meta, that I feel that I can't play a deck a of my own in competitive ranks. And I'm used to playing bad decks to poor results, I used to run stuff like Gadgetzan Lock'n'Load Hunter. Now you can't do stuff like that.
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Actually it would be very healthy for the game if top decks required loads of high-dust cards with commons and rares being just cheap replacements. People would have to be a bit more inventive - sure there would be F2P netdecking, but you would have different experience at different tiers of the ladder and overall you would face a wider variety of decks as well. Not to mention there would be a higher variety in the decklists between players. Finally your collection would feel that much more personal and worth something, while now my collection feels pretty meh just as all of Hearthstone.
To put it simpler - Expensive decks mean you are having fun at every level of play and how much you pay just determines where you compete. Inexpensive decks mean that everybody's playing the exact same sh*t over and over, you don't get to have fun and you still pay something to get the basic experience. Your rank is determined by your endurance - how much time you are willing to spend not having fun with the game.
Concerning Bonemare - terrible card, along with Keleseth and Scalebane it's messing up the meta. The card isn't broken because it's broken - it's not about the effect or the strength, it's broken because it's 7-mana.
The card is too good and too impactful when played, to just ignore it in an aggressive list, but at the same time it's a situational 7-mana card - many times you will lose the game by drawing this in the early turns. And it would be fine if the rest of the aggro curve ended below 5 mana. The thing is most Rogues and Warlocks - current kings of aggro - run 8 to 12 cards that are 5 mana and above - that basically turns Herthstone into a glorified slot machine. If you draw your heavy cards early on - you won't build a board and you will lose. If you'll draw them too late, you'll lose the board and you'll lose the game. You draw them at the right time and your opponent has to gg.
That's not Wizard Poker. That's Wizard Solitaire. Your only agency as the player is guessing the order in which the cards are dealt. No player interaction, no means to manouver around a bad hand - just drawing cards and seeing if they fit the curve. This is worse than anything I've experienced in Hearthstone. But I predict that we'll reach a new low with the next expansion.
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season day 1: rank 18 to rank 15 in 16 games (11-5)
loses: token shaman, mid hunter, control: paladin, mage and rogue all 5 with dk played
season day 2: rank 15 to rank 12 in 20 games (13-7)
loses:
token shaman - some minor misplays on my part
aggro druid - opponent had very good hand, my was midiocre, should have coined the doomsayer turn 1
pirate warrior - easily stabilized, but in mid game I drew pirate1-drops for 3 turns in a row with opponent not playing weapons.
pirate warrior - bad opening hand (nothing lower than 3) against a good hand and good draws, still with a taunt adapt could have stabilized
jade druid - tunnel visioned during mulligan expecting aggro resulting in bad plays against an excellent opener (Wild Growth, Innervate, Jade Behemoth, Fandral, Wrath)
aggro druid - close game decided by my doomsayer going down to a crazed alchemist
mid hunter - minor misplay, should have played doomsayer turn 2, though didn't have a follow up, generaly worse curve, stuck with 2 houndmasters with no beasts, game deciding doomsayer going down to a spellbreaker
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currently rank 10, though pushed with paladin for quests
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If they can kill the doomsayer on turns 2-5, you're just dead as a hunter. It's mostly to take control of these smaller disadvantages. Besides that, you sometimes will need to sacrifice something more than the doomsayer. For example I've played games where turn 5 I would go Doomsayer + Fledgling with a Highmane in hand. If they can produce 10 damage, then I was already dead. If they kill just the doomsayer, I've "healed" for 7 and got a fledgling on board. If they go face and pass, I'm getting a Highmane on an empty board.
Traps - the higher I climb the less useful they become. Most players just play around them and it's hard to set them up. Consider that if your opponent has 2 tokens on board and sees a trap, he will just trigger it and play his stuff - you're not getting the board back, you're just killing 2 tokens. If he has more he will wait until he can use them to clear or buff outside 2 damage range. Doomsayer gives the initiative back to you.
Deadly shot is something I consider a tech choice against slower decks - against bunch of tokens it's just no good. Still I think Spellbreaker might be better.
Golakka is staple - there are loads of pirates on ladder and actually eating your own patches is good in matchups where the opponent doesn't run pirates.