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This is by far the most beautiful location yet. Really feels like a space you could step into and snuggle up in the library tree. Probably a good card as well.

This is giving me Ungoro elemental Shaman vibes, an old favourite of mine. I actually don't care if it's good or not, the nostalgia vibes has made this a most anticipated card for me. And I mean, if you play it on curve with an unbroken chain of elementals, it's basically a board clear that also goes face, seems pretty good to me.

I guess this is designed to work with DK's legendary excavation treasure, The Azerite Rat. But are there even enough excavate cards to make the deck viable? There's only two neutral and two DK cards that excavate (not counting those that benefit from excavation).

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 Are you sure? I just played a game against someone who played Jailer. It wouldnt let me target any of his minions with Power Word Death or some other spells either

 It's in the unannounced changes here: https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/9875-patch-25-6-unannounced-changes-data-mining

Scroll down to Strings.

I haven't come across anyone playing the Jailer or other Immune minions lately so haven't tried it myself either. 

 It's a change in tooltip, not a change in functionality. I'm pretty sure this has happened before, with the tooltip change being reverted shortly after (it was a mistake).

As far as I know, there are two kinds of bots: Blizzard bots, which you only encounter at very low MMR in order to keep wait times down, and player bots. Blizzard bots usually have names such as "CrazyMage" or similar two-part names, and they sometimes feature bugs, e.g. Priest of the Deceased being automatically infused or having 40 starting health with no Prince Renathal (as discussed here and here). These don't show up in the "recently played opponents" section.

Player bots usually have totally random names that looks like someone just smashed their hand across the keyboard, like "sergsght" and such. I've only encountered them in Classic, where they run rampant. These do show up in "recently played opponents."

Onyxia's Lair was announced on Thursday the 10th of February last year, dropping just five days later on a Tuesday. If Blizz follows a similar schedule this year, the announcement will be on the 9th of February with the set dropping on the 14th. 

This is not a bug. They usually add the next couple of months' card backs when they do a major patch. Similar to how upcoming hero portraits, BG cosmetics etc. is often added before they become available. All the new hero portraits from the MotLK battle pass is there too, and a new Malganis one we haven't seen before.

 I think you're being too optimistic. I'll be much surprised if Relics are more than just a type of spell specific to Demon Hunter, maybe in the vein of sigils or Rogue's poisons. 

I think downvoting is useful when it comes to hiding misinformation. Quite a lot of interactions on this website are people asking practical questions - will there be a dust refund/how does this interaction work/will I keep the core cards when they rotate etc. - and I think it is quite valuable to be able to downvote wrong answers and upvote correct ones.

Maybe you didn't claim Finley on the track before opening your packs? Anyway, as the others have stated, you can disenchant Finley for a full refund until tomorrow. I got him too as one of my preorder legendaries. Think of it as a legendary of your own choice.

Lol, then buy it for sure!

Yeah, the big bundle is tempting. and if you really want it, I won't discourage you from buying it - I just think the smaller bundle is the better value. I used to always buy the big bundle to get the hero portraits, but there are so many portraits now that it doesn't really matter anymore, and I would rather have the tavern pass. Buying both the big bundle and the tavern pass every expansion would be too expensive for me :) But go ahead, if you can afford it and feel like it!

I don't know what the price of the welcome back bunde is, but if its 30$ or less, it seems like good value, and I would probably buy it as a returning player. But don't open the packs before after the rotation and the new expansion goes live on Tuesday - that way, you're guaranteed to only get cards that are viable in standard for the next year.

I think the expansion looks really fun, and the community generally seems excited as well! Rotation is always the best time to come back to Hearthstone.

If I were you, I would buy the smaller bundle, because IMO it's better value than the larger bundle. When the expansion launches, I would buy the tavern pass, which grants you an XP bonus, helping you progress on the reward track faster for more gold and packs. Buying the pass + the smaller bundle is also cheaper than buying the large bundle!

Since you have been away for four years, you might not have heard that duplicate protection now covers all rarities. That means that you will not open duplicate commons before you have opened all that expansion's commons, and the same for rares, epic and legendaries. This has made it significantly easier to get all rares and commons in a set, and that makes it possible to build several different kinds of decks faster than before. With the preorder + core set + alterac miniset, you should be able to build a couple of different fun decks. 

If you have any questions about changes there's been to Hearthstone in the years you've been away, feel free to ask!

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No, you don't keep cards that get rotated out of the core set next year. So for example I have the Lock and Load card from the core set but I don't own the regular copy of it so next Tuesday I won't have that card to use in wild. So if you dust your rag and kale you won't have them after they rotate out of the core set, whenever that is.

 except if you have the golden copy of Lock and Load unlocked ?

 It doesn't matter if its golden or not, if you only have access to it through the core set, you won't have it anymore after rotation.

These are some really great changes. Rotating out cards that saw no play in favour of bringing back fan favourites was definitely the right call to make. The better the core set, the better the F2P and newbie experience will be.