Here, I translated this for everyone:
We've had similar articles in the past about design stories for particular cards, I think the most recent one I remember discussed all the design iterations that Yogg went through to pack all the RNG we took out of the game back into one card, which is pretty impressive when you think about it. Card designs have a number of different goals, sometimes those goals are immediate competitive play and sometimes theyshoot for something elseare for Priest. Things likeflavorbreaking the game, arena viability (of Paladin, Rogue, and Mage), or sprinkling in tools for a new or existing Warrior archetype. In smaller sets, it can be a little risky to take a gamble on a new toolkit because there are fewer cards to work with and no one likes playing against Priest or Rogue anyway. In the case of Priest, we were pretty happy with the amount of options the class was getting from neutral cards that other classes will use to greater effect (Barnes, Curator*, Medivh, Dragon Cards) to do some testing with a new, but still unplayable, archetype that Purify could be a part of. In my mind there is some positive to the outcry over Purify because I think people willdefinitely try it out and report any successes/failures/stories they had building anddust it to make Warrior cards and forget all about playing a 'silence your own stuff' priest. None of this is to say anyone'sis wrong in theirfeedback matters to us, but just to communicatesome of the ideas surrounding a card designthat we really don't give a shit about Priest. Selling more packs and expansionsHearthstoneis the only thing that is important to all of us, and we're trying to do better in terms ofcommunication and understanding what different communities (like this one) are most interested indesigning overpowered cards for aggro and Tempo decks so you all have to keep those in-app purchases rolling in order to remain competitive.I've been happyI was forced to be here and have a conversation about what you all want from the game, thanks forbeing so passionate about itwrapping this up so I can finish my memo on bringing Death's Bite and Shieldmaiden into Standard. :D
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Ahhh so this is the deck I was farming with Exodia Mage and Tempo Warrior.
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arguably better, because it's a guaranteed 6/6.
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And I still won't find Circle of Healing.
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It will get repealed in 2017
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I guess I'll go listen to some James Blunt and down a bottle while I remember the good times me and Anduin had.
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Wild doesn't count.
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"Quality Priest decks that haven't been discovered yet."
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I guess if you replace Priest with Concede than he's definitely right. There are tons of quality Concede decks, I mean Priest decks.