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Quote from Kaladin >>

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH CASUAL, ITS TOTALLY FINE AS IS. 

-some lyra guy

 Of all people I thought you would be the first to jump at a way to enjoy truly casual games.

I side with Lyra in the discussion of the casual game mode but also agree there needs to be a fixed third mode called non-competitve where you can't complete quests and doesn't count to the 10 gold per 3 wins for the record.

OP you put forward a good idea if only there was a way to properly implement it in game lobbies are actually needed at this point with the game as big as it has gotten. Also I honestly believe it is a finacially beneficial idea for blizzard because full meme decks tend to be more expensive so a way to enjoy them would encourage more purchasing to make them.

On ladder if I take a month worth and average it across days it would probably be about 0.4 games a day overall including casual maybe 3 to 5 a day which is the least I have ever played

I am just sick of mage getting spells that can't shift between aggressive or defensive depending on the situation. I know people hate burn mage but it has resulted in mages getting very one dimensional spells that can only ever target minions or are just random. 

I took out Skulking Giest, The Lich King and Acolyte of Pain to add 1 Baleful Banker and 2 Arcane Artificer. Found the Giest tech unnecessary but it is day 1 of the expansion that may change and had more issues with survivng early than with drawing. Banker is just there in case I drew Antonidas early.

If control warrior can make a comeback it could work as a powerful clear but it will all depend on the meta.

The best way would be to buy some starter decks or duel decks and play with some friends. If you enjoy it then start looking into the format you want to play and price up the deck you want it will always be cheaper to buy the singles for the deck you want than buying boosters.

If you just want to play casual games with friends after trying the starters you can get a couple of booster boxes and put together a cube to draft from with your mates or do up some "sealed" drafts by mixing up a heap of cards and blindly splitting them into lots of 15 (actual sealed drafts would require constant purchasing of more boosters).

Easily the hard to execute legendary.

Quote from robpcom3 >>

So shudderwock doesn't copy Kalimnos's battlecry- or it does, but does nothing instead. I just lost that arena game because of that completely non-intuitive interaction.

Why... doesn't it just do what it says it does? repeat battlecries???

 Did you play an elemental the turn before if not that is why it didn't work.

It happens everytime they do this then randomly after expansion launch most of the squares get marked off. They even said there would be a daily update in their post but once again no updates. It's not even like there is contest on some of them either warlock got self damage there was another rager made there is power creep and there is a new shreder.

Looks like an interesting spin on digital ccg games I have tried Shadowverse and ESL but found the pvp games were very samey. Would be very interested in trying this but am curious if there are plans for a mobile version as I play Hearthstone on my phone most of the time.

Quote from Shadowrisen >>

Paid $130 this time.  10/10 would preorder again.

I just have to say that I'm old enough to remember the 50 other times people were trying to threaten Blizzard with leaving for upcoming games.  Anyone here play WoW?  "Fuck you Blizzard, Age of Conan is next month"  How'd that work out for you?  "Fuck you Blizzard, Old Republic / Aion / Guild Wars / Wildstar / City of Heroes / Eve Online (admittedly I love this game) / Final Fantasy XIV / Star Wars Galaxies is out next month!"

I'll check out Artifact and Gwent as I'm sure most of us will, but something tells me Blizzard has learned not to piss their pants at a few salty players who likely aren't paying anything for this game anyway.

It will keep happening and the silent majority will keep playing their games because for the most part they are well made. On a sode note guild wars 2 actually became a companion to wow when it came out due it having objectively better pvp a lot of people pvp'd in guild wars 2 and raided in wow getting the best of both.

Quote from Sherman1986 >>

From Blizzard's perspective, this is a terrible idea. Closed formats are bad for Blizzard because they want people to continue investing in their game. They are a company, not charity, and they want our money after all.

That mentality is also what might kill them currently it is setup that of you take a break from the game you fall really far behind. I personally want to take a break because I am getting burnt out on it but I know if I do I will have a lot of catch up to do which makes me feel like if I stop I may as well quit entirely. So business wise now sure it isngood but long term is could be suicide. It might still work out for them but only time will tell.

On topic though I would love this kind of mode to be implemented or a custom rules mode where users can come up with modes and host lobbies but I don't see either options happening.

Quote from Tasidul >>

This is like, exclusively anti big-priest tech. Play it against any control deck and they can just turn it into a raven familiar or worse (doomsayer); play it against aggro and they turn it into a fire fly. The funniest part is that it's SO good against big priest (and incidentally no minion hunter) that it might see play in wild.

 It's when they play a minion not summon so good chance this becomes Barnes against big priest. Good if it stays itself and they don't have Barnes to play into it.

Quote from lite0 >>

I feel like this will be solid but maybe not as good or not in the way some people are thinking.  I don't think combo is the way to go.  I've seen alex and maly mentioned but there cost is too high to baleful banker reliably, and they're one offs so if you draw them then there is no combo.  

I'm thinking this just goes in a minion heavy value deck.  Book of specters becomes a call to arms with no cap on minion cost, stargazer luna would let you literally fill your board with minions of any cost.  With ravens and/or grand activist you could somewhat reliably have this in the late game, the question is how do you build the deck so you survive to the late game and wont have a lot of dead cards early.

 Only one of those needs to be hit with the effect add in the exodia combo and a baleful to reshuffle Antonidas you give yourself multiple win conditions make the rest of the deck stall and draw and it can be rather reliable.

Quote from yoburg >>

Luna's Pocket Galaxy for a bad card with great reviews.

I would be way more inclined to put the priest legendary the Luna's only needs to hit 1 minion so it has potential won't know until people can play it but the ability to reshuffle gives it hope.

Priest one needs to hit multiple and can't risk a single one being pulled yet people screamed meta defining immediately although this has evened out as time goes on.