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Seems like a pretty strong play with Stranglethorn Tiger, expecially if played on curve.

Roughly half the Warlock decks arn't even playing Zoo. It's a bit weird to include a bunch of Renolocks in your count when you're complaining about aggro isn't it?

I'm shocked how well received this card has been. I can't see much reason to play this over Jeweled Scarab. They are both discover effects on 2 mana cards with a 1/1 perk attached. The difference is with Jeweled Scarab you get the 1/1 immediately and the discover effect is more consistent.

It's also way worse than Raven Idol, paying 1 extra mana for a +1/+1 boost is a poor trade in most cases, especially for minions over 6 mana. Raven Idol is also far easier to weave within your curve when you were otherwise going to float a single mana.

Lets be honest, tons of people hated on that Samsung promotion as well. Not to mention a hero is a lot more interesting than a card back.

I think this iOS only promotion is stupid. I thought the Samsung only promotion was stupid as well. This is coming from someone who owns and regularly plays Hearthstone on an Ipad.

Why would they make an almost strictly worse version of a card that already never sees any play?

It dodges BGH (If BGH isn't nerfed which seems likely) and has some minor synergy with charge and windfury mechanics. But other than that you would never play this over Grull. And nobody plays Grull, so nobody will play this...

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never underestimate a Battlecry. It can also synergies with Brann Bronzebeard!

how does this have any synergy with bronze beard? it isn't adding +3/+3, its a stat change, if you stat change something by the same amount twice, its stats are the same as only doing it once

 The Battlecry triggers twice, it doesn't double your battlecry.

You get to change the stats of two different minions. This means you can potentially buff two Silver Hand Recruits or Nerf two enemy minions, or one and one. 

I'm stoked for this new game mode, I was really hoping for something like this but was expecting the announcement to be a tournament mode after hearing how popular that seemed to be.

This mode actually brings new game play and variety with our card collections. Tournament mode would've just been a slightly different format to play the same boring constructed decks people already play all the time in ranked.

I think he should be "summon 1/1 boom bots until both sides of the battlefield are full".

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PERFECT hunter card one of the strongest class cards in this release. Pop this off as face hunter with an empty hand grab another weapon/kill command/charger and do upwards of 8 damage from a 1 card hand. Opponents wont see it coming and probably wont play around it.

Face hunters don't really have empty hands -- you need a critical mass of minions to do sustained damage and often hold on to things like KC, Owls, and Unleash.

While that's currently true, blizzards hunter design in BRM is clearly trying to encourage Hunters to unload their hands. Blizzard seems to be trying to promote a braindead playstyle where making inefficient plays with KC and UTH might be made up for with "empty hand" bonuses. These new face decks might even just stop running cards like UTH if they are deemed too difficult to "unload". Whether this style is actually better than the current styles is yet to be seen however...

Seems fine enough, at worst it's just darkbomb which still sees play. Might be preferred over Arcane Shot in some cases even if you aren't likely to get the draw bonus. Or you could just run both and fire it all at face...

I'm not really sure why blizzard is trying to promote a braindead style of hunter with both the new cards however. It's almost like they thought holding cards like KC and UTH was too difficult for face hunters to understand so they are trying to create a new style of face hunter where you are encouraged to not even make those kinds of decisions.

This card seems insane. I imagine it'll go into just about every control deck and tons of combo decks as well. If you are holding just 3~ other cards you are already getting great value, and it has the potential to do so much more than that.

This card seems terrible, 5 mana for 6 damage is kind of meh to begin with, but to have it split between a minion and face makes it even worse.

Edit: It's probably a bit stronger than I initially gave it credit for simply because it's a Hunter card. I was thinking about it from the perspective of other classes since I don't play hunter. The poster below me put it best.

Wisp combos amazingly well with this guy.

Turn 3 Hobogoblin and 2 wisps. That's 8/8 worth of stats.

Ranking alone wouldn't work very well as the sole indicator of skill. It would encourage players to not play constructed or to lose constructed games on purpose to achieve lower ranks and get easier competition in these tournaments.

Darn, got the patch and I'm in game but even the first wing is still locked, have to wait for blizzard to flip some other switch till we can play first wing. :(

Edit: It's good to go now, first wing has opened!