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WTF is the appeal with Cujo? It's not a good card, and becoming a Demon through Enrage is not functional. Are people just voting for it because it's a cute card? Don't ignore this because you think no one will vote for it. We could have a flood of low-effort voters who come in, make no comments, and propel it to victory. We really need to have public voting so we don't have a repeat of the Pepe fiasco.
Do NOT vote for Cujo.
Personally, I voted for every card except Cujo.
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The Cost mechanic works really nicely with Coins. This is designed to be a low-Cost, early game steal-card for Rogues. The fact that you need The Coin in your hand means that you either need to go second, or you need a Rogue card like Cutpurse or Tomb Pillager (and Blizzard is probably going to add more cards like this). This is pretty restrictive to play, so you can afford to make an efficient card like this. For 2 mana (using up the Coin is like using another mana) you can steal a 3-Cost minion. I limited it to 3-Cost so that the power level of this wouldn't be game-changing like Mind Control, but also for flavor, since only the cheapest minions can be bribed with a single Coin.
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An obvious Velen's Chosen buff replacement, but not nearly as flexible. Not there was a hope that it would be as good as Velen's, anyway. It's weighted towards minion health which is great for priest, but I'm not sure It'll be enough. It's definitely worth experimenting with.
As for the rest of you...
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Yeah, because Blizz should only ever print cards that are good in competitive. Who cares about all the players who want to make fun decks or just general flavour?
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Hey look! Another "whine whine cry cry" thread!
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No, they are really bad. I mean so, so bad - pretty much TGT level, which was so disappointing that they had to actually rotate all the older cards out the game to make them be played...
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Blizzard: Glad you could make it, Uther.
Secret Paladin: Watch your tone with me, Blizzard. You may be my creator, but I'm still your superior as a paladin.
Blizzard: As if we could forget. Listen, Uther, there's something about Mysterious Challenger you should know. Oh no. It's too late. The players have all been infected. They may look fine now, but it's a matter of time before they turn into Secret Paladins.
Secret Paladin: What?
Blizzard: This entire deck must be nerfed.
Secret Paladin: How can you even consider that? There's got to be some other way
Blizzard: Damn it, Uther. As your creators, we order you to nerf this deck.
Secret Paladin: I am not a designer, Blizzard. Nor would I obey that command if I were!
Blizzard: Then we must consider this an act of imbalance.
Secret Paladin: Imbalance? Have you lost your mind, Blizzard?
Blizzard: Have we? Lord Uther, by our right of creation and ownership of Hearthstone, we hereby nerf you from your command and suspend your Mysterious Challengers from service.
Freeze Mage: Blizzard, you can't just...
Blizzard: It's done! Those of you who have the will to save this game, follow me. The rest of you... get out of my sight.
Secret Paladin: You've just crossed a terrible threshold, Blizzard.
Blizzard: Freeze Mage?
Freeze Mage: I'm sorry, Blizzard. I can't watch you do this.
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So it seems ALL the posts lately are all about QQing about the new format. More than 50% of them being about how the player is going to "lose" their collection. How that player spent all that money on packs/adventures. How they were "cheated" by crafting all the Golden Cards from the rotated out sets.
1st - no one is "losing" their collection. It has been stated so much I'm just beating a dead horse here with this comment. But some people cannot seem to wrap their heads around that fact which leads me to #2.
2nd - most everyone is talking about the Standard format. I have seen very little talk about the Wild format. The people that are complaining about the new format appear to be the ones that have invested quite a lot of time and money into their collections. The one thing I don't understand is who/what is "forcing" those players to play Standard? They spent their time and money on their collection they are proud of it, as they should be. But rather than put all this effort into bashing a format that hasn't even been released yet, why are these people not getting excited for what the Wild format will become?
3rd - many, MANY people have crafted Golden cards. There is a post directed at trying to get a refund for them. As others have posted the Golden cards do not grant said player with any advantage. no one made said player craft the golden version of any cards. The Golden cards are aesthetic. If a player feels like they are getting ripped off with their Golden cards then again refer to #2.
Bottom line there is no penalty/loss/set back or what ever you want to call it playing the Wild format. What we have now IS the Wild format without the labeling of such. If you like your collection, if you like your Golden cards, If you don't want to feel like you have wasted all your time and hard earned money on this game, do as I'm going to do and play the Wild format. Personally I am looking forward to the crazy combos that the Wild format will create with the developers only focusing on the balance of the cards currently within the Standard format.
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I love coming to this and Justicar Trueheart's page to see the comments.
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No, please no more Random Spell Generation for Mage...
Either way, this feels a bit of a clunky card outside of Elemental Mage. Remember, you have to play the elementals, not summon, so Frost Lich Jaina won't help. How viable this card is will depend on how many good Elementals Mage gets. And, honestly, I don't see it being that great.
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Even if you can't fulfill the "Insta-win" condition of the hero Power, fact is that you're still summoning 2/2's instead of 1/1's which is still a huge improvement. And not just any 2/2's, 2/2's that your opponent can't afford to ignore.
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Abyssal Enforcer
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Eh...not gonna lie, I am not impressed. If I wanted to have this effect in my deck, I'd rather run Barnes.
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Except this card explicitly targets spells, not minions, so Quest Hunter is mostly unaffected.
You know, if people actually play Quest Hunter.
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This card should give you an idea of how broken Mysterious Challenger was. Yes, Paladin secrets were bad, but you got this spell's effect as a battlecry on a 6/6 for 6 body. This costs 8, and you get no body. Yes, Mage secrets > Paladin secrets, but it should still give a damn good idea of how broken Mysterious Challenger was.
As for this card, it's alright, nothing too spectacular. Just a wee bit too expensive and the secrets aren't as disruptive.
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Erm, question: Was it confirmed that it only gets attack when it's equipped, or is it for all lost Divine Shields lost this game? I know it was not mentioned in the card text, but maybe that is the case? If so, then the card (And Bolvar) become much better than they seem right now.
If it's only while equipped or on the board, then yeah, the two are pretty bad.
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I will grant this brawl the fact that it has been a while since we last saw this and that Un'Goro released a lot of new beasts. Is this a good brawl? No. However, I can see why they wanted to have this brawl show up at least once.
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Definitely one of the sleeper hits in arena, in my opinion. This card can become really difficult to deal with if not removed immediately. And quite often, you can engineer situations where, after the +1/+1 buff, your opponent is one damage from killing it, letting it grow even more.
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The main problem I see with this is that, unless you coin it out turn one, you'll generally want to actually play a Fiery Win Axe on turn 2. But I digress, this guy actually works very well and I definitely see it being included.