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I think this is a fairly safe assumption. The option to choose the Rumble Pre-Release is pretty much just letting them know that's the reason you're throwing the public Fireside and that you'd be up for some pre-release swag if it's available.
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On the contrary, the last set before rotation is the perfect time to push the power level of decks that are rotating out but that never saw play. They did it for Dragon Priest a long time ago, and they're doing it for Quest Hunter, Quest/Discard warlock, and Quest Paladin in this expansion. It would have been nice to see a little more love given to Quest Shaman, but murlocs being what they are, I can see it being a bit dicey upping their overall power.
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Well, it's slightly better in that it works for any minions, not just deathrattle minions.
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Maybe? Probably not, but even if it did, Lynessa is 7 mana, so at 10 mana you would only be able to cast it one more time. The echos would vanish at the end of your turn.
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Nice catch. I think it's just a muddled statement, but hopefully Blizzard will clarify.
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While I agree that that deck is overpowered, the un-nerfing of Molten Giant doesn't really buff the deck. 20 mana or 25 mana, the giant's base cost is reduced to 5 with the Naga Sea Witch.
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Faerie refers to a realm of existence (elves, pixies, goblins) that don't easily map to Warcraft lore. Using it could either constrain what types of creature are allowed to have the keyword or just make people wonder why a Bearshark is akin to a pixie. So I think that would be rejected.
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That's what MMR ranking does. If you win a game, your score goes up. If you lose, it goes down. You're matched to others with a score close to yours. The better you are, the faster that ranking rises, but eventually you'll plateau finding yourself matched against players of similar skill. For some that plateau might be rank 500, for others 5000. Alas, in casual this ranking is not displayed.
But anyway, that's why they have a goal of "50% winrate" in casual. It means they are doing their best to match you with someone of similar skill. Theoretically at least.
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Alas, while it seems like a good solution at first glance, I don't think adding bans solves the problem. It just hides the problem behind one more level of complexity. Banning the most powerful class means the next most powerful class that was being held back becomes the de facto most powerful class. Only now, you can game the system by intentionally playing the 2nd most powerful class and banning it's strongest counter. Instead of trying to guess the trending decks in the meta, now you have to guess at which class is getting banned the most, and pick the most powerful deck that was being held back by the deck being banned. I think this would make things even more 50/50 coin flippy b/c I think bans would fluctuate mainly between the two most powerful decks, creating a perverse incentive that would lead to more and more mirror matches and a flattening of the meta.
I could be wrong, tho. Who knows. But try to game it out yourself. If you could ban a class back before the Druid nerf, how do you think it would have played out? I think most people would have banned Druid, leading to a huge increase in druid mirror matches and hard counters, (b/c if most everyone bans Druid, those who choose not to ban it will see it a LOT more, so they can target it) which would make druid players switch to the next most powerful deck, probably Highlander Priest who could then ban Druid themselves. So now the ladder becomes infested with long Priest games. Eventually people get tired of that and ban Priest, and those players then go back to the overpowered Druid. Back and forth, back and forth until a deck comes along that has a great winrate against one of the two "top dogs" and a decent winrate against the other, at which point it supplants the less powerful of the two top dogs and the meta changes to fluctuate between an old top dog and the new one.
So the meta is still effectively 1 deck that is a coin flip between the "#1 deck" and the deck that would be #1 if not for the "#1 deck." Because of the 50/50, you can't even reliably counter because you never know when that coin will flip. So consistency will suffer even more unless you are playing one of the two top decks, which will lead to a flatter and flatter meta. But now Blizzard is even slower to make adjustments to cards because hey, "You think a deck is too powerful? Just ban it and you don't have to deal with it."
Perverse incentives all around, if you ask me.
Nerfing cards makes more sense to me than banning a class. It can be more precisely targeted to avoid a 1-2 deck meta. Whether Blizzard is successful at that or not is another question entirely. I think they are getting better at it. Un'Goro meta was great, and the Druid nerf had more of an effect than I thought it would in the KFT meta. Still not sure how permanent the diversity is, tho.
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But consider, even when they are lucky, you are still winning 7 out of 10 of those "luck" based games. That's 70% of the time, a really good win rate. The problem is, our brains are wired to always remember the string of losses rather than the string of wins. It's just the way we're built.
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You should consider updating this now that Wild Packs can be purchased in the Blizzard store.
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Now that's some outside the box thinking!
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My first 8 legendaries? 3 King Mosh, 2 Pyros, 3 Hemet, Jungle Hunter.
To have 3 legendaries, only one playable, after 100+ packs and NONE OF THEM QUESTS in an expansion that was all about the quests, was extremely frustrating. Luckily I had a ton of dust from the rotation to craft what I wanted, but pack opening still felt disappointing because of that.* If the no duplicate rules had been in effect, I would have had 5 more legendaries to play with.
* - Fun fact, I finally opened my first quest card at about 150 packs: The Last Kaleidosaur.
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Combos well with Shadowflame for a board clear.
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Interesting. You're basically trading one health (think Oasis Snapjaw) for a 1 mana spell that gives you two 0/2's with taunt. This is definitely more a "value" card than a tempo card.
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Verdict: Might see play in quest decks. Don't see it anywhere else.