Hearthpwn

if you plan to play handlock exclusively, then you will want to invest in classic packs, as the majority of the cards in the deck are classics, specifically giants/drakes/taunt givers, with the remainder being from naxx adventure, same goes for druid for the most part, however we do not yet know how the new expansion will shake the meta game up, and whether or not the older decks will still be viable in the new meta, i would say handlock will but can't say for druids as i don't play the class much outside of arena.

takes huge amounts of art assets and dev time, which would be lost on developing new cards, that's why we get 1 per expansion/adventure set, i doubt they have the team in place to accelerate this cycle out with regard to boards and cards.

and for the first time we have diablo in hearthstone, as the artwork for this little guy is the crusader mini pet from D3 in WoW.

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I don't know nothing about the lore, can someone tell me who are those characters?

Rhonin is the former leader of the kirin tor, he is also mentor to illidan prior to his descent into becoming the being we know him as today (during his mission back in time against the burning legion/war of the ancients), it was also through his actions that he prevented all of kalimdor being destroyed by garrsosh when he sanctioned the mana bomb to blow up thereamore (home of jaina proudmoore), Rhonin sacrificed himself and using his own magic (which was something he did not share with others so it was unknown how powerful he really was), he managed to mitigate some of the blast damage, however theramore was still destroyed, he is also responsible for the destruction of the dragon soul/demon soul, the artefact that deathwing constructed to supposedly fight the burning legion during the war of the ancients, when in fact it was a tool he created to subjugate all the dragonflights under his command. (this is worth further reading if you are interested).

as for varian wrynn, he is the son of king Llane wrynn of stormwind, it was during the first war of orcs and humans that he saw his father murdered by garona an orc assassin, she was ordered by the shadow council to kill the king and gave his heart to gul'dan (warchief of the horde at that time), the orcs overran stormwind, so varian fled with the help of anduin lothar, champion of stormwind (for whom varians son anduin wrynn is named), to the kingdom of lordaeron where the alliance as we know it now was born (known as the alliance of lordaeron until the fall of lordaeron due to arthas menethils corruption at which point it simply became "the alliance"), after retaking stormwind with the help of terenas menethil and the alliance of lordaeron, work began to rebuild stormwind and it was the stonemasons, led by edwin van cleef who had been given the charge of rebuilding, however when then came to request payment for their work, the council of sotrmwind refused to pay, as they were being corrupted by the lady katrana prestor  (the human name for the one and only onyxia, daughter of deathwing and broodmother to the black dragonflight), as a result of this, the stonemasons became the defias brotherhood, and after spies had informed them of king varian leaving stormwind on a diplomatic trip, they ambushed and abducted him and took him to alcaz island the prison island (WoW reference to alcatraz island), he managed to escape his captivity, as a result of his escape he suffered from amnesia and was found by the gladiator trainer rehgar (before he joined the earthen ring as a shaman), after training varian to be a gladiator he became known as Lo'Gosh (ghost wolf) after gaining the name from fighting in the arena (it was during this time that he met broll bearmantle and valeera sanguinar), after returning to stormwind it is found out who orchestrated the whole thing and onyxia is chased back to her lair and killed by varian, he then returned to stormwind as the rightful king and is there now to this day.

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Ironbeak Owl saids "hoot hoot!!"

but what does teh fox say?

potential soundfile ideas for the legendaries:

varian>garrosh: "come then dog!"

varian>thrall: "warchief, BAH!"

varian>anduin: "my son, how you have grown"

varian>valeera: "hello my love, what are you doing here?"

varian>jaina: "i am sorry for theramore!"

rhonin>jaina: "theramore was merely a setback!!"

rhonin>malfurion: "archmage faces archdruid, how interesting"

rhonin>garrosh: "you will suffer for theramore cretin!"

probably a couple more but can't think of any more relevant ones atm.

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Who the heck drawed me into a card and said I am a Fist?

that is not archimonde, it is jaraxxus after he has been in the sun too long, it turns him blue.

so basically this confirms that alexstrazsa is a psuedo warrior card and that control warrior is the primary deck for warriors lol.

also, this boss and her twin sister miss lightbane were a clusterfuck on 25 heroic back in the day, god the wipes because people couldn't play dodgeball properly was painful, very very painful.

Haven't seen him yet, because all of the dozen Warriors I ran into today were still screaming EVERYONE GET IN HERE

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why is an 8 mana removal affect your minions as well ?!

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Because Blizzard don't really understand what good cards are. This should definitely only hit enemys.

Lava Shock, much?

"You no take SNOWBALL"

Randuin Wrynn gonna be OP .Kappa.

This news is like a Javelin up my ass! And I like it! :D

GIVE US MOAR

Face Druid here we go

In all seriousness, it's getting a bit heavy handed. So next expansion will feature the new Champion key word heavily, where Champion: Pirate for example gives +1/+1 to all pirates (ie. South Sea Captain would have it). We get it. Get on with the reveal of the reveal of the reveal all-fucking-ready.