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I look forward to these threads every week just to see what people will complain about now.  If you dislike RNG, go play ranked.  I think we can rest assured that most brawls will be RNG heavy, so learn to live with it...

I like this one, though, it would be allot more awesome if you got to see your deck list

all I heard was "QQ I can't netdeck".

This kinda of brawl has been requested for ages, a way to queue up with a random deck to face strangers who also get random decks and battling friends with random decks on an even playing field.

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The biggest thing separating successful arena players from everyone else is the draft. Mindlessly following an arena tier list, without regard for mana curve or synergy, will not produce good results. The actual gameplay in arena or this type of brawl is really straightforward and simple. The player with the better randomly assigned deck should win every time, unless one player is really poor.

Can't agree with that statement; there are many nuances to card play.

Of course, but most of those nuances revolve around knowing your deck inside and out, and knowing what to expect from your opponent's deck. The gameplay is a lot simpler if you can't plan your play around what cards to expect. You just play whatever card is best for dealing with the current board state.

So, I am sure Blizzard is keeping track of Brawl statistics. They ensure every active player has exposure (via free pack for 1 game.) These statistics may influence future Brawls, or even how RNG card design choices are in future expansions.

I did like last weeks Brawl. This one... meh. I wish I could at least look at my deck before playing it.

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Of course, but most of those nuances revolve around knowing your deck inside and out, and knowing what to expect from your opponent's deck. The gameplay is a lot simpler if you can't plan your play around what cards to expect. You just play whatever card is best for dealing with the current board state.

I think it plays a lot like arena. You form a gameplan based on what you have on your hand. Predict what to play around and what not to. You shouldn't just play the best card for dealing with the board. You need to make your cards work, or they'll sit uselessly on your hand.

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I did like last weeks Brawl. This one... meh. I wish I could at least look at my deck before playing it.

Indeed.

I liked this brawl.  It was like a really bad arena, where people had bad arena decks.  Even mroe different decks than you have seen before.  

 I guess its fun and all, and also gives the chance to play cool cards like cho, pagle  mogor and foe reaper.

Yet i feel like if you could see your decklist on the side, it would be bit less rng and more planning...

I'm loving this week, every game has some kind of interesting new interaction with cards that I would NEVER under normal circumstances. It's actually making me re-evaluate some under-represented cards.

I think it's a pretty fair brawl for new/casual players, for them it's a lot easier to complete quest than in constructed or casual.

I get it better players don't like it that much because they can't use the advantage of their cardpool but i think in general Blizzard intended the brawl mode for new players.

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"Worst" Brawl ever... maybe for people who have all cards play actually...

But think about the Full F2P Player... They can now learn another Cards and play with this -.-

exactly!  for guys who have spent thousands of hours playing and who have seen every card, this might be boring.  but for us n00bs, it's pretty refreshing to be play some cool new cards

I don't think itsTHAT bad... Definitely better than the webspinner challenge and refreshingly different (if not better) than any challenge that simply gets dominated by choosing Mage. This is a lot like Arena, and for players with small/limited collections it's really nice for them to have access to a lot more cards they otherwise wouldn't AND play them at the time they see fit. I've noticed I get at least 2 legendaries per game, plus a bunch of other great class cards. I can see where PAY 2 WIN players are pissed off because they cant just thrash everyone over and over, but I think that's fantastic for the game, so screw all you complainers. This brawl is for the MASSES. All the players out there who are new to the game or struggling to build their collection. Getting to try cards like Tinkmaster Overspark and Tirion Fordring gives a lot of players a chance to find out important game interactions and teaches them not to do silly things like waste their hard earned dust on Tinkmaster, etc. 

As far as rewards, 2 servers were airballs, but on Asia, my brawl pack was: Golden common, common, patient assassin, shadowform, and deathwing! Not bad for FREE.

I think it was pretty fun.  I mean obviously you're gonna get shit on sometimes with the RNG of the deck (my warlock decks had like 3x each Summoning Portal) but if that annoys you, play it until you get 1 win and then wait for next week.  Personally, I don't mind losing with an absurdly terrible deck (I did quit once when I got a Wisp from Mindgames as my first play of the match, even after full mulligan) because the "I wonder what card will pop up to save me/further destroy this player next!" factor is entertaining.

BTW people, do you really think this week was an issue of being out of ideas?  You think they implemented an entirely new game mode with <5 ideas for it?  I'm sure there's a list of dozens of planned brawls, and this week they reached for this one.  Even if they didn't have a stockpile, every 8 year old on this site has their own "awesome" idea for a brawl, do you really think the ACTUAL devs can't think up any more?

Icing on the cake is that they already said they will recycle brawls in the future.  If the sky is falling this week I'm gonna laugh, and laugh, and laughhhhh when there's freakin' riots in the streets when this brawl pop up again a few months down the road.

Great brawl for new players.

They should at least SHOW you your deck so you can have some plan of action in the game.

I have Rend - great. Do I have any dragons? Upgraded Repair Bot. Do I play as vanilla or wait for a mech? Who the EFFF knows?

ESPORTS! kappa.

I wouldn't mind this format if I could just see what's in my deck beforehand. At least then you'd have a chance to build some strategies around what cards you ended up with.

i have pretty much all the cards, play since the beginning of open beta, reach legend almost every season if i have the time, so i consider myself a seasoned player and i enjoy this brawl, so it's not "just" for new players, being an arena aficionado i enjoy seeing cards that i almost never see, and this brawl brings that, i see cards that i don't even play against in arena , which is refreshing for me. so bottom line , even an older player can enjoy this brawl, i may be the only one, but i had a ton of fun playing against friends this past day. and not i'm not one of those that say ," oh it's free you can't complain", nah, i complained the shit out of the 3 first weeks, hated those 3 brawls, got my free pack and got out, this last 2 weeks though i had a lot of fun.