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I will never spend another cent on Hearthstone. $50 every 3 months for ONE game is absolute insanity to me. I'd much rather spend my money on pieces of art (such as, Zelda: BOTW) that will last me a lifetime.

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I will never spend another cent on Hearthstone. $50 every 3 months for ONE game is absolute insanity to me. I'd much rather spend my money on pieces of art (such as, Zelda: BOTW) that will last me a lifetime.

Some cards will still have charge so I don't see the problem...Rush seems fine to me since it helps nerf some OP cards like Doomguard and adds some flavor to new cards,not everything has to go face the turn it's played!

Warlocks gonna have rushing demons ull see

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I will never spend another cent on Hearthstone. $50 every 3 months for ONE game is absolute insanity to me. I'd much rather spend my money on pieces of art (such as, Zelda: BOTW) that will last me a lifetime.

I think they are trying to give more options for midrange and control style decks to have board control and not just go face.  Aggro decks have ruled the top of ladder for a while now and while aggro decks are important they shouldn't be the end-all-be-all every expansion.

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Everyone is mentioning Icehowl as an example for Rush, but everyone seems to be forgetting the closer example to this, Charged Devilsaur. Although it can be negated with recruit and Carnivorous Cube, when played from hand it's the same thing. Although Charged Devilsaur hasn't seen much play apart from otk decks, it was still a fairly balanced card, and it's a good arena pick. So no, rush does not signify the end of Hearthstone, because it didn't end it in Un'goro, so it sure as won't end it now.

All that they are signifying is that they might actually fix warrior as basically EVERY SINGLE CARD ARCHETYPE for warrior was deemed toxic and got nerfed.

Warrior is a class that has literally nothing. It has even worse base set than priest, as they at least have Innerfire for closing out games out of cheesy combos. Warrior has... Hellscream?

They are giving a good board-centric warrior playstyle by giving them rush, since Taunt was boring and toxic as hell, charge is either useless or OP and enrage too. Basically you dictate trades with your minions, try to get value trades and then win with the board you've left.

Rush will certainly have battlecries like the one demonstrated, so it will sure be useful in someway.

Rush already existed before it just got a new name :|

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Rush already existed before it just got a new name :|

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We kinda already had the mechanic with cards like Icehowl, so I think it's another case of refactoring a mechanic into a single keyword for convenience, kind of like how cards with Lifesteal and Posonous existed before we had the official keyword

  Icehowl is actually worse than Rush, because you can NEVER attack heroes with Icehowl.

 Ah, good point; I should have picked a better example. I seem to recall a few cards that have charge but can't attack heroes the turn they're played; just not remembering them off the top of my head.

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Rush already existed before it just got a new name :|

 

 Only for 3 cards.

Rush is actually a good mechanic. It will help trading, and it was the obvious choice to replace charge with.

In 2011 MTG released a card called sacred wolf that had the text: Sacred Wolf can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.

The next year in 2012 they release a mechanic called hexproof that read: This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.

They were both derivations on the mechanic shroud, which reads: This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.

RIP MTG 1993-2012

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Much like Lifesteal, this should have been a thing for a long time. That's probably the reason why we're getting two keywords too.

Charge was a dumb ability anyway and proof-positive early hearthstone spent too much time borrowing from MtG and not enough time actually thinking about how their game mechanics were affected by it.

It is simply extremely hard to balance Charge. You have limited design space, that sucks. Rush is really good compared to that.