Hearthpwn

for the love of god if you are on the Shaman side and Nefarian just swapped each player's hands do NOT play Justicar

love 2 see people losing it over a strip of clothing while pretending it's everyone else that's too sensitive 

"We dont have any balance changes planned (Streamers get mad at me and leave for MTG:A) Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it"

I definitely bought into the Varian Wrynn hype hook line and sinker back on TGTs release. It only took a couple of games to realize that he was just a huge liability in the Control Warrior lists at the time. Either you plopped him down after aggro or midrange decks had ran out of fuel (and any other late game finisher would have served the same purpose) or you just dropped it into a board wipe against control decks with the side effect of putting you 3 cards into fatigue! wow!!!!!!

Deathwing is usually going to be just a big lump of stats so any other minion with big stats should do. Alternatively the second Blood Razor or the second Brawl are decent options depending on what decks you are getting matched up against. Remember to avoid putting tech minions like Spellbreaker or MCT because they screw with the recruit gimmick

The only legitimate way to play this game is for both players to honorably pass each turn until turn 10 when I can drop Sindragosa + ping one of the 0/1s

I'm not gonna deny that PW involves skill when taking it to higher levels of play but it's also worth pointing out that in the MSG meta there was very little to do against it because of the lack of good neutral healing and efficient taunts. Yes, PW is definitely a deck that has a time limit (and sometimes a very short one when you went up against Reno decks), but without any reliable ways to counter its strong Patches openings almost any card you drew was going to be relevant in finishing off your opponent. Even more so against the Miracle Rogue match up where you either plopped a big T1-T2 Edwin or you rolled over and died because the game would never go long enough that the Rogues power turns mattered. This doesn't say anything about Miracle Rogue's skill cap, it just highlights one of it's weaknesses.

That's why i don't really agree with the PW vs MR assesment in the OP. I definitely think that these days Pirate decks require more skill to pilot than the one they took in MSG thanks in part to the nerf to STB and the addition of stuff like Tar Creeper or Gluttonous Ooze as a 3rd weapon destruction option.

RE: Freeze Mage IMO a lot of the current hate the deck gets is less about how much skill it takes to play it (i think it does) and more by the addition of Babbling Book and Glyph into the lists. It's never been very fun to be on the recieving end of Freeze Mage pulling off its game plan. It's even less so when they are able to play a 3rd Frost Nova or a 4th Ice Block.

Those are all non-playable races from the games. The hogs are Quillboars, the rabbits are Virmen and the bugs are Mantids. Mean Streets definitely takes some artistic liberties with them tho, but i guess that's what HS has been increasingly doing in general with the Warcraft lore. I personally like the approach