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Quote from Hearthsam >>

I don't really see the point, a small amount of armor isn't going to stop me picking an S tier hero over average ones.

Yes, but it still reduces the gap between them a little, so if you happen to have only average ones to choose from, it could help you a bit.

I would choose Alliance if I cared enough, but I don't, so I chose Horde, because Drek'thar is a card I like much more.

Phew, I was afraid they will implement MMR matchmaking and kill the mode.
Sounds okay, although I don't see how it will increase class diversity. Players would still play the good classes and wait until the bad classes became better. What сould have increase class diversity is more frequent offering rates adjustments so that we don't have a 15-20% difference between the best and worst class for 1-2 months just to see the same difference for another 1-2 months, but with other classes, because they clearly can't balance the classes properly at one go.

Quote from Sherman1986 >>

I feel excitement to watch in the future a chess grandmaster streaming such a RNG based game like Hearthstone. That's a possiblity. Just think about it and all the things that could go wrong... Hilarious stuff! :P

Many top chess players like HS. Nepo, basically, current 2nd player in the world in chess, has played Dota 2 seriously and streams HS from time to time. Another top, Svidler, have streamed a lot of BGs

I like his taste in decks

Another Timmie want to cry and insult all the Spikes because they're beating him with better decks, how original. It's like training martial arts and be angry that everyone use guns after you've been shot.
Just a reminder: you're not superior than anyone if you're playing less efficient or slower decks.

Quote from Legend_Entomber >>

 It is understandable that people want to climb fast to Diamonds rank with aggro decks and such for the end-of-month rewards... but I wish people can take their time to experiment and play fun, slower decks in the high ranks (high Diamonds and legends) so the state of the game is more diversified, motivated, and enjoyable for everyone to be at these higher ranks.. What's the point of using fast decks at legends? Is everyone trying to register for the Championship qualifications or what?

 We have the mode called Casual, where all the experiments belong. Of course, you can play what you want where you want, but it's not other players fault if they are not willing to do the same to make you more motivated. They also shouldn't care about what you enjoy and what you think is fun.

Arena is great, way better than Duels and Mercs

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Quote from AndreiLux >>

Makes sense, Dr. Boom, Reno and Yogg are the first three that come to mind to do well in such a competition in any case.

 You mentioned Thalnos. He and Mankrik were probably the most overperforming cards (or if you want to think of it that way, the cards that we missed on most when making the initial Rankings.

We had 8 Tiers of 16 cards, and we assumed that cards within a Tier were of equal class, and that cards in Tiers adjacent were relatively close. Most of the cards that got to the Quarter Finals and beyond were Tier 1 cards, but Thalnos was a Tier 5 card and Mankrik a Tier 6. 

We just missed how popular they were to the general community, even if we realized they were good cards in a vacuum.

On the flipside, we had 2 Quest Cards in Tier 1, and we also failed to see how little people cared about those cards, even though they remained strong cards with some cultural impact.

I think that's 4 of our Top 5 misses with Murloc Madness.

Our no. 1 miss was not cheating the system and forcing a Murloc to win it all. Murlocs ALL lost in the first round. Complete and utter failure on our part!

Thalnos is a surprise for me as well, I thought he should do worse than he deserves, since he is small and not that flashy, despite of hanging around forever and being useful at least in one decent archetype all the time. I underestimated the community's ability to respect "normal" cards here.
As for Mankrik, it's not surprising to me at all, it's a great card for many decks and have some WoW drama understandable not for WoW players attached on top of that. Shuffling orc's dead wife into your deck is what people would really remember and vote for. Sounds like easy top-20 to me.
Quests, yeah, no one even remembers how they called, all of them are just "x class quest" for most of the players, so I personally didn't even tried to remember which quest it is and just voted for their opponents all the time.
Murlocs failure is sad, well, Sir Finley's failure is sad, one of the most pleasant characters, so nice and polite. Others are cool only when they get together and mrglglglgl.

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Quote from AndreiLux >>

Rag is a better card, Reno is a better character. My vote goes to Rag.

 huh, funny. I feel the exact opposite way.

Ragnaros is an important lore figure since the early days of World of Warcraft. First end boss of the first Raid. One of the four Elemental Lords.

Reno is basically just comedy relief.

Rag's card is just another late game game ender, and not even that great since you often had to pray for RNG to hit the right target. Rag is only played in Classic these days.

Reno on the other hand was responsible for the start of the unique Highlander/Singleton deck archetype and made it wildly popular, to this day. He still gets used a lot.

And I voted for Reno, cause his combination of being a great and unique and still relevant card and a uniquely Hearthstone exclusive lore figure makes him the best choice for this competition.

We just clearly like different things in the game :) I guess it's because I came from poker, and you're from WoW. For me comedy relief is way more nice and suitable in such a game, something what I like to see after a long day at work. Lore matters very little in HS, for me it's even negative, some thing which is exists and the reason why characters can't shut up in single player adventures, slowing down my progress through levels. For you it's probably called a story and I think both points of view are valid. It's just looks a little bit silly when they are trying to be spooky or epic in this environment.
Rag was pretty good card during his time of glory and example of good RNG, you couldn't guarantee anything but you always felt like he did something for you even if he missed. The "I'll either kill him right away or destroy his last defender" situation was so enjoyable. Reno was basically a control spell on stick, Tree of Life level of entertainment. I'm saying "was" because now both are not standard so basically irrelevant. I had some fun trying to make Tempo Highlander mage work, but that's about it, so archetype became interesting for me only when Reno gone and Dinotamer Brann, real king of Highlander decks (just kidding, it's Zephrys ofc, but for me he is!) came. Rag was a legit card for both control and midrange.
Boom would be more fair winner than Rag (It was hard to expect Loatheb or Thalnos actually win, they did even better than I expected, so I was rooting for Boom to win entire thing), but at least Rag is not control only card.

Rag is a better card, Reno is a better character. My vote goes to Rag.

Quote from Zizka >>

concern for other people

How do you define that though? The game doesn't provide enough information to know what the other player wants.

For one player the concern is that they only want to play against fun or goofy decks, the other wants to complete a daily and the next one is looking to test something specific. Where is your concern for their ideas?

And so on and so on. The point is, that there is no way of knowing what the person queueing on the other side intents. Projecting our own expectations into it, is going to leave us frustrated more often than not.

I’m sorry I don’t agree and I will give an example. Last month I was stuck in diamond 2 and wanted to make some adjustments without the fear of loosing ranks so I boot into casual to fine tune. Now according to you I have bad manners because why? I’m not playing the way you want me to play. I personally feel casual is a place to test without the fear of loosing ranks and also the place to play death knight and have fun. Many people play casual to learn how to play higher tear deck because casual is a testing ground I shouldn’t feel bad for testing a deck you don’t like. It also doesn’t make me someone with bad manners. In the end hearthstone is a competitive game it breeds competition to try and convince me any 2 player vs card game isn’t is silly.The game is built solely on this foundation. But hey the nice thing is you can play the way you want and I can like I want boom we can both be happy

Wow, people complaining even about free wins nowadays!..

Just like the title says Brann Bonzebeard needs to be HoF before the rotation or go back to wild. This card single handedly ruins fun games. The combos that currently exist in standard absurdly amplified by Brann when they're already good on their own. Instead of taking care of the real problem, especially when it comes to the druid combo, they nerfed a brand new card instead of Brann which seems to go against logic of promoting a new expansion. Since the return of the original league of explorers legendary cards to the core set I would say there was probably just as much excitement to have Reno come back as there was for Brann if not more. Now Reno is nearly unplayable because not only can your opponent burst down from hand but in druids case they also create a huge board so even if you didn't get OTK'd you'd likely get killed after your next turn even if you healed full. Cards like Brann make it very hard for people to want to continue playing when rotation is still 4 months away. Ultimately i think Team 5 knows the playerbase is sick of Brann and that he doesn't fit the modern Hearthstone mold.

void ripper was wrong keep you need to have turn 1 and 2 clears

knowing his deck I wouldn't have played despicable dread lord.

should've played void ripper on turn 3

should've used the bird on turn 6, don't worry about opening the gifts too much do that with spare mana.

held solarium for too long your deck has a 2 damage aoe

You keep wasting mana opening gifts that's the main problem.

 Priority should be:

destroy your own box
destroy their box
develop board
open gifts with left over mana.

If you care about your rank take the easy wins and then report them if you feel the need. 

if you don’t, concede, find a new game and report them if you want. 

Either way be sure to keep creating new threads saying the same thing. 

restrictive mechanics have always been bad

I was also at full health.  He played 32 mana worth of stuff on turn 6 having also drawn 5 cards on the way while ramping.  Cleared my whole board and OTK'd me at the same time.  Anub'Rekhan is basically a free 7/7 with an upside.

These types of games are why I think Hearthstone is basically broken now.  I know this was a slight highroll on their part, but it shouldn't be able to happen (and it's likely it would have happened before turn 10 anyway). 

It's like rogues playing 0 mana 10 cost spells on turn 4, mages playing 0 mana 10 cost spells which then get repeated with a battlecry that says "Repeat the last spell you've cast that costs (5) or more."  To be clear I'm OK with the initial 0 cost spell manipulation through Barbaric Sorceress.  It requires some deck design limitation, you can see it coming and as a singular effect it's often not game deciding on it's own.  But why does it get repeated?

Mana cheat isn't fun or fair (I include the evolve mechanic with Goldshire Gnoll and similar).  The classes with no mana cheat are basically dead in the water (or are forced to play aggro/face decks). 

Turn 6 - lost a full board and died to Brann-Druid shite.  It was such a fun and interactive gameplay experience.