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Many people don't care if their cards are animated. Opening golden cards gives us a ton of extra dust.

 And many people like collecting. Win all around.

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No, it's not my first card game, but considering this is a digital card game, things should be different.

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@Sherman1986 From our perspective, sure. But from Blizzard's standpoint, having the gold cards only have animations makes them more money. So it's gonna stay this way.

Yeah, sadly, that is true.

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 It is to match people that have something you want and is of a higher skill level against you so you get destroyed in hopes it will make you think what they had made them so much better so you are more likely to buy it after which they use you against a lower skilled player to continue the cycle. For the record I do not think this is being used in hearthstone as the method is for systems where you can buy exact items.

What. No.

It's a quality of life message for people who don't read the news. Yes they get a pretty sweet reward for it either way (to the point where starting a run is good value even if you don't play or win a single game) but some people might actually want to play out the run... or at least play it until 2 losses.

The inspire minions are some of my favorites, so I agree. The Grand Tournament was actually in general probably my favorite expansion in the game's history. It had a lot of interesting cards and ways of those cards bouncing off one another. Creative designs all around. Deckbuilding with my friends' TGT-heavy Wild collections has been a lot of fun.

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Here's my take:

If they really intend to use this patent, they would not patent it, but instead have it as trade secret. Reason being, now they just painted a big target on their back, since everyone will scrutinize them a lot more. Therefore, my conclusion is that they don't intend to use it, but would want to prevent others from doing so.

I'm far off from getting all golden heroes, but in any game I tend to play every class or archetype off and on even if I gravitate towards some favorites. I can't ever imagine staying away from Warlock, Rogue or Warrior for very long as I love them. But everyone gets burnt out sometimes; you might need a break after grinding a ton of games.

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Alright, one new idea plus two of my best ones according to you guys! Your thoughts?

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I'm talking about mechanic-wise...and Warlocks only have Curse of Rafaam. That's the only card they have that's called "Curse". :P

Also, it's Halloween-themed. Nothing about Rogue says that they should be about Plants yet Un'goro's Rogue set is full of Plant minions. Same with Paladins and Murlocs. So why can't Druids be about curses and trickery for this one night?

Additionally, Cursed Blade exists and Ancient Curse from Ancient Shade is a neutral card....

Is that enough to justify it?

Mechanic-wise, Curse of Rafaam is pretty important because it's the source of the Cursed! card referenced on your card, so it's a bit weird that Druid has it.

Also, I don't think Ancient Shade or Cursed Blade are good justifications. A curse makes sense in Priest because Shadowpriest is all into that kinda thing. Priest actually makes the most sense for a Trick or Treat card because they do both tricks (shadow) and treats (healing). Druid doesn't do tricks and Warlock doesn't do treats. Also, Cursed Blade isn't about cursing people. It's a cursed item Warrior chose to use. The Warrior didn't curse the blade. A Warlock probably did. 

Edit: I don't know why I wrote that thinking Ancient Shade was a Priest card. I think I got it mixed up with Shifting Shade. Also, there's lots of Neutral cards that are thematically like a class card, but that doesn't mean that theme belongs to everyone. Like, it's perfectly normal for a Neutral card to be Paladin-y and have Divine Shield even though that's Paladin's thing. But if you gave a Druid card Divine Shield, that wouldn't make much sense.

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Isn't it the case that if you draw Raza and DK early enough you're pretty much guaranteed to win with this deck? To put it another way, aren't most of the losses with this deck caused due to not getting to the key cards in time?

• Coldlight expands enemy's board and options.
• Razakus combo spends cards to deal with enemy board instead of achieving win condition.
• Exodia Mage deals with the entire enemy board in just one or two cards no matter how big their board is.

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Not an aura, a permanent effect on the current hero power.  Just like Shattered Sun Cleric can permanently buff a minion which is then destroyed, Raza can permanently discount a hero power which is then replaced.  Permanency doesn't have to mean it lasts the whole game, only that it affects the target entity as long as that lasts.

Ok, but it doesn't make sense that Raza will just change the cost of the current hero power and not carry over to the next one. 

1. Razakus Priest is NOT too strong; it is STRONG, but it's performing worse than other top decks just in terms of hard statistics.
2. Like, watch Trump or any other skilled player play with or against the deck and you can see clear decision-making and interaction from both sides.

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 Fair enough, I'm just not sure I've ever played a game where I couldn't play a single card by turn 4. Maybe turn 3 though. xP

As for the bolded part.. you're exactly right and I have the same impression, but the simple fact is they're going to have to think about them if they want to be taken seriously when discussing the game. If you want to refuse to learn basic strategy in the game while playing it, that's your business, but if you want to discuss the game seriously or actually argue what kind of decks are good or bad, what changes should be made, and actively judge players based on the decks they play or build... people are going to call you out on your ignorance. =P (Not you specifically, obv, just, you know people who don't pay attention to this stuff.)

 Indeed. My stance is always to only enter an argument or discussion if I'm actually certain of what I'm talking about, if I have enough experience and knowledge on the matter to discuss it. I wish most people did the same. I enjoy constructive discussion, as long as it is between people that know what they are talking about. When it comes to Hearthstone, it's so funny to see many players trying to discuss decks and strategies that they have no relevante experience with. Generally relying on the 10 or so games they played with or against a deck or strategy. (I don't consider myself with enough knowledge to comment on certain decks and their power if I'm not over 100 or more games with that deck, 50 at an absolute minimum... but somehow the 10 games most players have with the decks seem to be enough for them)...

This might sound annoying but honestly... why not?

Theoretically if a Discover card said Discover... something... that there was only one or two of in the entire game (like, Mega-Windfury or something), it would only give you those one or two Discover options. True Blizzard probably wouldn't print such a card, but the general purpose of Eternal Servitude is to give you a random effect... but one with choices. That's the intent of the card; pick one of three random minions that have died. The fact that you can technically Discover and only get one is an edge case, not really the main idea. True Big Priest is at least partially designed around using that edge case but that's a CCG for you. =P

The reason it's designed differently than Multi-Shot is simply... that it was designed that way. That's how they wanted it to work. I can understand the lack of symmetry between these cards' designs bothering some people, but really but just because they COULD work the same way (i.E. not work if there aren't enough applicable minions) doesn't mean they SHOULD.

I actually don't like it that I can't Multi-Shot a single minion by the way. Still bothers me to this day.

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With that said, I am still talking about new players. A veteran player should be able to make a new account, make a super cheap deck and hit 5 with very little issue if that was the main account you were playing on. A newer player has a lot more details over months to learn before they even had the chance to compete above rank 10 with a super cheap deck. 

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 I was actually refering to the perfect draws in which a Hyper Aggro deck manages to complete the turn by turn 3 or 4, when you simply didn't play a SINGLE card, where you literally didn't do anything that game. This is what a SOLITAIRE game consists of. The Zoolock example is just a normal Aggro Vs Control match where you still managed to play cards, but were still crushed by a perfect draw. Even if it felt like you couldn't do anything, you still had interaction and influence on the game, you likely slowed down his progress in the game. That is not solitaire. The part of having a good balanced of costs, it's not the relevant point. Even with a well balanced cost deck, you will still be playing games where a Hyper Aggro deck manages to play Solitaire because you drew badly. It will happen. Solitaire games in Hearthstone happen, more often than they should, no matter how well optimized your deck is, it's just how it works in a game that relies on Tempo and that Snowballs tremendously.

Exodia Mage is a Control Combo deck, all Combo decks fall within the 3 Archetypes of Aggro, Midrange and Control, Exodia, just like Freeze, falls in the Control side. Something like Miracle for example, falls in the Midrange type. The rest is correct, but most players don't really think about it. Playing around cards, holding resources, knowing how to force opponent cards and such, that kind of stuff should be basic to most players, but it has become extremely obvious in my time playing the game, that most players don't bother thinking about any of these aspects of the game.

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Oh damn, I accidentally wrote in my card description "Restore (7) Mana Crystals" when it should be Refresh. (My card is Refreshing Elemental on page 11.) That's why you should never make your entry 5 minutes before the time runs out...

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Is C'thun legal?

 It requires buying WotG packs so no.