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Quote from Trollbert >>

“We want a combo counter!”

”Here’s a niche counter card.”

”This makes us angrier for some reason!”

 Calling it a counter is being generous and acting like this is even close to anything people were asking for is being flat out disingenuous. People want neutral hand disruption or at the very least, more hand disruption spread throughout the rest of the classes. This card is garbage, that is why it makes people angry. Anyone who thinks this is going to break the meta or stop combo decks is a moron.

No thanks.

The problem isn't content droughts. It's stale content, namely the entire evergreen set. The data out there suggest that at any given time throughout the year, the meta is more than 40% classic and basic cards. How can your refresh period not touch almost half the meta and expect to actually refresh anything? We have several old expansions to pull cards from now and the possibility to create a yearly rotating core set. Magic has proven that it works. Not only would it allow stale cards to leave and bring new life into the game but rotating old cards back in allows for Blizzard to update the art. That is what this game needs so bad.

The other thing I want to state is this. Hearthstone's card design quality is absolutely abysmal. The amount of cards that are simply nonviable at every point in their life span in standard is much higher than the amount of cards that actually find a home in tier 4 or above decks. Hearthstone feels creatively bankrupt. 

As I see the new cards revealed, everyone is rushing to comment on whether these cards are good or bad, but I think that discussion is meaningless. The discussion we should be having is whether these cards are fun or not. How do these new cards offer new ways to play? In my opinion, that is what matters in a time where good and bad cards already exist but fun is the problem. So I ask you, where is the fun in the new cards? The last honest to god fun card was Academic Espionage and Blizzard ensured that it wasn't good enough to be competitive. If Hearthstone is to succeed it needs to put fun first. Right now, Team 5 is not doing that and that is why Hearthstone is stale.

No. I think it's time to stop supporting bad card design. For all the talk about the hero portrait just being a bonus and cosmetic, it sure is front and center of all the preorder promotional material and the main thing people who are interested in preordering talk about. The people in this community need to quit trying to downplay it's role in pushing preorders and how Blizzard is taking advantage of it's community by setting the precedent of these types of thing never being available again. It's not just an ego boost or a cosmetic. It's a limited time in game item that is taking advantage of it's community. It's inflating preorders and giving Blizzard the numbers to say "see look, everything is fine", but everything is not fine with this game. It's unfortunate but true.

If it was a permanent in game shop item that was five bucks or something you could make an argument against me. Right now it's just content Blizzard is holding hostage for the asking price of a full game and that is disgusting practice in my opinion.

A boring card overall that isn't going to change how it feels to play against control mages. We should be rating these cards on whether they are boring or not considering the fact that plenty of good and bad cards already exist, but the consensus is that we are not having fun. What does this card offer me that makes Hearthstone fun to play? It's text is unique but at it's core it just generates a bit of value. Yawn.

This is one of the worst cards I have ever seen. Why is it that in Hearthstone, cards are printed with text that basically counters themselves? Have you ever noticed that it's the cards without any downsides or at least minimal risk that are what see play, while trash like this is forgotten? In Magic, WotC print cards that allow you to counter or answer anything in the game. I can't think of any card in MTGA where I thought, "that is terrible and it defeats itself." In Magic, when you see a card there is probably a place for it. Whether that place be competitive or budget lists. In Hearthstone though, we get actively bad cards that protect us from themselves and serve as nothing but filler. Maybe it's time to start printing good cards and good counters to those cards? Nah, this is Hearthstone and what would Hearthstone be without unplayable shit that shouldn't exist as it is.

Quote from aioriand1 >>

COntrol pal for real?

 Control paladin needs a closer. This isn't it.

Meh for 20 dollars I will be getting a few hundred cards for Artifact and enjoy something that isn't going to be as stale as a 5 year old box of cereal only a month after release. Have fun playing defender for cosmetic sales and Blizzard taking advantage of people's obvious want to collect things in a collectible card game. Clearly a more compelling endeavor than playing HS itself.

Hench clan thug for even rogue and curves into waraxe nicely, if that is even relevant.. What makes thug so good though is the increase in health. This guy gets killed and you have a couple of 1/1s. Not nearly as good or reliable.

money money money money mooooney

Auto-Squelch please..

Fits perfectly with odd paladin players, that's the kind of retarded hero they deserve.

I think he's intentionally mocking those fools who bought it.

This game is dumb.

IF you want really change the game, give a real message to blizzard.. dont buy the bundle. Otherwise dont come here and cry for the meta boring or asking for nerf.

Fuck Activision-Blizzard. We used to get this shit for free.