I kinda hate that they let out the new expansion info so early in the year. One of my favorite things was everyone guessing what each of the expansions would end up being but that is dead and gone now :(
I was wondering the same thing. You'd think it would have some wording making it specific to summon any added to your hand by that specific minion. Otherwise it could be seen as a "Summon the First" "Summon the Last" or "Summon a Random"
Maybe it is to keep down word count though, as there is already a lot of text?
Tardy Traveler is a bit confusing at the moment... Do you get a copy of the tavern spell that is currently in your active tavern board, or do you get a random tavern spell up to your tavern level? I'd assume the latter, as it would suck to have an empty tavern for some reason and you sell this to get nothing more than the gold.
I'm assuming Bonus Keywords would typically only count towards the items you listed in the top sentence, though you could argue it counts for Magnetic as well.
Otherwise, the keywords in the second sentence are specific to the card and cannot be added as a "bonus" keyword. I'd think things like mechs that come with keywords already would not have the first instance of the keyword counted, so the 1/1 with Divine Shield and Deathrattle: summon a 1/1 and the 3/2 with divine shield would not receive bonuses from Hackerfin unless they had something magnetized to the body.
I'd be really interested to know if the bonus keyword effects increase if the effect is stacked. So multiple Magnetics and/or Divine Shields on a mech providing 1 bonus per keyword, or one bonus per instance of the keyword.
I don't think these are Battleground skins. If you look at the portraits, there is a class logo by each one. Arfus has the Death Knight symbol, so you should be in luck.
Just to add too, the OP's POV is what has brought us to the current state of some of these games as well. All these micro transactions start off being 0.99c mobile games, then slowly progressed in price to $2.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, etc and slow progressed in types of games from the junky mobile games all the way up to full on AAA game titles.
I understand letting the companies do this kind of stuff and suffering when it doesn't work out, but everyone is so desensitized anymore and people will actually pay money for this. And as people keep paying money for this kinda garbage, it's going to keep infesting out games (and somehow get even worse). I guess a lot of folks are alright with that, but man I miss getting a CD game and it being fully tested, complete, and ready to play till I scratched the thing by accident or lost it, not constantly filled with bloat to try and nickle and dime you.
Be nice if this was kinda like the Blackbeard's brawl where you didn't actually draw from your deck unless you had a card that allowed you to and those were all a cheap minion with decent stat's instead of whatever these random decks are. Demon Hunter w/ soulstones is a great idea, but when I end up with a hand ful of 7 mana + cards on turn 4, whatever few stones I get in the deck end up milled.
Maybe a boost in starting mana (i.e. 3 mana on turn 1) would help some too.
Just to add onto this a bit, a really good video from Hearthstone Mathematics on YouTube was put out this morning. They do a lot of breakdowns between expansions and with major changes. 10/10 video talking about the new changes and their thoughts on why they did it and how bad it is actually going to be.
So, I know some folks play a lot less where the card packs are required to play (like me, but I still like opening packs), but why is the 2nd rewards track that is focused on battlegrounds overall worse than the first track focused on Standard? Same amount of points required, but only 2 Packs and a BG hero skin vs 6 packs and a standard hero skin?
I mean at least change the 2 packs out for some emotes or something? Maybe just 2 packs on the 750 tier, 2-6 emotes, and a BG hero skins or a Bob skin?
What do I know though... I'm still mad I can't buy 4 hero's to pick from for gold anymore.
I'm assuming tokens and the new miniaturized stuff will work with this card, but I've got to wonder if cards that you buff in your hand (0 attack base going to 1 attack, or 1 attack/health base going to 2+ attack/health when buffed) will work the same way.
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I kinda hate that they let out the new expansion info so early in the year. One of my favorite things was everyone guessing what each of the expansions would end up being but that is dead and gone now :(
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Kinda wish they would have done a brawl maybe themed around the brand new released miniset....
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I was wondering the same thing. You'd think it would have some wording making it specific to summon any added to your hand by that specific minion. Otherwise it could be seen as a "Summon the First" "Summon the Last" or "Summon a Random"
Maybe it is to keep down word count though, as there is already a lot of text?
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Tardy Traveler is a bit confusing at the moment... Do you get a copy of the tavern spell that is currently in your active tavern board, or do you get a random tavern spell up to your tavern level? I'd assume the latter, as it would suck to have an empty tavern for some reason and you sell this to get nothing more than the gold.
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I'm assuming Bonus Keywords would typically only count towards the items you listed in the top sentence, though you could argue it counts for Magnetic as well.
Otherwise, the keywords in the second sentence are specific to the card and cannot be added as a "bonus" keyword. I'd think things like mechs that come with keywords already would not have the first instance of the keyword counted, so the 1/1 with Divine Shield and Deathrattle: summon a 1/1 and the 3/2 with divine shield would not receive bonuses from Hackerfin unless they had something magnetized to the body.
I'd be really interested to know if the bonus keyword effects increase if the effect is stacked. So multiple Magnetics and/or Divine Shields on a mech providing 1 bonus per keyword, or one bonus per instance of the keyword.
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I don't think these are Battleground skins. If you look at the portraits, there is a class logo by each one. Arfus has the Death Knight symbol, so you should be in luck.
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Well if anyone is bored... r/hearthstone on reddit seems to have found out that the Great Dark set was viewable in the collection log and someone has snapped a picture and posted them on this google docs link: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Fr8Tuw0waoPV9u35R4qScTuJ49SZwcJ_
I hope links aren't against TOS or a ban-able offense :/
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Mk, I'll give it to them for the Robocaller. That's pretty funny if nothing else. May be useless, but still funny.
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Just to add too, the OP's POV is what has brought us to the current state of some of these games as well. All these micro transactions start off being 0.99c mobile games, then slowly progressed in price to $2.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, etc and slow progressed in types of games from the junky mobile games all the way up to full on AAA game titles.
I understand letting the companies do this kind of stuff and suffering when it doesn't work out, but everyone is so desensitized anymore and people will actually pay money for this. And as people keep paying money for this kinda garbage, it's going to keep infesting out games (and somehow get even worse). I guess a lot of folks are alright with that, but man I miss getting a CD game and it being fully tested, complete, and ready to play till I scratched the thing by accident or lost it, not constantly filled with bloat to try and nickle and dime you.
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Not even a board game. A cosmetic skin for a board game....
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Be nice if this was kinda like the Blackbeard's brawl where you didn't actually draw from your deck unless you had a card that allowed you to and those were all a cheap minion with decent stat's instead of whatever these random decks are. Demon Hunter w/ soulstones is a great idea, but when I end up with a hand ful of 7 mana + cards on turn 4, whatever few stones I get in the deck end up milled.
Maybe a boost in starting mana (i.e. 3 mana on turn 1) would help some too.
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Just to add onto this a bit, a really good video from Hearthstone Mathematics on YouTube was put out this morning. They do a lot of breakdowns between expansions and with major changes. 10/10 video talking about the new changes and their thoughts on why they did it and how bad it is actually going to be.
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So, I know some folks play a lot less where the card packs are required to play (like me, but I still like opening packs), but why is the 2nd rewards track that is focused on battlegrounds overall worse than the first track focused on Standard? Same amount of points required, but only 2 Packs and a BG hero skin vs 6 packs and a standard hero skin?
I mean at least change the 2 packs out for some emotes or something? Maybe just 2 packs on the 750 tier, 2-6 emotes, and a BG hero skins or a Bob skin?
What do I know though... I'm still mad I can't buy 4 hero's to pick from for gold anymore.
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Poisoned Blade in wild might like it? But otherwise, yeah unless you can swap out your hero power.
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I'm assuming tokens and the new miniaturized stuff will work with this card, but I've got to wonder if cards that you buff in your hand (0 attack base going to 1 attack, or 1 attack/health base going to 2+ attack/health when buffed) will work the same way.