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Hey gang

during a recent Duels run I picked Paladin and thought I would try out Favored Racer. After getting to 3-0, I noticed the racer never ‘improved’ the number of blessings it bestowed on itself and is still casting a single blessing. Am I doing this wrong? Does it need more wins before improving? Does anyone know if it’s bugged? I tried searching around for it but can’t seem to find any information.

secondarily, I played against a rogue who had the hero power ‘Connections,’ the one that gives you the 1/1 informant turtles.  Does anyone else think this was originally supposed to be ‘add one coin to your hand every turn?’ Looking at the art, it’s an Orc holding a bag of coins—no turtles to be seen. I think this was likely a Dr. Boom’s Scheme situation, where they had some content and realized it was too powerful then changed it without changing the art. Thoughts?

I expect handbuff and rush are going to be a direction for a tempo warrior. And with many decks losing their board wipes, it’s reasonable to think minion focused play would be a thing. I think it sounds fun!

220 dust! Alright!

For as long as I can remember there was always at least one neutral taunt card that satisfied either a need for stickiness or survivability, and at this point I would expect that to be the way it always will be. We had Sludge Belcher, Tar Creeper, Saronite Chain Gang to name a few. Without cards like these, control would have a hard time seeing the light of day. 
if I had to say anything here needs a nerf I would say they need to re-examine how res pool works. One dead minion shouldn’t be able to have copies of itself resurrected. 

I was never very much into aggro for some of the reasons you mention, but then last month I switched to discard lock and I would say the chance shoot your self in the foot with a bad discard offsets what I feel is jerky about aggro.

but really, you don’t need to play the game just for ranked wins. Sometimes I play with cards like Deck of Chaos, and I consider it a win if I can just play that one single card. If I manage to beat someone (and sometimes I do!) it’s just the icing on the  cake.

174 here. And to think I jumped on the “this is unfair! How can they take our rewards and make leveling so hard!” Bandwagon! I didn’t buy the tavern pass either.  The biggest irony for me is that with all this gold I don’t see myself buying the new expansion with $$

I don’t believe it’s likely to be played anymore than Duels and I don’t exactly expect it to be a big success. I can appreciate it’s a new mode and for some people it will be something they really enjoy. 
I would be surprised if they added all the other expansions to it in time, but if they choose to go that route I hope it’s a format where everything is pre-nerf.

I’ve been asking myself for days now why they made Kingsbane 1 mana. But really, I would rather see it go to 2 durability. The swings should be thoughtful and saved for when there are good buffs on it. Rogue has enough weapon tutors to re-equip it reliably but I can’t imagine Blizzard wanted them to be able to pull endless 5+/3 weapons

Another change I would like to see is a change to graveyards. Priest being able to resurrect numerous copies of the same minion is incongruous with the amount of mana invested in getting the minions on the board. One dead Scrapyard Colossus should at most be revived to be the original and its deathrattle.

For years I avoided Wild, and back in December I thought I’d give it a try. I love it! But I do get tired of the Big Priests.  

I think it’s probably a success by some measures—Blizzard succeeded in giving a fairly priced package of new cards and while not all of them are viable now, I think it’s likely they will have more influence come rotation.

it didn’t shake up the composition of the meta completely, but the meta feels a little different than before. Arbor Up and Nitroboost Poison are probably seeing the most play, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Lightsteed and Landslide open up some new territory for Priest and Shaman later.

 I think it’s surprising that Ramp Paladin came to prevalence when it did. the Crabrider really can’t be the thing that was missing to get this deck to take off. And you would think with there would be more warlocks and priests running Hysteria for it, but all anyone could see was Tiller (Hey now!!)

The teants not being a tribe thing has always been strange to me. Considering that there are cards that count your treats across different expansions for a card’s effect (Aeroponics or Goru for example) it stands to reason that Waste Warden should see these are the same type of minion even if they wouldn’t belong to a tribe

I got Tenwu of the Red Smoke and Grand Totem Eys’or. Super stoked too cuz I already had a golden eys’or!

happy year of the ox, don’t get tricked by any Dirty Rats

I never used immunity, I would double buff the Thrasher with Powr Overwhelming and then treated very to the other side, THEN play rafaams scheme to fill my board before hitting the hysteria

My Hysteria Treachery Neferset Thrasher build survives!

not sure if the change to deathrattle hunter hero power is going to do enough.