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Is it not summer? I thought "Blizzard" will  release "Frozen Heroes" when "Winter Is Coming" !

Basically if you're aiming to build your collection over time, dusting cards, especially Legendaries, is super inefficient. If you don't have the cards for a fad deck, just play ones you've got, or substitute another card into the deck until you have earned enough gold, or received the dust through duplicates or are a or end of season, anywhere except dusting legendaries. It'll make your collection building far more efficient and the fad deck will more than likely be countered by the meta in a few weeks anyway

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I guess it depends on how much you play, but if you look at my post above you'll see that it (in the situation mentioned) has improved your chance to draw any particular card (with 2 in the deck) by around 5%. So over a large number of games that will make a real difference. Smaller decks are ALWAYS better in TCG and CCGs. 

I think you're confused on the math. 2/21 is 9,52%, 2/20 is 10%. That's an increase of (slightly less than) a half procent, not 5%. You'd need to thin out 6+ cards to get an odds increase like that.
You can argue that every increase matters, but 0,5 is pretty meaningless.

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Deck thinning in a deck that aims to play 10 out of the 30 cards is pretty inconsequential. Playing 2 cards for one however is pretty invaluable, and even more so for an aggro token deck that wants to buff as many minions as possible. The combination with Corsair makes it MVP in the pirate warrior matchup, as added bonus.

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I would like to point out the deck thinning with patches you said is irrelevant however, you're not drawing through your whole deck since it's an aggro deck , patches is purely extra damage, and nothing else.

You've basically summed up the pros and cons. The only thing I'd say is I don't think Ice Elemental is better than the pirate weapon hate, (I forget the name!) in this deck at least. It's easier to remove, and has a more defensive effect in this aggressive deck. Odd situation, but with the buff potential the 1/2 body is easier to keep around so easier to get buffs onto. 

With that said though, I crafted Patches way back when it was necessary for Miracle Rogue (and everyone else!) so I have him. Crafting decisions are harder than deck decisions, but suffice to say, if you had him already I'd call it a no brainer

3 planned for this year, so probably 4 months after this one released. Which was just really recently, why worry about the next one already?? 

I'm not sure if you understand what a keyword is. The cards are important due to their TEXT, not their KEYWORDS. 

To use the example Max did, do you think Emperor Cobra is more powerful because they changed the card from "Destroy any minion damaged by this" (text)  to "Poisonous" (keyword)? Of course not. It does the SAME THING. 

Keywords help experienced players parse cards quickly. They are also a barrier to inexperienced players, and most importantly, they do NOT add (or remove) any power to cards. Read the last paragraph of the article again: if they turned Ravaging ghouls text to "Ravenous" or Cult Masters to "Redraw" or whatever, the cards gain NO strength. The keywords add NO power to the cards, the abilities do that, which can be keywords or text. 

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 taunt warrior is not control just a late midrange deck full of taunts... "combo" rogue is hardly a real combo deck... but yes it has the keyword combo in it... combo is more like you set you deck around doing some insane shet in one or two turns... this type of rogue just plays two random cards a turn or 4 random cards... no real though just doing ramdom shet... no real combo deck plays like that

 Yes, and if I redefine hot to cold, then you can see that I've invented this amazing hot freezer here.

 Sure, he may be begging the question, but I think there is a hidden point there, but it goes back to the OP's point, There are some choices to be made to play quest rogue optimally, but it's basically a newbies version of a combo deck, forgiving and a little OP.

 

For Paladin synergy, you missed Fjola and her twin in wild. Also potentially Djinni? 

Play as quest rogue for a while and you'll learn its weaknesses: when I've played it I lose vs decks that go wide and go face. The most effective strategies seem to be 1) play many minions and pressure face as much as possible, 2) when the rogues quest is near, or he's likely about to play it, CLEAR HIS BOARD (if you've gone wide you should be able to easily knock off his 1/1s and keep a pressuring board), 3) face race him since you already took him too low to survive. Also, counter spell, or the new mage secret (I forget it's name, it gives you a copy of a spell played) can ruin his day if you have them, so can potion of Polymorph. 

The words you're looking for are "Fun and interactive" 

It's worth remembering that the reason that the Nozdormu bug got fixed is because of Toast making a video about it. Before that it had been in the game for, what, 2 years? More? I forget. 

Well, in the regard of a weak minion starting in your hand, I'd say giving it a mana cost hike doesn't work. Making some other sort of drawback would probably be more appropriate. Maybe 0 mana 3/0, "Starts in opening hand. Taunt. Destroy this minion after you gain 2 mana crystals. Can't attack. Battlecry: give this minion 3 health. "

Or something like that where it's useful to have early, and can't play with silence shenanigans. Obviously too wordy for actual use, but displays what I mean I hope. A 2 mana 0/2 is just too bad for play regardless of starting in your hand. 

I think usually it's much much later than midnight, but I forget exactly. 10-11 is probably a good guess. 

Of course with Blizzard the most accurate answer is "Soon(tm)".