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Salt thread purporting not to be salt threads are the best. 

Silence Priest is competitive and exceedingly fun. 

Unbelievable that this thread is still alive.  Perhaps there should be a trigger warning at the title screen for all of you very sensitive snowflakes.  You are seriously maladjusted if you take offense at every emote.

Warlock for me. Wrecked secret pally, combo druid, and all kinds of other annoying meta crap pre-WotoG

Here's the thing, the simple fact that you log in and play every day is not providing any value to blizzard. There are no ads for you to watch, so you're simply not contributing to the bottom line. 

These are all nice ideas. I certainly wouldn't mind getting more "free" stuff in game; but you're being naive if you expect better rewards for players who create no revenue. 

What might actually happen and would be a really good idea would be more of the "welcome bundle" of whatever they called that pack promotion around the ONiK release. People who don't otherwise put money into the game actually ponied up for that. 

Well, the obvious comparison here is with Azure Drake, since Drake is an identically-scaled card with virtually identical effects.  With the tribal tag and the battlecry effect as opposed to deathrattle, Drake is the more powerful card in a vacuum.  There are some exceptions, obviously, primarily in combo decks that will leverage the cheaper spell damage and don't care about the body or tribal tag.  So, (1), Thalnos is not quite on the same power level as its closest comparable card.

Also, there's the question of how a given card impacts the playabilty of other cards.  Azure Drake is more or less the default option in the five slot.  Sylv is the gold standard for 6-drop value outside of combo decks.  Rag is essentially the only 8-drop that sees play.  Thalnos does not have the same priority in the 2-slot.  Shaman runs it because of Spirit Claws and because its cheap AOE really benefits from the boost.  It makes sense in a lot of mage and Rogue decks, which can leverage cheap spell damage and appreciate the cycle.  That's really about it.  There's also the fact that so many decks run a number of 2 drops, while even the heaviest of decks will not run more than say 4 5-drops and 1-2 cards in the remaining heavier mana slots, many of which are AOE or removal.  So, Thalnos isn't keeping people from running cool cards that just don't have the same power level or utility in the 2-drop, unlike sylv, rag, and Azure.

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As i already said before,i'm considering cutting off the second auctioneer,thats another spot for something bigger and more impactful.Nourishes are very important to draw those discounted minions after the quest is done.And as for earthen scales,they are a substitute for the cards that are rotating out.And they can help you sustain more when it goes to aggro matchups.Or a 10+ armor up on a huge Jade golem vs mid range decks that are pushing for lethal,it might not be enough but it can buy you a turn to try and turn the table.

Also an easy activator for auctioneer,and a spell count for yogg.

As wild growth,i cant imagine any druid being without them,except maybe beast druids.Its a very important card to be left out.And in the worst case scenario,its a draw.And aswell a good auctioneer activator too.

 It just seems to me you're hoping for a perfect world ideal situation still (completing the quest, but only having 3 actual minions with 5+ attack, so you rely in Jade Golems, but then the minions who's cost would be reduced to zero who's attack ISN'T 5 is things like Gadgetzan, Thalnos, Druid of the Claw, Fandral, etc, since you're not running any actually big minions).  You say you want to use Nourish to draw the big zero cost minions - where are your big minions?

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You seem to not grasp a lot of things about how games go,maybe rank 15 at best i would guess depending on your post.Not much else i should add.

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Jade Druid going to be worse?Now that i has more survivability?It was only lacking that and it has it now.LOL

Quest with Jade Druid is a dumb idea. If you're in a position to play Auctioneer with your idols, there's no appreciable difference between spawning 2 and spawning 6.  It'll make for some nice screengrabs I guess, that and a whole lot of losses. 

Jade is going to be utter trash against aggro and tempo after the rotation. 

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Kazakus just isn't good enough by himself to justify playing a singleton deck.  You're sacrificing massive levels of consistency for a single play that isn't even your win-con; and in the process, you're weakening your win-con by having to rely on a Molten Giant as opposed to two Arcanes.  Kudos for being creative; but this feels like an even more limited version of what is already going to be a fairly difficult to play combo deck.

 Molten Reflection (with the arcane giant so the win condition is exactly the same, not any less strong) Just to cure your inconsistencies in reasoning. second. Turn 4 Kazakus turn 5 spell is of the most broken tempo plays in the game right now. Yes its less consistent, but There were 1000s of games where you didn't even draw reno and still won because of kazakus. If you don't draw reno in your singleton deck and don't actually need him for the match, did it matter you had reno? The only bad thing is the lack of bran, but the power of waygate is just so much more impactful. 

Not to mention you can Turn 9 Timewarp + kazukus and then turn 10 use the spell to swing tempo (like pull the deal 6 dmg and summon 3 minions one). 

Kazakus just isn't good enough by himself to justify playing a singleton deck.  You're sacrificing massive levels of consistency for a single play that isn't even your win-con; and in the process, you're weakening your win-con by having to rely on a Molten Giant as opposed to two Arcanes.  Kudos for being creative; but this feels like an even more limited version of what is already going to be a fairly difficult to play combo deck.

Great, give Jade Druid sustain.  That's just what the meta needs.

So you'll play this, your opponent will ignore it and smash your face, you finally trade it into an opposing minion, it summons a minion from your deck with no Choose or Battlecry triggered and your opponent smashes your face again?  It's pretty bad, and thank goodness given how busted the Druid quest will be when people pull it off.

I will never understand why the devs think it's a good idea to have cards reduced to 0 cost.  Mana reductions should always leave you at no less than 1.

Overcosted.  Hard to understand why this is 5 mana while Fandral is 4, particularly given Druid's capacity to cheat mana.  One day we'll get a good Priest legendary.