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Prime gave you Tyrande much sooner.

I'd actually say that some of the cards are too weak for zombeasts - the contestants combined two bad cards into one seemingly decent one, but way below the power level of a good zombeast.

Vicious Splitting Grub is the most insane - I love it, and the two separate cards are not OP, but the resulting combination is terrifying. Too terrifying in fact, so I won't be voting for that.

In the end I decided to vote only for Kindly Grandmummy. It's powerful, gives some nice removal and solid board presence while not being totally game winning. 

If Blizzard kept all its communications strictly un-opinionated, I would respect their decision to enforce the rules of the contract to penalise a political statement and keep the game environment completely neutral. However, Blizz is increasingly obnoxious with its virtue-signalling woke politics. Therefore, it has itself decided to become political. In this context, its decision to punish Blitzchung (and the casters, what?!...) is pretty pathetic a rightly deserves contempt.

My favourite is Seeking the Tomb, but as AhriFangirl2012 pointed out, it doesn't have any KaC mechanic, so it shouldn't qualify...? I didn't vote for it. I voted Unidentified Quest for the flavour and giving you different goals to go for in your games and Soul Render for flavour and being able to fulfil the requirements while staying simple.

Call of Icecrown looks fun, but seems imbalanced (for instance, the "Discover a 1-cost minion/secret" is waaaay weaker than the first two hero powers). Druid of Val'Sharah is too weak, especially seeing that you don't get to choose which aspect it will have. The other cards didn't interest me.

My understanding is that the "well played" emote is good manners at the end of the game, even if it was one-sided.

I do feel it as BM when someone goes "Thanks" when winning - as if they meant "thanks for the easy win, loser" (I know they don't have to mean that). I also know I sometimes want to press "well played" and click "thanks" by mistake, so it can be a miss-click. 

If it's a good, drawn-out game and the opponent doesn't "gg" or goes "thanks", it feels a bit sad.

That's just my point of view. Thumbs up to Banur's comment.

I must say I'm really enjoying this brawl! This week especially, as the decks feel very powerful and yet quite fragile, so they require good guidance to get to victory. So far I'm 5/0 in total with 4 different classes. 

Weird. Came to vote and the poll already had "Elise Questchaser" marked and the button was "Change Vote" instead of just "Vote" - like I had already voted. Except I hadn't. Also, I didn't vote for Elise. Tbh she seems overpowered and not really interesting.

Love the flavour on the C'Thun cards - voted for those! Also the Ogre Dinomagi, which is hilarious :-) And finally the Self-Upgrading Bot, which is cool.

Fertile Bunny should be 1/1 base stats. Also, it's missing the "Beast" tag. Lovely concept, but didn't make the cut for me for those reasons.

I don't know. I'm a casual player, and it makes me sad overall because I just don't like the "it's a Classic card that sees a lot of play => let's nerf it so it's not competitive any more". I liked that I could actually make a deck using mostly Classic cards and have a reasonable chance of winning if I played well at lower ranks. That option is getting removed one salami slice at a time. 

Flametongue Totem nerf makes me sad. At 3 mana, I doubt it will see any play at all. And it was a really good card that wasn't straightforward to play, it required strategy, decision-making on whether to use or not.

I don't play Rogue, but the Cold Blood nerf also seems like it means the card is effectively dead.

Hunter's Mark I don't mind so much, but it's high power level comes solely from Candleshot, where you could get in a 1-mana kill of a big minion with no downside - without the immune weapon, hitting it with face always hurt a lot.

Emerald Spellstone - I like playing Hunter and this nerf feels okay, the card is still fine. I'm actually glad some of the aggro potential was removed.

Equality - I can imagine it still being played at 4, but it makes Control Paladin decks a lot harder. They will need some better early-game options because sometimes Turn 4/5 Wild Pyromancer+Equality was lifesaving against aggro.

If there are really a majority of hunters, you should tech in anti-secret stuff and 3-health aoe to give you an edge and improve your winrate :-)

I understand the nerf and am quite glad it's out of Odd Pala, but I think they could have done it better. This way, the card is just dead. Because Even Pala will never want it - even in Wild, all the "make dudes" cards are odd-cost. 6 mana also makes it a bit too expensive. Personally, the change I would have liked would have been to leave it at 5 mana, but change the effect to +4 health and taunt (compare with Druid's Spreading Plague). That way, it's not an aggressive card, but it can be useful to make your board stick better or to combat the opponent's aggro. So it could still see use (also, a potential combo would be with the 3-mana "swap attack and health minion, but that's an 8-mana combo, not a 5-mana certainty).

For those that are just coming into the game mode this week:

• Stats really matter. It's one of the reason that Scavenging Hyena and Junkbot are very good (with the right builds you have heaps of beasts or mechs dying, making them huge), as well as Lightfang Enforcer being very good (in a menagerie build she gives +8/+8 in stats a turn, so if you were to get her early the total buffing overall could be insane).
• Besides stats, poisonous is super useful. Those huge health minions still die to one damage from a poisonous minion. Most teams will have at least one (an Amalgam), though menagerie may have 2 (with a murloc) and if you can pull off the murloc strat they preferably all have it.
• Try to get a handle of which tiers you want to sit at for longer than you might otherwise based on your strategy. For beast, you want to sit at tier 3 - you'll still have a good amount of tier 2 units (Scavenging Hyena and Rat Pack being the important ones here), while also having access to Pack Master (a mini Mama Bear, but much easier to get). For mechs, you want to sit at tier 4 for Junkbot and Security Rover, as well as access to the 3 star Cobalt Guardian. For menagerie you want to sit at either 4 and get some 3-ofs for triple treats, or go to 5 - at 4 you get Cave Hydra as well as most of the better mechs and beasts (and a necessary amalgam from the 2 star batch); 5 stars offers the Lightfang Enforcer and Anihilian Battlemaster (the 3/1 demon that battlecries for health equal to the damage you've taken - which is amazing in a menagerie deck that's giving it +2/+2 each turn). Demons and murlocs require a bit more to go right to win late game so I couldn't tell you which tier to sit at for those - but with demons it's probably tier 3 to try and get a golden Soul Juggler while still having access to Wrath Weaver and Imp Gang Boss, as well as Nathrezim Overseer. As for murlocs - it's ironically probably tier 5, despite a lot of their solid units being in earlier tiers. Fortunately murloc heavy tactics aren't very popular so you should still have plenty in the pool while rushing to tier 5, and at tier 5 you get Brann and can triple up to Gentle Megasaur at tier 6, which are both pretty important (Megasaur mainly, but Brann doubling battlecries is very useful) for murlocs to actually win a late game against beasts/mechs/menagerie.
• Rushing to higher tiers may feel sucky early, because you'll be losing rounds and taking hits - but just take a lesson from AFK; you take minimal damage early then can power spike with those higher tier cards. It's not a guarantee, and if you get to tier 4/5/6 and get offered junk you may just die due to your earlier damage, but sometimes the risk is worth it. It goes back to the last point - be aware of the strategy that you seem to be leaning towards based on what you've been offered and your hero, then try to get to the important tier you need as quickly as possible.

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I don't think Blizzard did anything wrong here. Blizzard is a profit business. Staying political neutral is the key to keep its business running. I hope if a Chinese player say anything offensive to Hongkong during the tournament, Blizzard would have banned the player in the same way. 

 I just can't find words to express how incredibly sick and tired I am of the bullshit argument "Blizzard is a business that has to make profit", as if that's somehow an excuse for them to do whatever. Since you don't seem to have a fucking clue what's going on, here's a short version:

China / Hongkong: Participates in some groes violation of human rights. 

Blitzchung: Makes a comment on how that's maybe not a good thing. 

The 2 casters: Happen to exist in the same room. 

Blizzard: Takes the livelihood and carreer opportunities away from all 3 of them. 

Fuck you and anyone else for taking Blizzard's side. Sincerely yours. 

This is a really poor decision for Blizzard. People forget that the Chinese government today is still the very same political party of Mao Zedong. His reign single handedly destroyed the country, eradicated most of the beautiful Chinese culture, and killed between 60 to 80 million people. While the progress of the Chinese economy has been nothing short of phenomenal over the last 20 years it doesn't change the fact the Chinese Communist Party runs the country unopposed. Criticism of the government is still illegal today - just one of the myriad ways they continue to oppress the Chisese people. Those who think they have it tough in the US under Trump are living in Lala Land and have no idea what oppression actually is.

In China they have implemented a social credit score along with mass surveillance of the population using hundreds of thousands of facial recognition cameras to monitor and control the people. Not a fan of the ruling party? Oh well, you get a low social credit score. What happens when you have a low score? Can't buy train or plane tickets. Can't have a bank account.

This is a truly stupid move from Blizzard and it shows once again the power of money. Trump gets a lot of flack for a number of things, some it truly deserved but his trade war with China is needed. They are slowly taking over the world in a financial sense - owning foreign companies, subsidizing local business to allow them to destroy global competition in order to 'win' on the global markets, and have little regard for things like intellectual property law.

People have little to no idea just how evil the CCP is. I absolutely love classical Chinese culture that gave us martial arts, chi gung, and Chinese philosophy like the tao de ching and the i ching. But the CCP is very very far from that.

Of all the things Blizzard have done in the past, this has upset me the most by some distance. To ban a player and essentially confiscate his earnings for criticizing an oppressive regime is one example of how effed up things are in the world today.

Bad move Blizzard. This shows without doubt that no value is placed on anything other than money. What about valuing diversity? Morals? A sense of democracy and fairness? Different points of view? Nope, we'll just take the money thank you.

I think this may be the first time I've actually been triggered by something. Disgusting. No other words for it.

Problem about it, is that it's going to feel really bad when it just randomly happens to you as an opponent considering it can happen as early as turn 6 without any cost reductions involved.

So with that in mind that "destroy the enemy hero" effects are so powerful that they need really bad drawbacks to it.

I honestly think we could get something like "If you control Romeo and Juliet, add Poisonous Drink to your hand". Poisonous Drink: "Give one of your sleeping minions Poisonous To Heroes" to balance it out.

People get tilted over the tiniest things. I always say Hello at the start and Well Played at the end. With a courteous Wow if my opponent opens with Lakkari Sacrifice or plays a card that I haven't seen played in ages (Nat Pagle). 

People get mad over emotes.

You think it is a nice greeting at the start, they think it is mockery; you think it is a compliment of their play or surprise over your top deck, they think it is BM; you think it is gg at the end, they think you are rubbing it in.

Children's card game, what can I tell you. /s

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what they should focus on is how they'll TEACH people who have a hard time understanding it to understand it.

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i might be wrong, but doing the Heroic Brawl just a few days after an expansion, where people spended Gold on packs, looks like ... well, in the end Blizz is just a company wanting money