Hearthpwn

lol, this thread - "I lose to DH, why does this class and it's hero power exist? I shouldn't lose ever, but definitely not to this!"

Let's be real, DH hero power is half as good as Druid's hero power, ergo "half the cost". It's fair, it's class appropriate and if you don't want to lose to DH right now, play Control Warrior and farm your free wins.

It's supposed to give you the same amount of cards that are in your hand. It's basically another mulligan you can use at any time or with "bottom of the deck" shenanigans. What you likely saw was just an animation glitch or if you had Brann Bronzebeard it would replace your hand once, and then a second time.

 I'm confused because I'm pretty sure we have that in Amara, Warden of Hope and people who play her still lose plenty of games. Base health or health recovery are only one aspect of survivability. As people have mentioned, being able to burst an opponent down is huge issue, modifying health only changes that equation a bit.

Lol, man, what can I say that hasn't already been said except that most of the pirate rogue decks right now don't include Hooktusk because she's too slow and Rogue matches that aren't about combos are about maintaining good tempo. Whatever "value rogues" are out there right now just get more value from discovering other class cards and playing Tess. If Hooktusk was relevant for this meta, it'd be a good sign that it's slowed down enough to need it. As it stands, bupkis

Quote from Addisono >>

I saw this thread and thought to myself "it can't be that bad". As a Paladin main (essentially) I bought it, and boy oh boy, it's bad. Like, you couldn't even find a guy who impersonates the original voice? they didn't even try! I still like it though, I like the hero power effect and the art itself, but yeesh. 

I'm gonna save the pally packs for next expansion. That should work right? make them the first packs I open when the new set launches. 

 I watched the video of it in use with all the emotes just to judge for myself, and you're right the art, the card back - the le package totale - is overall pretty good.... BUT, what does everyone remember Leeroy for? It's that line, the "Leeeeeeeeerrrrooooooy Jeeeeeeeennnnnnkiiiinns" line - in that Leeroy Jenkins voice. You can probably play with the sound off (that's how I play HS 95% of the time, since it's mostly on my mobile), but there is such a lost opportunity to really showcase something that was a huge cultural moment for Blizzard, and they just shat all over it like they do so many things! Uggh, so mad right now - what a waste!

Quote from sxavalentine >>

I probably faced a Reno warrior only.

You think that there aren't many because of meta (not many hyper aggro), because there aren't incentives to play monocopy beside Reno himself or because there are better healing options nowadays?

I am playing a bit of Reno Pally on Legend rank, and while I have to admit that Reno proved useful only a couple of times, the deck seems good

 Probably a little of both of those and the ability of some classes to burst 20+ damage in a turn. The current aggro decks seek to close out the game before turn 6, and that means that without a good pool of single one-off answers, you'll have to run some duplicates. If you are a control deck in this meta, it just makes more sense to run a straight control deck that seeks to shut down your opponent's aggro in the early game and stabilize for the end-game. There are a lot of stabilization tools for gaining health/armor that make Reno a sub-optimal play most turns. In control warrior you can play Frozen Buckler and Shield Shatter to gain life and clear a board for 2 mana, that leaves 4 for another minion - that's a much better turn 6 board swing than healing +15 or whatever, leaving a board un-dealt with and having a 4/6 minion the opponent can sidestep. There's almost always a better play than Reno, sometimes, and if that is the case it's better to stuff your deck with good cards and just win with good cards. Don't get me wrong, it's awesome when he does flip that moment, or if you Brann+Zola him and keep him coming a few times - makes for some fun games - but as it stands right now, the card pool will need to get bigger to supplement the singletons with a wider variety of "good enough" answers to make running a Reno deck viable. Right now, there are just too many better plays.

Quote from FlyingCarrot >>

I dont care what anybody says but, the voice sucks.
its not even inch close to the og leeroy jenkins.

 You're not wrong, it's like they got a middle-aged frat-dad to record lines on their iphone while watching the big game. Sucked so hard. og Leeroy has that deep baratone, should have just paid the real leeroy to do it

Well, if you think about it as kind of "better stealth", if you don't mind not going face for a turn it can be pretty good. board clears and other removal effects will be hard to pull off.

People who are like, "hOw CaN yOu SuMmOn 8 PiRaTeS?!?" haven't paid attention to pirate warrior for the last year. It's eminently doable. This card is... wow... things that interact with your opponent's deck or hand? Goodbye, combo decks. This I could see easily being part of a tempo-pirate rogue deck where you need some last bit of "oompf" to get you through those heavy control decks that can stall out your early tempo. Someone Kazakusan? Thanks for the 5 treasures! Couldn't play your quest reward Tamsin the same turn? I'll take that! The people that can't see the value of this lack vision.

All the Colossal minions are awesome. It'll be like a mini-boss fight you and your opponents unleash on each other. For a game that's has lot's of "feel bad" moments, I think that these will only generate "feel good" moments. Launching yours or theirs - or having a kaiju battle between them... win, lose, or draw it'll be a hoot.

Ah yes, they rolled out that loveable ol' chestnut of "people in the world are in misery, don't you dare like things in it and be sad about stuff that isn't life and death!"

The secret is these people would still be joyless even if the world were a great place.

Yep - it'll take some time for the almond activators to get at it.

Quote from TicTacTimeHS >>

Happens in pretty much every war ever.

The invaders rarely get the punishment they deserve.

Like when 8 countries (Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Austria-Hungary) invaded China due to unfounded reasons, those countries were not punished at all. (of course the western world would argue differently, saying they had a good reason to)

Did those countries make up lies just to invade and rob China? Yes.

Did those countries return countless priceless cultural relics to China? No.

Are children in those countries ever going to learn about that part of history? No.

And let's not forget the women and children in all of this, they suffered the most.

This is why you want your country to be powerful so other countries cannot bully you around.

 Was that before or after Mao Zedong had 55 million of his own people killed?

Kupala Night Jaina - seems topical

Quote from Valqara >>

Pogo still not banned in this brawl? Easy win in under a minute.

 RIP another week of brawls