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I've seen a lot of people talk about Quest Hunter as the place for this card because of the sheer number of 1 drops you end up running and the implication seems to be that you can use this to boost your early game and control the board. If that's what most people are thinking about in terms of how this fits in Quest Hunter, I wonder if this actually fits better in some kind of Midrange/Control Quest Hunter that plays this late game to boost the 15 raptors as a win condition. Perhaps at that point this is just a "win more" condition, but one of the issues with the raptors in late game was that you weren't guaranteed to snowball your draws and get a full board, and this might make those raptors more impactful when if you do stall out.

I take a pretty different stance on this issue than the original poster. Looking at login bonuses and other trivial daily bonsues as a reward for your loyalty seems backwards to me. Those kinds of things are tools for a lot of freemium games as a way to keep people coming back, and in general freemium caters to "whales" and aggressively power creeps content to keep a small percentage of their audience supporting them. Hearthstone, on the other hand, does have a lot of content that operates on a level playing field regardless of whether or not you pay in (such as Arena and the myriad Tavern Brawls which feature pre-made decks). Furthermore, the developers are very open with their audience and have regularly described their worries about F2P players and new player experiences. That's a big part of why ranked changed a short while ago.

Trump has, on occasion, done F2P challenges where he's pushed himself to succeed without paying any money into a fresh account. While he's certainly playing a lot more than a typical player, he has regularly proven out the viability of a deck made without money. The fact that it will take you a little longer than the month he spent on it shouldn't be surprising - he's playing quite a bit more than you (and by your standard, is therefore much more loyal). That doesn't mean you can't build a good collection or have fun.

The reality is that we've all gotten way too used to getting free stuff online as most of the online ecosystem is supported by ad revenue instead of subscriptions. No one advertises to you while you're playing a game of Hearthstone, and new content is pushed out regularly. If you want to demonstrate your loyalty to a product, you do so by putting your money where your mouth is, not by just showing up.

I don't think there's any "original" audio. They play both "play" sounds over each other in game when Lyra is summoned, and the mixing inevitably requires changing the volume for each and will change the way you hear it. Maybe the could have better emphasized the voice, but it's almost certainly the same thing they do to most legendary cards. (A notable difference could be that the male characters tend to have lower tones, which in turn aren't as significantly altered by mixing with music.)

Noble Vaporize.

I think the main problem with discard warlock is all the cards that discard cards do so at random. I think there are 3 solutions to this;

1) make all discard cards choose the card you discard, thereby removing the random element entirely. The problems with this is the discard cards would be much more powerful and probably need to be nerfed, and blizz would have to program the ability to select one of your cards with a battlecry.

2) make all discard cards use some sort of parameter for their discarding; for example, "discard one of the highest cost cards in your hand" or "discard a random warlock card from your hand, if you have no warlock cards in hand, discard a random card instead." The problems with this is it's still random somewhat, and it requires alot more text which might exceed the four lines of text rule

3) make the cards that get a bonus from being discarded eg Silverware Golem have the text "if you would randomly discard a card, discard this card instead." The problem with this is the cards with these effects would need to be balanced 

Plague Scientist + Wild Pyromancer gives Rogue great mass removal.

Plague Scientist + Stonetusk Boar = Assassinate with a 2/3 on board

I would love a huge 'aha' moment like that. Admittedly, Blizzard knows when they are making good and bad cards and has said they make a mixture of both for the health of the game. If the quest doesn't align with this card, then I'll be disappointed that they used a legendary as a throw away.

Anyone feel like this indicates that the Druid quest might make beasts in your deck cost much less? like 3-5 mana less after you beat the quest (perhaps of playing somewhere between 6-7 beasts)? Just a thought. I'm probably wrong though but you have to think that they would incentivize playing this card in some manner or another.