Hearthpwn

You need to have space on your board to summon more charge minions, which means your opponent needs to have minions to charge them into to kill them.

Is kind of tricky to play around, though. Your opponent will know you're prepping a charge turn with the sigil, but if they play taunt to shield their face you still have the potential to go face with Adrenaline Fiend after clearing their taunt.

The same way any card that doesn't have a rune requirement would?

I just want to say it's kind of shocking to me that they're actually supporting an archetype for warlock two expansions in a row.

It didn't seem like any of the cards in the set were going to be impactful for the archetypes I've been playing. I haven't actually played yet since before the expansion launched, though.

Guessing the most noteworthy thing in the patch was the Brann nerf.

Glad more people finally seem to be catching on to how busted paladin is and has been for literally years now. It's been riding the top spot consistently in every expansion, it dodges nerfs, and they always release powerful new cards.

The old silver hand recruit looks dated by comparison, and frankly also not like a recruit.

Same. All claimed, but missing Harth Stonebrew bartender, one of the Whizbang packs, and the golden Whizbang pack.

So this is purely a hypothesis, but I'm seeing some commonalities in who is and isn't facing bots in this thread.

I've done the full Legend climb for the last four months and I have only clocked maybe one or two bots this whole time. Lately I've been playing most days, at least enough to complete the daily quests, mostly because we've had a lot of events with event quests back to back and you only have one slot for those dailies. Sometimes I let my quests accumulate for three days. I've also been grinding out 500 wins on DK so I've been making an effort to get 5 wins a day when I do play.

Hitting Legend each season means I start each season with a 10x star bonus, which quickly turns into a 20x/18x/16x star bonus due to win streaks as I progress. That allows me to leapfrog to Diamond within a relatively short span. In other words, I usually only spend a few days in the Gold-Platinum range. Diamond 5, where the win streak bonuses stop, is where things get difficult. I definitely don't think I saw any bots in that range. I spent the last five days or so seesawing back and forth between Diamond 3 and Diamond 1 before finally getting the win streak I needed to breach Legend, and most of those games were hard fought.

All this to say, I think what's happening is:

The consistent Diamond/Legend players are able to fairly easily climb beyond the metal ranks due to bonus stars and hidden MMR and so mainly wind up facing each other.

Bots wind up getting hard stuck in the metal ranks--Gold 5, Plat 10, etc.--and so players who don't climb as consistently, have fewer bonus stars, lower MMR, or who also get hard stuck in metal ranks also wind up accumulating in the same areas where the bots accumulate, and so wind up facing them more frequently.

Sargeras needs to be played from hand to get the battlecry that gives you the portal. Without the portal his abilities don't work.

The signature cards all depict toy versions of the characters.

It's made of paper and arcane magic. Even if you're going to try and use that as an argument, wouldn't that make it a treant rather than an elemental?

Am I the only one who hasn't seemed to face bots at all? I ran into one guy running a basic starter deck when I was around Gold. Everyone else I've played (hit Legend about five days ago) has been using a meta deck, mostly warrior, paladin, and DK, and none of them seemed to show signs of being a bot.

Looks like paladin is heading back to the top of the charts.

Getting a lot of "not responding" errors on PC after the update.

Official name for "can't be targeted by spells or hero powers." Guess they're making it a keyword finally.