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When I clicked on this thread, I was expecting to be talking about Hearthstone bears and the ranking thereof. Imagine my disappointment when y'all were limiting yourselves to polars and pandas!

So I went ahead and scoured the collection for bear-type cards so that we can get down to some REAL (fake) ursine business:

• Addled Grizzly
• Amani War Bear
• Anodized Robo Cub
• Bear Form
• Bearshark
• Furbolg Mossbinder
• Grizzled Guardian
• Ironfur Grizzly
• Mama Bear
• Mech-Bear-Cat
• Misha
• Plush Bear
• Savage Combatant
• Ursatron
• Witchwood Grizzly

There may be some tokens I missed, so if there's one you know of, just let me know and I can edit! Also, I only went with Minion cards, because trying to get all the spells that feature bears on them didn't seem right.

For my money, the Best Bear is the Anodized Robo Cub. So cute! So versatile! So artificial!

 I totally forgot about FurBOLGs until seeing this one here... I definitely think this one is cool, because it's a magic bear. Also, have they been completely underrepresented in HS or is this list missing more of these guys?

Also, their name is fun to say.

Fur-BOLG.

Turns out they HAVE been completely underrepresented, because that is literally the only one I could find (as a minion) in the entire collection. They might appear on some Spell cards, but based on what I could find, that's the only time a furbolg has specifically been featured on a minion card.

When I clicked on this thread, I was expecting to be talking about Hearthstone bears and the ranking thereof. Imagine my disappointment when y'all were limiting yourselves to polars and pandas!

So I went ahead and scoured the collection for bear-type cards so that we can get down to some REAL (fake) ursine business:

• Addled Grizzly
• Amani War Bear
• Anodized Robo Cub
• Bear Form
• Bearshark
• Furbolg Mossbinder
• Grizzled Guardian
• Ironfur Grizzly
• Mama Bear
• Mech-Bear-Cat
• Misha
• Plush Bear
• Savage Combatant
• Ursatron
• Witchwood Grizzly

There may be some tokens I missed, so if there's one you know of, just let me know and I can edit! Also, I only went with Minion cards, because trying to get all the spells that feature bears on them didn't seem right.

For my money, the Best Bear is the Anodized Robo Cub. So cute! So versatile! So artificial!

Fogsail Freebooter seems really out-of-place here. I feel like Loot Hoarder might be a better fit, since he can be pulled from the Razorboar and doesn't rely on weapon synergy. Honestly, I'd probably cut the Umberwings too, and put in something like Sigil of Flame for board clear (in a lot of cases, you won't mind if your guys die) or Animated Broomstick to get some more immediate impact out of your minions.

What is it that you're looking for/expecting here? Are you talking about things like Khadgar's different hero power animation?

I'm not so sure that it won't matter. I could easily see Rogue getting a minion that interacts with Nature spells. Call it "Merchant of Death," give it "Battlecry: Discover a Nature spell." For Rogues, it's pretty much guaranteed to hit some sort of weapon buff, which could be interesting.

I am a native American English speaker, and "paralytic" can have the meaning you described as well as the meaning on the card. "Paralytic," in this case, is just using the -ic suffix in its usual way to mean "related to the word preceding it."

Therefore, this poison is related to paralysis, and the specific relation is that it causes paralysis in those affected by it (hence the lack of damage received by the wielder of the poison).

"Paralyzing Poison" would work just as well, so it's just a stylistic difference. Also note that since Blizzard is a US-based company, they're more likely to use the Z in paralyzing, rather than the S in paralysing that you proposed.

I did token Druid, faced off against Demon Hunter. Once I had some mana, I used the first turn to build a board, second turn to Arbor Up and attack face. He cleared the first wave of that, so then I just did it again.

You clear your board, then repopulate it with the cheap minions in your hand. You don't have to play this on 4.

Has the scaling for later ranks been revealed yet? Everyone is assuming that it'll only increase by 1 per level, but I haven't seen anything that shows that explicitly.

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't see there was a video. Is there no way to delete comments?

This may come as a surprise to you, but whatever game this card is from, it's not Hearthstone, so it doesn't make any sense to compare the two.

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It DOES look like Kazakus’ belt, but it begs the question of why the hell would Kazakus be in the barrens which has zero ties to gadgetzan, unless it’s like a trade route link but that’s a large effort to link the two..

The Barrens is home to Ratchet, which is another goblin outpost in the Steamwheedle Cartel (along with Booty Bay, Everlook and yes, Gadgetzan), so it's pretty minimal to link these two lore-wise, since they're already linked.

Silver Hand Recruits are 1-mana minions, so Rally will get those back even without running any 1-cost minions in the deck. Plus you could stick First Day of School in there if you really wanted 1-mana minions that couldn't be Recruited.

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As implied earlier, the art style has (as I see it) gone from a MTG like drawing style to a more "cartoonish" style. Maybe this has been done slightly on purpose, given that the "quality improvement" of WC3 reforged was a fiasco and by some called "Chinese phone game style".  In other words, Team 5 might want the game to stand out as a Warcraft game. Or they just try to save money IDK.

The themes are another thing IMO. TGT was arguably the most childish and jesting expansion of them all, but the drawing style was still more MTG/fantasy book-like. That DMF and Scholomance both have a very warm/jesting theme is more coincidental I think. AoO seemed darker and more WOW oriented than the whole past years expansions. With a touch of Mad Max of course ;)

I always love when people use M:tG as an example of "non-cartoony card art," conveniently ignoring cards like this gem:

I went with an aggro elemental burn Mage, and cleaned up 5 wins in 5 games for my Weekly. Now I remember why Ice Lance got HoF'd in the first place. An absurd amount of burst, especially on the turns when Imprisoned Phoenix wakes up.