Hearthpwn

Surprised nobody mentions Shadow Ascendant this undead card will definitely see play. It was a great card back then it will be strong now. I know we have yet to see all the expansion cards but it looks we may see a great undead aggro priest deck coming up.

We can tell them to stop the mana cheating the power creep, the non interactive or solitaire decks, the overpowered-finisher card but "they" won't do anything about it because imo, there is a significant percentage of players playing the game on their mobile and these guys probably have different playing habits than the others, I guess they don't play for hours on and go for like fast winning decks. They will not take the risk to lose these players. I may be wrong but I strongly believe it's part of the problem.

My bets: Priest, DH and Hunter will get hit...maybe Druid. Either because they are too strong or just plainly unfun to play against.

Damn that Core Set changed my mind. I will get the next expansion!! Love to see these old cards coming back!

Another card you can build an OKT deck with...Sigh!

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Elden Ring? Seriously? The "dodge, attack, dodge, attack, dodge dodge, attack"-Game? I thought it was already dead!!? Wow!

 LOL! If I go down that road as well then HS is a "draw card, play card, draw card, play card"-Game. See how stupid is your comment?

OK I have seen the cards...more of the same. It's not bad nor good, just more of the same. I am ok with it though I am going full casual player/F2P next expansion. Elden Ring is my thing now...what a game!!!

No predictions, I don't care cause I'm busy playing Elden Ring. Will still play HS a bit though.

Reached legend with this deck farming (mostly) Druids.

Another solitary/otk deck as expected. Team 5 being, that predictable should tell you something..at least be worried.

But Mercenaries is shallow and boring, so that would be rather foolish.

We want tournament mode for the love of God.  We dont want this shit.  How hard is that to understand?

I think people wanted another game mode that they could want to play. Then they get this and don't get that feeling so they are mad. It's understandable. 

not only will i not spend money on this mode, i'll stop spending the little i am spending atm on standard packs with pre orders ... unless they see the light one day ? we can still hope (may be ?)

Nope, still don't give a shite

Feels like Blizzard got it all wrong, since the objective was to make this their unholy Cash cow, but then making the PVP matchmaking system so that a whale can't face a "Rejector" (a rebel unwilling to spend money, in Activi$ion's eyes) hardly encourages the whale to furthermore spend more money, since there is just no motivation (the Joy of beating up and dominate most of the field)

Just a totally pointless mode competitive wise, yea it might only get used for it's PVE content, but for how long will it keep solo players interested ? ...

scamstone

Because the mode confirms everything we have dreaded blizzard becoming. I have been a blizzard fan for more than 20 years. I was a top 500 star craft player in a former lifetime and looked forward to every blizzard product. 

The decline started with their purchase by Vivendi, but still Blizzard put out great products that were well worth the money. Even if MMORPG were not your thing, they certainly did it well with WOW. Blizzard was known for not releasing games until their ready and were not known as money grubbing scumbags like EA. 

Even Overwatch was a good game on release. Well polished, solidly balanced and fun to play. Only the matchmaker was aids.

But in Hearthstone, you see every cynical trick. Every change is designed to extract more dollars from their player base. The rigging is so disgusting it is absurd, it is like you are not even playing a game, just something meant to feel like a game that attempts to get you to spend money. I was overjoyed when I found hearthstone, I was a former ranked magic player (the physical card game over 20 years ago) and had given it up when my kids were born (too much time, too much money) so hearthstone was a god send. A digital way for me to play an old gamestyle I thought I could never return to from a company that I then respected and trusted. 

Then I saw the rigging....and then I came here to ask about it, what people thought and was met with  such a ridiculous response of derision and gaslighting that I was taken aback and decided to re-evaluate my stance. i looked into blizzards game design philosophies, I watched videos, read articles and found that no, I am right, the game is rigged.  But I could not understand why so many bright, articulate people on this site were so absolutely sure that hearthstone was not rigged. Then when you laid out the case for why you believe it is.....the response says everything.

The response was well, that is not proof and you are stupid tinfoil hat, confirmation bias dumbass if you think it is rigged without definative proof......and I thought...what a bizarre response......then I learned what a community manager was.

See I started on the internet in a different age, when people had open and honest conversation and looked to learn from each other. The various boards were not filled with shills and plants hammering their talking points and brigading anyone who dared stray from the corporate script. But now the internet is filled with people with agendas, be they corporate or political, and to think that some innocent kid comes to a site like this to find out more about a game they like and are met by a bunch of goons trying to make sure he spends the most he can is disgusting to me. 

So I come by from time to time to tweak the shills and point out the obvious about the game. Things like team 5 sucks and the quests are all overpowered, things like merenaries and duels are cynical stupid products that people should avoid. I will give the occaisional positive shout when they do something good like fix the terrible reward track or release classic mode. But it general my stance toward blizzard has changed quite a bit in the last 5 years. Mercenaries is just one more step down the EA path.