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Not sure it's vanilla but okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

yup :)  https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/6458-rogue-card-reveal-togwaggles-scheme

Just a small detail : shouldn't it be  "A random golden Legendary from Rise of Shadows" for the mega bundle?

Yeah the winning strategy is to go Warrior and make a deck with only awesome 5+ mana minions. Hold the beginning with armor + most likely cheap minions from your opponent's deck, swap as early as possible, deal with the oncoming good cardthreat that your opponent drew during the first 4 turns thanks to Warrior spells (and the armor that you stacked) and on the long run you cannot lose if your opponent made a purposedly shit deck. 

Someone didn't log onto the game since Raiding Party came into being, it seems.

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No, because the pre-order this time is just terrible.

Witchwood gave you 70 packs. Boomsday was 50 with a golden legendary. Now that they've seen the complete flop of Artifact, they just chilled and just gave you 50 packs.

 Jeez, how is this an argument people actually have? Of course the pre-order is worse than Witchwood, because this expansion has a far higher power level so it clearly won't be the same "value". It has nothing to do with that sleeper of a game you mentioned. 

 I think what actually happened is a midpoint between what you two said: it might not be so much because of Artifact, but it doesn't have to do with the power level of the expac, which is something Blizzard can't actually forecast super accurately.

What happened is that sales last year, for Kobolds and Catabombs, might have been poor for whatever reason, and giving the 20 bonus packs for Witchwood was a way to get back on track. Since this measure was apparently successful, but still needed to give some incentives, they added the gold legendary in Boomsday. Now, I guess their sales are alright, and don't see the immediate need of giving incentives other than cosmetic stuff. The cycle will continue and, if sales aren't good enough here with RR, you can expect an amazing pre-order deal next year. No game lives forever, and as Hearthstone's commited player base naturally dwindles (to what extent, that we do not know), we're gonna see more and more great deals anyway.

Blizzard is never gonna abandon one of their games overnight.

As for the matter of printing cards based on the same ideas, it's not new, far from it. The first example that comes to mind is how Princess Huhuran got her value completely denied by Terrorscale Stalker which was literally the same effect printed on a Rare, and then it became a common spell in Play Dead But that's just one of many. 

Not all expansions have to bring many crazy ideas on the table: this one is clearly reinforcing existing archetypes, or ones that weren't as strong as they could be, and that's a good thing. 

That moment when the boss is about to die, and in two turns magically decides to hit both players twice in a row, dealing 28 damages. Fuck this piece of shit brawl.

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Well, to answer OP: I am sort of hyped about the expansion.

It kinda saddens me that the first thing people now say when seeing a card is "Odd/Even Class can now play this!!!" It's just sad when the community is already barricading half of their own collections for the sake of forced netdecking introduced in a previous expansion.

"Odd Warrior cannot run this.", "Odd Paladin doesn't need healing or immunity.", "I can sense this being used in Odd Rogue.", "Might see some play in Even Shaman in Wild." Oh wow, nice of you to already cut down half of the incoming cards before they come out. Back in the day, they were filler if they were bad. Now they are just filler if their cost is not the mainstream class cost! What a time to be alive.

Genn and Baku have pretty much neutered the Loa playstyle before they even came out, just because most of their spirits do not share a cost with them.

Still, I am hyped for those 15% of people who might not be so eager to leash their own deckbuilding by the balls and who may actually do something new during the first week. As for the rest, well, if I see Baku or Genn in the first few days I'll give them the instant-concede (it's probably the win they are after anyway).

 I mean, people who restrict everything to Odd / Even are just not seeing the potential of cards and deckbuilding in general. It doesn't have to sadden you, just build the decks that seem coherent to you, try them out, tweak them, and eventually come up with original stuff that'll wreck these Odd / Even netdecks like taking candy from a baby. 

12k gold, mainly because I'm not spending all my gold every expansion. Basically, this time around I'll probably get like 60-70 packs, so I keep the cycle going and have an increased reserve every expansion release. 

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If it was battlecry it would've been playable...

 you mean it would be a even better Fungalmancer.. 

It is important to remember streams have to hit more than one audience. Not only are they there to reveal more cards but also to help everyone understand what the expansion is all about - it helps drives more pre-orders.

The chance is very high that when the PlayHearthstone channel hits a high viewer count, old and even new players who are not even aware there is a new expansion are going to tune in. That's why you hear them constantly going over new mechanics, saying things like "if you're just joining us, the new expansion blah". Is it annoying? Yeah, it kinda sucks for the people who follow absolutely everything about the game.

That's what makes most of us here different though. A lot of the people at HearthPwn are what I'd consider more of the "hardcore" Hearthstone fan. Although people may not be the best at the game, everyone keeps in touch with what is going on. If you don't like the marketing streams, just stick to the occasional F5 of HearthPwn =)

Additionally, I am very disappointed in the people that are talking down on Cora and Chris. I've seen a lot of personal attacks and it just isn't cool.

Due to the announcement of the new expansion, I decided to make 2 cards based on Rise of Shadows, one for the good guys and one for the bad ones! For Dalaran defenders' faction I made an elemental for mages created to protect the candles of the magic city from the pesky Kobolds, while for the league of evil I made a warlock ethereal who follows Rafaam, but wants to steal something less shiny than a relic...

"Well, it seems Togwaggle wants more candle... Then he'll have to EARN it!"

"I like your soul... I think I'll take it!"

Multishot Huntress turns your Hunter's Hero Power into Baron Geddon , while Traveling Cleric provides the Priest an AoE heal. "Years later", it can be combined with Shadowreaper Anduin to create a similar outcome to the Hunter.

I voted with my vallet. Purchased both mega bundles.

Yeah it's ODD that she isn't in the deck, but she doesn't EVEN fit!

Where's the free stuff ?

That is a whole lot better than nothing...

I'm sure they'll miss you, as we all will.