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The balanced change would have just to change it to "your minions with 3 or less attack have charge" that way the frothings would lose charge once they become 24/1's.  Tons of people had been saying this and I'm surprised that blizzard decided to totally change the card into a shitty raid leader.

Good story bro

My advice is to have fun but don't make silly mistakes with purchases.  When I started out I bought the 10 pack bundle (I think its 10 packs, too lazy to check) a couple of times instead of going for the 40 or now 60.  It was that Wow! opening packs reaction mixed with the I don't want to spend too much money, but in the end just buying bigger bundles of cards faster makes more sense than the trickle approach. 

Most importantly, HAVE FUN.  lower ranks can be a blast and doing the best with what you got feels good. 

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I know that many people will not agree with me on this, but actually its the truth. 

The 2 arguments I will make are 1: +1 Health; and 2: It doesn't summon that Slime.

Now you may think, "What's the big deal about 1 more health?" Well its a big deal when that health becomes 6. That means that the only real out to this is Fireball, Polymorph, Hex, or Flame Lance (which no one uses)whereas there are a lot of cards that deal 5 damage: Last swing of Death's Bite, Starfall, Kill Command, Shield Block into Shield Slam to name a few. So its a lot harder to trade properly with this. 

Also, it doesn't drop a Slime. Now you may be thinking, "Isn't that a good thing?" Not really. ESPECIALLY against Patron Warrior. With Sludge Belcher, if they get over it with, for example, the final charge of Death's Bite, they will summon a bunch of Grim Patrons and have a cheap minion to make more with. Also the Slime is not worth the extra health on Fen Creeper. The Slime only has 1 attack, which means that if they can deal 5 damage, they can just Kill the slime with basically anything and come out even. Whereas if they can deal 5 damage and you have Fen creeper, You will almost certainly be able to destroy whatever minion they have(this is why Spider Tank is better than Harvest Golem). 

And that is why Fen Creeper is better than Sludge Belcher.

And to all of you who disagree, I certainly do not wish the pleasures of sexual intercourse upon you.

Sorry but in your "this deals with 5 health section" all the solutions you gave still left a slime.  That's the point of sludge belcher.  It's bad on patron but pally's got it worse with a whole fucking hero power that hurts them.  What, you addressed that the slime isn't worth the one health? One damage is easy to come by and all those fives make easy sixes, but not easy sevens.  go ahead an think on that while you are having all the self allotted intercourse you need.

I love the UI design you came up with and love the idea too that slots 2-9 could be unlocked while leveling to get rid of the overwhelming issue with new players.  They could have chosen to do something involving getting a slot with each hero portrait, IE buying the 9.99 cosmetic hero skin would give you another deck slot, not sure on what the UI would look like for that.  This would be a good option for them to make money because it would have caught some people on the fence of whether or not to buy a new hero and it would have brought in those that just want the deck slot.  But who knows what will happen, or more importantly; when?

I would prefer to see Cutpurse buffed before Kodorider as well.  But wait if we are making arbitrary demands to Team 5, then I want 60 packs plz!

So I was up late on the 31st/1st getting odds and ends done figured that I might as well wait for my highly anticipated ranked rewards chest.  I did read about some difficulties in Europe with the chests so understood when it was delayed and went to bead.  The next morning I opened the chest, got a few goldens and then trimmed up my collection.  Now I had already heard about the double golden issue, but my collection was displaying them correctly and seeing that I got a second golden snipe (I already had one) I disenchanted my last normal snipe.  After logging on later I noticed that now I was only down to my original golden snipe and of course no regular as I had disenchanted.  I have no clue if it was the tuning that they were doing to fix the double issue that took away my reward but it kind of unsettled me.

I had really embraced the digital card game format when I first started hearthstone.  It was really refreshing after years of tubs of magic cards.  However now I am feeling the un-reality of this game.  With no warning something (or somethings?) disappeared from my collection.  Wizards of the coast never had the ability to breeze through my closet and toss my cards around which was never something that fully appreciated until now.  Sure it was only a 40 dust snipe (discounting the reward I was to receive) but it did shake my confidence in this digital platform that I have invested significant time and money into to build 2 complete sets of cards on.  Am I alone in this uncertainty? 

I have been having trouble against them as well with totem shamen, the times I win I have used lighting storm, which is great because it won't necessarily trigger avenge if you kill everything at once, and the other trick I found is being able to get the avenge on the biggest guy and then hex.  It can be tough though. 

I appreciate your viewpoint and can see how someone might be more into the flavor/roleplaying aspect of card games than others, however I don't see Blizzard as hostile as some people are.  I don't think that the design team is as wrapped up in profits as you are indicating.  That isn't to say that I don't think that Blizzard isn't profit focused, this is evident in the custom hero portraits, crafting system instead of trading, promo card backs, ect. 

I feel that making Ice Rager was a tongue and check joke from the design team.  When they went to make Magma Rager I think that they felt that it was viable, it didn't meet vanilla stats because it was so aggression focused, much like Dust Devil.  With large scale testing of the game, Beta/Launch, it was proven that this card was not viable.  Why wasn't it buffed?  The design team was working on the next set, more evidence of profit mongering I guess, and the time that could be spent fixing cards was spent on putting out fires like unleash, Leeroy and Tinkmaster.  I guess with the understanding that there is finite resources available to team 5 I would rather them produce new content then try to figure out Magma Rager and Goldshire Footman. 

So after nearly 2 years of life the designers figured out that a 5/1 for 3 can be a 5/2 without breaking the game.  I don't think that they would have even thought twice about it except for the very vocal community saying that Magma Rager sucks.  I see Ice Rager as a humorous response to this and acknowledging that they have learned  something since they designed Magma Rager, it wasn't intended to offend.

I didn't see to many Magma Rager's on the ladder but I guess that he was a lot of people's favorite card from the uproar of him getting shit on.

With all these dragons its time to have the option to have 8 BGHs....

I love the flavor of this card but you have to play it, then hope that it doesn't get BGHed and you don't get attacked for 8, your opponent gets to choose when it dies first which leaves you vulnerable to a little bit of burst.  Very cool, just not very good!

I've made a couple of all golden decks just for the coin... they tend to suck with my golden only collection though.

Even though no one competitively uses Mimiron's head the more glitter the better!  MORE GLITTER!

The fact that it has been going on from before the ESL tournament she was in is interesting.  I can't decide if it indicates that the accusations are founded on knowledge that others have had for a while that the general community is only learning now (the illuminati version), or if it indicates that sexist tendencies within the hearthstone community prevented people from believing in a competent female gamer from the first emergence of Magic Amy.  That's what I get for expecting peoples youtube and reddit explanations to be reliable sources...