Hearthpwn

After >40 games of Mind Blast OTK Priest, the dream finally happened. I hope this silly brawl returns in the future.

The Whisperer is incredibly broken with Tess. :D Preparation + Sinister Strike also does it, just don't leave Troggzor up:

Oh Lord, this looks incredible. Just getting a Deadly Poison on it gives you a 1-mana 3-3 weapon for the rest of the game. This even makes cards like Leeching Poison viable since having a low-cost, high-attack Lifesteal weapon always in your deck is pretty crazy for Rogue. It's by no means a consistent source of life gain but it's impactful when drawn.

Here's hoping they release 1 or 2 more weapon enchantments for Rogue. This card may just be crazy.

-You get less than average reward at end of arena runs (more dust less gold which forces you to buy more pack at release)

Without any concrete data, this is likely just variance/confirmation bias i.e. "Wow, this time I got less gold than before! Blizzard must be up to something sinister..."

-Your draft choices are litterally bad (i had 5 runs in two days , no legendary , very few rares)

Again, variance. 5 runs is far too small a sample size to be used in determining whether Blizzard is actually interfering with your drafts.

-I normally average like 6 wins... my last 3 runs i started 3-0 and ended 3-3 facing decks that had all the answers to mine. (Win Avg goes down for everyone = less rewards = more packs buying at release).

How exactly would Blizzard have any control over this? Spells, rares, and epics are fairly common since Blizzard increased their overall occurence rate, so answers aren't really unexpected.

Before you go accusing Blizzard of deliberately screwing over players like yourself, maybe consider the possibility that you're just experiencing the variance inherent to the arena draft system, player matchmaking, and the games themselves. Or perhaps your win percentage suffered due to a misplay or two.

This likely isn't a bug. You can see this same behavior when your hero is at 1 health and you attack into an Explosive Trap with Truesilver Champion. The trap triggers and your hero drops to -1 briefly, but the weapon restores 2 health - setting you back to 1. Your hero wasn't actually dead at any point. Instead, the damage from the trap and the weapon heal happen simultaneously and you take a net 0 damage.

The same is probably true for Baron Geddon and Frost Lich Jaina. He deals 2 damage and heals more than 2 health at the same time, so there's no bug.

Slightly Magical Bananas:

Land in hand: Add a Bananas to your hand. Land in deck: Shuffle a Bananas to your deck. Land on minion: Give it +1/+1. If you control King Mukla or Mukla, Tyrant of the Vale , all 5 Bananas land on him; he gets +5/+5.

Some WoW nostalgia right there!
The card is simple but useful in e.g. Token / Malygos :)

Give it a shake, you wont beleaf what falls out.

I am sorry you are sad, but they were very bad for the game.

here we go again...

tl;dr - Leave an unfinished run before ROS launches to get the rewards and a Free Arena Ticket.
(arena entries close ~8 hours before the expansion launch)

Expected Confirmed expansion launch:

• NA: April 9th, 10AM PDT
• EU: April 9th, 7PM CEST (5PM GMT)
• Asia: April 10th, 2AM KST / April 10th, 1AM CST
• CN: April 10th, 1AM CST

Whenever a set of cards is removed from arena, Blizzard seems to make an arena reset, retiring all decks, and we get a free arena ticket for our unfinished runs. In the past this has been the case when the new HS year started or during some arena related events (dual class arena, arena exclusive cards).

With Year of the Dragon introducing rotating sets to arena drafting pool, i would argue that we might get a free arena ticket for an unfinished run more frequently now. Unless they come up with an excuse to not give it, which i dont think they will. So more goodies for us :)

Anyway, when Rise of Shadows launches, we should get a free arena ticket for unfinished run regardless of what will happen down the line.

So as always, play out your runs to as many wins as you can get before 2 losses and reap the rewards.

Even if you dont like playing arena, by doing this you will get 2x ROS pack + some minor amount of gold/dust for 150g total, saving up at least 50g. Just leave your run at 0-0 and retire it after the launch and then do the same with the ticket (or save it for the next reset so you dont have to spend another 150g to repeat this).