Hearthpwn

Quote from Ggjeed >>

Doesn't playing Hemet destroy all your burn spells? So if you ever played him you would lose the cards that make malygos worth playing to begin with.

I have random luck when it comes to backing a player for winning.... I chose Pavel for the blizzcon edition, and fr0zen for the Winter HTC.... I mean at least I was a fan of some of Pavel's previous tourney decks.....

I like my cards... BUT TEH MEMEZZZZ

I see no need to knock it back to 20. You don't need a free 8/8 that badly. Dust it if you're that salty about it being nerfed.

I got a beast in mah sights

The reason "all" is capitalized in Whirlwind is because it is a basic set card, where new players would be, and it is important to be stressed. That is not an inconsistency, but rather a design decision. 

As for "Minions", this is a card preview, so it is an error as there are no cases of "Minions". 

Calm yo self, guys.

Quote from definitelynotsalty >>

In addition to the 5 you pointed out, there is also a minion that attacks during the opponent's turn (Dred), hero health above 30 (Amara), permanence (Nether Portal, Crystal Core), and stats that dynamically change depending on whose turn it is (Tar Creeper).

Quote from HooverianArchduke >>

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding me. Blizzard said regarding Drakonid Operative that they wanted to give dragons one more big push before they rotate out. I just hope they keep supporting Dragon Paladin so that it may yet have its time in the sun. 

Quote from definitelynotsalty >>

6.  Swamp King Dred is a new mechanic... a minion that attacks during the opponent's turn.

They are collecting data so they can have real sets to use while developing the code. Molster has said in a thread of mine earlier that the match history will be on Hearthpwn.

You, good person, are an alpha tester so you get incomplete, usually buggy products. If you would rather have a more stable version, it would be in your best interest to uninstall the alpha client launcher and download the beta client launcher

Time to windfury that Savannah Highmane

This is true. I have not said that the mechanics would last forever and there are plenty of mechanics that haven't/won't. With the cards that have been released, there is no way to figure out the actual potential power level of the set to see how it would weigh against the rest of the sets. I also did some nerd-researching because I was curious what mechanics came out when for the game. It all seems to be blended together over time. 

• Naxx - "resurrection" mechanic; conditional summoning; pulling cards into play; card duplication; keyword-based modification
• GvG - mech tribe; on-board tribal conditionals; addition of cards into deck
• BrM - in-hand tribal conditionals; turn kill discounts; unlocking mana; empty hand conditionals; class-card theft
• TGT - minion-comparison conditionals (Joust); Hero Power conditional traits (Inspire); Hero Power modification; buffing minions off-board; discard interactions; [That one mechanic I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure was released here]
• LoE - deck-composition conditional (Highlander); Strategic RNGsus (Discover)
• WOG -game history interactions (ie: Yogg); X-mana cards; 1/1 clones; transform while in hand; costs health instead of mana
• ONK - multi-tribal synergy
• MSG - non-neutral, multi-class cards; successive tokens

(If I can count) That is 27 new mechanics that have been released since launch and only 4 of them will have left standard when Mammoth rolls around (turn kill discount, empty hand conditional, Joust, & Inspire). And let's be honest, those mechanics weren't all that good to begin with. Then there are the mechanics we have been told won't be specifically worked on for the future (Highlander & multi-class). As for the one-offs in the Un'goro set, I would think that is clear: Adapt (themed to the dino), guess-a-card (depending on how well it plays out) and Quests (it is a Journey after all). The previous turn conditional will most likely be the same as the in-hand conditional for dragons; high focus in the initial release, with scatterings of the text later on.

Blizzard is pulling all the stops out of this expansion.... They've introduced 5 new mechanics to the game: Quests, Adapt, Unremovable cards, Guess a card, and conditionals based on previous turns. HOW THE FK WILL THEY MATCH THIS???

O.o WAT. HOW THIS CARD

I mean... Cool? Good for secret synergy, not so much for murloc synergy since secrets don't really help murlocs. It's a decent body for a  standard 2 mana murloc (more than 1 health xD)