Hearthpwn

I have an ingenious idea.....

1.  You pick your zombeast options

2.  The zombeast card has the stats and the text says “zombeast”, when you hover over the card, to the left of the card you will see the original card if your first selection, and to the right you will see the second option

3.  When you play the card, you see the zombeast card

4.  When either play hovers over the card, they’ll see the original cards to the left and right

This would really require NO extra translations on top of what they already do as they translate all of these cards to be put into the game initially...this explanation absolutely baffles me

And they say this isn’t “intuitive” then Idk if the devs understands how the human mind works....like when you learn something it isn’t always “intuitive”, and that’s exactly why you sit down and LEARN it

At first I thought it said battlecry and i was like wow hand-buff decks are gonna be super broken but even though it says deathrattle I think it will still be a good card in Warlock with Power Overwhelming and in Grimy Goons decks

Ben Brode- Everyone is complaining about 5/5 taunt minions in Shaman guys, what should we do?

Yong Woo- Ben, if people are complaining that there are too many 5/5 taunt minions in Shaman decks, why not add a 5/5 taunt minion that you can only put one copy of in your deck?

Ben Brode- GENIUS

Yes, Ben Brode essentially confirmed it on twitter and it would make sense considering the way battlecries work.  The minion is summoned and then the battlecry triggers, which is why Yogg-Saron can be affected by his battlecry.  So if you play Fight Promoter and it has 6 or more health, the minion would be summoned, and the battlecry would then trigger and because Fight Promoter has 6 or more health, the two cards would be drawn.

I wouldn't call a filler card that.  I would personally call a filler card a card with absolutely no purpose in any format at all.  It's a card with no purpose in constructed (not a card that doesn't see play, a card that cannot shine in any sort of deck at all.  For example, Stoneskin Gargoyle is a clearly bad card, but with certain cards like buffs it can be better and have a purpose to a deck), no purpose in arena, and generally has no reason to exist.  I would call Gadgetzan Ferryman a filler card because there is almost no reason to play it over a card that already exists, being Youthful Brewmaster.  They both do the exact same thing at the same amount of mana, they just have very slightly different stats and one requires a card to be played before, so yes the card can be slightly better in extremely few situations, but generally they both accomplish the same thing.

Yeah class-specific keywords like overload and choose-one contribute to class identities, but class-specific types of cards and not having these certain cards like taunts or heals can be too.  For example, Hunter doesn't have any powerful AoE's, Druids have no powerful hard removal cards without major drawbacks, and Rogue's have no heals.  However, Hunter does have powerful beast synergy and Druid has powerful ramp cards, but Rogue has few powerful types of cards besides Single-target damage and combo effects like SI:7 Agent.  What they should do is make a semi-playable neutral heal card, maybe not on the level of Antique Healbot but similar too it, so classes that desperately need some healing for the type of deck they want to play have.  This is also the current issue with Shaman, as they have powerful stand-alone minions like Totem Golem and Flamewreathed Faceless, powerful single target removal spells like Hex and Lightning Bolt, and powerful AoE like Maelstrom Portal and Lightning Storm.

Thanks! Personally I don't even see Pompous Thespian as a filler card, much for the same reason as for why I don't think Hired Gun is a filler card, but I do consider these to be two "boring" cards.  By boring I don't mean that the card has no purpose in the game, but it doesn't explore any new or under-explored concepts of the game.  I feel that some boring cards are necessary to teach newer players and for other things that the game needs like arena balance, but they belong in large expansions and not adventures like Karazhan.  And I agree, even a card as underpowered as Stoneskin Gargoyle has a place in Hearthstone and I don't mind such an underpowered card in an adventure, but mainly because it explores a new concept and it isn't what I would consider a "boring" card.

I just feel like Gadgetzan Ferryman doesn't accomplish anything new, add something to arena, or even teach newer players a lesson about the game.  Even Magma Rager teaches new players that playing a card fully invested in the attack stat without any other advantages like divine shield or stealth isn't very powerful, much for the same reason why Worgen Greaser is very unlikely to be a good card.

I really don't understand why so many people are calling almost all the neutral commons in MSoG filler.  A filler card is a card with no purpose in any format and is just there to be there and absolutely nothing else.  They don't even have the potential to be joke cards like Backstreet Leper who's main purpose is to poke fun at the fact that pre-patch Leper Gnome was so unbalanced.  They also don't provide anything to arena, like how Toxic Sewer Ooze provides all classes with more consistent weapon removal, even if it isn't top tier.  The only cards so far this expansion that I would consider to be true filler cards would be Grook Fu Master and probably Gadgetzan Ferryman.  Grook Fu Master is just another poorly stated windfury creature like Thrallmar Farseer and Windfury Harpy, and Gadgetzan Ferryman is literally a slightly different Youthful Brewmaster that doesn't even provide any realistically useful advantages for it being a class card and that's without even mentioning that they both take up the same spot on the curve.  I don't even see Hired Gun as a filler card, because it provides arena with more decent 3-drops.  That's why when I see people call Daring Reporter a balanced filler card I just feel like people expect Blizzard to make only super flashy cards like Kazakus, which is very unrealistic.

Why pay 4 mana for a 7/7 when you can pay 1 more mana and get two more!!! (With Don Han'Cho of course or just a lot of in-hand buffs)

BRILLIANT

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Who cares what you prefer? You are about to get 3 packs for free. And moreover you get 1 classic pack for brawl, but you see you _prefer_ KFT packs, wow.

This is way better gift than just a cardback, im curretly sitting on 31 KFT packs according to my pity timer spreadsheet, i can sniff the legendary in the air.

3 packs beats a winterveil card back for sure. Thanks blizz <3 !

I am excited to see this. Great move by Blizzard. Nice to see responses like these when there are warranted concerns from the community. I can now safely craft Rexxar :)

Hooray! I'm very happy that they are changing this! I also totally understand if they have to exempt a couple of cards here and there in order to keep everything working on a technical level, but I'm especially happy that this will add the simple beasts to the pool (i.e. Dire Mole, Stoneskin Basilisk, etc.) where text length is a non-issue.

I mean, if they insist on minion-less Hunter being a thing, the least they could do is increase Deathstalker Rexxar's options. Good on Blizzard.

Thank you so much blizzard this was definitely the right move.

Finally ! Great job Blizzard and well played, HS community !