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There are two types of people:

Those who are able to use inference to derive understanding from incomplete sets of information and…

The way the card works does not line up at all with plenty of realistic options of what "stitch" could mean but I guess I must've not been there when the Stitchers of Bad Card Texts expansion was launched in 20XX. It's not like writing what cards actually do onto them is important in a card game, at least in the minds of Blizzard devs.

Unironically there's either some eldritch pact going on or the Hearthstone team can't be bothered checking the text of cards they made around the same time to be consistent.

It only took 10 years for Blizzard to try buffing practically unplayable cards to potentially increase meta variety. Maybe in 10 more they'll find out they can do this before they're about to rotate into wild as well.

It is a step in a good direction that they're trying out not just buffing what tends to be the best 10% of class cards only. Too bad that pace of power creep has been going on for this long already.

So Trogg is just a Druid card with purple on it right? That one 6 drop isn't making Warlock ramp like Druid does so Warlock getting a ramp payoff without ramp sure is a design decision.

Shadow Word: Steal honestly feels like a card designed to make everyone hate the game or to actually get Priest removed as a class. Is Priest's class identity really just making people quit the game now?

You clearly have no idea how anything works so you come up with some magical conspiracy from Blizzard against you? Bro the servers don't account for animation delay, bots take their turn instantly. There isn't some magical deck detection matchup scuffer calculating how to ruin your day lmao.

Hearthstone is so badly made it can't handle having interesting cards in the game, I guess. Small indie company.

Do you also blame Battlegrounds for the recent firings at Blizzard? The only way what you're saying makes sense if there are technical issues due to sharing a client, otherwise I don't see how a huge megacorporation that owns tons of games and franchises cannibalizes a game by having very different gamemodes in it.

The games are not seperated to pull players from eachother from the card & character crossovers, as well as events, so people who play one are way more likely to try out the other.

Handlock, my favourite... Paladin archetype?

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While I agree with the sentiment I disagree with most of the cards you've used as examples and I also think there's a second component that relates to deck design.  There's no more skill using Brawl than any other board clear, and arguably brawl is one of the more powerful ones which will always be relevant regardless of minion powercreep.

Using board clears as an example, a bigger issue is the number of board clears available and the number of cards which build a board in one go.  There's no more "holding minions to play around the clear". You just vomit them down and if they have a clear, you create a new board next turn.  Paladin and totem shaman are the perfect examples of this.  Equally, just because the opponent has already used their two clears doesn't mean there aren't a bunch more.  Priest has potential for something like 8 board clears and if they got a proper win condition the deck would be clears + whatever was required for the new win condition.

Regarding synergy between cards, the way they are designed you basically just stick all of the "synergy cards" in your deck and flesh out the rest with whatever overpowered cards remain.  Odin warrior is basically draw, armour and clears.  The new excavate cards are probably going to be the same given how overpowered the legendary excavations seem to be, and dragon druid basically requires all/most of the new dragon cards. 

p.s. Identity theif is (imo) one of the more thoughtful cards in the game - not about when you play it, but what you pick to best support your gameplan (or disrupt the opponent if you're running The Harvester of Envy).

p.p.s there's also too many OTK's and too much draw now in my opinion.

 

 

This! There's practically only forced synergy now in the game, rather than more natural types of synergy. Cards just scream "play me with those other 5!" at you rather than working with a broader set of cards and making you use your creativity for deck building.

It feels like if they made doomsayer today it would read "At the end of your turn, destroy this minion and all frozen enemy minions" or something like that rather than naturally synergizing with freezes and allowing counterplay.

And then everyone is always angry about manacheat and things like that but that is only really as overpowered as it is because the value of cards (drawing & generating) has practically reached 0 for most classes. Meanwhile powercreep means removal must be increasingly ridiculous leading to 1-2 mana hard removal cards being in the game.

Can't be bothered to add some of that text to Time Warp, huh?

Excuse meeeeeeee princess.

It looks really powerful. Both for standard and Wild.

But I have to admit that is kinda funny that they just did a card with Once Per game (Harth Stonebrew) and they immidiatly put it in a different way cause if HS is ever consistent with something the servers collapse.

If we keep spending money on packs, maybe one day Blizzard will have the technology needed to add "(imp)" beneath the tribal name.

You mean the times when Hellfire had to specify that it damages ALL characters? And that was from that time when the developers were not sure whether additional deckslots would confuse players, right?

To be fair, I have been on this website long enough and saw more than enough comment sections regarding this game that I cannot blame them for being doubtful and maybe a bit too cautious about the intelligence of their playerbase. 

I mean, just recently, I saw some guy ranting about dem kids with their tiktoks and turning this into some pointless culture debate, all because one word in a card text was capitalized.

You can't be cautious enough these days, is what I'm saying.

I wanted to see the slime tokens instead I was met with the signature cosmetic 

Once per turn kills the card.

Mostly, but the initial Silver Hands aren't Undead, which might be an inconvenience for DK, and the Ghouls are worse for Paladin. Also, if you want to limit the number of Deathrattles in your deck (when using Boneshredder), Reborn is the better mechanic.

it is the better card in most cases when you only care about stats, and the worse card when you are trying to build something more specific, in which case you probably wouldn't use either.

So... yes, it is better.

Finally some Mana Cheat for Druid. They aint got enough. Only downside: Only 3 empty Mana christals. Could be more. Need to be on 10 Mana while my opponent ist on 3 for maximal pleasure.

Numerous folks thinking Reverberations was a pretty broken card, and then along comes Shattered Reflections. WTFFF.

Yeah add a minion copy spell to a class that rushes mana pool and got multiple mana cheat cards.
Let's see where it goes at this point. Druid healing to full and clearing the board with 5 Fye, the Setting Sun sounds hilarious.