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Warpath looks like a great addition to control warrior. 

They aren't removing it to shorten text. They are removing it because there are barely any cards with the keyword and they don't plan on designing very many new cards with that effect.

They said there will be only a few even/odd synergy cards and not all classes will get one.

Shaman at this point just needs a good win condition. They have a lot of cards in the good/average power level range, but the class needs something that will give it a big power swing. That's what I'm hoping the new hero card will be. For the rest of the set I want to see more focus on one or two archetypes. All of the 2017 sets gave Shaman a lot of different tools for various archetypes without any good support. All we need is a few good cards and one or two amazing cards and I think the class will be back in competitive action.

Without having a couple synergy cards it wouldn't have been worth it for most of the classes to reduce themselves to using half the card pool and at least none of the synergy cards are pushing a deck archetype (maybe the priest one is) , so there will still be a lot to figure out while deckbuilding.

Seems to be mostly about Gilneas

We still have a two week break before card reveals? I thought they were delaying everything so this wouldn't happen, but I guess the expansion will just be later this year

I'm not dusting anything and don't plan to anytime soon. There are a lot better ways to keep up with Standard than dusting your wild cards.

Quote from SMcB >>

What many don't want to accept is that netdecking is beginner-level and actually constructing your own deck is expert-level, not the other way around. For each and every netdeck, there was a time before it was a netdeck where someone made the list themselves. The people who made those decks were fast and accurate, and you are not. Their choices beat your choices and the number of choices that beat their choices are quickly exposed by deck tweakers who, again, are faster and more accurate than you.

This is only a problem if you are trying to be something you're unqualified to be. You are allowed to simply copy their work, and if you're not an expert you should do precisely that. So basically, if your rank isn't Legend, you should probably be netdecking.

I don't get where people get the arrogance to believe that, despite clear indications that their piloting ability is a tier or more below ideal, that they have some kind of entitlement to design decks that get good results. Wrong. Proving your mettle as a pilot is what indicates that you have what it takes to design decks that perform well. For those who make it to the top, tweaking decks to metagame shifts can be the winning play. But not at Rank 20, or even at Rank 5.

This is a game where choices (usually) matter. You want to be able to have your incorrect choices yield positive results. This isn't going to happen, ever. The closest you could hope for is a metagame where a surprisingly large number of decks constitute Tier 1 such that the variety among netdecks provides you with a variety of decks to compete against; however, the end result of even a healthy but stagnated meta is, at best, a population-skewed version of paper-rock-scissors with perhaps some internal complexity (for instance, a five deck metagame where there are three different "Paper" decks, one "Rock" and one "Scissors," and the Paper decks have a PRS relationship within themselves), and thus there is only the reasonable expectation of all nine classes being viable with 3 viable archetypes per class if the devs somehow are brilliant enough to create a PRS meta where each of the three broader categories "inception" into PRS which then each "inception" into PRS again, which is not one or two but three full layers deep. Frankly, Blizzard isn't that good and probably never will be — and I can't blame them, because I certainly am not either.

The teaser for the announcement of the announcement

I thought he said he could have seen them all but chose not to. He made an explicit point that Harbinger Celestia was the only one he happened to see beforehand, and hence didn't react when he drew it.

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Please don't invite day9 ever again - that was embarassing for such a big company.

 The worst part for me was that he seemed overly focused on discussing old cards. He didn't even realize Witchwood Imp wasn't from the new set until he moused over it. Get someone who actually plays the game next time.

The stream was soooooo lame, boring, boring, boring.

lamest card reveal livestream ever, I almost fell asleep without brode.

I love control paladin. It only needs a win condition (maybe some support for Uther DK?)

Reckless Experimenter makes this a 3-mana 7/7 that adds a MAJOR powerhouse to your Twilight's Call.

Random hero power is so disappointing, Warrior needed a solid, non-RNG late game. RIP warrior for another expansion again.

as a second thought, Whizbang the Wonderful should be banned from arena too, if some of it's recipes are consistents and  good enougth you just already get the 12 victorys when you see it

If you are new to the game, stay away from the crafting table. You want to build your collection and you only get 1/4 of the value if you dust. You might not have any use for them now, but having to re-craft cards you once had is a very bad feeling.