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    posted a message on Spectral Pillager

    The amount of people who are wrong about this is amazing.

     

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    posted a message on Happy Ghoul

    Dunno how it happened but the word 'effective' snuck into your sentence there....

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    posted a message on Happy Ghoul

    In what possible way is this better than Earthen Ring Farseer?

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    I guess its existence might buy Priest a bit more time vs Pirate Warrior?

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    posted a message on Is this Arthas -> Lich King transformation possible?

    Can't see them giving a character with so much lore tied to them to just one class. Particularly a class that already has Bolvar both before and after The Lich King is defeated. 

    My guess is that the Lich King will be more akin to Justicar Trueheartt and empowers your hero power or changes it to something else - probably ghoul relate to interact with those generators. Something based on the WoW fight itself as we've seen all the key elements of that raid more or less in cards like Professor Putricide, Rotface, Blood-Queen Lana'thel and the Blood Princes

     

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    posted a message on New Warlock Card Revealed - Gnomeferatu
    Quote from achan1058 >>
    Quote from Syncesta >>
    I totally understand what you both are basing your claim on - some spurious and vague reliance on the assumed infallibility of maths - I just don't understand why it's relevant WHERE the card that's removed is in your deck. You say that removing a card from a deck that doesn't go to fatigue is the same as having no effect at all but that's just faulty logic. Some other people have mentioned the intelligence benefit of this card - learning about WHAT you're playing on turn 2 is okay, sure, but can I reword why I think this card is good and will be used in Warlock decks, it may even be a key piece of an archetype we haven't strictly seen yet in Hearthstone. 
     
     
    If upon fully accepting this conclusion, that you think removing the bottom card of a deck makes Gnomeferatu good, that's your opinion, one that I disagree on.
     Can we dispense with all the pretense (you haven't addressed any of my points) and accept that it comes down to this, THEN read what I said about its effect and try again?
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    posted a message on New Warlock Card Revealed - Gnomeferatu
    Quote from achan1058 >>
    Quote from Syncesta >>
    What stats are you drawing from that lead to your conclusions?
    Give me some actual data rather than conjecture that justifies your stance as being more informed/valid than the rest of us?
     It's the probability portion of the stats course that is being referred to. Anyone who have taken such a course knows that this card is just as impactful if it says remove the bottom card of your opponent's deck. This is not a statistical argument, but a mathematical one.
    I totally understand what you both are basing your claim on - some spurious and vague reliance on the assumed infallibility of maths - I just don't understand why it's relevant WHERE the card that's removed is in your deck. You say that removing a card from a deck that doesn't go to fatigue is the same as having no effect at all but that's just faulty logic. Some other people have mentioned the intelligence benefit of this card - learning about WHAT you're playing on turn 2 is okay, sure, but can I reword why I think this card is good and will be used in Warlock decks, it may even be a key piece of an archetype we haven't strictly seen yet in Hearthstone. 
    When you play this on turn 2 or turn 1 with coin you've removed a card they could have drawn/relied on, whether or not that's a clutch piece of a combo is moot, especially for 2 mana. Why would Team 5 make a card that can reliably win games for 2 mana? WHERE in your opponent's deck the card is is irrelevant because you are, for 2 mana on a perfectly acceptable body messing with your opponent's options. It just so happens to be the next draw they would have had next turn. Sure, you're thinning your opponent's deck but let's be honest, this is Warlock, when have they cared about that? How is DyingAtheist's argument any different to saying that you shouldn't put cards in your deck that you might not draw because it's like not having them at all anyway? Having 20 cards would be better than having 30 cards? Really?
    DyingAtheist thinks that by virtue of 'data' (which in this case is the assumption that the effect is irrelevant based on what I wrote above) his analysis is infallible and anybody that thinks this card is good is just stupid for not relying on data (whatever we're talking about here I have no idea because I see no data sets to back up the claim and I'm sure that Team 5 could do with this incredible insight)
    Anyway, just so I understand your signature clearly:

    People who don't play Pirate Warrior because it's toxic and requires no real interaction with the nuanced complexities of the game are worse than people that play Pirate Warrior because it's toxic and requires no real interaction with the nuanced complexities of the game? 

    Is that statement based on data too?
     
    Also who cares because Gnomeferatu Coldlight Oracle Treachery Howlfiend shenanigans for the lulz
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    posted a message on The Lich King Reveals the Warrior Legendary & Mage Spell!
    Quote from vvvlad >>

    good chance to summon crappy legendary, 400 dust.

    Have you done the statistics you dumb piece of heck?
     You should get involved in the argument against DyingAtheist in theGnomeferatu thread. He needs allies. 
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    posted a message on New Warlock Card Revealed - Gnomeferatu
    Quote from DyingAtheist >>
    Quote from Syncesta >>
    Quote from DyingAtheist >>
    Quote from Syncesta >>
    Quote from DyingAtheist >>

    Just because you kill an Antonidas one game in 30 doesn't make it a good card. It means the other 29 times you've helped your opponent out.


    I'll happily destroy one of your cards leaving a 2/3 body for 2 mana compared to trying to fish a minion with Dirty Rat and probably give you the game in the process. I don't care what the card is, because if you've included it in your deck, you've excluded something else for a reason (I'm talking here about the few players that don't copy paste Pirate Warrior)
     
     
     Unless you go to fatigue this means nothing though. You're on about destroying a card I'd find valuable...so what? You don't draw every card in your deck anyway in normal circumstances so let's say on average you draw  20 that means every game you effectively have 10 cards (that I chose at the exclusion of others) that get 'destroyed'. And it means nothing. Destroying a card means nothing unless you go to fatigue. This isn't a guess, this isn't my 'opinion' it is a statistical fact and people arguing otherwise will realise once they actually play with the card. 
     I'm looking forward to quoting you on this.
     I'm looking forward to quoting all of you in a month and then hopefully directing you to a local class where you can be taught basic bloody statistical analysis. 
    What stats are you drawing from that lead to your conclusions?
    Give me some actual data rather than conjecture that justifies your stance as being more informed/valid than the rest of us?
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    posted a message on Did / will you pre purchase KFT? (Poll)

    You missed off 'Yes but I totally regret it' as an option.

     

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    posted a message on New Warlock Card Revealed - Gnomeferatu
    Quote from DyingAtheist >>
    Quote from Syncesta >>
    Quote from DyingAtheist >>

    Just because you kill an Antonidas one game in 30 doesn't make it a good card. It means the other 29 times you've helped your opponent out.


    I'll happily destroy one of your cards leaving a 2/3 body for 2 mana compared to trying to fish a minion with Dirty Rat and probably give you the game in the process. I don't care what the card is, because if you've included it in your deck, you've excluded something else for a reason (I'm talking here about the few players that don't copy paste Pirate Warrior)
     
     
     Unless you go to fatigue this means nothing though. You're on about destroying a card I'd find valuable...so what? You don't draw every card in your deck anyway in normal circumstances so let's say on average you draw  20 that means every game you effectively have 10 cards (that I chose at the exclusion of others) that get 'destroyed'. And it means nothing. Destroying a card means nothing unless you go to fatigue. This isn't a guess, this isn't my 'opinion' it is a statistical fact and people arguing otherwise will realise once they actually play with the card. 
     I'm looking forward to quoting you on this.
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    posted a message on New Warlock Card Revealed - Gnomeferatu
    Quote from DyingAtheist >>

    Just because you kill an Antonidas one game in 30 doesn't make it a good card. It means the other 29 times you've helped your opponent out.


    If you think that pulling Antonidas is the only situation  where this is good then sure, but with that approach you were never going to rate the card as anything than garbage anyway.

    Have you ever had Dirty Rat pull a minion from your hand and then immediately destroyed? If the stars align and your opponent manages it with Dirty Rat & Doomsayer on turn 4, pulls your Alexstrasza and you can't remove the Doomsayer it feels bad, right? How often does that happen? Close to never right? Why? 

    Because who really hangs on to late game cards? That only happens if you drew it from your deck in the early game and you don't have an answer to Doomsayer, which sucks for you anyway. That also has to happen at the same time that they also mulligan'd/drew into Dirty Rat & Doomsayer, had the guts to play the combo for 4 mana and lose the Dirty Rat in the process. 

    This does that for one card, which is massive, true, but unlikely, as you said. 
    You then seem to argue that therefore it's bad. 

    I'll happily destroy one of your cards leaving a 2/3 body for 2 mana compared to trying to fish a minion with Dirty Rat and probably give you the game in the process. I don't care what the card is, because if you've included it in your deck, you've excluded something else for a reason (I'm talking here about the few players that don't copy paste Pirate Warrior)
    -Pretend here that I've reeled off a bunch of perfectly acceptable targets to destroy from your opponent's deck in order to show that this card is more good than bad for its statline given its absurd effect that doesn't need to singlehandedly win the game on turn two because things like Savannah Highmane, Fireball, Frostbolt, Ice Block, Deadly Shot, Radiant Elemental, Inner Fire and literally ANY draw spell exist. Then pretend that I looked at Skulking Geist and Coldlight Oracle and then wondered if Blood-Queen Lana'thel interacts with it.-
     
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    posted a message on New Shaman Card Revealed: Drakkari Defender

    It's so bad that it has to be good. Consider all the variants of this that they surely tested first before they printed this.

     

    It probably started its life as a 4/6 taunt for 3 mana:

    Compared with Bloodhoof Brave it would have been a natural minion overstat for Shaman + overload as payment for playing this earlier.During testing it wrecked everything as a 2 of with mid - lategame viability where overload doesn't hurt as much a good chunk of the time. 

    This will be cancer for anything that isn't priest I predict on that basis. 

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    posted a message on New Shaman Card Reveal - Cryostasis

    Well at least it's not Crackle

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    posted a message on New Shaman Card Reveal - Cryostasis

    I need to talk to my therapist about this place. You guys are always so quick to denounce interesting cards that force even the slightest element of decision making or, heaven forbid, ingenuity over netdecking. I can so clearly imagine all the people who shout and scream about cards like this being bad bashing each other over the head with Prenerf Eaglehorn  or Doomhammer+prenerf Rockbiter Weapon, drawing cave paintings of prenerf Undertaker whilst touching themselves reminiscing about a time before Golakka Crawler.

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    posted a message on New Card Reveal: Blood-Queen Lana'thel

    To clarify, Highlander decks are what you might call Reno decks where powerful card effects are dependent on an absence, rather than the presence, of cards within a decklist. E.g. Reno, the Princes etc...

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