Hearthpwn

Before people get too down on this card, remember that Odd mage worked as a deck, for effectively the same hero power. I think it's going to be a pretty decent to good deck, especially if there are more good shadow spells. 

Aggro V Aggro is the same as Control V Control. You're still using similarly valued cards to achieve a similar goal. Using information of the meta to best use the cards in your hand and hopefully outplay your opponent. 

RNG is heavy in both games as well. the coin flip and starting hand/mulligan for aggro, and RNG value generators and other effects in control matchups. 

I enjoy all of Hearthstone, and I generally play tier 4 and below decks because I play to have what I consider fun and use uncommon cards to unexpectedly beat opponents or pull off crazy board creating turns. (i like Necrium Apothecary and Anubisath Warbringer in Rogue right now)

Just like in a shooting game, do you like to bring a shotgun and shoot your shot, die and come back guns blazing? maybe you like to use a sniper and be unseen, trying to take out the shotgun monkeys before they even see you. 

Driving, relationships, entertainment . . . it's all a matter of preference and nothing any one person says can change what tastes you've acquired over the years.

TL;DR We get off on a different things .

Staple in pretty much every Control Deck minus Druid (poor AoE)

Cant stop playing. The op card for me is Harvest Golem.

I just played against a Demon Hunter.

To play with DH, copy any net deck, and then edit the deck.

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 No, Ogre is the correct spelling. Don't ask why, english is weird.

Not really the "past", but still a nice Brawl. It's fun to try out new Priest against other classics.

This is when the Hearthstone randomness shines.

Player doesn't know what it will do until the game starts, but doesn't need to see the card to know.

Opponent can know what the card does, and if it is a good deck, know the card might be in the deck and prepare for it.

Skilled and unskilled players can both have fun with it.

Good job, Team 5!

I don't get why this is an issue tbh. I started using firestone basically because playing dmh without a decktracker is sheer lunacy and I saw that "all attack" thing, I deactivated it because I didn't see any need for it (playing dmh and combo druid in particular, it's utterly pointless) but even if my opponent used it...why would I care?

I don't think this card "Punishes good play." It is good either way and should be seen from the other side as a control card. Playing against a mage you can't be winning with a large board and say flamestrike is punishing your good play. Zephrys is just like any other good control card its one that must be played around and acknowledged as something that needs to be taken from their hand before you can play bolder. If zephrys was being used over and over I would get it but I disagree with this.

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If you think the problem with Genn/Baku was they forced a deck to be built around a gimmick... yikes.

The problem with Genn/Baku was that the kind of hero-power focused gameplay they encouraged was boring and repetitive.  The odd/even restriction was good, actually.  There were a tonne of cards which came out of the woodwork and saw play for the first time in essentially ever.  Raid Leader?  Seriously?  That's great!  What wasn't great was Button.  Button.  Button.  Button.  Button.  This made all the games against odd Paladin, odd Warrior, and so forth feel the same.  All they do is make dudes and that's enough.  All they do is gain armor, and that's enough.  The contents of the deck becomes irrelevant, and all that matters is that hero power, and that's bad.

Highlander restrictions don't do that.  The consistency of the decks go down, the contents of the decks vary more with a lot more room for tech choices, and games *don't* all feel the same.  It's pretty much the exact opposite of how Genn/Baku played out.  Zephrys being a swiss-army-knife to do anything you need does restore *some* consistency, but he's one card out of 30.

 I, for one, don't dislike the hero power stuff. I agree, odd/even went out of blizzards hands, but I feel like, it was the community that disliked the mechanic and not a broken power level. Hall of Faming those cards still was the easy and bad way to drop an otherwise interesting mechanic. I loved using cards that were okay-ish in regular decks but suddenly excelled in odd/even decks (looking at stuff like Raid Leader or Argent Commander. 

And that is the essence why highlander also is great. You actually see and play cards that do not have a top tier power level but still manage to work out because it is balanced by other cards/mechanics. Remember: OG Reno singlehandedly made highlander viable for a year up until MSoG.

 Don't get me wrong, I loved playing Tank Up Warrior and two-dudes Paladin.  I also wish I'd gotten into Even Hunter sooner--that deck was sweet.  But I also knew that playing them *for another year* would have been too much.

And yeah, I think the power level mattered a lot.  Broken is a high bar to clear, but they were very strong.  If they weren't strong, no one would care about the Odd/Even mechanics, they'd just play different decks.  But Genn/Baku *were* very strong (and very boring), so folks felt they had to run these decks in order to compete.

For example, no one was mad that highlander decks existed between when Reno left the game and Raza/Anduin Priest dominated, because it wasn't strong enough to make anyone feel like they had to do it.  It was a wacky meme style of deck, and folks were fine with that.  If Odd/Even came back as essentially a wacky meme format, I don't think folks would care.