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Let me know when the game is playable again...

Orgozoa is incredibly powerful, and often times a better 6 drop pickup than Athissa if it's early enough. There's no way it can be balanced as a 5 drop.

A tournament where everyone tries to go naga!

The game devolved into whoever finds brann wins the game, so glad it's been removed for now.

So? A 6/6 with a battlecry of -4/-4 on the enemy for only 2 mana is pretty damn good.

Even a 3/3 for only 2 mana is fairly good, and you only need to target something that's a 3/3 for that to happen (it turns that 3/3 into a 1/1 too). If you target a 5/5 this becomes a 4/4, and the enemy becomes a 2/2. That's really good for 2 mana.

Kel'Thuzad saw tons of play

Why would anyone want to put a 7 mana 8/8 into their deck?

Wait, wtf this deals 5 damage now!?

One solution is to just add a skip fight animation button, and/or make the animations faster. Battleground animations are so godawfully slow.

Blizzard really need to pay for better software engineers...

every time a combat starts in battlegrounds i get disconnected and it takes quite along time to reconnect. on both pc and mobile.

BGs is unplayable - constant disconnects.

Can't even complain about in on the subreddit because reddit is also down lol

Is battlegrounds unplayable for anyone else? It just disconnects at the start of every combat

Kel'Thuzad saw immense play.

Also this costs half as much so it doesn't take your whole turn.

This is one of the most broken cards that I have ever seen in this game.

4 mana 4/3 Divine shield is good. Plus, this has rush. Until now the card is already pretty great, like Illidari Felblade.

the card also has this absurd ability "When this attacks, educe the cost of Holy spells in your hand by 1" which gets triggered instantly since it has rush. Crazy. It might even get nerfed to 5 mana and I can see that it will still be played.

also Silvermoon Guardian cries in the corner

Are you serious? Who cares its available from the start. Its complete garbage to pay 2 gold to give a minion +1/+1, +2/+2 is kinda useful on certain minions (divine shield, minions with statlines like 2/4 turning them into 4/6 etc.), but not always - and considering the Rakanishu buff is RANDOM, its really a risky thing trying to land it on the minion you need. Considering you have free spaces on the board, its actually much better to spend 3 gold to buy a whole 2-star minion rather than giving +2/+2.

+3/+3 is the earliest its start being really worth it, but still +3/+3 for 2 gold, compared for instance to Van Cleef who can give +2/+2 for 1 gold (also non-random) at that stage of the game isnt really anything OP. So you have like two turns where you can give +3/+3 a take a little bit of advantage from the hero power, but then Rag hero power kicks in and completely outclasses you.

Why dont you have a look here: https://hsreplay.net/battlegrounds/heroes/

Ragna is undisputed tier 1, best hero in the game right now, and Rakanishu is like the third worst hero. Think before you speak.

Of course but testing stage exists and if you introduce only one minion and its bugged its ridiculous.

Not even in the same ballpark as Deathspeaker. The ability to give your hero Immune by itself already stacks with any weapon (or hero attack buff) to make a stronger version of Candleshot, not to mention that this card's effect doesn't expire at the end of the turn you play it on, plus it gives your entire board immune, not just 1 minion. This card is way more versatile than Deathspeaker.

What is this?  Just some dude's opinion?

What do you mean "Are still a thing?" it's more popular than constructed and arena combined.