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Great arena card.

Was there any expansion where the meta was not aggro?

2 giants + Whirlwind is my best bet.

Just drafted an Arena deck with 3 Ultimate Infestations. Yeah... great change.

Discarding enemy hand is not fun, but being swarmed with 5/5s forcing you to play hyperaggro is so fun!

Counterspells (MTG-like) and instants in general are not fun, but burning face as a mage from 24 to 0 in 2 turns is fun.

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Corpse Eater. 3 mana 3/3.

Battlecry: "Empty your opponent's graveyard"

Played at the right time, Hadronox doesn't have any taunts to bring back, Witching Hour doesn't have any beasts to bring back, Gul'dan doesn't have any demons to bring back, Eternal Servitude / Twilight's Call don't have any minions to bring back. And in wild you get a counter for N'Zoth too.

 

A fucking Aviana.

But I got Godfrey later, so its fine I guess.

Yeah, fuck this arena. It's probably not even fun to play with crazy decks since you'll still face the same shit every game. NEVER before people were talking about specific legendaries, save for DKs.

Because creating stuff is interesting.

I am not taking my part in all these competitions, but I've made several custom MtG sets, simply because it is a fun thing to do. Much more fun than grinding ladder for sure, and I bet there are much more players that grind ladder instead.

So every expansion must be a power creep? I am fine with power level of the cards. There are nearly no auto includes, but many interesting cards. If they manage to lower the power level in the next year cycle, it would be really cool.

Also, dks are great. None of them seems unplayable, although Valeera and Garrosh seem to be on the weaker side.

Just reached legend with this from rank 7 (tweaked a bit, added tortolla for instance), 43-14.

My worst matchup was Priest: 1-4, silence priest is extremely hard, they just keep that dumb 4 attack creature you can't deal with and OTK you after. Dragon, as you said, is also very hard.

Actually did very well vs paladins, 11-2, some games were close, but managed to comeback, sometimes due to power of Lyra, sometimes oracles give you crazy good cards (I play with 2 oracles).

Warrior is 12-6, lost twice to dumb luck pirate warrior, quest is kinda draw dependent, but did okay overall.

Rogue: 6-1, just went yolo aggro and did okay (even though I have 1 dragonfire)

Druid: 5-0, lol. Won twice vs jade.

Hunter: 6-1, lost once due to bad draws.

1-0 vs shamans, 1-0 vs warlocks, 0-0 vs mages (poor mages...).

I personally think its a bit much but it's not unreasonable. The only actual problem I have with the current system is that bg doesn't have quest support. If you could complete the quests in bg the 2.5k gold every other month weren't such a pain in the ass. Just give the quest "or play x games of battlegrounds".

No, but this is not some random digital card game, it is a video game created by Blizzard, and that means a lot. I honestly believe Hearthstone should cost much more to the people who wants to pay for it, including me. We should pay premium prices for being able to play with more stuff than F2P players in a game made by such an important company. Telling someone you're playing a Blizzard game is not the same as saying you're playing one developed by Riot, they are not in the same category because they don't have the same social status, and that is an undeniable fact. People pay premium prices when buying clothes from a major clothing brand and the same should happen here. Hope I've made my point clear enough.

I'm not even a regular Priest player, but they kinda screwed up with some of the HoF card that they chose.

Firstly, Auchenai Soulpriest, a card that has never ever been a problem in game's history. Shadow Priest was a well liked and healthy archetype, so much so that they reprinted cards with this effect twice. Such a shame. Not to mention that Circle of Healing is essentially useless now, since Northshire Cleric is also gone. 

And Shadowform, one of custom creators' favorite cards, is also gone. While some of the playerbase was awaiting (honestly, that was hopeless, but still) for support, they buried the card instead. It was one of the most interesting cards back in Beta days, it feels bad to see it go away so pointlessly.

Useless and bland cards that never saw play since Beta, such as Lightspawn, Lightwell and cards that had their only their combos HoF'd (Circle of Healing and Inner Fire) are now clogging Priest's basic set. 

The cards they buffed and the new cards are all pretty cool, but aside from Prophet Velen and Divine Spirit's unsuprising banishment to the Wild they dropped the ball on every other Priest card they chose for the Hall of Fame.

What are your thoughts on these changes? Agree? Disagree? Perhaps agree to disagree? 

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

The problems with Battlegrounds is it should have been a separate game, with it's own team, not tied to HS

You know, I'm starting to really question the design choices here. The power level of this expansion seems completely off the charts. I hope we get a Q&A for this expansion, I have so many questions.

Quite stupid for constructed obviously, but - this card will be a goddamn nightmare in arena... can you afford to play around this?!
Not really, and if you don't it will wreck you, everybody will draft this.

The swing is WAY too big.

Boo principles. Boo me. 

No, like every expansion before.

Total money spend in the game until now: $ 0,00.

Blizzard hate players like me.

not everyone loves grinding