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Why is the art so bad? 

People say this is underwhelming, but 5/3 weapon for 6 mana which comes with an okay body seems pretty decent to me. It can deal 15 damage to enemy face, being immune when attacking can come handy but the card is more flexible than that and the weapon can get even better if the titan survives which gives it a soft taunt and a possibility for even more value. Seems like a very good midrange/tempo card to me.

I came to this discussion to see wether it's something more than typical hating on Zeddy and it seems it hardly is. His content is about being critical about the state of the game and pointing out things that can be done to improve it. I don't know where do you guys get the idea that he is bitter, he is a very passionate person who deeply cares about the game. Also, the idea that his only or main followers are enraged children who just want to complain and complain is wrong. A lot of them just understand and appreciate his critical approach.
My main point here is that there are sensible reasons to engage with his content, there is some real value it brings and his perspective can be useful for someone who is interested and cares about hearthstone, so boiling it all down to ramblings of an old, lonely man is ignorant, unfair and incomplete.
I totally understand why people may not like what he is doing and his way of expressing himself, but I think those who dislike him are way too judgemental and too often act as if the only valid reason to engage with his content was to let your hate and anger on stupid blizzard devs out, which is just untrue. 
Edit: Regarding my first line, I should clarify there are also posts that are not typical  hating on Zeddy, thanks to people who wrote them.

I see some perhaps serious problems with the support big-spell mage is receiving so far. The pirate from dead mines draws you a spell, the new legendary draws 2 spells and this card cheats 3 of them out from your deck, so to fully make use out of all theese cards you would have to run really a lot of big spells, like 8 or something. But if you do so, there will be times when you play Iceblood Tower for a lot of mana and you are not even guaranteed to get the spell you currently want, this is very costly spell for it's unreliability.
What makes making this archetype work even harder is that with all the cheating out of big spells avalible you want to  avoid targeted big spells like Arcane Overflow or maybe even Deep Freeze. Your Grey Sage Parrot can also become clunky if you are cheating all your spells out with Iceblood Tower or Clumsy Courier.
In conclusion, so far it seems like a very clunky deck idea to me. I'd much prefer if they didn't discourage big-spell mage to also put regularly costed spell in their decks.

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It surprised my how relatable your post is. I'm currently doing my daily quests in standard with deathrattle hunter I made work as well as I could and I also can't relate at all to people who play some basic op paladin. Sure, there is some skill required to play well with any deck, but I can't see in such activity much more than artificially feeding your brain with victory-chemicals. I wouldn't say it's a "wrong" way to play, but I find it shallow, much less rewarding and something I never could enjoy.

Hearthstone isn't a game when creativity pays off much, but it is possible to still have some success with homebrewed decks and satisfaction after winning with one of them against spell mage or paladin is incredible c:

I saw someone suggesting to make it so that when your opponent casts a spell, you cast a random spell of that cost. It's still yogg-related but becomes a meme card only.  Making the spell you cast cost x more than the one opponent cast could make the card more usefull maybe.

The idea sounds interesting to me, but I get that it would probably kill the card and Blizzard almost surely won't do it.

I just meant that saying that the meta has been figured out is a poor reply to the original comment as it implies that the conclusion it came to is correct and tries to explain it in a way that doesn't make sense.

Pointing out that the game is in fact more diverse than it may seem is much more reasonable way of disageering.

Figured out meta can very well have more than 5 decks viable for pro play and establishing such situation should be one of the game designers' goals. They have proven it's possible previous expansions and such meta situation clearly requires changes.

Look at this situation like this: there is this new card, Ysera the dreamer, which adds some unique 5 cards to your hand. If those cars were to good, the card would be op, therfore they need to be balanced.

The change isn't about nerfing the dream cards, but about making new Ysera balanced, as dream cards weren't originally designed to be received 5 at once. I see your point about 'dream', as the change makes the card less interesting, but I also acknowledge that Ysera the dreamer will probably be widely played anyway and the changes were necessary to make her balanced. Old Ysera would not see any play after her new version is out, so here nerfing dream cards doesn't really matter and they won't be nerfed in classic mode, where old Ysera will probably show up.

this used to be a blog post in 2020 from devs:

I can't even tell what's going on lol

No. No they’re not. You’re confused and misinformed. This was discussed by blizzard itself in a blog. There’s a distinction between Blizzard bots and third part bots. Please go ahead and read about it. The information is right there, at your fingertips:

We’ve seen some frustration recently with increased bots in some aspects of Hearthstone. We take botting very seriously; we hear you and we’re acting on it.

We’ve seen a marked increase in third-party botting over the past several months. We already do regular, massive ban waves for bots, and we’re working to scale up our response to match the influx of new bot accounts. So far this year we’ve banned hundreds of thousands of accounts for botting—and we’re ramping up our efforts. We also have people working on solving this problem on a systematic level.

We can’t share more at this time. We have a general policy against explaining our cheating investigations or actions, because we have found that every time we share information about the process, that just helps the cheaters get more sophisticated, making the problem worse in the long run.

You can continue to help by using the in-game reporting function to report suspected bots. It helps us track down and eliminate these accounts. Another way you can help is by stomping these bots whenever you face them on the ladder. While you do that, know that we’re fighting them right alongside you.

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"botting is ok because... your rank is low"

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 You are aware that some bots are there intentionally, placed by Blizzard for the express purpose of filling out the lower MMR, correct? The way you can tell if it is a Blizzard sanctioned bot is if the client doesn't acknowledge them for the purposes of adding friends or reporting.

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 I'm glad to see that hearthpwn is still as petty and toxic as ever. Keep it real circle-jerkers in your blatent jealously of a successful hearthstone content creator, it's perfectly in line with the reputation y'all have here.

 I like Regis (150 thousand subscribers) and Kibler (390 thousand) and Trump (769 thousand) but not Zeddy (55 thousand).

Before he switched to making battlegrounds vids my favourite HS YouTuber was Kripparian (900 thousand). 

Hopefully you weren't referring to me specifically but I don't think the jealousy explanation really makes sense, as Zeddy's one of the less successful content creators. And let's face it, he doesn't seem to enjoy his job that much. If I was going to be jealous of any of them it'd be Kibler, I mean have you seen that guy?

 I'm clearly referring to all the people commenting on the first page of this forum, I'd take this oppportunity to go read the first page, then read my comment again. Also your logic that "oh he only has 55 thousand subs, how could anyone be jealous of that", he has success genius, jealous people will always take issue with other's success.  Finally, I find it hilarious that you dismiss the toxicity of the hearthpwn forum community, I was a dedicated poster here for years, just couldn't take the awful takes and blatently bigotry. There's a reason these forums are basically just reddit with even shittier formatting.

As a subscriber to Zeddy, this is how i interpret his personality with the whole nerf everything view on things. 

Zeddy is a casual gamer, not exactly a pro player who is technically forced to praise the game. He gets frustrated like everyone else and voices his opinion on it. He really started to grow about 2 years ago for this "I was blacklisted by Blizzard" era, and he was. He showed proof that he was blocked by a lot of the development team. However last year he and Blizzard came to an agreement and now everything is fine between them. I do believe the duels reveal was his first or second so he's kind of new to it all. 

I've been to a couple of his streams and he complains there too, but his community teases him for it, he teases back, etc. I would say Zeddy is [wrestling reference incoming] like the CM Punk or Stone Cold Steve Austin of the Hearthstone content creator community, always speaking out against things that are dominating the meta game, and sometimes it can seem like that's all he does but it isnt. He's genuinely a good guy who won't bullshit you and that's very respectable, think of him as the voice of the voiceless for Hearthstone.

I will admit though, some things he rants about can get to be a little much, and you won't agree but in all honesty, that's fine. If a creator isn't for you, then no need to call him out on a forum like this where he's likely not going to see it. Just don't subscribe and move on. (He also grows because of giveaways out of his pocket, so there's that.)

TL;DR: Zeddy is very outspoken and can seem like an angry troll who got attention because of giveaways, but he's been through a lot, and has layers, like an onion.

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Once your Bills and Life are dependant on Youtube Content producing at Age 40 .... you'll see where you'd end up with that example.

Are you telling us that he should be ashamed of doing what he does? Do you understand that if we were all the same and followed society's will all the time there would have been no progress at all in any area? Thanks god many people out there don't think the same as you or all of us would be sheep,

Just now the xpac went live and everything went as it should be. However the latest xpac packs are NOT in my store. Anyone else with this issue?

MOD EDIT: Issue should be fixed. Good luck everyone!

MOD EDIT: Just so people see this when opening the thread:

https://twitter.com/hsdecktech/status/1513930273225797636

Best info I have right now:
- no packs in store (for EU only?)—store was reset, so just sit tight and they should appear once that refresh goes through;
- some people stuck on “expansion live” thing—just restart your client and you should be fine

— Nicholas “DeckTech” Weiss (@hsdecktech) April 12, 2022

Probably won't do anything, because those cards need board interaction for their deathrattles to do anything

I mean, even without spellpower, it can simply cast 5 fireballs for 30 damage right at their face on an empty board.  It's going to happen.

Does the person who loses that game deserve to lose that game?