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    posted a message on Your Standard Brawliseum Has Taken Over Tavern Brawl This Week!

    Hopefully we will see these events more often, like in Magic Arena. They're good alternatives to grinding ranked play. However, they should be separate from the Brawl; people want their weekly dose of jank without having to go full tryhard Standard

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on Rise of Shadows

    Bizarre that people are irate about the lack of dragons when we never heard a similar demand for large numbers of mammoths or ravens. Dragons are big and dramatic; you should only see a couple per set at most, lest they lose their luster. Unless the entire set is based around dragons, of course...

    Posted in: Guides
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    posted a message on New Paladin Card: Duel!

    Would be a fantastic sideboard card, if such a thing existed. Otherwise it's a bizarre pack filler card that won't even see play in Arena.

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on Next Expansion Name Leaked?

    Misdirection: not just a hunter secret. Wait until the actual reveal.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on The Fortune Teller

    There's nothing "worrying" about that. Magic is currently in its third cycle of Ravnica, one of its most popular settings. The problem isn't repeating themes but providing interesting mechanics and fiction to ground the expansion. And I would say Boomsday and Rastakhan are huge improvements over their predecessors. I would love a revisit of Whispers but it's looking like a Dalaran theme, maybe a prison break or heist?

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on Year of the Dragon - Goodbye Genn & Baku, New Solo Content, Arena Draft Pools, Smarter Deck Builder

    There's a lot riding on this upcoming expansion. It needs to be of a significant enough power level to enable new deck archetypes and get people excited for the post rotation meta without creating obvious winners. And while I've really enjoyed most of HS' roguelike offerings, Rumble Run veered into a level of oppressive non-interaction that needs to be avoided at all costs

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on Card Nerfs and Lunar New Year Patch Delayed

    Ben Brode infiltrated the HS server rooms

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on Peter Whalen & Dean Ayala Showcase Old Rastakhan's Rumble Card Designs

    Man, "can't attack or be attacked" is a really weird rider that favors spell based removal. Really glad they changed it. Also interesting that they had to reiterate upon Shaman and Warrior loa - to the point where the live cards have almost nothing to do with these versions. 

    Posted in: News
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    posted a message on [Guide] Luna's Pocket Dragons

    Does Arugal also copy minions' cost reduction? I know +1/+1 to all minions in the deck is really good, but this just seems like a huge font of value. Gonna experiment with him, seems like a really powerful value-based inclusion, even if he doesn't reduce their cost (playing a 9 mana Alexstrasza copy and a 1 mana Crowd Roaster is still pretty damn good, for instance)

    Posted in: [Guide] Luna's Pocket Dragons
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    posted a message on Shirvallah, the Tiger

     While more of a payoff for buff decks, she still does quite well as a closer for heal control. Taking out a big dude and healing yourself for a pittance (or entirely free) is just too much for many decks to handle at that point in the game, especially if you can buff her. While not a meta-defining card, Shirvallah enables a lot of really fun Paladin play.

    Posted in: Shirvallah, the Tiger
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