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Quote from MexRNG >>

Is this for salt tread ?

 Nope. It's a question about whether the marketing has always been this lapse, or just recently?

I'm excited for next week, but I'm wondering if every dept. in Blizzard is as much as we are?

What did they do in the past before expansion releases? Surely not the same?

I am utterly perplexed. Is anyone else?

Here I am for only my 4th expansion season...I'm sure most of you reading this have been playing for much longer.

We've had a week of drip, drip card reveals followed by a full on final card reveal tonight before the new expansion launches in 6 days.

Brim full of excitement, I ate dinner after the card reveal live stream, and logged back in to play the newly launched tavern brawl. What would it be? Which Loa would we get to play? Which spirits would we play against? Would they make us choose a class and lock us into it for the Tavern Brawl with one predesigned deck, or would we choose 3 cards from the new expansion and build a deck around it? I was genuinely excited to try just a small part of next week's new game design! It seemed so obvious. Tonight would be our small taster of what's to come. 

What did we get? A co-operative brawl, with none of the new cards to tease us into pre-purchasing, and absolutely nothing to do with Rastakhan's brawl whatsoever. Just something picked out of thin air with zero re-playability either. 

Anyone with a GCSE grade C in Marketing would have recognised a problem and come up with a solution, "Hey, you know all those players who didn't pre-order yet? Or the ones who ordered only one of the bundles? Let's give them a teaser of how the game will be played from next week onwards in the Tavern Brawl, so they get really excited about these new cards going into their decks and actually buy some stuff before Tuesday!"

What on earth, or where on earth, are Hearthstone's marketing department? Were they shuffled into a deck somewhere with The Darkness's candles? 

I'm so shocked they are so lapse...especially in the current climate with 'other' games launching soon (one I won't mention because I'm sick of seeing it's name thrown about here by paid trolls who should frankly bugger off to a forum dedicated to that particular game if they'll love it so much). For a multi-million turnover company though, I think Blizzard should hire some better team leaders to guide the game designers how best to market what they've designed. 

Tonight was a HUGE missed opportunity in my opinion. Has it always been this way around new expansion releases? 

Weapons have an extra chromosome. This minion might think it's a weapon, but me and my friends know that it's scientifically impossible. It's not racist; just scientific fact! :)

Huh ????

My favourite streamer is Dane.

Check out his past vids on YouTube and you’ll see why. He plays some really wild decks, and he’s always involved with his chat too. 

I tried this deck and it became totally stuck against academic espionage rogue.

Reason being there is no weapon removal, and the dirty rats often pull out minions you can’t deal with.

I replaced the 2 dirty rats with 2 deathlords. The deathlords actually help towards achieving the quest, plus they give more early game protection.

I took out 1 polluted hoarder and replaced with a weapon removal.

The deck worked much better for me after these changes. 

Perhaps something to think about?

So as Rogue I play the card, "At the start of your opponents turn they have a 50% chance to draw an extra card" followed by "Gain 1+1 whenever your opponent draws a card". 

The druid has 4 cards in hand at this point.

So what does he do? 

Naturalizes me!

I'm not sure if it's the brawl that's stupid this week, or the players? Jeez Louise! 

Quote from Dooogs >>

Right, 7000 gold, let's buy 70 Boomsday packs. Click, click x 70 - OK, time to open them...

I'm in the card page, looking at 3 free unopened Boomsday packs and 70 unopened Witchwood packs.

Oh.

Once you've quite finished laughing... is there any way to persuade Blizzard to take pity and swap them for 70 Boomsday packs? Nothing's opened yet.

This didn't happen. At all. Lovely story though.

If you ever make more than 5000 gold, you'll discover that you can't order more than 50 packs with your free gold in one transaction.

I do wonder why people make these stories up? 

So the same night as the release of the new expansion happens, you just happen to be hanging around in CASUAL with a Tier 1 Aggro deck that's ruled the meta for the past 3 months in Wild? 

WTF? Are you THAT desperate for gold? If you had balls, you'd press "ranked" and face some real players and some very disappointing losses! You wuss!

Quote from ababyduck >>

This is such a backhanded way of saying "hey guys i have a wife lol".  You got lucky, nobody cares about your wife, fictional or otherwise.

 Let me guess? You didn't get a wife or even any legendaries? :D 

Lighten up dude! There's life outside of this game you know! ;) 

Please, close this hater topic.

Personal attacks are toxic. 

LOL! Coin-Kalecgos... WP OP!

Quote from Bluelights >>

 We will all play 30 wisps :)

 Day 10: Ban Wisp ;-p

Quote from yeah2see >>

Just do it, lads. No discussion required.
Why on earth would anyone play Wild. I'm never playing that rubbish. Never have, never will. Same goes for Tavern. 

Time to ladder up, boys.

 Yeah, no discussion needed, just the other way around for me. XD

Almost never play ladder, so much rubbish, especially in standard. Time to play Casual Wild, Tavern or sometimes Ranked Wild. XD

I'm glad as well the card will rotate out. In the beginning I had fun playing it, but then I began to realize how frustrating it was to play against this card and how you could quickly lose if your opponent got the right picks. It made me stop playing the card quite some time ago. 

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Quote from lite0 >>

Yogg's battlecry transformed it in to hex lord most likely.  

Floop is weird like that.  For example, if you faceless manipulator a Lich King, then Floop would play as the Lich King, not faceless manipulator.  

This is because the battlecry transforms a minion before it's resolved onto the board, so Floop reads the last minion you played as Hex Lord.

 I never knew this! So this is a big of a bug that could be taken advantage of then? Faceless a 10 cost minion and get another copy immediately for 4 mana? Wow! 

Are there any decks you know of built around this? :) 

 I'm not sure if it's a bug, it's just how the game is coded.  I'm sure they've noticed by now since it's a known interaction that was fairly common in Malygos druid when it used to run faceless.

Not sure there is a deck built around it because it's really only useful when your opponent plays something with crazy value.  There aren't a lot of minions that transform upon playing them that are for druid/neutral.  Other than Faceless, there is War Druid Loti.  If you Floop that you can get a 3/4 of whichever form you chose, lol.  

Yogg's battlecry transformed it in to hex lord most likely.  

Floop is weird like that.  For example, if you faceless manipulator a Lich King, then Floop would play as the Lich King, not faceless manipulator.  

This is because the battlecry transforms a minion before it's resolved onto the board, so Floop reads the last minion you played as Hex Lord.

Did Storm Bringer turn him into Malacrass?

You think diversity means inviting a girl to do the reveal stream? I had not heard of the girl so I decided to do a quick search only to see she is more than qualified in hearthstone casting and has shown herself to be a hearthstone enthusiast through the amount of work and events she has previously done. I for one think its nice to have different faces do the reveals and I found her much more watchable than the boy they had to push the bundles and make some awful jokes. 

Nobody is "forcing diversity" the fact is girls are members and online game enthusiasts too. She didn't make as many mistakes as some of the previous streamers who couldn't even count the cards in their hand? 

It is hard to make real friends ingame. I sometimes try to add a recent opponent after a good game or seeingan interesting deck, however not many accept the invitation.