Hearthpwn

this is pretty fantastic. nice one

Mogor’s champion better than optimistic ogre? Or is it flavor sauce?

tamsin is Judicious Junior

well none except for Krolusk Barkstripper, Mok'Nathal Lion, Burrowing Scorpid, and Circus Amalgam.

so basically do NOT play the Shifting Dyes.

for some reason arena works fine, even with golden core cards on both ends.

oh sweet. here it is.

do we know the options for Kazakus, Golem Shaper yet or nope?

So it’s like “to arms, men” (quartermaster) in a way. It’s a bit slower, but doesn’t have silver hand recruit condition 

but will it ever be better than Flame Leviathan, the most spectacular legendary ever!

I guess some of the problem from Blizzards perspective could also be this:

We want to run an event that people will watch. We should invite people that viewers will get hype about. So... Kibbler, Trump, Kripp, Dog..etc. People know them, they get butts in seats.

The gamble is running an event, while highlighting other lesser known content creators, and it possibly looking like: Jim5556 & Girlunicorn & personthatplaysHS. They may all be really great, but personally seeing a list like this makes me way less interested in the event because the draw becomes about gameplay.. which in my opinion is a very low percentage of why I watch HS events.

However, introducing a couple lesser known creators that are very entertaining to every event is a fantastic idea. J4cieChan comes to mind. Great personality, good at HS but invited to very little.

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Holy crap, this comment section is proof as to why inculsivity matters. I don’t understand so many saying: ”they should invite based of skill and accomplishments”, if they did Regis and Kripp wouldn’t have been there in the first place.

This is giving opportunities to a group who are underrepresented at events like these and at the top level in general because they haven’t been given the same opportunities before. How is it a bad thing that they are giving these women opportunities to make it at top level and show other women that it’s possible?

 So being the biggest HS streamer and having an average on 10k viewers is not an accomplishment? Guess Kripp is doing it wrong then, he must be so sad crying with his thousands of dollars. This stream is just a marketing strategy to bring more light to their new set, that's it, for that reason they have all the biggest streamers, it makes sense, Blizzard want to make money, and hey, the guy that averages a 10k audience probably makes them more money than someone with less than 1k viewers. It's not like Kripp's getting invited to play on GM or something like that. 

Having said that I'm happy that they're trying to diversify but I would like if it was even more diverse, but not on terms of gender or race but also on terms of their viewers. As I said I get that Blizzard want to maximize their money but it's kinda dumb that Kripp AND Regis AND Kibler and Thijs AND Dog AND Trump are on every single stream. If they cared more about the small and medium-sized streamers then maybe they could also grow and represent good money for Blizzard as a company. But I do think that this whole 'let's invite girls cause they're girls and if we don't have girls people get mad' is just dumb, cause that's literally the reason that Blizzard invited 2 girls when Kripp and Regis stepped down.

All this brings is just dumber and more mysoginistic behavior to the table. Like those 'All girls' tournaments... to me they only look like 'hey they aren't good enough to play on a regular tournament so we made one just for them'. The correct way to be more inclusive should be with better marketing strategies that could encourage everyone to feel included and willing to play. Many women have proven to be on the top flight for this and many other games so they could compete at a high level, but I think just trying to include them cause they're girls and we have to be inclusive is wrong. I mean like GM is open for everyone, and yes the qualifying process is a nightmare but at the end it's all about skill. So yeah in this type of tournaments which is literally just streamers playing each other they should just be a lot more inclusive, and as I said not just with gender and race but also with their stream size.

The game is mostly fine right now.

The main problem that people are having is that the established decklists are still from the time of mage dominance and are ill equipped to handle the new meta. 

It has been changed. 0 cost minions still transform into another 0 cost minions.

And Wild Warlock is Renolock and Wild Druid is Malygos. I'll admit that this time around there were less variety in archetypes, but at least the new Maly Druid runs an entirely different activator, Odd Warrior is literally an underdog in the format and Renolock isn't even the most popular Warlock archetype, all qualities that the chosen Reno Priest list lack.

No Zalae and P4wnyhof? :(

Did you seriously expect them to invite the guy whose content on YT is roasting everything they do. Regardless that he's right or not, it's quite obvious he's not the guy they want to give extra visibility and prize money to.

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Yay.  More Kibler and company.  Same streamers as always.

No Funki Monki, no Zeddy, no Dracocatt, no WowHobbs.

 the picks are 90% community popularity and 10% corporate rapport. You don't pick streamers who have no audience for an advertisement stream