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I have an idea for Moorabi, but I don't want to spend/waste my dust to test it out.

The idea is to run minions that discount themselves, eg. Thing from Below, Dread Corsair, giants, Corridor Creeper, Happy Ghoul, Arcane Tyrant, Nerubian Prophet.

If any of them are in play and survive, you can play Moorabi + Hyldnir Frostrider to put a copy of them into your hand, which you can potentially play on the same turn or a future turn for free (this is especially useful with Thing from Below/Dread Corsair as they are still useful as Taunts while Frozen).

Since these minions also have decent synergy with Evolve, maybe you can throw in the Evolve package as well. Playing Evolve after the Moorabi + Hyldnir Frostrider combo is also a decent way to negate the Freeze.

I really hope Blizzard reverts Force of Nature back to its unnerfed form, but with Rush instead of Charge (and maybe cost 1 less).

I wish it actually casted Explorer's Hats so you could also potentially use it to Mill the opponent and other shinanigans

Dragon Pally with Onyxia :PogChamp:

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it sets the bar for power level in Standard. If you're not doing something faster or more powerful or that can reliably answer every threat then what you're doing isn't good enough for constructed.

 That is the exact definition of a suffocating deck. Back before the nerf, Quest Rogue was exactly the same way. You were either built to either rush it down before it did anything or answer its board repeatedly, or you could not play constructed. You would just lose no matter what you did. No outplays possible, no lucky shenanigans, the game is just over. Quest Rogue, by the way, was worse that Cubelock currently is and it still got nerfed because playing against it was absolutely miserable. To Aeris, I would contend that it just plain is not a control deck. A control deck in the traditional sense aims to grind its opponent out with value. Removal and board clears in this case are both a means of stalling to the deck's big turns, and another avenue for grinding out a favorable board. However, stalling tools alone do not make a deck a control deck, just as people would not call Quest Rogue or Freeze Mage control decks.

When you actually look at the way Cubelock plays, it actually has the most similarities to Quest Rogue. Get a certain combo of cards in your hand (Lackey+Dark Pact, maybe the Cube if you're feeling feisty), and then win by cheating out some garbage that only the most dedicated of counter decks can deal with. Basically, if you fail to kill the Cubelock fast enough, or otherwise run something like 6 polymorphs somehow, you just are not going to win. Sound familiar? Frankly, the sooner Blizzard sends Cubelock into the effing dirt, the better.

 

 Well, the easiest way to deal with it would be removing the charge from Doomguard and granting it on battlecry. This way they can't otk you out of nowhere and you can at least play the removal/value game.

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Divine Spirit, Inner Fire priest with Potion of Madness and Djinni of Zephyrs (casting potion on an enemy grants Djinni charge).

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Toxmonger, rogue legendary, battlecry: give your minions poisonous

Its ridiculous that this costs 6 while Emeriss costs 10...

Are you all forgetting that 1-drops in Hearthstone tend to be extra powerful (x2 1-Cost minions are usually stronger than a 2-Cost minion)? I think this is a decent card draw for Aggro decks.

As a Hunter, I don't think you can afford to spend an entire turn clearing the opponent's board without developing your board.

Like Unleash the Hounds, this benefits from auras like Timber Wolf/Leokk. It is more flexible than Unleash the Hounds/Deadly Shot (eg. Can be played for Tempo on an empty board), but alot weaker for the same purposes.

i don't think this is something you'd include in your deck, but something you'd be happy to find off Discover effects, and is especially powerful when paired with other low Cost minions with Deathstalker Rexxar (eg. Timber Wolf, Ironbeak Owl, Cave Hydra).

I just wish it was a 1-Cost 1/1 instead. That would be more flexible, alot more powerful with auras, and could potentially single-handedly make the Quest Hunter archetype viable.

"It's dangerous when a class has powerful Even and Odd deck archetypes since they don't have a lot of options to give them amazing cards. If they only had a strong even archetype, they could make better odd-cost cards."

This is kinda silly, isn't it? There can only be Odd or Even cards. They introduced Genn and Baku knowing well enough that every single future card would potentially support one or the other. Keep avoiding good Even cards long enough, and new Odd decks will pop up. Maybe don't make a powerful Totem-synergy card with an Even cost anytime soon, but otherwise, I think they should not worry too much about that, or else it will backfire.

Besides, it is relatively easy to design around it. Murlocs, for example, have important Even and Odd cards, so to make a good Murloc deck, you can't make use of Genn or Baku. Just make sure you don't create themes where all the key cards mysteriously have the same property, and the mechanic won't matter too much anymore.

My guess is that in the future, Genn and Baku will have a similar fate as Reno Jackson anyway: Other win conditions will become so insanely strong or counters so brutally effective, that the benefits no longer justify the limitations. They simply become outdated. Maybe Genn and Baku have a bit more potential, since you have the benefit right from the start of the game, but I'm sure that sooner or later, the better hero power won't be enough to make up for deck limitations anymore.

Sidenote: I'm a bit shocked how many cool, interesting ideas they had in mind for Toki, and how lame the final design is. Wish they would be more adventurous and go with those crazy, unconventional designs. I mean "un-nerf your hand" of course is a bit ambiguous, when cards have seen multiple changes, and some were before the official release, but the idea of decreasing mana crystals, maybe as a start of game effect, sounds cool. Perhaps it would make for some very unfair decks, but it's certainly more interesting than "another kind of random".

wow, Kripp will have his own avatar

"Skull of Gul'dan" would have been more hilarious.

There are so many interesting cards in the Rumble Run, if they were properly costed/statted, they would be a wonderful addition to the Standard. Why did the devs decide to keep them exclusive to solo-content? Especially considering how many uninspired or awkward cards and reused mechanics there are in the actual set.

Just imagine having any of these instead of Griftah, Drakkari Trickster or Booty Bay Bookie: Bloodwash Medic, Bwonsamdi's Keeper, Fireslinger, Gloryseeker, Glyph Guardian, Ironhorn Drummer, Parrot Mascot, Ravenous Familiar, Showstopping Conjurer, Vile Necrodoctor, Zandalari Striker, Frostweaver, The Walking Fort, Blessed One.

Of course, most of them would need to have their cost increased by (quite) a bit. But they are interesting and could create whole new archetypes. I'd certainly prefer to have ANY of them instead of Griftah. But Blizz somehow decided to print a bunch of useless cards instead. Why?..

Check out all the cards:

• https://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?display=3&filter-premium=0&filter-set=114&page=2
• https://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?display=3&filter-premium=0&filter-set=114&page=3

Not too fond of those random effects

ME GO (wrong) FACE 

Warlock got a handbuff
Paladin got a handbuff
Shaman got a handbuff

Everyone got a handbuff

This will be an awesome combo with MCT's.

Wait, they originally allowed choosing the next boss in the runs? That would make those modes so much more tolerable! The "negative experience" of not knowing how bosses work would fade over time, and the current problem of randomly winding up in unwinnable games would be greatly mitigated.

Ok, I DO like the new solo content more than old adventures, but I'll bite and play devil's advocate here:

To everyone saying "Adventures didn't have enough effect in the meta because they had less cards"

NO!

Adventures have less effect in the meta because it mostly only had filler and trash cards!

If giggling inventor, a single neutral card can have so much effect in the meta, a few class cards could change the meta completely.

The problem is them printing bad cards when you only have a limited number of them to make.

With a handful of new cards they can change the meta completely if they really wanted to. I like the new solo content because I am not that much of a fan of PvP and playing PVE solo every once in a while is cool. You could barely do that with old adventure systems.

I'm totally okay with that being the motive to get rid of adventures. To engage different kinds of players and all. But to say that you need to print more cards because the ones you print aren't enough?

THEN STOP PRINTING CARDS THAT WILL NEVER SEE PLAY. I know that some of this stuff is subjective and yeah, they can print better cards in the future that make older cards better but some of the stuff they make would not even be played in a different context.

I'm not arguing I think the guy is wrong, or blizzard is wrong. I just hate this argument that "more cards = meta shift = better game"

We got 2 expansions now in a row that barely changed anything for most classes. Getting 500 cards when only 30 is making a different is not solved by "MORE CARDS". It's solved by better balancing of the game. Both getting rid of decks that make archetypes irrelevant and by printing better cards instead of underpowered ones that don't even work on meme decks.