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Quote from Pryst >>

Yeah, I set it to private as I’m doing it at my house. I usually do pack openings with my daughter. It’s a silly game, but we take turns opening the packs and you win one point for rare, three for epic and ten for legendary.

 We do that too, but instead of points, it's drinks.

This is one of the worst topics for a thread I've ever seen on HearthPwn.

The only decks that I like to play in Wild are the kind that are completely unfeasible in Standard. Like my Shadowgrinder deck, which is completely decimated by the loss of Lightbomb and Deathlord.

The cards all say "your C'Thun." If it's in my deck, it's doesn't belong to my opponent anymore, so my opponent's buff cards should not buff it anymore. If this is intended behavior, then Entomb is WAY OP against C'Thun decks.

"Oh, you spent your entire game buffing this one minion? Allow me to take it, continue buffing it with your own remaining cards, then play it against you."

I'm thinking about concocting some sort of Mass Dispel deck. The Silence nerfs will certainly encourage people to run more aura/trigger/deathrattle minions. Natural counter to this? Fun police silence sweeps!

Quote from reggin_bolas >>

It still doesn't encourage people to buy packs with real money. Where is the joy in just opening two freaking legendaries in what will soon be 100 packs? 

Way to ruin the fun in this game. Let the free to play noobs have their mercy rule. Let paying customers actually get a bit more value. 

Soggoth the Slitherer is going to end up being a hidden gem in this expansion. Can't be Polymorphed, Hexed, destroyed by a removal spell, or BGH'd.

Magma Rager is shit because it's 3-mana and one card for a lopsided minion with 1-health. Ice Rager is shit because it's 3-mana and one card for a lopsided minion with 2-health. And you want me to believe that 8-mana and two cards for a lopsided minion with 2-health is something worth talking about? Even if Crazed Alchemist made it an 8/8 somehow instead of an 8/2, any minion that needs to combo with another card to be good, is shit. Scaled Nightmare is no exception.

"Cancer" means "a powerful deck or individual card that is very easy to play." Reasons why it may be "easy to play" can include:

• Does not require a lot of decision making (should I trade? can I overextend here? do I need to save this removal for later?)
• Deck that uses a lot of low-cost, non-situational cards, so having a "bad hand" is extremely rare
• Tight synergy (e.g. Ironbeak Owl to go through a big taunt with other minions + weapon; Owl is a beast, so it activates Kill Command)
• Minions with guaranteed raw value (Dr. Boom is 3 bodies and up to 17 trade damage for 7 mana; Mysterious Challenger is 12 stats, up to 5 draws, and up to 5 mana in free secrets played)

I am extremely happy with most of these. Only comments I have are:

• Blade Flurry – I'm glad it got nerfed, but it got hit WAY too hard. Its low cost was justified by the fact that you also have to pay your entire weapon + any buffs you put on it. Hitting the face as well as minions was OP, but I thought the cost was just fine. (I don't play much rogue, so despite my opinion on this nerf, it doesn't really hit me emotionally =P)
• Ancient of Lore – A 5/5 and 2 draws for 7 mana was a bit silly, but a 5/5 and 1 draw for 7 mana seems a bit underpowered, especially with 5 health as the other option. "Restore 5 Health" seems more valuable than "Draw a card," no matter how you look at it. That being said, it was way too convenient of a late-game draw for druid, so I agree with reducing the cards drawn to 1, but I think the rest of the card should have been scaled down in a proportional way.
• Force of Nature – This is a perfectly fair nerf (cost reduction is an unexpected bonus!), but it's sort of bittersweet to me. I racked up 135 wins in the "Heart of the Sunwell" brawl with this card =P
• Ironbeak Owl – I wish they would have hit this one a little harder. 3-Mana, "Make any legendary minion a lame ball of stats" still doesn't sit well with me. It's unlikely that this cost bump will convince people to stop running it.
• Big Game Hunter – Again, would have liked to see the nerf hammer come down a bit harder on this. In a hypothetical meta dominated by late-game decks and huge minions, I don't see people batting an eye at the higher cost, as long as it's still turning games around.
• Master of Disguise – So exciting to hear this!! I love minions with "must remove me, or else!" effects, and this nerf really convinces me that we'll have lots of those coming in the future.

I got chills playing a 2 mana FWA.  Great brawl, good times.

I have not looked into the details, but I hosted a private pre-release event for Rastakhan's Rumble and can tell how that went.

Number of people does not matter. This one I can say for sure. Just log into Hearthstone and to your event. Not much to do if you're alone, of course, but the moment a second player shows up, you can play the pre-release Brawl with the new cards.

I'm not sure about the answers to your other questions. We played on our wifi, all players were on the same wifi, so no idea if it would have worked otherwise. PC players can play just fine too, and there's no GPS on a tabletop PC, so if something was used to verify the same location, it would have to be the wifi. I hope this helps at least a little.

Quote from Slowdive87 >>

I can't believe everybody thinks this is busted, I always forget how bad heartpwn users are at evaluating cards.

I actually think it is a terrible card. Rogue cannot play the control game, you have no more tutoring (bye minstrel), no more razorpetals so even if you get to play triple maly with a nut-draw (you have to draw naturally three legendaries AND survive till at least turn 7) you don't have 0 mana damage spells to play on the same turn. I really don't see how any of this could possibly work.

 We'll speak in a month.

Give up

Ben last year: 

Their solution after about a year of hard work: A longer scroll bar. 

Well congratulations on your awesome solution Ben. Making the scroll bar longer is definitely not the first thing that came to our mind. 

I was watching this really old movie last night called "Indiana Jones and Last Crusade".  About 10 minutes in, the lead character named Indiana Jones (Im not kidding that's his name) says "THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!" to some bad guy.  He said that exact line word-for-word.  I immediately thought of Harrison Jones, especialpy since later in the movie that same character dresses a kinda similar.

So after the movie I did some googling and found out that the actor that played the character was named Harrison Ford.  Harrison Ford + Indiana Jones = Harrison Jones.  I also confirmed that the movie came out even before Hearthstone's alpha so it is clear that Blizzard copied this movie/character, either as an homage or ripoff (probably the first).

Anyhow I found it really interesting and wanted to share.  It's a real movie you can look it up and even watch it for free if you have Amazon prime right now.

I wonder what other Easter Eggs are out there!

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Awesome find! I recently discovered that some of the cards somehow seem to resemble characters from a game named world of warcraft.

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