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Quote from DiscoBalls >>

Confirmed mechanics!

@ThePlaceMatt Good job today! Question: Mayor Noggen: ALL hero powers, spells and minions then hit random targets? everything? 

Matthew Place ‏@ThePlaceMatt 

@TheDiscoEffect Everything!! :)

Quote from Shaveyou >>

I think this needs clarification before it can be properly judged. The following points:

1) Does this affect spells + Hero Powers as well as minion/weapon attacks? If it does, it could have a LOT more survivability than people are giving it credit for. Targeted spells would be relatively useless if it does.

2) Can enemy minions attack their own side (AKA Misdirection) or just other valid targets (AKA Mogor the Ogre). If the former, the could be used in a Yogg Style, Hail Mary play, when you've clearly lost, to try and drag you back in the game.

I rated it bad because although I think it's a well designed card, I also think that most of the ways to make it do enough damage are also easily played around. In order to guarantee good damage you need to kill it on the same turn that you play it which makes Power Overwhelming a good combo but if you just leave it on board then it will act similar to a taunt where they trade stuff in and then play more and maybe reduce its attack or silence it.

Kazakus

How is this a COMMON card?

Quote from Elazul2k >>

OTK Priest is back! Hit Embrace the Shadow, Coldarra Drake, and Raza the Chained with Emperor Thaurissan and you can OTK your opponent with the hero power on T10 lulz... Or even just Shadowform earlier in the match then hit just Coldarra Drake and Raza the Chained with Emp and T9 OTK them.

Quote from Scarthcaroth >>

For most weapon 1 durability is the exact same as destroying it so the effect is only marginally weaker than Ooze, particularily when dealing with Ashbringer, Atiesh and Spiritclaws (as far as the current meta is concerned).

 

Don't worry, you can still get your 100x 0-3 runs done in just a few hours play time.

Quote from BorkBot >>

You forgot a possibility...

- They are going to keep the archetype alive by introducing a new neutral highlander legendary after Reno cycles out.

Unless that's what you meant with your second possibility, but then it wasn't entirely clear to me.

I like Reno, though. So I wouldn't mind if they kept him in standard. But then, more support should be created to increase viability of highlander decks for non-Kabal classes. Warrior and Paladin in particular.

I'm still confused why none of the news posts on this site tell people to vote.

Quote from HarIeyQuinn >>

source?? 

I hope so, hate aggros... And reno opens an interesting playstile that they seem to like, since they keep making this cards.

Quote from Elazul2k >>

Reno decks are going to be great until Reno rotates out. Not sure that Kazakus and Inkmaster are enough to warrant keeping that style of deck on their own. Wild will have some amazing Reno decks though.

I didn't even know voting was a thing this time. All the news post here haven't been pushing us to vote like they usually would.

I think the biggest reason is that people look at it from two different main perspectives. TCG players view it as a cheap TCG game but video game players view it as a very expensive (p2w) / time consuming (f2p) video game.

When TCG players talk about how they need to spend thousands to have a competitive deck in a TCG, they are forgetting two things:

1. TCG's have physical cards that you can sell and resell infinitely so although you may have spent $1000 on a deck, you could turn around and sell it tomorrow and maybe even make a profit. In hearthstone your collection is forever your collection, no trading.
2. TCG tournaments only require one deck (afaik this is pretty universal for TCG pre-constructed deck tournaments) so to be competitive you just need to have one good deck. In hearthstone you could potentially get top of the ladder with just one deck and you can build one good cheap deck with an investment of maybe $100 (or equal gold grinding time) but to even play in a tournament you need at least four decks, often more, with probably half of them being expensive control decks, which will cost around $1000 to collect enough cards/dust to craft what you need. ie. being able to play competitively in tournaments will probably cost you similarly in TCG and hearthstone.

Nothing happens, once it is in your hand you play it like a normal minion.

The first pirate you play (ie. from hand) summons every copy from your deck to the board, they are no longer in your deck.