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If you use amazon coins, it is crazy cheap.  You get triple discounts, one when you buy the coins (e.g. Black Friday was 30% off), two because blizz are giving 50 rather than 40 packs, and three because blizz and amazon have a promo to give coins back (about 15%) after purchase.

I am UK and got the pre-order for coins that cost me £21 all-in, substantially less than the 45EUR list price.   For US it would probably be even cheaper as the UK has a high VAT rate.

Deck was created 29/12, so I think this was used for legend in december

@Hatnisch - gratz on hitting legend with this deck, takes some real balls to play crazy stuff at rank 1

The analogy with Grim Patron is actually pretty good.  With the possible exception of playing this for value in control warrior, there isn't an established tier 1 or 2 deck that this simply drops into.

However, its worth looking for a new archetype in which it becomes a lynchpin.  Its going to need a fatigue deck, but then you need some way of not losing if this card, the map or the monkey winds up near the bottom of the deck.

The best shells to start building around are likely similar to fatigue mill rogue or freeze mage, as these decks are (a) among the best at drawing their libraries and (b) have tools to increase the number of cards you have such as gang up, vanish (with tokens), echo and duplicate. Warlock also potentially good because of the rapid card draw.  Playing her with Brann, Shadowstep or pandas is potentially great as you increase the chance of hitting the monkey by adding multiple maps.  Either way, your payoff is the undercosted 6/6 and hoping for 5 or 6 random legends to close out the game with, not trying to win from fatigue damage (rogue) or spell damage (mage).

Her best shell will therefore most likely include all of the LOE legends so far - reno combines well with fatigue, brann doubles her battlecry and finley is great for a mage/rogue/warlock fatigue strategy.  

Cant wait to try out some terrible builds with this card!

Doing stuff like giving away free packs for tavern brawl or adding those 50g quests is a subtle way of levelling the playing field by giving newer players a few more resources, freeing up gold to pay for the adventures.  

This approach is much fairer than explicitly devaluing the efforts of experienced players by giving away formerly paid content for free.

Kinda cool that you can deliberately play out dragons in hand and then trade him off if you dont want the deathrattle to trigger.

i guess this is an inevitable consequence of the "we don't buff cards" policy.

BB bodyguard is woefully underpowered, so there's no argument of power creep (having a new version of a terrible card is not power creep).  I doubt this card is as good as Senjin but at least it's worth trying as an alternative.

Also, this is common, making it plenty accessible on day 1 to FTP players, in the unlikely event it turns out to be essential.  Why so much whining?  Had it been a legendary 4/5 taunt for 4, I could see the point.

Shouldn't that text be costed as a drawback?  In a normal game, 1 damage to all your minions at a point you can't control is a drawback.

This card is just one new card away from being utterly broken.  If anything is printed that gives perpetual boosts to creatures, this card has to be considered.

Obviously, it's not that powerful with Stormwind Champion and Dire Wolf Alpha, but Warsong (fortunately not available to Warlock) breaks it.  Should any new neutral or warlock card allow you to give minions taunt or charge, this will be a combo piece.

Sadly, it's underwhelming with existing warlock stock - its a shoddy shadowflame target because of it's 1 power, it's a mediocre power overwhelming target as we have better cards already (nerubian egg, imp/spider tokens) and a mediocre void terror enabler as it's so small.

Really unconvinced on Blizz's strategy of only spoiling bad cards.  Hope I'm not going to regret that preorder!

I was able to get 700 of 3500 amazon coins back from the TGT pre-order, plus got the standard 10% amazon coins discount

This should be publicized better, as those combine to a 28% discount when buying via amazon coins vs buying direct from Blizz

Edit:  FYI I am based in the UK

So upgrading Azure Drakes to golden basically costs 80g and Rag 1200g?

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Hang on, this isn't worded like Deathwing: Dragonlord. Does it summon a copy of the demons in your hand, or does it put those cards into play.

At first I read it as the weaker version and thought it was rubbish, but if it's actually the first interpretation, this could be seriously cool.

I'm sure we can all mostly agree by now during 3ed week, afew of the cards turned out a lot better than we thought, but we've all focused on the cards. 

The heroic level of this Adventure is easier than some of the Naxx and black rock regulars. A huge disappointment to me. We can mostly all agree for Naxx and black rock we had to net deck, and even then it took the right timing and cards and abit of thought and a lot of luck on the side of rng to pull it off. 

Just this week, on wing 3, 47 mins after it was released I bet regular, side challenges, and the heroic... For the first two I used reg ole N'zoth pally, for illhoof obviously warrior with two brawls, a lot of aoe, and taunts. All one shot. - Without much effort, and only had to make one custom deck, the warrior. 

I personally believe blizz is heading  hearthstone into the same direction as WoW, during vannila WoW it was a lot harder took more teamwork and a lot of trail and error etc. But after Lich King WoW became a joke once Activision got involved. Free epics for everyone, all bosses tank n spank, and so forth ( Which is after being a endgame raider (MT and Healer As warrior and Pally )  since Vannila. - Point being you should feel some sort of accomplishment after beating the heroics, not "oh look a free cardback" you get a free cardback each month don't need another freebie.  

WotOG will forever be known as the set that broke shaman. This and the thing from below are almost the best cards in the set so far.

I guess not everyone's equally affected by the changes. I was taking part in a series of tournaments in Jan 2016, so I went ahead and burnt about 15k+ dust on golden cards like Dr Boom, Sludge, Loatheb, Muster, Minibot, QuarterMaster, VoidCaller, Malganis etc(was playing Renolock and Renodin).

Now barely a month later, I found it out that a large chunk of it would not longer be useable in the official tournament format. I will not be doing disenchanting any cards, but the Golden versions of the non Standard cards will be wasted...

Yes I know they can still be used in Wild, but I already have the normal cards and do not want Golden versions of cards which suddenely changed from "I'll be using them most of the time and in tournaments" to "I'll use them occasionally when in Wild Brawls, clearing adventures or when I occasionally want to play Wild mode". I like to join tournaments and will be focussing on the official format so won't be playing Wild much.

I crafted golden Reno Jackson too, but at least I can use the card for another year. Bulk of my dust spent just last month will be on cards obselete in the official format in barely ~3months....

If I level up on the American HotS server, do I get the card back on all my HS server accounts, or just the American one?  I'm curious because my internet connection sucks, and HotS seems to require a pretty fast connection.  I live in China but I mainly play HS on the American server, but HotS is basically unplayable for me because of the lag and constant disconnections.

Other than that, HotS seems like a fun game.  Sorta cute.  Not really my cup of tea, but I want that spinning card back...  :)

Just play with a friend for the XP boost to speed it up if you actually have no desire to play the game.