Hearthpwn

Hype around this card just shows the level of knowledge of the average hearthpwn user.

Reminds me how many people claimed Mistcaller was op, with very few sane people actually telling people why it's trash.

This card even requires you to build a deck with bad cards, since all high health cards people are mentioning either rotated out or are must remove cards anyway no matter how much attack they have (ysera and other big dragons).

For this card to work, blizzard must release at least 3 or 4 midrange, tempo, high health minions who are good without getting buffed.

Minions like that were in this standard cycle, but now there aren't any left (try building the deck if you don't believe me).

I dont see any new cards getting nerfed, what I hope is we see many gadzetzan cards nerfed finally. Jade golems and pirates have been here too long.

It was for a long time a must include in miracle rogue, but better 1 mana cards were released for miracle, so it got replaced.

Also, tempo rogues who used it, with release of keleseth need more minions, so it didn't make the cut.

This goes into Kazakus priest 100%, your games never go to fatigue since you are an OTK deck (most popular version of that deck).

This will also be a insane card in kazakus mirrors, if you run same lists you can intentionally give your opponent a duplicate, or rarely, shuffle more cards into their deck so they draw their raza anduin combo later.

Vs Druid and big priest this is a mass sap for all of their big minions, and they dont even get to draw them right away, making both matchups much better.

Vs aggro this is 2nd copy of dragonfire, which also makes their deck worse since they will have leftover tokens/totems left on the board.

Can you stop making rng cards like these blizzard, the more you make, the more chances increase one of them becomes meta, which is terrible for the game (see yogg pre nerf meta, tuskarr totemic and many more).

And no, I don't hate fun, some of my favourite cards are meme, unplayable ones. But, there are more ways to make FUN cards other than just slapping random mechanics on everything.

Probaly really good in control paladin (truesilver, burnbristle, corpsetaker, uther DK, rag, djinn).

In a tempo matchup you can sometimes play it as a frostwolf grunt, but often you can at least upgrade it once, making it insane vs aggro.

I say this is playable for sure, since paladin lacks early game (2 drops) in non murloc decks. Probably best spellstone together with druid one. 

This would be broken in mage comboed with frost nova and iceblock already up. But in priest I don't see how you survive 2 turns unless you are already winning. 

If you can figure out how to survive, there are multiple ways to otk your opponent (velen+damage spells, divine spirit+inner fire etc).

I think this will only see play when discovered in dragon priest by historian/bone drake, in games where you are already in fatigue (rare/never).

Welcome back to druidstone guys...... Just look at that shaman weapon compared to this..

Don't think this card will be played at all, but a lot of anti aggro/remove everything/fatigue handlocks run Stonehill defender, so you will be seeing it a lot in those decks indirectly, since class cards show up more often.

Seals have synergy with Medivh, which is run in some versions too. And of course all minions you get are demons, so you can get them from Guldan Death Knight.

No balance changes?? Oh right, according to blizzard Ultimate infestation just hurts people's feelings, not OP at all. Druid having million ways to ramp into it doesn't concern them at all? Raza+Anduin combo at least rotates soonish, but it's going to be incredibly broken for 4 months at least.

 If they don't make a single change meta will stay completely same (priest, druid, rogue and maybe warlock), unless of course they release another retardedly broken+boring design (jades).

Expansion itself is great, but meta is ruined by worst expansion ever - Gadgetzan.

Think how everything you hate in this meta originates from it:

-Patches the Pirate: auto include in most aggressive and board control decks. Pirates saw play in decks they have no place being in (non weapon classes). Also influences keleseth to be way more broken than he is.

-Raza (and Kazakus): without it Shadowreaper Anduin is a really fair and balanced card

-Jade mechanic+Jade Idol: Invalidated so many possible control decks, together with ramp made UI completely out of control. Also its only soft counter is a terrible 6 mana 4 6 or playing aggro.

I haven't seen anyone complaining about bonemare in ranked before you opening this thread.

Real problem with bonemare is it destroyed arena combined with death knights (which are my favourite designed card type for ranked, but don't belong in arena).

I faced quite a few streamers and pros (gara, neirea, orange, lowelo and probably others I didn't notice) but I never had their stream open.

If you want to hear their opinion just watch a twitch vod and fast forward to that moment later.

I did the same thing after facing neirea as nzoth shaman vs his ctrl warrior few months ago, and after watching the vod I was discussing the game with him in chat.

Banning all rng cards seems nearly impossible, would destroy most of good tournament decks. They designed way too many rng effects, especially discover.

Decks like Quest mage, for example, are unfortunately completely designed around discover rng.

Solution isn't easy at all, since even if you ban a single card it can have large effects on a deck you practiced playing so much. Using an example of quest mage again, banning primordial glyph would reduce that deck power level a lot.

Only way to solve this issue is to design the game better, and then community/tournament organiser can decide to ban worst offender rng effects/cards without harming the player's preparation process.

Druid defence worse out in full force I see, no wonder we were stuck with stuff like undertaker for 7 months with community like this...

Only joke deck in tier S is Malygos druid, ramp druid is at least tier 1/2 too, so don't pretend like this list is only satire.