18.0.1 Hotfix - Discover Cards & Random Generating Cards Can No Longer Discover Themselves
Blizzard just announced an important hotfix aiming at improving the player experience on discover cards & r andom generating cards.
Full changes
Quote from BlizzardHey everyone,
We’ve got a hotfix going out later today that includes significant changes to the Discover keyword and randomly generated cards:
- Discover cards can no longer Discover themselves.
- Cards that ‘generate a random card’ can no longer generate themselves.
Dev comment: Overall, this change is aimed at helping games feel a bit more varied. While generating the same card can be an exciting individual moment, these types of experiences tend to have diminishing returns after a while. These adjustments should make for healthier games against classes with a ton of resource generation.
The hotfix also includes the following:
- Mr. Bigglesworth is now available in Battlegrounds to all players.
- Fixed a bug where the selected minion summoned by Jandice Barov would not have the death upon damage enchantment when summoned again with Khadgar.
- Fixed a bug where Headmaster Kel’Thuzad would not resurrect minions that were destroyed from being returned to a full hand.
These changes will take place on the server-side, so you won’t have to download anything if you’ve already updated to 18.0.
Quote from BlizzardThis hotfix is live now! Also to clarify how it works for a card like Shadow Visions—you're still able to Discover a second copy of Shadow Visions if you have one in your deck.
FI-NA-LY! Thank you, Blizzard!
Now we're missing just one minor thing - disable discovering legendary cards
Dragon's Hoard
Legendaries should be implicitly exempt from random pools until explicitly stated otherwise.
Discover keyword already works like that - by default only offers choices from your class or neutral but there's a lot of cards that modify the card pool.
Btw just lost a game because rogue used that stupid new 1 drop and discovered evocation for 12 dmg face lethal.
Won't fix Lacky chaining and bullshit, since those technically don't discover themselves, but good start.