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Give players a "free", buffed (or otherwise altered) Diamond-version of Nozdormu that is only usable and only appears in collections on Nozdormu day, that is uncraftable and uncollectible.

Or provide a special quest that awards a nice amount of gold or some other neat reward, but either way Nozdormu should be not just viable, but "good" on Noz day at the very least in order for people to really care about adding it to their deck.

Why would I play a card that could potentially give me a turn timer handicap if there is no real benefit other than the "fun" of a faster game? Potentially: because it's assuming the other player is running Noz also, which again, why would they?

A 7-mana 8/8 seems to be fair value for the stats, but I would rather be doing other things on turn 7. What if they made it so that if your turn was less than X seconds long, and Noz is in your hand, it is automatically summoned at the end of your turn, or if your opponent ropes, it is auto-summoned at the end of their turn from your hand/deck.

I’m a jerk, I’d make it to where you get a Noz quest on the 15th each month that can’t be rerolled and transforms one card in any deck you play into Noz.  You’ll auto get a copy in duels and arena, and battlegrounds will start each player with a 1 star Noz that sets all rounds to 15 seconds.  Even playing the innkeeper.  If you don’t want Noz in your deck that bad, you ain’t playing on the 15th then.

This should literally be a call for banning ropers! Who gives a shit about Nozdormu day?

You could also invent a game mode where you are allowed the timelimit which is right now, where people who eat or work play hearthstone. 

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So much effort just to try to make people use one card. Seems odd to me. 

My thoughts..."oh was it just Nozdormu day? I guess I missed it again". Yawn

 The effort is not to make people use Nozdormu as much as it is to get people to play Speed Hearthstone. Would be better served as a mode frankly.

So much effort just to try to make people use one card. Seems odd to me. 

My thoughts..."oh was it just Nozdormu day? I guess I missed it again". Yawn

Leave it to Blizzard to peddle a broken, abusable card before there's even a hint of trying to fix it. Nozdormu will never, ever, find a spot in my deck until animations are fixed.

They’re talking about the reworked Nozdormu that’s a start of game effect

It took them over a month to figure this out AND do nothing?  Good lord.

How about you make the card usable so people will USE it?

Remove nozdurmu, add blitz mode

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Yep, that's right: this "event" is the height of pathos by Blizzard, in fact, it may well appear to be a private "event" created by the fanbase rather than by the game's developers themselves...

What would have to be done to make it a proper event? Instead of a simple tweet or even an in-game notification, there should be a special quest the 15th of every month (there is supposed to be a fourth slot for special quests by the way) that rewards you with extra XP if you play 5 games with Nozdormu in your deck that day.

The whole point of Nozdormu the Eternal is that you don't have to play turbo Hearthstone if you don't want to. So you would have to be able to re-roll such a quest. So most people would re-roll the quest, which puts us back to exactly where we are now.

If, for some reason, they did not allow a re-roll into a quest of equal value, the outcry would be far, FAR greater than the feedback that led to this "event" in the first place. A lot of people may like an idea, but that doesn't mean there aren't a lot more who dislike it. So far, there just hasn't been any reason to speak out against Nozdormu day because it's so easy to opt out.

If you don't want to play "turbo Hearthstone", nobody forces you: you wouldn't have to compulsory do that special quest I have proposed if you don't want to.

Obviously, as a special quest, there would be no room for any re-roll: when the 15th of each month ends, that quest will simply disappear... so where is the problem?

I think they should just make the card not shit so people will want to use it

Yep, the basic problem is precisely that: that the card is useless by itself.

For that matter, I would have preferred it to go something like this: "Battlecry: For the rest of the game, turns are only 15 seconds long."

That's very similar to how it used to be -- Nozdormu

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That's very similar to how it used to be -- Nozdormu

 That is, a usable card (as opposed to a useless stupidity like Nozdormu the Eternal)

I think they should change the matchmaking so that they'll match you (if possible) with other persons playing Nozdormu. It's just a big downside otherwise.

Why not an extra card slot for Nozdormu only? With overall 31 Cards.

And the precise number of shits being given: 0

I like the idea of Nozdormu day: the idea that the Hearthstone community once a month agrees to play in a different style than usual. I remembered to play a Nozdormu deck month last month, but I didn't match with a single Nozdormu opponent. This month, I completely forgot it. I suspect the vast majority of Hearthstone players don't even know that Blizzard is trying to make it a thing, since not everyone follows Hearthstone on social media. I really think a simple in-game prompt to try out a Nozdormu deck on the 15th every month would be enough to make more players want to try it out, just for that day - most people enjoy fun, y'know? But of course, a dedicated quest would be great as well. If you don't want to participate - just don't.

On Noz-Day, everyone running him should be queued into other Noz-players.

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What is confusing about “players have 15 seconds for their turn”?

You and your opponent don’t have the usual time to think and play, but only 15 seconds instead.

What can happen, is that if you play many cards with animations that take longer to resolve (card draw, summoning, other trigger effects), your turn is over and the animations still play out. That eats into the time pool of the other player and when they get to play, their 15 seconds are almost or completely over causing them to skip their turn.

This lead to issues in the past where players would intentionally play Noz and repeatedly bounce Pandas to deny other player their turn.

This. They need to solve this issue before Nozdormu mode can really take off. Even when they do, certain strategies will not be possible and lots of combo decks will not be viable. On the flip side, this would a be great mode to climb the ladder in - play fast, aggro decks without waiting except not getting easy wins against Priests as they would not come anywhere near such a mode.