This probably isn’t a game “mode” I’ll enjoy, personally. Not saying it looks bad, it just isn’t the kind of game I like. So, my only hope for it is that they don’t add Mercenaries-only quests to the regular quest pool. I don’t play Battlegrounds, either, and the Battlegrounds-only quests are annoying enough already.

Mage mirror matches are super fun in this brawl. I threw together a pretty random mix of Jan’alai/C’thun/dragon cards, and the few games I played against mage were a blast.

Did you access the card through the new “Classic Cards” section of your card collection (third from the top in the dropdown)? It looks like there’s a bug there, when I look at my regular copy of Ysera, it says it’ll disenchant for 400 dust. But, if I access the card through the “Classic” option further down the dropdown, it says it’ll give me the full 1,600. So, I assume the gold copy would have a similar bug, and would only give 1,600 dust instead of the full 3,200. You’ll probably have to contact Blizzard to get it adjusted to the right amount.

This all seems pretty good to me. Buffs for plenty of the returning cards, less unplayable junk in card pools.

The new mage spell pool will take some getting used to, though. No Frostbolt, no Arcane Missiles, no Polymorph. Maybe there will be some new cards in the expansions to fill those gaps.

Yeah, I’m not sure when it changed, I remember when you had to finish part of a game, too. But, I’ve been conceding for some quests for at least a few weeks now, if I’m in a hurry or don’t get quests for classes I like to play. Don’t even bother with the mulligan. Works in standard, duels (casual), and I think I’ve done it in brawls. Maybe it’s a bug and I should have kept my mouth shut…

Took about 90 seconds to finish the third one at bronze. Everyone was racing to concede. I went from bronze 8 to bronze 3, and got enough XP to go from level 55 to 57, without me or any of my opponents playing a single card in five games.

Is that true if it’s random? I can’t think of a similar example, like “random friendly minion with X” I think you’re probably right, but that just seems like a weak nerf, since there’s usually only one deathrattle to target, anyway. Or, it’s easy enough to set it up that way, to guarantee it hits the one you want. It won’t be any different 95% of the time.

“Trigger a random friendly minion’s Deathrattle.”

If this picks any random minion — i.e. even one without a deathrattle — then it’s a big deal. If it always hits something with deathrattle, then it seems pretty mild to me. But, this and the Bonecrusher nerf and the removal of Sandy Surprise all combined ought to make deathrattle Hunter a little less annoying.

I don’t know why, but it wasn’t until I read this article that I noticed how funny the name “Conjure Mana Biscuit” is. I hope it becomes a meta defining card so we can hear that phrase for years to come.

This is really the perfect time to put out a brawl that’s ideal for evolve shaman.

I decided to use a pass for a free heroic run. I had literally never played a game with Killmox before (it still said “New” on the selection screen from when I unlocked it), but I’m already 8-1 with this Warlock decklist. The one game I lost was the only game where I didn’t draw Killmox. There was another game where I was in trouble, but then my opponent played something that made us both draw cards, and then I drew Killmox, so I ended up winning after all. It’s completely broken when you have it with that hero power.

Oh dang, you’re right. That might have helped me win a couple of games I lost.

This is one of the trolliest brawls ever. I threw Tess Greymane (my go to brawl build around) in a deck with neutral 0 cost 1/1 garbage. Wait until you play all the class cards your opponent made the mistake of adding to your deck for you, then drop Tess. Meanwhile, their Tess is just an 8 cost 6/6, since you didn’t give them any class cards.

I opened golden ETC and golden Rattlegore in the last four days, so I guess I’m playing OTK Warrior.

Got this for the first time last night, immediately went 12-1. Four of my last five opponents also had it, and I only lost to one of those because they had more card draw.

To compare, my previous best run (without Robes) was six or seven wins with shaman. Did pretty well until I started facing opponents with Robes.

So, yeah, Robes will not be missed.

Most fun I’ve had with a brawl in a while. Random enough that there’s no super broken strategy (so far), but not so random that every game is a total coin toss.

Echo minions are great. Dirty Rat is pretty good. Devolve wins games.

Game 1: Innervate + Coldlight Oracle Druid
Game 2: Lightning Bloom + Snowfury Giant Shaman
Game 3: Incanter’s Flow + Research Project Mage

It almost seems like mana ramp / reducing cards to 0 mana makes the game super unfun.

Weird, now it doesn’t work the way I described, I just lost Gul’dan’s hero power after I used it. Either I didn’t remember right, or they changed it after day 1, or I found some kind of bug, but I would have sworn I used his hero power multiple times in one game, and I would have sworn an opponent used Jaraxxus’s hero power more than once against me.

RIP Primordial Explorer

Took a few games before I realized you can use the new hero power as soon as it changes, so you can use it multiple times in one turn if you have enough mana. This makes Maiden of the Lake a killer card; once you have 10 mana, drop her for 4, then hero power six times. If she sticks, you get ten hero powers the next turn.

Alternatively, if you play cards that change your hero power (like Jaraxxus or Bloodreaver Gul’dan), you keep that one, it doesn’t change to one of the brawl hero powers after you use it.