I mean yeah, they made some seriously stupid decisions in the past (including very recent past), but I don’t think they ever doubled-down like that after a massive community outrage.

No way, that would be a PR suicide.

The archetype has existed ever since TITANS… You win with Sif + cheap burn.

Whizbang’s Workshop Bundle had a higher than usual value, now we’re back to normal.

I wish 20 packs + 2 Legendaries became the new normal, though 🙂

If you’re having fun, that’s definitely how Hearthstone is supposed to work… for you 😀

I’m also wondering. Blightfang and Construct Quarter were buffed from even (4) to odd (3) but neither was played in Even DK in Wild, they were just too weak.

Both “undead” and “undeads” are grammatically correct plural forms of “undead”. In fact, when it comes to fantasy settings, you more commonly see “undead” as a plural. E.g. you can say “I see many undead”.

So it means give +2/+2 to all Undead minions in your hand.

I think they should just write “Undead minions” or “all Undead” to be more clear.

“Is Wild Saved?”

Lol

Mind Control generated by Anduin’s Gift will cost 9 mana.

You’re right, it’s missing from the official image. I’ll add it to the list 🙂

There’s nothing “woke” about that statement, it literally happened, although it’s a bit more complex.

Both Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra were promoted to co-lead Blizzard from different positions. But she was paid less than him because the position she was promoted from was paid less. They both asked to get the same payment multiple times and were denied.

She was only offered equal pay AFTER resigning (they probably realized what big of a PR nightmare that would be if she spoke about it publicly), but she decided to quit anyway.

It was one of the most idiotic things Blizzard could do. I mean, they specifically hired those two for “equality” after all of the sexual harassment, discrimination etc. cases came to life. And they didn’t think that paying both of them the same would be a good idea.

I agree that Velarok needs a balance pass, but I think that 2 cards would be a nice compromise between what it was before the buff and the current situation.

Or make it 3 but count cards played while he’s in the deck too. That would reduce his early-game power dramatically (that is the biggest issue) but later you would just draw him and he would be active.

Thanks, I’ve noticed that too, she has been available for an hour or so and then gone.

But Hat has already confirmed on social media that she will be back soon (I assume in 1-2 weeks).

Mercenaries is also essentially dead. They announced that the mode will no longer be supported about a year ago: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/big-final-mercenaries-update-coming-in-patch-25-4/

However, unlike Duels, they decided to leave it in the game because it costs them basically nothing and it won’t get “broken” and need fixes. The difference is that Mercenareis has static content and new Hearthstone releases have no impact on it. In Duels, however, all of the balance changes, new releases etc. affect the game. For example, let’s say that a card get buffed and it’s now broken in Duels. Or one of the cards/treasures/whatever available in Duels gets bugged because of some newly released thing and it keeps crashing the game.

So there would be two ways going forward – one is to keep bug fixing and balancing Duels (probably not very often, but still, they would have to keep some people on that task) and the other is to just remove it completely.

So ultimately, they probably realized that almost no one was playing Duels so they decided that axing it completely is better option than just leaving it in and letting it become more and more imbalanced/buggy with time.

It’s sad and I don’t like them removing game modes, but the truth is that Hearthstone isn’t getting any younger. Playerbase gets smaller with time and Duels was never very popular to begin with. I would love them to repeat the success of Battlegrounds, but at this point I’m not sure if it’s ever going to happen.

Sure, sometimes I think asking the community for a bigger input in stuff like that would be cool.

Then I read comments about Hearthstone balance on social media and I no longer think that :p

Sorry for a late reply. If you’re already past apprentice ranks there’s no way to go back to them.

I wish they did, but I’m pretty pessimistic about that. This year they really didn’t want to put emphasis on the esports. Horrible first announcement, only a few events, they didn’t talk much about them, no hype built around them etc. I think they hoped that people will just forget and they could shut down the program completely next year citing “not enough interest”.

I would love to be wrong. I would love them to restore Hearthstone esports back to its old state and try to revive it. But I just don’t think so. I don’t want to get my hopes up and then be disappointed.

Yes, I meant old minions, brain fart 🙂

Those mechanics are usually there for a single season. They might come back in the future for a limited time, but I’m pretty sure that they will be gone and replaced with something else instead.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t played almost any BG this season. I’m a semi-casual player and learning play patterns for all of the Anomalies simply felt like too much to bother.

Fixed.