That’s interesting! I’ll try to check the info with Blizzard. I’m sure that they’ve said once per account earlier, but maybe their policy has changed to once per region (which would make more sense IMO). Thanks for the link 🙂

Interesting! I haven’t lost a game in Bronze to confirm, but I’ll look into it. It might be the case, given that you couldn’t lose ranks between R25 and R21 in the old system.

No, no. That wasn’t official announcement. That was J_Alexander’s predictions article of how tournament mode COULD look like if it was implemented :p

To be honest, 90% of theorycrafts you see online won’t work. But that’s the beauty of it – you simply don’t know what will or won’t work.

But I wouldn’t judge the meta by what you’ve seen on the early access. We’ve been getting those every expansion and they have never correctly predicted the meta. There’s just not enough time and resources to play all the decks, all the matchups, optimize the decks etc. It takes at least a week or two with thousands of pro players to figure stuff out.

I will definitely try out both Spell Druid and Spell Mage, because I’m always a fan of “unorthodox” ways to build and play your decks. I don’t think that they will be amazing, but many decks have surprised me over the years 🙂

Yeah, I think that I would have went with Overgrowth. The deck has A LOT of value generation (Crystalsong Portal, Fungal Fortunes) and it might be better to get to high mana quickly to

If Nourish was still at 5 mana, I would easily go for it, but at 6 the added flexibility might not be enough.

We’ll see, I still do think that it’s an interesting concept and I can’t wait to test it!

Yes, we will be adding more non-Highlander decks. In fact, we’ll be adding more new decks every day until expansion’s launch and most of them won’t be Highlander.

Sorry, we just kind of started with Highlander as one of the first packages, so there’s a lot of them right now.

Sorry, wrong list 🙂 Fixed it already!

They teased it a few YEARS ago, not a few months ago :p Then a while later they’ve said that they stopped working on it. So there are currently no plans for tournament mode that we know of.

Unless you mean the Chinese version – they’ve built kind of an “add-on” that let lets them play in-game tournaments a while ago. But it’s China-only.

I played it for a bit just to test stuff out (since I’m in Bronze anyway and I don’t really care about losing games with 10x multiplier :P) and I have to say that the new decks are bad.

Rogue is okay, I played it once and won once. But it’s still way worse than Galakrond build. I also managed to get a win with Priest (1 out of 2 games). But that was mostly because I got lucky with my curve – T3 5/6 Watcher into T4 Unsleeping Soul carried be when my opponent had no way to answer that. I guess that other decks could also snatch some wins, especially at lower MMR, but they’re still really bad. Didn’t get any wins with other decks and I gave up because it was not fun. Warlock is the worst offender… I seriously don’t know how could anyone win with that deck. I’ve played some Quest Warlock in Saviors of Uldum and so many card choices in this one made no sense.

I don’t think they will, but I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

My guess would be that they will release a new, similarly working card this year too. We had Whizbang in Year of the Raven, Zayle in Year of the Dragon and we’ll probably have something else this year. It would make sense.

It might take some time getting used to it, but it’s really not complicated, so after a month or two everyone should be familiar with it 🙂

And I honestly never calculated how many wins you will need to get into Legend, unless I was already close, so it’s not an issue for me. But I’m pretty sure that someone will make a sort of calculator you can use eventually.

To be honest, the new system will be more fair. The point of ladder is to play against opponent of an equal skill. From the perspective of those weaker players you were beating at the end of season, the matchmaking was really bad.

I think that it will be 1 star multiplier less for every floor down.

E.g. Diamond 5-1 = 9x
Diamond 10-6 = 8x
Gold 5-1 = 7x

And so on.

But I don’t think we got an official word on it. Maybe somewhere on Twitter etc. but it’s hard to keep track of every single dev post on Twitter, reddit, official forums etc. :/

Nope, MMR is separate in Standard & Wild.

You don’t get your monthly rewards until the end of month anyway – only one-time rewards are instant. So you can already start grinding and you will get Ashes of Outland packs in the monthly chest.

1. Yes, you get a reduced star multiplier every 5 floors.
2. Yes, Diamond 5-1 have no win streaks.
3. Yeah, you’ve already answered that :p

Yes, Legendary card back will still be there. I’ll update the post.

Yes, rewards do stack up!

Sorry, gonna fix that in a moment.

Those minions will enter the board Dormant when summoned. It’s a good thing or a bad thing depending on the situation. On one hand, it’s less immediate tempo (and sometimes you really need it). On the other, it will still get to triggers its effect, which is very, very powerful.