Hello power creep, my old friend.

Anivia is that you?

I think Keleseth is similar kind of RNG — if they don’t draw him, they don’t have any good 2-drops, but if they draw him early, it’s basically game over

Speaking as a fellow LoR fanboy, I’m actually not a huge fan of how Purrsuit is designed —it’s like a Quest, but your opponent can’t see your level-up progress, or even that you have the quest in your deck. Which would make it feel pretty bad when you drop a 30/30 overwhelm out of nowhere, often winning the game instantly.

Then again, it might be a needed payoff, since every time I’ve tried it my opponent kills me four turns before I can summon Garfield. It’s also a decent tip-off that you’re running a bunch of random one-ofs in your deck.

Untapped potential

Quest: Do nothing.

Reward: All your cards are twice as strong for the rest of the game.

That is one big parrot.

Good, but might not be good enough to make treants work. I give it a Tree out of 5 stars.

Invoke is good (I think?) but if he’s got 1 health, the attack bonus is totally useless . . . he’d at least need stealth or rush or something . . . who’s designing these cards again?

Curious how this works . . . does it always start in your hand? Can you play it alongside a normal quest? What does the UI look like (how is it different)?

I really hope Inspire hunter doesn’t work. There’s no worse feeling than losing to a Hunter who just pushes button every turn.

Do we know if this will show up in packs?

I hate this card design. “Summon a random demon?” That’s anything from a 0/1 to, like, a 6/6. When you put this in Wild it gets even worse. I thought Blizzard had started gravitating away from swingy RNG design philosophy, but, nope. I guess we’re back in the Bane of Doom days.

Looking at the other cards too, I’m already worried about this expansion. Maybe the rest of the set will prove me wrong, but so far most of the cards look really bland, and the only one that doesn’t is even swingier RNG (the new Ysra). Maybe they spent all their budget on the new Autochess mode . . .

That explains so much! I also did a “BFF” run as Lazul, and next run (Togwaggle) I started with like 7 BFF in my deck. And I was like “Wut? Is Togwaggle that OP?”

Good article! What are the “sweeping changes” coming after year of the dragon? I don’t remember hearing about that.

Beat him on the first try using Brann. I got the treasure that makes your big minions cost 5, and the one that doubles all your legendary minions. I picked up every “legends” bucked I got offered, which was a lot. On the final fight, I dropped a double Emeriss on turn 5 and a double 16/16 King Krush on turn 6.

Super fun run. I’m really enjoying Tombs of Terror in general.

I know Reno Mage is still super viable in Wild. Don’t know if you play Wild though

Wait, Reno is “borderline unplayable?”

I mean they just nerfed him…maybe the nerf won’t be enough, but we can at least give them some credit

What is the real problem with the meta

I’m happy for the Barnes nerf, but honestly, Barnes was never the problem—interactivity is.

The reason Big Priest is so infuriating to play against is that most classes have NO WAY to disrupt their game plan. As soon as Big Priest plays a minion, you’re done for—either you let it live and it kills you, or you kill it, they resurrect a zillion copies of it, and then they kill you. It’s the Jade Druid scenario—either you rush them down immediately, or you lose to their infinite value infinite tempo BS.

There are obviously counters (entomb, polymorph, pretty much all of Shaman at this point) but none are in Neutral. What we need is a Neutral transform effect (one that’s more reliable than Overspark)—basically a way to disrupt their resurrect pool, without putting an otherwise-awful card in your deck.