Calling her “the Onyxia” is pejorative. This is a mistake Stonekeep makes all the time and one I’ve reported here in the past, but I think it’s the first time I notice it from you. In English, “the Onyxia’s lair” doesn’t mean “the lair of Onyxia”, it means “lair of the Onyxia”. The title should either say “Onyxia’s lair” without the preposition, or “the Onyxia’s Lair miniset”, in which case the preposition would then apply to the word miniset. There’s no way to make it apply to lair unless you remove the ‘s, but then you’d be using Onyxia as an adjective which is also wrong.

I hate this card. If they don’t ban it in Arena, it will create too many non-games. If you’re not dead on board and you play this, you auto-win.

Would be nice if Team 5 knew the difference between number and amount and worded this properly. Amount is for things you can’t count, like water (no such thing as two waters, three waters, but you can have a small or big amount of water).

You don’t know anything about how team 5 makes games. The people responsible for producing the content that will come out next year are not the same as the ones balancing and fixing the content that we have now. The design team and the final design team are completely separate teams. And yes, producing new expansions needs to be done this far in advance, to get final design and QA time to iron things out. As for bugs, do you really think it’s the designers’ jobs to fix them? That’s what engineers are for. And if you think you’re gonna get a game with zero bugs, good luck, that doesn’t exist, anywhere.

Rogue is not overplayed, it’s clearly the best class in the game right now if you’re good at the game. In fact at top 1000 legend, it’s currently over 50%.

Wouldn’t matter much if it was. The number of games in wild is too small to make much of a dent. But I’m sure it’s standard only.

Usually? Before this expansion, it hadn’t happened for 5 straight expansions! Talk about dishonest interpretation. The most popular class within that span had a 24.43% representation, nowhere near 30%.

Funny, he strikes me as the most responsive, in touch and community engaged one I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been working in games for 15 years and playing them for much longer. You, on the other hand, strike me as one of the most entitled players who’s out of touch with how game development works.

No, it’s an exception if it happens in a small minority of cases, which it does. For the most part, high skill cap and low skill ceiling are memes not based on facts. Vicious Syndicate evaluates the learning curve on decks and most are very similar. Recent exceptions include Garrote Rogue (difficult to play well) and Pirate Warrior (very easy to master, not much room for good players to show their skill).

But if you want to keep on ignoring the data and just spew insults, be my guest. Makes you look far worst than the person you’re trying to insult.

The reason high legend stats are the most relevant in general is partly because they usually tell what will happen a week or two later at lower ranks, as deck improvements start there and eventually trickle down. There are exceptions of course, with some decks being simply easier to play and never doing anywhere near as well against good players. Quest Warrior is one such exception.

Still, saying that mage is a weak class when it’s everywhere right now in tournaments, while Warrior is by far the weakest class in the game in the hands of good players, is misleading. Mage isn’t intrinsically weak, it’s just not being played very well by most players.

Also, nerfs tend to be geared more towards high level play and how good decks are in the hands of good players, again with some exceptions with regards to cards that just feel bad to play against.

For all those reasons, high legend is usually the best starting point, certainly to discuss a deck’s strength at least. I know that’s not what this website is geared towards and I think that’s a shame, and that’s why I only visit it once in a while to find out about recent news I might have missed.

Weird that you would call them the two weakest classes in the game. According to the latest VS report released today, Mozaki Mage has a 49% winrate at top 1k Legend while Warrior’s best deck, Quest Warrior, has a 46.7% winrate. In the hands of good players at least, the two weakest classes in the game are Warrior and Priest, and Mage is doing much better.

I don’t think it sees play in big warrior or big DH because you’re not looking to play your big stuff from hand anyway and you don’t want to pull this off a recruit card. I think the best place for it is in some kind of Ramp Druid (either Clown or Guardian). There isn’t enough support for Res Priest right now.

So the best options for the new cards imo are:

1. Alliance
a. Big Warrior (and hope not to pull)
b. Big DH (and hope not to pull)
c. Some kind of Ramp Druid
d. Some kind of Res Priest (not enough support imo)

2. Horde
a. Zoo (drop Shady Bartender, seems bad)
b. Quest Shaman (drop Multicaster)
c. A new type of Face Hunter (can’t rely on big buffed beasts anymore)
d. Aggro DH
e. Stealth Rogue
f. Miracle Priest
g. Aggro Secret Paladin
h. Apparently some people think it works in Taunt Druid for some reason, no way that’s better than the current 4-drops and 5-drops

I’m not really seeing it. I don’t think either card will make it into a competitive deck (meaning the most optimal version of a tier 1 or tier 2 deck) until the expansion drops. Aggro DH and Stealth Rogue might have the best shot at it.

You’re definitely not putting this in Taunt Druid, the opportunity cost is way too high. You’re dropping 5 of the best cards in your deck for a chance at a high roll that’s not even as good as the highrolls provided by your 5-drops on turns 3 or 5 with coin, 6 without. Coin Oracle on 2 into Battleguard + 5-drop on 3 is so much stronger than this.

Arena already has a leaderboard, which is simply the best average over a consecutive 30-run streak. The goal here isn’t to add a new scoring system when arena doesn’t have one, it’s to replace the scoring system that’s already in place with a new one.

“However, only 8 of them qualified for the final day of play-offs”

Actually, 16 did. And I’m not just saying that because I made it (battletag: cynce) to the top 16 but not the top 8 and and feel left out of this article!

The most likely scenario actually is that Priest exists, isn’t too strong and doesn’t even run this card. It’s extremely slow, pretty inconsistent and unlikely to make it into a competitive deck.

It’s impossible to complete before turn 10 and can very rarely be done before turn 11 or 12. It’s too slow and too inconsistent. Bronze players will love it, but it won’t be competitive.

Discounted cards count for their discounted cost, not their original cost.

I’m sure it’s based on drawn winrate, not deck winrate, since that’s the best way to evaluate most cards. Still quite useless info without knowing what rank bracket we’re looking at.

Crabrider 1/3, Hand of A’dal 2/1 or 1/2, Tickatus 7 mana, Incantor’s Flow 3 mana, Mankrik’s wife to 6-8 health. They won’t nerf Priest and that will be a mistake with Tickatus nerfed.

They will buff all the caravans’ health. I also expect some buffs to Shaman and maybe one to Warlock. Would be cool to see some zoo again.

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