The Hearthstone Situation is Crazy Edition

>News
New Battlegrounds season I guess: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24223016/announcing-battlegrounds-season-11-echoes-of-un-goro
33.0.3 Patch Notes: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24224212/33-0-3-patch-notes
$158 Pet: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24216434/unleashing-king-krush-hearthstone-s-first-interactive-pet
Lost City of Un'Goro expansion: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24217084/the-lost-city-of-un-goro-is-now-live
Arena Overhaul: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24208800/hearthstone-arena-expands-with-new-underground-mode
Year of the raptor announcement with plans for the year: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24177978/welcome-to-the-year-of-the-raptor
https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news

>Decklists
https://hsguru.com/ – previously d0nkey - free stats and deck lists
https://hsreplay.net/meta/ – deck tier lists (bronze to gold)
https://vicioussyndicate.com/ – meta report
https://hearthpwn.com/ – decks, news, patch notes
https://hearthstone-decks.net/ standard & wild decks

>Deck trackers & statistics
https://hsreplay.net/downloads – deck tracker
https://go.overwolf.com/firestone-app/ - deck tracker
https://heartharena.com/ – arena helper
https://github.com/supertriodo/Arena-Tracker - arena helper

>Misc.
https://playhearthstone.com/ – official website
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg – wiki
https://battlefy.com/browse/hearthstone – tournaments
https://hearthcards.net/ – custom card maker

>helpful links
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MmLTCm7vdg5icVF4dAQhHf8sO_AZvE4gwO8NuQE8oxQ J_Alex' article on gaming mentality
https://screenrant.com/hearthstone-future-content-2024-nathan-lyons-smith-tyler-bielman/ insights from the devs on why the game is shit

Previous >>531977118

You should have let the thread die coward, release us all.

Discover hunter is hella nice

Uninstalled after years.
Arena is unplayable dogwater
Standard is abandonware
Who cares about battlegrounds

>>532616593
What about the new Twist season in >1 month?

scripted rigged-ass game

>first game in a week
>very first turn of the game warrior opponent goes: zero mana, gain 5 armor. 1 mana, manacheat equal to your armor
lmfao. this is not a game. literally disgusting. i don't care how good or bad that strategy is. it's disturbing. all these faggot devs do is create scam strategies
kill yourself. pic related.

>>532620125
mech warrior used to be ass. its a good that he's now viable with no buffs given because that means the powerlevel dropped significantly.

>>532594252
Yeah, I like playing the game, not finishing it as fast as possible.

>>532620125
>literally disgusting
also, "cast 350 spells".
no. fuck you, faggot. suck my fucking dick. that is way too much. fucking loser retard idiot

>>532620456
how much dust do you have? I can name a few decks but they're costly.

>>532620456
Mindlessly dragging removals at people trying to play the game is not "playing the game", it's being an asshole.

>>532620721
don't play decks that get hard-countered by soft removal and don't blow your load all at once. the only real board clear left in the game is corpse explosion. are you allergic to minions that cost more than 5 mana?

>>532620971
>soft removal
that isn't a thing. how much does blizzard pay you to make shit up?

>>532621336
sure is. compare holy nova to pic rel

lol

>>532620669
I have enough for 1 or maybe 2 meta decks I've seen in hsreplay. I usually like slower decks, been playing a bit of terran warrior for now because I have the cards.
>>532620721
I like playing big minions and cards with cool effects.

monk will save us
evoker will cement us

>>532625367
dorian warlock will probably get hit by nerfs next patch. there's hydration warrior, mech warrior(lots of similarities with hydration), starship dk, protoss mage and deckless warlock. most of these decks play the same every game. you can check how good they are here:
https://www.hsguru.com/meta?format=2

I mostly play meme decks in casual like tess rogue with eudora and quest shaman with marin because there's variation between games and my opponent doesn't immediately know every card in my deck.

>>532625865
>sort by number of turns
We're gaming, thanks anon, I'll be checking those.

>>532620669
I could only spend dust if I was playing hearthstone while making money, like working from home for example.
Otherwise I would never spend dust for fun.

>>532625808
Kek. Anyone still has the original pic of some dudes post on tw*tter saying that mercenaries will cement us?

>>532632632
>some dude
ahah
anyway here's the original cement post
we have 5 years of cement left by the way

>>532633705
what was the cement comment even in relation to

>>532635368
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Hearthstone_timeline#2020
Demon Hunter, Book of Heroes, Reward Track, Mercenaries the year after... Take your pick.

>>532636143
>Demon Hunter
Broken abomination at first, completely aimless once nerfed
>Book of Heroes
Terrible single player content that killed single player content for good
>Reward track
Extremely predatory at first that got fixed to be barely better than before once reddit made a stink about it
>Mercenaries
AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH

>>532636551
Well that's why "cemented" became such a meme.

>>532633705
How does it feel to sell your soul for a couple of pennies.

>finally get the pet
>feel hollow inside and start thinking of other shit i could have bought instead

>>532640301
What did you expect? It's a $158 virtual dinosaur, I don't think I would even buy it for 5 bucks. Next time think before consooming

what's with brown people and spending money on frivolities?

>>532641232
Only Chinese gambling addicts spend money on cuckstone because casinos are forbidden in their country.

>>532640301
at least now you won't have to wait for the pet to load until you can use the main menu, right?

>>532640301
I have 200k in the bank and would not spend a dollar for this. why do people buy this kinda stuff I really do not get it

Why did you not cement us?

>>532640301
You could have gotten the pet for free

>>532641441
True yellow people really don't get talked about enough. Brown people can barely afford packs.

>summon 1,500 minions in tradtional hearthstone

>>532647107
>Go to wild
>Cobble together a shit deck like this
I did it in like 3 games.

>play one card
>get five minions with dark gifts

CAN WE REMOVE THIS SHIT FROM ARENA ALREADY
IT'S A FAILED GIMMICK IN STANDARD ANYWAY
PLEASE BLIZZARD

wow no wonder they pander to china, what the fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChsQcyh7fvs

is it just a skill issue on my end or did they absolutely rape dragons in bg?

>>532647107
Play Starship DK with two Patrons thrown in instead of whatever win condition you don't care about in wild, and you'l get like 300 to 400 progress every time you pull off the combo

>>532649775
the spell dragon is broken, the battlecry line is just sucky atm

>quests I opened
rogue
hunter
>quests I crafted
warlock
mage
shaman

I had fun with all of them so far, think I'm gonna craft warrior next

>>532651418
tempted to craft the death knight quest but i know its bad

>>532651418
>quests i opened
druid
dh
hunter
>quests ive dusted
druid
dh
hunter

The aesthetic of this game is why it why it succeeded, you now have everyone playing Starcraft decks in the jungle expansion and everything is boring and stupid. Just Wild Starcraft cards early and lets fucking go do the stuff we were supposed to be doing.

>>532651570
It's actually not terrible inso that it's free value for largely doing things you want to do anyway as a control DK, but either you'll need to slot in a few suboptimal cards or you're not completing quest until you've draw through your entire deck because normal Starship DK only spends 6 corpses on the two Vamp bloods normally and then you need to spend 12 with Corpse Explosion.

>>532648737
I wonder if Chinese Zeddy is like Bizarro Zeddy?
>look at all these great new cosmetic we can buy! our support is fueling more goodies! What to buy? How much you should buy (the answer will shock you ITS ALL GREAT!!!)
>here are all the OTK decks for MORE deadliness! win games even FASTER!
>wins per minute: Murloc Paladin, Cycle Rogue or Mech Warrior
>Ultimate meta breaker! Slow your opponents down with Quest Warrior
>I am the GOD OF ARENA: arena tips because its hard to get the big money. I am not mad about that at all because challenge is good!
>Everyone has a pet because the pet is cute but what if you don't? I can buy it for you if you reply to this post!

IM GETTING FUCKED OVER BY DARK GIFTS EVERY SINGLE GAME
FUCK YOU BLIZZARD

>>532517398
Sorry I was at work.
Yeah, that's the standard and pretty old version of even DK, I personally don't super like it because it depends on you drawing Eliza pretty early.

I personally have been playing this one

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Because I like leeches and leech/hollow hound/breach are pretty good vs turbo aggro during the climb and they activate my neurons.
I did also play a similar list to the one you posted with CNE as a top game instead of Frost Strike and ETC with some tech cards (silence for shit like velen, plate breaker, KJ, etc..., really have fun there desu) but you can always take the L when you get matched vs the meme 1% of ladder in all honesty, I just like pretending I got a chance.
Generally even DK is just smashing two packages and filling in the blanks, the packages are plagues (Helya+down vs combo/reno/mage/turbo draw your entire deck that is so fucking common now with disco), and even removal/board (Glenn, plague strike, dreadhound, panner(should be undead, btw) let you fight for the board super well in the hyper aggro format), then some top end/ways to avoid burn out.

>>532654242
>Is thin and athletic as he isn't filled with vitriol
>Good at the game

OH WHOOPS ANOTHER ARENA LOSS TO A DARK GIFT
SURELY AN EFFECTIVE 0 MANA 4/5 IS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

>>532658986
AND I SURE LOVE GETTING TO ADJUST MY DECK AFTERWARDS
PLEASE BLIZZARD TELL ME HOW SHOULD I CHANGE MY DECK TO NO LONGER LOSE TO WARLOCKS DROPPING TWO 8/9 MINIONS ON TURN 3 AND 4
I AM LITERALLY DYING TO KNOW

maybe take a break dude the game isn't worth all the blood vessels you are popping in your anus

>>532660341
never

>>532660595
if we hit EOS next expansion, what will you have thought about all the time and energy you've spent pissing into the void?

>>532661002
nothing

>>532655986
>>532660268
game's rigged

what is a fun and viable deck to play right now?

>Opponent draws every single imbue card on curve
Counterplay?

>>532671268
LOL

OH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT
JUST ANOTHER ARENA GAME WHERE TWO (!!!!) LEGENDARIES IN THE BOTTOM 6 OF MY DECK
GOOD TIMES

IM A FUCKING PAYPIG BLIZZ CAN YOU AT LEAST TRY TO GET ME IN THIS GAME???

>>532671463
82 dmg from hand

>>532672228
you get this mad playing AND you pay for it?
just uninstall bro

>>532672849
There was a minion with taunt in the way (with divine shield) (also it imbued his hero power)

>Be me
>Back to this ayy lmao game after 3 years
>doing some ranked match to see how things are going
>Bronze 10 ofc
>First 3 matches is aggro DH and quest Pally that kill me at turn 7-8
I guess I can finally delete HS without regretting anything
seriously - it's fucking bronze 10, the bottom of the bottom holy shit. Not diamond 1 or legend rank for god fucking sake

>>532653868
was thinking it might be fun to bring the quest into wild where some good corpse spenders are and using CNE too. just pulled this while typing this out so will fuck with it now.

New kino deck just dropped, funki bunch bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z26g_dvtRgQ

>>532616945
>What about the new Twist season in >1 month
fun fact: even when a new twist season is starting in a few days it still says >1 month

>>532673915
a man shouldn't pierce his earlobes

Is it true Wild is in a better state than Standard?

>>532674084
Hes one of the only content creators i can stomach

>>532673385
?
spell dmg into the face breh
big owl
fucking nuts okay

>>532673319
I make bad decisions in life

>>532674149
Nevermind I played one game against a druid cheating out constant giant minions with rush and gaining endless armor.

>december 2024
>i am playing starship warrior vs starship dk
>february 2025
>i am playing starship warrior vs starship dk
>july 2025
>i am playing starship warrior vs starship dk

>>532676753
tournament mode where you can ban a class you're tired of seeing will save us

>cast 350 spells

>>532676753
who is winning?

there should be a feature that autoplays your quest on turn 1 if you keep it. too much clicking

>>532679234
plenty of quest decks don't play their quest one turn 1 every time.

>>532678309
the "new" starship warrior deck is really solid

>try out a herren deathrattle deck
>first game is an asteroid shaman running 2 hex

aight

>>532680990
>face only control for 10 games
>aoe dmg card always dead in my hand
>put it out of the deck
>next game unironic quest druid

>>532676753
have you tried playing other decks?

>>532679331
stfu idiot they need an autoplay quest feature

>>532685873
no reason to encourage retarded plays

Funnest deck at the moment?

>>532686069
control shudderblock quest shaman

>>532686171
decklist?

>>532686252
am on mobile
either wait 12 hours or make your own version. the deck pretty much crafts itself. you CAN make homebrew decks, right anon?

>The "Cake-pop Demon Hunters" idea that celestalon was proud enough to tweet about is just a shitty reference to some netflix movie that came out last month
???

we're nearly a month in and this expansion hasn't produced a single deck that people would associate with ungoro

>>532688021
not even quest warlock?

>Beast Hunter is built around a card called Supreme Dinomancy
>Only dinosaur in the deck is mother duck (birds are technically dinosaurs)
Underwhelming

>>532688021
quest warrior and quest paladin
oh do you mean good decks?

>>532688658
so run the dinos then. they got some good ones
>b-b-but its not on the net deck!
lmao

>mothership with charge
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>>532686650
>you CAN make homebrew decks, right anon?
I'll wait for your return ;^)

Could cards not cost less than 1? How is this still a thing?

>>532688021
>release intentionally trash set because you're terrified of kibler and zeddy throwing a temper tantrum (they will throw temper tantrums regardless)
>trash set produces no new decks and excites no one
>???
>wonder why the game is dying and proceed to release another trash set to close out the year
thank goodness cora is on the job. what would we do without her

>play quest mage in wild to finish off the event track
>every game is just filling your hand with random garbage that does nothing
how do people find this fun. nothing does anything. and then you only get 8 "good" discovers and that's that. you spend the first 6 turns faffing around discovering worthless chaff and then you make a board the diaper deck can clear with 1 card and then your weapon is broken and its like you didn't even play a quest

>>532688021
>>532695914
bringing quests back was both super low effort and dumb as fuck
if quests are good: the game accelerates faster to death. no one wants quests to be good. they were proven to be a bad idea. so like you said, they made the new ones bad on purpose. but then that raises the question: why the fuck did they bring them back?
they could've made a new mechanic that was bad, but then that raises basically the same question: what was the point?
this speaks to the inherent problem with power creep in card games i guess. because if you aren't making new shit OP, what the fuck are you even doing?
doomed to fail

>>532648737
drone shows must go so hard if you’re the first person in your family to see a toilet

>>532696587
i thought it was really dumb how they specifically nerfed cards out of rainbow DK to, what, encourage people to try out new decks? because they knew people wouldn't want or need to switch? but then I figure, if you want to stop powercreep, that's a way to do it. so then why not do these with all of the cards? then you remember that that takes a competent dev team so yea i guess just go ahead and release the quests

>>532697247
>so then why not do these with all of the cards?
unironically think this is because of corporate. in their minds, nerfing cards gets boiled down to "giving money back to the players", and corporate will not allow that. that's why a lot of nerfed cards are commons, because it minimizes money refunded
so even if mass nerfs would legitimately make the game more playable and more enjoyed, there's basically red tape that says they're only allowed to nerf a little bit here and there, because some faggot's database is telling some other faggot investors that they're losing money if they do anything else

>>532697792
you'd think they'd think that making the game fresh would draw in more people. but then again there indeed are plenty retards who spent money and time on a game that is objectively shit and they indeed are irl window licking indians or dumb children or hopeless autists so why not pander to them. then again their numbers are in constant decline so who the fuck knows
i've played league for a month or so and it's crazy what skins people respond positively to. you'd think most players would be upset that, for instance, the character fantasy of being just a knight or assassin dude is gone, but no, most players ASK for schoolgirl or k-pop star skins and don't care for boring ass fantasy tropes. every new male character is a twink. you go to /lolg/ and you think man, these guys are real freaks, they spend all day posting about waifus, but that's in fact most league players.
my life changed when i realized most everybody on the internet is either indian, a child, or severely mentally ill (in all cases sub 80 iq). think about comments on family guy videos where people talk genuinely about how peter acts compassionately in a situation

you know the game is thriving when players are spending more time writing essays about what they think could improve the game instead of playing the game.

>>532700985
Hearthstones popularity in China is enough to keep it going forever. It doesn't matter how shitty the game actually is when chinks will keep it funded for all eternity.

>>532700985
>players
Yea right, I haven't played since the expansion dropped.
I have had a bottle of wine though, what can i say

wild is more fun than standard

>>532708724
here's a pity (you)

>>532691050
how?

>>532724360
xavius asspull

>>532724442
oh, right. Im sleepy and thought you said STARSHIP, not mothership. Still, fun stories to be told, gg

>>532724510
I assumed if you get charge on a piece with Xavius, it launches with charge, but that seems dumb and broken for even Blizz so maybe not.

>>532680990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAlEoLRuTA

>>532678309
Warrior because double turn can chip almost all dk hp (tnx to quest rewards)

>solo wins games
god fucking shit i hate this shitty Toy shit* I win * card
Dont have hex or silence ? gg wp
Other news Mage leggo piece of garbage when 8/10 matches are aggro

>>532727045
I'm so fucking sick of Murloc Paladin. Any decks that counter them?

>>532728347
ironically the deck that poster is playing is one of murloc paladin's hardest counters, they're just terrible at the game.

>>532728708
not this i have 2 deck pure prot destroys marloc
this is quest/prot hybrid

>>532728347
Everything that plays a minion on turn 1. It's an almost unplayable shit deck.

LoL Ultimate counter to KJ....
Big dino secret tech Maybe 1 shitty discover drop not that bad it is

>>532727045
why is there a youthful brewmaster and titanographer and portalmancer in your deck?

>>532729328
why ? i love playing homebrew fun decks im not fotm nigger

>>532729034
Is it better to go face or clear their board?

>>532729438
That explains the complaining about a tier 4 deck I guess.

>>532729438
>im not fotm nigger
you are playing standard

>>532729490
It obviously depends on the board state and what they can reasonably do if you leave their minions up (Warleader, Braingill etc). Shit, I know control players don't actually play the game, but it's a very basic board based matchup.

>>532729517
other modes are dead
im playing more bg than standart now

>>532691714
missile pod is a board clear if you have poison

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>check BG reward track
>mfw
>remember how shitty dragons now
>goon to her anyway

Remember BG is main HS mode now

Play Shadowverse.

>>532731943
awful ass

shadowverse might be the only game I'm less interested in playing than hearthstone

bring back zerg decks

>>532733005
zerg hunter unironically still good since it farms murloc cucks

>>532730993
Thanks I'll try it in a minute

>>532731943
I wish HS still had hot art

Why is every deck just token druid? How did they fuck up this badly?

>>532737963
stop playing the scam game mode

kek

>>532729671
The average shitter here plays casual and slums it at gold 5.

>>532742393
>making fun of people for not playing scam in ladder
you probably think green card go face requires skill too

>the mini-set will save us <--- You are here
>the next set will save us
>the mini-set will save us
>rotation will save us
>the next set will save us

Returnfag here. I think I last played in uhhh year of the dragon? How do I get up to speed and what deck should I build?

>>532746814
The Diablo immortal collaboration will save us.

>>532743332
>this level of cope

>>532746923
there is no DI collab

>>532747686
Believe.

>>532747664
what a sad small man you are. I pray to God you will find peace soon.

>>532756951
>this level of cope

>>532742393
>this level of cope
no one on earth is stuck at gold 5. that's not how it works. if you play, you climb. the algorithm makes sure of that
but go ahead and pretend that you're some high-iq elite gamer because you got to legend in a rigged game for chinese gambling addicts
fucking hilarious
nta btw

>>532757908
>this level of cope

DRUID DRUID DRUID EVERY GAME IN ARENA
I understand blizz doesnt want to really tackle the whole "buff minions" shit they have going on since it's part of the class identitiy and they would prefer to whack down single outlier cards like rhea or nestmatron, but how long will this go on? How long will druid stay king of arena because shitting up the board and forcing everyone to clear every turn is kinda OP?

>>532763101
warlock is the king of arena sweaty

>>532763309
not according to everyone that tracks stats

>>532763423
warlock is higher on hsreplay

>>532763686
apparently, by like 1%
still, one way or another doesnt seem reflected in how many druids are around

>>532765375
im not seeing many druids at 6k rating
its mostly mages and warlocks

>>532765754
just had a warrior concede against me on turn 5 for pretty much no reason with both of us at full hp as warlock
maybe youre right

also I guess I just dont feel that strongly about warlock because I think like 90% of frustrations about that class would be gone if you were to remove shadowflame stalker
abduction ray is pretty stupid too but at least that card is a bit slow

>>532731171
can they throw us a bone from time to time? feels like an entirely different team of artists working on bg skins

and no i will not play battlegrounds more than once a week if im bored

>>532746814

>>532746814

>>532777859
Why do the pig wranglers look so intense?

>>532777859
seems cruel to the pigs
what's the point of this? it looks stupid

>>532785671
wait until you find out what most of the non-muslim world does to pigs Ahmed.

>shadowflame stalker is played
>discovers the 8 mana 4/4 taunt
>gives it reborn
>the game is now over as I have to somehow beat like 32/42 worth of stats
>off a single card
ebinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

>>532787757
my bad, it's actually 48/58

>>532746902
make menagerie death knight, I think the deck is entirely rares and commons

>>532787757
sister, your silence?

>>532789151
1. silence is rare in arena
2. you actually need two silence effects

>>532788146
>58
16 x 2 x 2 is 64. Don't know how you even got an answer that isn't divisible by 4 when there are 4 4/4s

>>532777859
I could only quit WoW when I actively started hating the game.

For Hearthstone I only feel apathy.

>>532789348
you are correct
I forgot the dark gift reborn restores to full health (because it really needed that)

>>532789537
why does it even work like this? seems like an error they never bothered to correct

>>532791576
>why does it even work like this? seems like an error they never bothered to correct
The card says that it does this, why would it be an error?

>>532791815
because reborn has never worked like that for obvious balance reasons

>>532794060
but the dark gift says reborn at full hp

Quest mage NEVER dies!

>>532797874
Unlike Hearthstone.

thats another arena run ended by shadowflame stalker
you know maybe warlocks are the problem

What are the changes of a patch this Monday? Like fore real.

>>532803931
there won't be a patch this monday, maybe tuesday

>>532803931
there wont be a standard patch in the same week as the bg patch

>>532803931
Whoa there, slow down cowboy! We gotta let the meta settle for at least two weeks. Who knows what imaginative archetype could emerge from this intriguing meta?

>>532805093
So this expansion has been a complete nothing burger. I would be ashamed to announce the next one before November.

>>532806013
it literally has 3 good cards
catacombs elise and resuscitate

it really is the final fucking joke to have this shit when most games are routinely decided before turn 3

Can one of you post the latest meltie?

Are the card designers just a bunch of nepo hires who don't know what they are doing and just learn badly on the spot?

>>532797874
>dead in standart
>wild

>>532812658
the stink over the zerg that permanently buffs +1/+1 and then remaking it for murlocs instead (IN THE SAME ROTATION)shows they learn absolutely nothing

>>532813185
but you skip turn one chud..... its different

>>532812658
I do wonder what they actually play in HS
because it doesnt seem to be standard or arena
maybe bgs?

>>532805760
I give it until monday for arena paladin to become the most complained about deck

>>532814201
the irony being that paladin is the worst arena class
and has been for like a year at least
and blizz doesnt give a shit

>>532812658
"card designers" don't really exist in their platonic ideal form
these days they are just drones of corporate incentives. they're more like pure programmers than designers. they have to hit specific benchmarks related to board churn, engagement, player retention and other bullshit that has nothing to do with making a fun game. they are slaves to an algorithm. slaves to data science. slaves to spreadsheets.
but yes, they're probably mostly nepo babies too. hearthstone feels like a pet project at this point, and the only people who get paid to work on it are probably there because someone was like "Fuck it, let them do it. who gives a shit"

>>532817780
Paladin players deserve to suffer after the Murloc and imbue fiascos.

>>532812658
Based on what we know, card designers only job in Blizzard is to make interesting cards to play. They are not concerned with balance. There is a separate team that weighs in on balance of cards. But this team has now been cut or left crippled by the lack of staff and play testers. So it's now all ideas people running the show.

Reminder that they will release a new class soon enough and make the game even worse than it already is.

Please buy

>>532826418
done, thanks for reminding me