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1) Patron Warrior isn't seen around so much now.

I'm totally cool with the idea of a Deathrattle spawning another minion(s) (Harvest Golem, Haunted Creeper)

Ultimately you had four major threats to deal with, the two Patrons and the two Frothings, and once they were gone, the deck had very little left.

Do you even card bro?

Tempo's meta snapshot: https://tempostorm.com/hearthstone/meta ... -the-block

Patron still #1 after a brief dalliance with secret pally when TGT came out. Try getting down to the lower ranks and you'll see very little else.

There are plenty of viable decks, and anything can lose. Patrol was too strong because you only needed to survive long enough to draw the major combo pieces, get one tick of Thaurisan, and then you won. Most of the early 'threats' are things are are card draw mechanics so by focussing on them you just speed the Warrior to their OTK. It's very hard to rush it down. Not impossible, but Blizzard have said before that OTK from the hand is definitely not what they want.

If you're playing a proper patron warrior, they don't drop those cards in isolation unless they're desperate, or they're just not playing the deck right.

As all Blizzard nerfs, it's fucking ridiculous. A 3 mana 2/3 that's strictly worse than a Raid Leader. That's a Basic Neutral card, and shit, and never sees play ever ever.

Warsong is a rare class card with an aura that only affects certain minions to no discernable use or advantage. Even at 2 mana it's shit. At 1 mana it would be arguably good as a 2/3 with an advantage so niche that it still probably wouldn't see play.

I'm with them on eliminating OTK from the hand, but they take it too far. You might as well remove the card from the game.

That's not the quote.

"Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit"

Closer!

Yeah, like Zombie chow, which has a 'downside' that's almost irrelevant if played early because tempo is far more important than life total. In priest it's even better for potential combo with Auchenai. Is it OP? Nah, is it play a lot? Not a lot... a bit.

The 1 mana Warsong version might see play in face hunter, if it was a hunter card, but it's not. Warrior decks see no charge minions played early in a rush-down style and this card won't create that deck. Korkron Elite was historically the must usable Warrior class charge card and I haven't seen one played in about a billion years.

So yeah, a 1 mana 2/3 that buffs charge minions might get a *bit* of play, it would help Arena Warrior, and give Warriors a 1-drop that wasn't complete and utter shit shit shit. Warbot, I'm looking at you.

That's the point though. Decrease the card cost by one mana and it's still unplayable, reduce it by TWO and it's then possibly OK but still debatable. If you've nerfed a card to that degree you really need to reconsider what the fuck you're doing.

Control Warrior is pretty strong by itself.

Seems like a good time for a hero update:

League of Explorers is the next Hearthstone adventure pack, launches next week

The next adventure add-on for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft was announced today during the BlizzCon opening ceremonies. Titled League of Explorers, the single-player-focused expansion will take players on a journey through "ancient temples filled with relics, treasures and traps."

The titular League of Explorers heading up the adventure is made up of four Warcraft heroes, beginning with the well-established dwarf Brann Bronzebeard, who founded the League; the cocky human Reno Jackson; the night elf cartographer Elise Starseeker; and a murloc who can speak named Sir Finley Murgleton. These four will set off on a journey to different locales in the Warcraft universe to hunt down the pieces of an artifact called the Staff of Origination.

Each of the staff's three parts are in a different location that will serve as a "wing" of the adventure: the Temple of Orsis, Uldaman and Stranglethorn Jungle. The adventure's fourth and final wing will take place at the Hall of Explorers in the dwarven capitol city of Ironforge, where the staff will be stolen by an evil archaeologist named Rafaam.

"There are less total missions to play in League of Explorers, since there's four wings and not five," Hearthstone senior game designer Ben Brode told Polygon at a pre-briefing event for the expansion earlier this year. "But there's actually more total cards in this expansion than in previous adventures."

Brode said the adventure will contain 45 new cards in total. Although we were shown a number of them, they were not final at the time we saw them and, as such, could be changed before the adventure releases.

A new mage spell card called Torch costs three mana and deals three damage, but also shuffles another three-mana spell into your deck that deals six damage, allowing you to snowball into more powerful abilities later in the game.

A hunter spell called "Explorer's Hat" will give a minion one extra attack and one extra health, but that's not the only bonus it provides. When that minion dies, they'll drop another Explorer's Hat card into your hand.

Some of the new cards feature a new mechanic that Blizzard is calling "discovery." For example, a certain minion might have a battlecry that reads "discover a spell." When you play this minion, you'll be shown a choice of three spells. The one you pick will instantly be delivered into your hand. Brode said discovery options will be restricted to neutral cards and cards of the class you're currently playing — no discovering a druid spell as a rogue, for example.

In keeping with the theme, League of Explorers will also include some new traps in the form of secrets. Hunters will have Dart Trap, which triggers when the opposing hero uses their hero power, and deals five damage to a random enemy. Paladins will get a secret called Sacred Trial; when this is active, if an enemy has at least three minions and plays a fourth, the new minion will be destroyed.

League of Explorers will feature five new legendary cards — one for each member of the League, and one for the villainous Rafaam. Brann Bronzebeard will cause any battlecries that get played while he's active to trigger twice. Reno Jackson will fully heal your hero's health, as long as your deck contains no more than one copy of any card. Sir Finley will allow you to discover more murlocs and put them into your hand. And Rafaam will give players access to three "powerful artifacts," unique spells that cost 10 mana in exchange for "crazy effects."

Most interesting of all, though, is Elise Starseeker. When she's played, a spell card called "Map to the Golden Monkey" will be shuffled into your deck. When Map to the Golden Monkey is played, a minion named Golden Monkey will be shuffled into the deck. And when Golden Monkey is played? Every card in your hand and in your deck will be replaced with random legendary minions.

Whether or not Elise and her chain of effects will actually be good or viable to play is up for debate, but there's no denying that it's a ridiculous, fun card.

The first wing of League of Explorers will launch next Thursday, Nov. 12. We'll update with more details, images of the new cards and video as we have it.

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I bought it last night. Rather surprisingly it added a couple of cards to my collection straight away.

Then overnight I got an email from Blizzard saying they'd taken them off me.