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Why not speed up the rewind animation instead of nerfing Clocksworth?
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Hereâs an update on the system that wastes money and time from minors who lie about their age when registering, in defiance of all civil and moral laws.
Why will Dive the Golakka Depths be banned in the brawl?
People who think that Quest Paladin is not weak will not play the brawl more than one free run with an outcome like 0-3 anyway.
Itâs very disappointing that Spirit of the Badland / Mirage still hasnât been fixed. Youâre really donât care about Reno Paladin Players in Wild.
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Itâs probably deemed too strong in the limited card pool with fewer control tools.
Still no Fix for Mirage after more than 2 MonthsâŚ
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I think it will be nothing more than playable in the limited card pool. It is unplayable in the area higher than 2000 of legend now.
Meanwhile warlockâs quest is OP and it is not banned.
Meanwhile such brawls are basically not for very low mmr players anyway. They will use their free run and thatâs all.
Because not everyone has a âShe-maticâ (a âFeminatorâ of sorts, I guess? 
Like Enhance-a-matic, except⌠âpolitically correctâ) for a brain, and they do realise: without older sets, itâs gonna be a large powerhouse, just like it was last time with UnâGoroâs launch events, if memory serves (one can do the research if necessary, I canât be bothered right now).
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Enhance-a-matic
They triedâŚ
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/will-across-the-timeways-bring-the-fun-back-to-hearthstone/
Something like that.
PS Specially for you, gonna quote the relevant part:
Unfortunately, Rewind has been technically challenging to implement, and it has been sloooow. Rewind is part of the teaser card that we have on the live servers, Mister Clocksworth, so people have already expressed their concerns about it. Itâs not about the animation, the animation just covers up the game going back to a previous state and continuing from there.
I tried to compare the Rewind effect on the test server with the live version: it took around 10 seconds on the test server according to my stopwatch, and 11 seconds on live on my computer. Maybe I was just slow that late, but several people commented how it felt faster, so I think it really was. Blizzard is still exploring further options to improve it, so maybe this is not its final state yet.
And you people know this⌠how exactly?
Iâve long lost count of reiterating how bad theyâve been at documenting such stuff. Sometimes they announce how theyâve âfixedâ something⌠sometimes they actually do it, but with no mention in patch notes.
PS
With respect, who cares? 
Sorry, couldnât help it.
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I never thought about this⌠shehmatik is a name of some imps in the Slavic folklore. It is not very common, even Russian-speaking people basically donât know about it, and it is also connected with chess.
I was playing chess in the childhood. My grandmother was a Belorussian witch (or at least some people thought that she was).
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Ofc the format of the brawl will be low-powered. It could be finally a chance for x11 us to see Paladin being playable and maybe even understand the pain of low mmr players. Although I expect that it will be nothing more than playable in the format where players no lower than of mid legend usually play more than one free run. But Paladin is banned, we will not know.
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Gotta say, youâve got a point here. I havenât heard about it, even though I am familiar, at least to some extent, with the folklore (wouldnât call myself an expert or anything, but still) and can speak the language.
Jokes aside (although you did write some nonsense, mostly re MMR etc, after that, while I was typing my previous post, as if to confirm the point about the brain. Weâll get to it later), I suspected it were a reference to some form of âschematicâ, which is Greek in origin (probably with a âkiâ, or âchiâ, i.e. âΧ, Ďâ, there, something like that).
Wait, what? Are you certain youâve not fallen victim to some hoax or amateurish pseudo-historical or pseudo-lingustic theory?
I mean, Iâd understand if you made a reference to a Persian phrase âShÄh MÄt!â or something like it, see, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess#Origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate
But usually, when people draw such parallels based on how similar things sound purely by coincidence, itâs a sign of such amateurish theories.
I mean, âFel magicâ sounds like outright âwrong (magic)â in Swedish, for example, but I strongly doubt thatâs where the name comes from.
Anyway, back to the brawl in questionâŚ
As said, it has already dominated such events (check out HSTD if youâre interested, like reports about the previous theorycrafting events or brawl), and seems like an obvious candidate that would have dominated this one.
PS Okay, even did some digging, for example:
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/tavern-brawl-the-lost-city-of-ungoro-pre-release-brawl/ (I suppose one could call Paladin quest the new Ursol, or Murloc Pala the new Imbue Pala?),
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/what-to-expect-from-the-lost-city-of-ungoro-theorycrafting-event-impressions .
Itâs got nothing to do with any âMMRâ nonsense, let alone Standard Ranked play.
Itâs just a strong deck in a format without cards from the previous year, and thatâs it.
I dunno why you keep going on with this rubbish.
Again and again: itâs not a strong deck in Standard, with many counters and whatnot, but it has been and probably would be* dominant in this kind of format.
* Havenât play-tested this one, though, but I consider it a reasonable guesstimate; in fact, when they announced the brawl or something long ago, one of my first thoughts was like, what are they gonna do about Quest Paladin this time? Itâs such an obvious pick even without any new cards⌠unless they ban it, which they probably will do.
No, it hasnât got anything to do with rank, âskillâ (I keep maintaining itâs not a significant factor in HS), performance, some alleged âMMRâ or whatnot. Not even the Pavelling book would help with that, I think.
Now, thatâs actually a curious point: it would be interesting to see how this one fares without the old cards on which the ladder deck relies heavily.
If memory serves, it wasnât that impressive last time, but the quest was buffed, wasnât it?
Anyway, that was my next candidate after Murloc Paladin. Maybe weâll see, maybe theyâll ban it, too.
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No, there is a very real story at the intersection of folklore and linguistic. Chess is pronounced like âshakhmatyâ (or âshakhmatiâ, I am not sure how to write it correctly with the Latin alphabet) on some Slavic languages.
In the old days (before the 20th century) chessboards were seen by ordinary people (not nobles) as smth colorful, motley.
And supernatural beings like demons, imps etc were sometimes conceptualized as having a variegated coloring too.
This was the basic of some ways to name demons. (Maybe a comparison with a Scottish brownie is possible.)
You probably know that in the old days people tried to avoid naming demons directly, bc it was common for all cultures and nations.
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Well, maybe you are correct here, but I still think that we could have a chance to test it before judging and we donât have this chance because of feelings of players who wonât even play this brawl more than once.
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rewind is based on a mechanic from an adventure, and instead of making remaking it, they are just reusing it
take a look at toki in the witchwood adventure
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Some feedback on two parts:
Achievements
Iâm happy to see you adding new achievements, but limited time achievements should really be Feats of Strength or some other name. World of Warcraft has this figured out and Hearthstone needs to copy from it.
Vendorâs Bargain Blowout!
I love this! A wonderful idea!!
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Mirage bug is 2 years old, not 2 months. They are incompetent beyond words.
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But I just lost to the paladin quest âdive to the golakka depthsâ in the pre-release brawl that was supposed to be banned. Am I missing something?!
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It is not banned apparently, I just played against someone who played it
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Unsurprisingly, I lost all 3 games to murlocs in a big way and canât even open the chest. Massive letdown!
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