If you’re on the opposing side of Cramer, you’re probably right. Don’t bother trying to converse with that person; you’ll waste your breath.
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I play with a greymane deck too with demon hunter. Its funny to get a 0-mana charge minion. And I think that I got this like 4 times out of 20 matches. I got the one that makes you draw a card with unspent mana the most nearly 6 times.
Cramer may have interesting views, but he’s a swell chap! Shame on you. Shame! 
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Those walls of blabber sure are swell I know.
I mean when not “debating”. You’ll find plenty of the more argumentative natured people here are actually much different when just chatting as friends. I understand your annoyance, though. I can’t say I agree with my friend here.
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Im finally excited to play standard because its no longer the boring version of standard. So argumentative. Im not gonna look at a great gift like anomalies like the lot of Whiney Skywalkers seem to be around here are doing.
Making the game fun, even in standard, for a short time, isnt a bad thing. I welcome it. I encourage it. You can be argumentative and disagree and claim im the one not saying anything all you like. Im not the one being a poor sport about it, or a bad gift receiver over it. (Those kids that get upset at their parents right away when unboxing their xmas presents and see the wrong xbox or playstation and are just the worst about it). Now Im not saying Im over here being the Nintendo 64 goes crazy kid, but I;m closer to that latter sort of gift receiver than the former.
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Mate, you’re calling people who disagree with you Whiney.
This is being good sport in your book? Bruh…
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Yes, and that’s why it should be in casual not ranked.
Glad you finally understand the issue.
Exhibition matches typically don’t count in the standings.
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Exhibition matches are the ones people tune in for. No one watches Pole Vaulting tournaments every friday night at the bar … but they will watch the Olympics when their time rolls around.
Which are not exhibition matches… there are medals on the line.
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly , a scrimmage , a demonstration , a pre-season game , a warmup match , or a preparation match , depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player’s or the team’s rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced.
Ranked ladder is not exhibitions matches, casual is. These things belong in casual.
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The extra layer of randomness is good for MT qualification season, as it makes the game more balanced in overall
Other than that, it’s also good in-between two expansions, both to break the staleness of the meta and to prepare us for experimenting/meta changing
It’s ok, I like it more than casino mage and whatever else we had the last time 2 months ago
Best meta this year was when they un-nerfed a bunch of things for 2 weeks and Thief Priest (among others) went out with a bang.
THis is a totally trash take, that random advantages helps qualification season… it doesn’t balance anything if it’s actually random.
It’s not an extra layer of RNG, it’s tilting the game artificially for no good reason.
“First spell each turn costs one less” in mage v paladin is totally fair, right?
This sort of bull crap doesn’t work in a ladder environment and the dev that thinks this is “fun” should be fired and removed from gaming.
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It is
It does
It’s a simple statistical rule, the more chances you take with expected probability 50%, the closer your result will be to the mean (50%)
By adding more randomness, you’re making it more, not less, probable that both players will hit the same amount of negatives and positives
I don’t know the exact law, but it can be derived from “regression to the mean”
Tell me you don’t understand what this means without telling me.
You are talking about a population trend phenomena, not a personal one. The results of any one case can swing widely in any direction over the size of sample a player has in a week. These anomalies can and likely will legitimately ruin someone’s qualification unrelated to their own actions.
No. Just no. That’s like telling me adding more numbers to the lottery makes it more likely that any one individual will win. It’s just false.
I am very much familiar with the idea, but the application isn’t here. It simply means the more trials one has the closer one should get to average results. It has no bearing on which anomalies help druid and which don’t.
Which is exactly what you get when you add another layer of randomness - more trials and faster regression to the mean
I think the main issue here isnt the hate for anomalies but the severe obsession with the ladder and climbing it and the whole ranked ideology. Its rather unsettling and definitely not a healthy thing to focus on.
Well, progressing through the ranks is really the only way to get packs and rares, so Blizzard created a major problem by making rank important for getting new cards on top of people naturally being competitive.
You could play Arena, but that is extremely random and most people are going to lose out on Arena runs.
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I think what you mean to say is that anomalies makes decks more consistent, which for an already consistent deck like Druid further makes games 1-sided and unenjoyable. In particular, the anomaly that ensures that the first card drawn each turn is something that you can play makes it much more likely that Druid plays Splish-Splash on curve which causes the ramp snowball. Actually, there are a few anomalies that help Druid get a lot of draw or ramp power.
And the term that you are referring to is the law of large numbers, which essentially represents that the more occurrences (not chances) within a sample size, the closer that your outcome matches the mean of a binomial distribution for that event. Basically, if there is a 50% chance to land on head, then you are more likely to observe
heads 50% of the time when you flip the coin 1,000,000 times, versus if you only flip the coin 10 times.
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isnt more about people being obsessed in getting to the highest rank they can in the first 10 days of the month ?
there is no difference between climbing ont he first 10 days and the last 21