Hall of Champions & previous brawl bug

Queued into the new Hall of Champions brawl my opponent was playing Mercenaries 14 from the previous brawl.
I have a screenshot from the game but it doesn’t let me post it here.

Since this week’s Brawl is featuring decks which won tournaments, one could argue that Mercenaries 14, which totally dominated the Burndown Brawl back in July 2019, was the champion of that Brawl. That Brawl’s point was to find the most powerful deck, after all.

So I believe this is intended, but this is just my own speculation. On the first turn for each player, there is a brief pop-up message describing the deck in a sentence, did Mercenaries have that as well?

If you feel like the screenshot will add more information, please read this:

Mercenaries 14 tore through the competition in The Burndown Tavern Brawl in Europe. How will it do here??

You’re right, it’s intended.

That deck is so broken OP

Turn 1: n’zoth first mate + 4 charge patches (25 health left)

turn 2: 3/3 bloodsail raider (19 health left)

I play loot hoarder.

turn 3: southsea captain (5 health left)

And I conceded.