New Priest & Hunter cards

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“The answer to this is very simple,” Adams said. “It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base 13, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat on my desk, stared in to the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story.”

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/42-the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything-2205734.html

I enjoyed reading a bunch of theories now xD Couple of them would be really cool if they were true, but those are all probably jus tcoincidences. I trust the author - the number is literally one of the first we learn by rote memorization as it’s 6*7 multiplied and we know it in an instant, so it makes sense it would be one of those numbers.

And, DESPITE all those “hidden meanings” (read: illusions), I bet it was chosen precisely because he couldn’t find anything otherwise meaningful in it.

As a joke, it’s cruel. As a metaphor for purpose of life, it’s ingenious. When life doesn’t have a meaning, it means it’s up to you to choose your own, or just enjoy not being pressured into finding anything more meaningful than you already got.

And as one of the best possible coincindences which speak along those lines, IMO, is this theory from Reddit:

42 is the alphanumerical sum of “To Be”. T is the 20th letter of the alphabet. O is the 15th letter of the alphabet. B is the 2nd letter of the alphabet. E is the 5th letter of the alphabet. 20 + 15 + 2 + 5 = 42

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a modern retelling of a Tibetan Budest tale of a man’s trials and tribulations in his search for the meaning of life.

What is the meaning of life? To be.

I do believe in “synchronicity”. Jung came up with the term - if it was good enough for him, it’s good enough for me. When many seemingly disconnected, random things all point to the same thing, that thing is probably important. In this case, the conclusion which everything points to is the quote above.

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It’s obviously a joke, and it is a joke because those people in the story were waiting for the ultimate answer to everything and they got the absurdist answer of just a two digit number.

It also took the destruction of the earth to do it (spoilers alert (you should have watched the bbc tv show already)).

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Priest cards are so boring.

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And with that said we see the Hauler is on the chopping block. It’s not surprising given how insanely powerful the card is early and mid game for the survival and tempo of the deck. If they even raise it a single mana it’s going to make the decks win rate drop significantly. It’s already on the cusp of being too costly to play but close enough to reel games back in.

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Well, the full extent of the joke is in the part that follows the reveal of The Answer. After the befuddled visitors asked the supercomputer what exactly did it mean by 42, the computer simply answered they didn’t really know what the question was in the first place. So they decide to build a super-super computer to find out what the question was.

It is meant as an absurd joke, but it does lend itself to a more profound reflection, which is that troubling oneself with grandiose, inherently meaningless questions like: ‘What is the meaning of all there is’, is pointless. Since you are questioning things that are so broad in scope, the answer might as well be anything, like 42. I think the clever part of this joke is to show how absurd a search for the meaning of life inherently is. Much of what often makes absurd comedy so ‘smart’ is that it can shine a light into how absurd many things we are used to are. That is the realization that makes this situation, and the joke, funny; and also why this joke has lived on in popular culture. That’s just my interpretation ofc :smile:

Since we are discussing absurd comedy in general and british ones in particular, I heartily recommend reading Terry Pratchett’s books. Mort, in particular, is an absolute favorite of mine.

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so, the OZ healer. If you have coin this is a 1/3/3?
SMH. I am starting to really hate the decisions being made.

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Meh, with coin OG mana wyrm has one less attack, but still have room to grow.

Also note that right now priest (and DH) has a pip 1 drop that’s a 1 mana 2/4, but any damage it takes also hits the priest/dh. Priests also once had a 1 mana 1/4 with no text. It’s not the first time priests get over inflated 1 drop, but even then priests are nowhere as consistent as pally or other classes in doing the whole token/aggro thing.

That said dragons/zarimi does allow priests to do token/tempo. The new healer may add some new flavor, but I doubt it’s the card that makes or breaks the deck.

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To question the machine that way is absurd. The word meaning was undefined. Meaning can be defined as purpose or origin or even just a task and some of those definitions CONTRADICT each other which makes the word self-deleting when it’s undefined.