Wishlist for next year’s rotation
Number one, immediately: rotate cards like Shadowstep, Preparation etc, which have been ‘broken’ and plagued the game since at least 2014 ( or perhaps even 2013, dunno).
Man, even Ice Block in Standard (yes, I’m not kidding) would have been less problematic than this.
Moreover, 10+ years of Roguestone in general have been more than enough. The current Core set has Tess, who can single-handedly win games if discovered by some other class (e.g. by Marin), had it happen with Taunt Warrior, but isn’t even good enough for trendy Rogue decks at the moment — which speaks sufficiently about the class, I think… Imagine what would have happened if other classes had stuff like Shudderwock, Ilgynoth (or however you spell it) in Core? Maybe even some Colossals, Titans or whatnot? They’d literally wail about it, yet for the Rogue class, such weak stuff isn’t even good enough. So, to sum up, I’d like to see it more balanced and even across different classes, hopefully with fewer useless ‘filler’ cards in Core, although that probably won’t happen.
Heh, I’d say this one isn’t that bad — at least no ‘Badlands’ and all. But for PIP, it would look relatively sane.
Of course, their attempt to fight power and insanity creep hasn’t been very effective due to some fundamental flaws in the game model, but at least they have tried.
You’ve gotta be kidding, right?
Starships in general are one of the cooler mechanic this game has had in years.
Just because some of them can sometimes be broken, e.g. the DK one reviving itself multiple times (possibly infinitely) due to events of high skill, doesn’t mean it’s all bad.
… defeat the purpose of the set.
You know, it has already been done in that MOTLK event, and… it hasn’t been very impressive.
With some relatively quick searching, I’ve dug this up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAUb2QENEKA
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PS That analysis was from before those cards were actually added temporarily to the Cors set… After they were — see also something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4i2xazrh1o .
Apparently, the effect wasn’t at all that impressive, not from the Hero cards.
Absolutely not.
‘Today and forever I am your better, Arthas.’
As for the former — actually, no. I’ve maintained for a long time how so-called ‘hate cards’ (and associated phenomena like the infamous ‘meta cycles’) are indicative of bad design, for example:
No, they are not. First, as you said yourself, it’s not fun. Second, only a very… niche category of playahz with… unusual tastes, let’s say that, yank off at the notion of “Ooh, I played my fiftieth Plague of Death during this game, and I haven’t even touched my real removals yet” being a healthy state of the mode. Everyone else would consider this repulsive (btw, it had already happened previously, and, by the way, bye-bye, Swaggering Clown Reno, and good riddance). The reasoning is very simple: it’s more fun and interactive if the game is played on the board and the outcome is decided on the board. If you want it all in your hand… well, pardon my French, you could do that alone at home if you absolutely must.
‘Dominance’, ha. As for limiting those options somewhat — according to what’s been said above, it’s most likely been a conscious and purposeful decision, to make the game actually more healthy, and, for once, it has worked.
I think I’ve touched the subject above… As said, sadly, it’s most likely not happening due to greed and all that.
It’s not hilarious (see below on that), it’s an obvious consequence of the DK class’s still being relatively new, thus most of its (that’s how you do it without an apostrophe) cards being rather competitive in terms of power level.
What do they call it on the internets (sic), ‘the irony’? Of this statement, that is.
‘Me spam ten thousand removals, den yu ded, me smart, me control, you stoopid, hu playz di cards minion, ahaha!’
Yeah, yeah, learn to ‘play around’ near-infinite resource generation, which modern HS is riddled with. This isn’t 2014 or 2015 anymore, you know, when those options were limited, you could sometimes calculate that and then possibly drop your big bomb.
Oh, and what a surprise: some people wanna see big dragons, not the umpteenth ‘lol, erased everything and denied all the fun’ card, because it’s more cool and whatnot. This thought ever occurred to you?
Exactly.
Actually, you were supposed to put quotation marks around this word, otherwise the whole phrase is barely comprehensible and rather illiterate.
With that said, those ‘many people’ on the internetz are just bad at spelling in general — I suppose they’ve never liked reading much and all that.
Ha, as if a ‘native speaker’ is necessarily someone of calibre in this sense. Some illiterate bumpkin, bumbling fluently in some local dialect, technically counts as a native speaker, too.
On the other hand, it’s not unknown for someone to have become a top expert of the highest authority, to the point of writing numerous rulebooks considered broadly as the reference, in a language that wasn’t even his native one.
Alright, I suppose that’d be it for now. Sorry if I’ve missed something substantial, but with this post being… bulky enough as it is (as is this poster’s wont, I suppose 
), I feel like I need a break right now.
(UPD: a few typos corrected)