I think they're keeping it Standard right now so that Demon Hunter isn't unplayable in Arena. Though I suppose they could have Ashes, Scholo, Initiate, and then a few wild sets.

I actually like this brawl. Sure it's not good enough to run 30 times but it's good for completing lots of quests in a fun way.

I disagree, whenever Burgle rogue would win games it would feel horrible to lose to. You're losing to cards that rogues should never have. Losing to an infinite Tess that summons massive taunts didn't feel good.

Gadgetzan is probably my favorite Hearthstone expansion in relation to themes (not a big fan of the balance). I've actually been working on a sequel to it as well but love seeing someone else tackle the concept.

In regards to your expansion I feel that the balance is pretty off, many of the cards seem very weak or so random they're unplayable Gadgetzan Citizen, Shady Salesman, and Big ol' Bouncer stick out in the neutral set. Class cards like Dragon Training, Legion Dreadstinger, Nightbloom Druid, and more are also super weak. I think you might need to compare a lot of your set with sets in Hearthstone to find similar effects to balance your cards around.

Dragon Training can be compared to give Taunt cards, Sparring Partner and Ancestral Healing let you target the minion you want to give Taunt and come with a bonus. Nightmare Amalgam has vanilla stats. Spreading minions between two bodies, like in Nightbloom Druid's case means you usually get stats higher than vanilla Shrubadier, Landscaping, and  Former Champ.

Also I didn't really feel the Gadgetzan or business flavor throughout most of the class sets. They just seem to be themed around a minion type and their own class. What are all these water elementals doing in gadgetzan? Why is there a raptor from Un'goro here? Your cards need to tell a story and I'm not getting one from them.

I don't have the pass and can already play with the Pirates. Don't know about Aranna however.

4 Mana 7/7 if you're deep by the way.

At least if they change Pact I can meme around with Jaraxxus without fear of instantly losing.

Pretty sick as usual.

I don't recognize that character at the end, could she appear in the campaign?

Genn and Baku make their debut in MTG after all these years.

Here are a couple designs I came up with in a couple minutes.

Invest a lot of Mana and lose a bunch of tempo to set up a combo or clear on a later turn.

Something to round out the Totem Shaman archetype that's been very loosely pushed throughout the past few expansions.

I thought it was strange that all classes received an Imprisoned "Demon" besides Shaman.

So as a fun little challenge I want to see what you guys can come up with for an imprisoned Demon for Shaman!

Now no one will be prepared for the surprise April Fools joke!

Genius play!

I feel like this is being slept on. It might not work now but I know this will be a great card later, it just has so many opportunities to be great.

Any deck that summons small copies of big minions wants this, Quest Paladin or cards like Mirage Caller.

Egg/Token Deathrattle Decks.

It even works great against Doomsayer!

Right now I can only see it being slot into Quest Paladin and the new Beast Hunter. I'm really interested in this card and would love to hear other places people think this can go.

I love the art on this card, especially the token, but I don't see it being any good. You can run it in Plot Twist/Quest Warlock but that deck isn't getting many tools and is losing Dollmaster Dorian who's a core part of the deck.

This set has a little theme in big statted Deathrattle minions that give you even more stats, Cursed Vagrant, Coilfang Warlord, Disguised Wanderer, Scrapyard Colossus.

Compared to the others this card just doesn't offer a lot of Attack and Health.

I can't see this being good. Sure if you don't have any minions on board it's Holy Smite, which is super efficient, but even the slow Warlock decks have minions. This card needs at least two good eggs with 3 or less Health or else it's dead in the water.

Do Warlocks even want 1 Mana deal 3 to a minion these days? I don't think it's really in their strategy.

I heavily doubt this is all of the free packs we're getting.

More Epics than Legendaries feels really off to me, I'm curious what the distribution will be after this year.

I think it's all about how the cards look aesthetically now. Clacker as is has a fairly squared off text box that's nice to look at.

We've also seen in the past clarifying words are removed to make a card's text fit in the box in a neat manner, Clockwork Goblin and Wrenchcalibur.

Super cool set with a lot of neat mechanics. I feel like they're all things I could see in Hearthstone, mechanically.

But I do have to say the balance and flavor seems a bit off.

Expansions normally have a bit of a story to them while this kinda feels like you want to far into the "Blast from the Past" theme.

Cards are ridiculously efficient, even something like Blackrock Defender is overstatted and has the upside of giving you an overstatted 1-Drop. There's a lot of cards like that in this set.

But I do think you have a lot of super cool designs and really appreciate the work that must've gone into this.

This is very interesting but having all of these vastly different ideas and gamemodes in one place is super cluttered, and clutter is something Blizzard is trying to avoid at all costs.

I think it's better if we start 1 at a time, tournament mode would probably be the first one we should go for in my opinion.

Another problem is splitting the playerbase, the game already has issues with wait times in Wild Legend. Adding this many extra gamemodes and ways to split up the game will do nothing but exasperate that problem.

We just got Battlegrounds as well, that's a full gamemode with its own team and updates. It'll probably be a while before they can consider adding a new one.