This is honestly a ten out of ten arena card. 3 health is an important break point, and throwing down a 6/6 on top of killing a minion is a huge board swing. And in an emergency, it's a 3/3 kill a dude, which is perfectly okay (see Bomb Lobber).
EDIT: Oh, and it can go face. High power potential and it's super versatile.
Most liches are the resurrected skeletons of orc warlocks from the First and Second War, which is where their size and dental work comes from. Although, Kel'Thuzad was resurrected from his ashes and still looks like that, so I have no idea how it's supposed to work.
But I believe that is Tamsin. They foreshadowed that she was practicing necromancy in the last Book, and the hair matches hers in the trailer's end card art.
Regis had a pretty interesting idea recently. He said they should add ten new heroes, but keep the old ones as well. That way all the old thematic hero powers and treasures aren't removed from the game, but the meta is refreshed with a whole new set of them.
Frost spells don't necessarily have to Freeze. According to Dean Ayala, the reason Freeze Shaman was so laughable back in KotFT was the entire package was nerfed after the balance team realized that consistently freezing stuff was obnoxious to play against. I have a conspiracy theory that Thrall, Deathseer was a Freeze-based card at that point, given that card's theming and voicelines.
With Frost spells, they can just be regular spells with the Frost tag.
Drek'thar might be neutral (or tied into some other mechanic) considering he's the general for the Horde in Alterac Valley. We don't know anything about the set's mechanics yet. Maybe he'll be a Druid/Mage/Shaman/Warlock/Warrior card and Vanndar Stormpike will be a DH/Hunter/Paladin/Priest/Rogue card, or something like that.
First week of December, most likely. That's going off of every third expansion aside from LoE and Darkmoon, which were released in November.
The expansion announcement is typically at Blizzcon, which would be a week from now normally. Since there's no Blizzcon this year, it's not clear when the announcement will be exactly, but it should be soon.
The Stockades would make way more sense story-wise, considering Varden and Scabbs are escaping from there. I still hope it's that, otherwise the story's about to take a weird hard right.
One of my all-time favourites brawls for sure. Little sad that we're going lax on the Halloween brawls. Hopefully next week we'll have Rise of the Zombeasts as per October tradition.
Go with Diablo because his skillset is based on his Heroes of the Storm abilities and I want someone at Blizzard who isn't a designer to remember HotS exists.
I still don't understand Blizzard's insistence on cycling the same fifteen brawls on repeat forever. I get that no one is developing them anymore, but there are so many. There is no reason to repeat brawls more than once a year.
For me, this has been the least enjoyable meta since Gadgetzan. I hate playing combo decks and I find aggro boring, so I haven't had anything fun to do. The only time I even played this month was last Saturday to finally get the card back and some occasional tavern brawls.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Bolner choose randomly when he repeats Battlecries? So you may not get the fireball each time.
I mean, it's literally a landmark in Alterac Valley.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Field_of_Strife
All of the "Lasts 3 turns" cards are named after AV subzones.
This is honestly a ten out of ten arena card. 3 health is an important break point, and throwing down a 6/6 on top of killing a minion is a huge board swing. And in an emergency, it's a 3/3 kill a dude, which is perfectly okay (see Bomb Lobber).
EDIT: Oh, and it can go face. High power potential and it's super versatile.
Honestly, it's not even that good. Tour Guide is for cheating mana. You don't need to cheat 2 mana when you have 7+.
The Gul'dan one's pretty cool. Maybe I'm just a sucker for Fel Reavers, though.
Most liches are the resurrected skeletons of orc warlocks from the First and Second War, which is where their size and dental work comes from. Although, Kel'Thuzad was resurrected from his ashes and still looks like that, so I have no idea how it's supposed to work.
But I believe that is Tamsin. They foreshadowed that she was practicing necromancy in the last Book, and the hair matches hers in the trailer's end card art.
"Never fall back!" turning into "Hurry fall back!" got me. Well played, Blizz.
Regis had a pretty interesting idea recently. He said they should add ten new heroes, but keep the old ones as well. That way all the old thematic hero powers and treasures aren't removed from the game, but the meta is refreshed with a whole new set of them.
Frost spells don't necessarily have to Freeze. According to Dean Ayala, the reason Freeze Shaman was so laughable back in KotFT was the entire package was nerfed after the balance team realized that consistently freezing stuff was obnoxious to play against. I have a conspiracy theory that Thrall, Deathseer was a Freeze-based card at that point, given that card's theming and voicelines.
With Frost spells, they can just be regular spells with the Frost tag.
Drek'thar might be neutral (or tied into some other mechanic) considering he's the general for the Horde in Alterac Valley. We don't know anything about the set's mechanics yet. Maybe he'll be a Druid/Mage/Shaman/Warlock/Warrior card and Vanndar Stormpike will be a DH/Hunter/Paladin/Priest/Rogue card, or something like that.
First week of December, most likely. That's going off of every third expansion aside from LoE and Darkmoon, which were released in November.
The expansion announcement is typically at Blizzcon, which would be a week from now normally. Since there's no Blizzcon this year, it's not clear when the announcement will be exactly, but it should be soon.
The Stockades would make way more sense story-wise, considering Varden and Scabbs are escaping from there. I still hope it's that, otherwise the story's about to take a weird hard right.
Also I want a new Hogger card.
One of my all-time favourites brawls for sure. Little sad that we're going lax on the Halloween brawls. Hopefully next week we'll have Rise of the Zombeasts as per October tradition.
I changed something about this card. Ten bucks to anyone who can figure out what it was without looking it up.
Not actually; I can't verify whether or not you looked it up.
Go with Diablo because his skillset is based on his Heroes of the Storm abilities and I want someone at Blizzard who isn't a designer to remember HotS exists.
I love the Raven Idols brawl.
More brawls in rotation means more people get something interesting more often. Not every brawl is meant to be for everyone.
I still don't understand Blizzard's insistence on cycling the same fifteen brawls on repeat forever. I get that no one is developing them anymore, but there are so many. There is no reason to repeat brawls more than once a year.
For me, this has been the least enjoyable meta since Gadgetzan. I hate playing combo decks and I find aggro boring, so I haven't had anything fun to do. The only time I even played this month was last Saturday to finally get the card back and some occasional tavern brawls.
Lives rent free in my mind as what I personally consider to be the worst card in Hearthstone.