They only showed up at the Darkmoon Faire once it was moved from a travelling faire to Darkmoon Island in Cataclysm. Shattrath was their first in-game appearance.
I'm going to be slightly more bold and guess it's a Shattrath expansion with a metal concert theme. Shattrath is where ETC performs in World of Warcraft.
Elite Tauren Chieftain does have five unique members. Samuro, Sig Nicious, Bergrisst, Mai'kyl, and Chief Thunder-skins. The band itself was personified by a Tauren bearing that name for Heroes of the Storm, and made its way into Hearthstone afterwards.
If I had to guess, they're probably figuring how to fix The Demon Seed, since it'll be unplayable in every format come April. Maybe they're also thinking about future-proofing Tome Tampering and Switcheroo.
That Varian portrait is so fucking hideous. It literally looks worse than his Heroes of the Storm model, which is from six years ago and also is primarily seen from top-down at a distance.
I hope they go the opposite way and make all Arcane Golems into Mechs for consistency. If you're not a WoW lore nerd, then you look at an Arcane Golem and you're gonna say that it's a Mech.
Also, I hope they make all the bog beasts Elementals like Bogshaper is. Some bog beasts used to be, but when they did the first round of minion type consistency updates they ruled that they shouldn't be, except they left it on Bogshaper because Elemental Shaman was a playable deck that used the card at the time. Bog beasts are classified as Elementals in WoW (and Mountain Giantisn't an Elemental), so again I don't understand why they went the opposite direction.
So, this kinda confirm that we will have a card that make druid pass 10 mana again, since guff hero card is rotating, right?
There's some *minor* chance we don't. High Exarch Yrel got printed one set before all the other Pure Paladin stuff rotated and didn't get more support until Castle Nathria. However, I think it's a safe bet that we will see something. Hopefully it's not a card that takes it all the way to 20 again.
Cards that Combo just to get big stats (Shado-Pan Rider, Bladed Cultist, and Coldtooth Yeti) have never seen play, so I'm a little hesitant to call this good. Obviously this is quite strong in that category, but I just don't know what deck runs this. Edwin and Sinstone Graveyard were so good because they could be a tempo play or an early lethal threat with the right hand, which this doesn't quite have the flexibility to do.
This is going to function very similarly to Unstable Evolution, where you can prevent some really disastrous evolves. It's obviously a lot less flexible than that card, but making power plays for only 1 mana will feel pretty good.
Seems pretty bad. Honestly, a 1-mana 2/3 with Rush and no other effects probably wouldn't be good enough to see play these days, and slapping a downside on it isn't helping. Maybe it goes into the Razorfen Beastmaster deck for one last hurrah before that rotates out, but you want to cheat out bigger stuff with that card, not 1-mana stuff.
The only consistently relevant case where this card is worse than Snipe is if you have four or more minions, which makes it summon less Zombees. As Hunter, that's not impossible, but it also shouldn't be too big of a worry.
I also like that it's just straight-up the MCU version rather than anything from the comics. Which is honestly great, because MCU Ghost is considerably more interesting.
You know what's really offensive? The fact that women are apparently not allowed to wear anything "revealing" in modern society anymore. The only statement I'm getting from these changes is that women should watch what they wear, lest they arouse or corrupt random men. Meanwhile, men can wear whatever the fuck they like
Except, Queen of Pain and Secretkeeper are wearing LESS CLOTHING now. Windfury Harpy is wearing a little bit more, but she's still basically naked. It's certainly not the winged aerobics teachers you see in western Yu-Gi-Oh.
I really doubt censorship or China had anything to do with these changes. If they did, they would've just region locked it they did for The Skeleton Knight, Abomination, and a bunch of other cards. They did this because Hearthstone's art has evolved. They don't want to depict blood and violent deaths anymore. They don't want women in stupid-looking poses. They probably don't want succubi because of the connotations. The game is very cartoony now, and they want to stay consistent with that theme.
They only showed up at the Darkmoon Faire once it was moved from a travelling faire to Darkmoon Island in Cataclysm. Shattrath was their first in-game appearance.
I'm going to be slightly more bold and guess it's a Shattrath expansion with a metal concert theme. Shattrath is where ETC performs in World of Warcraft.
Elite Tauren Chieftain does have five unique members. Samuro, Sig Nicious, Bergrisst, Mai'kyl, and Chief Thunder-skins. The band itself was personified by a Tauren bearing that name for Heroes of the Storm, and made its way into Hearthstone afterwards.
It's not a bug. Minions die instead of moving when a zone is full. The minion was never on your side of the board, since it had nowhere to move to.
All Death Knight discovers ignore Rune restrictions unless specified by the card.
Free is referring to the rarity of the card, not the price. All uncollectible cards, including heroes, have the Free rarity internally.
I don't know why the Arthas bot started making updates about heroes, though.
They could also make Tamsin only redirect damage from your cards and powers, so you couldn't just turbo-fatigue yourself. Maybe even both.
If I had to guess, they're probably figuring how to fix The Demon Seed, since it'll be unplayable in every format come April. Maybe they're also thinking about future-proofing Tome Tampering and Switcheroo.
That Varian portrait is so fucking hideous. It literally looks worse than his Heroes of the Storm model, which is from six years ago and also is primarily seen from top-down at a distance.
Jesus H. Christ.
I hope they go the opposite way and make all Arcane Golems into Mechs for consistency. If you're not a WoW lore nerd, then you look at an Arcane Golem and you're gonna say that it's a Mech.
Also, I hope they make all the bog beasts Elementals like Bogshaper is. Some bog beasts used to be, but when they did the first round of minion type consistency updates they ruled that they shouldn't be, except they left it on Bogshaper because Elemental Shaman was a playable deck that used the card at the time. Bog beasts are classified as Elementals in WoW (and Mountain Giant isn't an Elemental), so again I don't understand why they went the opposite direction.
There's some *minor* chance we don't. High Exarch Yrel got printed one set before all the other Pure Paladin stuff rotated and didn't get more support until Castle Nathria. However, I think it's a safe bet that we will see something. Hopefully it's not a card that takes it all the way to 20 again.
Cards that Combo just to get big stats (Shado-Pan Rider, Bladed Cultist, and Coldtooth Yeti) have never seen play, so I'm a little hesitant to call this good. Obviously this is quite strong in that category, but I just don't know what deck runs this. Edwin and Sinstone Graveyard were so good because they could be a tempo play or an early lethal threat with the right hand, which this doesn't quite have the flexibility to do.
This is going to function very similarly to Unstable Evolution, where you can prevent some really disastrous evolves. It's obviously a lot less flexible than that card, but making power plays for only 1 mana will feel pretty good.
Shoutout to Tear Reality's flavour text:
"One time it gave me a black flower, a smiling pot, and a foil first edition Dracthyr."
Genius.
Seems pretty bad. Honestly, a 1-mana 2/3 with Rush and no other effects probably wouldn't be good enough to see play these days, and slapping a downside on it isn't helping. Maybe it goes into the Razorfen Beastmaster deck for one last hurrah before that rotates out, but you want to cheat out bigger stuff with that card, not 1-mana stuff.
Mana refreshes at the start of your turn, not the end. So if your opponent kills this, it will only drain your unspent mana crystals from last turn.
The only consistently relevant case where this card is worse than Snipe is if you have four or more minions, which makes it summon less Zombees. As Hunter, that's not impossible, but it also shouldn't be too big of a worry.
I hope Colossal becomes a deciduous keyword like Immune, where they can put it in any set where appropriate. It's such a thematic and flexible effect.
Really neat effect.
I also like that it's just straight-up the MCU version rather than anything from the comics. Which is honestly great, because MCU Ghost is considerably more interesting.
I'm gonna repost what I said at the time:
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