Got the £9 Tavern Special (1 leggo, 10 packs) and the £17 Bob's Bargain (2 leggos, 20 packs). Guess Blizzard is aware I put my Hearthstone spending on ice since the start of the year :D
"The Open Seas" has great potential for a murloc-centric expansion, something we haven't really gotten in a long long time. There's lots of monsters to draw on from BFA's Island Expeditions, and other huge tentacle-y things present around the main continents. Maybe they could also answer the question of what lies on the dark side of Azeroth?
I mean, Faceless Rager could still use the effect without breaking the math, but Am'gam Rager... I can only assume it'll turn into a 0/9 minion with the following effect: Can attack as normal. On attack, restore 3 Health to the enemy Hero.
Basically, the Lifegive keyword (or Blood Donation?). You heard it here first, folks.
The chances of it being there, I converted the 1/72 chance to be how much out of a hundred, as percentages are easier to understand and a better visual marker than fractions. The percentages show the chance a card of x cost has a chance of showing up, regardless of whether it is good or bad card, and the entire calculation as a whole servers the singular purpose of providing an understanding of how often you should encounter cards of x cost on average. They likely won't feel accurate on a per-game basis, but over - let's say - at least 100 Discoveries. I would actually be curious if anyone could document their first 100 Discoveries with Fireheart and share the results of how many cards of each cost they got offered, then compare it to the math in the review! (or your math, if it turns out to be more accurate :D)
In terms of chain influencing, as I mentioned, the percentages become ever so slightly skewed when the Discover does its calculations. There is one factor to this I do not have enough information on: Whether all 3 cards in the Discover effect are chosen at once, or whether the game chooses them sequentially.
Since a Discover effect cannot offer the same card twice, I assumed that the game chooses which cards show up sequentially: Card one has its "native" chance to show up (1/72), card 2 has a 1/71 chance, and card 3 has a 1/70 chance (if we go by the Wild numbers). As described above, mana-cost wise, each card that shows up will affect the chances of every other card being offered in slots 2 and 3.
What I didn't mention is the following:
If, for example, a 1-cost card shows up in slot 1 of the Discover effect, then two things happen: 1-cost cards as a whole lose a percentage of their chance of showing up as the pool of 1-cost cards lose one of their cards.
Overall, every card that costs something other than 1 gets a slight boost to showing up. But due to the pool of 1-costs being smaller, 1-cost cards have a slightly smaller chance of showing up, while the rest of the card costs have a slightly higher chance of showing up. These changes in value are still quite negligible, however.
Agreed; the only advantage a card whose only effect is to draw another card is that you can avoid including less "useful" cards that could be in the way of your win condition. Instead of getting stuck with a Spider Tank you don't need or whatever, it could be beneficial to pay 2 Mana or something similar to just get to the cards you need faster. While I'm not personally a fan of this strategy, it can be effective in very specific situations.
Agreed! Potion of Illusion will be one of those cards where it will be most efficient in high-level, well thought out plays. Curious to see what becomes of it and I hope it'll fare better than Echo of Medivh.
Indeed, good catch. I'm always surprised to see Captain Greenskin's transformation every time an expansion comes out. His usefulness seems to wildly fluctuate depending on what each expansion brings to the table, moreso/more often than other Classic legendaries.
That was literally the same thing that fooled me! I honestly just always saw it as being part of Boomsday; the card's entire fantasy looks as if it was straight out of that expansion.
Sorry guys! Things are not what they seem.
Die Frage ist nicht welcher Karte, aber welcher Erweiterung.
Next year: Hearthstone Battle Royale, 100 cards drop into Warsong Gulch...
Got the £9 Tavern Special (1 leggo, 10 packs) and the £17 Bob's Bargain (2 leggos, 20 packs). Guess Blizzard is aware I put my Hearthstone spending on ice since the start of the year :D
And yet she didn't pack a pair of cool shades with her, in the Barrens.
It fell in a vat of bleach some time between The Grand Tournament and Barrens, happens to most of us at one point or another
This is the kind of content I read comments for
So... Mankrik finds his wife, and like beating a dead horse, resses her just so she can be hurt again? :D
Witty retort!
So happy Lightfang Enforcer is back to its former glory!
"The Open Seas" has great potential for a murloc-centric expansion, something we haven't really gotten in a long long time. There's lots of monsters to draw on from BFA's Island Expeditions, and other huge tentacle-y things present around the main continents. Maybe they could also answer the question of what lies on the dark side of Azeroth?
I mean, Faceless Rager could still use the effect without breaking the math, but Am'gam Rager... I can only assume it'll turn into a 0/9 minion with the following effect: Can attack as normal. On attack, restore 3 Health to the enemy Hero.
Basically, the Lifegive keyword (or Blood Donation?). You heard it here first, folks.
Battlecry: Give all Ragers in your hand and deck -4/+4.
This is definitely more high-level than I could have done :D They don't teach me statistics in sound design!
The chances of it being there, I converted the 1/72 chance to be how much out of a hundred, as percentages are easier to understand and a better visual marker than fractions. The percentages show the chance a card of x cost has a chance of showing up, regardless of whether it is good or bad card, and the entire calculation as a whole servers the singular purpose of providing an understanding of how often you should encounter cards of x cost on average. They likely won't feel accurate on a per-game basis, but over - let's say - at least 100 Discoveries. I would actually be curious if anyone could document their first 100 Discoveries with Fireheart and share the results of how many cards of each cost they got offered, then compare it to the math in the review! (or your math, if it turns out to be more accurate :D)
In terms of chain influencing, as I mentioned, the percentages become ever so slightly skewed when the Discover does its calculations. There is one factor to this I do not have enough information on: Whether all 3 cards in the Discover effect are chosen at once, or whether the game chooses them sequentially.
Since a Discover effect cannot offer the same card twice, I assumed that the game chooses which cards show up sequentially: Card one has its "native" chance to show up (1/72), card 2 has a 1/71 chance, and card 3 has a 1/70 chance (if we go by the Wild numbers). As described above, mana-cost wise, each card that shows up will affect the chances of every other card being offered in slots 2 and 3.
What I didn't mention is the following:
If, for example, a 1-cost card shows up in slot 1 of the Discover effect, then two things happen: 1-cost cards as a whole lose a percentage of their chance of showing up as the pool of 1-cost cards lose one of their cards.
Overall, every card that costs something other than 1 gets a slight boost to showing up. But due to the pool of 1-costs being smaller, 1-cost cards have a slightly smaller chance of showing up, while the rest of the card costs have a slightly higher chance of showing up. These changes in value are still quite negligible, however.
Agreed; the only advantage a card whose only effect is to draw another card is that you can avoid including less "useful" cards that could be in the way of your win condition. Instead of getting stuck with a Spider Tank you don't need or whatever, it could be beneficial to pay 2 Mana or something similar to just get to the cards you need faster. While I'm not personally a fan of this strategy, it can be effective in very specific situations.
Agreed! Potion of Illusion will be one of those cards where it will be most efficient in high-level, well thought out plays. Curious to see what becomes of it and I hope it'll fare better than Echo of Medivh.
Indeed, good catch. I'm always surprised to see Captain Greenskin's transformation every time an expansion comes out. His usefulness seems to wildly fluctuate depending on what each expansion brings to the table, moreso/more often than other Classic legendaries.
That was literally the same thing that fooled me! I honestly just always saw it as being part of Boomsday; the card's entire fantasy looks as if it was straight out of that expansion.
Sorry guys! Things are not what they seem.
Die Frage ist nicht welcher Karte, aber welcher Erweiterung.
Correct! It seems my review bloodlust has yet again clouded my view of the most simple of mechanic interactions.
Woopsie, good catch! Thankfully, it doesn't impact the rest of the review.
Woopsie! Good catch on that! I think that was one of my last reviews on the day I did it, so the this turn part flew over my head.