Yeah, there’s a stream featuring League of Explorers voice actors today (from Comic-Con). They will PROBABLY reveal the 4 Legendaries (Explorers). Maybe some other cards too?

But I’m quite surprised that they don’t run the usual initial reveal stream with some HS personality. Those are always fun to watch!

I didn’t really have a problem beating it with Rafaam, but honestly, it was the least fun class for me. Like you’ve said, your hand is clogged all the time, there is no resource management at all, you’re never afraid of running low of cards or anything. Most of the buckets also weren’t really fun. Lots of cards that are too slow (no, I don’t need Lich King or Rin when playing Rafaam) or just bad (like healing bucket – you don’t really need healing in this format).

So while I wouldn’t say “hard” (if you’re lucky enough you could win with just Hero Power, which can pull big minions from your opponent’s deck – I pulled Molten Giant on T2 against Ragnaros and that was basically game over, for example), but – at least for me – not very fun.

Apparently, Rogue’s Plague card was changed shortly before the release, because it didn’t fit into the class identity (and it would be silly to directly contradict themselves right after releasing a big blog post about class identity). AoEs are supposed to be Rogue’s weakness (hence Vanish rotating out to HoF), and while we don’t know what Plague card Rogue initially had, it’s safe to assume that it was some sort of AoE removal.

Yes, it’s always a part of the art. Sometimes it’s clear who the card will depict (e.g. the last one is Togwaggle), other times we just get a small sneak peak (like someone’s hand/foot/etc.).

Yes, they will. If you buy them for $49.99 🙂 It’s a pre-purchase deal.

Hey man, sorry, I went on vacation on July 2nd and I’ve missed your comment.

Sadly, it’s hard to find enough time to do the reviews now 🙁 I did them when I was just helping with the site (then I mostly focused on writing articles) – now I’m working as the admin, so I have more responsibilities.

I’ve been asked about it a lot last expansion, I honestly didn’t know that so many of you liked them. I’ll try hard to find some time to do reviews – even if not for every card, at least for the more interesting ones!

Even better – you can summon them on YOUR side of the board to attack your own Acolyte 🙂 You can target any minion (but stuff that summons always summons for you unless specifically stated).

No, there aren’t any more rewards – you’ve already got it all 🙂

They are definitely a downside in your average deck. You don’t want to shuffle 1 mana 1/1’s into your deck – they’re dead draws in the late game. The only scenario in which they are an upside is when you play in a fatigue matchup and you turn them into more Legends with Rafaam. But that’s very specific and won’t be relevant often enough.

But without knowing more cards it’s hard to say – they might add a way to turn that downside into an upside somehow.

No idea honestly, I didn’t read anything official on that matter. We’ll probably know more once the Brawl starts (so very soon).

Edit: We actually had official answer! It’s based on real-world time and starts after the first mulligan. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/cb3lmy/join_us_for_the_fire_festevil/etdh7uu/?context=3

Thanks for the info, release day is always hectic and I don’t want to spread wrong information by assuming things I’m not sure about 🙂

Already requested it (as well as header image update) – waiting for devs to work on it. Should be ready soon (probably later today) 🙂

I’m almost sure that we will also have Elise card, not only Hero skin.

It was just announced – August 6 🙂

But yes, the release schedule is April – August – December, always first half of the month.

It does not, because they didn’t announce the launch time. Only that it will happen with the next major patch :p

You might have meant subjectively, because there’s nothing objective about that statement 🙂

That’s because the games are heavily connected, and WowHead (just like HSTD) is one of the Fabyte Media sites.

It’s called cross-promotion. They post stuff about HS too (e.g. when the new expansion launches).

My main point was that it’s not what “strictly better” means. A 3 mana 3/3 is strictly better than a 3 mana 2/3 with the same effect. 3 mana Fireball would be strictly better than a 4 mana Fireball.

But here, we’re paying 1 more mana for +1 Attack (good thing) and turning Combo into Battlecry (again, good thing). You can say that one is better than the other, but neither is strictly better.

And again, I think that they are quite similar in terms of power level. When using SI:7 vs Fire Plume Phoenix as an example, you forgot that both of them have the same stats. In this case, 3-drop is a 2/3 and 4-drop is a 3/3. How much play would SI:7 Agent see as a 2/3? It’s hard to say, but definitely much less than it does right now. If it was a 2/3, I’d say that both him and Phoenix would be on about the same power level. Same goes for the cards here, in my opinion.

Content of the pack is decided at the moment you open it, not the moment you acquire it. So yes, you will have a chance to get new cards if you wait until they’re out.

And that’s actually a good idea, I won’t open Brawl packs (or any other Classic packs I might get) for now 🙂

Yes, it’s the same list. And it’s not really weird, because it’s by far the most popular Control Warrior build (on HSReplay it’s #1 Warrior deck by a HUGE margin).