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Vengeance, Revisited: What Is Demon Hunter’s New Identity?
Hearthstone’s tenth class is merely one year old at this point, and yet it’s already nothing like what it used to be at its launch. Beyond the power level realignment, which was more than necessary from a gameplay perspective, we’ve already seen Team 5 discard some ideas for Demon Hunter with what seems like a […]
All Quiet On the Classic Front: A Meta Report From the Trenches
It’s been two weeks now since Classic Mode went live, giving ample time to the data crunchers and the stat nerds to get a handle on things. Here’s what I’ve seen on the battlefield so far – interestingly enough, it’s been a little different than how I remember the good old days. Check out […]
What Have We Learned (and Forgot) Since the Classic Days?
As exciting as it is to play long gone archetypes again in Classic Mode, perhaps the most interesting question is whether we’ll discover brand new builds after all this time based on all the knowledge and the tools we’ve acquired since. Here are a few tenets we’ve figured out in the intervening years plus a […]
The Lessons Learned in Hearthstone’s Spell Schools
So many changes are coming to Constructed that it’s tough to catalog and predict their cumulative impact in advance. Among all the adjustments, the arrival of spell schools is perhaps the most underappreciated: they will enable new facets of gameplay, relevant spell damage cards without everything sent towards the face as part of an OTK […]
Which Core Set Buffs Are Going to Be the Most Impactful?
The introduction of the Core set will no doubt bring along seismic changes in Standard, and so many adjustments were made that it’s impossible to predict the overall landscape at the beginning of the Year of the Gryphon. However, having so much experience with the original versions of the buffed Classic cards, we can make […]