Famm
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"When we release the first new Expansion each year, every set that wasn’t released in the same year or the year prior will cycle out and no longer be part of the Standard format."
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"When we release the first new Expansion each year, every set that wasn’t released in the same year or the year prior will cycle out and no longer be part of the Standard format."
Famm
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Yeah it is kinda lame actually, but should be refreshing for the meta. If anyone knows why it would work otherwise I'd like to see it, but that's off the official page announcing standard changes so its my understanding that all that shit will drop out of rotation at once.
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Mahes
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Now I know my next legendary has to be the guy that destroys weapons and draws me cards. As if warrior needed to be more playable, they go ahead and come out with Fool's Bane. Moonglade gladly goes into a Yogg Deck. Nice to see some good cards coming out.
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Mures
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Don't think fool's bane is as good as some of you are making it out to be. I'll gladly take warrior taking a bunch of face damage clearing my board turn 5 rather than brawling. I will say its probably better than gorehowl in this meta though.
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Ravishing
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So I might be taking the text too literally but I'm guessing Fools Bane actually isn't infinite, it still has durability, so max would be 4 attacks unless you "upgrade" it.
Still decent but not as godly as I first thought. It can deal 12 damage in 1 turn across 4 diff targets.
If it truly is "infinite" and the durability only drops once a turn then it's going to be insane.
Still decent but not as godly as I first thought. It can deal 12 damage in 1 turn across 4 diff targets.
If it truly is "infinite" and the durability only drops once a turn then it's going to be insane.
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yes but also see Gorehowl. I was taking the text too literally. Infinite should mean infinite damnit!
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I'm not sure I agree. You can obviously factor out the damage and healing component of both spells. Fireball does 6 damage for 4, Stormcrack and Shadowbolt do 4 damage for 3, so 5 damage is ~3.5 mana. Obviously, targetable healing for 6 is worth 2 manage(Holy Light).
So a random 5-cost minion for ~3.5 mana or a random 6-cost minion for 4 mana. I'd rather have a yeti than a random 5-cost and a pit fighter instead of a random 6-cost. These two spells really aren't that different in power level.
5 damage is almost always useful to kill something medium to large(hit + bump in a smaller creature). 6 health restored might lead to overheal.
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Famm
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The way I meant it was, in arena yeah, the power level vs. rarity is borked. That's probably shouldn't be a "common" level arena card. Which is mostly a problem with rarity in arena, a problem that's been at issue since day one.
But for constructed in real time conditions I can see why the potential value is higher for Moonglade to give it the rarity tag. Just seems more consistent with the minion, more likely to be usable on curve almost every time, and coming a turn earlier is huge. In very specific situations Firelands is still going to be better in constructed as well, but when those situations don't come, or you draw it too late for it to get full value, then you've just clogged your list with a seven that's not fitting into your plans.
But for constructed in real time conditions I can see why the potential value is higher for Moonglade to give it the rarity tag. Just seems more consistent with the minion, more likely to be usable on curve almost every time, and coming a turn earlier is huge. In very specific situations Firelands is still going to be better in constructed as well, but when those situations don't come, or you draw it too late for it to get full value, then you've just clogged your list with a seven that's not fitting into your plans.
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Rarity meaning anything in an adventure, outside of arena, is just silly. We all know of tons of instances where cards of "lesser" rarity are much better.
Someone suggested that they continually give mage high quality commons so that there's a consistent, easy to play class for new players in arena. And in this case, when you have firelands portal, moonglade portal, and magespinner, I tend to agree.
Someone suggested that they continually give mage high quality commons so that there's a consistent, easy to play class for new players in arena. And in this case, when you have firelands portal, moonglade portal, and magespinner, I tend to agree.
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ronne
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Not sure what would be so hard about just making a standard distribution of rarity picks. 1 legendary, 4 mythic, 8 rares or something seems like the easy solution. Or just straight nuking cards from showing up in arena would go a long way (looking at you Bolster).
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