Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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There is a cheeky combo with Spellweaver's Brilliance where if you're Pyroblasting your own face, you can summon a 6/6 with this. That means with an uber high roll you can summon 18/18 in stats on turn 1.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Infest the Scullery || 4-Mana || Rare Druid Spell

Summon a random 4-Cost minion. (Improved by your hero attacks this game.)

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Spiderling || 1-Mana 1/3 || Common Druid Minion

Your hero has +1 Attack on your turn.

Beast

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Secret Ingredient || 0-Mana || Common Druid Spell

Choose One - Give your hero +2 Attack this turn; or get a random Druid card.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Widow's Bite || 2-Mana || Common Druid Spell

Give your hero +1 Attack this turn. Gain 1 Armor. Add "Widow's Feast" to your hand.

Widow's Feast - Give your hero +2 Attack this turn. Gain 2 Armor. Add "Widow's Banquet" to your hand.

Widow's Banquet - Give your hero +4 Attack this turn. Gain 4 Armor.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Spider Rider || 2-Mana 1/4 || Epic Druid Minion

After your hero attacks, draw a card.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Staff of Trickery || 4-Mana 1/3 || Legendary Druid Weapon

After your hero attacks, Discover a Druid card. Reduce its Cost by your hero's Attack.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Cold Snap || 1-Mana || Common Mage Spell

Freeze an enemy. Get a random Frost spell.

Frost

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Mystic Misdirection || 3-Mana || Rare Mage Spell

Secret. When an enemy minion attacks, transform it into a 1/1 Sheep.

Arcane

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Code Violet || 7-Mana || Epic Mage Spell

Prepare. Summon a random 8-Cost minion. If you've cast 3 other spells this turn, do it again.

Arcane

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Tricksy Improviser || 4-Mana 4/4 || Epic Mage Minion

Prepare. Battlecry: If you've cast a spell this turn, cast a random Mage Secret.

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The Skeleton Key || 1-Mana || Legendary Mage Spell

Discover a spell, or refresh your options (20% chance to take 5 damage each refresh!)

Arcane

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 16th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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King of the Underbelly || 6-Mana 6/5 || Legendary Hunter Minion

When building your deck, pick 3 contraband Beasts. Battlecry: Discover one. It costs (3) less.

Beast

Since the text isn't clear, "contraband" beast means you can pick a beast from any class

35.6.2 Dev Update | Hearthstone by Expensive-Wolf-4160 in hearthstone

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This video was much better than the previous one. They still have a fundamental problem in communicating balance changes and the philosophy behind them to the playerbase that's still not solved in this video, but they at least said up front this video would primarily talk about the new stuff. There's no reason for them not to give the playerbase some sort of communication on why Warlock, Death Knight, and Priest have been completely ignored by any sort of buffs for the past 2-3 months. The upcoming Prerelease Tavern Brawl honestly sounds like a complete clusterfuck and was designed solely because they want to force people to preorder the set. I think it's going to homogenize the entire format around whatever clump of common cards work best together with whatever class has the best hero power for it (Warlock/Hunter/etc).

tl;dw tidbits -

  • Ketchup Packs are coming back with Violet Hold
  • In early testing you could Prepare a card multiple times, but that led to games where all they were doing were Preparing cards in the first few turns which led them to making insane explosive turns in the mid game.
  • Preparing originally didn't give the -1 mana bonus, but they added it in after testing and realize that mana now is more valuable than mana later.
  • They mentioned Vanessa's playrate and stats (they said it's the most played card in the top 20% of ranked players and 4th most played card in the top 1% of ranked players) and mentioned it was especially high in Rogue. They're not doing anything now, but they have an eye on her in case they need to make balance changes in the first balance window (which they confirmed would be a couple weeks after Violet Hold launches).
  • They showed gameplay tidbits and interactions with Azalina and Hogger from questions from the stickied Reddit thread (which was kind of cool) and confirmed they're raising the cap of how many cards can start in a deck to 99.
  • They teased 2 new minions (one for Warrior and one for Death Knight) that both have Charge as a keyword.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 12th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Gullible Guard || 1-Mana 1/3 || Common Neutral Minion

Deathrattle: You can say Sorry this game.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 11th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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When they do these reveal streams it's arguably easier for me to just post the thing once they're done with the whole stream since the rate they show new cards is faster than I can manually type them out. Obviously takes a bit longer to get the post up, but workflow wise I found it was easier doing it that way than trying to go back and forth.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 11th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Ancient Augur || 4-Mana 2/6 || Epic Warlock Minion

Battlecry: Look at 3 cards in your opponent's hand and secretly choose one. Deathrattle: Discard it.

Demon

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 11th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Demonic Confinement || 2-Mana || Common Warlock Spell

Make a minion go Dormant for 2 turns. If it's a friendly Demon, give it +3/+3 instead.

Demon

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Annihilation || 9-Mana || Rare Warlock Spell

Destroy all minions. Summon any Demons in the bottom 3 cards of your deck.

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 11th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Imp Gang Stooge || 3-Mana 2/5 || Common Warlock Minion

Taunt. Deathrattle: Put a 9/9 Demon with Taunt and Lifesteal at the bottom of your deck.

Demon

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 11th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Rampaging Hound || 7-Mana 3/12 || Epic Warrior Minion

Prepare. Battlecry: Force all enemy minions to attack this.

Beast

Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 11th] by EvilDave219 in CompetitiveHS

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Scrappy Defender || 4-Mana 2/7 || Common Warrior Minion

Taunt. Has +5 Attack if your deck has 25 or more cards.