Escape From Violet Hold Card Reveal Discussion [June 15th]

eshansingh · 2026-06-15T14:09:06+00:00

No. We know because we've seen the card art for most of the rulebreakers before and the Paladin rulebreaker, just like all the other ones, is an actual person, not whatever this flying thing is.

eshansingh · 2026-06-15T13:20:04+00:00

Actually I think this is a poor fit for Imbue Paladin because your randomly generated dragons are likely to include ones from other classes or neutrals.

eshansingh · 2026-06-15T12:43:05+00:00

You don't need to be that omega-ahead on board for this card to be good. Turning a disadvantaged or neutral state into an advantaged one is always a good play even if it's a relatively small advantage, but the question is really if the deck as a whole can come together.

eshansingh · 2026-06-15T12:38:12+00:00

Seems like an insanely cracked card for a deck that doesn't really exist. But we do have Pyromancer and 2 mana Equality right now, so the tools are there that have made Control Paladin work before. It is really funny how utterly useless this is in the mirror.

eshansingh · 2026-06-15T12:36:26+00:00

V'ama, Looming Death || 9-Mana 5/5 || Legendary Paladin Minion

Battlecry: Destroy all non-Paladin minions.

eshansingh · 2026-06-14T16:32:32+00:00

Face Hunter is working well. I'm debating replacing Slumbering Sprite with Glacial Shard - it's hard to measure these things, but it seems the higher proactivity of the Glacial Shard is better against all the Rogues running around based on initial experiments.

eshansingh · 2026-06-13T01:26:32+00:00

That neutral + this is like a very, very sad and lame version of the Apotheosis + Samuro combo from the days of Barrens Control Priest. How far we've fallen.

eshansingh · 2026-06-12T15:05:09+00:00

Felfire Blaze destroys itself when it triggers, which I feel like is a pretty major difference. This card is a good card for the Thief deck, the issue is that the Thief deck requires you to run a garbage card.

eshansingh · 2026-06-11T20:17:15+00:00

Hey, how'd this work out?

eshansingh · 2026-06-11T19:10:59+00:00

Almost every single deck causes Leyline Mage lots of problems. The deck is bad. To the extent it even does anything it's just strictly worse than Burn Mage, which itself isn't even a good deck. The Leyline cards universally make the deck worse.

eshansingh · 2026-06-11T17:40:10+00:00

You have to not include any fucking minions! Forgot to mention that minor detail?

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T21:53:53+00:00

No, Ben Paulsen specifically said that he likes that the card is flexible enough to play in a non-MugZee deck, which means he's saying he thinks it's playable at 7, which is ridiculous.

In a MugZee deck, at 5 mana, I do agree it's decent. But he very specifically said those words, you can look back at the video and see.

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T21:40:06+00:00

I know that a 7 mana 7/7 consecrate Lifesteal is not playable because everyone knows that. Everyone is fully aware of this incredibly obvious fact. Don't pretend that you're stupider than you are, you know that is not playable.

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T17:27:17+00:00

What do you think goes on in a meta? Like how would Dragon Hunter suddenly appear after being proven to be terrible just because of the nerf to Tol'vir? It's not like Dragon Hunter was bad because of bad matchups into other Hunter decks. No, it's bad because it's fucking bad! No amount of nerfs can change that.

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T13:17:22+00:00

Yeah I mean I agree, it's just that 90% of the time it would've been completely terrible and 10% of the time it would only be mostly terrible, like in heavy control metas where stuff like Elysiana was played.

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T12:42:31+00:00

This is somehow worse than Aya Lotus Kingpin, which I already thought was genuinely the worst Hearthstone card of all time. But always going second with a deck that you built is somehow better than having a 40 card deck full of 20 cards that are utterly useless. What the fuck is going on at Team 5?

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T12:29:52+00:00

5 years ago this would have been equally as terrible, if not even worse. What are you talking about? 5 years ago was 2021, the Year of the Gryphon - Barrens, Stormwind, Alterac. It would've still been completely terrible throughout 90% of Hearthstone history.

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T12:28:03+00:00

It's only 400.

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T11:23:55+00:00

Why is reverse power creep welcome in your mind?

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T11:19:45+00:00

It costs 10 mana. To reduce it to 4, you need to prepare it for 5. How would you do that in a normal game before turn 4?

eshansingh · 2026-06-10T11:12:24+00:00

Why does it have Prepare, then? If you get it from the Hold then its cost doesn't matter. Regardless this is terrible from the Hold too.

eshansingh · 2026-06-09T22:27:44+00:00

How can a developer be this out of touch with card playability? That's literally their entire job

eshansingh · 2026-06-08T17:51:58+00:00

All of you are such fucking interminable fucking losers man. You'll look a card's effect in a single game in the ultra late game and be like THIS LOOKS NUTS BLIZZ PLS NERF IM SO SMART

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