Hearthstone player and mathematician
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A college English professor of mine, trying to make a somewhat different point, asked us to read a list of colored objects. I forget most of them, but it was something like
- a brown stick
- a green coat
- a blue cup
- a red wheelbarrow
- a white cloud
I had not at the time read “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. Nevertheless, in reading the list the red wheelbarrow stuck out to me as a charged image; the others seemed flat. The professor meant to teach us that poetic images, free of their context, are just the same as images one might find in more ordinary descriptions. But to me the lesson was the opposite: in fact, Williams sensed the magic in the image of the red wheelbarrow, magic it retained even free of the surrounding lines in the poem.
The writing and voice acting for minions is also underrated. Very high quality. Always been one of my favorite parts of the game
Here’s my fire hero power mage list. It’s far from tier 1 but lots of fun and very playable in mid legend post nerfs. Goes for tempo and chip damage early into Mordresh and/or an Ignite chain with Chandler to finish. Sometimes you stick a discounted Chandler on turn 4 and win.
Nerfing flow to 3 + reverting spring water to 4 is a good compromise. At 5 mana spring water is unplayable in decks that run more than a few minions -- so its nerf further skewed mage toward spell-only decks revolving around flow.
My issue with the game currently is less priest, more that there aren't many interesting decks to play. Arena meta.
And they killed Mage 😢
I hope they never do anything like this, especially to Sorcerer's Apprentice. Miracle turns where you draw and play a lot of cards have always been one of my favorite parts of Hearthstone.
My 5 favorite decks:
1) OG Cyclone Mage w/ 5 mana Pocket Galaxy (first time rank 1, finished rank 1)
2) Raza Priest (first time top 200)
3) Shudderwock Shaman
4) Gunther Mage (first time legend)
5) Control Cubelock with Rin (no doomguards)
Plus, lance would open the door for burn mage archetypes. If there’s concern is that 4 damage is too much with all the spell damage cards in mage, nerf it to 3.
Given that demon hunters as a class generate attack so efficiently, it makes sense to have a class that can freeze face efficiently as a natural counter in the meta.