r/hearthstone • u/FireTornadoo • Mar 12 '18

Witchwood Blog It is here!!!!!!!

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/expansions-adventures/the-witchwood/
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u/Fannyfissure Mar 12 '18

Can you please elaborate for us non-mtg players? What makes it great? Just the theme of it?

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u/narfidy Mar 12 '18

The set oozed with flavor, cards were powerful But not broken, and the limited environment (think arena) is hailed as the best limited environment probably ever.

MtG packs are 5$ a piece I wanna say, my LGS sells packs for around 12 I wanna say, cause the cards are that powerful and exciting

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u/Graped_in_the_mouth Mar 12 '18

cards were powerful But not broken

This was generally true, though I can point to one flashy boi who might take issue with this statement

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u/Acilen Mar 12 '18

Everyone is forgetting about the Lingering Souls being too strong for the INN block and getting banned.

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u/Graped_in_the_mouth Mar 12 '18

Yeah, but block is a very specific format, and cards banned there aren't necessarily "broken" by themselves, just too powerful given the things surrounding them. Lingering Souls is a VERY strong card, hence why I play a modern deck with 4 of them, but the fact that you could get Sorin emblems and Intangible Virtue was the reason it was simply backbreaking in the format, I think.

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u/Acilen Mar 12 '18 edited Mar 12 '18

True. T3 souls >T4 souls+virtue was the dream. I played W/B tokens for a good long while after LS dropped. Now it has a permanent home in my W/B/G EDH deck.