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We do a mix of this. Sometimes a mechanic like Rush and Lifesteal and Discover is kept for years. Sometimes we do it for one expansion. Freeze is a good example because it isn't very fun to have your minions frozen a lot so making that into a Tier 1 deck is pretty dangerous. We have seen this in mage already.

When we have a build-around like treants or elementals or dragons we can launch it and see how it goes, then slowly add cards to increase the power level over the next few years. Dragon Priest is a great example of this because it has been a reasonable deck for years and it changes each year as some of the strong cards leave, and new strong cards show up.

In the future we want to have more decks that rely on cards in two different years so that when rotation happens the deck changes, with some cards leaving and new cards entering the decks.

We all like the idea of more achievements and tracking of progress. We were able to add a bunch of this in the new Single Player adventure that is coming out after the first Expansion of the year. We will let you unlock hero powers and starting decks through play and we will track which hero powers and starting decks that you have won with. Hopefully in the future we can do more of this. Each time we do a new feature like this we learn more about it and expand on the technology as we go.

This seems like a great idea for a Tavern Brawl. We have so many ideas and suggestions both internally and externally for new game modes that we can't just add all of them to the game. Having them show up as Tavern Brawls guarantees that a lot of the community is focused on them and all talking about that mode and playing it at the same time.

When we do this as a Tavern Brawl would you rather it be a regular brawl or what we call Brawliseum (meaning it is 100 gold to enter and you get rewards based on success)?

When Hearthstone was built originally the technology for world wide collections didn't exist so we built our game around that. The vast majority of players play only in one region so this works great for them.

I do feel for the players like you that play in multiple regions though. It is a lot of work to change this so we haven't prioritized it yet over card sets or current features.

Double-checked that too to be thorough, but no dice.

I got curious about this, so we tested it. Based on our testing, if your opponent has Rat Trap, and Masked Contender is the second card you play in a turn (which is the only way that the Secret it "plays" would activate the trap), it does not activate Rat Trap. You'd still need to play a third card to activate your opponent's Rat Trap.

Can you recall the circumstances under which you activated Rat Trap with Masked Contender's Secret? Maybe there was something else going on.

Edit: All that aside, we get why there might be some confusion about the text on this card.

Just a quick update regarding the end date of the Celebrate the Players event: players will have through November 11 to log in and receive your packs. (You didn't make a mistake, and we've already corrected the official blogs to reflect this updated time frame.)

Correct! It should be fixed in a coming update.

Correct! The team is working on a hotfix now.

UPDATE: The hotfix has been applied, and Shadowboxer will now award full Arcane Dust when disenchanted. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

We're aware that Shadowboxer isn't currently providing the full Arcane Dust refund and the team is investigating.

Nah. Just placeholders to make the reveal blocks look neater. After the confusion they've caused, we'll probably remove them.

Same card, but revealed in two different languages at the same time.

Just placeholders so the schedule lines up more neatly.

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Thanks for the report. I'll ask the team to look into it!

The Bug Report forum, is a reliable place (the most reliable place, really) for this kind of report, too.

Just a quick update: there's already a hotfix in the works for this issue, and we're hoping to roll it out today. I'll update this post once it goes live.

Edit: This hotfix is now live in all regions.

Just a quick update: there's already a hotfix in the works for this issue, and we're hoping to roll it out today.

I'll update this post once it goes live.

Edit: This hotfix is now live in all regions.

It seems that all jokes have a half-life.

And it was well-written too! Sorry for assigning unintended meaning.