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Chadd Nervig. Hearthstone Features Lead & Principal Game Designer. ♂. Tweets are my own opinions.

Irvine, CA
Joined December 2012
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@Celestalon
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3 years
Thank you, everyone, for all the support today as we #ActiBlizzWalkout . It really means a lot. 💙 Please share your support with the hashtag, emoji, sharing our demands below, and donating to the charities below. We want Blizzard to be an awesome place to work, for everyone. 💙
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If this gets 1k retweets, I’ll stream BeatSaber tomorrow night, in full K/DA Akali cosplay.
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I stand with and support woman and minorities at Blizzard and elsewhere in the industry. Harassment and discrimination have no place here (or anywhere), and I join them in demanding accountability. This shit has to stop. I'll eagerly be an ally, any way that I can.
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3 years
Today's news about Activision Blizzard is appalling to me, and not at all OK with me. Please do not mistake my hype for our Hearthstone announcements today with wanting to sweep anything under the rug, or suggest it's not a problem.
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6 years
Mrrrglrgrl!
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6 years
It has been an honor. But the time has come for me to adventure elsewhere within Azeroth, and tackle a different challenge... Cards! I'll see you soon, Hearthstone fans!
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7 years
Nomi brought his cousins...
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5 years
Lots of people posting photos of the Lilith statue, but can we just take a moment to point out and appreciate the detailing and craftsmanship that went into it? Just phenomenal.
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7 years
The Orc is looking mighty fabulous today. #NationalComingOutDay
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5 years
My favorite card that we've ever made. The amount of effort that went into bringing you this one individual card absolutely dwarfs all other cards. My favorite thing is when you play him, and are like "<card>? That's weird, why would it... OH WAIT THAT'S LETHAL!"
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4 years
This is just down the street from Blizz HQ. Many of us live in these homes. Please cross your fingers for us.
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4 years
BREAKING: Large wall of flames moving towards homes here in the Lake Forest/Foothill Ranch area. Fire crews are stationed here and prepped for structure defense. They tell me they’re confident w/ having a lot of defensible space. Off of Monarch on Alton. #SilveradoFire @FOXLA
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@Celestalon
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And a surprise new feature that we've been working on, and I'm so excited to finally have out there: You can now purchase (for Gold) a TON of old hero skins and cardbacks, right from the Collection Manager. See a cardback from yore that you missed? Now you can get it!
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Also, can we take a moment to talk about the new Sylvanas statue, and how awesome it is and most importantly HOLY SHIT THAT HAIR WHAT HOW
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2 years
Hey @PlayHearthstone , how many retweets to #FreeNimbus ?
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Add it or we riot @PlayHearthstone 😡😡
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Thread about the making of the #BarrensMysteries ! This was a ton of fun, both to create, and to watch the community solve. I've seen requests for hearing more about how this crazy thing happened, so here's a (probably long and rambling and unorganized) thread about that!
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One of the biggest criticisms of Hearthstone has been the cost. We want to do right by our players, and make it a better value. Upcoming changes: - Duplicate Protection on ALL rarities! - Competitive deck for new/returning players, FREE! - Demon Hunter class and 30 cards FREE!z
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2 years
Personal news – I’ve been transitioning into a new role on the Hearthstone team! I’m now leading a team devoted to Features. That means things like the creation of new game systems like Achievements, and upgrades to our existing systems like Collection Manager improvements. :)
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Today was a huge day for Hearthstone, and the changes we've announced today are just around the corner. The whole Hearthstone team, and our extended family in other shared teams at Blizzard, have really put our heart and soul into this moment, and I hope it shows.
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Since March of the Lich King, we've been hard at work to revamp Signature cards based on YOUR feedback. This should be a huge leap forward, and there's still further polish coming later this year. What do you think?!
@ben_heathstone
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Oooooh check the new Signature cards! #hearthstone
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Classes, systems, spreadsheets, the occasional obscure questline... These have been the primary focus of my life for years now. I cannot thank the WoW community enough, for your passion, your friendship, the laughs, the excitement, for being able to do something I love.
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・ 。 ☆∴。 *  ・゚*。★・   ・ *゚。   *   ・ ゚*。・゚★。    ☆゚・。°*. ゚ *  ゚。·*・。 ゚*    ゚ *.。☆。★ ・   * ☆ 。・゚*.。     * ★ ゚・。 * 。     ・  ゚☆ 。
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1 year
Signature Retrospective & Compensation - Big changes coming to Signature cards in the future - Compensation for some gaps in our duplicate protection systems
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This is a huge day for us all on the Hearthstone team. This is, by a huge margin, the largest and most complex patch we've ever released. We've put our all into it, and can't wait for you all to get in and explore!
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Earlier this week, on Tuesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone's history. Then again, on Wednesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone's history. Then again, today, we launched the largest banwave in Hearthstone's history.
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3 years
Whole bunch of exciting stuff being revealed right now, excuse the tweet-storm... Spell Schools! Roame sisters! New cards! Reward Track! DIAMOND CARDS?!
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3 years
Behold. The Sword a Thousand Truths. Ahhhhh AHHHH ahhhh...
@ben_heathstone
Ben Hearthstone
3 years
Wuuuuuut?!? Reveal by @sway_baeTV #hearthstone
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“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” -Admiral William Adama
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Nomi started a food truck.
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4 years
Summary of Upcoming Dates: Mar26: - Priest Rework - Hall of Fame - Illidan in Battlegrounds - New/Returning Player Free Decks - Returning Player Missions Apr1: - Ranked Revamp Apr2: - Demon Hunter Prologue Apr7: - Rotation - Demon Hunter Unlocked - Ashes of Outland Unlocked
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3 years
I haven't tweeted about Hearthstone much in the past week, for good reason. But this morning you'll see and experience all the new stuff that a ton of us have channeled our time and love and passion into over the past year. I'll be talking about the new stuff for a bit here.
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Fuck.
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2 years
This feature is not currently in development, but it's an idea we've bounced around for a while: What if you could somehow (*handwaves*) save the decklist of your last opponent? Would you use that? Would you *dislike* that? (i.e., want to keep yours secret?)
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7.5yrs ago, a coworker said “Hey, I’m thinking of running an Earthdawn campaign. It’s like D&D, but a different world/system. Anyone wanna play?” We continued the same campaign, ever since. Today, it ended. If you ever wondered what a 7.5yr long character sheet looks like...
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Today is the first day back in the office for a small skeleton crew of us on Team 5, to test out returning to office. It feels like being an archaeologist, seeing what’s on desks and whiteboards… Enjoy these gems.
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To the players, please be patient with us, especially today, but please know that we're not giving up. Hearthstone is not dying. We have a whole bunch of cool things in progress, and we'll keep coming up with new ones. I'm not alone in doing this for your smiles, so keep smiling.
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4 years
Justice.
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3 years
Zhuge Liang Anduin, by Samche Chen Lü Bu Garrosh, by Ware Lee Guan Yu Uther, by Wayne Wu Diao Chan Valeera, by Agatha Zhou
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So after the success of Ingress and Pokemon GO, Niantic is now working on a third game that will have you wandering your neighborhood searching for legendary beasts... Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
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Blizz devs love BlizzCon as much as fans do. Seeing your passion and excitement recharges us, makes us thrilled to keep giving it our all. So do me a favor: If you see something in the opening ceremony that excites you, show us. Reply here with photos/video of your reactions.
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Today is obviously an exciting day, because in mere minutes, the Darkmoon Races begin! BUT, it's also exciting for another reason... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR COOL HEARTHSTONE DAD, @IksarHS !
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(1/2) Women in gaming go through so much hate and toxicity. "But Celestalon, I know that, but *I'm* not toxic to women." If you know this, then please also know that simply "not contributing to it" isn't enough to change the situation.
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Twitter, please say hi to Shirvallah. (...and her extra toes!)
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5 years
Secrets Discord right now.
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3 years
I am in this photo, and stand with my fellow walkout participants in demanding meaningful change, and #ABetterABK .
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6 years
I just heard a @bdbrode laugh from about 5 meeting rooms away, through closed doors.
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2 years
Thinking of maybe possibly doing a little behind the scenes of development thing, tweeting about some individual cards from the set. Stories of how a card was made, design goals and history, interesting tidbits about the art or flavor, etc. Would people enjoy reading that?
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Please don't mistake this for wanting to forget the atrocities we've been focused on for the last week, or wanting to stop talking about them, or not caring about how we solve these issues. It's not that. Not at all. I'd just like to celebrate the good a bit this morning. 💙
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> Just boosted new WoW character. Have shit gear. > Do Mythics. Get 420 pants! > Turn in Mythic weekly. Get... 430 pants. > Do H-Warfront for a 430 item. > Anything but pants, please? > ...pants. > ...but Titanforged to 445!
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Oh man. Just watched @matthewmercer cast "Cloudkill" on the @CriticalRole party... I don't think I've heard that name in about 20 years, but it *immediately* caused a feeling of shock and terror in me, as I remembered how much that spell devastated my Realmz characters as a kid.
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Huge congrats to everyone on the awesome secret hunting. This was a global team effort and (apart from some unfortunate downtime of the Practice mode near the end) went off great. #BarrensMysteries
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3 years
Auto-include.
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During Legion, my guild started our weekly Nighthold run. First boss, Skorpyron, like 30sec in, our Ret Pally died, I think to a Shockwave. Raid Leader: “Ugh. HealerA, rez him.” HealerA: “... I’m trying, but he’s out of range. Ret, where are you?!” (cont)
@Zorbrix
Zorbrix 💙
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WoD Stat Squish: For a spell in Grim Batol we squished a number in a script like '9431'. Thought it was a dmg value but was actually pointing to a spell ID. So now it cast Entangle from Fankriss, which had a worldport command. You'd get a loading screen and show up in AQ 40.
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Would people be interested in me trying to run a weekly AMA? I'm not in charge of a broad section of HS design like @IksarHS is, so I'll have to confer with other teams on most topics, so responses would be slower and more limited, but I can try to find answers to what I can!
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3 years
Excellent example of how you can give very critical feedback, while doing it in a constructive and positive for the community way. Thanks for always being a force for good in our community, @bmkibler .
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Brian Kibler
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I've had a lot of people ask me for my thoughts on the current state of the @PlayHearthstone metagame, and what I think should be done about it, so of course I made a video.
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We heard you like balance adjustments.
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I may not directly work on @Warcraft anymore, but they're still my family. Wishing them huge congratulations and good luck today! They all care so much, and love this game as much as we all do. Good luck in the Battle for Azeroth, everyone!
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1. Catch-Up Packs! Ever thought about coming back to Hearthstone, but then remembered all the cards you missed and would have to collect? This new type of pack completely flips that overwhelming feeling upside down. Up to 50 cards per pack, based on your standard collection
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@rhysglennon I see what you did there, and I am highly impressed.
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4 years
RIP Reckful @Byron . :(
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1 year
QUEEN
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8 years
I accidentally just trolled our QA analysts. I forgot to check a particular checkbox. Now target dummies are running away from them. Oops.
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6 years
Wacom Intuos4 Medium (6x8) Tablet Giveaway! I got a new graphics tablet, and want to give away my old one to an aspiring artist who can’t afford a graphics tablet of their own. Enter here: Will randomly pick an entrant tomorrow night at 9pm PST.
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I'm super excited for WoW 8.2 tomorrow, because it'll be the first content patch that I'm going into sight-unseen. I didn't work on it at all, and get to just enjoy it purely as an excited player.
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(2/2) We heard your feedback and are taking it to heart—we’re already planning significant changes for our next round of Signature cards. More details to come soon.
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Hey, you remember how PERFECTLY BALANCED Demon Hunter was on day 1 of its launch? Haha, those were good times...
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6 years
Tip I just discovered, for other game designers (or anyone else who finds themselves constantly trying to come up with creative names for things)...
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4 years
FULL ART THREAD! The combination of Outland's diverse beauty, Demon Hunter's fel and fury, and Hearthstone's whimsy, has resulted in my artistically favorite set ever. Here is the full art of some of my personal favorite pieces of card art, just so everyone can appreciate them.
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Finding the right words on a day like today is really difficult, but I want to try. I still have a job, but many incredible developers don't, through very little fault of their own. And that fucking sucks.
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Rewards Track Refresh & Diamond Cards blog just went up! - DIAMOND CARDS! A new rarity above Golden, for select cards! - Golden cards on the Rewards Track - Tavern Pass with a ton of cosmetics - 2 Barrens cosmetic coins, and 1 Scholomance one!
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5 years
@Faebelina You’re the best.
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4 years
Been leveling an Arcane Mage in preparation for Shadowlands. Just hit Legion content and got my artifact. Gotta say, having @Matthewmercer whisper snarkily in my ear at random was not something I knew to expect, but I do not mind it. At all.
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But I want to especially highlight this New Features blog! Our Features team has been busy, getting a bunch of exciting new things into 23.2: - Upgrade to Golden! - Share Deck Codes in Chat! - Favorite Multiple Card Backs!
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@PlayHearthstone Don't worry, we've definitely heard the feedback that Nozdormu day needs to be in-client to be truly successful. Stay tuned. :)
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(I am safe, but many of my friends are not. I am so upset.)
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Yaassssss queen!
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2 years
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
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2 years
Welp, it finally happened. Lasted 2.5yr. Joined the covid club. F
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8 years
See you in Karazhan in just 11 short days!
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5 years
And it's been solved! Grats to everyone who worked hard on solving this secret, and to all the new Hiveminds that will be forming over the coming days!
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2 years
Get your predictions in now. Who murdered Sire Denathrius?
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4 years
BREAKING: Nothing is stopping you from eating ice cream at 8am.
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Remember the Lucid Nightmare, Riddler's Mind-Worm, Sun-Darter Hatchling, and Waist of Time? Well the Secrets Discord is on the case again, and need YOUR help! Step 1) Retweet this and tell all your friends. Step 2) Join and help unravel the mysteries!
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2 years
This is an @alkali_layke appreciation thread. I appreciate that she has made significant improvements to how we do card reveals.
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4 years
Balancing a brand new class was always going to be a very difficult task. Internal testing can never compare to millions of games from real players. So, we said we were prepared to rapidly make adjustments. And we mean rapidly. TODAY.
@RiotIksar
August Dean Ayala
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We're planning on making some balance changes that should go out today. Cards we're looking at are Skull of Gul'dan, Imprisoned Antaen, Eye Beam, and Aldrachi Warblades. We'll send out the final info from our official channels when it's ready.
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The thing I'm personally most excited for besides the overall new expansion hype, is the Battlegrounds cosmetics. Having RAGNAROS as your Bartender is just so much fun. And @matthewmercer knocked it out of the part with the voice lines.
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Have ya ever looked at a weapon card and had trouble telling which class it's from? No more! The new weapon frame makes class (or potentially dual-class!) so much clearer.
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@erikaishii @PlayApex Erika, I'm gunna have to ask you to leave at least SOME coolness for others, you can't have ALL of it.
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Happiest of Birthdays to these two lovelies, @VoiceOfOBrien @LauraBaileyVO ! <3 our Illidan and Jaina, Caleb and Jester, among countless other roles. Such amazing people to work with, and simply masters of their craft.
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Team 5 has a long history of afternoon Boba Trains; several people will make a pilgrimage to Quickly. Today, @bdbrode is leading the train. I believe this is our largest Boba Train ever.
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Gorgeous graphic of the #ScholomanceAcademy class/dual-class Legendaries, made by u/watafakmen on Reddit. src:
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(1/2) The Hearthstone team is always looking for ways to surprise and delight our players, which means trying new things, taking risks, and taking in feedback to iterate.
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Let us know what questions you have about today's announcements, and I'll do my best to answer them where I can throughout the day, and possibly add them to the FAQ in the blog if common. The chart below is probably the most helpful thing for understanding the different formats.
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