This brawl, for what it's worth, is a lot more fun when it's Unstable Portal.

The pool of beasts is overall quite crap and limited and unfun to play with. There is a pool of about 40 beasts. Out of those, Captured Jormungar, Maexxna, Savannah Highmane, King Krush, and Gahz'rilla are disproportionately high value. On top of this, a pool of only 40 beasts, versus 100s of minions, means you are likely to see a lot of the same cards over and over when you are getting 10+ random beasts per person per game.

It wasn't.

I know, that was the first brawl I ever played.

I don't know, I've enjoyed a lot of the games I've played that don't involve Dreadscale. although trying to finish Paladin quests with it is painful, the paladin cards all kinda suck for it. but Druid's fun. but screw Captain's Parrot.

So, apparently the Brawl will be co-op this week.

~SE++

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blo ... -11-3-2015

I'm looking forward to this. Though I must say, it bothers my OCD sensibilities that he's a 2/95 instead of a 2/100.

Time to ruin the time and fun of countless people.

Best part is "you get your pack whether you win or lose".

Oh, awful. Maybe the game ends if I concede. If not, I guess I'll just have to delay as long as possible.
Joking of course, but I do wonder if there is a way to grief in the mode.

Attack your partner's face?

Through the taunt? I doubt they'll be putting silence effects or ogres in the decks.

Fine.

Blow up your partner's minions with damage based removal?

Get those burn spells.
Although that sounds like it qualifies as "losing".
Actually, if I'm just there for the pack, wouldn't losing be more efficient?

That is interesting and I really hope it will open up new design space for future Tavern Brawls and maybe a real co-op mode... I won't get my hopes too high, though, since moving Mechazod up and down really seems like a workaround to keep the usual interface for something that would benefit from a new one. But if at some point we get something along the lines of MtG's Archenemy, I'll probably spend a lot of time in it.

I new interface would take forever.

I'm gonna guess the precon doesn't contain assassinate.

but you never know.

How I think the game will go...

"Well Met!"
"The Victory is Yours."
*Free Pack*

probably yeah, but it'd probably be fun to do with a friend.

I will grief the he'll out of my friends, somehow, someway.

yeah the more I think about it the more I hate the "win or lose" thing. I mean, I guess it's so that you don't get screwed by being paired with someone who sucks, but in normal brawls you always have the possibility of getting screwed by being paired with someone who's awesome. that's the nature of randomness.

eh, maybe it's because the pairings are done so that people with similar records are getting paired up, so if you start losing you wind up getting paired with worse and worse partners, making it harder to win. and maybe flipping the algorithm for this brawl would be harder than they wanted to do.