Opinion: Why Hearthstone needs a PTR now more than ever

John Bedford [Metabomb]: If you're just catching up on the news, a pretty big change was made to Arena just ahead of the Frozen Throne launch last week. The first two cards you'll be presented with in each draft will now have a certain synergy with one another, thus laying the groundwork for you to build a more thematically interesting deck that can exploit those foundational synergies.

It's an interesting enough idea to shake the mode up, but the problem here – beyond Blizzard making barely a mention of the change publicly – is that some of those synergies are 100% jank, while others are comparatively god-like. You feel compelled to build your deck around the poor synergies because it's the best shot you've got though, even knowing that you'll be running up against people with better luck than you, and not necessarily better judgement.