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There are already an awful lot of cards in Hearthstone, Blizzard's amazing new online collectible card game, and they cover a wide variety of play styles. Last week, though, I opened a fresh pack and found a card that's posing an unusual problem: whenever I play it, it's so powerful that I feel bad about the whole thing afterwards. Meet Onyxia, the dragon.First things first: I am not very good at Hearthstone, and I think Onyxia is particularly helpful if you're a bad-to-middling player. I've read plenty of people online saying that they don't think Onyxia is overpowered in the slightest, and I suspect that, in part, they're just too proficient to ever need her help. I'll often limp into Hearthstone's mid-game in a peculiarly sorry state, though: down on HP and with almost no minions in play. Onyxia's made for people like me, roaring out of the sky like the dragon she is and leaving devastation in her wake.
Actually, what she leaves is whelps. 1/1 whelps - meaning they do 1 damage and have 1 health point - which are easy enough to despatch in theory. Here's the thing, though: she leaves them everywhere, filling up all of your available minion slots in one go.
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