For secretive F1 teams, the expansion of radio communication is a pain in the aural canal. It is vital in respect of keeping their driver running at his most efficient and effective but it is also a bit of a giveaway when it comes to revealing the extent of any problem. At the end of the day, they will only let us hear as little as they can get away with.Can you imagine what it would be like if all chat was unfettered by privacy and we could hear every word of it? That was the potentially happy state of F1 audio in the mid-1980s when the plug-in umbilical chord linking engineer to car and driver gave way to radio transmission. The difficulty was finding a means of eavesdropping without alerting the parties involved.Discussing this problem with a mate in the pub -- as you do -- he happened to mention a bloke who was into plane spotting at Heathrow and seemed able to listen in to air traffic control. A phone call later and I was introduced to the benefit of the scanner.This may seem obvious now but, back in the day, scanners were as alien to me as a Harrods tea hamper would be to Kimi R?ikk?nen. You could find one if you searched hard enough but they were prohibitively expensive in the UK. The answer, my new-found friend informed me, was to source a scanner in the United States.By good fortune, the Detroit Grand Prix was next on the calendar. Within an hour of arrival, I was choosing my secret weapon in the local Radio Shack store. That was the easy bit. Now I had to discover the frequencies used by the teams. I couldnt give the game away by either asking outright or waving this black box and aerial around in the pit lane.By another piece of good fortune, the answer was provided by my hotel being the towering Renaissance Centre overlooking the pits. For first free practice in 1987, I sat in my room while the scanner did its work, flicking back and forth at a huge rate of knots through the wave band.It was not going to be the work of a moment because the engineer or driver needed to be speaking as the scanner was halted by the sound of activity on that particular frequency. I became familiar with the activities of security personnel, catering staff and one particularly voluble lady ordering cab drivers around the city. At least, I think thats what she was doing since her short, sharp barking of colloquialisms was totally unintelligible. This continued for at least half an hour. Practice was cracking on and, being away from the media centre, I had no idea what was happening on track.Suddenly, clear as day, the authoritive voice of Peter Warr boomed around the bedroom: Okay Ayrton, lets try the Bs. That might help the understeer. Hallelujah! Warr and I were not always the best of friends but Id never been so happy to hear either the voice of the Lotus boss or his mundane reference to a Goodyear tyre compound. We were in!I locked in the Lotus frequency and let the scanner continue its search. Over the space of two practice sessions, I gradually caught a few more big fish in the audio net. A few races later and I had all the top teams. I was now well informed, with the proviso that I could not show my hand by printing anything of a very private or personal nature in my newspaper. But at least I had a decent idea of what was going on and could avoid looking an idiot by making wrong assumptions. This happy state of affairs would continue for a few years until other reporters cottoned on to the scanner ploy and the teams, listening to each other in any case, began to encrypt their messages.Nigel Mansell would be a constant source of entertainment with his constant chatter, particularly during the races when, if everything was going well, he would actually sing to the Williams crew. During qualifying at Suzuka in 1987, I was startled to hear a very strange sound on the Williams frequency. It turned out Nigel had spun off and caused the back injury that would put him out of the championship, the curious noise being a low moan as, strangely, he kept his thumb on the radio button in the aftermath of the shunt.The funniest moment came right at the start of practice for the 1989 British Grand Prix. Derek Warwick had failed to appear at the end of his installation lap with the Arrows.Where are you Derek? I heard Ross Brawn intone. Then a pause before his driver replied. Dunno where I amWhatdyamean Derek?Cant find the entrance to the f---ing pit lane! Im stuck somewhere.This was in the day when Silverstone was flat out through Abbey and into a left-right chicane just before Woodcote. Turns out, when Warwick had raced at Silverstone a few months before in a Peugeot sports car, the pit entrance was actually the continuation of the straight leading from Abbey; in other words, a very fast entry. Nobody had thought to tell Warwick that the entrance had been shifted to the far side of the chicane. Warwick had steamed into what had become an escape road and narrowly avoided contact with a stout barrier.With the use of scanners beginning to become common knowledge, I couldnt resist telling Derek Id heard every embarrassing word. Just as well it wasnt being broadcast on tele... Keita Bates-Diop Jersey . 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Several Mage and Warlock cards have been revealed since our last installment, so we now have a better picture of what these classes will look like after the card set drops next month.We start out with three cards that go along with the Grimy Goons mechanic of buffing in-hand minions in order to make less linear styles of gameplay more practical, something thats necessary to keep games of Hearthstone from being tempo fights.The initial comparison of Grimy Gadgeteer may be the Screwjank Clunker from Goblins vs. Gnomes, a four-mana 2/5 that had a Battlecry of giving a friendly Mech +2/+2. But this card is better. Screwjank Clunker, while providing reach, required you to have something on board while the Gadgeteer only requires you to have something in your hand, a much easier condition to fulfill. So from the start, youre likely to get 6/5 worth of stats for your four mana and the card has quasi-Taunt, in that the effect triggers at the end of every turn, meaning this card must be removed quickly. Even without constructed buff decks, Arena is minion-based enough that this will see play.Brass Knuckles on the other hand, Im not so sure about. Getting the +1/+1 random buff has value, but its such a slow weapon and theres a danger in having too many weapons in Warrior. Youre obviously not cutting Fiery War Axe and Id prefer Fools Bane to this (you have to survive to get to your slow buffed cards after all). Is there room for yet another weapon, one that isnt directly dangerous to the board? I dont think there is.The 5/6 stat line for seven mana of Don HanCho is underwhelming on its face and demands sexy card text. And while the effect isnt too wacky or unusual, its strong enough to make the card at least interesting in slower buff decks. Five-mana 5/6 cards are playable and a two-mana spell with that effect would be also; additionally, having a two-card combo in one card -- at least when the two things arent that odd -- is quite valuable. I dont think this will be a must-include, but there are ways to exploit an effect this stat-heavy. This is a tri-class card (Hunter/Paladin/Warrior) and while this is probably too slow for the Hunters kit, Paladin and Warrior have the tools to survive into late game.The Kabal Chemist represents pseudo card draw, something that can be quite powerful even without it being a Discover card. This card draws a random Potion, a much more powerful group of cards than the spare parts that many Goblins vs. Gnomes cards added to your hand. There have been seven Potions released, consisting of three AOE potions, a minion buff potion, an enemy minion-weakening potion, a Secret, and the mini-Shadow Madness one. Most of these potions have some utility to a Priest, Warlock, or Mage, the three classes that can play this card. Discovering a Potion would be even more powerful, but then youd probably need a weaker minion than 3/3 for four mana to compensate.Two of the potions, for Mage, are the Volcanic Potion and the Potion of Polymorph.The effect of the Volcanic Potion is good enough, but the all minions disclaimer means that Mage decks that do rely on minions cant make much use of this card, so Tempo Mage is probably out. What this card does empower is the more control style of Mage. Not sure if it makes the Freeze Mage cut, but the conditions are there. I think where this card will see the most play is in a Grinder Mage that tries to get to fatigue and win there.For Potion of Polymorph, youll need a control-heavy meta for this to see play at all in tournament play..ddddddddddddMost midrange and aggro decks will be able to play around this fairly easily, the same way Mirror Image can be played around. Actual Polymorph is only one mana more and you can actually choose when to play it - this card is only obviously better in situations where your opponent is playing a quick-impact card like Grommash Hellscream or Ragnaros. But if this becomes anything more than occasional surprise card, what are the odds your opponent will give you cards like that?Kabal Lackeys viability requires Secret Mage to be an actual played deck. While it looks good in isolation -- playing a three-mana secret for free is a lot of value -- theres already a card in the Kirin Tor Mage that also does this and that never sees high-level play. Secrets are weak enough that just being able to play a secret in hand for free just isnt enough of an effect, you really need to be able to play all of them, like Cloaked Huntress in Hunter, or be able to draw and play one like Mad Scientist enables for the card to be that great.While Lackey may see play in Arena formats that encourage you to have a few one-drops, Kabal Crystal Runner really needs a Secret-heavy deck to see play. I dont think this deck will happen, so I expect this card to be one of the least-played from this expansion. Menagerie Warden in Druid has the same stat line, a better effect, and in a deck that is actually viable, and even that card is sometimes just an overcosted 5/5. That will happen more often with this card.With multiple cards this expansion that activate if you have no duplicates in your deck and Reno Jackson rotating out sometime this spring, were going to have to find a new name for Reno decks. Chogall in Warlock hasnt worked so far because Warlock doesnt have a lot of big spells that you actually want to play. Thats not true for Mage, that has Pyroblast, Flamestrike, Blizzard, Firelands Portal, Cabalists Tome, etc. Reno Mage ... err ... Singleton Mage has been on the edge of playability and I think this could be the tipping point for it, which will enable all sorts of cards like Medivh that arent seeing a lot of play right now.For those more familiar with seeing Murloc cards in Paladin and Shaman, Warlock was actually the original Murloc-stacked deck, Warlocks hero power preventing your hand from running dry after you play a bazillion small-mana Murloc cards. Will Seadevil Stinger revive the Murlock archetype? Im not so sure about that, there arent high-mana Murlocs apart from Finja, the Flying Star and many of the times you get around to playing this card, youll be running out of cards, not mana. I think this may be a one-off if we see Murlock come back, but I dont think its that amazing without a few more large Murloc cards.Its hard not to wonder if Bloodfury Potion doesnt exist to make Kabal Chemist weaker. The least powerful potion released, even in the best case scenario, three-mana for a +3/+3 buff for a Warlock is decent, not amazing, and there will be many times you cant pull this off. And if you get this as Priest or Mage playing the Kabal Chemist, you might cry.A much better potion is the Felfire Potion and Control Priests and Mages will absolutely not weep in a corner after drawing this one off Kabal Chemist. Much of the time, youll be able to clear the board and even if you dont, you ought to be able to weaken it enough to ping off or remove remaining minions using other methods. A good, straightforward spell.This article is part of a series analyzing the cards in the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Hearthstone expansion. 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