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You're right that Baku and Genn's power level definitely wasn't low, but design-wise they created a very samey meta, which was why they were rotated early. But there definitely was some great design in that year. I actually have a personal affinity with that year, since that's when I started playing Hearthstone. Baku was my first ever legendary craft, and I still regularly play with her in Wild.

The year of the raven can be seen as a "bad year with weak sets" on average but just remember there was Genn and Baku which still exists in wild today. Not to mention the ever so beautifully designed Unity, Precision, Perfection...

Sleeper was a failure

I really appreciate Dean's candour in these Q&A's. It takes a big man to admit that your work maybe wasn't the best - thinking of the weak sets in the Year of the Raven (Witchwood, Boomsday and Rumble). Hearthstone has really improved a ton in the last couple of years.

Forgive me for being an imbecile but why the Dalaran librarians?  Interesting deck though

Hi,

I managed to successfully grind for legend in standard in just 2 days this season. However, my classic format rank is being displayed in my friends list. Is it a new bug or is there a way i can fix it so i can properly flex on the random people i have in my friends list?

Hi, right now, we only have next page and last, is it possible to add "Go first page" and "Go last page" buttons ? thank you and keep up the good work ;)

This should really be buffed to 3 mana Assassinate (should link to 4 mana card) Coerce

Thanks.

Good one for the Ranked Spell achievement is Priest, cause you live quite long and ties in with Two Health Bars.

BIG PIECE OF ADVICE - play Lightshower Elemental for healing and use RAISE DEAD. It got me My Dear Watson (play elementals 5 turns in a row) achievement. Raise dead gives you more elementals and also another chance for BLoodfeather.

3rd April update: Boltzmann's WILD Reno Shudderwock Shaman, ft. Firemancer Flurgl / Toxfin combo!

Boltzmann's Reno Shudderwock Shaman, updated for the Forged in the Barrens expansion. The Firemancer Flurgl / Toxfin combo is now my favourite combo in all of Hearthstone!!

For more awesome decks, check out Boltzmann on Twitter (https://twitter.com/boltzmann2718).
Also, what does Boltzmann have in common with the Star of Eärendil (from Lord of the Rings). Find out at the end of the video!

Deck code:
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https://youtu.be/D7viFWbcDkE 

It seems a little unlikely that they will just re-introduce the old expansions, one-by-one. Then Classic mode simply becomes "Wild, but a few years ago," and there wouldn't be anywhere in-game to actually play "real" Classic HS. In addition, "Wild, but a few years ago" likely wouldn't appeal to as many players as Wild mode itself, so adding new content to the mode wouldn't necessarily un-slump any sagging interest in the player-base.

FWIW - I'd be perfectly happy if it stays as-is, for the next ten years. The game seems capable of sustaining a mode that lots of folks play "just for a break" from other modes. If a small portion of the player-base mains the mode, and everyone else plays it once in a blue moon, it would likely still be more popular than Duels. Presumably, the goal isn't to make every addition to the game as popular as Battlegrounds, admitting failure each time that doesn't happen . . .

Almost all animation and UI elements are controlled by the client, so they can't fix those bugs with an server Update.

It really helps me. thanks so much for doing this.

since the new patch I am experienced a very strange behavior in the reward for playing: sometime very short games give 100+ points reward while sometimes very long games give a single digit progression reward. Has anybody experienced the same?

Yep, that worked for me. Thanks! For some reason it didn’t work when I searched for it under Classic

This is beyond broken. After Incanter's Flow you gain Mana from it. You can play a 1 Mana Spell, draw two cards and still are at full mana.

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Don't make the same mistake as me with the rancor achievement and think that you needed to kill 14 minions. I did it with Doomsayer to start with an empty board, Mad Summoner to put 13 imps on the board, double Inner Rage to get the summoner to 2 health, then Rancor to kill everything. It was way more trouble than was necessary, but thankfully it only took me 3 games.

Right now I am working on summoning imps and casting 0 mana shadow spells. There are a few shadow spells in wild that already cost 0 mana, but Thaurissan is a good idea.

Funny enough, I actually thought that's what i had to do until I realised Rancor gives 2 armor per hit. Almost went for it too...

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The Final Frontier: Seems really hard to achieve without Aviana and Kun the Forgotten King. Ysiel Windsinger might also do the trick with enough set up (and preferably in Wild because Ultimate Infestation). Completing this the intended way through Celestial Alignment sounds like a bad joke. Getting Alignment off and ramping back to 5-mana with five 8+mana cards is a pipe dream. If you didn't get run down by that point your opponent will usually concede anyways.

Did you get this achievement when playing this combo? Because I didn't and I just want to make sure it wasn't just a bug.

Played Aviana, Kun the Forgotten King, The Lich King, Survival of the Fittest, Ysiel Windsinger and Ultimate Infestation for a total of 6 cards and got nothing. 

Oh sorry, I hadn't gotten to that yet, but I just assumed it would have worked with Aviana but I guess they hardcoded it for Alignment.

My bad there.

For me, i can disenchant Ysera while looking at the wild card section. Maybe you should try that.

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Druid

The Final Frontier: Seems really hard to achieve without Aviana and Kun the Forgotten King. Ysiel Windsinger might also do the trick with enough set up (and preferably in Wild because Ultimate Infestation). Completing this the intended way through Celestial Alignment sounds like a bad joke. Getting Alignment off and ramping back to 5-mana with five 8+mana cards is a pipe dream. If you didn't get run down by that point your opponent will usually concede anyways.

Did you get this achievement when playing this combo? Because I didn't and I just want to make sure it wasn't just a bug.

Played Aviana, Kun the Forgotten King, The Lich King, Survival of the Fittest, Ysiel Windsinger and Ultimate Infestation for a total of 6 cards and got nothing. 

Same for me, it do not work in Wild, most likely bu

Assuming you mean Classic / Legacy Ysera because Core Set Ysera can't be disenchanted.

I'm not finding any other complaints about this, the game could probably just be confused.

Try disenchanting it while looking at it in Legacy set (or Wild), if that's not working, try looking at in in Classic set.  It's technically two different cards that just happen to be linked in a way that when you create / destroy one you also get / lose the other.

There's so much of that going on under the hood, for example I don't have golden core legendaries unlocked but I do have golden Jaraxxus in Legacy, which is for some reason granting me access to golden Jaraxxus in Core, which are both functionally the same card whilst being different cards with different watermarks and I can use either one in wild decks (but only core in standard decks)

Was thinking about that just today.  Maybe Classic remains as a mode that's always available and they have a second "Classic" mode that rotates through different Standard metas of the past.  Naxx, GvG, etc