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You yourself said in another comment that the mode is super inconsistent and not balanced at all. I'm not getting early access to it as i'm not buying any preorders. Also, this new mode isn't something that interests me. I'll play it once it becomes available to everyone but i'm not going to play it more than a few times. I already know how dungeon run works and it was never something very interesting to me.

I'd consider it, but five packs is too steep for my liking.

Does anyone if these games count towards your hero wins (like for the 1k portrait), like arena games do?

damn forgot about that one.

For what it's worth - the new mode is pretty dang fun. I bought the pre-order today, so I played one run so far as the Paladin hero. There's some really busted stuff/combos that can happen in a run, but I had a blast playing. I got 5 wins with my deck that you build over time. It will be interesting to see what the entry cost is for Heroic Duels. If it's a lower "cost" than arena I could be tempted to play it outside of the casual mode. I currently don't play any arena outside of events and free tickets.

Casual mode will be fun for when I get a quest or just want to do something different to goof around with.

I think the sets will keep rotating from season to season, not sure how long those will be though

so this season is very wild, next might be purely standard

The card back never factored into my decision to get a pre-order, so this doesn't change it. I think the only pre-order I ever got was Un'goro, when they offered bonus packs.

In general, I don't get much enjoyment out of exclusivity, so it's fine with me if they make old card backs available to new players or players who skipped the pre-order back then for whatever reason.

There is some broken stuff around. Got a 12-1 and the only game I lost was against a batshit crazy Gibberling druid that killed me turn 3. 
Towards the end I had 20/20 worth of stuff on the board at turn 3. 

Between 9-1 and 12-1, I played only 2 different opponents back to back and probably ended their runs preemptively. 

I don’t mind sharing my strategy since it’s not easily redone. I played paladin centered around consistent early game and some late game legendaries. Since there were no better options, I had to take the deathrattle perk that triggers the deathrattle upon playing it with only 2 DR cards in my deck. Next round I got Sylvanas, Cairn and N’zoth...... But that wasn’t even the powerfull part. A round later, I picked up the cloak (all cards cost half - rounded down!) The games ended turn 5-6 from there on.

I don't know how the corrupt ordering works but I think Y'shaarj's battlecry activates first and then the cards get corrupted. That would make sense flavour-wise.

Leaderboard is very confusing. Also my name isnt on it....

Eyes of C'Thun kinda fits well with Corrupt Garrosh portrait!

Play it before you judge. They modified a ton of treasures. There a still some strong ones but as mentioned before, those will probably get nerfed when they become problematic

Anyone have tried this in a deck?
I've tried with warlock, but I miss the epics to give the opponent, just running Howlfiend and Doomsayer.
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# Class: Warlock
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (1) Demonic Studies
# 2x (1) Felosophy
# 2x (1) Kobold Librarian
# 2x (1) Plague of Flames
# 2x (1) Rain of Fire
# 1x (1) Shadow Council
# 2x (2) Defile
# 2x (2) Doomsayer
# 1x (2) Kanrethad Ebonlocke
# 2x (3) Howlfiend
# 2x (3) Treachery
# 1x (6) Emperor Thaurissan
# 1x (7) Silas Darkmoon
# 2x (8) Enhanced Dreadlord
# 1x (9) Lord Jaraxxus
# 1x (9) Mal'Ganis
# 2x (9) Voidlord
# 1x (10) Bloodreaver Gul'dan
# 1x (10) N'Zoth, the Corruptor
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

Any recommendations or other takes on it?
 

I don’t see the contradiction here. I enjoy the content, support it and get to unlock cool perks in a super fun new game mode. 

If you want to play it competitively, you gotta spend money on cards but you generally do that anyways when you are invested into standard. (Btw, I doubt that this mode will be very competitive. It can quickly end in an total RNG high roll fiesta)

Not to mention, large parts of the mode are free/easily acquirable. That allows you to test things out, try a little bit around and maybe grind for a new perk.

After a first couple rounds I can safely say that you won’t grind this mode day in day out. It’s really cool but suuuuper inconsistent. Your initial deck choices quickly become irrelevant and the mode isn’t balanced at all. I am pretty sure that you make more consistent gold in the Arena as a good player. But who knows, I only played 3-4 rounds so far (12-1 once!

Ok, well it was just a big misunderstanding then. As you said, TF/Swain is generally classified as a control deck, maybe midrange, but definitely not aggro. And I was talking about Pirate Aggro, which specifically refers to Miss Fortune/Gangplank combined with Noxus.

First off, I do not intend to share the class or deck I got 12 with literally in the first run I ever played. If you know me from the Riddle game you can msg me and will tell you how to spam wins. Its the obvious one and wow with a little consideration I stomped my way through after a couple early losses while still building my deck.

Granted, I am a serious dungeon runner and everyone else is just starting to test it out, but the crap I employed was magabusted. We are talking turn two game overs. 

Still. Love it. Blizz did good and I am about to start a new run handicapping myself with that class that is wayyyyyy off the hook. Half my matches were concedes.

aaaaaaand i was drunk off that vodka and energy drink : D it was super too easies 

Thanks for calling that line out. I hadn't noticed it. What a hideous idea. 

Given that and that this mode requires our card collections, I think we can assume that its entire purpose is to sell card packs, which is scummy. 

Consumers should spend money on a game because they enjoy the content and want to support it, not because they need to do so to unlock new experiences. The second is already enough true without Blizzard forcing it, this being a card game and all. 

That is not how it works. You get xp from playing the game. You don't need to be able to level up heroes. Hero xp is something completely different

Oh boy. Odd Paladin is already Tier 1/2 in Wild, I've been playing it a lot. And this is NUTS. More dudes and potentially even more. Muster for Battle is already one of the best cards in there, and it's not because of the weapon.

This is a good card for a Menagerie deck which hasn't existed outside of random supporting cards. YET! There's a zoo in the Darkmoon Faire, so I'm pretty sure we'll see some more help for the archetype.

For the first time, we have a hero and a card with the same art!

I can't wait to play as N'zoth and slam down N'zoth. M-maybe even BOTH N'zoths... *happy tentacle noises*

I can't say for sure how much of an improvement this will be to current reward system, but since I almost exclusively play Battlegrounds nowadays I love that that contributes to earning xp for the pass as well.

Mid-expansion mini set. Ugh. Reminds me of Shadowverse. 

I'd be truly excited about it if one thing changed - no legendaries. If the goal is to shake up the meta, they can do that without releasing any new legendaries. Keep it cheap and keep it fun!

I’m someone who is entirely ok with older card backs returning, but preorder card backs returning is a bit rough. At this rate they could rerelease blizzcon cardbacks at 500 gold too, and those things were significantly more expensive at the time. 

I am bummed that my first ever preordered card back is gone, but the precedent is much more concerning to me. As much as I’d like to complete my card back collection after my account got wiped in late 2014, the preorder ones felt very much like they were for those who wanted to pay for i