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Same to you, long live the Dread Ravens of the world!

This year's coming to an end and I'm pretty surprised I went through the Aggro dominance (be it Mech hunters, hand buff paladins, evolve shamans, Galakrond shaman, murloc shamans, even shamans and more) and haven't uninstalled Hearthstones yet.

This is mostly thanks to you guys who helped me keep my love of deckbuilding alive, providing card suggestions that made my meme decks at least 40% viable instead complete flops and even got one or two of them featured in the Wild Weekend Deck series of articles (which I absolutely love- the ideas are delightful). 

The nice community and pretty much flawless site made Hearthstones so much more enjoyable and God knows I've needed an easy after-work stress relief this year.

Fellow builders- keep helping each other and happy holidays!

Aye, we all hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas too!

Quote From Lightspoon

Some things that will improve HS experience overall may be (random order):

• in-game Tournament mode, like Brawliseum;
• in-game statistics and deck tracker;
• a new format that will place itself between Wild and Standard, using a mix of old and new sets;
• a complete rework of Ladder, making it less grinding and more interesting to play;
• a better economy (that has been teased when new currencies has been data mined);
• reworked Basic set for all Classes, fixing some very old design flaws;
• a real Casual mode that has no reward of any kind, so that people there can go just to mess around and it will not be flooded by meta decks;
• achievements rewarding cosmetics (old card backs, potraits and whatever they may come up with);
• more attention on Arena's balance.

I don't really take into consideration Battleground or any completly new game mode because in the end HS is a card game, not a platform where I can find some watered down version of other totally indipendent games.

Can you give me your definition of Tournament mode? Everyone says they want it but each player has their own idea of what it would be, and I think that's the reason Blizzard canned it.

Ladder is Grindy because that's how it's designed, they can make it easier sure but that just dilutes the Legend ranks. What they need is a Grand MAster mode where only people who have their shit together climb to the top.

Unfortunately I think the new currencies are China only.

Battlegrounds was something HS didn't need but got anyway, for some weird reason.

Quote From Bystekhilcar

Hot take: Achievements are a terrible idea. They wouldn't bring any new players in, and while they'd provide a short-term happiness boost they would lead to a subsequent drop in playrate because having all the achievements gives a perception of 'completion' which subconsciously discourages people from playing. And I say that despite the fact that I personally would like them a lot.

Frankly the things that would most improve this game are all external to the game and should be being provided by third-parties already. Comprehensive resources developed and maintained by noted professionals (entirely for their name-drop) to explain how game design works, how balance works, and how to judge the relative strengths of cards, would be a great improvement. Primarily because it would stop people complaining about things that don't need to be complained about, and stop them massively overhyping cards like Embiggen :P

Achievements are a fantastic idea if they are done right. They wouldn't bring new players in but it might keep new players longer. Make the achievements long term. Hearthstone has been going on 6 years in 2020 and some people are still working towards 500/1000 wins per class.

That's community hype though and you really can't stop it. Brian Kibler has a been a proponent for wanting the Classic & Basic sets rotated to Wild, what him and all his fans fail to realize is that it absolutely fucks over F2Players.

Merry xmas guys! Amazing work here on this Site!!

Quote From RavenSunHS

1. A new Wild policy, that does not necessarily include spot nerfs. A better card AND mechanic design policy that avoids flaws (eg restricting how you reach (0) on cards, how you can Mutate insane amounts of mana, etc).
2. Connected to #1, more and better TECH cards, even if useless for Standard, but acting as positive nerfs in Wild.
3. Permanent Brawliseum (with one free entrance per week) acting as soft Tournament mode. Standard and Wild. To soften the grind of ladder, while keeping the challenge of competitive Constructed.
4. Sure, as some said, Achievements.
5. Buff the disenchant gain of common and rares to 10 and 50, respectively (to match 1/4 of their cost).
6. Oh, and unnerf Keeper of the Grove and Ancient of Lore FFS.
7. Buff some forgotten Basic and Classic cards. Eg, Ironforge Rifleman could easily be a 3/3 (and still be far from strong).

1: With the amount of cards in HS it's going to be impossible at some point to prevent every broken combo. My thing is, that since Big Priest existed for so long, I'm wondering what their internal policy for Wild id.

2: Platebreaker kind of does this but yeah, Wild specific tech cards here and there would be nice.

3: I don't have a problem with a permanent Brawliseum, but what's going to happen to Arena? Or do you think Arena will not be affected?

4: LONG term, frequently updated, and trackable achievements.

5: Yeah Dust economy needs an overhaul.

6: Unnerf every Wild card. Yes, all of them.

7: I don't see why not.

Happy holidays to all!

We only got like 8 new neutral dragons. I really did not expect a good dragon deck to appear. The closest contenders were Paladin and Hunter, as their Dragon cards were pretty strong, but ultimately fell flat against other decks.

I’m disappointed as well that we got so few dragons to be honest, and the fact that they were really trying to push the evasive keyword onto the dragons, so one or two got wasted as pack fillers.

I'm so glad this card doesn't get played right now.  I can use High Priest Thekal with peace of mind.

Merry Christmas everyone! 

Dragons can work pretty well as a side note in midrange, have a few for the synergy cards in hunter and it makes for a pretty aggressive deck, given how dragons usually work.

I kind of gets the complaints about it not working for a tempo deck though, because there were two expansions where that’s the exact deck type they were made for, continuously playing above average minions on curve and all. It’s just that they’ve only released a few more dragon synergy cards that work like that, so there’s better stuff you could be playing at this point

Merry Christmas (or whatever is the nearest thing for you) to everyone!!!

Happy holidays, everyone! We're looking forward to an exciting new year at Out of Cards and are thrilled to have you be a part of it!

That was a beautiful gift - Thank you OoC team and community - You make HS thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much better

The little things are what makes this the best HS community site around!  Merry Christmas!  Happy Holidays!  And All Praise Derpcorn!!!

Yes. Indestructible cards ignore "destroy" effects, but can still be exiled, bounced, put back in the deck, etc.

Inoright!

Merry Christmas to everyone folks! <3

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I haven't played in a while, but I believe so. Indestructible stops the permanent from being destroyed - exile is something else entirely.

Quote From CableKnight

Is there a reason Sir Finely of the Sands isn't included?

I'd say put in Sir Finley of the Sands to replace Silver Sword. It's typically too slow and in the late game you have enough to outvalue most opponents already.

Fitting in Nozari can be fun too. Hunters are unable to make enough damage to push through a full heal on top of all the other healing you're doing, and they can't deal with your board, so your minions will be able to push plenty of damage. 

Some kind of dust rework would be good. Hell, even the dust reward after quests during events (i think last time was around 2018's midsummer event) was a big difference.

don't you guys have pc-s?