We needed something new badly and lo behold blizz desperately trying to stay relevant by copying the auto battlers that have more or less gone out of fashion already.
Imagine we got pac man added as a game mode would you be happy?
Not the same approach, and it's probably way more meme-y. If you're planning to keep the big minions, Shadow of Death could be a really good card for extra copies of Malygos, Waxadred or Leeroy. It will probably harm your tempo though.
I am absolutely enraged by Blizzard's decision here. I still remember the day I obtained the Tyrande skin and all the effort involved. I activated the muscles in my right arm to click a mouse a few times, and then typed a bunch of letters using my keyboard. I even had to create one of those swirly email symbols, which requires using the shift key. It was no small feat, but I kept going and I was rewarded handily. When I went to bed that night, I remember my right arm throbbing a little bit, due to being overworked. It felt powerful in a way, and I thought about signing up for a gym membership so that I could replicate that feeling again (I didn't).
Anyway, the fact that all the plebeians get to experience this arrangement of pixels for zero effort is extremely upsetting to me. I think that Corky St. Clair sums it up best, so I say this to all of you:
With Hearthstone Battlegrounds soon to be among us (and even playable by some), HearthCards has now received an update to allow you to make your own cards for the mode.
Look at Reshaper Murrie here. It's got a 6-star shield icon in place of where a mana cost would normally be. This signifies that it's a card for the Battlegrounds mode.
Let's try to make one ourselves. How do you do that? The first thing we need to do is click on the cog button (highlighted with the red circle). Clicking that will bring you to this menu:
We've seen this menu before, but now there's an option called "Mana to Tavern Tier (Battlegrounds)", which includes a drop-down menu. By default, it will be set to Off, but clicking it will give you a set of 7 options which include the standard Off, and the numbers 1-6, which represent the tiers of cards found in the mode.
From that point, just keep making the card as normal, and the result will look something like this:
When you use the option to change the mana cost to the shield icon, the icon will not show up whilst you make the card, but it will show up properly after you click "Create". There's no need to fill in a mana cost, because it will be replaced by the shield anyway.
So let's look at our finished card again.
It looks like a real Battlegrounds card, does it not? Something that is worth mentioning is that most existing collectable cards in the mode will keep their watermark, but new cards the are exclusive to the Battlegrounds mode will have no watermark. To achieve this, click the "Custom" watermark option, and then click "None" in the list of watermarks.
As the Battlegrounds mode is very fresh, we have yet to fully determine the balancing, but if you wish to see all of the cards in the mode, click here.
In addition, each card in the mode has a Golden variation (meaning there's finally a reason to actually use the Golden option). Golden versions of Battleground cards have their stats doubled, and their effect upgraded if applicable. Usually, this effect is doubled, but there are some exceptions (any card with an x2 effect will upgrade to an x3 effect). Some cards how effects that do not receive upgrades at all when made Golden, which include minions who's effects are entirely made of keywords, or grant a keyworded mechanic under a trigger (Cobalt Guardian, Toxfin).
If we make Loan Shark Golden, it will look something like this:
An interesting point to note is that Golden cards have slightly different text space to them, meaning that if you reduce the card's text size to get rid of an orphan in the text box, the finished card might still end up with that orphan. In this case, you'll need to reduce the card's text even further.
Custom class designs do not support Golden cards, so if you're making one of your custom class cards for the Battlegronds mode, you'll need to use an existing class design similar in color if you still wish to make it Golden.
Wow so much negativity on a fucking side mode, Jesus...
The resources and time spent to implement a side mode could have been probably used to make some more important and interesting change on Ladders (less grind) or to implement something like a soft tournament mode (like Brawliseum) or a whole new format (with mixed and changing sets). Those things, and many others, have been asked since forever by the community an instead of putting some effort into them they've just given us something that seems more of a permanent Brawl than a card game.
That's why many are pretty disappointed by this announcement: we want a better HS experience, not another game.
You are right in that it is grammatically correct, but it is not consistent with other Hearthstone cards.
Still there is not any inconsistency. "if you're holding a dragon, Give it Divine Shield." and "Give it Divine Shield if you are holding a dragon." are same sentences. There is not any ambiguity.
They are both the same sentence, and they both mean the same thing, but the way the sentence is formatted is different than on the other cards, and is therefore, an inconsistency.
What you are doing here is finding fault with anything blizzard do. It is just funny how you defend yourself with a meaningless sentence differencies between cards. It is not like the difference between "Adapt 2 times" "adapt, then adapt" or " adapt twice". It is just same sentences in different order, doesn't even mislead people.
Why are we arguing this? it is just silly.
I am not trying to hate on blizzard simply for the sake of hating on blizzard.
That one guy mentioned that this card was inconsistent with other dragon cards, and I was just trying to explain why.
You are right though that this argument is a little silly. So lets just agree to disagree and end it here.
There are no more invoke cards to throw in (other than a second Shield of Galakrond) for now. Deadly Poison is a good idea though, I might add that. Finally, there is no Questing Explorer, but a Questing Adventurer in the list for obvious reasons (0 mana cards and lackeys).
As I already mentioned, the point of the deck is to abuse Galakronds and Togwaggles battlecrys. I know trying to get high cost cards off those effects is risky, but that's why I followed RandomGuys advice and put in Waxadred and Siamat which are good on their own. Colossus is the only liability left, since Malygos is an additional win condition. Somewhere between all those big guys, questing adventurer and edwin people will run out of answers, even if Maly doesn't get reduced to 0 mana.
Wow so much negativity on a fucking side mode, Jesus...
Anyways, I am quite interested in the mode and will be happy to play it when it comes out. Of course, it will never replace standard, but I can see myself hopping on once in a while to have some fun without needing to deal with the cancers of the meta, similar to the Singleplayer content.
For some FREE content, I think it’s good enough. It has enough distinctness to be different from regular Hearthstone that I feel it could be a fun alternative from time to time.
I have no idea what the point of this deck even is. Galakrond always gives a Lackey, so maybe a more Tempo focused deck would be much better? Remove the Malygos stuff and Colossus of the Moon as well and throw in more Invoke and Lackey garbage. We might want to remove the Seal Fates as well as they are just bad and the Invoke effect does not make up for it.
Leeroy will always be our finisher here, so perhaps some Deadly Poisons to supplement the Waggle Pick damage. Galakrond with the free cards and the 5/2 claw is also very good for finishing up the game.
Seriously people...it’s a skin for a class in a card game, let other people enjoy it as you did when you first got it, instead of being pathetic and moaning about it.
All you people being toxic on forums is the reason people cannot enjoy previous material.
I’m sure there been a few new players to the game during the past 3 years that want to obtain past card backs and hero’s.
I have every hero and card back I could obtain since hearthstone started and I’m happy there bringing some back for the community that missed out on it, it makes no difference to me, but it make a difference for those who missed out or didn’t play back then.
When bob who starting playing a year ago gets Tyrande and is happy about it, that will make no difference at all to you toxic whiners that want everything for themselves for their petty ego
Ah, my bad. Took out Ragnaros for Waxadred, I forgot about him. You're also right about Living Monument, I put in Siamat instead. Inconsistency sure is a problem, but I'd like to stick to the game plan of drawing high value cards for free with Togwaggle and Galakrond for now. If it's not consistent, at least it should be fun! :)
That list looks really all over the place. Also, Ragnaros will have rotated out at that point.
I don't think the deck wants cards that are terrible if they don't cost 0. That seems to be a really inconsistent approach. Living Monument, Maly, Colossus.
I hope that Gnome is something great like whizbang 2 since he's gonna rotate with boomsday. And if she isn't I hope it's still something good I like gnomes except millhouse I hate that guy
Put together my first ideas for a Galakrond Rogue deck. I know we're still missing most of the new cards, but what do you think about it so far? (Guide included)
Yeah, I'd love the Deathwing hero and the value of the 100 pack bundle, but I think if I did buy that bundle, a small part of me would die on the inside. I've bought the bundles for almost all expansions in the past, but from here on out, I'm going F2P.
Just remember that we have a choice, the people of Hong Kong don't.
Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Love that pac man idea! I want a nice murloc pac-man happily eating away those nasty Desert Hares while shooting fireballs at nearby lackeys.
Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Hate that this is our new game mode.
We needed something new badly and lo behold blizz desperately trying to stay relevant by copying the auto battlers that have more or less gone out of fashion already.
Imagine we got pac man added as a game mode would you be happy?
Why didn't they release a multiplayer adventure.
Galakrond Rogue Theorycraft - What do you think?
Here's my theorycraft I made about 2 days ago:
Wild · Miracle Rogue · by JFK · 6 years, 10 months ago
Not the same approach, and it's probably way more meme-y. If you're planning to keep the big minions, Shadow of Death could be a really good card for extra copies of Malygos, Waxadred or Leeroy. It will probably harm your tempo though.
Faerie dragon in tempo rogue?
It's an old card that sees play when other decks skip their early turns. Hurts Druid/Priest most
Tyrande Returns This Year for Free
I am absolutely enraged by Blizzard's decision here. I still remember the day I obtained the Tyrande skin and all the effort involved. I activated the muscles in my right arm to click a mouse a few times, and then typed a bunch of letters using my keyboard. I even had to create one of those swirly email symbols, which requires using the shift key. It was no small feat, but I kept going and I was rewarded handily. When I went to bed that night, I remember my right arm throbbing a little bit, due to being overworked. It felt powerful in a way, and I thought about signing up for a gym membership so that I could replicate that feeling again (I didn't).
Anyway, the fact that all the plebeians get to experience this arrangement of pixels for zero effort is extremely upsetting to me. I think that Corky St. Clair sums it up best, so I say this to all of you:
The Descent of Dragons Reveal Schedule is Now Live!
A lot of dragon artwork (no surprise there)
I like the calendar mechanic... from a marketing standpoint I think it is really effective
HearthCards Update - Battleground Cards
With Hearthstone Battlegrounds soon to be among us (and even playable by some), HearthCards has now received an update to allow you to make your own cards for the mode.
Look at Reshaper Murrie here. It's got a 6-star shield icon in place of where a mana cost would normally be. This signifies that it's a card for the Battlegrounds mode.
Let's try to make one ourselves. How do you do that? The first thing we need to do is click on the cog button (highlighted with the red circle). Clicking that will bring you to this menu:
We've seen this menu before, but now there's an option called "Mana to Tavern Tier (Battlegrounds)", which includes a drop-down menu. By default, it will be set to Off, but clicking it will give you a set of 7 options which include the standard Off, and the numbers 1-6, which represent the tiers of cards found in the mode.
From that point, just keep making the card as normal, and the result will look something like this:
When you use the option to change the mana cost to the shield icon, the icon will not show up whilst you make the card, but it will show up properly after you click "Create". There's no need to fill in a mana cost, because it will be replaced by the shield anyway.
So let's look at our finished card again.
It looks like a real Battlegrounds card, does it not? Something that is worth mentioning is that most existing collectable cards in the mode will keep their watermark, but new cards the are exclusive to the Battlegrounds mode will have no watermark. To achieve this, click the "Custom" watermark option, and then click "None" in the list of watermarks.
As the Battlegrounds mode is very fresh, we have yet to fully determine the balancing, but if you wish to see all of the cards in the mode, click here.
In addition, each card in the mode has a Golden variation (meaning there's finally a reason to actually use the Golden option). Golden versions of Battleground cards have their stats doubled, and their effect upgraded if applicable. Usually, this effect is doubled, but there are some exceptions (any card with an x2 effect will upgrade to an x3 effect). Some cards how effects that do not receive upgrades at all when made Golden, which include minions who's effects are entirely made of keywords, or grant a keyworded mechanic under a trigger (Cobalt Guardian, Toxfin).
If we make Loan Shark Golden, it will look something like this:
An interesting point to note is that Golden cards have slightly different text space to them, meaning that if you reduce the card's text size to get rid of an orphan in the text box, the finished card might still end up with that orphan. In this case, you'll need to reduce the card's text even further.
Custom class designs do not support Golden cards, so if you're making one of your custom class cards for the Battlegronds mode, you'll need to use an existing class design similar in color if you still wish to make it Golden.
Hearthstone Battlegrounds
The resources and time spent to implement a side mode could have been probably used to make some more important and interesting change on Ladders (less grind) or to implement something like a soft tournament mode (like Brawliseum) or a whole new format (with mixed and changing sets). Those things, and many others, have been asked since forever by the community an instead of putting some effort into them they've just given us something that seems more of a permanent Brawl than a card game.
That's why many are pretty disappointed by this announcement: we want a better HS experience, not another game.
Faerie dragon in tempo rogue?
Well, in decks not using the burgle package, it's a very fine turn 2 play so, why not?
New Paladin Spell - Sand Breath
I am not trying to hate on blizzard simply for the sake of hating on blizzard.
That one guy mentioned that this card was inconsistent with other dragon cards, and I was just trying to explain why.
You are right though that this argument is a little silly. So lets just agree to disagree and end it here.
Galakrond Rogue Theorycraft - What do you think?
There are no more invoke cards to throw in (other than a second Shield of Galakrond) for now. Deadly Poison is a good idea though, I might add that. Finally, there is no Questing Explorer, but a Questing Adventurer in the list for obvious reasons (0 mana cards and lackeys).
As I already mentioned, the point of the deck is to abuse Galakronds and Togwaggles battlecrys. I know trying to get high cost cards off those effects is risky, but that's why I followed RandomGuys advice and put in Waxadred and Siamat which are good on their own. Colossus is the only liability left, since Malygos is an additional win condition. Somewhere between all those big guys, questing adventurer and edwin people will run out of answers, even if Maly doesn't get reduced to 0 mana.
Thanks for throwing deadly poison in there!
The Descent of Dragons Reveal Schedule is Now Live!
Nov 29, 5:00 A.M. looks like a geared-up Muckmorpher
Hearthstone Battlegrounds
Wow so much negativity on a fucking side mode, Jesus...
Anyways, I am quite interested in the mode and will be happy to play it when it comes out. Of course, it will never replace standard, but I can see myself hopping on once in a while to have some fun without needing to deal with the cancers of the meta, similar to the Singleplayer content.
For some FREE content, I think it’s good enough. It has enough distinctness to be different from regular Hearthstone that I feel it could be a fun alternative from time to time.
The Descent of Dragons Reveal Schedule is Now Live!
I was actually going to add those too, but decided it wasn't needed since we have the countdown timer on the homepage.
Good for CEST players nonetheless.
Galakrond Rogue Theorycraft - What do you think?
I have no idea what the point of this deck even is. Galakrond always gives a Lackey, so maybe a more Tempo focused deck would be much better? Remove the Malygos stuff and Colossus of the Moon as well and throw in more Invoke and Lackey garbage. We might want to remove the Seal Fates as well as they are just bad and the Invoke effect does not make up for it.
Leeroy will always be our finisher here, so perhaps some Deadly Poisons to supplement the Waggle Pick damage. Galakrond with the free cards and the 5/2 claw is also very good for finishing up the game.
Oh, and Questing Explorer with no Quest? Yeah...
Tyrande Returns This Year for Free
Seriously people...it’s a skin for a class in a card game, let other people enjoy it as you did when you first got it, instead of being pathetic and moaning about it.
All you people being toxic on forums is the reason people cannot enjoy previous material.
I’m sure there been a few new players to the game during the past 3 years that want to obtain past card backs and hero’s.
I have every hero and card back I could obtain since hearthstone started and I’m happy there bringing some back for the community that missed out on it, it makes no difference to me, but it make a difference for those who missed out or didn’t play back then.
When bob who starting playing a year ago gets Tyrande and is happy about it, that will make no difference at all to you toxic whiners that want everything for themselves for their petty ego
Galakrond Rogue Theorycraft - What do you think?
Ah, my bad. Took out Ragnaros for Waxadred, I forgot about him. You're also right about Living Monument, I put in Siamat instead. Inconsistency sure is a problem, but I'd like to stick to the game plan of drawing high value cards for free with Togwaggle and Galakrond for now. If it's not consistent, at least it should be fun! :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Galakrond Rogue Theorycraft - What do you think?
That list looks really all over the place. Also, Ragnaros will have rotated out at that point.
I don't think the deck wants cards that are terrible if they don't cost 0. That seems to be a really inconsistent approach. Living Monument, Maly, Colossus.
The Descent of Dragons Reveal Schedule is Now Live!
I hope that Gnome is something great like whizbang 2 since he's gonna rotate with boomsday. And if she isn't I hope it's still something good I like gnomes except millhouse I hate that guy
The Descent of Dragons Reveal Schedule is Now Live!
Hijo's Egg Cubelock
What is the mulligan strats for this deck?
Galakrond Rogue Theorycraft - What do you think?
Put together my first ideas for a Galakrond Rogue deck. I know we're still missing most of the new cards, but what do you think about it so far? (Guide included)
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BlizzCon 2019 Recap - Everything You Need to Know
Yeah, I'd love the Deathwing hero and the value of the 100 pack bundle, but I think if I did buy that bundle, a small part of me would die on the inside. I've bought the bundles for almost all expansions in the past, but from here on out, I'm going F2P.
Just remember that we have a choice, the people of Hong Kong don't.
Tyrande Returns This Year for Free
"I paid for it so everybody else should too."
That's a very problematic way of thinking. Don't let that line of thought seep into other parts of your life, boomer.
The Descent of Dragons Reveal Schedule is Now Live!
Why did they reveal so much cards at once. I care much more if the reveals are a bit more sprinkled in.