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THANK YOU for the Borrowing Friend's Deck Feature

Thank you so much, Hearthstone developers, for adding the ability to duel a friend by borrowing one of their decks. I'm more excited for this than the new dungeon run! A year ago I posted on here asking for something like this to play with friends or family that do not typically play this game and will not be buying any packs. So excited for this to get my friends into the game with duels that aren't just with the basic cards!

Mike Donais

Posted 7 years, 8 months ago (Source)

This has been pretty convenient when playtesting internally too, I just press borrow when I am playtesting with Realz and I get to see his 18 decks instead of mine and pick a good one!
Mike Donais

Posted 7 years, 8 months ago (Source)

this thread is the first i'm hearing about it feature, but first question that comes to mind is about how this could affect tournaments (until tournament mode comes out)

do you have to allow them to borrow your decks? can you disable them from doing so? or will you be notified when they browse your decks? can they see decklists or only deck title? i can see this being abused in online cups to find out what archetype your opponent plays. even if you couldn't see the list, maybe seeing a deck is named "control" or "murlocs" to know howto mulligan (although people used to tournaments don't give decks obvious names, for the reason below)

i can also see the positive to this for tournaments. opponents will often ask for a screenshot from the deck selection screen to make sure you don't have several decks from the same class to switch between. this is a built in way to check without having to upload a screenshot to battlefy or discord.

It says Iksar has requested to borrow your decks, Yes/no?

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<div class="md"><p>This has been pretty convenient when playtesting internally too, I just press borrow when I am playtesting with Realz and I get to see his 18 decks instead of mine and pick a good one!</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8b1d8q/thank_you_for_the_borrowing_friends_deck_feature/dx3kowo">Mike Donais</a>)
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    <div class="md"><p>this thread is the first i'm hearing about it feature, but first question that comes to mind is about how this could affect tournaments (until tournament mode comes out)</p>

<p>do you have to allow them to borrow your decks? can you disable them from doing so? or will you be notified when they browse your decks? can they see decklists or only deck title? i can see this being abused in online cups to find out what archetype your opponent plays. even if you couldn't see the list, maybe seeing a deck is named "control" or "murlocs" to know howto mulligan (although people used to tournaments don't give decks obvious names, for the reason below)</p>

<p>i can also see the positive to this for tournaments. opponents will often ask for a screenshot from the deck selection screen to make sure you don't have several decks from the same class to switch between. this is a built in way to check without having to upload a screenshot to battlefy or discord.</p>
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<div class="md"><p>It says Iksar has requested to borrow your decks, Yes/no?</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8b1d8q/thank_you_for_the_borrowing_friends_deck_feature/dx3y049">Mike Donais</a>)
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