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Greetings here! I have not made a bigger card project for Hearthstone in a good while, but this time I am presenting you my mini-set for the Wild-exclusive expansion - Saviors of Uldum! With 16 Commons, 14 Rares, 1 Epic and 4 Legendaries, the set expands on themes from the main set and aims to raise their power level or create new and interesting synergies.

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With the talk of rotation recently, and Vlad being mentioned by the devs for a big reason why cards need to be shifted in and out of the game. I wanted to see if I could build a highly competitive and new Vlad deck.

Here's the list its very powerful and wins non stop into certain regions and matchups. Is it just worse then Fiora, Pantheon with strikes challenges and purple equipment - maybe but not everything needs to be a binary equation.

The point was that old champions are exceptionally viable, old champion pkgs (supporting cards) are not however every single crimson card is kinda awful.

So rather then rotating and redesigning viable champions out of standard they should be patching and updating followers to be viable.

Adding tough for example to his followers without the need to draw one specific landmark in freijord etc.

But yeah still not sold on rotation as this brew proves vlad in a vacuum is a great card, it's just everything else supporting him is under the power curve and had to be replaced with recent awakening followers. 

I remember a few years back, they started selling specific card backs during certain seasons in the in-game store (like the pumpkin one at Halloween, etc)

Since they implemented the ability to buy older card backs with gold, have they now stopped selling them for cash as well? 

I was holding out getting some of the ones I missed with Gold, and I thought I'd be able to get them with cash at some point. I've not seen one for sale in this manner for a long time now though. 

I've googled this topic a bunch, and can't find any info on the matter... wondered if anyone here knows what's up?

Thanks. 

I've been playing a bit of Classic lately, and with all the rumours flying around about the potential upcoming Death Knight class being added to the game, I thought I'd share a theory.

Back in one of his AMAs, Iksar was throwing a few theories around about what might become of classic, and he said this:

One that replaces classic. Rotates, but not super often. Think Classic –> MSOG, then 6 months or a year later it rotates to something else.

He only mentioned Gadgetzan as an example. What if the next expansion is Northrend-themed, and Classic mode rotates to what was then Wild (or Standard) mode when Knights of the Frozen Throne came out? Or, perhaps more likely, the Spreading Plague/Fiery War Axe nerf patch.

I would be pretty geeked about that as that was the time when I first started playing competitively, trying to rank up and collect cards.

Very little of interest to talk about here:

1. Swain got buffed he is now a top meta deck, really no surprise all the tools were they just needed to buff the big man himself and his boat 

2. A fiora deck is feeding on this matchup ^ in combination with pantheon and eula to deny interaction and eat the little things while opening up for lethal

3. Tf Nami and Akshan Lee Sin are still doing their thing to represent pink region.

Thats it that's the meta that's all folks.

Doo doo doo de doo 

But in all seriousness outside of woooosh being a 1 mana infinite card engine for pink region, swains boat being too damn cheap at 7, and pantheon fiora existing as a counter to A fast speed interaction and B board flooding the games actually in a great place.

Recently I was going like 6 and 0 with vlad scythe boy because it really is that even and balanced.

https://playruneterra.com/en-sg/news/dev/rotation-in-legends-of-runeterra/

Official news here, LOR is becoming like other CCG's now.

So lets list pros and cons and try to be civil.

Pros:

Balancing old archetypes and regions namely Bilgewater has been like a two year commitment on the part of the devs, and it's something they have to spend constant time and resources on.

Cards like TF while interesting and unique as far as champions are concerned are constantly ending up in some of the best decks in the game (tf swain, tf nami, tf fizz)

It's possible with rotation that newer champs will be seeing more play

Broadens the design space so the devs don't have to balance around legacy interactions

Less time spent updating old champs to be viable again with re-designs

Cons:

The main thing that makes LOR unique is the evergreen state of the meta and how every champ and every card remains playable and somewhat viable in the competitive space in terms of a deck building consideration even if not in terms of the power curve.

Updating old archetypes, followers, and champs is what makes patches so interesting in LOR

Your favorite deck/playstyle potentially getting rotated out of ladder, unless there is a separate equally competitive ladder for the evergreen mode

Personally I weigh in on the con side as the entitled gamer I am saying devs just keep doing amazing comprehensive balance patches forever - just do it.

But again easier said then done, especially as the card pool continually expands over the years and there's more and more to balance.

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So yeah Swain has more stats huge body for his cost, great key words  great champ spell all around good guy.

Gonna be played by 99% of the player base early on because people like to win.

And originality is hard vs bandwagoning on what been pushed at this moment.

But if I had to guess what the revert for this patch is, just like hate spike and kenin was last patch.

It would be boat, having double stun lockdown availible to Swain on 7 feels insanely strong right now, almost too strong for what it's achieving.

You look at something like orn (recently buffed) or malphite or asol and those cards are just never swinging again.

Like they buffed a champ which was pretty solid, and also deleted him at the same time which is pretty saj to me.

So yeah lethiathan back to 8 with Swain keeping his current stats seems to me to be the obvious revert for this patch so I would enjoy it while it lasts.

A really common fallacy I see in LOR players is the idea that if you can jam your wincon as hard as possible as fast as possible that makes you a strong player.

This is a ladder playing philosophy and the problem with this two dimensional playstyle is that you're essentially letting yourself get read.

Its like okay all I have to do is play a deck that's sufficiently fast enough to deal with opponent jamming their hand and I'l win guaranteed because there is no fall back plan, no nuance, no what the hell is that.

Honestly, it's sad really.

Anyway here's my new region rankings after the patch:

1. Ionia

2. Shadowisles

3. Bilgewater

4. Shurima

5. Noxious

6. Demacia

7. Targon

8. Freijord

9. Bandle city

10. Runeterra

what's that?

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Personally I love that pirates is getting shot in its big dumb aggro face.

The nerfs to both decimate and Riptide sermon make it difficult for aggro decks to justify running both cards.

Like yeah pass pass Riptide sermon is still a super viable play pattern for a control deck, but the aggro deck now needs to decide okay well if I want to flood the board, play Riptide, and decimate for 6 two times I might not have the spell mana to do all of that.

And honestly thank God

The second deck hit is plunder pirates but not as much because they don't run decimate. Like I don't love the deck because it's kinda ping ping ping blah here's my gangplank narf.

But people enjoy it thats good.

Massive Fiora buff to a 4 mana 4/4 honestly they did this for one reason and one reason only. Going wide became the only viable way to play LOR even the best control deck was Heimer grandma, and it just floods. Nami Tf just floods, aggro just floods, it was too easy and reliable and uncounterable.

So if you want to que into a tournament, or ladder with 3 decks that all do the same thing but just represent aggro vs control wincons then that one edgy Fiora player will wipe you and honestly that's okay.

Umm as for the buffs to daybreak and nightfall all good with me, same thing with master Yi being the worst card of the expansion actually doing something now.

The nerfs to high variance decks equally great I don't like peak, and I certainly don't like Concurrent time lines.

The buff to orn is nice, he was already on the edge of viability.

Swain is good, it used to be that Annie tf was undoubtedly the better deck by far, now it's a valid consideration between the two.

They didn't nerf anything that didn't need it like hate spike and ninja, and they didn't buff anything that will break the game but revitalizes low playmate champions.

Overall I can't wait, I literally won't que again till pirates gets murdered, and it's been several years in the making.

Just gonna go through every card that was listed.

Nerfs:

Viego - Yeah like you can hit his initial stats and it won't matter too much because he's a grower not a shower.

Hate spike - mystic shot for 1 might have been an overstep

Thousand tales - too much card advantage with no down side could just cycle and it would be fine

Riptide sermon - yeah 1 face dmg is fine for this card and it will still be great

Concurrent timeliness - rasa fraza hurmergurd sorry little freak out there for nerfing this meme

Harrowing - yeah one card shouldn't be so game winning

Mark of the storm - once again the fact that a one drop wasn't only mystic shooting and stunning he was get exciting was probably a bit much

Rite of calling - yeah particularly problematic when the card tutors for bontu big o dog God at 22 stats, so a nerf here is nice

Decimate - back to back decimate is literally been a game defining play pattern for as long as I can remember at 6 mana its a little more taxing for the aggro player.

Buffs:

Leona - yeah haven't seen daybreak since its literal release great buff target

Tahm Kench - yeah soraka tahm shouldn't feel so bad to play and win with

Nocturn - honestly this deck is really close to being competitive with Diana so this buff might really matter

Master Yi - God yes 12 dmg in Ionia is impossible, and if you run him in noxious as a combo piece the deck suffers on the control spectrum so making him easier to turbo is good

Fiora - Grapler gonna be happy that she goes back to a 3/3 and at those stats is legitimately frightening and thats good she should feed on grandma bunny to keep the deck in check

Swain - probably gonna make it easier for him to land on 5 leveled so it's more of a gangplank level threat

Sun guardian - really hard for daybreak to close put games so big overwhelm plus stun is a good combo

Illoi - honestly still a really good card, and reverting her nerf will make her great again, but the tenticle smash nerf will remain for balance I personally don't play that card in Illoi anymore

Morning light - more daybreak stuff

Ohrn - once again he's a damn good card already but has weaknesses to stun and bounce say 8 levels off 8 dmg swing then he's guaranteed to come down on 7 pre leveled and threatening overwhelm

Solari Steilacorn - hasn't been a card but might be a valid healing choice for daybreak into aggro.

Vilemaw and twisted tree line - Kalista fearsome with the ghosts hadn't been a deck so absolutely throw it a buff

Eula, paper tree - kinda the meme portion of thr patch but every great patch need meme buffs so that makes me happy

Shireking spinner - I love this card for flavor give actual spider tribal a threatening follower and it wasn't that bad to begin with

Ritual of renewal - can be 6 mana and then you try to double cast with karma worth experimenting 

Rippers bay - it's the only bad lurk card so absolutely make it do something

Lethiathan - 8 drops in this meta need to be game winning and its initial overwhelm stats of 5 is too low for where thr game is right now

Magical journey - its the Bard grandma card that defined the archetype, except it was bad and nobody played it maybe now it cycles?

Realms caretaker - more meme buffs which is good

Rock bear - midrange landmark hasn't been a deck for a looooong time probably a yeti now and that's very strong

Fun Smith- pushing the new equipment synergy to jam up your spell dmg

Mammoths- these are the bad freijord transform cards and while transform is better than people think it could use a finisher

Wind singer - units that bounce is a very blue magic mtg kinda card and it's over priced in LOR

And thats it for the patch

I would pre-rate it a 8 for very good. Hits what it needs to, buffs underplayed Champs, and followers, and some fun meme stuff.

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