How would Grey Sage Parrot work if you were to play a 5+ Cost spell that got its Cost reduced to (0) by Dragoncaster? Will the Parrot copy it, or does it check based on the spell's Cost during cast as opposed to the spell's printed Cost?

i frequently check some mercenaries that i have not maxed out yet. usually to determine priority for spells maxing out/equipment.

problem is the newer mercenaries have some kind of issue with numbers on their respective pages

if i open Samuro´s pages i will see that his ability will give him 1 to 5 attack based on rank

if i open balinda stoneheart´s page i will see that frost dart does {0} damage on all ranks and gives the target {1} frost weakness

i have not checked all mercenaries but i believe that the original mercenaries might be all okay, but check the new ones.

there is probably just small typo in the formatting for text

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Hi everyone,

Trying to get a sense of what type of wild content in terms of one-off things like a general guide to deckbuilding or long-term things like a series people would like to see. If you have any ideas or suggestions as to what you would like to see on the site for wild, comment it below.

Thanks!

This is a thread to see the interest level in Standard Tournaments on the site. 

Here’s how it would work: it wouldn’t be on a particular day, it would last over a month or more. For each match, people would have a week or a few days and they would use one of those time availability website such as https://www.when2meet.com/.

When they have a time that works for both of them, they’d have to login and add each other on the app and hold the match or matches if we do best of 3.

Any conflicts would be handled by screenshot evidence but hopefully people will be honest about who won so there wouldn’t be a need for a staff member to also have availability and spectate those matches.

If you are interested please comment with your server (we would have to do separate ones for NA and EU). 

If you have any ideas on tournament format, we would appreciate any feedback.

Anyone feel like this meta is overdetermined based on deck v deck matchup?

There are a good variety of decks being played, but it does feel like matchup is more determinative than correct plays. It seems like most matchups are like 65-85 to 35-15 rather than the more traditional 55/45 blowout.

I'm not sure why it feels this way, exactly. There have always been aggro, combo, burn, and control decks, but now it definitely seems less necessary to play around/anticipate your opponent's plays, because each of you can discover your outs and only look forward. 

Anyone else agree? Disagree? I think the meta is technically varied in that many classes/decks are played, but each game seems to me like it's on auto-pilot. 

For the record, I started playing in Oct 2014, have hit Legend multiple times (in Standard and Wild, esp. since they made it so easy with the 3-star system).

Hello everyone. After a long year of absent I am finally back to the community. This time I brought you guys a class that I've been brewing (and harassing people's DM to give their feedback LOL) for a long time. I entered this class for the Class Creation Competition in Hearthpwn and ended up at top 9. Now that I was eliminated, I'll present to you:

The Detective

A land full of people and magic power like Azeroth is a land full of mysteries waiting to be revealed and solved. The Detective is here to leave no stones unturned looking for clues and information and training new apprentices to join their rank.

Hero Portrait:

Margaret Christie is one of the most seasoned and renowned Detectives in all of Azeroth. She doesn't regret leaving her homeland Gilneas to adventure on her own when learning that it will enter isolation from the outside world, although she always wonder how useful to her investigation it would be if she was to become a worgen. Now rumors of unsavory magic has led Christie to use all of her wit, might and health potion to investigate the seemingly unsuspecting Scholomance Academy.

Margaret Christie's name is a reference to the author Agatha Christie and her most famous character detective Miss Marple. She was picked instead of the other famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes to give the hero portraits both more female characters and an elderly-looking character. She is the basic hero that represent the class that all players receive when they create their account.

Great Inspector Margaret is an alternative Hero the player can receive with this class. She is the hero the player will receive when you obtain 1000 wins with the class.  She is meant to be an alternative version of Margaret if she had kept quiet about her opinion on the Greymane Wall and remained with Gilneas, similar to Cap'n Valeera

Alternative Hero Portrait:

• Exile Noble Margaret is the class's Book of Hero bundle portrait. She is a younger version of Margaret who just got exiled from Gilneas for speaking out against the country's isolationist policy. Book of Hero follow her adventure from an outspoken but somewhat pampered and naive noble spinster woman into her rise of becoming one of the most famous detective in Azeroth who discovered and trained numerous other famous detectives like Arthur Holmes, Argus Poirot and James Chesden.
• Noble Lady Margaret Wu is the class's Hero Portrait for the Romance of the Three Kingdom bundle. The name is based on a major supporting character from the novel Lady Wu, wife of Sun Jian and mother in law of Liu Bei.
• Private Eye Margaret is the class's Reward Track portrait. In the vein of the portraits being a more "badass" version of the hero, she is the version of Margaret in her twilight year where she became an extremely influential private detective who run a massive network of crime fighters across Azeroth.
• Wraith Bainsher Margaret is the class's Tier 2 Tavern Regular reward. Similar to Demon Hunter, the class don't have a tier 2 Armor and thus I have to get creative. This skin depicts Margaret on her days of banishing Wraiths that appear in location that she wants to get into as a Detective since hiring an adventurer would cost too much money for an exiled noble.

• These three skins are the class's Mercenary skins, featuring the class's main Mercenary Annoc. A draenei who got corrupted into serving the Burning Legion (Legion Annoc), the death of his main master Kil'Jaeden has weaken the control of the legion over him enough to allow him to break free from the control of the Burning Legion.
• However, ashamed of his actions during his serve, he doesn't contact his old people and wandering around aimlessly until he met Margaret, who took him in, gave him a new name Watson to distant him from his past and train him as an Apprentice and partner him up with her adopted son as well as her first and most brilliant apprentice turned detective Arthur Holmes. (Santified Watson)
• The two rose to fame by solving numerous high profile crimes until Holmes's death under the hand of Doyle Moriaty. Watson was once again extremely depressed and beg for Margaret to assign the investigation of Holmes's death to him. However, after Margaret's refusal due to him not being a full fledge Detective at the time, he deserted Margaret to search for clues of Moriaty's organization at the Barrens to avenge Holmes. (Investigator Watson).
• His name is a reference to the character Dr. John Watson created by Arthur Conan Doyle. His previous name Annoc is an anagram of Conan.

Hero Power

Token:

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Detective Training is the default Hero Power of the class. It's basically a more consistent and strategic version of the Shaman Hero Power Totemic Might. The class's Hero Power support many playstyle of the class: From aggressive token spamming to a more controlling playstyle (due to the Taunt on the tokens) as well as hinting at one of the class's main theme of revealing cards to your opponent.

Detective Drilling is the class's upgraded Hero Power. It's an extremely powerful one, allowing you to create a much better token to have more board presence.

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Themes:

• Revealing cards: Playing as a Detectives mean that you will get into the enemy's business. But the investigation business also require absolute transparency for those evidences to hold up in court. Cards and effects that reveal cards and gain benefit from those effects will be prominent in the class. Note that a card after being revealed to the enemy will kept being revealed, which mean that reveal effect will not land on a card already revealed (which is the main reason why I put that word on the Hero Power).
• 0-Attack and 0-cost cards: Who doesn't love a zero to hero story? Unlike the other classes who require being gifted in some kind of magic or physical prowess, the Detective love their puny 0-Attack minions / Apprentices and 0-cost cards (some minions are even both) and will have prominent synergies to them.
• All for One: The class's main tribal synergy will not just specialize in two or three types, but all of them! Yes, the class's tribal cards will reward you for having as much as possible number of tribal minions in your deck!
• Crimes and Police: Crimes are of course an important part of the career of a detective, but they cannot do everything by themselves without a legal system as well as the police forces (or some equivalent of it in the Warcraft universe). The class will have cards reference both of these in addition to the usual detective work.

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 Strength and Weakness:

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Things the class excel at:

• Token spawning: Margaret Christie is famous for talent of training and attracting new recruits. The Hero Power as well as a high amount of cards in the class will allow them to easily hoard and spam out tokens.
• Survivability: Detectives don't get to the bottom of the truth by being easily taken out. The class will have excellent, cost-efficient healing and Taunt. Just look at the Hero Power itself!
• Combos: A detective strike when they have all the evidences and can make a case undoubtable. The playstyle of revealing cards and the high amount of cheap, 0 cost cards naturally benefit a combo playstyle. And the class would have the survivability to back it up. 

Things the class is okay at:

• Removal: Detectives don't start fight, but they finish them. The class will have good and efficient removals, but not too much of them.
• Board clear: Detectives work in the shadow, but sometimes they stumble across large cases that will have profound impact on the world. Board clear of the class will be efficient, if not numerous.
• Buff: The class have powerful buff, but they are very specific and are limited to the token playstyle half of the class
• Burst: Detectives name get made by how rapidly and quickly they can strike their cases with accurate deductions. The class will have a decent amount of burst damage in either spells or weapons.
• Card draw and generation: With a Hero Power that generate a very useful token for both the control / combo playstyle and the token playstyle, the class will back it up with a decent amount of draw options to draw into their win condition / important buffs.

Things the class is bad at:

• Turn 4-6: Detectives either strike first when the criminals are still at the crime scene or they need time to gather evidences. The class have little to no active play in these mana slot. Their play in these turns are either reactive (weapon, board clear, removal) or leveraging the the token you spawned earlier to help dealing with the opponent. This translate to an inability to play a midrange deck and an extreme weakness in these turn if not played smartly and rationing out your Apprentices
• Disruption effect: Since most important combo pieces you want to put in your deck needed (or heavily encouraged) to actively revealing cards in your hand to your opponent, you will be extra vulnerable to disruption effects. Your opponent will know a good time to play that Dirty Rat or Unseen Saboteur that can potentially destroy your entire combo.

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Class Keywords:

What better ways for the Detectives to learn or improve than to look through a few of the most famous cases solves by Christie and her other students or fellow Detectives? Cases are basically reverse Secrets where you will activate a powerful spell that will last until you or your opponent can satisfy the Solve requirement. Cases are designed so that your opponent will have to quickly solve them before they snowball out of control. However, you have to play carefully or else you'll end up solving the Cases yourself and lose the advantage. Of course, if the Cases are also hurting you, you can Solve them yourself. Cases took the place of the Secret slots, which mean you can only have 5 Case with different names active. All of the Cases and their supporting cards are named after detective novels and short stories.

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 Basic set:

Their Basic cards aim to establish the mechanic, flavor, strength and weakness of the class while also provide tools for them to play a two main playstyles: Aggressive token based or Control / combo:

• Lightborne Sidekick, Security Pistol, Interrogate, Criminal Reforming and Magnifying Glass are all unlocked at the start of the game
• Unlock Whistleblowing at level 2
• Unlock Orc Apprentice at level 4
• Unlock Self-Defense Training at level 6
• Unlock Bonus Payment at level 8
• Unlock Forensic Intellect at level 10
• Self Defense Training will NOT double buff a 0 mana 0 Attack minions since that will limit on how much or how powerful those I can print.
• "Hidden card" would be a card that isn't already revealed, so your Apprentices will not get in the way of revealing effects from the class and cards already revealed by another effect will not also be revealed.

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The Apprentice's Dossiers Set

Anticipating the dangerous mission ahead of her in order to get to the bottom of the truth at Scholomance Academy, Christie enlist a new generation of Apprentices in training to help her. Before they can venture into the darkness of the Academy, she brought out her old case files in order for these newbies to familiar themselves with her work

The Apprentice's Dossier set function as the class's Initiate set, with the goal to expand upon the class's theme and mechanic as well as introducing the class's main tribal synergy and class keywords:

Common

 

• A Scandal in Stormwind's name is a reference to the Sherlock short story A Scandal in Bohemia that introduce the famous Irene Adler. The name is also a reference to the Onyxia raid where she disguised herself as a Stormwind noble.
• The Problem at Elrendar Falls's name is a reference to the short story The Final Problem where Sherlock Holmes tackle his most famous villain Professor Moriaty at Reichenbach Fall.
• A Revendreth Mystery's name is a reference to the novel A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie. Revendreth is the newly-introduced land of the Vampyre in WoW.

Rare

• Sign of the Four Types's name is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes short story Sign of the Four.
• And Then There Were None's name is a reference to the famous novel And Then There Was None by Agatha Christie.
• Four Little Apprentices's name is a reference to the Agatha Christie's novel Five Little Pigs.

Epic

• Murloc in the Brown Suit's name is a reference to the novel The Man the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie.
• The Hound of Gilneas's name is a reference to the novel the Hound of Baskerville.

Legendary

Poirot's Favorite Case:

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• Arthur Holmes is a reference to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes by author Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Argus Poirot's name is based on one of Agatha Christie's most famous character Detective Poirot. All of the Cases he created are named after famous Agatha Christie novels: Death on the Nile, Cards on the Table, Evil Under the Sun, They Do It With Mirrors and While the Light Last.

Scholomance Academy:

Scholomance Academy is the set that the class will make their debut. Margaret Christie respond to call for help by one of her old apprentice James Chesden to help him investigate the Academy. What they found is horrifying: The Headmaster Kel'thuzad dabbled in Necromancy and has resurrected one of Arthur Holmes's most famous arch nemesis Professor Doyle Moriaty. As if that not enough, Kel'thuzad has also enthralled Chesden's old flame at the Academy Molly Butcher to serve as a bodyguard! Can they save Molly in time and put Moriaty back to the Netherworld where he belongs?

Common:

Rare:

• The Academy of Fear's name is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes story the Valley of Fear.

Epic:

Legendary:

Molly's Upgraded Forms:

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• Detective Alumni and Molly Butcher's name are reference to the series the Dresden File by Jim Butcher and its hero Harry Dresden (represented here by Detective Alumni) and his love interest Molly Carpenter.

Dual Classes cards (with Shaman):

• Doyle Moriaty is a reference to the famous Professor Moriaty, criminal mastermind and the man who almost killed Sherlock Holmes in the story the Final Problem.

Tokens:

Dual Class Cards (with Mage):

• Infuse on Infusor Voidion means that the spells will transform into Elemental with the same cost and stats equal to its cost that will also cast the spell. Example is in the token section below. He will activate the reveal synergies in your spells before infusing them. He also will keep any discount you had put on, but that will scale down the stat of the Elementals.

Token:

Duels:

Hero:

Hero Power:

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Treasure:

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• Skull Companion is a reference to Harry Dresden's magical skull named Bob, who is a major supporting character in all Dresden Files book
• Storm Front's name is a reference to the Dresden Files's first novel Storm Front.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire:

Common:

Rare:

Epic:

• The Singer in the Faire is a reference to the Agatha Christie's book the Body in the Library.

Legendary:

Token:

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• Mary Adler's name is a reference to two supporting female characters in Sherlock Holmes: Mary Watson, Dr. Watson's wife and Irene Adler, the woman who outsmarted Holmes in the short story a Scandal in Bohemia.

Darkmoon Races:

Dual Classes:

Token:

Ice Shard

Duels:

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• Kazzin's name is a reference to Detective Karrin Murphy, a major supporting character from the Dresden File

2021 Core Set:

New cards:

• Occult Speaker and Inciting Victim are the tools that were given to a new archetype that I plan to develop for this new year: Deathrattle Detective.
• The Irregular Summoning is a reference to a Sherlock Holmes character group called the Baker Street Irregulars who help him gathering intels and evidences.
• An Evidence is Announced is a reference to the Agatha Christie novel a Murder is Announced starring Miss Marple.

Returning cards:

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Forge in the Barren:

Common:

Rare:

Epic:

Legendary:

Token:

 

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• They Came to the Barren is a reference to the Agatha Christie novel They Came to Baghdad
• Watson the Deserter is a reference to the character John Watson, the sidekick for Sherlock Holmes.
• Occult Chaser Halsing is a reference to the occult detective Abraham Van Helsing from the novel Dracula.

The Wailing Caverns:

• The Big Sleep is a reference to the 1939 detective novel that was later adapted to a 1946 movie The Big Sleep.
• Verdan the Everliving is adapted from the boss with the same name from the Wailing Cavern dungeon in WoW.

United in Stormwind:

Following the event of Forge in the Barren, Watson finds himself tracking down the missing renounced Detectives Halsing to Stormwinds, where he suspect the Cult of the Damned, who is harboring an Occult Tome that hold incredible death magic. Watson managed to infiltrate the Cult and stole their Tome. But before he managed to destroy it, the evil power of the Tome lashes on to him, making it impossible for him to destroy the Tome. He now constantly struggle to fight against the whisper of the Burning Legion and the Scourge inside his head, threatening to go mad at any minutes. In one moment that he succumbed to madness, he resurrected Halsing and wrought destruction to Stormwind.

Common:

Rare:

Epic:

Legendary

Dead Mines mini set:

• Defias's Folly name if a reference to Agatha Christie's novel Dead Man's Folly

Fractured in Alterac Valley:

Finding that he is fighting a losing battle with the whisper from both the Burning Legion and the Scourge and wrecked with guilt, Watson now has no choice but to return to his mentor Margaret. While incredible disappointed and angry at him for disobeying her and acting alone, Margaret still goes out of her way to help him to manage his condition. However, as unrest in Stormwind grew, she is forced to step up and investigate what is going on, so delegating the situation in Stormwind to her apprentices, she came along with him as emotional support to a safehouse Alterac Valley. However, as luck would have it, the Alliance and Horde fighting in Alterac Valley broke out and killed a lot of people, driving Watson insane surrounded with so much death. Watson almost killed Margaret when she tried to snap him out of the influence, but stop at the last minute. In a moment of sanity, he begged her to kill him before he can hurt anyone else. Tearfully, she struck him down and hastily buried him in Stormpike Graveyard before going off fighting Tamsin.

Common:

Rare:

Epic

Legendary

Onyxia's Lair:

After gathering all the evidences collected by her apprentices, Margaret figured out Katrana's true identity as Onyxia and exposed her to the people of Stormwind. Teaming up with other adventurers and the other class Mercenaries, they chase Onyxia out of Stormwind and into Onyxia's lair.

• Alliance Can Remember's name is a reference to the Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember

So I just finished an expedition and when I tried to claim the rewards some error popped up to try again later. I reset the game and it seems as gone now.

So either a) It's simply gone
            or b) The rewards/cards were automatically added to collection

Problem is, how can I know for sure if its a or b? Is there a way to see if something was added to my collection? Any ideas?

EDIT: Might be irrelevant, but I was playing from a phone.

Do you? :)

Ok I am not a good player per se. I play meme decks for achievements. But I can't win a single game at Bronce 8 and 3 stars! This is not normal. 

Edit: no problems in Wild though. I get to at least platin whitout efford. Which is suffixient for me.

One of the best aspects of Hearthstone is that the game is easy to learn, it's nested in a firm set of rules. Over time, Blizzard has slowly but steadily eroded some of those though:

- Ice Block negates lethal

- Amara, Warden of Hope raises your life total beyond 30

- Valdris Felgorge allows you to hold more than 10 cards

- Tickatus and Gnomeferatu destroy cards, Rin, the First Disciple even your opponent's whole deck

- Wildheart Guff allows you to gain more than 10 Mana Crystals

- Blastcrystal Potion destroys Mana Crystals

- Genn & Baku and the Highlander cards completely altered our perception of deckbuilding

- Dual class cards mingled stuff that was strictly seperated

- Silas Darkmoon allows you to influence the board state

- Quest(line)s always start in your hand

- Sigils and the Alterac cards with an ongoing effect trigger on future turns

- there are several tech cards that negate or hinder key effects of your opponent's cards (like Counterspell and Loatheb, Nerub'ar Weblord and Boompistol Bully, various forms of Silence and so on and so forth)

I guess designs like those are necessary to keep the game fresh and exciting, but the range of possibilities is finite and it makes me wonder what comes up next. Decks with 40 cards? A new card type? The long discussed graveyard? 15 Mana cards for Druid?

Whatever it may be, it feels like the devs have raised their speed when it comes to introducing new stuff that breaks the formerly known rules. Wildheart Guff, Curse of Agony and the ongoing effect cards were all new stuff introduced in the last expansion. While I'm all in for exciting cards and interesting design, they long term alter the game as we know it and sometimes limit design space in a significant way.

Personally, I'd like to see more cards that reward catering to deckbuilding restrictions like Genn & Baku, the Highlander cards and Darkbishop Benedictus. They are challenging but also very rewarding and we haven't fully explored much of the possibilities yet. On the other hand, I'm skeptical about increasing ressources like Mana Crystals, hand space and life total because it speeds up the power creep significantly. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I like that I more or less know what to expect from a game of Hearthstone.

All that said, I'm curious to hear your thoughts about the slow but steady eroding of the red lines in HS. Which rule do you want to see broken next? What new design makes you feel concerned?

There will be any meta evolution after the miniset launch? I don't see major changes coming ...

Some dragons experiments ... but I cannot imagine major evolution ... Any feeling?

Hirumredx, AKA The Duel Logs, started a Hearthstone channel a couple weeks ago. For anyone who doesn't know, he's a super-prolific World of Warcraft and YuGiOh content creator, mostly in the form of Top Tens.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChesPu9qcY7spOA0ApTWcew/featured

It's basically junk food content, but it's good. I thought the channel deserved a little spotlight since he doesn't seem to be advertising it anywhere.

So the new expansion has dropped and what we are seeing from Galio and Gnar is good.

They are beaters and they beat things.

They have lists the can perform in the A and S tier.

Or you can just pilot Elise to a 60% winrate.

Like this is the thing, aggro, aggro-midrange these archetypes are kinda done.

Like you can release a million Champs that fit in as competitive beaters but statistically it is just more of the same.

Like gnars best deck is Zigs aggro, a deck that literally has existed for ages and has long since been competitive. Like it makes sense he burns and he's a big threat that cycles itself of course thats good.

But its also just a better version of things that we've already seen in a deck that has already existed.

Please Riot release control Champs, release alt wincons, give us more TF style cards, just anything other than hey here's a highly competitive card that goes face.

How do these cards work in a game with no Pot of Greed? Do they work with the other pot cards? I cannot seem to find an answer anywhere else.

Hello everyone. Inspired by one of my favorite storyline and encounter of the Book of Hero, I have made a new Duel hero, Twisted Cornelius, a Paladin / Warlock dual class hero!

Hero Power:

• Legion Recruit: A great Hero Power that benefit an aggressive playstyle. The Demon created by the Hero Power also benefit from Silver Hand Recruit synergy.
• Twisted Arts: A flexible Hero Power that goes great with any deck, from control / combo deck to trade off their combo pieces / removal / board clear for more situationally suitable cards to aggressive deck to smooth out their curve. If the spell doesn't have a school, the Hero Power will draw a random spell with no school. The dual class nature of the Cornelius means that you will get access to Holy, Shadow and Fel spells
• Twisted Memory: A Hero Power for the more control / combo / midrange oriented decks that allow you to tutor out your midrange threat or combo pieces while also contest the board with a 2/1 Rush minion.

Treasures:

• Unholy Wrath: A Treasure that allow for great removal / burst and recovery for Aggressive deck using Silver Hand Recruit / Demon synergy. The name and effect is based on the Paladin card Holy Wrath
• Blessing of Father: A Treasure that allow for great buff from the 2nd Hero Power while searchable by the 3rd Hero Power. Note that if it is discarded you do not have control over which friendly minion that will be buffed. The name and effect is based on the Paladin spell Blessing of Kings
• Tamsin's Perfume: A great Treasure that allow for early / mid game tempo that will get better with more cards you collect during run. This card can be searched with the second and third Hero Power.
• Zealous Inquisitor: A great tempo card that will swing the board in your favor and offer great Health recovery. The name, stats and effect is a combination of Lightforged Zealot and Felsoul Inquisitor.
• Corrupted Ashbringer: A card that allow you to swing your tempo as well as discount the spells you hold in your hand that you drew due to your 2nd Hero Power.
• Sister Rivalry: A spell that reward aggressive board flood playstyle using Silver Hand Recruit and Demons. The Disguised will get buffed twice, meaning that each of them will have +3/+2.

How the two classes synergize with each other:

• Paladin has a difficult time with board clear and board swarming. Warlock card pool would substantially help with that
• Warlock has a hard time with health recovery, something Paladin excel at. They also has a hard time buffing up their minions out of removal and board clear range, something Paladin will help them with.

Competition Theme: The Perfect Match

Some Hearthstone cards really only start to shine when they receive a little help - so let's start pairing them up!

• You must create a card which has a strong synergy with an existing, unplayed Standard card
  • "Unplayed" is a bit vague, but use your best judgement about what cards are seeing play at the moment
• You must include the existing card in your submission
  • We need to know who we're matching up! Just submit it as you would a second custom card.

Kommutator has asked us to lift up some underused cards this week, so find them their perfect partner!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Feb 14 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Feb 19 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Feb 19 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Feb 20 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Feb 20 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Feb 21 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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Alright, another miniset, another batch of achievements, and they keep getting worse for some reason. I've done all but one at this point and I've already theorycrafted all the stuff necessary for the two missing ones that'll be added later on. It wasn't fun and at this point I'M questioning whether they should just remove the experience reward altogether because at this point these things are making me depressed.

Right Side, Many Cards!

Probably an easy one if you have the DH Quest. If not, it's probably still not too difficult, Just put as many 0-cost cards into your deck as possible as well as anything else that can reduce cost. 100 cards at least isn't an insane amount so you can probably knock it out in 10-15 games, even if it's not gonna be with a functioning deck.

Here Comes The Boomkin

This one sounded completely unreasonable until I realized that it doesn't specify that the damage has to be dealt through Boomkins effect. In fact Boomkin attacking counts too. Therefore we take our Kodo Mount and whatever attack buffs we can fight and use those to ram the fella into any minion available. It'll take a while but at least it's not inhumane (that's further down).

Gotta Catch 'Em All

Now I appreciate the reference, but having to pull this off 151 times with a card that can basically not be replicated by any reasonable means outside the usual Brewmaster and Brann Bronzebeard shenanigans (and perhaps Devouring Swarm if it lines up) makes me reconsider my stance on the death penalty. Either way, this is one I would almost recommend ignoring if you don't have or enjoy playing Big Beast Hunter because there's pretty much no other working deck that would run this at the moment.

Thsnk You For Your Matronage (yes there's actually a typo in this one, make of that what you will)

Similar to the Boomkin one you can also do this with damage done from the minion itself, but here it'S not necessary. Just play Mozaki Mage except worse. In Wild you can use Ice Block to make sure you get there in time. I also recommend making ample use of freezing effects to actually keep a sizeable board on your opponent's side because sometimes they run out of health before you run out of spells to cast. Generally speaking everything that cheats mana is wanted in this deck. I didn't use Incanter's Flow because I didn't feel like re-crafting and I still did it well enough. Siphon Mana is a decent enough replacement.

The One Ring

Mad Summoner, best boy

Future So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades

Fuck this one and whoever came up with it. No, the description is not a mistake and no, there's no exploit. It actually expects you to get Mi'da out there, have it die and then resurrect the same Mi'da 6 additional times. How they expect you to do this without either dying or your opponent just straight up conceding I don't know. Oh and for added fun, if it gets silenced your chain is broken and you can start again. This is ludicrous. I got the first step completed by sheer luck because I ran into some gimpy Mage in Silver Wild who just kinda played with an autofilled deck and it took me to an empty deck with a board full of Mi'da's where I couldn't even remember which of them was the oldest...and I couldn't finish the rest because the Mage just simply didn't have the ressources to kill a 4/6 with Divine Shield 3 more times. One of us was going to die before that.

Maybe there's some secret synergy that I am missing but as far as I'm concerned this one is about as completeable as the Party Up! one from Wailing Caverns, just have to pray I guess. The most idiotic part is that you can't even really kill your own Mi'da to accelerate the process because aside from having Divine Shield it's also a fuckin 4-ATTACK minion, just to spit into your eye one more time.

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Should be easy, Just stack all the SI:7 cards, card draw and bounces and eventually you're gonna get a 10-drop legendary. Probably easier in Wild considering there's only like 3(?) 10-drop legendaries in Standard.

Run Away, Little Girl

And at the top of the shit sandwich, this fucking abomination. The idea that you can rely on your opponent to play a singular 10/10 minion with no other minions of theirs is ludicrous. So we have to force it. And force it you can, but it is painful. First we need Silas Darkmoon and a Giant of your choice. It doesn't matter which one, Mountain, Clockwork, Arcane, Frost. Anything that can be reduced down to 3-mana is needed. We use Auctionhouse Gavel to reduce Silas specifically and then maybe even the new Bracing Cold to get the spell down. Lightning Bloom is also helpful. Finally we buff the Giant with Totemic Reflection (or preemptively in hand with Legionnaire) and igve it to the opponent to then blast it. This only works if their board contains one or less minions (because you can steal the one with Silas). Thankfully the Freeze engine gives Shaman a way to cycle through the deck, but clearing the board is a massive hassle. Your best option would be to use Snowfall Guardian + Doomsayer in order to roleplay as Freeze Mage.

Wanna know how I did it? I went to the bottom of Wild and conceded as much as I could to dump my MMR until I inevitably matched up into one of the AFK bots that only hero power. Apparently they're now programmed to no longer rope every time because I guess there are ocuntermeasuers now. Either way, it took a while, but I got a proper set-up eventually. If you also plan on doing this, I recommend staying low on minions and running a bunch of targetted damage spells so you have something to dump from hand on your totems so you don't just clog.

More Dots!

Also a frustrating one, but for different reasons. Basically, you really REALLY want Tamsin Roame for this or else you're going to take a while. Additionally you also want Tamsin's Phylactery because you can combo it with Dancing Swords to set up a big combo. Problem is that you can't reduce your hand because the Curses need to stay at 1-mana to proc Tamsin. This means you can't actually do the full combo in one turn and will have to sacrifice the double Phylactery most of the time. This isn't a problem though because of the teeny tiny interaction of being unfortunate enough to burn most of your shuffled curses by overdrawing your opponent. There's no way around this, you just have to pray the Curses are mostly on top.

Alternatively you can also use Coldlight Oracle to force draw but it's not nearly as convenient. You can also try and use Curse of Agony the way it's intended, an inevitable win condition that you can't actually accelerate by yourself, so instead you just play full Control + the 3-card Tamsin combo and just try to stay alive long enough for the Curses to do their work. This however means that you cannot get excess damage like you can with the Phylactery combo. Either way, this one's boring and long, no matter how you do it.

Hit It Like You Mean It

I actually re-crafted Fool's Bane for this. Never expected that card to ever be useful but here we are. 40 dust aren't worth 20 games worth of inane boredom (unless you have a Warrior deck of your choice that you'd like to run the card in)

Job Whelp Done

Pretty basic. Play Druid. Play the Whelp Spell. Play Onyxia. Eventually you're done. Also Kazakusan Ramp Druid is kinda broken right now and that deck runs Scale of Onyxia so if you actually want to ladder while grinding, that's your deck.

Legacy of the Kabal

Pretty much completes itself as long as you play one of the Kazakusan decks. Worth noting the Quel'delar and it's components count seperately.

That's it, that's all I got. I'd tell you to have fun, but you probably won't. Can we get less grind and more "what kind of bizarre combo can I throw together to complete this in one go?"? No? Alright then....

I don't know how many of you play LoR competitively, but I just today found a post on the LoRCompetitive subreddit that has an article explaining all of the best resources available for a competitive player. 

Here's the link. Absolute gold mine of info for anyone trying to climb the ladder. 

https://masteringruneterra.com/lor-data-sites-part1/

Coming across a lot of this deck in wild ranked right now, and it seems a little too strong.

The problem card is Deathspeaker, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of nerf soon.

I think that Deathspeaker is not a fixable card if they want the other cards to still exist.

So good news some of the least well designed cards such as Ahiri, and whiteflame are being nerfed in the future each losing a point of life each. Better late than never, however I have to say my excitement for the new cards is at an all time low.

Beaters, beaters everywhere, they go face, they don't synergies, or have alternate wincons, or burn, or use landmarks or anything. Like we get it Riot the best cards are the ones you can just play and are just good on board and do their thing, so when they die you replay them.

But like geeze common at least give me a reason to want to pair certain cards together and not just turn the game blatantly into value piles like they have been for the last 8 months.

So in summary lame expansion, but good balance patch.

-case study-

For consistency sake I consider any card that creates archetypes and decks to be well designed, and cards that are obviously just good in a vacuum to be bad.

Icevail archer enables Ash and stalls for control decks, what a good card.

White flame is literally a superior laurent protégé that requires less board interaction ans reactive play, what a bad card.

So when the devs doubling down on the let's just release obviously good brain dead cards it makes me miss the high synergy build around champ focused meta decks we had before.

I am looking for a serious Swain/Shaman build and I wanted to get some thoughts and ideas on this to make it viable.
So far this is my list: https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/decks/15837-shaman-king-swain

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