What level 50 reward portrait are you going to choose, or have already chosen?

I hit 50 last night, and can't make up my mind between Garrosh, Valeera, Gul'Dan and possibly Rexxar. Would be interested to know what everyone else is going for, and the thinking behind it.

A new Champion Targon Unit, Aphelios, has been revealed!

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I haven't played while, ever but I am bored of standard and wanted to give it a try after 3 years.

I played a few games but on the 4th someone had Dinotamer Brann, that they played from there Shaman deck.

How did that happen, did he cheat/use a bug and is this common occurrence because it guarantied my loss and it was a bit unfair.

Proof is here: https://hsreplay.net/replay/PuvAcapMMs8gLK9CxcJikC

Hey everyone @ Outof.Cards

My friend Mike and I have been wanting a way to better (more smoothly and seamlessly) review each others’ VODs. The current options out there are either clunky, makes sharing POVs with friends difficult, or are missing key decision points (eg: discover options). So we came up with SquadOV: our (humble) attempt to make sharing easier with friends and to ensure that no bit of information is missed when watching replays. It's also totally free, no ads or anything.

Here are some sample pictures

Check us out now at SquadOV.gg!

Summary of Features:

• No need for other screen capturing software such as OBS! Records games automatically.
• View your matches anywhere, anytime! Match History and VODs are stored online for free.
• Saving match highlights from games has never been easier! Make a sick play? Can't remember what the discover options were? Re-watch it by clicking it on the event log. 
• Rating is recorded online after every game to make tracking progression easy! Automatically keep track of your Competitive Rating for Battlegrounds. No need to buy the tavern brawl pass to see your Battlegrounds match history! 
• Squad mode allows you to share and browse other users’ games within the same Squad! If you are both in the same game, the same game is synchronized to allow switching from one point of view to another with just a click of a button!

FAQ:

• I installed SquadOV and it’s running. Now what? Hop into a game! It’ll automatically detect what game you’re playing and record in the background. You can change the record quality on the bottom left.
• Difference between SquadOV and HSReplay / Firestone. Currently HSReplay and Firestone have post game stats but limited replay capability (for example battlegrounds and discover options are not captured). SquadOV keeps a clean VOD of the game play and syncs the match history to the VOD to allow you to go through replays much easier with defined events and timestamps. It also tracks personal rating on a per game basis.
• Is this Mac compatible? Currently not but we do plan to in the future!

Thanks again guys and please let us know what you think :)

https://youtu.be/yDbO14P0-b0

Howdy again! I've got another champion attempt idea, this time for Sion. I've been tempted to try and do things like Renekton and Xerath but seeing as I have no idea what the mechanics they have in mind for the faction as a whole are, figuring out even a vague approximation of balance can be rather tricky. That said I might at least take a swing at it if they haven't already done the reveals for them by the point that I get around to it.

In regards to Sion himself I tried my best to make him exactly what he is meant to be; a massive juggernaut that gives off a feeling of impending doom. That said I'm very much under the impression that he is rather weak. I got stuck in this awkward middle ground with him where I couldn't give him spellshield without feeling slightly off the brand for Noxus, but without it he feels like he would be too slow and awkward to get on the board. Whether I'm right though is hard to say so feel free to give me your view on the matter. On the more important theming end of things I think I did pretty alright.

Greetings, all! I wanted to share a little bit about what we're looking to do for Runeterra content for the new year.

• New weekly series, Wednesday Deck Spotlights, which go in-depth to a specific deck including mulligan guides, card substitutions, etc
• More deck roundup articles that cover specific topics -- e.g., "Viktor decks"
• A complete set of beginner guides for new players. I realize these guides will be beneath everyone who's reading this forum post right now, but I think it's really important for OoC to have a solid knowledge base to help introduce new players to the game and lure them to our site
• More content for Labs and Gauntlets
• More engagement/recognition for community decks. Specifically, I'm thinking about something like a new monthly series that highlights some of the LoR decks submitted during that month.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to see more of? Meta decks? Off-meta decks? Please let us know in this thread.

The last time I've seen people doing this on ladder was at the start of AoO when it was clear that dhunters were extremely broken and its cards were widely available to everyone. Play was around 70% of the meta then, I think

Otherwise, I can't see why anyone would do it. In most cases, even now, tier 1 decks probably only make up somewhere around 20 - 30% of meta. So if you, for example, put double Kobold Stickyfingers, Acidic Swamp Ooze, and Frozen Shadoweaver into your deck in anticipation of evolve shaman, what are you going to do about the games when its not evolve shaman? Its sort of like creating a deck that hard counters the current tier 1 deck whilst being hard countered by every other deck around it.

Sure its satisfying to beat the current top dog. Not so much when you're being beaten by the tiniest runt of the litter.

Edit: If anyone is wondering why my post is worded like this, its because its supposed to be a response to OP, who apparently have removed his post

So I was just knocked out of battlegrounds, but I was sitting first with 40HP (no hits on me yet) and 6 players left. N the next round I lost and hit for 12 damage and it ‘killed’ me and I was knocked our hit of the match. Glitch? Big? What in the heck?! 

I haven't played as much the last few months and just wanted to hear what off-meta Hunter builds folks have been having (moderate) success with this expansion.

Things I've been exploring so far:

• Various types of Quest Hunter which still seems viable
• Have had moderate success with a taunt heavy Control deck centered around N'zoth + Jewel of N'Zoth
• Failed miserably at getting Spell Hunter off the ground featuring Jepetto Joybuzz + Malygos, Yogg, and C'thun...both a highlander version and a more robust duplicate deck 
• Also haven't had much success getting a Maxima Blastenheimer + Darkmoon Tonk deck to work with any consistency
• Oh, and I've tried out the decks from Mark McKz on this site and they were fun combos to try to pull off :) 

Has anyone had success with these archetypes or anything else off-meta like Highlander Beast Hunter, Corrupt (Y'shaaraj) Hunter, Dragon Hunter, etc.?  Thanks in advance!

Anyone rumors yet about when the fabled Darkmoon mini set is likely to come out?  Or at least when it’ll be revealed?

Hoping sometime soon we’ll get a reveal with a release in like 2 weeks, but who knows!

Competition Theme: Oops! All Spells!

We better not see any minions in your deck - or at least, none when you play these cards!

• You must create a card which has an effect when your deck has no minions
  • Remember that your deck just needs to have no minions - weapons and Hero Cards are allowed as well as spells if you want to try something interesting
• Your card cannot be a Hunter or Mage card
  • We've seen how these classes tackle this idea - let's give a different class a chance!

DavnanKillder and grumpymonk come together to give us a magical prompt this week - just make sure there's no minions lingering around!

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, Dec 28 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 2 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 2 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 3 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 3 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 4 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

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The last patch has just exacerbated what I think was the biggest annoyance with battlegrounds: the timer is too short! It really limits the plays you're able to make during your turn. The latest patch introduces prizes that you have to pick from, leaving you with even less time to make your play.

I say the minimum time for the recruitment phase in Battlegrounds should be extended by 5 or 10 seconds. What do you think?

The next gamemode will be called World PvP.

We gotta have the full set.

A new Rare Noxus Spell, Survival Skills, has been revealed!

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Have you opened up some crazy awesome card pack? Did RNG screw you over so hard you are in disbelief?

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Is it just me or has anyone else had trouble getting the Hearthstone client to launch on Android after the patch today? Tried multiple times but the game freezes at the title screen or immediately thereafter. Uninstalled and reinstalled with no change. Hoping it's not just me because I'm about out of troubleshooting ideas.

Some unofficial Kaldheim spoilers on MTGAZone

Powerful cards, but they are Rares and Mythic Rares.

Two (new?) keywords: Foretell and Boast.

And Snow mana.

And hints of token and counter support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTsxkmOejAU 

I wonder what you think about it. :)

A new Common Noxus Spell, Sharpened Resolve, has been revealed!

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I finished almost all the bg achievements and I want to celebrate with a giveaway a 20euro battlenet card.

All you have to do is to leave a comment and sub to my channel when i reach 400 subs I will make the giveaway.

j/k but for real it needs a nerf. It needs to be either 2 mana, have its copy effect not happen if you killed off it's target, or have it not trigger if it doesn't kill the target.

Heya, y'all. With me having nothing to do this New Years Eve and with the Custom Runeterra section being so empty I thought I'd continue with my weird collection. Of the three I've posted thus far this one has me the most worried about balance. I don't know if she is too strong or to weak (leaning in the too strong direction) but I am still only trying to give an idea of a design. Did my best to offer a card that allowed unique gameplay but also offered something that felt like the champion. I did my best to show Ahri's mobile mage style of game play. I do think that the Charm spell might be too good but when comparing it to Troll Chant and cards of that sort it's hard to be sure.

Spirit Rush is not a collectable card by the way. It is only gained through the Level Up effect of the champion since otherwise I'd be offering damage removal to a faction in its entirety when that faction is not known for dealing damage at all. I had considered having Ahri's play effect be 'deal 2 to an enemy unit' or 'deal 2 to a random enemy unit' but I didn't want to take the damage aspect too far and thought adding some ephemeral synergy to her as well to make her a more flexible champion would be neat. Lastly I want to make it clear that Spellvamp as a key word is not meant to be something impactful enough to design a card around, it is useful yes, but healing your nexus for 1-2 isn't insane and thus I designed Ahri's Champion spell to be strong without it triggering. 

I'm sure I have plenty of other flaws in my design but that is why I share my work, to get creative criticism, so feel free to let me know what you think.

Edit: I made some minor changes due to wording I realized was awkward. This may have been a slightly overly ambitious champion design I'm realizing. >.>;  

Enjoy.

I just earned a snowflake today. What is it?