I mean, I'm not complaining, but where is that bonus xp coming from? and how long will it last?

A fun little quote from him at time code 22.25

Only 10 new cards were released from this set that see play

The only new list is Asol Trundle ramp and even then Bilgewater Noxious is just better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8D2MC6FHY

He also praises Fiora Shen which isn't being played by anyone really but has the potential to be great

This list was grabbed straight off swim's website if you want to try it, it's the same one Bruised is streaming

Although he run's dragons on 5, which is a whatever change

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/decks/btlupe1la4s85h9j4vq0

Greetings card fans.

I've been giving HS a bit of a back seat the last 6 months or so. (I got bit tired of climbing ladders and story modes don't interest me in the slightest.) 

So naturally I haven't been following the forums or websites for Hearthstone news.

However, this week i decided I'd log back on to play some strange decks so I came back to OOC looking for some inspiration.

I couldn't help but feel however there seems to be less of a community going on here than when the site first launched? Maybe I've got this all wrong but it feels to me like there aren't tonnes of decks with lots of up votes and comments like back in the hearthpwn days. So I just wandered, is that a thing or am i just looking in the wrong places? 

Did you all move on to bigger and better things? Basically my question is, where are all the OGs at? 

So I've unlocked all of the new champion capsules in all of the region rewards.

Providing me a full set of Taric and Nocturn.

That only leaves a full playset of Sol to grab from weekly's and with gems.

Unfortunately, a lot of these champs are underrepresented in the meta right now.

You are either hardcore aggro or super control, and these match's are decided very quickly.

If I wanted to grind rank I'd just jam pirate aggro with it's insane 59 percent win rate overall.

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/decks/code/CICAIAIDAIHSKKACAIBQGBAGAIDAQFRAEYWTUAIDAYDAAAIBAEBTG

It has a 70 - 90 percent win rate against all of the control regions in the game so Targon, P and Z, Ionia, Noxious, Freijord

Shadow would be your best bet but it still looses 59 percent of the time.

Hurray, no midrange and no combo decks to speak of, so fun.

Still think Bilgewater isn't op guys...

what is inside ? Mage cards, ok. But Classic of any expansion? golden or not?

So Bilgewater has been the tempo king since rising tides

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/stats/regions

mobalyitics has 3 of their lists exceeding 55 percent win rate.

https://www.swimstrim.com/runeterra/decks-and-meta

Swim has the number of top tier bilgewater lists at 5

and then there's literally everything else in the game that comes after

It absolutely blows the mind that this region has dodged nerfs this long, and really shows how little the developers play their own game.

You are thinking well they hit war chefs, and Ezreal, but those cards were never the issue.

It has always been the core region cards.

Best 3 drop, and is good at aggro and control plays

best removal in the game

best finisher in the game

best 1 drop in the game

best champ who might as well be bilgewater

I know you are all thinking QQ

but I just want to play the new set, and there's literally no reason to right now and that sucks

Hello,

I feel dumb but I can't find out how to buy multiple packs at once using gold in MtG Arena.

I'd be grateful if somebody could explain how to proceed.

Thanks.

New expansion is not showing when I play on android. Anyone else who has the same issue? 

So after our beloved lady Jaina, who do you think will be next hero to tell their story? I´ve heard some rumours it will be Hunter - some say it was spoiled by Blizzard themselves in some promotional video. Have any of you heard/saw something regard this?

I´m interested in your thoughts, which hero you´d guess is the next? Or which one you´d love to see/get?

For me, obviously as a Hunter main, I´d love to see Rexxar´s story the most.

Thanks for your replies and please, be nice to each other :)

Competition Theme: Pure Of Heart

We're looking to give people the purest deckbuilding experience possible this week - get those Neutral cards away from us!

• You must create a card which has an effect when you have no Neutral cards in your deck
  • We're specifically looking for the phrase 'no Neutral' here - no getting around it with something like 'only spells'
• Your card cannot be a Paladin card
  • We've seen what Paladins have to offer already - what benefits do the other classes get?

This week anchorm4n is forcing us to pick a side - nobody can stay Neutral in this competition!

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, Sep 14 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Sep 19 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Sep 19 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Sep 20 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Sep 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Sep 21 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

No thread rules were added to this season. Please populate and manually edit this thread with them.

why even have the search by region option if it doesn't work? i just want to see freljord decks please

but man is it heavy on the pay to win aspect.

The game is not that old and I am already seeing massive amounts of Net Decks in Ranked mode.

Guess there is no way to stop this part. Other than that, so far one of the card games out there.

As stated in the caption this treat is about (permanent) Spellshield and Hush not targon in general.

Lets start with spellshield. 

Why is spellshield in my oppinion a problem while barrier is perfectly fine?

1. It is permanent

2. there is not a single deck that can afford trading 2 spells for 1 unit (and keep in mind that most LoR spells arent even leathal for units)

3. it protects from global spell effects like ruination 

4. spellshield units are hardly more expansive than non spellshield units

Meanwhile hush is devestating for:

most of the champions

the majority of elusive decks

the majority of buff decks

for frostbite

and in general synergy driven decks

Tell me guys: who enjoys this massive swing from an interactive synergy driven game to a game that is just about denying the opponent the opportunity to play the game?

Edit: i changed the title of this article to make it more clear what it is about

I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I was playing a Midrange Treant Druid just now against a type of Resurrect Priest in Wild and experienced a very strange interaction between Treants that had been summoned and died on their side of the board and their spellstone.  They were using the Radiant Elemental and Veilweaver to generate a ton of value similar to a Lyra deck might try to do.  Anyway, they had also played a few thief Priest cards to generate things like Soul of the Forest, and I also played Poison Seeds at one point.

Later, when the opponent played a 3 minion rez Diamond Spellstone I was expecting Radiant, Veilweaver, and a Treant as those are the only three minions that had died on my opponent's side.  Instead he got a Veilweaver and 2x Treants!

I was like, "WTF?!"  My Opponent was also like "WTF?!" and went bottom right to end the match instantly.  But in the few moments I had prior to his concede I realized the two Treants have different watermarks!  One was a Classic set Treant and the other was Naxxramas set Treant!  So despite the same artwork and same name, the game counted them as different minions in regards to the spellstone's mechanic.

Again, is this specific interaction common knowledge?  Does it sound like a potential bug?  Not that I really care as it's just one additional way a Resurrection Priest's game plan can get screwed up, but I am generally interested to hear if others have had similar experiences, or just your thoughts on the interaction.

Did anyone try? I love it. Would not mind if the current ranked mode gets replaced with this one.

Hi all,  

Check out my Arena stream on twitch.tv/boozor for #1 tier Arena game play as well as my YouTube channel for full runs, tips, and highlights. 

Thanks all, 

I feel like every morning, I see a lot of whatever deck he released a YouTube video for the night before. He showcases a lot of interesting decks, so I get why people would want to try them out, but the frequency with which I see them just seems crazy to me.

This is not a salt thread.... This is an honest inquiry on things that I am starting to feel the conspiracy theory about with the matching system.  Does anyone know if the matching algorithm for games looks for specific cards and matches you up against people that have opposing styles of cards?

I ask this on both sides of the fence.  Whenever I play a common combo deck, I feel like I am constantly getting paired against aggro decks.  And when I switch to aggro, I get tossed a lot of control decks.  The same goes the other way though.  When I play something like Kingsbane Rogue, I end up playing against combo players and dog walk them.  

If there is such an algorithm, is it Blizzards way of saying, get better to beat the style of deck that kills yours... or is it a subtle jab to your kidneys?

You know what's not fun? Having no control. For me there is no point in playing the game if it is just being fed to me. This is getting tiresome. People qq'ed by the amount of dungeon runs they were churning out but guess what? Thanks to your qq'ing we get even worse solo adventures. Granted, the following DR's never captured the magic of the first one in Kobolds, but at least they tried to keep them fresh like with the shrines in Rastakan.

I'm sure some people like this and I don't mean to be a prick and alienate you, but after two goes with Jaina and seeing that I am going to have no control over the deck I'm using, I have no motivation to play it. I'd rather netdeck and have the ability to at least change a card or two to fit my play style.

If you want a return to Dungeon Runs, please voice your opinion, otherwise keep getting these.

I saw her in the solo adventure so either they wanted to make this encounter extremely easy by giving him garbage cards (more likely) or will warsong commander get a rework or something to do with injured minions/weapon? maybe they left her as she made sense.

One can only hope for justice to the most obvious "we don't want to deal with this card so we deleted it but it's still there for people to wonder just why it exists" card.

also Malfurion has "Night elf tag" foreshadowing that night elves being a tribe?

I had been anticipating some new cards launching but when they finally launched the Targon updates, I was completely disappointed.  I was totally not understand of why the creators doing all these, they are basically ruining their own game. 

My post here i would like to talk only about the dragons.... in fact i will criticize it. As seems that the game maker would not even bother the balance of power between the old cards and new. That stupid Aerolian Sol (i don't care if i spell right... it is a trash for me) basically make all the other heroes completely useless. And those stupid celestial/ dragon combo would allow the spamming of high cost monsters and spell at 0 costs !!!!! 

I understand the game maker approach to attract some money players, but create such an overpowered cards does not make any sense for me.

I start to think that they operate the game without any sense of ethnics.

Okay, technically it is 2:30 AM on the 17th for me, and most people its the 17th, but since the Pacific coast counts, we're going to pretend it is the 16th.

New Features

Magic the Gathering

• Added set pages. Here's Zendikar Rising.
  • Cards currently only display in numeric order. Sort options are the endgame goal.
  • Cards themselves now nest cleanly under sets.
• Modal Dual-Faced Cards can now be flipped!
• Added tooltips for cards.
  • Plains

Flip Card

Changes

Magic the Gathering

• Split card frames now rotate 90 degrees so they can be properly read.
• Added extra navigation when on non-Magic pages for faster browsing.

Mythgard

• Added to navigation.
• Added a site header for the game.

Runeterra

• Imported fresh data for Patch 1.10

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed an issue with the portal deck widget showing the wrong game if you switched portals.

Magic the Gathering

• Fixed incorrect default width of cards. Was 240, is now 265.
• Corrected images for Modal DFC cards. Previously the same image was used for both sides of the cards.
• Card BBCode will now prefer a collectible card over a non-collectible.
  • MTG doesn't really have non-collectible cards, save for tokens. However, with the way our data works, Modal DFC (and some other dual-faced cards) have a back and front that is a separate "card" in our database. When requesting these cards in bbcode, we're assuming you will want the front face of the card by default.

Mythgard

• Fixed an issue when browsing Mythgard content that would result in a homepage error afterwards.
  • This was live for a few minutes this past afternoon. Sorry to the couple hundred people who ended up seeing the error.

Flux Notes

Yo! Couple things here.

• MTG Deckbuilder should be out before the end of the month. We've got some big tech choices to get through to make this work well.
• Mythgard support. You've noticed some Mythgard articles today. Thanks to Nirast for helping us cover the game! I'm not going to consider us fully committed to it just yet, which is why it doesn't have a large portal link on all pages, though the game has a great community and we'd love to give players a great home.
  • If there's some free time this month, we'll get a card database up for the title pending datamining and card generation. 
  • If helping cover Mythgard is something you'd be interested in doing as a volunteer, hit me up.
• MTG "stuff" as a whole is still a work in progress. Card pages are still quite bare!
• I'm going to bed now so I can be up for the launch of Zendikar Rising!

https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/patch-1-10-notes/

War chefs going down to 1/3 hurts scouts and lulu

Ezreal nerf is healthy

Lee Sin buff is great

Yordle Grifter is brought in line with bannerman but otherwise bilgewater is untouched.

How do we feel about this, out of anything that was going to get nerfed I wasn't thinking Demacia of all things

Kind of a strange patch overall but I will let you guys decide.

Well, this forum is pretty much dead. Time to do like a Priest and revive it! The expansion is FINALLY coming, and I'm going to use this thread here to post the schedule for any spoilers I come across. 

New Mechanic - Forge: "if you've burned a copy of this card this game, gain this effect". Read more here.

Blue:

Show Spoiler

Card	Who revealed it
Mythics:
	Kryptik Gaming
	Lazergician
	Tempest987
Rares:
	Rune42
	Ejecty
Uncommons:
	Hzoj
	EolisTV
Commons:
	WholesomeGMNG
	WholesomeGMNG
	Ejecty
	Rhino Games

Yellow:

Show Spoiler

Card	Who revealed it
Mythics:
	Kryptik Gaming
	MythgardHub
Rares:
	Rune42
	Ejecty
	WholesomeGMNG
Uncommons:
	MythgardHub
	Kryptik Gaming
Commons:
	Tune Star
	Rhino Games
	Minmaxer
	Out Of Cards
	WholesomeGMNG
	Kryptik Gaming

Red

Show Spoiler

 

Card	Who revealed it
Mythics:
	Rhino Games
	Oneiric
	Rhino Games
Rares:
	Ejecty
Uncommons:
	Tempest987
	Hzoj
Amnesia is not a new card, it's part of the core set.	Rune42
Commons:
	Terminal
	Rune42
	Tune Star
	MinMaxer

 

Green:

Show Spoiler

Card	Who revealed it
Mythics:
	Tune Star
Rares:
	Kryptik Gaming
	Ejecty
Uncommons:
	Rhino Games
	Rune42
	MythgardHub
	WholesomeGMNG
	Hzoj
Commons:
	Lazergician
	MythgardHub

Orange:

Show Spoiler

Card	Who revealed it
Mythics:
	EolisTV
	Hzoj
	MinMaxer
Rares
	Ejecty
Parsa Divinity Cannon is not a new card, it's part of the core set.	Tune Star
	Hzoj
Uncommons:
	MythgardHub
	Stephanie Dawnheart
Commons:
	MinMaxer
	Rhino Games
	MythgardHub

Purple:

Show Spoiler

Card	Who revealed it
Mythics:
	MythgardHub
Rares:
	Hzoj
	Terminal
Uncommons:
	Stephanie Dawnheart
	MythgardHub
	MythgardHub
	MythgardHub
Commons:
	MythgardHub
Note: A minion is threatened by the ones in the opposite lanes.	Tune Star
	Tritros
	MythgardHub

Multi-color:

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Mythic:
	Ejecty
	MythgardHub
Rare:
Uncommon:
Common: