There was a ton of hype around this little card around expansion launch and I haven't seen a single player experiment with it.

I think this a result of nerf mentality that Noxious allegiance lists got hit and it was just baby out with the bath water.

Well I'm here to tell you that Darius is good, and that there is a deck out there for this great card.

Give it a shot and let me know what you guys think.

I just want to talk about the new targon, the latest expansion. The Targon is ruining my experience overall. I love and only play lux in LOR and I don’t think a region should make a  character completely useless. Lux wasn’t even good to begin with and now she is dog shit. I’m very annoyed and unhappy. I’ve been thinking about quitting after the new expansion...

Keep your sanity and don't do it. Last season I got to Diamond 3 and it was a nightmare. Everyone used meta decks and never made a mistake which got frustrating and rather boring real fast. Before Diamond you could just mess around with any deck and progress. But in Diamond everyone is tryharding to get to Masters. And for what? Apparently master players say the majority of people who get to masters just kinda relax after getting there and start building random decks to mess around with since the grind is gone.

So I ask you all, what is the point? You can still have that same experience by just sticking around in the lower ranks and not having to deal with the mind numbing grind through Diamond. I can't speak much for Iron, bronze, and silver, since I wasn't there for too long; but the best ranks I find are in gold and plat. You can still mess around and try new decks and not get face stomped by meta deck after meta deck while doing it. The worst rank is definitely Diamond by far. No creativity, super sweaty players, and worst of all, BORING!

Has anyone noticed golden animations missing some of the layers in this last expansion?
I've noticed it more bluntly in Pen Flinger, Tour Guide and Teacher's Pet

Now that the expansion has been out for a couple days players have gotten over their initial impressions of the set and we can talk about honest to god counters to Targon as a region.

I wanted to lay out a few of the findings I have found personally.

1. Lulu and Taric aren't very good against decks with high levels of interactivity.

- The essential weakness of support as a playstyle is that it requires that you develop into your board.

- For example you play this into a 1 drop and you get hit by make it rain, vile feast, or static shock

2. Slow Rampy Targon lists and card advantage lists get beat out by nab and Ionia

- Let's say you're playing dragons, Ionia isn't going to care because they can stun and recall your whole board, and Bilgewater will steal your stuff

3. Day and Night Decks aren't very good...without support that is

- Let's take day man as an example Leona needs dayman and if they can't get one to stick they can't go off.

- But what if instead we had a backup plan in case dayman dies, what if we jammed a wtf lethianthan with Swain

- Or we ran Frejord just to ensure day man had elixir of iron

4. The point is that Targon is a support region in the sense that it needs to compliment the more straight forward power present in other colors.

- The days of just jamming hush into an existing list and pretending it's better are over

- consider grabbing faster celestial plays, jamming huge dude's isn't going to cut it anymore

- Remember that everything has a counter figure out what you need to be playing around.

That's it guys let me know what counters you guys have found for Targon

So we see that the new ramp Trundle lists that were ever so popular at the release of the new set dropping down a tier in as little as one week.

This is pretty straight forward because playing a 3 mana 0/4 is bad

It's always been bad, and the expansion hasn't changed that.

We have lot's of challengers that can eat this for free with lulu support, or miss fortune

and even if you get your big ice quake off, that's still just a temporary setback to a lot of aggressive lists

So forget ramp let's just play on curve

With lots of healing and tricks

Until we hit 8 mana naturally and get to go off.

Ice pillar into a swing in with tyndamere and trundle, pretty nutty

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And I got to put my two fav sisters in the same deck. Oddly enough Vi is really the one going for the killing blow most of the time. Rather than being a defender for Jinx. Which is why I originally put her in the deck for.

(See my last comment for the updated list before giving advice. Thanks.)

As someone who climbed on his main account high enough i thought it would be a good idea to create a new account in LoR and try some unranked to master within  14 days starting from no collection challenge  and what did i experience? Players in iron 4 ALREADY play 80% streamer decks in ranked.

While i still do fine with the spider starter deck I can only imagine how actually new players got to feel when they come to runeterra and run into the same netdecks over and over that they don't stand a cahnce against if they are as clueless as their opponent. 

I expected a lot of the starter decks, being played or some suboptimal jank that actual new players come around with. But 80% uninspired copypaste from "pros"? That is really shocking to me and it makes me really sad to see.

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What is the meaning of the sentence

"pick a unit in your hand to reveal" ? (sorry no mother language)

tks

With season 2 of the weekly card design competitions right around the corner, I'm bound to search the hell out of the card database again. Comparing costs, stats, effects and so on often requires to use several filters. I really appreciate all the work you've put in there, cleaning up the menu and staying up to date with all the weird new stuff (new class, dual class cards, new keywords, ...). 

One thing I've been missing on several occasions is a button that deletes all applied filters. It's an easy workaround to reload the collectible cards page from the menu, but such a button would be a nice quality of life feature neverthless. It could also be applied to other sites that use filters, like Decks.

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It's now only on ephemeral but they really should add some way to distinguish an ephemeral card in hand.. 

I'm assuming that would be why an 8 defense guy would die to 6 damage.

But it's very counter intuitive since daybreak is not a static ability.

(Also, is there a way I can see celestial cards in cards menu?)

So while I love celestials, I think cosmic inspiration is just too good. Not only it affects future celestials but your other allies in deck, hand, play too. My suggestion is simple, make cosmic inspiration buff only celestials. I mostly play expeditions and I feel like the first that gets a cosmic inspiration wins and there's nothing else you can do because +2/2 just allows you much better trades.

Day One, I've opened Lulu and Diana, and 3 singular wills.

Does anyone know what I'm supposed to run this in?

It's so expensive...

It looks like the rolling dust cost, as you build decks, only counts a single copy. You hit save, the dust cost rises dramatically.

Context - We're three weeks into the Scholomance Acadamey Expansion. Kael'thas Sunstrider, who was broken before Day 1, has been fixed, but no other nerfs for Standard have been introduced (Mindrender Illucia was mostly for Wild).

HSReplay has the Tier 1 decks as Libram Paladin (58.1%), Face Hunter (57.4%), Stealth Rogue (57.2%), and Aggro Demon Hunter (55.9%).

My suggested nerfs:

Libram of Wisdom - Change the cost from 2-mana to 3-mana. This wouldn't affect the end-game power of the card or of Lady Liadrin, but would make for a much fairer early-game and mid-game. At first I speculated on changing stats or discounts of Aldor Attendant or Aldor Truthseeker, but their stats and effects are generally balanced for the other Librams. You want wisdom? You need to study harder and longer first.

Voracious Reader - Change the cost from 2-mana to 3-mana. There's nothing to over-think here. Make the card slower. Make it harder for a player to empty their hand on the same turn they play this. Make it come down later when the opponent can more easily deal with it. We all knew this card was too good as printed, and it's overdue for a nerf.

Secret Passage - Change "Replace your hand with 5 cards from your deck" to "3 cards." The Soularium was an excellent legendary spell. This draws more, is more consistent, and has no down-side. It's barely RNG to use this card to search for a game-winning Eviscerate or Sinister Strike. Making this change won't alter a single deck-list in current Rogue decks, but would hopefully shave a few tenths of a percent off their win-rate.

I've been playing the game for just 3 months. I missed the launch of Bilgewater. So, the question is: is it normal for the meta to be this completely saturated by a single deck right after an expansion? I'm seeing Trundle/Sol like 3 games out of 5, and some other Sol deck most of the rest of the time.

Fortunately, I'm very comfortable with aggro decks, and I think I can manage a positive winrate against the deck, but still - there is an absolutely massive percentage of the player base on one single deck right now, and I find that fairly un-fun overall.

Edit - I will add that I've never seen the meta this completely saturated by a single deck, even after balance changes.

Edit #2 - it may have been a bit of a flash in the pan. A day later, I'm seeing it a lot less.

Competition Theme: Do You Copy?

For this competition, we're looking for you to create copying cards!

• Your card must create a copy (or copies) of one or more cards from somewhere in the game
  • Either player's board, hand or deck are acceptable places to copy from
• Your card can add these copies to your hand, summon them directly to the board (minions), equip them (weapons) or cast them (spells, hero cards)

Welcome to the first competition theme decided upon by a competition winner! Shivershine won our first competition, and gave us this as their prompt.

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UGh!  It's that time again when we have to look at our collection and see what we are missing and what we have an abundance of and think to ourselves if a nerf is coming.

Not going to lie. I kept the majority of the cards that I felt would be problematic in the current meta and dusted the rest.  The good/bad of this is that I have some dust that I am ready to use and get a couple of the cards that I really really want in both wild and standard formats.  

Now this is where I am stuck and wonder what direction I should choose:

1) should I say to hell with it and dust the remaining items I have surpluses of to make some of the cards I want/need?

2) hold out in hopes that Blizz will make their nerf targets known as soon as possible so that we can start planning on what we are going to do?

What is everyone else doing?

The second update in the deck widget series has arrived!

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Deck Widget Preferences

• You can now customize preferences for the homepage deck widget.
• Preferences are accessed on portal pages and the home page via the cog/gear icon found at the top right of the decks widget.
• Selecting a homepage game will force that game's decks to always load on the homepage, no matter where you've been on the site.
• You can customize each game's default deck widget preferences independently.

Changes

Deck Widget

• Selected game gets a colored icon.

Hearthstone

• Portal page now has the new and improved deck widget.

Runeterra

• Portal page now has the new and improved deck widget.
• Improvements to performance on deck pages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with deck widgets not loading for new users to the site. (Issue with initial deploy)

Notes

• We should have had the ability to sort forum threads in recent threads by their game. There's an issue preventing us from pushing this live and is going to require some serious digging. This was supposed to be a simple change.