Hello! I'm a 12k MMR North American player and I thought I'd write down some of my thoughts on murloc transitions in this current meta. With the addition of Amalgadon, Murlocs got a serious power boost and murlocs are winning the majority of the lobbies at my level. There's nothing more frustrating than knowing halfway through a game that there's no chance of winning the lobby with your current board and that's why you always need to consider the potential of a murloc transition.

When to look towards Murloc Transitions:

• When you’re relatively ahead, if you’re weak compared to the lobby, you need to be more concerned about not dying

• You start to find the pieces of the murloc transition in the shop (usually the first piece I find that normally triggers the idea of the transition is finding a Brann)

• Based on the lobby, you’re building a 2nd place board, for example if there’s six players alive and three of them are playing murlocs, chances are one of them will end up with the ultimate divine shield murloc board. If you’re playing something like big demons, you’re unlikely to beat them in a final 1v1 fight, so you either play for 2nd place or look for your own murloc board

Key cards for the murloc transition:

• Brann

• Murloc tidehunter (2/1 murloc)

• Primalfin Lookout

• Khadgar

• Megasaur

You don’t need all of the above to complete the transition however the more of the above that you do have, the more likely you will be successful in your transition.

When to actually pull off the transition:

• When you have enough of the above pieces to reasonably attempt a transition (if you're already holding a megasaur I'd be comfortable with fewer pieces however if you don't have one yet I'd be more hesitant)

• When you’re fighting an opponent that you don’t think you can beat with your existing board and you will likely die with your existing board, however, a board of divine shield murlocs with poison could win it for you

• When you’re fighting a really weak opponent (preferably a ghost) and even if you don’t get the perfect board, you’ll still likely win

When to be cautious of attempting a murloc transition:

• Fighting a mech board – the murloc transition generally results in a board with poisoned murlocs but relatively low health. Against mechs with divine shield resets, you could very easily lose a fight

• Fighting a demon juggler board – similarly, unless you’ve been preparing for your murloc transition for a couple turns and have stockpiled bagurgles and coldlights, your murlocs may still get destroyed by the enemy’s Soul jugglers

• Fighting a beast board – if you’re fighting an enemy with a mama bear and dirty rats, your murlocs will not be strong enough to survive hits from the enemy’s 6/6 rats that spawn unless you get very lucky and are able to snipe the mama bear. Additional, an enemy cleave from a cave hydra destroys multiple divine shields.

I put together a video showing a game where I was playing as pirates and I knew I could not win the lobby so I ended up doing a murloc transition. It's not a perfect example by any means however it's a realistic average transition for me:

https://youtu.be/WKAvR0rUPEM

Hello! I'm a 12k MMR North American player and I thought I'd write down some of my thoughts on murloc transitions in this current meta. With the addition of Amalgadon, Murlocs got a serious power boost and murlocs are winning the majority of the lobbies at my level. There's nothing more frustrating than knowing halfway through a game that there's no chance of winning the lobby with your current board and that's why you always need to consider the potential of a murloc transition.

When to look towards Murloc Transitions:

• When you’re relatively ahead, if you’re weak compared to the lobby, you need to be more concerned about not dying

• You start to find the pieces of the murloc transition in the shop (usually the first piece I find that normally triggers the idea of the transition is finding a Brann)

• Based on the lobby, you’re building a 2nd place board, for example if there’s six players alive and three of them are playing murlocs, chances are one of them will end up with the ultimate divine shield murloc board. If you’re playing something like big demons, you’re unlikely to beat them in a final 1v1 fight, so you either play for 2nd place or look for your own murloc board

Key cards for the murloc transition:

• Brann

• Murloc tidehunter (2/1 murloc)

• Primalfin Lookout

• Khadgar

• Megasaur

You don’t need all of the above to complete the transition however the more of the above that you do have, the more likely you will be successful in your transition.

When to actually pull off the transition:

• When you have enough of the above pieces to reasonably attempt a transition (if you're already holding a megasaur I'd be comfortable with fewer pieces however if you don't have one yet I'd be more hesitant)

• When you’re fighting an opponent that you don’t think you can beat with your existing board and you will likely die with your existing board, however, a board of divine shield murlocs with poison could win it for you

• When you’re fighting a really weak opponent (preferably a ghost) and even if you don’t get the perfect board, you’ll still likely win

When to be cautious of attempting a murloc transition:

• Fighting a mech board – the murloc transition generally results in a board with poisoned murlocs but relatively low health. Against mechs with divine shield resets, you could very easily lose a fight

• Fighting a demon juggler board – similarly, unless you’ve been preparing for your murloc transition for a couple turns and have stockpiled bagurgles and coldlights, your murlocs may still get destroyed by the enemy’s Soul jugglers

• Fighting a beast board – if you’re fighting an enemy with a mama bear and dirty rats, your murlocs will not be strong enough to survive hits from the enemy’s 6/6 rats that spawn unless you get very lucky and are able to snipe the mama bear. Additional, an enemy cleave from a cave hydra destroys multiple divine shields.

I put together a video showing a game where I was playing as pirates and I knew I could not win the lobby so I ended up doing a murloc transition. It's not a perfect example by any means however it's a realistic average transition for me:

https://youtu.be/WKAvR0rUPEM

Hello Monday! We've got a new Arena feature for Hearthstone and some quality of life updates for personalized dust counts.

New Features

Hearthstone Arena Impact

• A new system that allows us to rate cards for a new expansion and to discuss those ratings.
• You may have seen this go live over the weekend along with a new Arena button on our navigation. Now it's ready for prime-time =)
• Check out the Scholomance Academy Arena Impact page.

Changes

Hearthstone

• Personalized Dust Costs for decks have received some updates!
  • Added to deck embeds (news articles, forum posts, comments).
  • Added to the deck listing. You can't sort the column since these calculations are client-side.
• Added "deck copy" buttons to deck embeds.
• Cards listing now has a "standard" filter.
  • Make use of it alongside the collectible filter to see all the cards available in standard.
• Added a sidebar image for our Scholomance Expansion Guide & Scholomance Arena Impact to the Hearthstone Portal.
• Reworked the coloring on our fancy class headers in expansion guides.

Bug Fixes

General

• BBCode no longer renders when quoting a comment.
  • This fixes an issue where you'd receive rendered BBCode when quoting someone and the result was sometimes less than ideal. It also sucked because if you quoted a deck embed, that deck embed would never update again since it lost its BBCode.

Hearthstone

• Multiclass cards now display in decklists.
• Added missing class header for Demon Hunters in the expansion guide.

After the update, I rerolled quest and it deleted the quest without giving me a different one.

And yes I did  relog in multiple times

I've been playing Hearthstone since way back in beta and legend has always been out of my reach but today I finally made it. I couldn't have gotten there without this site, which helped me learn about a lot of different decks that are out there and how to play with/against them. Probably couldn't have gotten there either without the change in the ranked system (or the latest round of nerfs to other decks), but hey, you gotta play the game that's there, right?

A couple of months ago I was one win away on three separate occasions and I fell back and I thought I'd never get back there again. Today I started out a star into Diamond 2, went 5-1, was one star away then lost, took a break and came back and won two in a row and hit legend. Feels pretty good! If you're out there in the "so close, yet so far" category like I have been for a long time, let me just say that I know you can do it.

My winner was right out of an article here:

Dragon Hunter - 53% WR HSReplay

Wild · Dragon Hunter · by FrostyFeet · 6 years ago

• 1 Blazing Battlemage x 2
• 1 Dwarven Sharpshooter x 2
• 1 Stonetusk Boar x 2
• 1 Tracking x 2
• 2 Corrosive Breath x 2
• 2 Explosive Trap x 2
• 2 Faerie Dragon x 2
• 2 Imprisoned Felmaw x 2
• 2 Phase Stalker x 2
• 2 Scavenger's Ingenuity x 2
• 3 Kill Command x 2
• 3 Primordial Explorer x 2
• 3 Stormhammer x 2
• 4 Evasive Feywing x 2
• 5 Rotnest Drake x 2

1,920 Dust 1,029 0 Copy Deck Code

Curious to see how many people here still enjoy ladder play and which decks you guys are bringing to the fight.

My latest creation is Anivia / Braum variation centered around... try to guess this one: Absorb Soul!!!
I am currenlty having a great deal of sucess with it, excels against aggro/burn decks and Anivia wins by herself if the game goes on for too long. Here is the list:  

Been playing LoR for a bit over a month and have farmed a good portion of the cards but I have to ask: Is there a chance they will nerf some of the mechanics that make this game toxic for newbies at some point?  I dont mind getting facerushed or burn-spelled to death, but when I consistently come up against 3-4 recall/stun, deep, unyielding spirit and Heimer decks in every category of play ( Even casual and the tail end of gauntlet) it makes me want to uninstall and go back to some other TCG...  Is there hope or should I just quit while I have fond memories?  Even the pillage mechanic everyone seems to hate isnt as bad as the previous stuff, at least you can counter it with a strong board.

Some Vets pls chime in. I want to like LoR but... I quit Hearthstone for the same reason, only 3-4 decks can compete and I don't own all the cards. 

Hi,

I would very much like to contribute to outofcards/runeterra.

Master every Season, 7 Win gauntlets,.... .

Is there a good way to contribute?

Cheers,

hueuebi

Freljord is supposedly so cold that its own people pride themselves on being able to survive in it. So why does Ashe walk around half naked? -_-

Since there are still more than 6 days till the next (official) card reveal, I'd suggest holding a card design competition to shorten the wait. Obviously, the theme would be from Scholomance- I'd suggest 2class-cards-, and in the end we could compare our own designs against the official releases.

What to you think?

https://youtu.be/WglmYXWfEgs

https://youtu.be/GbuyWgpJixM

Was thinking of a good way to nerf rez priest that would still make the deck playable and it came to me. Make the rez mechanic the same as in Skyrim. 

If you don't know in skyrim you have spells to resurrect things,just like in hearthstone, those things come to life and do your bidding even though they're dead. But after they die a second time, after being reanimated they turn to ash, and you can't resurrect them again. This is the change to rez priest that i think would be the best for both sides. Priest can still be bullshit resurrecting the lich king or ragnaros, but not several times throughout the game, they would have to play more minions which would dilute their pool so they wouldn't automatically get the lich king or ragnaros, or statue every time. This would make the deck less consistent, and make it easier to win against.

What do you think?

Spellburst - A new keyword! This is an effect that triggers only one time, on casting a spell.

How exactly it works? Once x game or once x spell cast or once x turn ?

Wanted to cover a little positive Runterra news.

This updated version of crimson elusives post monk nerf just smashes.

You just add Draven that has been doing so well in the basalisk lists, which also lets you drop conspirator in favor of 3rd decimate

It is absolutely the fastest list in the meta, it sets up for lethal off of 3rd attack every time

There are no bad handstates, there are no bad draws

You almost never muligan more than 2 cards

It just feel great every round, you always feel like games are yours to loose

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Give it a try and let me know what you guys think

Dragonqueen Alexstrasza is having its effect changed so that it can no longer generate itself in a patch later this week.

How do you feel about this change?

Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

Hi.

As the title says, I played game this morning, as every morning, and to my surprise I did not get the bonus XP for win. Is it just me or did it happen to others? Is it a bug? Do you know at what time of the day is the bonus XP reset?

Thanks.

A few updates were pushed throughout the day today to support the new Scholomance Academy Hearthstone expansion and more! These updates have come a bit later and earlier than originally planned.

For the Out of Cards site anniversary last month, a large bundled site update was planned to release. Long story short, it was not released due to having some unfinished pieces (including the auto-sync plugin) and things have been very busy which has resulted in further... you guessed it... delays. I decided to push everything that was fully ready today due to the increased expansion traffic and since there were some quality of life updates, it would be helpful for everyone to get them today.

New Features

• OAuth Support
  • We can now let partner services and applications login with your Out of Cards account securely.
  • This is used in our Hearthstone Deck Tracker collection syncing plugin that is currently in alpha testing. More on that in a moment.
• Profile Header Bar
  • A new bar has been added above the old site header.
  • This is where desktop users will be able to access their account-related stuff!
  • Because of this addition, we've made space on the navigation itself that can be used to promote more of our content.
  • Also features an instant search bar (details below)
• New Search
  • Get results instantly without using the search page!
  • Type in a Hearthstone card name and get to its database page quickly. It also works with tooltips!
  • Supports Hearthstone Cards, Runeterra Cards, News Articles, Guides, and Hearthstone Expansion Pages with more to follow.
  • Dev Notes: The search page itself still needs an overhaul because it sucks.

Hearthstone

• Expansion pages now support dual-class cards.
• Deckbuilder now supports dual-class cards (and family cards from Mean Streets of Gadgetzan)
• Card Detail pages will now display multiclass instead of class for those types of cards.

Changes

Hearthstone

• Instances of "Family" have been replaced with "Multiclass"
• The Expansion and Mechanics multi-select fields on the Card Listing page have been switched to a better interface.
  
  • Dev Note: Still not happy with our card listing pages. These are going to be updated sooner rather than later.

General

• You can now see quick links to game portals across the entire site. They have a condensed appearance compared to the previous homepage listings.
• The site background has been updated with card game flair.
• Removed site supporter promotion blocks on sidebars. They have been replaced with new features in the profile header which better promote our Premium offering.
• Premium page no longer mentions our Birthday discount since it has (finally) been deactivated.
• Performance-related improvements on several pages.
• Search Engine Optimization improvements on several pages. 

Bug Fixes

Forums

• Forum threads within homepage and portal blocks now display full titles on mouseover tooltip.

Hearthstone

• Collection Manager no longer displays hero cards in the total counts for Basic cards.

General

• Icons on navigation for mobile users now include descriptions of what they are for.

Collection Manager Automatic Syncing

You made it this far. If you want to participate in an alpha test of our automatic collection syncing plugin for Hearthstone Deck Tracker, here's what you need to know. Once we're comfortable with it, a front-page announcement will be made. I want to get automatic plugin updates happening for that.

• You're going to be installing a .dll file into your HDT plugins folder. Browsers will warn you the file may not be safe, as long as you're downloading it from a post or guide created by me, you're in the clear.
• There are no automatic updates yet when a new version of the plugin is released. You'll have to copy the new version over the old one if an update is released. We'll make a dedicated thread for updates when the first one comes out.

Now, onto the fun stuff!

Out of Cards now has an alpha plugin for Hearthstone Deck Tracker. This only works on Windows. It will automatically sync your collection to the site. It will require logging into the plugin through your Out of Cards account so we can sync the data.

• You do not enter your password into Hearthstone Deck Tracker. You will authenticate with our OAuth authentication service via the website itself. Do not share your account password with anyone!
• Syncs will alert you when they happen (each time you enter your collection).
• The site will process your collection update in the order it is received. Sometimes there can be a couple of minutes delay for your collection to fully update on the site.

Interested and on Windows? Let's get it installed!

1. Install Hearthstone Deck Tracker
2. Download the Out of Cards Plugin for HDT. (Click Here) [Version 0.0.1]
3. Move the downloaded "OutOfCardsPlugin.dll" file to "%appdata%/HearthstoneDeckTracker/Plugins"
   • You can copy and paste the path between the quotes above and paste it into your file explorer to get to the right folder.
   • You may need to "unblock" the plugin if your antivirus or windows freaks out about it.
4. Restart Hearthstone Deck Tracker
5. Go to the Hearthstone Deck Tracker Settings Menu
   • Expand the "Tracker" section of settings.
   • Under Tracker, click on "Plugins".
   • Activate the Out of Cards plugin by toggling it.
6. Login to the Out of Cards Plugin
   • On the menu bar of Hearthstone Deck Tracker, click on Plugins.
   • Find the Out of Cards dropdown item.
   • Click on the "Login" submenu option.
     • You will be brought to the Out of Cards website to authenticate.
     • It will state you are logging in and giving the Plugin access to your Hearthstone Collection.
   • After logging in, go back to Hearthstone Deck Tracker.
7. Launch Hearthstone and visit your Collection to have it upload to the site automatically.
   • A toast will appear in the bottom right corner of Hearthstone when your collection syncs successfully.
   • Sometimes, your first load of the collection will not sync. Not sure why, but HDT gets no collection data.
8. Wait for the site to process your collection.
   • We process collections in the order they are received.
   • Once your collection is processed on our end, new collection data will be used across the site.
   • There are sometimes longer than normal delays in processing collections. This is due to us slowly scaling processing based on demand and performance. 
9. Enjoy an updated collection!

Special Notes

• Toasts look ugly, they're purely functional right now. We'll put out an update in the future with something that looks more pleasing though remains small.
• Automatic updates to the plugin itself are not yet available. This will be once we finish the alpha phase of the test.
• We aren't collecting any other data outside of your collection.
  • If we start collecting more data in the future with the plugin, we'll let you know and keep that data collection off by default so you can opt-in to it.
• Some other updates need to be pushed to the site to make collection dust counts appear on the deck listing and on news articles. I know! Hoping we can push this live tomorrow or later tonight.

So about 2 months ago I just kinda short-circuited and uninstalled Hearthstone for the first time in years (which I assume all of you have noticed seeing how I was clearly the most illustrious personality on this site and my sudden absence must have been considered a national tragedy comparable to the Hindenburg disaster).

Surprisingly enough during that whole time I didn't actually miss Hearthstone at all. It was an incredibly freeing experience and I would honestly recommend it to anyone who feels burnt out with the game. Losing a few months of gold/cards really isn't that bad now that you easily get all your rares and commons within the first 30 packs of a new expansions anyways.

Spent my time catching up with League again, but now that has lost its appeal again and since the new expansion is just around the corner (and I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to cash in on the nerf refunds) I decided to check back in.

Now obviously I'm not completely out of the loop, but I thought it would be fun to let you people give me a TL;DR of the last two months, just so I can get into the spirit of losing my sanity once I realize why I quit in the first place.

Also, if you wanna hear a funny anecdote: I quit just before the Priestess of Fury nerfs hit so despite holding on to my extra copies because I knew it would get hit eventually I still didn't manage to actually cash in on the extra dust...and the funny thing is I don't even really care anymore. i realized I was way too focused on trying to maximize ressources when I barely even used them. I'm really going to try and focus on just building fun decks now and probably only play every other day for fun and quests while I let my absurdly large dustbin and draconic dusting policy carry me through the expansions.

Turn ten 24 damage to the face. This guy is getting hotfixed. I main control shaman and yeah two card combo deal 24 to the face and add a card to your hand.. nice. 

https://youtu.be/GbuyWgpJixM

Hey all! Somehow my card collection on OutOfCards got corrupted again (it's incorrectly saying I have two or three of some cards that I'm missing). Can I ask to have my collection wiped? Then I can re-import from JSON and have it right.

(Associated feature request--maybe offer a button to let us wipe our collection ourselves?)

Thanks much!

https://youtu.be/WglmYXWfEgs

from

https://patch.land/v/hearthstone/retail