Hey, all. 

As the title suggests, I am kinda inexperienced, when it comes to hs battlegrounds, and I would appreciate some tips on how to improve my gameplay. Very often I feel like I am making crucial mistakes in the mid game, only because I don't know how to manage my board, how to position some minions and what direction I should take.

Before I continue, I would like to clarify, that I am not interested in achieving a high rating. I just want to try out the cool late-game builds more often. However, I don't always get good or synergistic minions at start and I have absolutely no clue what to buy, in order to increase my chances to survive. In some cases I feel like I am receiving too much damage (cuz my build is probably weak) and I decide to roll and find better minions to replace the current weaker ones instead of upgrading my tavern tier. The problem is, that sometimes I don't get anything good and I fall behind even more so than before.

I wish I could've shared some of my games with you, in order to be more specific, but, sadly, I don't use a deck tracker. Though, I could try to remember some minion choices and mention them here. Before I continue, I would like to add, that I am following the general strategy for the first few rounds: On turn 1, I buy either a token generator or a well-statted minion. On turn 2, I usually upgrade my tier. On turn 3, I sell the bought minion and buy two new ones (if the presented choices are better than my tier 1 minion, that is). If the presented choices are overall weak, then I reroll and try to find a good addition. On turn 4, I usually buy two minions. On turn 5, I upgrade my tavern tier and buy a minion. From there onwards (up until I reach the fifth tier), things become confusing for me. Sometimes I can't evaluate which minion from a certain tribe underperforms and needs to be replaced. This becomes more apparent, when I get stuck with a menagerie build. 

Like I said, I get confused with the minion positioning too. Normally I put the stickier minions in front of the more fragile ones, because they can take several hits. The exceptions are minions, that I use to get rid of divine shields from taunts, being in front, provocative minions (soul juggler) being last and deathrattles that fall in one of those categories. I am also very careful with the taunt positioning, in order to play around cleave, and I try to have only one taunt. But there are many other exceptions to those rules, which I am not knowledgeable in. Like, where should I put poisonous minions? Or big taunts? - I have seen streamers putting them first and last. Where do I keep a hydra in a goldrin-macaw build - after the macaw or the goldrin? I have seen some streamers putting their cleave between both goldrins. 

I am sure I am missing a lot more things to talk about, so your help will be much appreciated. I don't consider myself a beginner, I think I just need more advanced tips. If you understood my case and know some helpful links, I will gladly check them out.

I'm prolly just ignorant here but Why Doesn't Blizzard do More Crowdfunding Promos to Increase the Prize Pools of Tournaments?

By this mean, promos like the pack promo earlier this year where 50% of the income was used to increase the prize pool of Masters.

Why don't we have more of these? I'm thinking bigger prize pools would be better for all the players. For example, they could increase the consolation prize for players, they could increase the prizes from 3rd place below, etc.

I personally wouldn't mind buying more packs if they support the competitive side of HS.

When making a custom class, the Basic Set is arguably the hardest set to get right. We all want to get to our flashy cards as soon as possible, but the Basic Set is the most important set. It defines the groundwork for the class. The quality of your Basic Set will greatly impact the rest of your class. The other hard part about it is that they can't be very obscure, because they're intended to be... Basic. They're cards that are intended to be very simple, yet very essential for the class.

Each class's Basic set should include:

Single Target Damage

• Demon Hunter: Shadowhoof Slayer, Chaos Strike, Glaivebound Adept, Inner Demon
• Druid: Moonfire, Claw, Starfire
• Hunter: Arcane Shot, Kill Command
• Mage: Frostbolt, Fireball
• Paladin: Hammer of Wrath
• Priest: Holy Smite
• Rogue: Backstab, Shiv
• Shaman: Frost Shock, Fire Elemental
• Warlock: Mortal Coil, Soulfire, Drain Life, Shadow Bolt
• Warrior: Heroic Strike

AoE

• Demon Hunter: Coordinated Strike (situational) Soul Cleave, Chaos Nova
• Druid: Savage Roar (friendly), Swipe
• Hunter: Multi-Shot
• Mage: Arcane Missiles, Arcane Explosion, Frost Nova, Flamestrike
• Paladin: Consecration
• Priest: Holy Nova
• Rogue: Fan of Knives
• Shaman: Totemic Might (friendly), Bloodlust (friendly)
• Warlock: Hellfire, Dread Infernal
• Warrior: Whirlwind, Cleave

Every class should have access to at least one non-friendly AoE with Shaman being the odd one out, presumably because they have Lightning Storm in the Classic set. Even Rogue, whom is supposedly the epitome of weak when it comes to AoE, still has Fan of Knives in their Basic set (and formerly, Vanish as well).

Card Draw

• Demon Hunter: Chaos Strike
• Druid: Starfire, technically Wild Growth also counts because of Excess Mana.
• Hunter: Tracking, Starving Buzzard
• Mage: Arcane Intellect
• Paladin: Hammer of Wrath
• Priest: N/A
• Rogue: Shiv, Fan of Knives, Sprint
• Shaman: N/A
• Warlock: Mortal Coil
• Warrior: Shield Block

Both Shaman and Priest are notably odd men out here. Shaman can be assumed to be out because of the existence of Mana Tide Totem in the Classic set. Priest is out because of the rotation of Northshire Cleric out of the Basic set and the change to Power Word: Shield.

Removal/Neutralization

• Demon Hunter: N/A
• Druid: N/A
• Hunter: Hunter's Mark
• Mage: Frostbolt, Frost Nova, Polymorph
• Paladin: Humility
• Priest: Shadow Word: Death, Shadow Word: Pain, technically Mind Control also counts.
• Rogue: Sap, Assassinate
• Shaman: Frost Shock, Hex
• Warlock: Sacrificial Pact, Corruption
• Warrior: Execute

Druid this time is the exception to all of the other classes. We can assume this is because removal is supposed to be a weakness for Druid and they make up in other aspects. Demon Hunter similarly has no direct hard removal, but does have a lot of access to damage and specializes in attacking (whether it be from your hero or your minions).

Once you get past that, you can also add cards that specifically fit to your class's themes. For example:

• Beasts for Hunter (Timber Wolf, Animal Companion, Kill Command, Houndmaster, Starving Buzzard, Tundra Rhino)
• Healing/Health Buffs for Priest ([Hearthstone Card (Power Word Shield) Not Found], Radiance, Power Infusion)*
• Ramp for Druid (Innervate, Wild Growth)
• Totems for Shaman (Totemic Might, Flametongue Totem)
• Discard for Warlock (Soulfire, Felstalker)
• Weapons for any weapon class (Fiery War Axe, Truesilver Champion, Assassin's Blade)

Northshire Cleric would also count for this category, but his since left the Basic set.

A class's Basic set usually only has 1 or 2 minions.

The class with the most is Hunter and Demon Hunter with 4. If you have more than 4 minions in your Basic set, you should cut a few of them. Rogue formerly used to be the only class with none, but has since had Plaguebringer added. For reference, here is the number of minions in each class's Basic set:

• Demon Hunter: 4 (Shadowhoof Slayer, Sightless Watcher, Satyr Overseer, Glaivebound Adept)
• Druid: 1 (Ironbark Protector)
• Hunter: 4 (Timber Wolf, Houndmaster, Starving Buzzard, Tundra Rhino)
• Mage: 1 (Water Elemental)
• Paladin: 1 (Guardian of Kings)
• Priest: 1 (Psychic Conjurer)
• Rogue: 1 (Plaguebringer)*
• Shaman: 3 (Flametongue Totem, Windspeaker, Fire Elemental)
• Warlock: 3 (Voidwalker, [Hearthstone Card (Succubus) Not Found], Dread Infernal)
• Warrior: 2 (Warsong Commander, Kor'kron Elite)

*Formerly 0

Top tip: It's also a really good idea for cards to follow more than 1 aspect, increasing utility and space. For example:

• Fan of Knives (AoE and Card Draw)
• Chaos Strike (Single Target Damage and Card Draw)
• Frost Nova (AoE and Neutralization)
• Pretty much all tribed minions count as well (such as Tundra Rhino, Water Elemental, and Dread Infernal)

This doesn't mean you should try to make every card like this, but it's nice to have should it happen. Some classes (Shaman and Druid) in particular may not follow some of these categories, in part because they have easy to access cards in the Classic set (Mana Tide Totem, Lightning Storm) or are intended to be weak in a particular aspect. You could possibly justify skipping one of these should that come up.

Looking at the nerf patch date and the proximity to august, the new expansion WILL be announced before the 14 July patch that means either tomorrow or in 2 days cause they normally patch the game to put the pre-order bundle.

So any guesses/expectation what's the expansion is gonna be about?

hoping for an expansion about an old warcraft event  since I didn't play wow, TBH I didn't see any hint or something about the expansion.. looking at the nerfed cards we might see more impactful dragons, high cost rogue cards and strong warrior weapons.. but as a theme.. no clue apart from the article in the site.

in other words ... how much time I still have to try to reach Legend with my DH, before the nerf? tks

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All regions: 100%

Full Collection: 3x copies of every single card. 
Date: 07/07/2020
Time: 6 months

Wildcard:
01: Gold
00: Purple
00: Blue
41: Green

Shards: 8131

I feel like Jinx level up is still to weak when compared to the two other champions that are most like her. Her level up ability is essentially a variant on Ezreal and Lux but is substantially weaker.

Lux ability is free, hits a unit and face, and can be used multiple times in one turn.

Ezreal ability hits face for half the damage of Jinx rockets but can be triggered many times in one turn, is free, and essentially burst speed since you don't have to cast it.

Jinx only hits face, same as Ezreal but hits for 4, but her skill is slow speed like Lux, and can't be chained unlike both Lux and Ezreal. Then to top it off it costs 1 mana. So its not even free. But it requires just as much prep work to pull off as the other two.

Jinx rocket should firstly be free at the minimum and be able to be cast multiple times a turn just like her competition. Jinx should be the middle ground between Lux and Ezreal. Not the ugly step child they keep locked up in the attic and occasionally feed fish heads to from time to time.

Tier 1 - Noxious

It's hard to argue that Noxious isn't the highest played and highest win rate region atm because statistically it is.

Run it allegiance, run it with p/z, run it with ionia, run it with frejord, run it with shadow.

The reason why this region does so well is it's auto includes, the fact that you're going to run transfusion, disciple, demolitionist, and probably grenadier. 

That's your 12 - 2 drops right there zero thought required, now what's the rest of your list going to be, well you have lots of options but the core is always going to be strong regardless.

Tier 2 - Freijord

mid range in general is a little weak atm so while this regions has the best champions overall, it might not matter if things remain as fast as they are right now. 

That being said, pairing this region with shadow makes for solid control lists, and noxious makes up for the regions weak 2 drops.

I would stay away from bilgewater now that yoink has been nerfed twice in a row.

Omen hawk remains the best 1 drop in the game, and fury of the north is the best trick.

Don't expect this region to go anywhere regardless of the meta.

Tier 3 - Ionia

Did you know that elusives are in two of the best decks in the game and that will of ionia is under-costed and concussive palm is now a 3 of

At the end of the day it doesn't really matter that Yasuo, Lee Sin, and Karma aren't as good as they once were, because we have Zed

The nerf to solitary monk doesn't really hurt all that much and just puts the card where it should be power level wise

Tier 4 - Shadow Isles

Shadow will always be relevant due to healing, removal, recursion and it's ability to create chump blocks 

But we can't pretend that the region isn't becoming more of a splash for key cards as of late, as opposed to an all in choice.

So we see it go down a tier

Tier 5 - Bilgewater

Yoink getting nerfed over and over again has hurt this region but it still has a lot to offer

Kegs are strong, and make it rain is the best early anti aggro tool

It goes wide surprisingly well, it has cycling tools, it has riptide rex, it can be aggressive and it has strong champs

Deep is always something to keep your eye on as well, just waiting beneath the surface to be tier 1 again

Tier 6 - P/Z 

A pretty low playrate region excluding ezreal lists, which is currently this regions saving grace

The issue is that you are forced to cast spells to kill your opponents units, and only Ezreal benefits from this

So you play him

Jinx requires you to get rid of your hand, and while she is better than people think, it's easy to disrupt her play pattern

Heimer is good, but he's honestly played as more of an Ionia card right now, and doesn't even fit his region

Vi is just a fully stated thresh that doesn't tutor is isn't very exciting to play

Tier 7 - Demacia

This is the region that people collectively agreed that they didn't like and didn't want to be good

They nerfed it's mid range options, they nerfed it's buffs, they nerfed it's late game win cons

Unfortunately, that puts it as a worse version of Noxious right now

When the reality is that this region should probably counter Noxious on paper, as it used to.

But do we want to see the return of bannerman, I would be okay with it, but I imagine others wouldn't

Anyway that's the update, let me know what you guys think, and what I inevitable got wrong

Here's a few ideas I had about how to make Heimerdinger less impactful and make it possible for Heimer to survive multiple turns without the opponent immediately losing:

Version 1 (Round Start Heimer):

This version of Heimerdinger would motivate players to cast only high cost spells for Heimer, instead of just spamming cheap spells like currently. Since Heimer can only summon 1 turret per round, this also prevents the spamming of 3 cost elusive turrets. This might seem like a heavy nerf, which is why I gave Heimer more stats to compensate. Also, players can summon cheap turrets from hand so that Heimer summons bigger turrets, if they cast low cost spells that turn.

Version 2 (Attack):

This version of Heimerdinger requires you to attack to get free turrets, which allows the opponent to block heimer and damage him (similar to Shen). However, with 6 Health Heimer will likely survive the first attack. This would probably be the lowest powerlevel version of Heimerdinger, but with Synergy like Sumpworks Map I think he'd still be viable.

Version 3 (Transformation):

This is probably my favorite rework of Heimerdinger since it completely changes how you play the card. By requiring an ally to get the support effect to work, this version of Heimerdinger would require actually having minions in your deck (or spells like Scrapdash Assembly). Also, because the Turret is based on the total cost of the spells you cast, it opens up interesting plays about which spells to cast to get different turrets. The versions' level up is also the most interruptible, through killing, frostbiting, or stunning the turrets. Because it also lasts across the game, it makes later Heimerdingers more likely to be able to attack as the level two version. Once Heimerdinger levels up, he becomes much more powerful and lets you make the turrets have higher stats than they would normally have. Quick Attack both reflects one of Heimerdinger's LoL abilities and makes Heimerdinger more difficult to kill while he's attacking. The stats could definitely be adjusted to make it more balanced, but I think this version of Heimerdinger is very interesting and very disruptable.

Which version of Heimerdinger do you think would be best? Are there other reworks you've thought of? 

Imgur has caused problems for me right from the start. If I use the mobile app, it usually doesn't upload more than one image. If I try to upload a second one, an error occurs after some time and the image appears as "hidden" in my galery without a thing I could do about it but delete it. I usually work around this by loging in via browser in desktop mode. If I upload this way, I also receive error notifications (though different ones), but the images get uploaded properly nevertheless. 

This time, I wanted to upload 28 images for my custom expansion and started out on my laptop for this special occasion. The first 15 went smoothly, but now imgur says "Something went wrong with CREATE_ALBUM_FAIL. Please try later" and that's that. Mobile doesn't work, Internet Explorer doesn't work, Chrome doesn't work. On top of this, the community on imgur seems to be made of very special people. I created my account with WCDC 1 and don't use it for anything else but custom HS cards. Every one of them gets downvoted to hell, no matter if I tag them as custom HS content or not.

So I tried to look for alternatives and uploaded my stuff to Flickr. That went smoothly and it was even possible to organize the images in an album while still being able to copy indivudal links for all of them, something I couldn't manage with imgur. This time, I wasn't able to post the image in a forum post. I tried the links provided via "share", "embed" and "BBCode". No display in here.

Any ideas how to solve this?

for the announcement of the announcement?

Hey, folks! Just wanted to bring attention to a Kickstarter for what looks to be a pretty interesting card game. Here's the link, if you're interested.

I just wanted to put this out there for people to comment on. I had an idea for the Great Ak.'s ability in Battlegrounds. What do you guys think if his ability was costed at 0 gold and gave you an option of 3 secrets. When you choose a secret, you lose gold equal to the cost of the secret. If you're at 0 gold when you use the ability, it does nothing; if at 1 gold, it only offers 1 cost secrets; at 2 gold, it offers 1 and 2; and at 3+ gold it offers the entire pool.

Idk, makes his ice block weaker, but could make him more useful overall?

Hey folks! New patch dropped, mostly focused on bug fixes. A few cards were also nerfed, mainly:

• Boneyard Abomination's stats are equal to the number of minions in both graves, as opposed to double the number in yours
• Draupnir Band now gives 1 life instead of 1 temporary mana
• Peri at the Gates no longer draws the second card, but it now has Divination 3
• Shroud of the Pit now makes your minion Ephemeral

There's also a few changes to Q-Mode (the private test server for new cards), but I don't have access to it, so I don't know what those cards do, making those notes a glorified tease :p

Full notes

Quite usually, we see some forum posts that don't make sense, include shady and non-relevant links and the poster has no other activities on the site. These bots can already be reported, I always do when I see one, but it would be better to save some work for the moderators.

I propose that only accounts with more than 100 achievement points should be able to include links in their posts. That amount of points can be easily achieved by real people who can read by visiting the expansion guides, but it would stop bots that post on every forum they find.

How do you guys feel when you need/want to leave HS (for whatever reason) but already spent 'that' much (value is relative right) money in the game?

My work is taking so much time and yet i 'kinda' feel forced to keep playing HS so i'm not feeling my money and time spent is wasted.

I know it's irrational but damn it's hard to fight against.

Mind sharing your perspective, senpai?

With any buffs he becomes hard to deal with. As a 2/6, he just destroys your board position, and when they manage to make him a 3/7 there aren't many spells that will remove him.

I don't even feel like he needed the free 3/3 Lvl 1. He's now a re-usable kill spell (That can block stuff)

Hi, I just wanted to make this thread to discuss how HS could potentially learn from the innovations that LoR introduced and make the game better. Of course, HS is very unlikely to change any of its core gameplay even if it would be an improvement (due to it confusing new and returning players) but I think it could be an interesting thought experiment. Alternatively, this could be a new game mode!

1. Spell Mana: In LoR up to 3 of your unspent Mana can be kept as Spell Mana, which you can only spend on spells. HS could just directly implement Spell Mana, but I think it'd be more fitting for how HS works to make it so that any unspent Mana you have at the end of the turn reduces the cost of your next Hero Power by that much. This would allow players to play off-curve more often and might occasionally lead people to purposefully not spend Mana to save it for their next Hero Power. Additionally, it would make Inspire cards more interesting and viable.

2. Rounds instead of turns: In LoR, players also gain Mana at the start of their opponent's turn, and whenever a player plays a card the other player may play a card in response. One player has all the odd Mana turns and the other player has all the even Mana turns. HS could have a similar version of this, where whenever a player plays a minion their opponent gets initiative. Spells and minions would still resolve immediately, but with initiative swapping the opponent would still have the chance to react. For example, if your opponent plays a charge minion you could play a Taunt minion in response, or destroy the charge minion with a spell. Attacking would still work like normal and not swap initiative, which would encourage players to attack at the start of their turn. The advantage of this system is that it allows for counterplay and is a lot more engaging. It also eliminates the advantage for the first player.

What do you all think about these changes? Would this work in regular HS, or would it be better as a new mode? 

Just in case I'm not the only one who missed it: HSReplay has finally extended their deck tracker to mobile! Look for "Arcane Tracker" in your app store (Android only as far as I can tell).

I noticed it yesterday in a Reddit post with a screenshot. Played about 10 games with it. Seems to run smoothly, doesn't use up too much space on the screen, very convenient!

in the mobile application, how can I set the language ?

Time for some positivity! What do you like about the decks you like? For instance, I like the wide variety of combos in Quest Warlock, and I love how outcast and the amount of damage available make you think ahead in Tempo Demon Hunter. What are yours?

How are y’all liking ARAM? I think it’s pretty fun, despite some champions (Zed, Heimer, and Anivia) being a little too good. I’ve also noticed that the card buckets seem very random and include some very bad cards (like Lure of the Depths with no Sea Monsters). 

Please add a column "Your Cost" in the table of the results here: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/?is_standard=false&sort=-updated_at

You can just hide the column if the user is anonymous or does not have his collection added to the site.

I feel like the deck search and the collection upload is otherwise somewhat useless.

Excruciating. Feels like the longest wait ever for one. Wasn’t a big fan of AoO, pretty much why but I have a feeling this new one will be really good. Maybe news tomorrow. Sigh!

https://youtu.be/NeT2WlJlmRY