It heavily favors aggro decks. I have a really good frostbite control deck that is fun to play and has a ridiculously high win rate. I have even pushed decks like Ezreal and Karma, Deep Monsters, and Yasuo Control to just running out of cards and losing to milling out. The decks not even made for that. Its just made to stall while throwing in chip damage here and their till you get the two finishers.

The problem comes in where I also have an aggro deck that is a net deck (Burn Aggro). It wins way less but gets more rewards. Like say I win 5 games in a row with the control deck and the aggro deck wins 3 out of 5. Well the control got more rewards right? Not when you factor in time. If the aggro deck can play 5 matches from beginning to end in the time that the control deck can maybe play 2 at most. Then the aggro wins out. So the aggro deck will get more rewards over time. Even through it wins less games.

So basically if you want to either climb the ranks or unlock rewards fast you will have to play an aggro deck.

I think the winner of a game that has gone on for a very long time in the form of rounds to complete the match should get more rewards than someone who just steamrolled the other guy in 4 or 5 rounds. Like for every round played you get more exp and rank progress for a win. Then balance it so if some aggro build wins 5 matches by the time the control build can win 2 they both will still earned around the same reward. It's just a question of if you want your rewards given in small but quick doses or large chunks that you really have to work for.

Hi all,

playing on iOS, and when I do a spell like rummage where I discard 2, if I accidentally hit it and dont want to do it anymore, I’m having trouble canceling out the spell.  I have to close out the app completely and log back in before my timer runs out.  Can anyone help me with how to cancel the spell?

for regular spells like Get Excited I can just drag the spell back to my deck, but I can’t seem to do that for the discard ones because my hand just magnifies and takes over a lot of the screen.  Thanks!

It happens a lot! I have had it many times where I mill like 3 cards and every single one of them comes back as the same card I milled. It's like the game is saying; "Oh you don't want those? Well, f**k you! You have been winning to much lately so now we have to screw you over somehow." >_<

\rant over.

My path to legend was quite simple : tempo DH to get to diamond fast then egg warrior, it seemed all simple until d3 but at this point I faced a TON of secret galakrond rogue which seemed to counter me pretty hard.

Then I remembered Odemian (French pro player from Solary) had a bomb warrior list, so I gave it a try. It worked wonder, I got 9-4  to get legend, including a 7-0 against rogue (yeah it was that many rogues!)

I also managed to win against priest, which was litterally impossible with egg warrior.

So here's the deck, don't hesitate if you face lots of rogues and DH.

Odemians's Bomb warrior

Wild · Bomb Warrior · by Gwavana · 6 years ago

• 1 Risky Skipper x 2
• 1 Shield Slam x 2
• 1 Sky Raider x 2
• 1 Sword and Board x 2
• 2 Armorsmith x 2
• 2 Battle Rage x 2
• 2 Bladestorm x 2
• 2 Corsair Cache x 2
• 2 Shield Block x 2
• 3 Ancharrr x 1
• 3 Bomb Wrangler x 2
• 4 Hoard Pillager x 1
• 4 Kargath Bladefist x 1
• 4 Wrenchcalibur x 2
• 5 Brawl x 1
• 7 Blastmaster Boom x 1
• 7 Bloodboil Brute x 2
• 8 Deathwing, Mad Aspect x 1

10,540 Dust 910 0 Copy Deck Code

Are there any general strategies for making best use of lackeys? Such as board states to look for to decide which minion to add taunt? What spells can you get and should you look for? 

Are there just too many options, or are there some patterns that you can look for an achieve fairly regularly?

I just had a game in wild where I was playing a rough battlecry shamen deck (not full meme) and I played a secret mage.  I lost mainly due to not drawing my heals and being stuck with Yogg in my hand.  Basically at the end I really wanted my final comment to be 'boring'.  This is a salty response so we don't want to encourage it but we can allow it within boundaries. 

So I guess the questions are, would we want this response to be available and how much would we be willing to pay for it.  If Blizzard sold me that emote for £2 at the end of that game, yeah I might have been in.  Do you have games where you'd pay more?  Is this silly or is monetizing our salt a viable strategy?

Hi guys, I'm pretty new to the game, as I started playing on Saturday. I was searching for information about the game and what are the best ways to get cards and I found this article which is pretty awesome:

https://mobalytics.gg/blog/how-to-get-cards-legends-of-runeterra/

However, when I played my first expedition (I ended up getting 7 wins), I noticed that no champion was given. Insted of a champion capsule and 3500 shards as it says in that article I believe I got an epic capsule and 2000 shards. 

I just wanted to confirm, Is this correct? Is this the actual reward for getting 7 wins in expedition? Or did I do something wrong? I didn't play my second trial, after getting 7 wins on the first, I quited the expedition.

I would appreciate an answer to my questions. Thank you.

Curious what everyone thinks of THIS as opposed to the typical Pilfered Goods combo. More specifically, using units dying to level up the Maokai as opposed to tossing cards which could effect your combo! 

If you don't know what I'm talking about, the full video for the deck is here.

Hello and welcome to my custom expansion Pirates of Vash'jir so without further ado let's get into the cards.

1. Pirates

Of course we have pirates led by the adorable Eudora herself and all of them will be aggro some will be more midrange or even control focused.

2. Auto-Attack Cannons

That's not all pirates are bringing to the table as Greenskin is bringing a variety of cannons for your use.

3. New Mechanic Sink

Sometimes in the Deep Sea things sink to depths and are left there until they're drawn again and cast automatically.

4. Ozumat Slumbers

Ozumat slumbers and you can awaken him. By logging to hearthstone and receiving him for free before the Expansion launches.

That's all the information i give you for now. So set your sails adventurer in Pirates of Vash'jir.

Demon Hunter

Themes: Dealling Damage, Demons and Pirates, Big Demons

Druid

Themes: Choose One, Attacking

Hunter

Themes: Big Beasts, Adapt, Control

Mage

Themes: No minion mage, Freeze, Spell Damage

Paladin

Themes: Murlocs, One minion

Priest

Themes: Mind Control, Silence, Control

Rogue

Themes: Pirates, Shuffling cards into your deck

Shaman

Themes: Sink, Murlocs, Elementals

Warlock

Themes: Discard

Warrior

Themes: Control, Pirates, Auto-Attack

Neutral 

So, it is a month since the release. Do we know anything about the single player content yet??

I think 'Nexus-Strike' needs to be Sejuani's Frost because the control on auto--freeze every game mainly when she is with a Teemo which can seemingly be played 3 times in a row in decks of cards 40 & above. Especially after having to focus on him as an elusive is quite ridiculous, alongside the fact that you get a million free popper-puffs so most every card is getting 1 puff on it. As you go through cards the probability increases drastically that you're going to get boned out of the game and simply become infinitely controlled as even with only drawing a single card you're about to get frostbitten to 0 damage... 

- Draw a card, get frozen, play one hero or supporting unit, kill it or use a spell to draw a card, then maybe play one final unit - that's the only unit you get to attack with.
- It's obviously worse when you're defending because you basically can't or you just take full damage and all of their heroes & units are still alive at the end of combat.
- Hero combinations such as Yasuo can barely do anything already against these guys... but I'd need to be Demacia or something with him just to buff him 3 or 4 times after he became frost-bitten just to then scrape by mana to get a stun out. But by that point you've used all of your '1-Mana Cost Stuns'. You're left with Arachnoid from Demacia which is a 3-Mana summon instead of spell even though the 1-Mana spell is a Slow one. Or even worse you're forced to use a '4-Mana Recall' just to remove a single threat.

Basically the idea is all her power is found in her level up and she will have a unique level up in the sense that she can also de-level. She will be a very weak 1/1 for 1 mana champion with no abilities. Her level up will work like a reverse Darius. If you have 10 health or less she levels up. But if you go back over 10 health she levels back down. This is because her level up is linked to her emotions. When you are lower than 10 health she thinks you need protecting and will summon her bear and if you gain more than 10 health Annie will de-level and the bear will vanish.

Now here is the interesting part. The bear is freaking massive! It's a 20/20 body that has a permanent bearer. So it can't be damaged in anyway and it can't be targeted by anyone with anything. It can only be blocked. That means even the player can't put something like elusive on it or some other ability out right. But it can be effected by area of effect spells or abilities. Like for example a buff that gives all allies overwhelm would work on the bear too. But remember that the bear is 100% linked to Annie. If the enemy kills Annie, they kill the Bear, and vise versa. If they return the bear or Annie to your hand the bear goes back into Annie and she goes into your hand. Also you have to be careful when he comes out. If he comes out and you don't have room for him he will instantly die and thus instantly kill Annie as well.

So its a bit of a juggling act. For one you want to remember to make sure to have room for her to level or risk losing them both. You also want to have some ways to heal yourself to keep yourself alive while the bear is putting in work. But you also don't want to over heal yourself and accidentally de-level Annie and lose the bear. Also you have to literally baby sit Annie and make sure she stays alive or you lose them both. Remember she is still just a 2/2 with no abilities when leveled up. But on the plus side the bear is a threat the enemy has to answer no matter what. Or else they will just keep losing unites to it and if you ever get a chance to buff it with something that will let it through their defense it will kill them in one hit.

Like being able to run up to 3 of any number of champions I don't think a deck full of champions would be strong at all so it wouldn't break the game it would probably just look tacky on the matchup screen.

Expedition: round 7.
During the trade, this happened:

I didn't have the card in the deck and it offers me to change it for something else. What am i supposed to do?
I don't want the 8 spell, but at the same time i want the 5 mana minion (i have it already in my deck).

I will skip it, because i don't want to take a risk in trading MY 5 minion for the 8 spell (maybe they were placed in the wrong order)

EDIT: i clicked on the trade button, then click it again and now it shows me the correct placement: the real offer was MY 5 drop for the 8 spell. I noticed it because i wanted to accept the second offer, and i found out that it was bugged as well: the real offer was MY 6 mana spell for HIS 3 mana spell.

Moral of the story: pay attention during your expedition

EDIT EDIT: 7 wins :)

It seems that Legends of Runeterra has yet to have a win/loss or match history screen (at least for normals) and because of this, I guess I'll never know the outcome of this match. After a long start with a major brick hand, I stayed alive long enough to reach "deep" with my Naut/Maokai deck and right when I was able to deal the finishing blow my game freaked out. I mean, it's all fine and dandy since it's just a normal game, but I'm not completely sure whether my internet cut out or if the other guy decided to just rage quit. In game, there wasn't any button to continue to the next round and when the timer went off, a new timer would just appear only to repeat and do nothing. I would expect a surrender notice if they did just close the game but after 5 minutes of waiting I got a "disconnected from server" screen and it pulled me back to the main menu. It was super NOT poggers and left me salty but the real question now is closing out your game and whether or not it prevents a win for the other player.

TLDR : I do big move and they potentially rage quit preventing my victory. (or was it just my connection cutting off at the worst moment)

anyways, here is a screenshot right before I got kicked out of the game :

https://gyazo.com/97cf8d183bf920530688a5c1db122497

Hello,

I always followed Outof.Cards from its RSS feed.
There's a little thing that bothers me: I'm not a player/follower of Legends of Runeterra and Magic Arena, so I'm forced to "scan" my RSS feed to find articles of Hearthstone.

Sometimes I find myself skipping the whole feed, disappointed because there are no articles that interest me.

A simple solution for this would be having separated feeds for Magi, LoR and Hearthstone, while also keeping the "general" feed.

Thanks for your attention!

PS: Sorry for english mistakes (not my first language)!

Hello again people! You guys seemed to like my previous WCDC spotlight, so I am doing it again. I am going to be trying to crunch these in before the end of the season. I decided to skip the treasure for now because I have no experience in those. Sorry for that, but I don't have any ideas how to review them. Instead, you get to see some copying cards. I chose this comp, so I really want to share some cards that fell under the radar that I thought deserved attention. Into the shadows!

Like last time, if you want to see more cards or check out the scores that these cards got, here is the link.

Long Shadows by Elvaeyn

Quite literal! I love the "add a 1/1 copy of a minion" cards. They feel nice to play for me. This one is no exception! Cheap, you can set up a combo with Malygos or Edwin VanCleef. Or add two more copies of Legendary you got from another class to your hand. One of my favorite cards of this comp.

Snareweed Golem By ShadowsOfSense

A less-controlled Splintergraft that adds a much cheaper and weaker copy of an enemy minion to your hand. It is an good card to play though, adding it when it dies at a later turn when the copy is playable versus add a huge copy to your hand, but let the bark rot for a turn. As someone who tried to make Gloop Sprayer work, I applaud you.

Senseless Potion By JFK

 Cheap and the additional effect adds a vanilla minion to your hand. That is a great effect for Silence Priest. You can silence one of your "can't attack." minions, then adds an already silenced minion to your hand. Value!

Allidar By RenoLord

Wow, another Priest card. Actually, there were 11 Priest cards made in this comp. I know that is their thing, but come on. That is 1/4 of the cards submitted. This one is the coolest one I have seen. Allidar adds a minion to your hand, and then if you are a totally big dragon (with a claw with the same durability than KNUCKLES MADE FROM TENTACLES and even less than a freaking STICK) you also get a copy on board. Even better if you get a big minion. I feel like this is a pretty good card and feels like Priest.

Ritual of Rejuvenation By KANSAS

 This card has some great Untapped Potential. (yes, I said it) For 2 mana, you can get a spell you played AND heal your face. Spell Druid could use this at anytime. How in Yogg's holy name did this get barely a 3 though?

Honorable Mentions:

      By Demonxz95            By MenacingBagel            By  Toble         By  Superkowboj1

OVERVIEW:

 Thank you guys for reading this. I will try to do 7 next time to show more. Tell me which comp to do next! Suggestions, comments, questions and concerns are always welcome. I'm a one-man band, so that will help me cater to you guys more. If you guys can share this to other people, that would be great! Happy voting for the finalists today. See you back in the shadows. Until next time, palaam ulit!

I’m feeling sorry for Std players, as the new class has been a problem since day 1. Even after the 2nd round of nerfs it’s still busted and polarizes opinions.

In Wild it not only survived the nerfs, but Odd DH still sits comfortably in Tier 2, playing similarly to good ol’ Odd Rogue. Great early, mid and late game. Good matchup spreadsheet, beats Quest Mage 50% (or more, with techs). What’s not to love?

Got Diamond 3 last month. Already Diamond 9 now and perfectly viable for legend. Other archetypes could even be playable (Reno, combo, hyper aggro) but I’m simply in love with Odd right now. RIP Albatross though...

Any other Wild DH fans out there?

With only two days on ranked ladder it is impossible to not face - 8 times out of 10 - either a OTK toss Maokai deck, a overly easy Nautilus deep deck, or in the worst case scenario, a combination of the two.

I found that Legends of Runeterra is an exceptionally unique and interactive card game that allows for a very large pool of meta decks that combine skill as well as elements of luck. The above decks offer neither.

I was very worried that the developers of LoR might create more archetypes that incorporated OTK mechanics - such as those in ezreal, karma and Ledros + atrocity decks - however, Maokai does not afford much counter-play or interaction from the opponent which i found LoR has always been good at designing. Ultimately the majority of previous OTK archetypes where based on what the person playing could do to earn the win rather than what they can do to stop the opponent from interacting with the game. 

I'm worried that archetypes like these take the fun out of the game to the extent you either join them or get beat by them, and where is the fun in that? It also doesn't allow the other new champions to shine or for crazy new combinations of factions.

Maybe it is too soon to judge, but there does seem to be a disastrous amount of results as it is.

Nautilus deep decks are fun, they just need a serious nerf because damnnnnnnn.

Regards. 

All cards are now revealed.

What are your favourite cards and what will you be testing day 1 after launch?

I am not a great theorycrafter so personally I will focus on improving what I already have, maybe a Yasuo deck.

And of course some Bilgewater cards will be tested by me, toss mechanic seems cool.

Hello y'all,

I really like to play rogue, and I really like value and control(which doesn't really fit, I know). Sadly I didn't open any  legendaries or epics for rogue this expansion, but after playing against Secret Rogue a few times, I really want to craft a deck with the secret packages. Any recomendations or decklists?

Do I need 2 Bamboozle?  I do have 3600 Dust and as classlegendaries: Flik Skyshiv, Waxadred and Bazaar Burglary, as well as full common and rare for standard.

Mech Paladin, Secret Mage, Sniplock.

Now we have Evo Shaman too (ft. Corridor Creeper and Devolve, playing on the board is basically a stupid idea).

Games are often sealed at turn 4-5 (through retarded cycling in one turn, making old Miracle Rogue look like a dumb clown).

I am not enjoying the game at all. The main feeling is hopelessness.

Even sitting at rank5 floor, it's disheartening.

My long-built collection is basically a huge sh1tload of a waste of time.

I am not just salty, i am extremely disappointed.

How do you still enjoy this abomination? If you do.

i was playing  expeditions today with a lee sin fizz deck i had upgraded lee sin challenging one anivia egg, my OP played  scrapshot on lee sin and i played  a health potion on my nexus but my lee din died shouldnt it get barrier and survive or did i misplayed? it looks like a bug anyone had experiences like that?

Now it is a fair card - and not a "2 mana: generate 5-7 mana this turn" nonsense we have today.

As in the title. Is it worth to craft even shaman in this meta? I wanted to grind to legend for the first time ever this month, the only cards i'm missing are Vessina and [Hearthstone Card (Storm Bringer) Not Found]