Pirates! A Custom Battlegrounds Update

(Last updated 3/26/20)

Pirates have arrived to plunder the Battlegrounds! This is a custom Battlegrounds expansion I've been working on. I'm hoping to add a couple more minions (and if there are any balance issues let me know), but here's what I have so far.

The Cards!

Credits!

All cards made with Hearthcards

Artwork credits can be found in my Imgur gallery for the set here.

Thank you for reading, let me know what you think and what I can improve!

Hey so just got my complimentary dust and was about to dust my copies also when I noticed its just normal rates on those cards so 400 for a leg and 100 for an epic. Just wanted to check this was correct before I dust them thanks. 

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Just found this guy in Bob's Tavern after the update. I don't think it was revealed before now so I thought I'd share.

So when does the update for today drop?

Hi folks,

in old adventures one needed to open about 140 packs to get a "complete" collection, with all necessary cards, if a few legendaries were crafted with dust.

What do you think this number will be, when the duplicate protection hits?

I bought the 90 packs bundle, have about 8k gold and 16k dust. 

How many packs shall i buy additionally with gold? or is it wiser to spend all the dust?

Blizzard just posted the new free decks for new and returning players on Reddit. You'll get them on March 26th if you haven't logged on for 4 months before March 17th. Which one do you guys think is strongest?

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\Free deck only available to players who have not logged into Hearthstone in the past 4 months beginning on March 17, 2020. Limit one per account.*

Trees are Friends
Class: Druid

2x (1) Acornbearer
2x (1) Treenforcements
2x (2) Dreamway Guardians
1x (2) Keeper Stalladris
2x (2) Power of the Wild
2x (2) Rising Winds
2x (2) Shrubadier
2x (3) BEEEES!!!
2x (3) Blessing of the Ancients
2x (3) Savage Roar
2x (4) Garden Gnome
2x (5) Aeroponics
2x (5) Anubisath Defender
2x (5) Force of Nature
1x (7) Goru the Mightree
2x (8) The Forest's Aid

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Unseal the Vault
Class: Hunter

2x (1) Clear the Way
2x (1) Tracking
1x (1) Unseal the Vault
2x (2) Hench-Clan Hogsteed
2x (2) Knife Juggler
2x (2) Licensed Adventurer
2x (2) Questing Explorer
2x (3) Desert Spear
2x (3) Diving Gryphon
2x (3) Unleash the Hounds
2x (4) Bone Wraith
2x (4) Cult Master
1x (4) Sky Gen'ral Kragg
2x (5) Faceless Corruptor
2x (6) Swarm of Locusts
1x (7) Shu'ma
1x (10) Sea Giant

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Reno's Riches
Class: Mage

1x (1) Arcane Breath
1x (1) Learn Draconic
1x (1) Ray of Frost
1x (2) Ancient Mysteries
1x (2) Doomsayer
1x (2) Frostbolt
1x (2) Zephrys the Great
1x (3) Arcane Amplifier
1x (3) Arcane Intellect
1x (3) Flame Ward
1x (3) Frost Nova
1x (3) Ice Barrier
1x (3) Scalerider
1x (4) Azure Explorer
1x (4) Bone Wraith
1x (4) Conjurer's Calling
1x (4) Fireball
1x (4) Polymorph
1x (4) Twilight Drake
1x (5) Big Ol' Whelp
1x (5) Cobalt Spellkin
1x (6) Blizzard
1x (6) Dragoncaster
1x (6) Evasive Wyrm
1x (6) Khartut Defender
1x (6) Reno the Relicologist
1x (7) Flamestrike
1x (8) Power of Creation
1x (8) Twin Tyrant
1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza

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Lightforged Retribution
Class: Paladin

2x (1) Brazen Zealot
2x (2) Air Raid
2x (2) Argent Protector
2x (2) Micro Mummy
2x (2) Sanctuary
2x (2) Sandwasp Queen
2x (2) Shotbot
2x (3) Aldor Peacekeeper
2x (3) Sky Claw
2x (4) Blessing of Kings
2x (4) Consecration
2x (4) Lightforged Zealot
2x (5) Amber Watcher
1x (6) Pharaoh's Blessing
2x (7) Lightforged Crusader
1x (8) Tirion Fordring

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Day of the Dead
Class: Priest

2x (0) Forbidden Words
1x (1) Holy Smite
2x (2) Penance
2x (2) Shadow Word: Death
2x (2) Shadow Word: Pain
2x (3) Breath of the Infinite
1x (4) Archmage Vargoth
2x (4) Holy Nova
1x (4) Mass Dispel
2x (4) Psychopomp
2x (5) Convincing Infiltrator
2x (5) Sandhoof Waterbearer
2x (6) Khartut Defender
2x (8) Batterhead
1x (8) Catrina Muerte
2x (9) Mass Resurrection
2x (9) Plague of Death

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Galakrond's Guile
Class: Rogue

2x (0) Backstab
2x (0) Shadowstep
2x (1) Bloodsail Flybooter
2x (1) Pharaoh Cat
2x (1) Praise Galakrond!
2x (2) Eviscerate
2x (2) Sap
1x (3) Edwin VanCleef
2x (3) EVIL Miscreant
2x (3) Seal Fate
2x (3) SI:7 Agent
2x (4) Devoted Maniac
2x (5) Faceless Corruptor
2x (5) Shield of Galakrond
1x (6) Heistbaron Togwaggle
1x (6) Kronx Dragonhoof
1x (7) Galakrond, the Nightmare

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Galakrond's Fury
Class: Shaman

2x (1) Earth Shock
2x (2) Invocation of Frost
1x (2) Witch's Brew
2x (3) Far Sight
2x (3) Mana Tide Totem
2x (4) Devoted Maniac
2x (4) Hex
1x (4) The Fist of Ra-den
2x (5) Dragon's Pack
1x (5) Faceless Corruptor
2x (5) Hagatha's Scheme
2x (5) Shield of Galakrond
2x (6) Corrupt Elementalist
1x (6) Kronx Dragonhoof
2x (7) Earthquake
1x (7) Galakrond, the Tempest
2x (8) Walking Fountain
1x (10) Eye of the Storm

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Galakrond's Malice
Class: Warlock

2x (1) Beaming Sidekick
2x (1) Flame Imp
2x (1) Murmy
2x (1) Sinister Deal
2x (1) Voidwalker
1x (2) EVIL Cable Rat
2x (2) EVIL Genius
2x (2) Knife Juggler
2x (3) Dragonblight Cultist
2x (4) Devoted Maniac
2x (4) Fiendish Rites
2x (4) Veiled Worshipper
1x (5) Dark Pharaoh Tekahn
2x (5) Shield of Galakrond
1x (6) Kronx Dragonhoof
1x (7) Galakrond, the Wretched
2x (10) Sea Giant

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Drop the Ancharrr!
Class: Warrior

2x (1) Blazing Battlemage
2x (1) Sky Raider
2x (1) Southsea Deckhand
2x (1) Upgrade!
2x (2) Bloodsail Raider
2x (2) Parachute Brigand
1x (3) Ancharrr
2x (3) Livewire Lance
2x (3) Skybarge
2x (3) Southsea Captain
2x (4) Dread Corsair
2x (4) Hoard Pillager
2x (4) Kor'kron Elite
2x (4) Mortal Strike
2x (5) Arcanite Reaper
1x (5) Captain Greenskin

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One of the major problems with elusives is that they cut down on the interactivity within the game, and early elusives can just keep hitting your nexus every turn with no way to prevent it. However, elusives do serve a purpose of providing direct nexus damage to close out games, which needs to be preserved in a rework of the elusive keyword.

My solution would be to change elusive to “This unit strikes the enemy nexus before its blocker, if the blocker does not have elusive”

This way, elusives would always be able to get at least one hit on the enemy nexus, but they would be vulnerable to being removed by enemy units. It also still keeps the flavor of elusive because it would be like the elusive units are able to evade their blocker and hit the enemy nexus first. The main issue I see with this is that champions like Teemo and Ezreal wouldn’t work as well, so these champions could be reworked or given “can only be blocked by elusives” instead of elusive.

I dont know if i saw it right and i cant find it anymore, but i thought every class would have a dormant minion, but i didnt saw any from shaman and rogue. is there anymore cards that are going to be released or they arent going to give those a dormant minion? 

I didn't see a thread on this, apologize if there is one but the audio for the new cards have been leaked. While we don't know what the cards do, we do know the champions that will be coming out! Anyone excited for a certain champion despite not knowing what they do?

https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/League_of_Legends_Wiki:Manual_of_Style/LoR_Audio/Sandbox?useskin=oasis

New Region Mount Targon
Aurelion Sol
Soraka
Zoe
Leona
Diana
Taric

New Region Blidgewater
Nautilus
Miss Fortune
Tahm Kench
Fizz
Gankplank
Twisted Fate

New Frejord Champions
Sejuani
Trundle

New Demician Champions
Shyvanna
Quinn

New Noxus Champion
Swain
Riven?

Piltover & Zuan
Viktor (Go me!)
Vi

Ionia Champions
Lee Sin
Lulu?

Shadow Isles Champions
Maokai
Noctrune

^Title. I'm not saying I'm close to doing this at all (I've currently only gotten all of the rewards for one region) but I'm just curious. It may not be relevant right now but eventually there will probably be quite a lot of people who will have completed all of the regions and even if there will be new ones, Riot can't add regions forever. And if those people also get their vault to lvl 13 in a week, it will result in any experience earned being useless.

I think a solution could be to add continuous region rewards for after you've completed a region (or all regions), which should be less efficient in the amount of value they give for the amount of exp that is required for them. For example, let's say you've completed Demacia. If you still want to get more Demacia cards, you will continue to follow the following "reward path" which resets every time you complete it:

1000 exp for a random common -> 2000 exp for a random rare -> 3000 exp for a random epic -> 4000 exp for a random champion

I'm not saying these should be the exact amounts of required exp or the exact rewards of course, but for someone who completes their daily quest and gets the bonus exp for the first few wins every day, getting the random champion would take about 4-5 days, which I think is pretty fair. It's also up to Riot to decide whether they want to make this region specific or not (but the former would be more appreciated :p).

Another thing Riot could do is allow you to reset all regions after you've completed them, or they could add more region rewards to each region in the future.

Please let me know if you know whether anything happens after getting all region rewards, and what you think about my proposition.

A new Legendary Demon Hunter Minion, Altruis the Outcast, has been revealed!

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Had this on my mind lately, but held off posting since it felt like it was destined for Front Page treatment. Somewhat self-explanatory. I've mained either Hunter or Rogue since at least Kobolds and Catacombs, bouncing back and forth when the playstyle of one or the other becomes boring or oppressive. So I've spent a considerable amount of time recently thinking what Leeroy's imminent Hall of Faming means for the go-to closer of a huge proportion of decks. 

I'd be interested in two questions:

1) For those of you who can barely imagine life without Leeroy, what are you thinking of as a replacement? Reckless Rocketeer, for 1 more mana with 1 less damage, obviously isn't a worthwhile substitute. 

2) Do you anticipate any shifts in the meta in response to Leeroy's removal? The number of times that I have either won or lost purely because Leeroy delivered the exact amount of damage required to end the game is almost hysterically high: whether the matchup is Mech Paladin or Galakrond Warrior, you can play a near perfect game and get suffocated by a well-timed Leeroy at the end. One of the interesting variables I see here is the timing of the Hall of Fame patch. With only half a week until the end of the season, a lot of more aggro decks will have to orchestrate a quick pivot within a fairly compressed window before new cards can fill the void.

Well guys, 

All good things must come to an end. And one of those good things coming to an end with this rotation is Mecha'thun.

Another good thing coming to an end is Venomizer + Missile Launcher. 

Since Boomsday I've been toying around with this concept, and here is the latest (and last) iteration:

Mecha'thun Hunter

Wild · Control Hunter · by boinkydoinky · 6 years, 3 months ago

• 1 Flare x 1
• 1 Springpaw x 2
• 1 Tracking x 2
• 2 Explosive Trap x 1
• 2 Freezing Trap x 2
• 2 Galvanizer x 2
• 2 Goblin Prank x 1
• 2 Misdirection x 1
• 2 Novice Engineer x 2
• 2 Phase Stalker x 2
• 2 Snake Trap x 1
• 2 Snipe x 1
• 2 Venomizer x 2
• 3 Diving Gryphon x 2
• 3 Master's Call x 2
• 3 Ursatron x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Missile Launcher x 2
• 10 Mecha'thun x 1

6,200 Dust 2,289 0 Copy Deck Code

I thought I'd take this chance to spread the gospel of Mecha'thun one last time.

If anyone else has a cool Mecha'thun deck, I'd love to take a look.

Hi! My name is Jude Quinn!. I just started playing hearthstone and got in love with battlegrounds with its RNG and unique heroes. I decided to create a youtube channel to track my progress. I started from 4k and after a week ended up at 6k MMR. Since I want to track my progress, I'm uploading my games twice daily on my channel. I really do love some comments and feedbacks from people. I always take it as an opportunity to improve my MMR. My goal is to continue grow my MMR. I hope you can support me by subscribing and liking my videos. I'm also doing weekly giveaways of two 15 packs bundle (expansion of your choosing). Mechanics will be at my channel, and winners will be announced every Thursday on my videos! Thank you for your support!

Here's my latest upload.

I know I can create fireside gathering for packs opening on the 3rd April.

Any one know what time UTC or any other time should I make this event.

Is it for all the day or start only in the evening (time please)

TY

I know this is a bit of early for asking these questions but I think that maybe i missed some answers of them around web and maybe you know some of them so I wanted to ask here. If you know any answers or any information that has been answered by development team, please share with sources.
Also, if you have some questions like me, just ask it. I will add it here if it is an unanswered one.

I will edit the post if we got some answers with source.

I will spare them on titles as; Standard and Wild.

Standard

1. Will Zephrys the Great offer Demon Hunter cards ? ( Kayn Sunfury for example)

Wild

1. Will Sir Finley Mrrgglton offer the Demon Hunter hero power aswell ?
2. What happens if we play Justicar Trueheart with Demon Hunter ? I mean, Will there be an upgraded Hero Power for Demon Hunter aswell ? I'm asking this because we see some cards that interacts with upgraded hero powers like; Sir Finley of the Sands etc. So I assume we might see some in future aswell.
3. Another question for Upgraded Hero Power. What will happen if we use Baku the Mooneater in an Odd Demon Hunter deck ? Also will Genn Greymane and Even-cost archetype be completely useless for Demon Hunter ?
4. It won't probably but, Will Demon Hunter can use one of the MSoG's crime family cards ?
5. Will Whizbang the Wonderful give Demon Hunter decks aswell ?

Misc.
This question is a bit personal question and more like a request with the hope that someone from Blizzard reads here just because I love to play Dungeon Run, Rumble Run etc.

1. Do we able to play older adventures with Demon Hunter. I mean, I know we can play with constructed decks in some adventures but i meant the dungeon-type adventures and we will be offered to choose demon hunter to start withor not.
   
   Also, It would be so nice if older adventures such as Rumble Run and Dungeon Run have future support and get some offers for newer cards. I'm playing Dungeon runs from time to time and it is really sad to see that There are not cards that released after Kobolds & Catacombs.

Competition Theme: Ménagerie à Trois

For this competition, we want you to care about minion types (or tribes, or whatever you want to call them).

• You must create a minion with a minion type
  • The accepted types are Beast, Demon, Dragon, Elemental, Mech, Murloc, Pirate and Totem
• Your minion must have an effect that interacts with a different minion type than its own
  • Some examples include Hungry Crab, Zoobot and Skyfin

Welcome back to another competition, this time from shaveyou!

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Hi fellow HS people

I've had a Challenge a Friend quest on all 3 regions in the last day or so.  Probably coincidence of course, but I wondered if anyone else had noticed anything similar.

Perhaps a server-side quest bias was changed to make this more likely in order to combat challenges to morale in these difficult times.

Probably silly for me to suggest it but I'm stuck at home bored :P

So recently on all profiles (at least on my end), the picture instead of being its normal square is instead squished into a weird rectangle. Not a major issue but I figured I would still report it.

I'm wondering if any of you is using Malygos or Prophet Velen deck with good results (in wild) ?

I never played one because i don't have Malygos yet. As for the Velen I was able to put my hands on golden one because of HoF.

I guess most of you allready know the one or the other verison of this deck. Dane is one who made it popular.

I played against it on about Rank 300 Legend and I am not sure what to think about it. Some games I won, some I lost - and the one I lost I felt totally helpless about the things the Druid did. It is one of this "I do my thing and you can watch it, while you dying"-decks I think is not healthy for the game.

And when I hear things like, this deck can even kill you on turn 4 or 3 (as I heared) this sounds to "highrolly" for me.

I didn`t play this deck for myself yet, so I don`t really know, how consistent it is and against what decks it is weak against.

So tell my, what do you think about this deck:

Is it allready too powerfull and needs a nerf?

Is it fine because of certain weaknesses?

Or is it just too early to judge about it?

As the title implies, I've seen a few images and videos of the game, but my interest is piqued regarding the game.

What are some draws to this game versus Hearthstone? (As someone who has played HS since it's beta)

I guess I'm asking for Pros and Cons.  How easy is it to gather a viable collection as a casual player versus Hearthstone? (I buy the 80 dollar expansion pack in Hearthstone each expansion, I'm fine with that, but want to get a comparison on cost analysis between the two)

What are your favorite moments of Runeterra?  Also, I don't plan on stopping Hearthstone, I think they both are probably fun games in different ways, but I'm curious if it's worth investing both time and/or money into Legends of Runeterra at this time.

Thanks in advance!

One of the favourite things about reveal season are theorycrafting wacky OTK decks that probably won't work, but will be amazing if they do even once. What are some crazy concoctions that you have thought up? These are two of my ideas:

Kael'Thas Malygos Maiev OTK Quest Druid

Wild · Malygos Druid · by Erodos · 6 years, 3 months ago

• 0 Innervate x 2
• 0 Moonfire x 2
• 1 Untapped Potential x 1
• 1 Worthy Expedition x 2
• 2 Crystal Merchant x 2
• 2 Rising Winds x 2
• 2 Wrath x 2
• 3 Archspore Msshi'fn x 1
• 3 Swipe x 2
• 4 Maiev Shadowsong x 1
• 5 Anubisath Defender x 2
• 5 Nourish x 2
• 5 Oasis Surger x 2
• 5 Starfall x 2
• 6 Hidden Oasis x 2
• 6 Kael'thas Sunstrider x 1
• 8 Cenarius x 1
• 9 Malygos x 1

12,120 Dust 1,510 0 Copy Deck Code

Leoroxx King Krush OTK Hunter

Wild · Beast Hunter · by Erodos · 6 years, 3 months ago

• 1 Dwarven Sharpshooter x 2
• 1 Tracking x 2
• 2 Loot Hoarder x 2
• 2 Scavenger's Ingenuity x 2
• 3 Animal Companion x 2
• 3 Deadly Shot x 2
• 3 Desert Spear x 2
• 3 Primordial Explorer x 1
• 3 Ramkahen Wildtamer x 2
• 3 Stormhammer x 2
• 3 Unleash the Hounds x 2
• 4 Scrap Shot x 2
• 5 Big Ol' Whelp x 2
• 5 Rotnest Drake x 2
• 6 Veranus x 1
• 8 Beastmaster Leoroxx x 1
• 9 King Krush x 1

6,800 Dust 8,530 2 Copy Deck Code

Any chance or news if they will do anything with Sacrificial Pact? For example, making it only affect friendly demons.

With the release of ashes of outland, they have printed a lot of demons for all classes. The demon condition seems to be less situational with all classes likely running demons. For instance With Magtheridon, sac pact could easily be destroy an enemy 12/12, heal 5, for zero mana! A huge tempo swing.

Will Blizzard ever create spells that change cost with hand size or minions on board, or even something else?

Would it even be a useful addition?