So I finally gave battle scars a go, and I've been EXTREMELY surprised how successful it is.  And my deck list is not even refined...   Maybe I've just gotten lucky; maybe the archetype is so alien to everyone that their misplaying.  Regardless, I thought I'd share.

How's everyone else doing post-patch?  Any off-meta decks you've been pleasantly surprised by? 

With the way you guys rigged the shuffler Algorithm people can run 3-6 champions and maybe like 3-6 followers and 28+ spells.  This isnt MTG, stop thinking it is.  Control decks in MTG require multiple colors of mana, as well as the cards to deal with the board.  A mentally handicapped child with no eyes and 33 IQ could play your version of a "Control" deck,  please stop sipping off the special ed juice can and balance your fucking game holy shit.  The fact you actually paid someone for the last set of balance changes, and then an even more special ed in the mind person was like "OH MAN THESE CHANGES LOOK GOOD I APPROVE".  If the world was run by Riot we would be worse off than the stone age.  How much do you require people to spend on the game to change the shuffler algorithm?

is there a hidden mmr in unranked?

Deck Code: Deck:CEAQ2AIFAEHBAFAWEIRSOKBKGE2TQAABAEAQKII

Primarly focus on board control and hopefully getting hecarim to place at roung 6/7. 

Good against most decks only decks that give me trouble are: Heim/Ez decks

Control decks are kinda annoying but as long as you can get board control early on and doge avalanche you will be fine. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6-ktCOJec0

Hey. Please see the below highlight, I am not trying to gain publicity, I just want peoples opinion on the matter, as I think it's a recurring issue with Riots games, even LoL has bad wording, which is tolerable...  but a card game should be as clear as possible and I feel there are many lazy mistakes.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/554343236

Let me know what you think, am I just being an idiot, or should Riot get there act together? Yes it is easy to just learn and memorise how cards ACTUALLY work but that should not be required.

Hello everyone, I'm back again with another concept. This one will not be as long as all of my other ones and should make for a quick read.
This one is pretty straight forward and again, if there is anything that you'd like to add or are confused about, please don't hesitate to leave a comment.

If you've played physical Magic: The Gathering, then you probably know exactly where I'm going with this.
Magic: The Gathering has something that fans like to call "Full art cards".
And I thought why not try not to find a way to introduce it into hearthstone?

Please forgive the fact that the cards don't have an Attack or Health indicator, Hearthcards.net can only do so much.

So now we must ask the question, how are these obtainable?

I suggest for free, but not without effort!
But before we get into how we obtain these, let me just clear a few things up real quick.

In the collection manager these cards will stand out on their own after their "Vanilla" copies.
These are intended to be a long term investment, similar to the 500 and 1000 win portraits.
Each Full Art card will have it's own unique or semi-unique requirement in order to obtain it.

These cannot be opened in packs nor can they be crafted or disenchanted, please ignore said buttons pictured.

In order to obtain these cards you must complete the card's requirement
As above states, draw 1000 cards with Acolyte of Pain's ability and you will obtain both copies of the full art version.
Some requirements SHOULD be harder than others.
There will also be Golden versions that require more of the same requirement.

Not every card deserves a full art version, I think doing it for more notable cards would be best.
Here's a few examples of some Full Art Cards.

Embiggen: Play 1000 minions affected by this spell.
Ysera Unleashed: Draw 1000 Dragons Portals.

Archmage Antonidas: Cast 1000 Fireballs created by this minion.
Khadgar: Summon 1000 extra copies of minions with this minion's ability.

Shirvalla, the Tiger: Play this minion for 0 mana 1000 times.

Activate the Obelisk: Win 500 games after you've completed this quest.
Northshire Cleric; Draw 500 cards with this minion's ability.

Edwin VanCleef: Play this minion with it's combo activated 1000 times.
Pogo-Hopper: Trigger this minion’s battlecry enough to obtain +1000/+1000 in total.

Hagatha the Witch: Play 1000 cards generated from this card's Hero Power.

Armorsmith: Gain 1000 armor from this minion's ability.
Clockwork Goblin: Force your opponent to draw 500 bombs from this minion's Battlecry.
Dr. Boom, Mad Genius: Use this cards hero power 1000 times.

Hellfire: Deal 1000 damage with this spell.
Twisting Nether: Destroy 1000 minions with this spell.

Hakkar, the Soulflayer: Force your opponent to draw 1000 Corrupted Bloods.
Genn Greymane: Win 1000 games with this minions ability active.
Sylvanas Windrunner: Steal 1000 enemy minions with this minion's Deathrattle.

Some of those numbers seem high and I'm sure some of them are and maybe some of them aren't high enough.
The point was to illustrate what kind of requirements cards could have.

This is what it would look like with these cards in game.
You've played them enough to know what they do so they will be textless in hand.
When on the battlefield, your opponent will see the "Vanilla" version of it to prevent confusion.

That's really it for this post.
I'm sure other people have thought of this as well I just wanted to put my interpretation out there.
Anyway if you have questions feel free to ask.

Thank you for reading,
-Grif

Look, I could probably build a deck to get this done a lot faster. But isn't this just a LITTLE bit insane?

With how they recently reworked daily quests to be a lot easier, for the most part, why in the world sneak this one in?

I'm not saying it's impossible, far for it, but for only 50g, this is a REALLY tedious quest, and something you really have to go out of your way to build a deck around. I really think we could cut the number down on this one to something a lot more reasonable, like... even 30, I could accept.

 i almost reaching 10 tousand shards sould i spend some to not hit the cap? how much is the cap anyway? thanks in advance.

i know that might sound weird to many of you but since the nerfs to elusives and SI in general we got to a point where aggro decks hardly ever win a game against Ezreal/heimerdinger control decks that are using frostbite.

Right now the whole ladder that i experience consists of ezreal decks and its not likely to change anytime soon. 

The fact that frostbite makes it way too easy to shut down the board while a transformed ezreal is basically a game over if you aren't out of cards -what is not likely at all- breaks the philosophy of legends of runeterra that the board matters and that creatures are the way to go to win. 

What can we do to fix that problem? I think the best way is to change the frostbite mechanic.

My version would be: frostbitten units deal their damage after the enemies fighting with them ( basically give them slow attack) and lose elusive until the end of the turn instead of reducing the current attack to 0. 

It might not look like a big deal but it forces frostbite decks to run more creatures and not play 20 frostbite cards + 6 winconditons and removal for the rest. 

Maybe you have a different point of view but thats what i experience on high diamond right now

In my opinion yes if I were in charge I would make every disenchant cost equal to its crafting cost becase 400 dust for a legendary when it costs 1600 dust to craft ? No Thanks! 

it should be that if you disenchant a legendary you can craft a legendary (ect. ect.)

thats all i have thanks for coming to my ted talk.

I like going face.

edit: Yay! So many replies! Even the mods answered!

I'm no stranger to lose streaks.  But just had a winstreak of 15-0 from rank 11 to rank 5 (on Asia).   

39-12 from rank 17 to rank 5 this season as not played for a few months.

I've never climbed from rank 9/10/11 to rank 5 without a loss before and likely won't again.

(just to mitigate sounding like a brag post, significant luck was likely on my side and same deck on NA was giving me ~50% at rank 10! - so I'd say I'm average rank 5 player at best)

Feels good when things go your way doesn't it? :)  

So - what's your most satisfying winstreak (whether rank 50 or to L1 )?

Here's a screenshot of HDT so I can look at it when I get my next lose streak to make me feel better and stop blaming HS, RNG, the weather etc for me getting crushed :P

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Inspired by Riot's stated philosophy that every single card should have a home, I thought it might be fun and useful to look at some of the cards we rarely see in the meta, and maybe help them find their way.

Chosen completely arbitrarily, my first pick is Emerald Awakener!

I don't believe I have seen this one at all in constructed, apart from one intrepid deckbuilder who seemed to be leaning heavily into heals. (Turns out he didn't have enough offense to actually be any kind of threat.) In Expeditions, I've never selected it, and it always seems a little sad when my opponent has to play it.

A 3-mana 2/2 with Lifesteal isn't terrible, but it's definitely not good. A 3-mana 6/6 with Lifesteal is decent, but it doesn't seem like the kind of play you want to be making in the late game -- unless you can drop it with a few other big units for a massive push.

Would you say this is meant for a Karma deck? That would explain its scarcity, as we seldom see Karma, either. Would one or both of these cards need a buff before that archetype is viable? Is there some other Ionia control deck that maintains a big hand size where this would be a good fit?

If you've experimented with this card, please describe the deck(s) you used it in and how things turned out.

You need to cut the bullshit out with the shuffler algorithm.  Every single card game is dogshit now because you guys all rig the shuffler algorithm and think you're doing a good thing by auto organizing starting hand as well.  If you were to make a Runeterra trading card game, there isnt going to be someone organizing your hand and rigging the shuffler algorithm for you.  If you dont want your card game to be on the level of dogshit that MTG Arena and Hearthstone have fallen to, avoid the special ed approach. 

This weekend starts a new Gauntlet event for TESL.

We’re shaking the Field Lane up once again in The Elder Scrolls: Legends’ latest event! Get ready for the Mage Tower Gauntlet!

Mage Tower Gauntlet: February 21 – February 24

For this event, the standard Field Lane has been transformed into the Mage Tower Lane! Whenever you play an action, a random creature of the same cost will be summoned into the Mage Tower Lane. What sort of allies will you summon? Only one way to find out!

Each time players complete a run of this weekend’s event, they will also receive a premium alternate copy of Imperial Reinforcements!

Each run through the Mage Tower Gauntlet costs three Event Tickets or 500 Gold for each run, up to three maximum runs allowed. Players will also rank up on the leaderboards with each run - if you wind up a top-ranking player, you could receive bonus rewards!

The Mage Tower Gauntlet begins Friday, February 21 at 12pm ET and closes at 12pm ET on Monday, February 24. Events in The Elder Scrolls: Legends change regularly, so check in often to see what new challenges await!

Don't forget there's another ECQ this weekend!

[This] weekend the fourth Eternal® Championship Qualifier: Echoes of Eternity will qualify another top player for the Eternal World Championship!

ECQ: Echoes of Eternity will be our first look at how the new set shakes up the Throne format! Join in February 21 – 23, and you’ll also get the new alt-art Teething Whelp and premium card back!

ECQ: Echoes of Eternity consists of two stages: Qualifiers that are open to all players on Steam, iOS, Android, and Xbox, and the Finals that will feature the Top 64 players from the Qualifiers.

Participating in the ECQ requires a registered and validated account and email address. This can be done through the Options menu in-game. We strongly encourage players to register and validate their email addresses in advance of attempting to enter the tournament.

Drop us a line at [email protected] if you need help validating.

• ECQ: Echoes of Eternity will use the Throne format.
• All players on Steam, Xbox, and iOS or Android phones & tablets can participate in ECQ: Echoes of Eternity.
• The Qualifiers begin on Friday, February 21 at 10 am MST (17:00 UTC) and will close sharply on Saturday, January 22 at 4 pm MST (23:00 UTC).
  • No one may enter the tournament or start a new game after 16:00 pm MST (23:00 UTC).
  • Games in progress may be completed until 4:30 pm MST (23:30 UTC), at which time all scores will become final.
• Players can complete their games at any time during the Qualifiers; there is no benefit or penalty for playing early, late, or throughout.
• Bring your best Throne deck for 28 games, win-or-lose, in a battle to make the Top 64.
• You may only enter once, and you may not switch decks between games.
• The Top 64 players from the Qualifiers will progress forward to the Finals.
• ECQ: Echoes of Eternity costs 1,800 Gems or 35,000 Gold to enter.

• The Finals begin promptly at 11 am MST (18:00 UTC) on Sunday, February 23.
  • Qualifying players must be online and ready to play when the Finals begin.
  • You will receive an in-game prompt to join your first game when the Finals begin.
• The Finals are open to only the top 64 players from the Qualifiers.
• Finals matches are best-of-3 games, single-elimination, played with the same constructed deck used in the Qualifiers.
• There will be a short delay between the last active game in a round and the start of the next round.
• All games must finish before the next round can start, so watch the Bracket View.
• When it is time to play, you will receive an invitation to join your next game.

All Finalists’ decklists will be published prior to the Finals beginning.

• Prizes will be delivered upon conclusion of the Finals. All packs are from Echoes of Eternity.
• All players will receive four alternate-art copies of Teething Whelp, and a special Teething Whelp premium card back, just for playing!

• All players will receive prizes based upon their number of wins in Qualifiers:

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2-5	26 Packs
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• Additionally, players in the Finals will receive prizes based on Leaderboard standings, as follows:

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Join us for broadcast coverage of the Finals on Sunday, February 23 at 11 am MST (18:00 UTC), live on Twitch!

Special Twitch Drops will be enabled exclusively on the DWD channel during the broadcast — so if you’re not playing in the Finals, make sure to tune in to claim your share of the loot!

Get ready for the latest set to shake up competitive play in ECQ: Echoes of Eternity!

Hi everyone!

I recently came up with an idea for a Rogue deck that revolves around getting 0-mana copies of kronx and then decimating my enemies. 

It works pretty well all in all, but it is kind of streaky, sometimes the key cards are just burried in the bottom. 

I was hoping that maybe some of you have some suggestions how to make it a little more consistent. 

Thanks! 

Copy Rogue (mediocre)

Wild · Shuffle Rogue · by Teuton · 6 years, 3 months ago

• 0 Backstab x 2
• 0 Shadowstep x 2
• 1 Praise Galakrond! x 2
• 1 Togwaggle's Scheme x 2
• 2 Bloodmage Thalnos x 1
• 2 Doomsayer x 1
• 2 Eviscerate x 2
• 2 Fan of Knives x 2
• 2 Lab Recruiter x 2
• 2 Sap x 2
• 3 Edwin VanCleef x 1
• 3 Seal Fate x 2
• 4 Devoted Maniac x 2
• 5 Shield of Galakrond x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Flik Skyshiv x 1
• 6 Heistbaron Togwaggle x 1
• 6 Kronx Dragonhoof x 1
• 7 Galakrond, the Nightmare x 1

12,480 Dust 1,820 0 Copy Deck Code

Hello Guys

Well that might be kinda ranting but not too much ...

I got the update today and since then im having problems with the game.

it just shuts down during playing and that is a real issue because it just happens that the game doesnt even disconect, no it just crashes

So i had a REALLY strong Ashe tryn Deck wich destroyed everything so far with the exeption of a good drawing elusive deck which was sad but fine

so im on my "wildcard" and when i got back to the in the game ofc. i lost.

So then the game crashes again and now it just checks for updates ...

anyone else got something like that? (the crashing part not the lost game part)

thx xoxo

Title says it all. If you can manage to defend yourself despite having your life total halved (perhaps more than once), you've earned the win. Having Commander Ledros deal lethal damage at 1 HP means that if you don't have something to meaningfully diffuse his effect (e.g. Mageseeker Investigator), or if you're not already way in the lead, you're screwed.

I played expedition mode this week and I tried a new archtype I forgot existed in the game: yetis I didn't do too well in the expedition (got 3 wins) but I got inspired to try and make a working deck for yetis, at first I tried a mono freljord deck but then I realized I should try to include another region.

I tried noxus, also removed some yeti cards which seemed too slow and ended up with 8 yeti cards in the deck in the end.. added elnuks cause elnuks are strong and also fit the theme and the draw engine of the deck (the Trifarian Assessor) with only one buff elnuks will have 5 attack.

Played 2 games.. it felt strong but it might need more tweaking to be truly competitive.. here is what I have so far:

And I am aware nunu is not yet in the game, can we safetly assume he will be added soon though? since there are already many synergies for him (nunu will definitely have the yeti tag)

Remember this motherfucker? Skelesaurus Hex was a boss in the original LoE adventure from 2015. Its heroic Hero Power is "Add a random card to your hand. It costs (0)". Yes, you read that right. IT COSTS FUCKING 0. LoE in general had a lot of bullshit bosses (Scarvash, Slitherspear, ...) but this motherfucker is by far the worst.

You thought the Reno fight from the new adventure was bad because of the RNG. Wait until your get a FUCKING Kalecgos casting a FUCKING Power of Creation into Sunwalkers on TURN FUCKING 1. It took me several years to beat some bullshit adventure bosses, but those bosses generally become less bullshit over time thanks to new cards (I only recently beat Slitherspear with the Launcher+Venomizer combo).

But this motherfucker Skelesaurus Hex is different. Because of power creep, he becomes LESS doable over time because his Hero Power becomes more and more powerful. And that's the thing. The boss is not fun because, unlike all other bosses, there is no strategy against him. You just have to click Restart until you finally hit the 1/1000 case when he only gets useless crap from his Hero Power. Thas was even worse in 2015 because there wasn't even a Restart option for solo content.

I cleared all seemingly undoable bosses from Galakrond's Awakening (Reno, Lazul, Galakrond itself, etc...) with the Juggler+Test Subject infinite damage combo. It took a few tries to get the combo, it obviously took even more time to execute it, but at the end of the day I cleared everything.

I tried this combo with with this mofo for several hours and guess what? I could never survive until I get the full combo. Just when you think you can finally execute it, he pulls an Obsidian Statue out of his ass which obviously ruins everything because every minion needs to survive until the end and the Statue will inevitably kill one. Most of the time he kills me before turn 5 though.

Blizzard please. Delete this fucking boss from the game and give me my LoE Heroic card back I've been working for for 5 fucking years.

So, I'm curious how you guys feel about this. When you Shadowshift a unit that's currently in battle, the Living Shadow will battle the enemy unit instead. However, if you Shadowshift one of your units that's currently targeted by a spell, e.g. Mystic Shot, the spell fizzles out after Shadowshift resolves.

I feel this is inconsistent and the spell should hit the Living Shadow. The phrasing "in its place" suggests to me that, for all intents and purposes, the shadow should completely replace the recalled unit.

This is also (sort of) backed by a somewhat similar question asked about Stand United in this thread. Stand United uses the term "swap," which has the same gist, and apparently in its case, the spell hits the swapped-in unit instead of fizzling (I haven't tested it, myself, but this seems be true based in the thread replies).

just stack deck with stun/recall, handbuffs, yone etc. and enjoy stun city =)

shoutout to zephyr sage also

There will be a balance change patch this Tuesday in runeterra which cards do you think will be changed (buffed/nerfed/reworked)?

Disclaimer: Those changes are suggestions/my opinion, also it doesn't mean I am salty for losing to the "op cards" nor I meme with the cards I suggest to buff.

My list:

Buffs:

Poro Snax, Kalista, Trueshot Barrage (from slow to fast),Funsmith(from 5 to 4, not enough fun as it is),Midenstokke Henchmen(cost reduced, stats too),Shady Character, from 1/1 to 1/2 (harder to just kill), Lux (didn't see her at all..), Emerald Awakener (+0/+1 , base, +0/-1 on the buff still the same on turn 10 but sucks much less when played on curve), Scuttlegeist (5/5->6/6)

Reworks:

Deny.

ramp tools(overnerfed, nobody consider playing them).

Battering Ram - not broken in constructed but is in expeditions.

Nerfs:

Commander Ledros (+1 cost, remove fearsome),Fiora (3 targets required for level up, doesn't keep count with new copies), Elise (2/3-> 2/2),Shadow Assassin (2/2->2/1 OR 3->4 mana cost), Kinkou Lifeblade(4->5 mana or 2/3->2/2 maybe both),Navori Conspirator (3/2->2/2),Inspiring Mentor (on buff +1/+1->+1/+0), Rhasa the Sunderer (cost +1), Hecarim (Cost +1), Wraithcaller(4/3->3/3 no longer has fearsome),Frenzied Skitterer (cost 3->4), Cursed Keeper (token is 3/3 instead of 4/4).

Expecting changes to some frostbite cards they are too efficient.

OK I probably missed some stuff that is clear that it needs changes and Riot will surprise us with cards we did not think were problematic or cards that we didn't think were too good but they got the big data, the win rates the play rates..