With battlegrounds currently rotating heroes around and they'll probably continue doing rotations, I think it would be useful to have a list showing the current rotation like Icey Vein's HoTS page. And, if there's one already could someone show me where it is?

P.S I'm not sure if I tagged this correctly

I'm preparing myself to play in Standard mode next rotation, hence I focused a bit on getting pieces for future Galakrond decks. Now, pretty much all of them have Kronx Dragonhoof in them in Standard. Should I disenchant some useless Wild cards to get him now or should I wait to gather more dust and maybe get him from the pack?

I really liked the Rise of Mechs event and wanted to try my hand at doing something similar for wild. I looked for cards that needed mana discounts to become viable in wild and I looked for cards that had cool abilities if I made them Battlecry and Deathrattle, instead of just being a battlecry or deathrattle. My hope would be that some tier 4 and 3 decks might make use of these changes, or that entirely new decks might emerge.

Let me know what you think!

It might be easier to look at in Imgur

So, I'm curious to know already, what are your current favourite non-card games? Let's find new favourite games! My favourites at the moment are definitely destiny 2 and halo reach, bungo knows how to do good games!

This deck is very simple. The best decks seem to play them selves to great efficiency. This deck does the same.

Massive Swarm Druid

Wild · Big Druid · by Millergram · 6 years, 4 months ago

• 0 Embiggen x 2
• 1 Biology Project x 2
• 1 Untapped Potential x 1
• 1 Worthy Expedition x 2
• 2 Bloodmage Thalnos x 1
• 2 Crystal Merchant x 2
• 2 Sunfury Protector x 1
• 2 Wrath x 2
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Ferocious Howl x 2
• 3 Swipe x 2
• 5 Nourish x 1
• 5 Oasis Surger x 2
• 5 Starfall x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Hidden Oasis x 2
• 7 Chef Nomi x 1
• 8 Batterhead x 1
• 9 Dragonqueen Alexstrasza x 1
• 9 Ysera, Unleashed x 1

14,200 Dust 779 0 Copy Deck Code

It is actually a massive swarm of big minions after turn 6, and it happens essentially 60% of the time.

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I hope it's not that difficult to make. I only play hs so the rest of the content is not relevant. 

Priest players, can you inform me how you beat Quest decks?

I'm a reasonable new player, but I managed to get rank 13 last season (second season of play). I face multiple tier 1 decks, and I know how to play against them, but Priest is always a problem (I'm currently 3-25 against the control variants with Quest and resurrect shenannigans). I can't seem to beat them by SMOrcing, but outvalueing the late-game is also not possible. These are the decks I have available (standard versions unless mentioned):

- Quest Paladin

- Galakrond ZooLock (without Sea Giants)

- Combo Priest, the Amet Inner Fire version

- SMOrc Hunter

- Quest Malygos Druid (with some cheap replacements like Novice Engineer > Crystal Merchant)

- Budget Galakrond Tempo Rogue (no Flik Skyshiv)

What is a way to beat Priest?

I've been working on this for a few weeks. I've been thinking of how this can be implemented into the game, how it rewards players, how it can pay for itself in the long run, and mainly how it can be fun. As we go through this, if you spot anything that I didn't cover, stuff that would be un-fun, or things that need improvement, let me know. If the player base stays vocal on this topic (maybe this thread) we might be able to make things work and bring some new fun to our favorite game.

The Basics:

The way the mode will be implemented will be similar to that of Tavern Brawl. It will be live for an entire week before maintenance/reset.

Cards/sets will be rotated in and out. This will give us use of older cards and while also taking away staple Classic and Basic cards. This is to prevent a stale meta. this is why Battlegrounds is a hit. Team 5 have been very vigilant and hands on when it has come to balance Battlegrounds, if they could use this philosophy with Tournament Mode (The one I'm describing) then it will last.

Rule sets can be used to limit deck construction even more. Rule Sets such as;
- Pauper: No Epic or Legendary Cards
- Stay Dead: No Deathrattle Cards
- Be Quiet: No Battlecry Cards
- This is My Main: Only Class Cards are used

Tournament mode can also use the Standard format, to make things more interesting since the Standard format Meta is more often than not figured out.

There are 3 different levels of entry to this mode, I will go over the rewards after I lay these out.
1 - Free: Everyone will get one FREE entry into the mode each week. After you have use your Free play, you'll have to play in the other levels. This free entry will also give you access to ALL of the available cards whereas the next two levels come straight from your collection. This mode will not affect your rating.
2 - Casual: The cost of entry will be 150g or your local currency. This is for people to practice in while still obtaining rewards. This mode will affect your rating.
3 - Competitive: The cost of entry will be 500g or your local currency, this is where the big boys go to play. Go hard, or go home. This mode will affect your rating.

With the introduction of Battlegrounds, Team 5 has shown us that Hearthstone can hold 8 people together enough to get through a game. So Tournament mode will be using an Eight Player Bracket. You will see your opponents Tournament Portraits and their rating and they can see yours as well.

This is a rough draft of what it will look like, match- ups are not set in stone:

With each game you'll have your rating changed according to how well you did, similar to Battlegrounds.
For example: 

Obviously it will go higher than 999 but Hearthcards can only do so much. Do not worry about the portraits at this moment, I'll get to that soon.

The Rules:

As stated earlier, there will be sets/cards rotating in and out each week to keep the game mode feeling fresh each week. This also keeps people from developing unbeatable strategies for too long.

All eight players will be matched together, you will all be shown what sets are in use, followed by being sent to the a collection manager inside the mode and everyone will have 40 minutes to craft 4 decks.

The matches will be best of 5.

You will be able to ban an opponents deck.

Once a deck wins, you cannot use it anymore in that game until the next match.

There is 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, and 4th Place.
- 1st place is the winner.
- 2nd Place belongs to the person who lost to the winner,
- 3rd place will be decided in a match between the two players who didn't make it to the final match-up.
- 4th Place belongs to the player who lost the decider match for 3rd Place.
- All other players will not get a placement.

There will be spectating in place for those who lose, but no cards from either players hands can be seen.
-The only match they can watch is the grand final of the tournament, this prevents sniping.

Once you have won your match-up you will sit in the bracket screen until a match-up ends, then you will be matched with the winner of that match-up. There will be  a two minute pause before the match begins to let the winner take a small break.
- This is your time to do what you need to do before the next match.

Rewards:

Competitive will grant the largest amount of rewards.

Casual and Free will grant the same amount of rewards.

These rewards should be;
-Gold
-Dust
-Pack Tokens for YOU to DECIDE which pack you want.

Rewards for placements will be;
- Players in 1st place will receive a pack token, some dust, and more gold than what 2nd place got.
- Players in 2nd place will receive a pack token, some dust, and some gold.
- Players in 3rd place will receive a pack token and some dust.
- Players in 4th place will receive some dust.
- Players below 4th place will not receive anything.

These rewards will scale based on if they are played in competitive or casual.
-It should be noted that Arena tickets should be given out in competitive.

Progression:

Progression comes in the form of Tournament Mode exclusive Hero Portraits.
-These will be rewarded based on how many games you have won with a particular class inside Tournament Mode.

Hero portraits will not be represented in the match-up themselves. If you play Shaman, you will be whatever Shaman you chose for your deck during deck construction or be defaulted to your favorite.

This is a great opportunity to use some old art, here are some examples;
Druid - 500, 1000, 1500

Mage - 500, 1000, 1500

Warrior - 500, 1000, 1500

So on and so forth for each class. Also, ignore the health for these portraits, I couldn't find any without health indicators.

These portraits aren't set in stone but it's a good motivator to work towards something.

Friendly Matches:

Friendly matches should be available within this mode.

A host should be able to make their own rule sets and decide what's banned and what isn't.

Friendly matches are free, and thus no rewards are given.

Things to Consider:

Deck boxes.
-While this mode exists people will want to keep decks they know work for next time around. There needs to be a feature implemented that way players who don't use 3rd party sites to save their decks (Like outof.cards) can, well save their decks.
-If cards in those decks are now illegal, they can copy/paste the deck code within Hearthstone to make a clone and edit it.

Splitting the player base:
-Some of you will have fears that this will split the player base and I totally agree. I'm not a Legend Wild player but I've heard it's slim pickins up in the higher ranks. My philosophy on this is the same from when I played WoW wishing for something like WoW Classic: "It's better to have a split player base than no player base at all." Agree with that statement or not, that's just how I see it.

How long will a round of Tournament Mode Take?
-This is probably the most concerning, and may very well be the reason as to why it hasn't came to fruition yet. Doing a round in tournament mode is and SHOULD be a commitment, it shouldn't be a throw away game because you're at 1 HP and think you've lost.
-It will take well over two hours four one full Tournament. Simply because players need ample time to look through what's available and decide what the best route is.

Is it worth anything in the competitive scene of Standard Hearthstone Tournaments?
-No, this is something entirely separate from official events.

Conclusion:

I think I've laid out a pretty good foundation on what Team 5 could do with Tournament mode. Is it perfect? I don't know the answer to that question. What I do know is, that I'm trying to help and I'm trying to get you, the players, behind this idea that we've all been asking for, for years.

Thank you for reading.
-Grif.

How much longer until hearthstone works again?

I'm in the process of slowly releasing a bunch of content on each individual region reviewing their strengths in various categories such as spells vs. champions vs. followers and I'd love feedback from as many people as possible! =)

The first region went up today and it is Noxus! You can find it here: Noxus Region Review

So what does everyone think about Noxus? Also, do you agree with the combo rating that I had for the region? Personally, I think the Crimson archetype has by far the best combo potential of any region thus far! 

Ok, to preface, I haven't been playing Hearthstone more than about a year. I started shortly after Boomsday released so I'm not familiar with a lot of the older broken and ridiculous decks that have come and gone. That being said, I really feel like the meta over the last several sets has increasingly given Aggro more and more tools whiles starving Control decks for answers to those tools. When I first started, I stuck with the Mage deck after the tutorial. I played other classes, but Mage became my favorite. And of course, Big Spell Mage was a powerful force at that time. It was a fun and interesting deck that I really enjoyed as it challenged me to find answers to my opponents' board state, but also contained enough tools to handle most anything. The two areas it faltered, was of course, OTK's and extremely aggressive decks when you had poor draw.

So I really, really like Control decks. I like to run more than half my deck and hell, I'm all for going to fatigue. I want to spend time playing a game. I want to feel like the moves I make, the timing in which I play my cards is critical to whether I win or lose. Forgetting Shaman for the moment, the last couple of expansions has seemed to give Aggro decks so many tools for summoning wide and/or tall boards that there are almost no control decks that can keep up any more. Hunter in particular has been one of those. The current iteration of Quest Hunter basically punishes any deck that either can't beat them down fast, or clear a board full of small minions ever single turn. Paladin has been that way too. They snowball so fast, that you really have little option in terms of counters if they have a decent draw. Rush Warrior has been crazy with all the  rush minions, and Pirate Warrior looks to be so much worse. Rogue has always excelled at keeping their hand filled, and going face again and again while controlling the board with spells and minion effects. Warlock is the traditional board flood/zoo class, and even they are having a hard time keeping up with all the minion generating and Mana cheating effects given to other classes of late. 

I'm just at the point I'm tired of so many of my games being decided by turn four or five. I'm tired of broken decks with little or no interaction. I want to feel like I actually have a chance when I queue up with a slower deck. Maybe I'm just not that good a player, but I'd like to think as much time and money as I've invested into Hearthstone that I'm at least halfway decent.

Anyway, end of rant. What are your thoughts? Does control have any real chance in the current state of the game? Or is Aggro the only real way to go any more? (Shaman not withstanding.)

I remember people being horrified when Galakrond, the Unspeakable was revealed because its hero power generates infinite value. However, as everyone is already aware off, Priest is in a terrible spot. The meta is highly focused on tempo and aggression and there's a certain very unhealthy deck out there that can kill you pretty quickly with good draws. Decks that attempt to drag the game to fatigue are just not viable.

But that's not the main issue. The real problem is Galakrond's Hero Power (Galakrond's Wit). It just adds random minions to your hand. What sucks about it is the high inconsistency. While certain minions can be good in any given situation (Mindflayer Kaahrj, for example, is pretty flexible), most of them are extremely situational or require the deck to be built around them to be worth anything (looking at you Test Subject). This means you can get some good stuff here and there, but most of the time you will be filling your hand with junk. This makes the invoke cards pretty terrible as they are meant to be low power level on their own but become strengthened by the hero power value. But that's not the case for Galakrond Priest. You are forced to add weak cards to your deck and the payoff may not even be worth anything.

What is even worse about this is that if the hero power was "Discover a Priest Minion" it probably would be just too good. It would pretty much always generate something worthwhile and give a ton of flexibility in your decision making. There's no balance here. With Discover it would be way too good. With no discover, it just sucks. Unfortunately, i don't see how this can become better. Priest got the worst Galakrond, the worst invoke effect and even its invoke payoff card is in a bad position (despite having one of the most broken battlecries out there).

So i wanted to ask you people: what would you do to make Priest's Galakrond better? What hero power would suit it most without breaking the game? Would you change something about the invoke cards?

I believe they could have given him something like: "Lifesteal: Deal 2 damage to a minion". That way it would provide board control and sustain without moving it away from a more control oriented playstyle.

I like the solo adventures, but have never been able to make a dent in the Frozen Throne. If you haven't played it, the computer hero heals back to full every turn, so you need to deal 30 damage in one go. Holding off some rather large minions whilst trying to build up 30 damage on board is difficult without expensive OP cards.

Well, here comes the infamous:

Galakrond Battlecry Shaman Day 1 - 69% WR HSReplay

Wild · Galakrond Shaman · by Fluxflashor · 6 years, 5 months ago

• 0 Mutate x 2
• 1 Invocation of Frost x 2
• 1 Sludge Slurper x 2
• 2 EVIL Totem x 2
• 3 Far Sight x 2
• 3 Mana Tide Totem x 2
• 4 Devoted Maniac x 2
• 4 Lifedrinker x 2
• 5 Barista Lynchen x 1
• 5 Corrupt Elementalist x 2
• 5 Dragon's Pack x 2
• 5 Faceless Corruptor x 2
• 5 Shield of Galakrond x 2
• 6 Kronx Dragonhoof x 1
• 7 Galakrond, the Tempest x 1
• 9 Mogu Fleshshaper x 2
• 9 Shudderwock x 1

9,600 Dust 5,891 4 Copy Deck Code

Simply invoke and trade until you have Galakrond, the Tempest and Kronx Dragonhoof in hand. This means that on the turn after playing your Galakrond, you will have 2x 8/8s, a 5/2 weapon and 5 direct from Kronx - which is 26 damage. If you've managed to keep a taunt from Shield of Galakrond or Dragon's Pack, then you're good to go!

Use the Invocation of Frost and Faceless Corruptor to slow things down and keep the board clear.

You don't need Barista Lynchen or Shudderwock. If you don't have them, swap them out for invokes or taunts to slow things down.

Yesterday in wild casual I faced a warlock deck I'd never seen before but it was quite interesting and semi-unbelievable imo. It seemed like an almost zoolock like shell that revolved around tapping into Expired Merchant and having no other cards higher than 5 mana except for Cruel Dinomancer so that it is always the guaranteed draw. What happens is that unless you are running a silence or transform effect you will eventually face up to 4 Dinomancers that can't be removed since they instantly rez each other upon death.

Well, since they decided to make the old adventures available in the in game shop now, I went and bought League of Explorers. Went through on normal difficulty fairly easily. Only really had issues toward the end, and they weren't too hard. Now I'm working on Heroic. This has been a bit of a struggle. I started playing after the Boomsday expansion, so I don't have a lot of wild cards. Mostly just from Ungoro, Frozen Throne, and Kobolds. I'm currently stuck on Skelesaurus Hex. I've tried some of the top meta decks available, including Galakrond Shaman, but the value from his hero power is just too much most of the time. I've got a full collection in the standard format and I'm looking for any advice on how to get past this one. Any help is appreciated.

Not having a clear cut identity is what getting priest into the problem in wild. 

We know that Blizzard's first priority is standard & wild will always be a red headed stepchild to them. So in the context of card design they will always prioritise cards that will work outright in the standard format, while its utility in wild is always an after thought. 

So with each expansion release we are seeing Priest constantly getting its identity changed. For a while it was resurrect which was not well supported & then came the buff one. But with the recent talk with them shifting divine spirit to HOF & Priest once again getting its identity removed, buff priest will not be well supported in the future either. The benefit of having clear identity is that some other classes are seeing their new cards getting trickled down to their Wild decks. Like secret Mage, battlecry shaman or thief rogue, taunt warrior, kun aviana otk druid, mech pally etc. 

Many of the previous priest archetype that didn't work in the past got no support (like shadowform), So now majority of them have made the entire collection to be filled with dead cards that won't get any support in the future. Many popular archetype didn't receive any support in future expansion either like Dragon priest, resurrect priest, death rattle priest etc. So once a strong deck is now losing its relevancy while weak deck being dead for eternity. While other classes are getting support from their standard set, Priest is getting nothing. Also they completely killed big priest quite successfully. 

Priest was quite bad against aggro & now days with this excessive aggressive environment in wild  it is getting shafted again. some of the deck like mech pally or secret mage have gotten to hard to counter. Attrition & control two of the strongest aspect of Priest gameplay are getting fizzled out as well. 

In the current situation I think Pirest has lost its relevancy in wild & won't be viable anytime soon.

Un-nerfing Raza will be a positive step ( not much but still a positive) but I don't think Blizzard will do that. 

is there any point in casting twice?

I've watched a couple streamers play it briefly but it honestly doesn't look like my thing (granted I have yet to give it an honest first chance yet), but as far as merely being a spectator of HS BGs vs mainstream HS the former looks a lot less interesting to watch. It seems so overly repetitive.

Again this could be due to me not having given it a first try. I don't even know how to play yet (which may be part of the problem?)

Does anyone else still feel this way?

Hello,

I would love to have an option to select which game articles to be shown for me. Honestly I do not want to read something else besides Hearthstone. I would love to see the same function like on the the battlenet.app - to be able to chose which games I want to follow. It bothers me more than I would have expected.

Just wanted to make a thread wishing you all a happy new year :)

This year's coming to an end and I'm pretty surprised I went through the Aggro dominance (be it Mech hunters, hand buff paladins, evolve shamans, Galakrond shaman, murloc shamans, even shamans and more) and haven't uninstalled Hearthstones yet.

This is mostly thanks to you guys who helped me keep my love of deckbuilding alive, providing card suggestions that made my meme decks at least 40% viable instead complete flops and even got one or two of them featured in the Wild Weekend Deck series of articles (which I absolutely love- the ideas are delightful). 

The nice community and pretty much flawless site made Hearthstones so much more enjoyable and God knows I've needed an easy after-work stress relief this year.

Fellow builders- keep helping each other and happy holidays!

Deck 1
Name: i am you but stronger
Regions: Piltover and Zaun (22) / Shadow Isles (18)
Champions: none
Mana curve: 0 (5) 1(6) 2(5) 3(6) 4(3) 5(6) 6(5) 7+(4)
Card Types: 15 Followers 25 Spells
Theme: Counter / Control / Competitive
Good against: basically everything 
Bad against: Champion focused Decks like Tryndamere/Anivia still easy winable thou
Rarity: 2 Epic, 25 Rare, 13 Common

Card List

Sumpworks Map 3x

combine with Chempunk Pickpocket to get the spell more easily

 

 

 

Goals
Early: get enemy spells in your deck, hold shady character for an good use with Parade Electrorig, build your counter deck 
Mid: clone some strong enemies, get really strong units with Ethereal Remitter , transmogulate, maybe clone some stuff you need to counter the enemy and always have a strong board

Late: you should be able to lethal Combo for Victory with The Harrowing and The Ruination , Possession, Atrocity and Fading Memories

 

 

Have Fun!! every game will play out differently.

thelovetoy

Hey, Everyone!! 

I'm new to the forums but figured since there's not much happening in the LoR space right now I'd share some content that I've made! At least in the LoR Reddit which I frequent, these cards seem to be pretty highly discussed in regards to potential nerfs, etc. What do you guys think about them? 

Top 5 Discussed LoR Cards

With the month ending it's time to get the new TESL reward card for players.

December’s ranked play season is ending – not to mention the year itself – and it’s time to introduce the next monthly reward card coming to The Elder Scrolls: Legends this month: Ayleid Guardian!

We’re returning to the Scout class with this month’s card! Ayleid Guardian combines Agility and Endurance attributes for a major payoff in Legends’ late game. Thankfully, weathering an opponent’s attack is the Scout class’ specialty. (That, and quickly ramping up their maximum magicka!)

Ayleid Guardian immediately creates a copy of itself in the other lane when summoned – netting a player 16/16’s worth of stats for eleven magicka! That alone is a sweet deal, but the Guardian’s benefits get even better.

Both 8/8 Guardians in play feature the Guard keyword, so your opponent won’t be able to just swing past them and close the game themselves. The Guardians are also immune to Lethal, so quickly removing them with a pesky Territorial Viper or Fighters Guild Recruit isn’t and option! Simply put, you opponent needs serious removal to deal with Ayleid Guardian’s powerhouse defense.

What are you waiting for? Head into the ranked ladder today to earn your Ayleid Guardian! As with all our monthly reward cards, reaching rank 9 in our ranked ladder by the end of the month will award you one copy, rank 5 will earn you the second and if you finish rank 1 or higher, you’ll get a full playset. In addition, if you’re able to finish in the top 1,000 Legend ranks, your playset will be premium!

hey everyone, i was running an handlock style deck back in uldum, and it felt pretty good but it was lacking a little bit of oomph, now with the new handsize support it might just be viable. I've tried to make it work for a while, but now I dont have all the cards to try it, so if any of you has them and want to try it out here is the list. 

DOD Plot twist lock

Wild · Plot Twist Warlock · by Fierytear · 6 years, 4 months ago

• 1 Mortal Coil x 2
• 2 Plot Twist x 2
• 2 Transmogrifier x 1
• 3 Augmented Elekk x 2
• 3 Dark Skies x 2
• 3 Faceless Rager x 2
• 3 Hellfire x 2
• 3 Sense Demons x 2
• 4 Defender of Argus x 2
• 4 Siphon Soul x 1
• 4 Twilight Drake x 2
• 6 Abyssal Summoner x 2
• 6 Aranasi Broodmother x 2
• 7 Valdris Felgorge x 1
• 8 Twisting Nether x 2
• 8 Zzeraku the Warped x 1
• 12 Mountain Giant x 2

7,820 Dust 799 0 Copy Deck Code

the main concept is that you want to cycle and multiply your aarnasi broodmothers, in that deck sense demons is pretty strong as it is a draw 2 and heal 8. Also you got very decent removals and giants. Transmogrifier seems like a very decent late game tool and the old broodmother shell i was running always felt super good. 

tell me what you think about it