Hey, Folks. So there's a new Mythgard tournament happening on the 17th of November organizeed by 98.3 Media. If you want to participate, you should know that the decks MUST be Mono Color. Here are more details.

This should be relevant for any new players, note that there is likely to be a balance patch in mid Nov.

https://teamrankstar.com/guide/mythgard-mythic-crafting-guide-october-2019/ 

I miss (a bit) monthly threads we used to have in "that other HS forum" about our legend climb each season so, why not starting them here?

My objective each month is rank 5 (I don't play enough hours per week to be any more ambitious). I climbed very fast in the first days with Flamewaker so I was quite optimistic, but then I fell in a losing streak, so I switched decks. Neither Secret Paladin nor Murloc Shaman have worked especially, I've been in rank 7 for 2 full weeks!!! The grind is real this month...

I'm going to try Tempo Rogue now, I need a change!

For this thread, I'm just posting links to resources to help anyone who wants to know more about Eternal.

Many general guides, FAQ, and New Player Guide are included at the subreddit wiki here.

An excellent guide to draft, written by one of the best draft players in the game, is at this link here. The guide is great for learning how draft works. However, the specific archetypes and card choices mentioned in this guide are from the previous rotation, so they are not relevant anymore.

There are some very good budget decks that players have put together, to help you get into the game fast. 

Hyper aggressive - https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/d/-kJlbqMPm2M/true-budget-deck-for-new-players-no-rares-no-adventure-cards

Less aggressive, but still aggro - https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/d/vg8e-9xnGr8/budget-argenport-gunslinger-scums

Yet another aggressive deck (most cheap decks are aggressive): https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/d/NYuJCK2lNo8/a-budget-rakano-aggro

A budget midrange deck: https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/d/66GHn5IcezQ/budget-fps-mid

You can also search the deck website yourself for budget or starter decks, www.eternalwarcry.com

It's just me? or after the rotation of dual class, arena seems pretty op right now? i played few runs, on which i was thinking i have a really good decks, but a lot of the times opponents had insane opening, or really good card quality, like never before.

I think it would be a good idea to add an option to the card browser to only show cards that have 1 line of text or under 3 lines of text and so on.

Hey guys, I searched the forum and found only a closed hearthstation thread to this Topic. 

How is the roadmap providing a HDT plugin for scanning users Card Collection?

So this weekend a Mytgard tournament took place (forgot to advertise it here, sorry), and this little gem happened.

I'm going to explain what happens step by step:

• The Ironbelly Wyvern is placed on Giant's Stairway, which gives it +3/+3
• After attacking, the player replaces the Enchantment (which he can do because of his Path), killing the Wyvern
• However, the new Enchantment is Stairway to Hades, which revives the minion that dies on it and gives it Frenzy (this doesn't work on Demons, and the revived minion becomes a Demon)
• Because the Wyvern has Rush, he can go face immediately, and then play Wings of Abadon which also has Rush for lethal (the Enchantment there wouldn't have mattered)

All in all, a really awesome play. You can watch the whole thing here.

I was wondering if there were guides or stats on when is the best time to play Scavenging Hyena.

Should I mulligan for it and drop it on turn 2. Or mulligan it away and wait until much later, trying to make sure I can immediately power it up?

It appears one of the AI opponents found himself a new Majordomo.

Hello, there! In this article I'm going to go into detail about the economy of the game. I'll cover stuff like pricing, crafting cost and how easily you can get various cards in the game. But before I get to that I just want to say:

!!!!!!!MAAT!!!!!!!

The site's paragraph font really doesn't do it justice, so I'll just type it 3 more times:

!!!!!!!MAAT!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!MAAT!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!MAAT!!!!!!!

This is a system in the game made to ensure good sportsmanship among players. The way it works is, there's a small thumbs up in the lower-right corners of the screen. If both you and your opponent press it, you get MAAT, which is a sort of secondary levelling system that award you wild cards (I'll get to those) at certain intervals. If either player won't press the button, none of you get anything.

The reason I'm bringing this up so soon is because the function is poorly communicated to the players. It's barely visible, doesn't appear at all during the story segment, and you can't press it if the game start showing you your game earnings (coins gained, exp earned etc.), and I everyone that gets into the game to be very aware of this.

With that out of the way, let's continue to:

Currencies and Pack price

Mythgard has 3 major currencies:

• Essence, which is used to Make cards. You can also Unmake cards for a smaller amount of Essence.
• Coins, which you can use to buy packs.
• Mythril, which you can use to upgrade cards to Prestige (basically Shiny/Golden cards from other games) or buy packs

Essence and Coins are earned by playing the game, while Mythril can only be bought for real money. A pack can be bought for either 1200 Coins, or 15- Mythil. Here's a table that explains the options for buying Mythril, as well as the equivalent number of packs.

Pack contents and Wild cards

There are 4 rarities in Mythgard: Common, Uncommon, Rare and Mythic. I'll be referring to them as Bronze, Silver, Gold and Mythic respectively, to avoid confusion with other card games.

Packs in Mythgard contain 6 cards, divided as such:

• 3 Bronze
• 2 Silver
• 1 Gold with a 10% chance of an upgrade to Mythic

I find this to be a pretty good, considering you're guaranteed to have at least the second-highest rarity in your deck. On the flip side, you can only have exactly ONE Gold or Mythic in a pack. Those modifiers also apply:

• 14% of packs will upgrade one or more of your cards to Prestige
• 14% of packs will upgrade one or more of your cards to Wild card(s)
• A Mythic pity timer every 20 packs
• Duplicate protection for Mythics

You can also upgrade cards to Prestige using Mythril, though I personally don't recomend it, since the amount isn't worth it. Here's a table breaking down the cost of Making and Unmaking cards:

I've mentioned Wild cards, but I haven't explained what they are. They are basically cards that you can use to make actual cards instead of using Essence. They have the same rarities and colors as regular cards, and in order to use them, they must match the card you want to make in both color and rarity. There are also Wild cards that can be used to make cards of any color, and the game will automatically use those over the other ones when making a card. I you unmake a Wild card, you'll get double the Essence that you'd get from a normal one, but it's not recommended unless you have all the cards of that rarity and color.

So far, I think I've opened about 50 packs and I have 6 Mythics at the moment, out of 99. I also have 58% Bronzes, 47% Silvers and 31% Rares. There are a little more than 450 cards in the game atm.

There are also Packs that offer nothing but Golds and Mythics, but those are extremely rare/once per account (can't remember which exactly).

Story and Puzzles

The first thing you should do is play the story and the puzzles, since they teach you how to play the game, as well as give you a little gold. I won't go into detail here, since the rewards are sadly quite insignificant, and the devs are probably going to overhaul them soon, so this section is going to be updated. 

The missions tab

This is what the missions tab looks like:

There's quite a lot to unpack here, so let's go step by step:

• The first item is the bonus daily pool of coins. It works as such:
  • You earn coins from this pool by playing the game:
    • 120 from a PvP win
    • 50 from a PvP loss
    • 50 from a PvE win
  • The first pool depletes when you play any game mode.
  • The second pool depletes when you play a PvP game mode. If you still have coins in the first pool, it won't start depleting until you deplete this one.
  • The third pool is a non-replenishable pool that everyone gets. You start depleting it when the other too pools are done.
  • If you manage to deplete all pools, you'll still earn rewards as follows:
    • 40 from a PvP win
    • 15 from a PvP loss
    • 10 from a PvE win
• The second item is a bit confusing. You see, after winning a match, you get a free card. This item tells you how many cards you have left to earn.
• The third item is a series of quests intended for new players. The first few are relatively easy and reward you with Coins. The following are a tad more difficult and award you with multi-color Wild cards. After that something called a "High-Five" quest will appear, but I don't exactly know what it is. When I get to it, I'll update this thread. it's a 1200 coin quest that reads "win 5 matches", that you have 22 hours to complete. You can also complete it in PvE, which is recommended.
• The following 3 items are your run-of the mill quests, like the Hearthstone ones.
• Finally, there's the weekly chest. This chest can only be opened once every 7 days, with the first week starting when you create your account, and resetting every 7 days, NOT after you open a chest. So if you open it 3 days into the week, you'll have to wait another 4 for the next one, not 7.To open it, you must collect 5 gems, which you do by playing the game. You have a 25% chance to get one if you win in PvP, and a 10% chance if you loose in PvP or win in PvE.
• Update: Team Rhino has also added faction mission to the game. They are missions that you must complete with a specific color, but you can only complete one at a time. After you have completed, you will have enough gold for 27 packs, as well as the following for each color:
  • 6 common wildcards and 6 common staples
  • 5 uncommon wildcards and 4 uncommon staples
  • 2 rare wildcards and 1 rare staple
  • 1 mythic wildcard

Achievements, Levels and MAAT

As you can see, there are 2 more tabs in the Missions menu:

• Achievements are exactly what you'd expect them to be: menial tasks that progress as you naturally play the game. There are 10 of them, 8 worth 700 Coins, and 2 worth 900.
• Levels are also gain by playing the game. There are 99 levels and each level grants the following rewards:
  • Level 1 - 1000 Coins
  • Level 2 - 1 Pack
  • Levels 3 onward: 1000 Coins/1 Pack/250 Essence per level, cycling in this order
  • Levels 3 to 13: Paths and Powers, though those can be obtained trough other means
  • Levels 3 to 61: Portraits, though those can be obtained trough other means
• I've already explained what MAAT is. There are 99 levels of MAAT and each level grants the following rewards:
  • 4 Bronze Wild cards/3 Silver Wild cards/1 Gold Wild card/1 Mythic Wild card per level, cycling in this order. I'm not sure about the Colors.
  • MAAT 5 to 38: card backs, though those can be obtained trough other means

Codes and Starter Bundle

Finally, there's the Starter Bundle. For 10 USD, you get 10 Packs, 1500 Mythril (aka, another 10 Packs for a total of 20), a Path and Power and a few portraits.

There are also Codes the devs distributed trough their newsletter that give you 10 packs and a bunch of multi-color Wild cards, but I'm not sure when they will come or even if they will keep publishing it. The consensus online is that this is more of a patch solution until they revamp the new player experience. You can try and ask for some on Reddit, on r/Mythgard. Those codes are no longer available as of Patch 0.16.3, being instead replaced by the faction missions.

MAAT!

Sorry, just wanted to remind everyone of this. Hope you found this post useful and I'll see you later! 

I receive a letter today regarding an MNBA loan account from Optima Legal Services basically threatening us to contact MBNA before 22 November 2019 or face a CCJ.

It always worry me but has anyone had any dealings with them?

Just wanted to throw out that Jepetto Joybuzz is a very nice craft- especially if, like me, you like OTKs. 

I got to use it in a number of decks from quest Shudderwock to meme decks as Bombs Away ( https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/8156-bombs-away )

Just yesterday I had the pleasure of throwing a big axe worth 32 damage at the face of a combo priest, courtesy of Joybuzz. Love it! 

This just occurred to me, but is it possible to put both the original and event version of a card in a Wild deck? For example, if you own the WoG version of N'Zoth, the Corruptor, making a deck with two of them? Or does the game filter that?

I don't have any wild cards, much less the original versions of the temporary cards, so I can't check it myself.

Hey, folks! Writing this on a crappy hotel connection on my phone, so I'm going to keep this brief and badly formatted. About an hour ago from the writing of this post, a new patch landed that brings a lot of small changes, and a bunch of BIG ones. 

First and foremost  this patch introduces faction missions. They are special missions that must be completed by a certain color. You'll select your faction and be given it's mission, and you can change them outside of combat. Can't share a link to what they look like atm, sorry.

Up next, we have a couple changes to two of the paths:

• Turn of seasons had its starting additional life reduced from 4 to 1, and it's Pursuit had increased from 2 health to 4.
• Rainbow's end Pursuit was changed from reducing the cost of your first enchantment by 1 to giving you a Leprechaun's Coin that gives you 1 temporary Mana. 

Finally, Orpheum of Horrors stops giving your minion +1/+0

There are some other changes, but they're mostly cosmetic or bug fixes. 

Full patch notes here.

 Hello everyone, I just hit Legend a few hours ago and, after seeing my tracker stats, I wanted to share some thoughts with you (may even upload on Reddit if I feel like, but probably not).

Some informations: I started playing Tempo Rogue (with Eviscerate instead of Heistbaron Togwaggle since I didn't want to craft it) at rank 3 1 star on EU ladder. This is the complete list if someone is interested (it's the same BoarControl brought to rank 5 Legend a few hours ago).

Now, here are the stats of my climb (I'd directly upload a picture if able to do so, but for some reason linking it from Imgur doesn't work anymore...): unfortunately it took me a couple more games than I needed since at some point my Wi-Fi decided it was siesta time and I lost two games out of disconnection but hey, 69% winrate is still pretty nice.

As you can see, out of 39 games 20 were against Shamans: to be more precise, only one of them was Murloc; the other 19 were either Quest (16) or straight Evolve (3).

Mage, Paladin, Warrior (they didn't save the best for last this time I guess) and Warlock completely unexistent; a sprinkle of Quest Druids, Highlander Hunters, Deathrattle Priests (one was Combo to be fair) and Rogues (3 were Tempo like me, 1 was Deathrattle). And that's it.

I know that 40 games are not a big sample, but they are enough to give an idea of what the environment is in the high ranks. Another fact: out of the 6 last games that I played, 5 were Shamans (the other one was Rogue): at some point I really wanted to pluck my eyes out.

What I'm trying to do is adding evidences to the already existent complaints around Shaman. The main issue is not its OPness (in fact I went 13-7 against Thrall/Morgl/Rastakhan/the fat guy), but rather its highroll potential and its capability of generating resources out of a bunch of mana.

Most of the games I lost were because I got overwhelmed by an absurd amount of stats in the early game, which maybe just Warrior (Brawl) and Priest (Mass Hysteria) can handle properly, and a small part because of resource exhaustion, but the fact is that, at the moment, there isn't a viable strategy against it except going face really fast and hard: Midrange gets totally annihilated and Control barely makes it; the most favorable matchups (Vicious Syndicate) are somewhat unreliable (I explain what I want to say: as you can read in the meta report I linked, OTK Paladin constantly beats Shaman, but the problem is that it struggles against pretty much anything else, therefore no Paladins on ladder) and, given the aforementioned highroll potential, it's able to give you wins even if you're not a top tier player (yes: some of the guys I played against were so bad that I felt bad for them).

In the end, (Quest) Shamans are really popular and, the most important thing, it feels really bad to play against them over and over again.

Let's rattle off what are in my opinion some of the crucial combos of the decks that generate this situation:

• the Evolve Mechanic: Desert Hare + Evolve can be neck breaking for most of the decks (even more if the Quest is completed); to be honest though, this combo isn't the one that worries me the most, because that title goes to
• [Hearthstone Card (Mogu Flashshaper) Not Found] + Mutate: the 8 mana minions pool is really strong, with just a few bad pulls (Hir'eek, the Bat is the worst outcome, whereas the second worst is Heroic Innkeeper or Captain Hooktusk, which is still pretty good on turn 4/5), and it will stay in Standard for more than another year. You can try to fight for the control of the board in order to prevent such insane turns, but
• Heart of Vir'naal + Mind Control Tech punishes you really hard for playing more than 3 minions.
• In the meantime, you have to watch out for insane burst coming from Kobold Lackey, Weaponized Wasp and Life-fucking-drinker plus Bog Slosher.

So, you need to fight for the board in order to kill 8 drops and many 4 drops in the early game without having more than 3 minions in play, otherwise you'd dramatically increase your opponent's board while losing yours. How does that even make any sense?

I don't want to start a nerfing/babyrage thread (hey, I got to Legend, fuck them Shamans), but rather having a discussion about it.

Given that Shaman is a problem for the current meta and maybe the future ones (alongside with Quest Druid in my honest opinion), what do you think? What is the card that triggers you/you don't like to play against the most? Have you found any reliable counters (except joining the dark side of course)? If yes, which?

Feel free to express your opinion and to blow off some steam if you really need to ;)

Thanks for reading

I just logged in and got a message saying that the hallow's end event will leave in 3 days, I imagine that it will end when the next tavern brawl gets here.

Don't forget that if you have an un-finished arena run when the event ends, you will get all the rewards for that run plus another free run. 

About a month ago I made a thread asking if Frost Nova should be HoF'd to increase the variety of freeze effects that can be printed for Mage. The reaction was mostly negative, since too many freeze effects would eventually overwhelm mage in Wild mode.

That got me thinking though: would people be interested in a new play mode that uses rotating sets? Similar to Arena and the Brawl Block tavern brawls, you could only build decks from certain expansions. For simplicity, it could follow the same current rotation as whatever the arena is.

The idea is this lets old cards shine like they do in Wild, but in a way that keeps the meta fluid and prevents "solved archetypes" (so things like Rez Priest and Face Shaman wouldn't be insane forever). It might even let certain bad cards see the light of day without better alternatives. This also gives Blizzard more leeway to print similar effects to rotated cards and make them competitive, since there would be an alternative to Wild mode. Also keep in mind this balances Priest's ever-growing collection of board clears.

Thoughts?

I was looking into creating a budget deck. When selecting it from the menu, it filters with a max dust cost of 1600. However, if you use the feature cards (which everyone gets for free), then the deck cost will probably never be below 1600. Is there a way to incorporate this into the deck costs?

Do you think LoR has a chance to overhelm hearthstone ? This game feels play (just like hearthstone and unlike Artifact), it has a nice design and has a potential to get a lot of players from LoL.

It also come to my mind that Riot exploited Blitzchung affair to introduce the game in the best time, since a lot of HS players promised to boycott Blizzard because of that.

Hello everyone,

I was wandering what is your opinion and experience on the first and second class pick in new arena. Which choices in vacuum seem to be the best to you for those picks? Also, did you find some classes to be especially synergistic?

Maybe there is a good source for this that you use as a guideline?

I played too little to conclude anything. 

Thanks!

I tried to use the search form to find out about how to make deck lists or use shortcodes. I wondered if it might be useful to have a help section, linked to from the main menu, containing information about the site features available?

(I'd be happy to try help contribute content, if you want)

Just a quick recap of the new Hero Portraits for anyone who hasnt seen them yet. We will have them implemented properly later.

• Shan'do Malfurion
• Wanderer Rexxar
• Fire Mage Jaina
• Lightforged Uther
• King Anduin
• Cap'n Valeera
• Warchief Thrall
• Shadow Gul'dan
• Corrupt Garrosh

This site puts out the only consistent "Tier List" for various deck archetypes in Eternal. They do this once per week, based on a feedback form that players can use to submit their game data.

Note: This meta tier list is based only on frequency of encountering specific deck archetypes; it is not necessarily based on how well the deck performs. However, presumably, the most popular decks are performing pretty well.

This is the link for the current list. Best place to find the new meta report each week is on the Eternal Subreddit.

Tier List for October Week 3