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).

Tempo Rogue [Season 67; 3734]

Wild · Tempo Rogue · by Avalon · 6 years, 6 months ago

• 0 Backstab x 2
• 0 Shadowstep x 2
• 1 Pharaoh Cat x 2
• 1 Swashburglar x 2
• 2 EVIL Cable Rat x 2
• 2 Eviscerate x 1
• 2 Sap x 2
• 2 Underbelly Fence x 2
• 3 Blink Fox x 2
• 3 Edwin VanCleef x 1
• 3 EVIL Miscreant x 2
• 4 Hench-Clan Burglar x 2
• 4 Lifedrinker x 1
• 4 Spirit of the Shark x 2
• 4 Vendetta x 2
• 4 Waggle Pick x 2
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1

5,220 Dust 609 0 Copy Deck Code

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

Perhaps I'm seriously misremebering, but for someone who joined HS well after Renounce Warlock was in Standard, I could have sworn seeing people talk from time to time about how good/strong/fun it was. Was that all in my imagination and the deck was always a hot mess?

Trying it out today and whoo boy - aside from that 50% of the time I don't draw the card at all, the other 45% when I do play it delivers usually a trash fire of mismatched nonsense. I've seen some other people luck out some crazy synergies (one particular person had about 4 rush cards on top of a Spirit of the Rhino so nice for them), but in probably 10 games I don't think I've won a single one.

Was there some secret to playing this deck in that past that I'm missing? 

Hello everyone,

I would like to hear your opinions on Vessina, as I'm thinking about crafting the card, and am always careful with class-specific ones. It's good currently in Evolve Shaman, which I would enjoy to play, but the deck won't last for long. Do you think similar archetypes will be viable in Standard after evolve goes back to wild?

I play Wild also. Do you think the card's power level is enough to warrant play in Wild? Should be good in Even Shaman, but haven't played Wild in a long time, so I would like to hear your experiences with or against it.

Thank you for your time!

Felt games ended way more quickly than they should've the hp pool seems really low, every attack to nexus is much stronger than in hs, been playing an aggressive discard deck (draven + jinx) and almost gone undefeated also augmented experimenter is a card that I am not sure how it even left the planning table that card not only is a jinx activator and a refill he deals 3 damage on top of that? also not restricted to followers?

I will explain it's effect: 6 mana: 3/3 (the stat value are slightly higher than in hs so it's 3.5 drop stats) discard your whole hand and draw 3 cards then deal 3 damage.

the only counter to it is deny(from ionia, 3 cost burst spell) or to recall it's target, ye this card does too much.

I mean sure the game isn't even in beta but I already got a feeling that such aggressive decks are way too good, also most people say "there's an advantage to the defender" well.. there is no advantage if the defenders get killed by burst spells and quick attack followers/champions.

I think aggro might be too good, but that being said I didn't face any actual control deck yet, maybe, I am not sure what is a control deck.. freljord?

All that being said probably played mostly against people who never played card games before, and I am probably too hung on this deck that is  easy to build/pilot and is probably just beating unexperienced players rather than being strong, except the 6 drop that is stupid strong.

Hey all!

I wanted to just keep everyone in the loop where we're at when it comes to support multiple card games on the site.

As you've probably seen, we've begun to cover Legends of Runeterra, a card game from Riot Games which uses the lore of League of Legends. Right now, it is not possible to avoid seeing these articles on the homepage. I know this may be an inconvenience for some of you that only play Hearthstone, but do know that this is temporary. I am working on a solution that will allow logged-in users to customize their homepage preferences and logged-out users to at least be able to hide articles from other games.

Legends of Runeterra appeared out of nowhere so we were a bit unprepared for this. We're still looking to add Magic Arena support to the site by the end of year, so don't worry magic fans, we're with you on that!

The Navigation will be receiving a large update that will allow for game selection. We'll likely let logged-in users select their default navigation. The homepage will also be receiving a change at some point that will become generalized to all the titles we support and not just Hearthstone specific. At this time, we'll add in dedicated landing pages for all the games we support that will showcase things like decks, events, and discussions. We'll also give logged-in users the ability to convert the site homepage to one that supports only one game if they would like to.

I know some may not be a fan of us supporting multiple games, but it has been a goal of ours since the beginning. Especially when you see how Hearthstone can do so many things wrong, should the game every die we'd hate to lose the community we've created. Only good things can come from having multiple games supported on the site!

We'll likely be looking for some new volunteers to help with Legends of Runeterra, so if you're interested in that stay tuned for more information and be sure to stay active on the forums and discord! Anyone who is active on the site, showing their knowledge and helping out others is more likely to join our awesome team. We're also eventually going to look for people who want to help cover Magic Arena before we start on that, so stay tuned there as well.

I have gotten a Mytic wild card, which card would be a good card to use this on? Haven't really figures my playstyle yet, but thought the 8 mana orange/blue mytic that gives all minions +2/+2 and overrun sounds good. 

What would be your suggestions.

So I'm just gonna try to predcit how the 23 Wild cards will impact all 9 classes. I'm mostly doing this to see what applications other people think of and if I missed certain combos. Anyways, here goes.

Druid

Quest Druid has gotten another very powerful tool with Kun the Forgotten King. At face value, he doesn't look very immpressive, seeing how it'S still just a 0-mana 7/7 at turn 10 only...but thanks to the Quest you also get 10 Armor, which can be very relevant in a lot of matchups, not to mentiont that the body will usually demand an answer fro your opponent. Even if he ends up not being included in the deck (although I don't see why he wouldn't) you're probably still going to have to account for him appearing through Discovery

Astral Communion will probably not have any impact. I don't know why they gave us this over something potentially more interesting. There's just not even enough big cards that would warrant running this. At best you could run it in a Quest deck and hope you don't brick after dumping your hand. One saving grace might be Overflow, but I doubt it will be enough.

Ragnaros the Firelord, Sylvanas Windrunner and [Hearthstone Card (N'zoth the Corruptor) Not Found] could find their way into Quest Decks, but there is little overall synergy.

Emperor Thaurissan on the other hand, might have some applications, mainly if one were to give [Hearthstone Card (Gonk the Raptor) Not Found] another shot. With Gonk dead you can discount Mad Summoner and double Witching Hour + any number of attack buffs (Claw and Pounce mostly) and actually pull off the combo in one turn without having to RNG the Dreampetal Florist that being said, this is still a 5-7 card combo that requires you to play and kill off a 7-drop (that also cannot be transformed), making it even more inconsistent than Malygos currently is. Not to mention the relatively high amount of combo pieces makes the Quest shell much weaker.

Mage

Now Mage is a pretty interesting case since it'S currently on life support. People don't seem to be that excited about Babbling Book, but I think it could be crucial in making more tempo oriented Mage builds (including Secret Mage) more viable, purely on the basis of being an actual 1-drop for a class that currently has none.

Flamewaker on the other hand feels a bit overhyped. Granted, we can go machinegun with a Sorcerer's Apprentice and a Mana Cyclone for reload, but would be more of a combo deck, not unlike the previous Cylone Mage which isn't all that great at the moment. I still believe Flamewaker is good enough to pick Mage up from the dumpster, but I don't think we're gonna get higher than tier 2.

Regular Tempo Mage also seems a bit weak at the moment...at least too weak to rely entirely on Flamewaker to carry it. Keep in mind that unless you are absolutely certain he won't get removed, you can't actually play Flamewaker on 3, and you need at least apprentice, Ray of Frost, Cyclone and Elemental Evocation to really pop off...in a deck that can't tutor any of the pieces.

Aside from the class cards Emperor Thaurissan is a strong addition to Highlander Mage (since you're usually holding a big hand and it bridges the 7-mana gap in some cases). Furthermore, N'zoth allows for another board refill by just running [Hearthstone Card (Karthut Defender) Not Found], Rotten Applebaum and Sylvanas Windrunner. Ragnaros might find a way in too, but I suspect that would be a bit greedy.

Whatever happens, Mage is certainly going to be much better than it is now, even if just by a little.

Paladin:

Now it's pretty obvious that Secret Paladin is going to return. Both Mysterious Challenger (effectively Subject 9 on steroids) and Avenge (the best secret to keep a lead on the board) should be enough to make the deck at lest playable. The draw issue is pretty much solved, although including both Challenger and Bellringer Sentry will warrant quite a large amount of Secrets. Maybe MC makes its way into Highlander Paladin as well with a Secret heavy build (read: every single available Secret) although I feel like Octosari is still a safer choice.

Much less talked about is the potential Control Paladin, that could "return". Paladin has always been the best class (next to Warlock) to use N'zoth, but it just never took off. A N'zoth that resurrects Tirion Fordring, Sylvanas and Karthut Defenders is probably the best turn 10 play for any lategame deck. What's different this time around is the existence of the Holy Wrath + [Hearthstone Card (Shirvallah the Tiger) Not Found] combo. With just 3 cards you add a 25 damage burst into a control deck, but instead of going the regular way of mowing through your deck we play it slow and grind out the opponent until we finish him off. You can go pretty light on the minion side and just use the best defensive options and a bit of draw with most of the removal spells. The challenge would be to properly balance the amount of removal and actual minions. The biggest problem with this idea would be that most other classes will just end up running N'zoth as well and it's questionable whether the addition of Tirion is enough of an upside to make a difference.

N'zoth could also work in a minion focussed Midrange/lategame deck, maybe even Highlander (just don't run Octosari or you will find a very unfortunate end).

Hunter

Hunter got some very solid additions. Lock and Load is probably not going to be competitive, but makes a very spell heavy Hunter at least worth trying. I can't see it taking up a slot in Highlander however. Value Generation isn't exactly needed for Hunter at the moment.

Call of the Wild on the other hand is way more interesting. It occupies a very interesting mana slot at 9, meaning that you can play it as a set up for Zul'jin which is especially relevant since it mitigates the downside of having to play Zul'jin for tempo/defense without having used Unleash the Beast first. With just this and a few Secrets you will have enough value to stay in the game. Not to mention the card isn't a bad topdeck later on at gives you 5-damage reach.

N'zoth and Sylvanas are also interesting. On one hand you could build a deathrattle centered Highlander build. In this slower variant Emperor Thaurissan might get good value as well. Next to that there's the possibility of reviving mech Deathrattle. Nine Lives is already incredible and Sylvanas onnly makes it better. Going light on the actual deathrattles to get the best possible outcome from N'zoth would also allow for more defensive tools. The main argument for this deck would be that N'zoth being popular makes grindy decks better and requires more value to beat them, which current Highlander Hunter probably can't.

Shaman

I see no real use for Thing from Below. There's just not enough totems at the moment to get any benefit out of it. Evolve on the other hand fits perfectly into all Shaman decks running Mogu Fleshshaper. The combo of Fleshshaper + Mutate is already busted and Evolve just doubles the consistency (next to being even more generally useful in token decks than Mutate).

Shaman can also make good use out of N'zot since Shudderwock essentially gives you a second one. Combine it with lackey generators and Hagatha the Witch you have a solid lategame plan to grind most decks into dust...the question is whether this is a better grinding gameplan than other N'zoth decks.

Rogue

Swashburglar is great for both Quest and Quest-less thief Rogue. It essentially makes curving into a Underbelly Fence much easier without the tempo loss of Pilfer (except against other Rogues). As a result it makes the Burgle package a much better inclusion in just about any possible Rogue build. [Hearthstone Card (Shaku the Collector) Not Found] on the other hand is pretty much garbage. It's a slower Blink Fox with stealth + soft taunt being the only upside. Not great when you have to consider that getting a 0-cost Vendetta on turn 3 might be more important.

Once again we have Deathrattle shenanigans. [Hearthstone Card (Anka the Buried) Not Found] allows for shenanigans with Sylvanas (and Anubisath Warbringer), while Shadowstep and [Hearthstone Card (Togwaggle's Scheme's) Not Found] enables complete N'zoth lockdown. The resulting deck might be unbearably slow and bricky, but it's gonna be loads of fun when it pays off. You thought infinite Tess Greymane was a Warrior killer? Let's see how many Sylvanas the can deal with before they give up.

Priest

I'll be honest, I have no idea how Priest is going to turn out. Vol'jin doesn't really have a purpose at the moment. Priest doesn't run 2-damage removal so there's really no point to include him anywhere. Lightbomb is a good additional boardclear which will make the slower Quest/Resurrect builds a bit better against aggro and N'zoth and Sylvanas won't hurt either in that kind of deck. Once again the question remains which class makes the best use of N'zoth.

Warlock

Gul'dan got shafted again. Renounce Darkness is for memes only, obviously, although Zephrys could probably be of use in there (if you get lucky enough to not get too many duplicates, and let's be honest that's kind of why you play the deck in the first place).

Zoo get Imp Gang Boss, which is still one of the most powerful standalone 3-drops in the game which will imrpove their winrate but won't change their palystyle. Highlander Zoo certainly appreciates it.

N'zoth Sylvanas and Ragnaros are very interesting additions to Plot Twist Warlock as both Fel Lord Betrug and Dollmaster Dorian can get incredibly value from them (they can be used to quickly charge your N'zoth with Karthut defenders or Sylvanas). Combine it with Mechanical Whelp and there's a decent strategy. Unfortunately it has to compete with all other potential N'zoth grinders, where it will most likely lose out based on the fact that it hits fatigue way earlier. Personally I'm going to revive my Anubisath-HIr'eek-Omega Agent Handbuff build, because why not, it's not like it's getting any better.

Warrior

Not terribly exciting. Bloodhoof Brave is a potentially cool card for Aggro/Tempo Warrior (specifcally Highlander), but it's probably not proactive enough. Taunt Warrior has unfortunately been nerfed through the discovery nerf, so I don't see that picking up steam all of a sudden. Varian Wrynn could potentially make it viable, but with Tomb Warden and [Hearthstone Card (Frigthened Flunky) Not Found] having pretty much essential battlecries it makes no sense to risk pulling them out on the field.

I also don't believe in Big Warrior. Warrior has no ramp or mana cheating and waiting until turn 10 to actually do stuff is just...not realistic.

Funnily enough, Control Warrior is probably also the least likely class to make good use out of N'zoth. having no class deathrattles means at best you're gonna get a Karthut wall with Sylvanas in a deck that wins the lategame through other means. It might still end up running N'zoth out of necessity just to not get outvalued by all other Deathrattle decks.

I really wish we got [Hearthstone Card (Alexstraza's Champion) Not Found] instead.

Miscellaneous

I currently see no real good use for The Curator. There aren't any good murlocs or dragons outside of tribal decks. Nightmare Amalgam technically gives you two guaranteed draws, but that's not really enough to slot into any deck. The only thing I can come up with would be a) Midrange Dragon Paladin with Murmy and a Mech Package or b) Hooktusk Rogue with the same principle (which is just an inferior version of Tempo/thief Rogue anyways, so no point).

I also can't really imagine Ragnaros in too many decks. He's a good card and there's a reason why he was Hall of Famed, but at this point in the game most decks are so heavily specialized that they have simply no space for a card that doesn't actually synergize with their gameplan. The only exception are Highlander decks of course. Hunter will probably find a place for Rag, purely on the basis of not having an 8-drop, and Mage will probably enjoy having any proactive options. He might be too greedy for Paladin though (although he could be an interesting choice in Quest Paladin....if that deck wasn't dead).

Thaurissan probably has way more combos than I listed, but I don't think most of them will amount to anything more than memes. He's probably best as just a Highlander 6-drop in Mage to smooth out the curve.

Closing thoughts

Writing this I kinda got worried that the meta might become a very one dimensionnal N'zoth slugfest for a while until the best N'zoth class emerges to kick all others off the table...who will then proceed to build the most aggressive decks possible to kill them before turn 10.

Whatever happens, i'm glad that this event exists, even if just to showcase how broken stuff can get with the right tools. If the meta goes completely haywiere at least we only have to wait until November for it to return back to normal. Pretty sure after being N'zoth-locked for 3 weeks straight will make Control Warrior look fun and interactive in comparison.

It is a simple thread. I am not sure that this thread belongs to Feedback forum or here but I decided to open here. Will there be a deck database here? I wondered because we saw a lot threads on front page. We didn't see articles about MTG:Arena or any other card games on front page before so I wondered.

Hi there,

Just came here from HearthPwn - RIP soon - and was wondering if we'd get some site achievements in here as well?
I mean, that is one of the many features that got me really hooked on HSpwn in 1st place.

Also, are we ever going to see the results of RoS community cards rating, compendiuum and all that jazz?

Thanks in advance

Was just wondering if they were out of invites/ people to gain access or if they were stopping any others to gain access?

Just ask because have been pending since it came out to be accepted to join and nothing yet unfortunately.

Been playing league since season 1, and love card games, so have been super stoked for this to come out and play it.

Only just noticed I "own" all the cards.

How long will this last? As it seems too good to be true. Really enjoying it at the moment but I doubt I will be sticking around if most of my decks disappear : (

Edit: well I guess it will end soon, was fun playing it though. back to Dota 2 and my complete collection of heroes that I dont have to grind or fork out $$$ to unlock :)

Hey

After reading an article I usually skip a comment page or two, but after that I want to return to home page to read another article.

There is no home link at the bottom of the page so you have to scroll all the way up to do it (and some articles are really long).

Such link might be useful.

Cheers

Hey, folks! I actually wanted to post this in the Video Games subforum yesterday (or earlier today, depends on your time zone) in order to bring some attention to the game, but something went wrong with the upload. So instead, I'll just post here. I'm going to go over the mechanics, settings and economy of the game, then share with you 3 Quality of Life features this game has that, in my opinion, blows everyone out of the water. Cool? Cool!

Mechanics

Before we go any further, some general info about the game:

• The game is out on PC and mobile, as well as browser, in Open Beta
• Both players start with 20 Health
• To win, bring you opponent down to 0
• There's fatigue, but instead of a constant growth (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...), it's exponential by doubling every turn (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...)
• There's no mulligan, but each player starts with 7 cards.

Combat and deck-building

The game is pretty similar to both HS and Magic in many respects, but very different in others. (they even ask you about both games during the tutorial). The board is divided into 7 lanes per player, each lane allowing you to play one minion. A minion can attack in the lane opposite to it, or in any of the two adjacent lanes. Here's what the board looks like:

My guy is the 2/3, while my opponent has the 2/2. My guy can attack in front of him, front-left or front-right. Attacking an unoccupied lane deals damage to the opponent directly, but you can't do that unless all 3 lanes in front of a minion are free (aka the lanes are blocked, and the minions are called blockers, like the 2/2), or your minion has a special ability that lets you bypass that. You can also move your character on either adjacent lane, but you won't be able to attack anymore. 

In terms of decks, you have 6 colours - Blue, Yellow, Red, Green, Orange, Purple - that you can combine however you like in a deck of 40, but realisticly you can only go with 2, mayyyyybe 3 colours for reasons I will explain in the next section. The amount of duplicates is tied to rarity, there are for rarities, Common (to which I will be calling Bronze from now on), Uncommon (I'll call Silver), Rare (I'll call Gold) and Mythic. You can have 4 Bronzes, 3 Silvers, 2 Golds and 1 Mythic of the same card in your deck.

Some minions also have abilities that can be activated for a certain cost (mana, gems, part of their life etc.), and you can still attack afterwards. A minion activating it's ability looks like this:

Hand size in Mythgard is 10, but instead of discarding cards when you go above that limit, you can draw to your heart's content, then discard at the end of your turn until you only have 10 left in hand.

Mana... and Gems

This is where things get VERY different from other card games. Here's what a card looks like in Mythgard:

Pretty standard, right? You have your Attack and Health at the bottom and the cost in the upper-left corner (the 4 dots in the upper-right corner represents the rarity, as well as the number of duplicates you can have in your deck of that card). If that number up there makes you think "oh, like Magic", you're wrong. Mana and Gems are two different resources in the game. Here's what the mana bar looks like:

The big number is the Mana you have left, the small one is the total amount, and the 3 symbols are your gems. When you play a card, you spend that card's amount of Mana, and consume the required Gems. Here's what the bar looks like after I play the Thane:

As you can see, I've spent two Mana and one of the Blue Gems is grayed out.

You can also see that my temporary Mana circle isn't glowing, and the flames above it are gone. The first one is an indicator that I haven't "Burned" a card yet, while the second is an indicator that I have. This is how you gain resources in the game.

To Burn a card, simply drag it over the Gem bar, and it will be shuffled back into your deck, giving you one Mana and a Gem of the same colour as the ring around the card's cost. If you draw the card again, it will be "Burnt", and you can't burn it again. Here's what a burnt card (right) looks next to an unburnt one (left):

Cards can have between 1 and 3 gems, and there are dual color cards that have 2 or 4 (1 or 2 of each color). Youc can have a maximum of 10 gems.

Enchantments and Artefacts

Now that we've covered the basics, let's get into some of the more unique aspects of the game.

Enchantments are special cards that you play over the lanes that grant special abilities to the minions occupying it or affect the board in other meaningful ways. Here's how an enchanted lane looks like(from left to right: not enchanted, enchanted, enchanted and occupied):

Artefacts are cards that you play once in order to gain a passive ability, or an ability that you activate under certain conditions. They don't occupy a space on the board and have a certain durability that decreases as you take damage. (they do NOT offer extra protection). Here's what it looks like in game (next to my profile picture), as well as an artefact card:

As you can see, Artefacts only have a single number at the bottom representing durability. If you have multiple artifacts, your most recent one will be the one taking damage.

Powers and Paths

Powers are... basically the same as in Hearthstone: small abilities that you can use anytime for a certain Mana cost (most 2, one of them 3). They don't require gems, and are noticeably weaker than their HS counterparts.

More interesting are the Paths. Those are passive abilities that just do stuff on their own, and some of them can get REALLY convoluted. Most of them require a deck to build around. Here's an example of a Path:

This is probably the most straight-forward and general-use of all Paths in the game. All of them give you a bonus life at the start, and all have a Pursuit effect, that activates if you go second.

Both Powers and Paths are independent of your colour, and you can combine them however you like.

Setting

So, we've talked about the mechanics, but what's the setting of the world? Where does all this happen?

Best way to describe it: ancient myths and legend in a modern world. You have giants sinking ships and towering over gas stations, a biker gang of Valkyries, military werewolves, dragons flying next to commercial airplanes, undead vikings at docks, aztech space destroyers and, if you're playing purple, everything anime.

Here's some art.

Quality of Life

Finally, let me tell you about the quality of life in this game. There are a few nifty ones that are cool (being able to rearrange cards in hand, you can see the full art of the cards in you collection, deck importing and exporting, a really good Twitch overlay etc.), but there are 3 that I feel are just incredible:

Featured Decks

In the game client, under the "Decks" menu, when you go to the far left, there are two decks with an Orange border. Those are Featured Decks: a couple of community Decks that change every Monday and Friday that you can play even if you don't have all the cards. This is amazing for new players, as they have a new deck to play even with a small collection. Just a fair warning, those aren't necessarily the BEST decks, just the most interesting ones. (at the moment of writing, one of the decks is a highlander, despite there being no cards that benefit from that)

Built-in Deck Tracker

Yes, you've read that right. The game has a deck tracker built into itself. All you have to do is press the arrow on the far right side of your screen, and BOOM!, you can see all your cards, as well as your opponent's (that you know of).

Built-in Replay

Finally, there's the replay function that you can find in you profile. If you go to history, and click on the little eye, you can rewatch the game you've played. And if your opponent played a particularly interesting deck, you can see HIS ENTIRE DECKLIST in the aforementioned tracker. It's not perfect (there's no timeline, and it'd be nice to be able to favourite matches or export your opponent's deck), but it's better than most offerings.

Job's Done

And that's about it for me! If you want to try the game yourself, you can do so in the browser version as a guest before you make an account, but I do suggest playing on a client afterwards. If you want to learn more about the game, WathsUpWoody has a few very good guides on his channel.

Hope you enjoyed this read and I'll see you on the Mythgard battlefield.

As a fanatic card creator, I've been making quite a bit of cards through the times. This is a place where i will be uploading new cards, alongside some that have been well received over the times.

As for my first post i will show you the two cards i'm the most proud that i've made. Feel free to ask any questions, or post any feedback in this thread :D

This isn't a rant about power, or even frustration. This is about design space. I think that Frost Nova seriously limits the design space of freeze effects for Mage. With Frost Nova and Blizzard, Mage has insane board locking presence. They can prevent all enemy minions from attacking up to four times. That's totally balanced, but it means that you really can't print another mass freeze effect (at least not one with a bonus effect worth using). Being able to do that six times is far too much. With both cards being Classic, that's an entire design that that's just... not viable.

Obviously if Nova were to go, it would have to be prefacing a set where Blizzard was intending to add another mass freeze. That makes the most sense.

The reason I think Nova should go over Blizzard is because it's cheaper and has no other effects, which makes it harder to balance. Also, Blizzard is too entertaining to cut from Standard. I also know that Cone of Cold exists, but that's just a worse Frost Nova (ergo, a side effect that's not worth using). Maybe without Nova, Cone of Cold could even see play - that might be interesting.

Thoughts? Do you agree or am I talking out of my ass?