We do not have a Wild meta report yet, but we know SoU has carried many important cards for Wild meta.

So I'd like to have a discussion, according to your experience, about how you feel the meta has shaped or is still shaping, whether you think there are some critical decks now that might warp the meta or if everything will settle to Wild balance, eventually.

I bet we have all faced Secret Mages, and their unprecedented ability to deal both burn and board damage, while Even Shamans had their totemic synergy improved.

Many players started experimenting again with Highlander decks, while many others decided to complete the new Quests in Wild. Including at high ranks.

But what is the real powerlevel of all these new experimentations in the meta? Are Quests and Highlanders going to survive the meta? Is Secret Mage bound to be a meta tyrant?

What is your Wild Ranked experience after SoU?

I know fans of the series are up in arms about the recent changes coming in with the blessing that is a console core installation of PokeMon. That being said, here's my take on things.

• The game looks gorgeous and I'm incredibly excited to enjoy both tall grass and wandering encounters. I think both means of engaging wild PokéMon have a place in the main series and offer a better overall experience regarding immersion (much more than past titles).
• The new mechanic - Dynamax - is a silly gimmick that forgoes the complexity and openness that Mega Evolution brought in X/Y. Mega PokéMon were and still are the best mechanic to enter the series, transforming average or even "bad" monsters to competitive tanks and sweepers. I mean, it made Beedrill a terrifying force to be reckoned with! Even Z-moves were more inventive, although they catered to the competitive tournament aspect of the game more than Megas ever did imo. Dynamax fails to bring anything unique to the series other than the opportunity to engage in raid battles (which didn't need Dynamax to come to fruition). They're just big, which means they're stronger. How revolutionary. Kappa
• The absence of the National Dex feels very bad to a lifetime fan and player such as myself, but I wouldn't skip this game for it. The National Dex is something I've worked very hard on completing in every generation (I'm currently only missing a couple event legendaries like Marshadow!) and it feels strange and wrong to think of my hard-trained and collected PokéMon being cherry-picked for admission into the new generation. That being said, I do not think this will ruin the game. Nintendo and GameFreak could always see their fan base calling out for a full National Dex and bring the new character models in with a patch (why not exclude the non-Galar PokéMon from Dynamax effects to save space and development time?), but I can't say I 100% expect it. Given the increasing file size of each PokéMon and the sheer volume of monsters we now have, it's entirely reasonable for Nintendo to consider limiting how many PokéMon appear in each game. I want the National Dex as badly as the next trainer, but I'm not going to roast Nintendo and GameFreak for a Dex we have no information on regarding its size. Chill out and let's get some more information before we all flip our lids.
• The new PokéMon designs look fantastic and I can't wait to see the rest (yes, even the moronic-looking Impidimp is fine imo. Just like in nature, not every creature is going to thrill, impress, or draw you in to love it, and that's fine).
• I hope this generation gives us some real old-school challenges like Whitney's Miltank from Gold/Silver, something that just utterly steamrolls you the first time and makes you reconsider your team and battle plan. The games have felt very easy in the story with the Battle Trees and the like suddenly ramping up in difficulty.

What did you think?

Hi,

does anyone know if there is a bonus to get offered a bucket again, if you pick it? I feel that there are a lot of buckets that, whenever I try to go for them, I just don´t get offered them again and it is completely worthless. Like Kingsbane bucket, Cthun, and so on - they don´t mesh well with anything else, and you kind of pick them dreaming of the perfect insane theme deck, but it very rarely seems to comes together for me.

Also, how do you approach those kind of buckets? Do you like to try to go for them sometimes, or do you just pick solid ones that are easy to combine with other random stuff? 

I´m asking for Tombs of Terror, but I am sure it is the same as the Great Dalaran Heist. And I generally play on the difficult mode, which is something to keep in mind. 

Just thought I would post this for fun and to help out if anyone finds themselves annoyed with the final Murlock Boss. He has 300 health and you can technically go back and fight him over and over until you beat him but I got incredibly lucky with my Treasures on my first attempt and was able to take him out in one shot. The key cards were Runaway Gyrocopter as seen in the screen shot below and Titan's Ring (I think that was the name...gives all your minions +1 Health and Taunt). I could have finished the Murlock off many many many turns earlier but I wanted to see his deck and if he had anything unique in it other than "Fill my board with Murlocks every turn.". Turns out...he doesn't. lol. But yeah, if you get the Runaway Gyrocopter as a Treasure option take it, as it is invaluable on the final boss as it overs consistent non-stop board clears.

Take care.

Hey there, fellow members of OoC. I am Esparanta, an avid Wild deckbuilder who loves to try different shenanigans and tinker exotic decks. Recently, I created some decks under the name of "Out of Budget" and the rules are:

• Create a deck consisting of only Free/Common/Rare cards. No Epic/Legendary cards are allowed.
• Don't try to add freebie Epic/Legendary cards (Looking at you, Archmage Vargoth/SN1P-SN4P). If you do, just mention your freebie Epic/Legendary cards within guide.

This thread is to encourage you for creating budget decks that are as valid/solid as expensive competitive/casual decks. So, I will start with mine:

It's No Secret! You are Out of Budget!

Wild · Secret Mage · by Esparanta · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Babbling Book x 2
• 1 Kabal Lackey x 2
• 1 Secretkeeper x 2
• 2 Ancient Mysteries x 2
• 2 Mad Scientist x 2
• 2 Medivh's Valet x 2
• 3 Counterspell x 2
• 3 Duplicate x 2
• 3 Explosive Runes x 2
• 3 Forgotten Torch x 2
• 3 Kirin Tor Mage x 2
• 4 Fireball x 2
• 4 Jeeves x 2
• 5 Cloud Prince x 2
• 6 Kabal Crystal Runner x 2

1,960 Dust 1,863 3 Copy Deck Code

What's yours?

If I'm not mistaken, cards on this site used to appear with blank backgrounds behind the card text, and now they correctly show the set icons like the real cards do. I think this is a recent change, and if so, congrats to the crew for the update. Maybe a small thing, but I noticed and I think it improves the look and accuracy of cards.

Just fought the second plague lord for the first time and was almost able to kill him with my 35 attack Phaoris' Blade. Then he played Spreading Madness while he had 3 health and I had 1 (+some big minions on the board). Props to the AI for playing to his outs I guess? lol

Regardless I've been having a lot of fun with the tombs of Terror so far, feel free to share your crazy experiences as well. :)

Is it just me or is the "Reply" button on mobile version of the site (I'm on android) bugged? It always leaves normal comments at the bottom of the thread instead of replying under selected comment. It did it to me twice now and it felt really stupid. It discourages me to reply anymore, is there at least an alternative way of doing it?

Sorry if there was another thread on this issue, I found none yet!

... quite healthy actually. I find myself rather surprised to discover that 6 out of 9 classes have an overall positive winrate (according to hsreplay), and 5 of those 6 are extremely closely matched. And even the three classes that are overall less than 50% winrate still have at least one good deck available that is above 50%. All I can say is that I'm pleasantly surprised. 

Here are a few breakdowns on the new quests:

There are three quests that allow for zero flexibility in building:

Paladin: great reward, good deck, fun deck, but there's only one way to use this quest. Play all of the reborns and add mech deathrattles. There are really no other versions out there. And since they rarely re-use keywords, we might not get other reborns in the future to make the options more interesting.

Warlock: this deck was already built the moment the quest was printed. Plot twist is the only way. Unlike Paladin, though, this one doesn't really work. Also unlike Paladin, however, there is room for future development.

Druid: quest Druid is strong and may be fun, but there is no room for variety. Every quest Druid game plays out the same way. Leave mana for 4 turns, start playing the same bunch of choose ones. Even with more choose one options in the future, this deck is more or less set in stone. There's no way to aggro it, since you have to float mana early. 

The other decks work/don't work to varying degree, but they all allow some flexibility in style. You can aim for aggro, midrange, or control with most of them. Priest can only be control, but there are various approaches. Shaman is the ultimate example of flexibility. There are 1,000 battlecry minions in the game, so you have nearly infinitely many combos to play around with. 

There are 4 quests that can regularly, easily be completed very early in the game: Shaman, Druid, Paladin, and Rogue. Warrior can sometimes be completed early. Warlock, Hunter, Mage, and Priest all necessarily take a while.  

There are 3 quests that are in meta decks - Shaman, Paladin, and Druid.

Shaman in the only quest that is flexible, easy to complete, and good. Some of the other quests check of 2 of the 3 boxes.

What quests have the most potential in future expansions?

Shaman will always be good.

Warlock needs more plot twist synergies.

Hunter has an amazing collection of cards right now and still can't get the quest to work. It's probably not ever happening.

Rogue can complete easily with quality cards, but the reward is weird. The immunity doesn't matter much for aggro, and the damage is too low for control. Rogue would need more weapon synergy cards for this to work.

Mage has tons of cheap spells already. Maybe the reward just isn't worth it.

Warrior...who knows? It's a fine reward, but there aren't ways to build weapon centered Warrior decks right now. It's not fast enough for aggro, and for control, you'd rather have Dr Boom's hero power.

Paladin will probably be exactly as good as it is right now unless they add some variety in reborn minions.

Priest has plenty of potential to improve. Any control support will help this quest.

Druid will probably be exactly as good as it is right now unless they add something ridiculous in the choose one options.

Sadly there's no poll option here yet will you buy the adventure?

if you do did you preorder, plan to buy after release or will you spend gold on it?

personally I spent 2800 gold on dalaran's heist and I am not regretting it at all I already have 700 gold for the adventure's first wing and I am planning to gather all in gold since more or less you do earn 700 gold a week.

As seen in HSreplay and Hearthpwn, both sites have their individual card database maintenance softwares for players and I have to admit that it's extremely helpful for players wanting to build specific decks from the site.

I have seen the "Your Cost" column in out of cards and would just like to request the team to put up the card database software as soon as possible. The decks put up here are super impressive and I'm sure many players like myself who play on a tight budget would like to know how much dust they would need to spend on building a certain deck.

Thanks very much in advance.

As seen in HSreplay and Hearthpwn, both sites have their individual card database maintenance softwares for players and I have to admit that it's extremely helpful for players wanting to build specific decks from the site.

I have seen the "Your Cost" column in out of cards and would just like to request the team to put up the card database software as soon as possible. The decks put up here are super impressive and I'm sure many players like myself who play on a tight budget would like to know how much dust they would need to spend on building a certain deck.

Thanks very much in advance.

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OR:

FYI: Casts When Drawn always draws you another card. It never denies card draw. Just look at how Bomb works.

The idea is to have a neutral, playable but sub-optimal (maybe 4/3 would be better?) anti-Reno tech, that is not a game sealer against Reno, but it can buy precious turns (similar concept to Loatheb). Indeed, the shuffled cards are 1-costed, which means they can be cleared by Skulking Geist.

ALTERNATE, with a drawback for you (maybe this one should be called Nasty Cantrip instead)

Also notice it cannot prevent an early Zephrys the Great, because of its cost, and it's not an optimal body, nor a value generator for you (unlike Beneath the Grounds). Just a time-buyer against an incoming Highlander card, and barely a decent card anywhere else (similarly to Acidic Swamp Ooze, or Kezan Mystic).

• What do you think?
• Is the version with enemy 1/1 taunt more balanced and/or fun to encounter? Especially in Wild?
• Or shuffle just 2x instead of 3x?
• Maybe 4/3 would be more in-line with a tech card? 

I suppose the subject says it all, but I was really thrilled to see my first ever front page deck. I'm 40-15 with it and I think it's a lot of fun (if weak against Quest Shaman). Lemme know what you think!

Highlander Face Mech

Wild · Highlander Hunter · by Peepopo · 6 years, 8 months ago

• 1 Mecharoo x 1
• 1 Shimmerfly x 1
• 2 Bomb Toss x 1
• 2 Explosive Trap x 1
• 2 Fireworks Tech x 1
• 2 Pressure Plate x 1
• 2 Rat Trap x 1
• 2 Snake Trap x 1
• 2 Venomizer x 1
• 2 Whirliglider x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Animal Companion x 1
• 3 Eaglehorn Bow x 1
• 3 Kill Command x 1
• 3 SN1P-SN4P x 1
• 3 Spider Bomb x 1
• 3 Unleash the Hounds x 1
• 3 Ursatron x 1
• 4 Explodinator x 1
• 4 Hyena Alpha x 1
• 4 Replicating Menace x 1
• 4 Sandbinder x 1
• 4 SI:7 Infiltrator x 1
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Wargear x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Unleash the Beast x 1
• 7 Dinotamer Brann x 1
• 8 Call of the Wild x 1
• 10 Zul'jin x 1

12,400 Dust 2,867 4 Copy Deck Code

To my big surprise, a new game board is here (I lost in turn 4 against Wild mech-hunter)

Just trying to have fun with the hunter quest and I figured I might as well get help from the neat people here.

Prototype Questrattle

Wild · Quest Hunter · by ARES · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 1 Flare x 1
• 1 Play Dead x 2
• 1 Timber Wolf x 2
• 1 Unseal the Vault x 1
• 2 Explosive Trap x 1
• 2 Hunting Mastiff x 1
• 2 Pressure Plate x 1
• 2 Revenge of the Wild x 2
• 2 Snake Trap x 1
• 2 Wandering Monster x 1
• 3 King of Beasts x 1
• 3 Ramkahen Wildtamer x 1
• 3 Rat Pack x 2
• 3 Unleash the Hounds x 2
• 4 Cult Master x 1
• 4 Dire Frenzy x 2
• 5 Subject 9 x 1
• 6 Deathstalker Rexxar x 1
• 6 Seeping Oozeling x 2
• 6 Swarm of Locusts x 1
• 7 Silver Vanguard x 1
• 8 Violet Wurm x 2

7,420 Dust 846 0 Copy Deck Code

-I'm definitely adding another Rat Pack in there- it's just great in this deck.

-Don't like the SN1P-SN4P- Oozeling interaction and the microbots are not beasts anyway..

-speaking of beasts, there might be a way to use the fact that all the tokens are beasts but Idk it yet.

I wanted to ask for some opinions of which variant of Highlander Hunter is strongest or most efficient in most situations. I have seen many variants but can't quite make upmy mind about it. Would appreciate as many answers as possible :)

ROGUE SECRETS (0 MANA)

"But Cheese! Rogue already has Secrets and they cost 2 mana, not 0!"

Yes, but I started making this series of secrets before K&C, therefore before actual Rogue secrets were released. I thought it makes much more sense for Rogue secrets to cost 0 mana rather than 0 because it fits the combo nature of the class better.

My Rogue secrets are mostly based around keeping tempo.

In addition, I remade Evasion and Cheat Death as 0 mana Rogue Secrets:

Unfortunately I couldn't find any 0 mana effect that would fit Sudden Betrayal.

WARRIOR SECRETS (1 MANA)

Like Paladin secrets, my Warriors secrets cost 1 mana. They are mostly defensive Secrets rather than tempo ones.

Yes, I know two of them are called Last Stand. I fucked up.

WARLOCK SECRETS (4 mana)

Warlock secrets are expension, this is why their effect is powerful and their trigger conditions restrictive to not be easily countered. Warlock secrets are control-oriented.

I tried to think about secrets for Druid; Shaman; and Priest, but they don't feel like secret classes at all.

I guess something with Overloaded Secrets could be strategically nice but sort of complicated UI-wise.

If I play the sidekick with an Amet in play. Targeting the Amet with the sidekicks battlecry.

Shouldn't the battlecry of the sidekick trigger first, giving the amet 9 life, and then gain 9 life itself?

Now the battlecry triggers, but the sidekick comes in play with 7 life. 

This has been bugging me for five months. Seriously, what does she say when you play her? All I can hear is "Glen Beck". Not even the Hearthstone wiki knows.

Can we put our heads together and solve this?

New Features

• You can now display the card listing as card images!
  • The default will remain the table / text view since it is less to load for those on mobile or slower connections.
  • You can display the results as card images with the new "Results Display" dropdown.
  • Here are collectible card images displayed as images.
  • We might make these a little bit smaller to fit 5 per line as the default.
• The card listing can now filter by the patch they were added in.
  • The perfect feature for looking at all the raw card data we import during patches. 
  • This doesn't have an effect for very old patches. We'll eventually get all the cards updated properly though!
• You can now also filter cards by their text on card listings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with the Hearthstone Deckbuilder's Mechanics dropdown that incorrectly removed cards with multiple mechanics.

Hi everyone!

Yesterday, Proenix, the spanish mvp, has shown 3 new cardbacks from Saviors of Uldum new adventure (nm and hc) and October season. Here there are (in spanish):

enjoy

Twice in the last day I've received a notification that a member made a comment on my thread, but when I clicked it, it took me to an error page. I also tried just going to the thread it indicated, but there was no new comment by the member indicated. This happened twice, 2 different members on two different threads. What's up with this? I love this community and want to know what they're saying!

Seriously, what am I supposed to do with 5 gold? I don't play arena too often, so when there's a promotion/free ticket event, I get in there. I always get a 25 or 35 gold reward, then that 5 gold just sits there staring at me, laughing because I can't spend it. Am I little over-annoyed by this? Oh yes, of course. No rational person would get so upset. Just finished my second arena run of the week, just hoping to get another 5 gold to balance it out. Nope. You know what? You can TAKE my 5 gold back! I'd rather LOSE 5 gold then continue being stuck with this stupid little hang-on that I can't use.

Anyone else feel at least a little bit like this? Or just tell me I'm nuts. That's fine too.