It could be a hidden treasure, it could be a mirage... Does the self-damage Warlock archetype finally work?

No Pain, No Gain

Wild · Demonlock · by Zelgadis · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Crystallizer x 1
• 1 Flame Imp x 2
• 1 Potion Vendor x 1
• 1 Sinister Deal x 1
• 1 Spirit Bomb x 2
• 3 Duskbat x 2
• 3 Hellfire x 2
• 3 Neferset Thrasher x 2
• 3 Nethersoul Buster x 2
• 3 Sense Demons x 1
• 4 Blood Witch x 1
• 4 Diseased Vulture x 2
• 4 Siphon Soul x 1
• 5 Deathweb Spider x 1
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Rotten Applebaum x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Aranasi Broodmother x 2
• 6 Ectomancy x 1
• 6 Mojomaster Zihi x 1
• 6 Riftcleaver x 1
• 7 Siamat x 1

9,760 Dust 1,233 0 Copy Deck Code

Please try this deck and share your experiences and improvements. I certainly had a blast finishing off my opponent with a 15-attack Frothing Berserker.

Good day fellow friends of the noble murloc!

Instead of netdecking I want to start building my own decks. Nevertheless my starting point was the following deck.

DawN's Highlander Paladin - Uldum Launch Deck

Wild · Highlander Paladin · by FrostyFeet · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Brazen Zealot x 1
• 1 Glow-Tron x 1
• 2 Acidic Swamp Ooze x 1
• 2 Argent Protector x 1
• 2 Crystalsmith Kangor x 1
• 2 Sir Finley of the Sands x 1
• 2 Youthful Brewmaster x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Aldor Peacekeeper x 1
• 3 High Priest Thekal x 1
• 3 Nightmare Amalgam x 1
• 3 SN1P-SN4P x 1
• 4 Blessing of Kings x 1
• 4 Coppertail Imposter x 1
• 4 Prismatic Lens x 1
• 4 Spellbreaker x 1
• 4 The Black Knight x 1
• 4 The Glass Knight x 1
• 4 Truesilver Champion x 1
• 5 Harrison Jones x 1
• 5 Mind Control Tech x 1
• 5 Wargear x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Cairne Bloodhoof x 1
• 6 Khartut Defender x 1
• 6 Pharaoh's Blessing x 1
• 7 A New Challenger... x 1
• 7 Siamat x 1
• 8 Tirion Fordring x 1
• 10 Colossus of the Moon x 1

22,740 Dust 2,051 0 Copy Deck Code

As I don't have every card and wanted to focus on different things I already changed some cards.

1. More carddraw switching Brazen Zealot for Crystology.
2. I don't have High Priest Thekal and also wanted to try Kangor's Endless Army for the mech value.
3. Currently trying Micro Mummy, Sword of Justice and Glowstone Technician. Threw out Siamat, Pharaoh's Blessing and Colossus of the Moon to get some space.

There are some more cards I changed for different reasons. Just before writing a novel or submitting my deck (with a guide) I wanted to know if anyone else is interested in this kind of deck (Highlander Paladin). As I never did any deckbuilding before it would help a lot to have some people to discuss with.

I'm motivated to put some time into creating a deck with a guide, but before starting I wanted to get some feedback on the idea. (I'm lazy and if no one is interested I see no need to publish it here or explain my reasoning)

Thank you for your time and a short answer would be really appreciated!

Could you imagine that Yogg-Saron, Hope's End is competetively good card *again*? Well, he is. Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron is actually a good card. Especially for 5 mana. Especially when cast 2-5 times. Hereby the deck :

Firebat's Actually Good Yogg Mage

Wild · Control Mage · by Stock · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 2 Ancient Mysteries x 2
• 2 Doomsayer x 2
• 3 Arcane Intellect x 2
• 3 Flame Ward x 2
• 3 Ice Barrier x 2
• 5 Naga Sand Witch x 2
• 5 Sunreaver Warmage x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Blizzard x 2
• 6 Khartut Defender x 2
• 7 Flamestrike x 2
• 7 Luna's Pocket Galaxy x 1
• 8 Kalecgos x 1
• 8 Tortollan Pilgrim x 2
• 9 Alexstrasza x 1
• 10 Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron x 2
• 10 Pyroblast x 2

10,640 Dust 2,315 0 Copy Deck Code

Here’s a place to pray to Lord of RNG Yogg-Saron for not getting the warrior quest as your free legendary. (Or any other quest really)

Ask him nicely and he might just listen to you.

Oh Great God Yogg-Saron, I ask you. Please don’t give me the warrior quest.

Greetings Everyone :)

With the recent positive response to the Tol'vir lore article a couple days ago, I'm happy to state that these types are articles are planned to continue on a regular basis for the foreseeable future. Since Hearthstone covers a lot of areas of WoW lore, there's a lot of ground to cover, and it can be hard to decide what topics to focus on first. To help with this, I'd appreciate if  you could comment below what topic you would most like to see covered. If your suggestion is already written, please upvote that post instead of writing it again, as this will help me to gauge the popularity of suggested topics and see what you guys want most. 

Please note that individual cards are not the focus at the moment. There will likely be a point in the future where specific lore might be able to be added to the respective card page, but the current articles are meant to focus on broader topics, such as locations or groups like races, nations, and organizations, that would include multiple cards and demonstrate how they are connected in the lore.

Mech Quest Paladin

Wild · Quest Paladin · by RandomGuy · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Crystology x 2
• 1 Making Mummies x 1
• 1 Murmy x 2
• 2 Loot Hoarder x 2
• 2 Micro Mummy x 2
• 2 Temple Berserker x 2
• 3 Salhet's Pride x 2
• 3 SN1P-SN4P x 1
• 4 Annoy-o-Module x 2
• 4 Blessing of Kings x 2
• 4 Replicating Menace x 2
• 5 Mechano-Egg x 2
• 5 Wargear x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Mechanical Whelp x 2
• 6 Pharaoh's Blessing x 2
• 8 Da Undatakah x 1

8,800 Dust 798 0 Copy Deck Code

This seemed like a reasonable way to go forward. With so much sticky stuffs, buffs for that stuffs seemed like a way to win games.
The deck largely lacks comeback mechanics, but I think the 3x different types of divine shield taunt buffs (Zilliax, Annoy-o, Blessing) should help with that.
Obviously, a ton of cycle to get through your quest completion crap as quickly as possible.

Crystology targets: Murmy, Temple Berserker, Micro Mummy
Salhet's Pride targets: Murmy, Loot Hoarder, Replicating Menace

I think one could consider cutting either Da Undatakah, or some manner of SN1P-SN4P & Replicating Menace in order to have a cleaner deathrattle pool.

There are also some cards that could be great options: Questing Explorer, Siamat, and Bone Wraith.

So tomorrow is the release day and I'm super excited, probably as much as most of you, my dear Hearthstoners. :) :) :) This expansion looks very good in general, but there is something I wanna talk related to the trailer Blizzard made for it...

It's about the Flexplosions' scene (starring Reno Jackson mounted on two camels). The first time I watched it, I thought the explosions were caused by... ehem... Reno's farts... I mean, just take a look at his pose, his movements and the camels' reaction, it looks like he is f...king farting!!! I didn't relate the explosions just to the movements he makes with his biceps, I really thought he was just making more and more force with his arms and opening his legs just to fart stronger and stronger!!! :( :( :( Please, seriously, look at the scene again and tell me it doesn't look like that... And the camels, yeah, the camels just look like they are not able to stand the f...king noxious smell!!! :( :( :(

I'm not gonna lie, I love the trailer (and the 10 hours version even more :P), it is great, but I can't stop thinking about this...

Am I the only one who was a bit confused after watching this scene for the first time, or not? :P :P :P

I've been having decent success with a build that is very draw heavy just trying to assemble Expired Merchant Cruel Dinomancer and Spiritsinger Umbra as fast as possible.  My worst matchup is Hyper-Aggressive deck, since the desire to furiously tap every turn makes it easy to be burst down quickly.

How has your experience been going?

The Greatest Dinomancers (aka. 5/5 Dreadsteed Warlock)

Wild · Discardlock · by Watermelon86 · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Dark Pact x 2
• 1 Kobold Librarian x 2
• 1 Mistress of Mixtures x 2
• 1 Mortal Coil x 2
• 1 Plague of Flames x 2
• 1 Power Overwhelming x 2
• 2 Bloodmage Thalnos x 1
• 2 Darkbomb x 2
• 2 Defile x 2
• 2 Drain Soul x 2
• 2 Expired Merchant x 2
• 2 Novice Engineer x 2
• 2 Plot Twist x 2
• 3 Shadow Bolt x 2
• 5 Cruel Dinomancer x 2
• 5 Spiritsinger Umbra x 1

4,680 Dust 15,070 19 Copy Deck Code

Well, here's some speculation i find spicy enough (hopefully it hasn't been already discussed).

Do you remember the Red Mana, the mysterious and corrupting source of the Kabal, led by

And also, look at

who makes corrupting tatooes for new Kabal members.

Now, look at our new beloved Genie:

Notice anything strange for an (air) Elemental, yet familiar? The red lights and signs on his skin? As well as the Highlander mechanic?

Finally, do you remember all the speculations, fueled by the very Gadgetzan teasers and concept artworks, of Kazakus being a Dragon? Well, this is Year of the Dragon (which is itself built upon revamped characters and themes)!

And as if all this was not enough, there we go with another Dragon-character with suspicious Red lightnings/mana:

Greetings, travelers!

This thread aims to help new creators to know when to use certain keywords. In order to do this, we will classify all existing keywords in different classes, according to the sets where they can be used. So far, Blizzard has only broken these rules twice, so if you want to make a believable card, following them is surely a good place to start.

@Mods, if you believe this post should be included in the Fan Creations Primer thread, go ahead :)

Basic keywords

Extensive list: Battlecry, Charge, Divine Shield, Freeze, Spell Damage, Taunt.

These keywords can appear in any set, including the Basic set.

• Poisonous is not included here, because it was introduced in Journey to Un'goro, so it's classified as Evergreen.
• Divine Shield only appears in Neutral and Paladin cards, with the only exceptions being Al'Akir the Windlord and Elixir of Purity.
• Freeze only appears in Neutral, Mage and Shaman cards.

Classic keywords

Extensive list: Choose One, Combo, Counter, Deathrattle, Immune, Overload, Secret, Silence, Stealth, Windfury.

These keywords can appear in every set, except Basic. They expand the Basic ruleset to make Hearthstone more rich and complex.

• Choose One, Combo and Overload are exclusive to Druid, Rogue and Shaman, respectively.
• Windfury is exclusive to Neutral and Shaman.

Evergreen keywords

Extensive list: Discover, Poisonous, Lifesteal, Rush.

These keywords were introduced in a particular expansion, but have also appeared in later sets. If previous cards had that effect, they are modified to include the keyword (see Emperor Cobra or Queen of Pain)

• Poisonous is included in the Basic set in the HoF replacement Plaguebringer. This sets a precedent for using Evergreen keywords in that set, although I don't think Discover would fit the Basic set.

Expansion-exclusive keywords

Extensive list: Spare Part, Inspire, Jade Golem, Adapt, Death Knight, Recruit, Echo, Magnetic, Overkill, Twinspell, Reborn.

These keywords only exist in the expansion they are introduced. If previous of later sets include cards with similar effects, they are worded explicitly (see how Meat Wagon and Captain Hooktusk don't use Recruit, even if their effect is just that).

• Before the introduction of SN1P-SN4P, Echo used to belong to this category.

Year-exclusive keywords

Extensive list: Echo, Lackey.

These keywords can appear in all cards of a certain Year. While Lackey was a year-exclusive keyword by design, the inclusion of Echo in this category is more or less accidental, since the only card that doesn't belong to The Witchwood with this keyword is SN1P-SN4P.

Recurring keywords

Extensive list: Mega-Windfury, Quest, Choose a Deathrattle, Casts When Drawn, Choose Twice, Start of Game.

These keywords appear in expansions from time to time. All of them are very different in nature, however:

• Mega-Windfury has only appeared in two cards in total and has always been a very marginal part of the expansion.
• Quest, on the other hand, has always been one of the core aspects of the expansions they appear in.
• Casts When Drawn is a token-exclusive keyword.
• Choose a Deathrattle and Choose Twice are variations of the Druid-exclusive keyword Choose One. For synergy purposes (like Ossirian Tear), Choose a Deathrattle is considered a Choose One card, while Choose Twice isn't.
• Start of Game was a core aspect in The Witchwood. The appearance of this keyword modified the text of a previously existing card, Prince Malchezaar.

It's that time. Find any animations for new cards that are particularly awesome? I haven't seen them all but these ones are pretty cool.

A new Epic Warrior Minion, Bloodsworn Mercenary, has been revealed!

Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!

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Hey all,

I've been thinking about the decks that contain an amount of big minions, because I am heavily inspired by Colossus of the Moon.

With this card, I guess I'll look forward to any deck that is not a competitive deck either. So any cool synergy would work. I haven't played big decks for a quite long time. So I know that there are certain classes that love to go big! I could see them as:

Shaman with Eureka! and more.

Mage with Luna's Pocket Galaxy (and more?).

Priest with Resurrection and more.

Paladin with Duel! (and more?).

Warrior with The Boomship and more.

Druid with Jungle Giants, and Astral Communion.

Warlock with a new Quest? Doubt it.

Hunter and Rogue won't say yes to the big guy.

Here is the main reason why I wanted to go BIG again :). The old Astral Communion photo I've found:

Do you think Big warrior and druid with big archetypes could be still a great deck? Because I would play them if they are good, or...

Is it possibly a trap? Because I honestly wanted to try these two decks.

If you think they are not great, suggest me an alternative way to play Colossus of the Moon. Give me more surge to play this card if you can!

EDIT: Another main reason I forgot to mention: send him in early turn or give him rush effect, and he will be at peak of his ultimate power that you shouldn't underestimate it, only a few big decks can do these ways!

Bonus: Dimensional Ripper will give you two unremovable copies of this big minion, only its weakness is transformation effect, and he doesn't care about AoE silence either. Except Plague of Death and Plague of Murlocs, pray that control shaman won't be a common thing.

A new Common Warrior Minion, Frightened Flunky, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Warrior Minion, Tomb Warden, has been revealed!

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I've always wondered why there was no sound for the pack opener, the screaming of the innkeeper is pretty great, and makes you want to keep doing it(google skinner box) so it's odd to me why it wasn't implemented on Hpwn or here, it's a new feature so i'm assuming it's not 100% implemented yet, but i just thought that would be a nice improvement. Also, i think you shouldn't need to scroll down to open a new pack like you currently have to do, it should be as fluid as possible, but i see these changes as more of "extra" and not necessary, but still they would be nice. Is there a reason why there wasn't sound before? Also is there a way to see why some things are worth more points than others? That was always confusing to me when i'd get a golden legendary and some commons just like someone else but they got more points than i did for some reason.

It was a seriously bad choice before Anka was a thing and it hasn't changed since then. Played against another rogue player who used it and all you accomplish is performing a double-edged hack slash to your own win condition as well. Unless you, by some miracle, draw only cheap spells (That aren't cycle spells) then you conceded the game by making it so that you have to spend all of those other cards while taking fatigue before you can win.

With nine new Quests, it seems that we now have a conundrum- which classes (in Wild) have the best results by combining their quests into a single deck?

Here are my thoughts, ranked from worst to best!  Please note that a 5/5 is just okay (maybe Tier 4/3) because these are definitely memes.

Warrior- The only pair of quests with a distinct anti-synergy!  Boo, hiss, 1/5

Warlock- While not anti-synergetic by effect, the Warlock quests have exactly opposite goals.  I doubt there’s enough shuffle in the game to salvage a rapid-draw discardlock.  Maybe I’m wrong, but a better endgame HP change would be Jaraxxus or Bloodreaver. 2/5

Rogue- Somewhat anti-synergetic by effect- you’ll end up with 4/4 legendaries with unchanged costs. Wise deck building could probably offset that, but either way the quests are cannibalizing each other.  2/5

Druid- There aren’t enough big minions with Choose One to make the intersection of these quests’ target cards very big.  3/5 (unless Blizzard changes the rules and lets us have 2 quests, in which case 5/5 because they profit off each other’s weaknesses well if they’re together)

Paladin- These quests don’t NOT work together, and since we’re in wild anyway, there are some decent non-stat buffs that you can apply and copy with the hero power.  That said, both quests are a little bit “meh” on their own, and I don’t see that changing when combined.  4/5

Shaman- Not bad, but not great- a lot of murlocs have battlecry, and doubling their effects can do a lot- Corrupted Seer becomes Flamestrike, Coldligjt Oracle becomes Sprint, and in general murlocs turn into 7-cost basic spells on a stick ;^) But having to ration murlocs is never a good strategy.  4/5

Priest- This one is on the edge, but I think it’s doable.  Play an aggro deathrattle deck, stabilize, and drop your second quest with hopes to finish it by offsetting late-game damage.  It’s a control deck that’s really just three aggro decks in a trenchcoat, but it can still get into an R-rated movie.  5/5

Hunter- The first one that really excites me- I have had some success with Quest Hunter in the past and getting an endgame power by just chaining Raptors (and with Augmented Elekk/Feral Rage shenanigans, that can be 60+ raptors) is exciting.  5/5

Mage- The only one I expect to actually see.  These quests were MADE to be chained together, both will see play (mark my words), and they WILL see play together.  The new Hero Power feeds perfectly into warping time.  5/5

It's out guys, have fun. :)

Does anyone know how to get multiple card packs from the shop screen using in-game gold?  I've seen Kripp do it where he types in the amount he wants instead of having to go back and forth between the shop screen and pack opening screen one pack at a time. Thanks in advance.

fo(u)r elise

Wild · Highlander Druid · by kramerofboandls · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 0 Innervate x 1
• 1 Raven Idol x 1
• 1 Untapped Potential x 1
• 2 Crystal Merchant x 1
• 2 Keeper Stalladris x 1
• 2 Power of the Wild x 1
• 2 Questing Explorer x 1
• 2 Wrath x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 BEEEES!!! x 1
• 3 Jade Blossom x 1
• 3 Mulch x 1
• 3 Swipe x 1
• 3 Wardruid Loti x 1
• 4 Elise Starseeker x 1
• 4 Flobbidinous Floop x 1
• 4 Poison Seeds x 1
• 5 Elise the Enlightened x 1
• 5 Elise the Trailblazer x 1
• 5 Nourish x 1
• 5 Oasis Surger x 1
• 5 Starfall x 1
• 6 Druid of the Claw x 1
• 6 Hidden Oasis x 1
• 6 Reno Jackson x 1
• 6 Spreading Plague x 1
• 6 Tending Tauren x 1
• 7 Wisps of the Old Gods x 1
• 8 Cenarius x 1
• 10 Kun the Forgotten King x 1

19,720 Dust 948 0 Copy Deck Code

haha, had to make that joke. :)

obviously can only be played as the elise-druid hero.

After playing a few matches with Highlander Hunter I can definitely say I can see myself playing this deck for a long time in ranked this expansion, it feels great to get out King Krush with Brann and Zephrys adds extra value with the 'perfect card'.

If you opened the pre-order packs at a fireside gathering? Sure felt this way. 

Then it would be pretty bad, to open the packs previously. 

Seems like when you sort by votes in when searching for decks (choosing all warrior decks for example) the votes doesn't align correctly. They are all over the place, even tho it seems to work somewhat as most highly voted decks are at the top.

Hi guys, I have a question to experienced wild players - which Highlander deck do you expect to be the strongest with new cards incoming? 

I have never played Wild before, but the re-introduction of the mechanic makes me really want to try them out. Problem is, I used to dust most of my collection when they rotated out. (I am just poor, don't blame me, and it was the easiest way to stay competitive in Standard. I didnt disenchent anything from last rotatiotn though, so I have almost full collection of ungoro, knights and kobolds).  

So I am really looking for predictions, which Highlander deck do you think will be the best. Probably warlock or Mage and I  guess Warlock. But if I could get some thoughts on the matter from some experienced Wild Players, that would be really appreciated since I want to spend my dust best possible way while crafting wild cards. 

Cheers!