A new Rare Warrior Minion, Power Slider, has been revealed!

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

Learn more about Festival of Legends

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Festival of Legends!

Get Cheaper Card Packs

This section contains affiliate links.

If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.

Competition Theme: Inconsistently Consistent

The wording is getting a little weird around here, and it's time to embrace that.

• You must make a card that is functional, but is not consistently worded with other similar cards or doesn't follow conventional wording rules.

In celebration of the first of April, it's time to get a little bit wacky.

As always, we can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Fri, Mar 31 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Wed, Apr 5 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Wed, Apr 5 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Thu, Apr 6 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Thu, Apr 6 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Fri, Apr 7 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

Please note: This is a special competition and not in a normal season.

Man I absolutely destroy in eternal.

And pretty soon this format is gonna have a legit ladder and then the pro players can complain about the meta all over again.

Well sorry but some people like to play optimized lists that do things instead of aggro jank.

Adapt or fail, because eternal is here to stay and I'm the big dragon baby.

This is just my opinion secretly living on this site for a couple years. Also just a disclaimer that I'm not complaining about these issues, just highlighting them and my concern as I really want to see this site succeed as the place to go for all Hearthstone news.

Here are some rough concerns I've recently noticed but I can definitely understand real life gets in the way at times.

• The current Tavern Brawl is showing as closed at the time of writing
• The new expansion announcement of the announcement was hidden in this buddies update but neither have been covered at the time of writing
• Since Avalon's departure, I've sorely missed the Achievement guides and duels meta updates (these things happen though so it's understandable)
• In general I've felt the number of HS articles have declined to a point where the main page shows more Marvel Snap articles than HS 😓

I can totally understand things get in the way of this awesome site. Just hope things pick up and maybe we get more staff to add some more guides/meta updates etc.

✌❤😄

Standard is already done and decided, there's nothing really interesting to talk about there.

Let's move on to the cool format instead, eternal and how it might shape up in 30 days when ladder unlocks:

1. Ryze - obviously it's a very good deck into anything slow, it will be cool to see how the list adapts to new card additions 

2. Elites - will always be the best midrange list for now, just because battle Smith into three 3/3s on mana 3 is bonkers

3. Aggro - I think it's pretty fascinating to ask how the new aggro tools work in a world of pings. My response I would definately consider running Samara over TF in pirate aggro, that sounds super broken.

4. Shromes - I play a lot of Temo and the eternal version is definately better, thermo, the one of landmark, but you can do better in this format for sure.

5. Ramp - doesn't have any new tools yet but when the new set makes its way to this region boy howdy I can't wait to make the most busted ramp list possible

6. Jack - eternal jack sounds awesome because the card isn't doing anything in standard eight now, literally the opposite. 

7. Sett - being able to play Sett with Lee Sin is obviously better than Karma because Karma doesn't really do anything without ezreal or go hard thats why the standard version is barely playable right now.

This is all early speculation but man when we start getting official eternal ladder in 30 days this format is gonna be nuuuuuts...not just aggro good, beat stick LeBlanc good, zzzz

Yep I can't be beat in eternal, it's basically mtg masters aka for grown ups, little kids need not apply. I'm sorry guys but my eternal win rate is insane, I literally climbed with garbage last season you can't take me with your weak *** open attacks this ain't standard.

Eternal ladder when Riot?

Nobody cares about standard, it's a very simple meta with very well defined best decks.

You know what's way up in the air and unknown right now?

Eternal, no tier lists, no deck lists, just you and your opponent and the best player wins.

Usually me.

Sorry I don't want to play which standard aggro deck is best...ooh who will it be Samara sunbreak or Samara Fizz?

Or will midrange frostbite the only playable midrange deck left, remain the only playable midrange deck left?

Will control decks all still suck?

Are combo decks non existent?

The answer to all those is yes.

So yes Eternal is where the good players go and we want ladder.

While I've generally come to accept that LOR will be an aggro slug fest, and there's nothing you or I or anyone can do about it.

There are a number of people still confused by the choices:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegendsOfRuneterra/comments/12btv6u/this_is_what_i_got_out_of_the_dev_feedback_stream/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Roughly 150 people on the main reddit are generally baffled by some of the design choices.

Freijord not having acess to healing anymore, so no blighted or tavern keeper to help sustain in agressive metas and deal with 1 drop spam.

Good removal cards like flock and vile feast and pokey are gone so once again aggro has less to fear and can openly board spam no problem (barely had enough to stop them in eternal)

Entire archetypes were gutted but not the good ones and seemingly for no reason. 

Overall it seems like rotation is very much for the hearthstone players and that seems to be the overall sentiment after listening to the devs talk about rotation.

How players are worried that this direction is overall wrong, and not good for the game.

But hey Mogwai is back so whatever, I and 150 other people don't need to be happy with LOR if the streamers are pleased.

Like personally I can't really play too much standard and enjoy it. I would be super interested to know how that holds true for everyone else as well.

Aggro slug fests are so fun, like man so glad we killed half the card pool so lurk could be better than it already was. Totally worth.

Like I do understand better than you think, Marvel Snap told the LOR devs that doing things is more fun than not doing things.

But LOR is much closer to MTG in terms of its balance than a Ben Brode game. There needs to be the give and take.

The opponent says I do this and you need to be able to say nope. Well there is no more nope in LOR it's just do and get run over, or you run over faster. I hate it, but hey at least trournament line ups got a whole lot simpler.

I checked the live player count on playercount.com and it said 167,866 (Yes I know it means people currently online) and it said only 18% of that was American server players. I calculated 18% of 167,866 and it was just over 30,200. That is not a lot.  and a lot of those numbers are bots so its not completely accurate.

I've played like 10 games in a row of bots no real players. Actual bots all the same type of name, they instantly play their cards every time and make bad plays its easy to tell when its an AI. 

I don't wanna pay for an overpriced bundle for a game if half my matches will be against bots. Are the real players only in diamond? 

Does getting reported make you play against bots?

I don't know why im seeing only bots right now. 

So I'm not going to keep on harping on rotation, people are enjoying the general lack of all purpose responses in decks and familiar play patterns.

1. Play an akshan it would get mystic shotted

2. Play scissor lady that's a thermo

Now you can play those things and they will essentially always survive the turn now to swing. Good for proactive players bad for responsive players.

Well I'm in the second camp, my joy of LOR came from looking at ladder and coming up with decks that countered what people played (responding)

Now there are no responses only statements so for me that leaves me in a weird position where I basically have to wait for Eternal to turn into a real competitive format before I can play the game my way again, and that might never happen.

So long story short Marvel Snap is a pretty fun game eh?

----the fun---

So all rotation did was make aggro decks more aggro? Fuuuun and balanced and interesting

So dynamic having all decks have to run 12 1 drops so cool and interesting

Glad we have that now as the face of competitive LOR

A new card, Jeff the Baby Land Shark, has been revealed for Marvel Snap!

You can move this once. Nothing can stop you from moving or playing this to any location.

Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page!

A new Epic Shaman Spell, Melomania, has been revealed!

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

Learn more about Festival of Legends

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Festival of Legends!

Get Cheaper Card Packs

This section contains affiliate links.

If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.

Competition Theme: There's No Heal Like Overheal

I'm holding out for a healer! Get me a medic, on the double!

• You must design a Priest card that utilizes Overheal.
  • The card can have Overheal or interact with the mechanic; either is acceptable.

Our minions were all damaged in the last competition; now Wassculaire wants to benefit from healing 'em back up!

As always, we can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Mar 27 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Apr 1 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Apr 1 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Apr 2 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Apr 2 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Apr 3 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

No thread rules were added to this season. Please populate and manually edit this thread with them.

A new card, Stegron, has been revealed for Marvel Snap!

On Reveal: Move an enemy card from here to another location.

Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page!

Hearthstone

• Hearthstone card data no longer tries to reload on non-deckbuilder and non-collection pages.
  • Dev Note: A previous site update caused card data to be stored local to users to improve the speed of certain tasks on the site. This was a net-positive for many users with a few exceptions: slowdowns on some devices and connections throughout the day as fresh data was pushed onto clients and folks using locked-down firefox installs would have issues loading the card data at all. The result of this is that the deckbuilder takes additional time to load than it has in recent times but it should work for all users in all scenarios.
• Fixed an issue where the Festival of Legends icon was failing to load for some users.

General

• Removed Snow 3 from the navigation.
  • Dev Note: The event has only been over for 3 months.

A new Common Druid Spell, Spread the Word, has been revealed!

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

Learn more about Festival of Legends

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Festival of Legends!

Get Cheaper Card Packs

This section contains affiliate links.

If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.

A new Rare Druid Minion, Groovy Cat, has been revealed!

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

Learn more about Festival of Legends

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Festival of Legends!

Get Cheaper Card Packs

This section contains affiliate links.

If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.

A new Epic Druid Minion, Free Spirit, has been revealed!

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

Learn more about Festival of Legends

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Festival of Legends!

Get Cheaper Card Packs

This section contains affiliate links.

If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.

After nearly a month into the March of the Lich King expansion, I am checking in with you again to see how we are progressing on the latest rewards track. I hope you all had a prosperous start!

To kick things off, I only purchased the Tavern Pass this time. Since I dislike the looks of the signature cards, I decided to skip the welcome bundles altogether which saved me quite a few bucks. After opening 221 packs, my collection is not complete yet. Currently, I am missing 4 legendaries, so I have to wait a bit longer to obtain the other new coin. Having closely monitored how my gold and arcane dust levels changed for this new expansion, I think there is no more need for me to buy pack bundles in the future and still keep my reserves on par, unless the HS economy changes for the worse. 

I am currently at level 130 and I have completed all the new XP achievements. The toughest achievement was Rogue's Imminent Demise. Team 5 was kind enough for us to make a few of the annoying ones completable against friends which was very helpful indeed. Not sure if this was intentional though. 

In anticipation of the still to be added Death Knight hero portrait, I have not claimed the level 100 free reward yet. My main goals now are to reach a 1000 wins with the Death Knight class and to complete my last two non-XP gameplay achievements: Corpse Husbandry and The Reborn Identity. A long ways to go still, since I only recorded 158 wins with my new buddy, Darion Mograine.

How about you? What is your current RT level? How did the expansion launch treat you? Share as much as you like ☺️

Normally I'm not the guy who shows off the stuff he made, however I belive that I'm not the only one that thinks a Mercenaries fangame would be cool, so I made one and am sharing it here.

I have been running into the issue that the card library seems to be loading extremely slowly in the Hearthstone deckbuilder, like multiple minutes slow. I am not sure how long this issue has existed, but I remember it not being there during the previous reveal season. I have experienced this issue in both Firefox and Edge on Windows 10.

99% of players have no idea how to play off meta Champs and archetypes in runeterra.

Ask Majin Bae the last time he played yordal tribal and he'll say yordles have a tribe?

Ask Nifty the last time he played yordal tribal in master ladder and he will say 5 minuites ago.

So we end up in situations where poppy and her entire archetype get rotated?

Why yordles aren't competitive, they aren't good, they aren't broken, they aren't even cheesy 

Now you could say Taric Poppy infinite rally was a deck at one point, kind of like how star springs Tahm Kench was a deck at some point.

Are they good decks now? No....not even close, not even in the same God damn solar system as what is considered good and playable right now.

Want to know what's good?

Annie, Annie is pretty good.

Elites are pretty good.

Yassao? Not so much.

Sundisc meh kinda but also no.

Want to know a really good one?

Thresh, when is the last time Thresh tutored a champion and that was some how good?

Or you jammed 6 anivas?

But no killing these bad decks will some how slow the game down?

When they weren't actually being played in the first place?

No this rotation list reeks of arrogance.

Nah you weren't playing those decks anyways right? I dont see them in the top 20 meta list so you don't need those decks, they didint exist 

So yes I blame the runeterra community for not expressing the importance of the extended card pool.

But when you get locked into the next rigid meta where only Sett is meta or whatever, you're gonna wish you could jam Rumble to blow off some steam.

Too bad ya can't now, he dead.

Just an FYI, the main game page for Hearthstone still has all the March of the Lich King links above the latest article post.

So every single one of my decks is now outlawed in standard. Not one or two or three.

But something like 20 seperate decks are now unplayable for me.

I dont know if I can recover from that.

I dont know if I want to.

I will say Marvel Snap is looking a lot better now as much **** as I give that game.

At least it didn't invalidate 3/4 of my collection and all of my hard off meta deck building work.

I guess the pro community is happy, no longer losing to stupid stuff like insta ramp asol, but I also think the game is worse off because of it.

Like they took their tree house and kicked off the ladder for everyone else.

A new Rare Shaman Weapon, Jazz Bass, has been revealed!

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

Learn more about Festival of Legends

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Festival of Legends!

Get Cheaper Card Packs

This section contains affiliate links.

If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.

Board spam is a pretty big design issue in LOR.

Removal is over costed.

So by design the person who clogs the board with more stuff faster is usually the winner.

There's only one instance where this isn't true.

And that's burried in ice.

The only one sided board clear that properly exists in lor, unless you count broadmane which is a follower.

So having that ability to laugh at your opponents garbage as you go right over their head with asol level up into burried in ice.

Thats the true LOR for me, that's the you were never on my level play.

And boy will it always be satisfying.

Yeeeeeah if you have to hard tech your entire deck to counter me I'm doing something right like usual.