So I just recently started playing, and I stumbled across a deck build that I really enjoy, but I’m curious how effective it will be as I go up in the rankings?

The deck focuses on using units from the Shadow Isles and Ionia. I use a lot of low cost and ephemeral units, combined with cards like Phantom Prankster, Neverglade Collector, and Scuttlegeist. The result is a deck with the main focus of allying my units to die, so that the enemy takes unblock-able damage; as well as buffing units in my hand and deck. I also I have a lot of Evasive units and spells that deal damage to enemy units. 

My questions are:

How good is this kind of play style as you get higher in the ranking? What are good counters for this kind of deck, and how can you keep from being countered?

The spell druid decks do well against him.

Budget Spell Druid by Dekkster - Ashes of Outland

Wild · Spell Druid · by Fluxflashor · 5 years, 11 months ago

• 0 Innervate x 2
• 0 Moonfire x 1
• 1 Crystal Power x 2
• 2 Ironbark x 2
• 2 Power of the Wild x 2
• 2 Rising Winds x 2
• 2 Wrath x 2
• 3 Bogbeam x 2
• 3 Fungal Fortunes x 2
• 3 Soul of the Forest x 2
• 4 Overgrowth x 2
• 5 Glowfly Swarm x 2
• 6 Kael'thas Sunstrider x 1
• 7 Exotic Mountseller x 2
• 7 Overflow x 2
• 8 Gift of the Wild x 1
• 8 The Forest's Aid x 1

3,900 Dust 1,826 0 Copy Deck Code

Anyone have suggestions for the other classes?

I think there should be a new emote "RNG". For when that RNG goes for or against you.

Did your Rotnest Drake drake take out just the right minion? RNG!

Is anyone else just bored with HS? Nothing seems fun to me.. i've done all the things (except stupid OTK combo decks), i've had awesome skipper armor smith combos.  I've played and hated playing demon hunter as well as against.  I have built spell druids, and mages and countless galakrond and singleton decks.  What else is there.  Battlegrounds? oh, you mean the every game is the same formula mode.. nah, pass.   Murlocs, check.  Totem's? yep, face hunter, pass.  Anyone have any spicy things to liven things up in a stale meta?

Hello friends both new and old! Since I got spotlighted, I expect some of you guys are lurking here in the dark for the first time. Thanks for joining in! Today, we will look some demons from other classes other than a warlock or DH.  Demons are my favorite race because they just look so cool. Follow me into the shadows for some fancy fiends.

The link, like always, will be here.

Felsoul Brute By DottyIs0p

First up, warrior. Compare this to Worgen Abomination. One mana cheaper and one attack less. Warrior has always loved abusing their minions. Perfect for NoHands and a nice follow-up to a Risky Skipper or Whirlwind.

Mother Shahraz By meisterz39

Great removal for Priest. 3 for one deal! Pretty straightforward and easy to use. Cast Shadow Word: Death, then destroy some more. Mass carnage with great flavor!

Imprisoned Swamp Imp By RenoLord

RenoLord is back here again! Ignoring the missing comma and period, I like this card. Shamans like their spells. Dormant lets the spell be drawn at a turn which it is needed. The discount helps put expensive spells earlier.

Furious Felcaster By Dermostatic

Some Fate's Hand Mage support. Big cost for also big effect. One Evocation and you can could wipe a lot of minions. This is absolutely bonkers in Wild, they can get spells easily. I would hate to go up against this, but good either way.

Tree Corrupter By Conduit 

Token Druid approves. And so do I! A bit smaller [Hearthstone Card (Treespeaker) Not Found], it can create a minion that your opponent might have to to prioritize due to Druid's ability to fit some cheap buffs in the turn this is played.  Fantastic!

Successubus By JFK

Nice combo with Libram of Wisdom and Hand of A'dal. Cast one of those on this guy and watch your demon grow, grow, grow! You will never say books are bad ever again. I see this as a success. Absolutely

Lurking Vilefiend By Orrien

As a rogue who plays a minority, secret n' stealth, I see this as an efficient card. Stealth is cool and Lifesteal makes it even better. Ashtongue Slayer, which is a great card no matter what Regis said, can power this and heal your face for 7. Shadowstep makes it even better.

Honorable Mentions:

          By Phoenix                       By ZardozSpeakz                  By TheHoax91                      By Cheese

Overview:

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This feels like something of a perennial issue with Legends of Runeterra, seeming to emerge despite any/all balance patches through the beta, but there seems to be a real balance problem across the regions. (Note that I'm taking the https://lor.mobalytics.gg/meta-tier-list tier list as my source of truth here.)

On the surface, the games balance seems pretty reasonable - each region shows up in at least one S or A tier deck, and there's a decent array of archetypes available to players. But three regions dominate that tier list: Shadow Isles, Ionia, and Piltover & Zaun. Together, they show up in some 87.5% of meta decks. And it's not hard to see why - SI and P&Z have access to good card draw and damage based removal, SI and Ionia have access to healing, P&Z and Ionia have access to useful aggro tools with Elusives and Direct Nexus damage. This was true throughout the beta, and remains true today despite Rising Tides.

Every other region feels like it's just playing a supporting role to these three, which are doing all of the heavy lifting for defining the metagame. The result is a lot of less exciting deck-building choices, and ultimately less interesting match-ups because you end up running the same "SI Control" package to make any control deck, etc. Many champions (e.g. Lux) end up feeling like a worse version of some other "meta champion" (in this example, Heimerdinger) because of the added burden of being outside of one of those "meta regions."

https://www.game.tv/tournaments/Let's-LoR-The-world--26098fcb14f745acb6dd30dccf416b93

i'm just constantly looking for something interesting to play as the game has gotten kinda stale as of late. it would be nice to see some decks that aren't all a week old on the homepage

I've found the JSON Importer feature very useful and used it again to update my collection after opening several packs. This may have been where I went wrong. I see my collection has either 0 or 2 for any non-legendaries. It looks like any non-legendaries that I had only one of ended up getting doubled. I'm guessing the importer adds the card count of each card on to the collection's current count up to max usable in deck. I had assumed it was a full-on replacement instead. Is it possible to change this, or make it so I can manually clear the collection before I put in the latest JSON data? As of now, I think I have to go one by one to clear the count in my collection so I can start fresh.

If I am missing something obvious please let me know. I always appreciate helpful corrections.

It's seams like they are taking awhile sharing any news about the upcoming adventure. When do you think it will be released?

I want to put my feelers out there about connection issues.  Has anyone been experiencing a lot of disconnects recently?  This isn't a salt thread, I'm wondering if there is a server issue with Blizzard or something else going on that I am not privy to knowing yet.  I started noticing it happening yesterday evening, but it's been really bad today.  I have only been able to play 4 solid games where several others I was DC'd and not able to rejoin. Anyone else?

Simple question hopefully with a simple answer. I'm relatively new to the game as one might imagine and I'm just completely over burn decks at this point. I don't mind aggro, hell I don't even mind all the elusives I face, but the burn decks imparticular have just about turned me off playing because it's all I ever see.

Hoping someone more experienced here could help me make a deck or point me towards one that is good at countering the burn decks. I'm not trying to climb super fast or anything, I'm just tired of lulunavoidabledamage all day. It's not fun being on a hard timer from turn one >>. Thanks for the advice in advanced, I really appreciate it.

https://prnt.sc/sc0jbb

How to win against dumb shit like that?

It heavily favors aggro decks. I have a really good frostbite control deck that is fun to play and has a ridiculously high win rate. I have even pushed decks like Ezreal and Karma, Deep Monsters, and Yasuo Control to just running out of cards and losing to milling out. The decks not even made for that. Its just made to stall while throwing in chip damage here and their till you get the two finishers.

The problem comes in where I also have an aggro deck that is a net deck (Burn Aggro). It wins way less but gets more rewards. Like say I win 5 games in a row with the control deck and the aggro deck wins 3 out of 5. Well the control got more rewards right? Not when you factor in time. If the aggro deck can play 5 matches from beginning to end in the time that the control deck can maybe play 2 at most. Then the aggro wins out. So the aggro deck will get more rewards over time. Even through it wins less games.

So basically if you want to either climb the ranks or unlock rewards fast you will have to play an aggro deck.

I think the winner of a game that has gone on for a very long time in the form of rounds to complete the match should get more rewards than someone who just steamrolled the other guy in 4 or 5 rounds. Like for every round played you get more exp and rank progress for a win. Then balance it so if some aggro build wins 5 matches by the time the control build can win 2 they both will still earned around the same reward. It's just a question of if you want your rewards given in small but quick doses or large chunks that you really have to work for.

Hey out of cards,

I created this thread :

https://outof.cards/forums/hearthstone/deck-building/4080-finished-climb-to-legent-with-odemians-bomb-warrior-have-a-look

People asked questions and I wanted to reply but I never managed to reply to the people I wanted. For example, if I click reply under Marega's post (1st one) my comment will appear (at least on my screen) as a reply to Bersak's post (last comment when I replied).

I tried to deleted and repost many times until I just gave up.

I use Firefox on windows 10.

Are there any general strategies for making best use of lackeys? Such as board states to look for to decide which minion to add taunt? What spells can you get and should you look for? 

Are there just too many options, or are there some patterns that you can look for an achieve fairly regularly?

My path to legend was quite simple : tempo DH to get to diamond fast then egg warrior, it seemed all simple until d3 but at this point I faced a TON of secret galakrond rogue which seemed to counter me pretty hard.

Then I remembered Odemian (French pro player from Solary) had a bomb warrior list, so I gave it a try. It worked wonder, I got 9-4  to get legend, including a 7-0 against rogue (yeah it was that many rogues!)

I also managed to win against priest, which was litterally impossible with egg warrior.

So here's the deck, don't hesitate if you face lots of rogues and DH.

Odemians's Bomb warrior

Wild · Bomb Warrior · by Gwavana · 5 years, 10 months ago

• 1 Risky Skipper x 2
• 1 Shield Slam x 2
• 1 Sky Raider x 2
• 1 Sword and Board x 2
• 2 Armorsmith x 2
• 2 Battle Rage x 2
• 2 Bladestorm x 2
• 2 Corsair Cache x 2
• 2 Shield Block x 2
• 3 Ancharrr x 1
• 3 Bomb Wrangler x 2
• 4 Hoard Pillager x 1
• 4 Kargath Bladefist x 1
• 4 Wrenchcalibur x 2
• 5 Brawl x 1
• 7 Blastmaster Boom x 1
• 7 Bloodboil Brute x 2
• 8 Deathwing, Mad Aspect x 1

10,540 Dust 874 0 Copy Deck Code

Hi all,

playing on iOS, and when I do a spell like rummage where I discard 2, if I accidentally hit it and dont want to do it anymore, I’m having trouble canceling out the spell.  I have to close out the app completely and log back in before my timer runs out.  Can anyone help me with how to cancel the spell?

for regular spells like Get Excited I can just drag the spell back to my deck, but I can’t seem to do that for the discard ones because my hand just magnifies and takes over a lot of the screen.  Thanks!

It happens a lot! I have had it many times where I mill like 3 cards and every single one of them comes back as the same card I milled. It's like the game is saying; "Oh you don't want those? Well, f**k you! You have been winning to much lately so now we have to screw you over somehow." >_<

\rant over.

Basically the idea is all her power is found in her level up and she will have a unique level up in the sense that she can also de-level. She will be a very weak 1/1 for 1 mana champion with no abilities. Her level up will work like a reverse Darius. If you have 10 health or less she levels up. But if you go back over 10 health she levels back down. This is because her level up is linked to her emotions. When you are lower than 10 health she thinks you need protecting and will summon her bear and if you gain more than 10 health Annie will de-level and the bear will vanish.

Now here is the interesting part. The bear is freaking massive! It's a 20/20 body that has a permanent bearer. So it can't be damaged in anyway and it can't be targeted by anyone with anything. It can only be blocked. That means even the player can't put something like elusive on it or some other ability out right. But it can be effected by area of effect spells or abilities. Like for example a buff that gives all allies overwhelm would work on the bear too. But remember that the bear is 100% linked to Annie. If the enemy kills Annie, they kill the Bear, and vise versa. If they return the bear or Annie to your hand the bear goes back into Annie and she goes into your hand. Also you have to be careful when he comes out. If he comes out and you don't have room for him he will instantly die and thus instantly kill Annie as well.

So its a bit of a juggling act. For one you want to remember to make sure to have room for her to level or risk losing them both. You also want to have some ways to heal yourself to keep yourself alive while the bear is putting in work. But you also don't want to over heal yourself and accidentally de-level Annie and lose the bear. Also you have to literally baby sit Annie and make sure she stays alive or you lose them both. Remember she is still just a 2/2 with no abilities when leveled up. But on the plus side the bear is a threat the enemy has to answer no matter what. Or else they will just keep losing unites to it and if you ever get a chance to buff it with something that will let it through their defense it will kill them in one hit.

Curious what everyone thinks of THIS as opposed to the typical Pilfered Goods combo. More specifically, using units dying to level up the Maokai as opposed to tossing cards which could effect your combo! 

If you don't know what I'm talking about, the full video for the deck is here.

Competition Theme: Classically Trained

This week we're recruiting people to our favourite classes!

• You must create a Legendary Class minion or Hero card.
• Your Legendary must be a character who already has a Neutral Legendary card (but not a Class card)
  • For example, you cannot submit a Deathwing card, as there is a Warrior Deathwing already
• Your character can take any canon form, even if they haven't appeared as such in Hearthstone
  • For example, any Dragon may appear in their human form (assuming they have one)
  • We will also accept characters who stray outside of canon, but make sense in the context of an expansion - for example, Ragnaros, Lightlord

This week linkblade91 wants us to imagine what some Legendaries would be like if they were a little less Neutral.

As always, I 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, May 4 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, May 9 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, May 9 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, May 10 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, May 10 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, May 11 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

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So, it is a month since the release. Do we know anything about the single player content yet??

Hi guys, I'm pretty new to the game, as I started playing on Saturday. I was searching for information about the game and what are the best ways to get cards and I found this article which is pretty awesome:

https://mobalytics.gg/blog/how-to-get-cards-legends-of-runeterra/

However, when I played my first expedition (I ended up getting 7 wins), I noticed that no champion was given. Insted of a champion capsule and 3500 shards as it says in that article I believe I got an epic capsule and 2000 shards. 

I just wanted to confirm, Is this correct? Is this the actual reward for getting 7 wins in expedition? Or did I do something wrong? I didn't play my second trial, after getting 7 wins on the first, I quited the expedition.

I would appreciate an answer to my questions. Thank you.

Hello again people! You guys seemed to like my previous WCDC spotlight, so I am doing it again. I am going to be trying to crunch these in before the end of the season. I decided to skip the treasure for now because I have no experience in those. Sorry for that, but I don't have any ideas how to review them. Instead, you get to see some copying cards. I chose this comp, so I really want to share some cards that fell under the radar that I thought deserved attention. Into the shadows!

Like last time, if you want to see more cards or check out the scores that these cards got, here is the link.

Long Shadows by Elvaeyn

Quite literal! I love the "add a 1/1 copy of a minion" cards. They feel nice to play for me. This one is no exception! Cheap, you can set up a combo with Malygos or Edwin VanCleef. Or add two more copies of Legendary you got from another class to your hand. One of my favorite cards of this comp.

Snareweed Golem By ShadowsOfSense

A less-controlled Splintergraft that adds a much cheaper and weaker copy of an enemy minion to your hand. It is an good card to play though, adding it when it dies at a later turn when the copy is playable versus add a huge copy to your hand, but let the bark rot for a turn. As someone who tried to make Gloop Sprayer work, I applaud you.

Senseless Potion By JFK

 Cheap and the additional effect adds a vanilla minion to your hand. That is a great effect for Silence Priest. You can silence one of your "can't attack." minions, then adds an already silenced minion to your hand. Value!

Allidar By RenoLord

Wow, another Priest card. Actually, there were 11 Priest cards made in this comp. I know that is their thing, but come on. That is 1/4 of the cards submitted. This one is the coolest one I have seen. Allidar adds a minion to your hand, and then if you are a totally big dragon (with a claw with the same durability than KNUCKLES MADE FROM TENTACLES and even less than a freaking STICK) you also get a copy on board. Even better if you get a big minion. I feel like this is a pretty good card and feels like Priest.

Ritual of Rejuvenation By KANSAS

 This card has some great Untapped Potential. (yes, I said it) For 2 mana, you can get a spell you played AND heal your face. Spell Druid could use this at anytime. How in Yogg's holy name did this get barely a 3 though?

Honorable Mentions:

      By Demonxz95            By MenacingBagel            By  Toble         By  Superkowboj1

OVERVIEW:

 Thank you guys for reading this. I will try to do 7 next time to show more. Tell me which comp to do next! Suggestions, comments, questions and concerns are always welcome. I'm a one-man band, so that will help me cater to you guys more. If you guys can share this to other people, that would be great! Happy voting for the finalists today. See you back in the shadows. Until next time, palaam ulit!