Invocation of Frost is having its mana cost increased to 2, from 1, in a patch later this week.

How do you feel about this change?

Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

Dragon's Pack is having the buff it gives reduced to +2/+2, from +3/+3, in a patch later this week.

How do you feel about this change?

Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

Ancharrr is having its durability reduced to 2, from 3, in a patch later this week.

How do you feel about this change?

Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

Scion of Ruin is having its mana cost increased to 4, from 3, in a patch later this week.

How do you feel about this change?

Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

Fiendish Rites is having its mana cost increased to 4, from 3, in a patch later this week.

How do you feel about this change?

Once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the adjusted cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

Happy New Year! Some items in this changelog have been previously deployed and were added just to keep you in the loop.

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How's it going everyone, my name is Naem and I'm playing Hearthstone since 2014 (although not consistent).

I've reached legend a few times, but I didn't have the consistency to go for it every month (and sometimes just not the time to do so).

So I was thinking about making content for a while now, but I always struggled because of the fear of just failing on the first shot. Well guess what, I'm trying it anyways now!

So I will update this first post here with the newest video and put the older ones in a reply below! Have fun watching!

Cheers,
Naem_

Latest video: QUEST DRUID  feat. NOMI (01.03.2020)

I’m finally going back to try and beat the only solo content I haven’t finished - Dalaran Heist chapter 5 heroic.  I have a pretty good deck but was just offered the duplatransmogrifier.

Question:  if I have a zero costed Obsidian Statue (discounted via Bobs Tavern) and use Duplatransmogrifier on it, will the other copies have the 0 cost?  I don’t want to screw my run up if all other copies cost 9.

Not a lot of action in the Other Modes forum so hoping for a quick answer here.

Thanks!

When will the competitions will start?  Any updates on that? 

New balance changes landed today for Eternal with nerfs and buffs all around!

Promises by Firelight has had a major impact on the Throne metagame, and no card contributed to that impact as much as Endra, Shavka’s Champion. Endra developed a passionate following, pushing her to the extreme with dedicated combo decks built around playing Shavka’s Song as much as possible. This wave of new Endra decks truly shook up the Throne landscape for the first time in a while.

In the days that followed, players quickly adapted to the new threat. While Endra decks have continued to be the most popular, their overall usage has declined as the format has adapted to them. In fact, even the most successful Endra decks of the past week have had barely above average win rates as the metagame has become particularly hostile to unit recursion strategies.

Endra has undeniably warped the format; and while some of that is good, too much can limit deckbuilding. Overall this has turned out much tighter than we’d like; there were too limited a mix of viable strategies to fight back with. Highly tuned versions of the Endra deck have also proven too fast, making opening hands more swingy than desirable.

While there is a place in Eternal for combo decks, and Endra can lead to some fun ones to play with, she’s come out of the gate too strong and too popular for how frustrating and repetitive it can be to play against game after game. To that end, we’re making a couple of nerfs to help bring her back into line with the rest of the format.

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Nerfs
Endra, Champion of Shavka – Now 3FFF (was 2FF)
Endra’s efficiency was just too great, and the faction requirements meant to reduce the ease at which she could be exploited by three and four faction decks was insufficient. By increasing both her cost and influence, her core functionality is being preserved as both a compelling option for combo decks and “fair” decks, while slowing her down and increasing the opportunity cost.

Note: As Endra, Champion of Shavka is only available from the Promises by Firelight campaign, falling outside of our normal system for refunding crafted cards, we are giving a one-time grant of a 1,250 gold to users who purchased the campaign (similar to previous campaign changes). Users who upgraded the card will receive an additional 1,250 gold. Players will of course keep all their copies of Endra.

In looking carefully at the cards surrounding Endra, we identified two specific cards that were the primary contributors to the problematic elements of the card. The first was Evenhanded Golem, as many of the best synergies and themes that worked for it also worked for Endra and stacked together too efficiently. The change to 3-cost addresses this area. The other card was Haunting Scream.

Haunting Scream – Now 3PS Play a unit with cost 5 or less from your void (was 2PS Play a unit with cost 4 or less from your void).
Haunting Scream has long been one of the most dangerous cards in the game, given its ability to cheat power costs, combined with its powerful synergies, burst, and one-turn kill potential. While Endra was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak, this is far from the first time Haunting Scream has gone too far. That said, the card is a fan favorite, fun to build around, and can be a backbone of countless strategies. While Haunting Scream is quite strong, we mainly want to slow it down a little and reduce the ease in which it can be played as part of a multiple spell turn. The change to 3-cost is a meaningful one, and we also wanted to take this opportunity to increase the range of Scream options by allowing it to bring back 5-cost units. We’re very sensitive to the risk of any changes surrounding Endra potentially impacting non-Endra decks; so this Haunting Scream change is not one made lightly. Our hope is that this actually increases Haunting Scream’s functionality in a real way, while also slowing it down in a much-needed way.

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Sidebuffs
Sandspitter – Now 3TT 4/2 (was 4T 5/2)
Predatory Carnosaur – Now 6TTT 5/6 (was 7TTT 7/7)
Sandspitter’s Summon is more powerful the earlier it can be played, so we believe this change to be a substantial buff, opening it up as a potential option for combatting certain types of combo or spell-heavy strategies.

Predatory Carnosaur has been crowded out at the 7-spot and we thought it would be an interesting option to revisit, particularly as a tool against large Aegis units. We explored the possibility of a return to 6/6, but found it to have too much of a suppressing impact on mid-sized units. Our hope is that this change improves the speed and ease at which it can be used to for specific tasks, without crowding out other potential options.

While our hope is that both of these changes increase the playability of these cards, they are not strict buffs and will both be eligible for refunds, as will Haunting Scream.

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Buffs
As announced last month, we’ve been planning a series of buffs that promote novel deckbuilding and increase the range of counterplay available to players looking for tools against combo, spell-heavy, or void-based decks.

Charchain Flail – Now 1FF (was 2FF)
Gilded Flames – Now 3F (was 4F)
Phoenix Stone – Now 2F (was 3F)
Arcanum Hourglass – Now 2T (was 3T)
Bisma, Revered Elder – Now 3JJ (was 4JJ)
Embargo Officer – Now Shift 1 (was Shift 2)
Tax Collector – Now Ultimate costs 5 (was Ultimate costs 7)
Treasury Gate – Now 3J (was 4J)
Eye of Winter – Now 2P (was 3P)
Regression – Now 2P (was 4P)
Fearbinder – Now pay 2 (was pay 4)
Hideout Pistol – Now gives Voidbound to units it kills.
Vile Collaborator – Now 2/3 (was 2/2)
Knucklebones – Now 6FP (was 7FP)
Avisaur Patriarch – Now 3TTP (was 4TTPP)
Withering Witch – Now 1/4 (was 1/1)
The goal with these changes is to help enable a variety of uncommon decks, spawn some new ones, and hopefully provide a few more options for when unusual strategies go too far.

As always, we’ll be continuing to monitor community feedback and gamewide play data to make sure each of Eternal’s formats is fun, healthy, and exciting to explore. Keep an eye out for our next set of balance changes coming in the last week of January!

Since Descent of Dragons I’ve played some spells like Breath of the Infinite -requiring you to be holding a Dragon for bonus effect. Every time I go to play a card like this, my brain jumps to it being a Dragon card (part of the Dragon tribe).

Today though, this got me thinking how much this concept could add to the game as well. What I mean by this “concept” is - to add a sort of tribe or school to spell cards (not all spells, but a wide variety certainly). Fire spells, ice spells, holy spells, etc could simply use their school as the “tribe” label.

One might think this would only be advantageous to caster classes? Wrong, you could also add Beast to cards like Animal Companion because it only summons beasts. Kill Command is another Hunter spell that could easily include the beast tribe. Rogue uses a ton of spells that could likely end up as a school or tribe as well (shadow, stealth, agility, whatever name fits)

At the end of this, you might still be wondering why? How does it improve the game? 

1. Increases the flexibility/innovation in card design

2. Allows for more combinations such as “if you already cast a Fire Spell” etc gain bonus effect

3. Increases challenge and deck types pool

Playing mage these days is not a lot of fun. 

Cyclone has been refuted by recent power creep. 

Reno mage is solid value bet gets destroyed by aggro/deathrattle rogues. If you survive until turn 9 to unleash the zero mana dragons you are winning, but otherwise...not so much.

Chenvaala is just one card. 

Secret mage? Tempo mage? OTK/TTK mage? Exodia mage? Nope. Not. 

Quest mage? Not really. Some sidequests are decent. Reno is a good card. 

Secret mage? Looked promising but did not really deliver. At 3 mana they are slightly too expensive for an aggro deck.

So...maybe it is time for a new approach? Mech Mage? Murlocs? I tried dragons/reno and it can work. 

What do you guys think?

With battlegrounds currently rotating heroes around and they'll probably continue doing rotations, I think it would be useful to have a list showing the current rotation like Icey Vein's HoTS page. And, if there's one already could someone show me where it is?

P.S I'm not sure if I tagged this correctly

Guys can anyone go online in EU ?

I tried it several times, first i was able to login twice but when i try to open collection, Hearthstone stopped running for twice either.

and then, it gave an error about they can't reach my collection and now it says "Your game timed out as it was requesting data from the hearthstone utility service. Please relunch Hearthstone to reconnect." and there is a code on right top corner. " HS:NT304:303:0" but when I try to relogin it gives same error again.

Does anyone have same issues ? If you won't, that means my game is broken so I will try to repair the game/open a ticket.

Edit: I've scanned the game, There was no repair required it said but still can't connect and it says same error on failed screen and now the code on top right corner changed into "HS:CT;NetCacheCardValues=1"

it seemed like my game was broken at first but i guess the problem is about my account.

Edit2: I could login with my phone and can open collection aswell. It ended up the game on my laptop was broken at the beginning but still I don't know why client can't repair the game by itself. I guess i will end up redownloading the game.

Edit3: It is completely weird. I could login with my laptop at last and I have no basic cards. The only basic card I own is Mark of the Wild. I've checked on my phone too, it is the only basic card at there either.

Saw this posted elsewhere so thought it warranted a thread:

https://twitter.com/IksarHS/status/1213620908901822464

I just hope they don't mess up Galakrond Warlock. It's been ages since I've enjoyed playing a Lock deck that isn't zoo, and I want to enjoy it a bit more before they stomp it out. 

This deck is very simple. The best decks seem to play them selves to great efficiency. This deck does the same.

Massive Swarm Druid

Wild · Big Druid · by Millergram · 6 years, 2 months ago

• 0 Embiggen x 2
• 1 Biology Project x 2
• 1 Untapped Potential x 1
• 1 Worthy Expedition x 2
• 2 Bloodmage Thalnos x 1
• 2 Crystal Merchant x 2
• 2 Sunfury Protector x 1
• 2 Wrath x 2
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Ferocious Howl x 2
• 3 Swipe x 2
• 5 Nourish x 1
• 5 Oasis Surger x 2
• 5 Starfall x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Hidden Oasis x 2
• 7 Chef Nomi x 1
• 8 Batterhead x 1
• 9 Dragonqueen Alexstrasza x 1
• 9 Ysera, Unleashed x 1

14,200 Dust 753 0 Copy Deck Code

It is actually a massive swarm of big minions after turn 6, and it happens essentially 60% of the time.

Given user is signed in

And he set up a filter in his profile

When news feed is populated

Then articles are filtered 

I hope it's not that difficult to make. I only play hs so the rest of the content is not relevant. 

I'm preparing myself to play in Standard mode next rotation, hence I focused a bit on getting pieces for future Galakrond decks. Now, pretty much all of them have Kronx Dragonhoof in them in Standard. Should I disenchant some useless Wild cards to get him now or should I wait to gather more dust and maybe get him from the pack?

Hi everyone,

I'm Darkseeker, and I love playing wild mode (mostly), often showcasing different off-meta decks. I have been playing since 2014.

I try to publish videos at least once per week.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Darkseekerhearthstone 

So I'm trying to clear this before the next adventure comes out, but Tekhan seems impossible. Anyone have tips for success?

Priest players, can you inform me how you beat Quest decks?

I'm a reasonable new player, but I managed to get rank 13 last season (second season of play). I face multiple tier 1 decks, and I know how to play against them, but Priest is always a problem (I'm currently 3-25 against the control variants with Quest and resurrect shenannigans). I can't seem to beat them by SMOrcing, but outvalueing the late-game is also not possible. These are the decks I have available (standard versions unless mentioned):

- Quest Paladin

- Galakrond ZooLock (without Sea Giants)

- Combo Priest, the Amet Inner Fire version

- SMOrc Hunter

- Quest Malygos Druid (with some cheap replacements like Novice Engineer > Crystal Merchant)

- Budget Galakrond Tempo Rogue (no Flik Skyshiv)

What is a way to beat Priest?

OK so here's my unpopular opinion question for January. I've been on the good and bad side of milling whilst playing Hearthstone. I understand its weakness and strengths and  that it can feel bad to play against. But what i dont see  is that it's any underhand than any of the shenanigans going on right now. There is some support fot it at the moment mainly in druid and some neutrals but I feel like it's kinda missing from the standard meta game, even though it would get thrashed by aggro

I think that when you are playing against a mill deck and you are not aggro there is this psychological pressure that you must maintain your hand size and play your outs as quickly as possible and that adds another layer to the game that's not there at the moment. 

I don't think the developers would do this and I realise I could just play wild to play this strategy but my post is more about standard. I think a 4 cost coldlight type  neutral card would be fair.

What are your thoughts? 

I'm in the process of slowly releasing a bunch of content on each individual region reviewing their strengths in various categories such as spells vs. champions vs. followers and I'd love feedback from as many people as possible! =)

The first region went up today and it is Noxus! You can find it here: Noxus Region Review

So what does everyone think about Noxus? Also, do you agree with the combo rating that I had for the region? Personally, I think the Crimson archetype has by far the best combo potential of any region thus far! 

How much longer until hearthstone works again?

Yesterday in wild casual I faced a warlock deck I'd never seen before but it was quite interesting and semi-unbelievable imo. It seemed like an almost zoolock like shell that revolved around tapping into Expired Merchant and having no other cards higher than 5 mana except for Cruel Dinomancer so that it is always the guaranteed draw. What happens is that unless you are running a silence or transform effect you will eventually face up to 4 Dinomancers that can't be removed since they instantly rez each other upon death.