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I've started building a Beast Zoolock deck around History Buff, Untamed Beastmaster and for the meme of it: Hir'eek, the Bat.

Faring well with it in Casual, but I'm looking for ideas to improve it in ladder matches (rank 5 and up).

Beast Zoo

Wild · Zoolock · by Nuagoo · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 1 Flame Imp x 2
• 1 Grim Rally x 2
• 1 Helpless Hatchling x 2
• 1 Spirit Bomb x 2
• 2 Dire Wolf Alpha x 2
• 2 EVIL Cable Rat x 2
• 2 EVIL Genius x 2
• 2 Spirit of the Bat x 2
• 3 Desert Hare x 2
• 3 Duskbat x 2
• 3 History Buff x 2
• 3 Ornery Tortoise x 2
• 3 Untamed Beastmaster x 2
• 4 Diseased Vulture x 1
• 4 Lifedrinker x 2
• 8 Hir'eek, the Bat x 1

4,920 Dust 1,435 0 Copy Deck Code

Feel free to test and comment! :)

EDIT: One of the main problems is Control Warrior, but frankly speaking there aren't many zoo options to improve that matchup, so I chose to ignore it.

Both PC and Amazon (Android) versions just patched for me. But I can't find any patch notes or notice anything different.

Does anyone have information on what is updated or changed?

I just got a golden High Inquisitor Whitemane from this week's tavern brawl. I had completely forgotten that this was added to Classic.

Does anyone know how it interacts with reborn minions? I wonder if this new mechanic would make Whitemane more playable.

These three cards in particular enable some fun deathrattle abusing shenanigans.  Giving your cheap deathrattles like Dead Ringer reborn lets you complete the quest really easily and double up on the deathrattle effects without relying entirely on Twilight's Call!  Wretched Reclaimer is basically Terrorscale Stalker for priest, but even better since it puts more copies of the deathrattle minion in your rez pool for Twilight's Call and Psychopomp, you can use it on a Reborn deathrattle like Grandmummy to summon 2 copies of the minion (and you can even use it on the non-reborn half of Grandmummy to bring it back with Reborn again.) and you can use it on 1/1 copies from Mirage Caller and Twilight's Call!

I had quite a bit of laughs memeing around with a SMOrc Quest Priest yesterday that just kills the opponent by summoning obscene amounts of Leper Gnomes and Kobold Sandtroopers even if the deck auto-losses to any kind of healing or armor gain.

A midrange build with stuff like Nerubian Egg and Carnivorous Cube was doing much better for me with a similar level of fun too.

Even though Awaken the Makers normally promotes a control playstyle, it kinda works quite well for a midrange deck since you can complete the quest really fast and just use Amara, Warden of Hope as a 5 mana 8/8 Taunt for some big tempo and maybe cube it later.

Deathrattle SMOrc Priest

Wild · Quest Priest · by Watermelon86 · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 1 Awaken the Makers x 1
• 1 Embalming Ritual x 2
• 1 Leper Gnome x 2
• 2 Dead Ringer x 2
• 2 Kobold Sandtrooper x 2
• 2 Loot Hoarder x 2
• 2 Mind Blast x 2
• 2 Shadow Visions x 2
• 3 Backstreet Leper x 2
• 3 Mirage Caller x 2
• 3 Twilight's Call x 2
• 3 Wretched Reclaimer x 2
• 4 Baron Rivendare x 1
• 4 Cult Master x 2
• 4 Psychopomp x 2
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Spiritsinger Umbra x 1

9,240 Dust 1,236 0 Copy Deck Code

Amara's Omelet Buffet (Midrange Egg Quest Priest)

Wild · Quest Priest · by Watermelon86 · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 1 Awaken the Makers x 1
• 1 Embalming Ritual x 1
• 2 Dead Ringer x 1
• 2 Grandmummy x 1
• 2 Kobold Sandtrooper x 2
• 2 Loot Hoarder x 2
• 2 Nerubian Egg x 2
• 2 Shadow Visions x 2
• 3 Mirage Caller x 2
• 3 Twilight's Call x 2
• 3 Unidentified Elixir x 2
• 3 Wretched Reclaimer x 2
• 4 Piloted Shredder x 2
• 4 Psychopomp x 2
• 5 Carnivorous Cube x 2
• 5 Convincing Infiltrator x 1
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Spiritsinger Umbra x 1
• 6 Sylvanas Windrunner x 1

10,200 Dust 5,825 4 Copy Deck Code

I got an email from Blizzard trying to entice me to dust off my classic character in WoW by instantly leveling it up to 100. Which, may work for most, but for me not so much.  I'd rather live in the nostalgia of when I was in my 20's drinking beer, raiding like BWL/AQ crazy. Then I got another email about the classic only server getting ready to open up. I almost took the hook, but then I realized I am married with 4 kids, and I couldn't delicate the endless grinding hours for it. haha

Those email did bring me to a crossroads in my brain. I was stuck thinking about the endless hours of vanilla, and my 7 - 10 minute Hearthstone matches I try to squeeze in when I can.

I started to wonder what good expansions they could bring to Hearthstone from the vanilla days.

Here are my top 3:

First one that came to me was Dire Maul for some reason. An Orge Expansion would be fun, could also tie in to the ruined night elf city.

Second  was Darkmoon Faire. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been done yet. That place was always fascinating to me. Travelling band of gypsies peddling their wares.

Third would be an Alterac Valley type of deal. That place was a crazy pvp. Totally fluid, and a pvp holyland. I remember epic battles outside of Tarren Mill which isn't to far from the zone for pvp queue as well.

As far as I know there is no sufficient data for the golden legendary pity timer (PT).

I actually got to 39x packs last expansion in between golden legendaries, so the much cited '400 packs PT' seems to hold, but I'm now (unwillingly) on my quest to test the PT:

349 Uldum packs opened, no golden legendary (got all commons and rares, most epics and would be missing like 5-6 legs hadn't I crafted 3)

IF I DO HIT like 380, I'll post again, but until then: What was the longest opening streak without a golden leg for you?

Welcome to this originally mildly salty thread, turned into a productive one!

I thought it was pretty fun to mention here all the obvious whiffs of Zephrys the Great, specifing the game context as precisely as possible.

REMINDER: zephrys the great calculates solutions based exclusively on PUBLIC elements. He does not know the identity of your cards or secrets, nor those of the opponent, but he can see that they are there and their number, plus health, weapons, board.

Let's gather enough data to improve his code!

Here i start:

(10) mana as Valeera the Hollow, with Eviscerate at hand, against Wild Secret Mage, with 2 secrets up (including ice block) and 1hp left:

i play Zephrys TWICE in the same turn, and in neither case did he offer me the SI:7 Infiltrator or Flare that could give me lethal.

Only 3 redundant options: Eviscerate, Fireball, Swipe. Twice.

Do you guys remember the the "Welcome to Uldum" quest for logging in when the expansion released? It rewarded us 3 packs from SoU. And we were promised 3 more through 2 quests named "Onward into Uldum". One of those rewarded us 2 packs and the other one - 1. We still haven't gotten them... So the requirements for the quests are "Play the Tavern Brawl" and "Win the Tavern Brawl". So i presume we will get them today when the Tavern is out...? Any opinions?

Hey friends,

I got my 9 year old daughter into Hearthstone, and she really enjoys it. She gets more out of opening packs and building decks than actually playing, but she has fun. She plays pretty rarely, so I don't want to put real money into her account. I build her decks with her and help her play, and we can barely win any games, even at Rank 21. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a viable deck for someone with a very limited collection. We're not aiming for legend here, just to be able win enough games for quest completion and having some fun. She has SN1P-SN4P and Vargoth, obviously, plus Zilliax, Kalecgos, Dr. Boom, Velen, Brightwing, and the new Shaman and Rogue quests. Not too many quality epics, etc. 

Thanks!

I'm very curious about this, especially because if nothing goes wrong, I will probably graduate in college as a Video Game Designer/Developer next year. Considering people is here mostly to talk a lot about games (especially Hearthstone, of course... :P), their mechanics, the balance, etc., I was wondering how many of you visit this forum and dedicate your life to this wonderful career??? :D :D :D

I was curious about the probably of burgling class cards with some out of the box card generators and I just thought I would share it. I am not stating the power of these cards rather just throwing some data out there. All numbers are rounded to the nearest percent. Also this is as of Saviors of Uldum Standard.

Pharaoh Cat Has a 35% to give a non-rogue class card.

Violet Haze Has a 58% to give 1 card and 12% for 2.

Jar Dealer Has a 37% for a class card.

Ravencaller Has a 60% to give 1 card and 14% for 2.

Tanglefur Mystic Has a 36% for a card.

Swamp Dragon Egg Has a 37% for a card.

Fishflinger Has a 29% for a card

Weaponized Piñata Has a 54% to give a card

Lastly Face Collector 

Played 1 time is a 54% for a card

Played 2 times is an 80% for a card 29% for 2

Played 3 times is a 90% for a card and 16% to get all 3 as class cards.

for reference: Shieldbreaker most people's opinion about the card back in rastakan that the card is great, but aggro plays Prince Keleseth.

them is essentially old owl in the current meta most minions you want to silence are taunts, and warrior now runs the taunt package which means their taunts are buffed also every deck runs Zilliax.

do you think them is worth inclusion in zoo/aggro warrior/murloc pally?

this is hard..
the new quests are crazy

How to get The Feat of Strength Achievement ?

Registered for an account on HearthStation.  (HearthStation  = Out Of  Card?)

Participated in the Out of Cards Uldum Essentials quest with the League of Explorers. ( HOW?) any link?

Title says it all. Have a look at this deck, then feel free to tell me how to improve because I think it can be optimized better with your valuable feedback:

Totems Will Rise Again... Better Than They Have Ever Been!

Wild · Totem Shaman · by Esparanta · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 0 Totemic Might x 2
• 0 Totemic Surge x 2
• 1 Primal Fusion x 2
• 2 Devolve x 2
• 2 EVIL Totem x 2
• 2 Flametongue Totem x 2
• 2 Totem Golem x 2
• 3 Mana Tide Totem x 2
• 3 Nightmare Amalgam x 2
• 3 Wicked Witchdoctor x 2
• 4 Archmage Vargoth x 1
• 4 Draenei Totemcarver x 2
• 4 Splitting Axe x 2
• 5 Thunder Bluff Valiant x 1
• 6 Thing from Below x 2
• 10 Sea Giant x 2

5,300 Dust 2,100 6 Copy Deck Code

So, what to do?

Hi there, 

A mate of mine is currently at level 25 and has had an account for a few months now. They havn't received the free SOU legendary quest or the SOU quest - this is meant to be given on login within the first 90 days of the expansion release. 

Does anybody know if he needs to hit a level e.g. 20 before receiving this?

A bit before the release of SoU we got a very nice article discussing each classes strengths and weaknesses.

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/148-keeping-hearthstone-unique-class-identity-breakdown

I'd like your opinion on what was said and what we got.

I personally mostly play hunter and from what I saw most of the hunter cards supports what the article said

Hyena Alpha fits both beast and secret synergies,

Swarm of Locusts just as Unleash the Hounds fits the beast synergies

The odd ones are Wild Bloodstinger (which is still a beast) and  the quest ,Unseal the Vault which, unlike the previous one that went with hunter's affinity with one drops, doesn't seem to fit at all...

Hunters are not known to swarm, don't usually wait for 20 minions to be summoned before killing the opponent and rarely has a board of tokens that sticks (it's usually 1/1s)

Now if it looked like Dinomancy and said  "give your beasts +x/+x " (I leave the figures, costs and details to pros of balance)  I would love it

Right now it seems Mech hunter will still rule supreme even though the class has nothing to do with mechs.

Greetings!

I love warlock. Some of my favorite effects involve discarding other cards. There are various types of discarding cards but I want to ask about Expired Merchant.

( I am making a huge assumption that Shriek or Reckless Diretroll basically work the same way except for targeting the highest card in hand, Shriek and Reckless Diretroll target the lowest.)

Here is my Scenario: 

I have Expired Merchant in hand along with Cruel Dinomancer and Reno Jackson. Assuming no other card is greater than 5 mana in hand which card will be chosen? Is this random? Is the card that is Alphabetical first/last? Does it target the cards from left to right or right to left. Does it choose the card based on which card set came first? Is there any rhyme or reason once two cards are of the same mana level in hand? Do I have to play Reno to order to guarantee that Cruel Dinomancer is selected?

Is this mechanical process the same when dealing with discarding your lowest and highest cost cards?

Thank you for your time!

I played MTG arena for a few months before WOS came out. Izzet Drakes was my favorite deck and it worked out pretty well, i won more games than i lost. I took a break from Arena and now i wanna go back into it but my old deck loses to just about everything now. I don't know enough about this game to optimize it myself and every deck i find online on recommended sites suck as mtggoldfish is Bo3. How do i transform a Bo3 deck into a Bo1?

My old deck was made by myself on the skeleton of Izzet Drakes but now with all these new cards i'm lost at what to do. Planewalkers give me a headache as my core removal cards like Lava Coil now are worthless.

So, I recently starting playing MTGA, and so far I'm just looking at all of the basic decks and leveling them up. Then I'll get to the real ranked play.

What I will say is that the starting deck lineup in MTGA is definitely much better than the starting deck lineup in Hearthstone.

On the board, I control a Season of Growth (to the right) which draws cards whenever I cast a spell on a creature I control. On the board, I control Gargos, Vicious Watcher (which pairs extremely well with Season of Growth because of its ability to fight when you cast a spell on it). I buff it with Giant's Growth (which I decided to do for the fight ability of Gargos, as well as advancing a quest I had at the time), with causes me to draw another Giant's Growth, which caused me to draw a Growth's Cycle, which in turn resulted in me having a 19/15 Gargos (it's damaged because it fought two creatures this turn due to its ability).

Just curious if there are any decks in SoU that you thought were going to be good (or maybe just playable?) before launch that you've experimented with and they were just trash?

I got High Priest Amet so figured i'd give a Boar OTK deck a whirl since it seemed reasonable as a win condition in any otherwise decent Control Priest capacity. Ladies and Gentleman, it is NOT. 2-8 record, and the two wins didn't come from the OTK but just general win against other Control decks. I only got close to the OTK once, but they had two taunts up and I only had oneSilence so no go.

At least I learned my lesson after RR where I crafted a LOT to try and make Dragon Warrior work to no avail so I didn't craft anything on this but still...I get that a 7-card combo isn't the easiest to pull off but dang I didn't think the deck would be THAT bad. 

I don't know if Blizz planned this ahead but the classes that got twinspells now received highlander cards allowing for highlander decks to be made. Twinspells work fantastic with highlander as they are basically 2 spells in one.

Hi there - i kinda liked the idea to try to build a Highlander Deck in a Class that usually does not play this - so here is my Theorycraft:

SoU - Nomi Highlander Theorycraft

Wild · Nomi Priest · by FieselFitz · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 0 Circle of Healing x 1
• 0 Forbidden Words x 1
• 0 Silence x 1
• 1 Activate the Obelisk x 1
• 1 Northshire Cleric x 1
• 1 Power Word: Shield x 1
• 2 Bloodmage Thalnos x 1
• 2 Injured Tol'vir x 1
• 2 Loot Hoarder x 1
• 2 Novice Engineer x 1
• 2 Penance x 1
• 2 Questing Explorer x 1
• 2 Seance x 2
• 2 Shadow Word: Death x 1
• 2 Shadow Word: Pain x 1
• 2 Wild Pyromancer x 1
• 2 Youthful Brewmaster x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Acolyte of Pain x 1
• 3 Holy Nova x 1
• 4 Bone Wraith x 1
• 4 Mass Dispel x 1
• 5 Mass Hysteria x 1
• 5 Rotten Applebaum x 1
• 5 Sandhoof Waterbearer x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 7 Chef Nomi x 1
• 7 Gadgetzan Auctioneer x 1
• 12 Grave Horror x 1

9,220 Dust 953 0 Copy Deck Code

Not sure how this will do, but im gonna try this a little and see how it does :) 

Little Guide (Gameplan and a small explanation) is on the Deck Page - will update the Guide as soon as i've tried this a few times.

Any suggestions or ideas? 

As most expected, Uldum has been a pretty powerful and impactful set. But even then, there are cards that I did not think would be very good or competitive. But, I have been pleasantly surprised by a handful of cards from this set.

- Highlander decks are competitive
I didn't have much hope for these decks. I thought Elise would see play in combo, but I didn't think the payoff was there for the other cards. Now, about a week in, both Mage and Hunter have successful Highlander decks. Zephyrs also shows up in places you wouldn't expect, like Rogue.

- The paladin quest has a place
I was pretty low on most of the paladin set, but the mummy quest deck has a place in competitive hearthstone. I certainly think the deck could stand to receive a few more playable reborn minions, but right now, it works just fine as a hard counter to warrior and a fine check to slower mages.

- Khartut Defender
A lot of neutral taunts were released in this set. I would not have expected that Khartut Defender would be the best one. But I guess it's worth it to pay 3 mana for 3 keywords that all synergize with each other.

Has anything surprised you from SoU?

Hey guys,

I am interested in how do you all handle disentchanting cards. For me there are some options:

1. if there are more than 2 copies of the same card --> disentchant even the golden ones
2. same like Option 1 with saving the golden ones
3. if you need to craft cards disentchant several hand picked cards so you can effort it (keep the rest and hope for dust refund after nerfs)

Whats your fav option or is there any you would like to add?

Cheers