I left a quote reply on the twitch drop thread, went down the bottom and clicked leave reply. It just said Missing Body, but there was no textbox to fill in.

Going to try again on this thread.

So since the Standard meta has turned out to be unplayable garbage that varies between decks that win by not letting you play the game and decks that are 100% randomly generated I decided I might as well pass the time by farming all of the experience-granting achievements, most of which I've completed by now (which wasn't fun).

As a result, I think I can offer some valuable tips for those who haven't quite gotten around to them yet (especially since we don't have a dedicated thread for it yet).

Basically I'm just gonna go through every achievement and offer some general pointers on how to get them done the most efficient way.

As always, let me know if you have better ideas.

Demon Hunter

VENGEANCE...Next turn: Incredibly obnoxious but simple. Activating 200 Sigils isn't easy on account of there only being 2, which means you can trigger 4 per game at max (and you might not even get that depending on who you're facing). I recommend combining this with other achievements because it will take a while (50 games at least). You can also try finding extra copies through Venomous Scorpid.

Don't Dead Open Inside: Wild is your best friend if you have [Hearthstone Card (N'zoth the Corruptor) Not Found]. If not, Khartut Defender still does a great job at speeding up the process. Death Speaker Blackthorn helps, but is far from necessary. Teron Gorefiend can also put in work if you have him.

To the Left-Mooost! To the Waaall!: Easy if you have Kurtrus Ashfallen. If not, you can try and get him off Illidari Studies (which is what I did, although I wouldn't recommend it).

Druid

The Final Frontier: Seems really hard to achieve without Aviana and Kun the Forgotten King. Ysiel Windsinger might also do the trick with enough set up (and preferably in Wild because Ultimate Infestation). Completing this the intended way through Celestial Alignment sounds like a bad joke. Getting Alignment off and ramping back to 5-mana with five 8+mana cards is a pipe dream. If you didn't get run down by that point your opponent will usually concede anyways.

EDIT: Apparently Aviana + Kun doesn't work for some reason, so Alignment only it is (or maybe Ysiel, but I don't think anyone even owns that card).

Buy One, Get One Free (of Taunt): Possibly the most obnoxious one. The best way to do this is by going into Wild, building a full cycle/ramp deck and then combining Plaguemaw the Rotting with Animated Broomstick and up to 5 small taunts such as Frostwolf Grunt, Goldshire Footman, Tournament Attendee and of course Thorngrowth Sentries. Getting more than one round of resurrects is very optimistic because the average player is a <snip snap> who can't possibly comprehend the concept of farming for achievements and will literally dump their entire hand just to get rid of Plaguemaw even if you haven't made any effort to actuallly win the game for 5 turns. At least you only need 50 procs total.

Do it for the Vines: Go wild, stock up on cycle and ramp and just go to town. Usually, 3 combos per game should be definitely possible.

Hunter

Who Let the Dogs Out?: As easy as it gets apart from the fact that Hunter is hot garbage at the moment. Wild will probably be a better plays, simply because it has more Beasts with Rush that you can use (mainly Diving Gryphon and Hench-Clan Hogsteed).

Like Raptor, Like Son: Thanks to the unnerfed Starving Buzzard, this one is quite easy as long as you also run Pen Flinger with small spells and queue into a control deck. Tol'vir Warden also helps a lot if you have it.

Pack Attack: Same principles as the previous one, except you run even more cheap spells. Notice that you don't have to actually fill the board, just summon at least 6 (which you can trade off at any point) so playing double Pack Runner helps, even though a single one shouuld be enough.

Mage

It's not "Spamming", It's Art: Play Hero Power Mage. A lot. It's not good, but there's worse things.

Shatter Combo: Put a strong focus on Freeze spells into any Mage deck and go to town. Wild probably makes it a lot easier, but it's not necessary.

Barrens Bubbler: Just play Spell Mage without Deck of Lunacy and eventually you'll get there.

Paladin

Wear Your Sunday Best: 28 Minions, 2 copies of Invigorating Sermon. Also Knight of Anointment. Surprisingly enough, the deck isn't nearly as bad as you would expect if you put in enough good rush and Divine Shield cards.

Spell Slingin' Savior: Wild is mandatory here because of how much draw options there are for Paladin there. If you don't have your Flash of Light or Crystology still around you will be very sad. The best way is to run Libram of Wisdom and Lady Liadrin and focussing on getting back a lot of those. Then hope you're playing against a control deck and keep making Recruits that you stack with 5 Librams until you die.

Just between You and Me: Wild is equally mandatory here. Standard secrets are onlny 5 in number and at least two of them are quite hard to proc consistently. The best combo includes Noble Sacrifice, Avenge, Getaway Kodo and Redemption. The fifth secret is flexible and will probably vary in efficiency between match-ups. [Hearthstone Card (Oh my Yogg) Not Found] or Never Surrender! are probably the best options.

My recommended strategy is to collect secrets (and keep a Sword of the Fallen online to fish the last secret) and then play at least one Secretkeeper alongside another minion, which should present enough of a pile of stats for your opponent to respond immediately and hopefully being forced to trigger all the Secrets in one turn.

Priest

Blood Donation: Play Serena with Broom. As easy as it gets.

Two Health Bars: Go into Wild, pack all the healing spells you can find as well as a decent control package and hope you queue into something that's not an OTK deck. It's not hard, healing your opponent is not necessary, but can help.

Why Can't I Hold All These Cards?: Galakrond Priest in Wild. JUst run most of the Galakrond stuff to keep hand size consistent as well as some amount of draw. Then just play the control game as efficiently as possible while maintaining 9 cards in hand (you don't have to mill cards to get the achievement).

Rogue

Identity Theft is not a joke: Either have Yoink! or find ways to discover it (Wandmaker, Scorpid, etc.)

Just Don't Touch the Blade: The new Field Contact Miracle Rogue is a great deck for all of these achievements. You can cycle through the deck rather qquickly and find what you need. IN order to minimize Ooze depression I recommend doing it all in a single turn.

Magnets, How Do They Work?: Galakrond Rogue in Wild. Umbral Skulker and the big G himself make this a walk in the park. Other than that, Efficient Octo-bot will probably also do the trick, but you won't be able to fight for the board as much.

Shaman

My Dear Watson: Wild has more Elementals, but Standard works too. 30 Elementals or no balls.

Murlockdown: Murloc Shaman sucks dick in Standard, but it suffices. Ideally you go into Wild and use all the actually good Murlocs to get it done.

Extra Organic: Spell Damage Shaman ftw. Bru'kan probably makes this super easy, but you can do without him. Wild is probably a better avenue because Shaman has more draw there.

Warlock

Shadow of a Shadow: Obviously Tamsin Roame is the main card for this. If you don't have her you can try using Emperor Thaurissan with cheap spells in Wild, but that will take a while and is probably not worth the time.

What's Better than Two Imps?: Neeru Fireblade is how you're supposed to complete this. Don't do that, you'll probably die before you get to play him. Instead, just type "Imp" into the search bar, go into Wild and build a deck full of Imp cards. It'll take a while, but you'll get there eventually.

Discard Inferno: If you are a poor peasant you'll have to use Envoy Rustwix with an empty deck. If you are a galaxy-brained elite like me, you just build a 29 legendary deck with one Altar of Fire in Wild and tap until you find it. Easiest achievement ever.

Warrior

Hardcor Rancor: Mad Summoner is your best friend. All you need is an empty board on your side and at least one empty space on the enemy's.

It'll Take More than That: Apparently this is bugged and works for every class. As such it essentially auto-completes as long as you play minion-based deck. If they fixed it by now you can just play Frenzy Warrior which goes great with one of the neutral achievements.

Gym Buddies: The wording here seems confusing, but all you need is two of the same minion in hand and both copies of Bulk Up. Just build for draw and it'll happen. Just make sure not to run any other Taunt minions.

Neutral

Sting Operation: Since a few of the above achievements require certain spells or running only minions you can jsut throw the Scorpid in and do it on the way. If you want to target it specifically you'll want Animated Broomstick or Warsong Commander.

Signature Moves: Obnoxious as fuck. Just throw Ranked Spells into every other Achievement deck that usually goes to 10-mana and play them along the way. As per usual, Spell generation can get you extra copies.

Frenzy Friends: Warrior is the best class for this, but you can do it any way you like. There's probably not even a reason to force this because it will complete by itself aas long as you play any deck with Frenzy minions in it.

Grand Guardian: Hunter or Druid. It's very simple. Primordial Protector you can get for free from the Tavern Pass so no need to craft it.

Maximum Security: If you're still playing Standard right now you've probably already completed this.

Life is a Highway: Fuck this entire thing. All the Caravans need to be buffed to 1/4s, it's actually absurd how bad they are other wise. Anyways, Paladin is the best choice for this because you have Righteous Protector, many buffs and more importantly, Gift of Luminance. Wild gives you the best draw options. You can also run Pursuit of Justice for fun. Rally! helps a lot with this as well.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, this one is pretty painful, mainly because the braindead playerbase will once again abandon all reason and attempt to murder your caravan with everything they have in their hand, so make sure you give them the maximum protection.

Everyone's in Here!: I thought this one was going to be hard until I realized....Commanding Shout + Bladestorm on an empty board (that you easily set up through Brawl into double Doomsayer) completes it easily. Also good for Frenzy farming.

Equivalent Exchange: Play a deck with good draw, run a couple of 10-drops and have a way to tutor your 0-mana 1/1 of choice (I prefer Crystology).

Build-a-Rock Workshop: Rogue is the most obvious choice because of Shadowstep. MAke sure you write down all your previous combinations so you don't forget which one's you're still missing.

Spawn Shop: Sounds annoying, but is actually pretty simple in Wild with hunter and all the Deathrattle synergies they have available. Play Dead, Nine Lives, Baron Rivendare, Necromechanic. The posibilities are endless. Draw is a bit of an issue, but the usual Tracking + Mad Scientist builds do the trick. Honestly, your biggest worry shouuld be winning too hard because it turns out spawning multiple big taunts over and over tends to grind down a lot of decks. Appease your opponent by refraining from caving their skull in so they tolerate your spawning shenanigans.

Hog Wild: Rogue. Wild. Brann Bronzebeard. Zola the Gorgon. Shadowstep. There is no better way. Efficient Octo-bot is great for setting up the combo.

Has Anyone Seen Mankrik's Wife?: First of all, you need to kill with the initial summon. Using the Mankrik minion after it has attacked won't complete the achievement.

Once again, Rogue in Wild is our saviour. Cycle through the deck quickly, throw burn into the opponent's face and then use Brann Bronzebeard, Mankrik and Shadowstep to finish them off. Just make sure you have enough space on the board for all the Mankriks.

Top Secret Snoop: As of now I consider this one uncompleteable by any normals means. There is no deck in Standard that currently runs 5 different Secrets (and plays them all that once). the only option would be Secret Rogue, which sucks balls, so you won't find it on ladder.

In Wild the situation isn't much better, mainly because the best Secret deck is Mage and I don't think you'll be able to survive without triggering their secrets.

If you desperately want this I'd just recommend throwing Operative into every deck you have and hoping to get lucky (in Wild). In Standard I wouldn't even bother because the only relevant Secret deck is Paladin and they only run 4 different Secrets.

Anyways, that's all I've got. I hope at least some of you found this helpful. If anyone got any more useful "cheats", feel free to post them.

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mod edit: removed excessive profanity (sinti)

It won’t let me disenchant Ysera. When I go to disenchant it, it says that I have a “collection management error” or something. Anyone know a fix for this?

Blizzard recently gave out some dust in compensation for a bug with classic packs. I only opened 1 packs and got 100 dust, but today I got 700 more. I don't know why, but if they are still giving out dust does that mean I can buy the golden classic pack bundle and get extra dust? Or was this extra 700 just a fluke? I am not sure if I want to buy the bundle, but if I can farm extra dust from it then I will.

Did anybody else get extra dust today? Where did this extra 700 dust come from? And can I farm bonus dust by buying more classic packs?

Trying to import the using the JSON importer fails every time. Sometimes I get a cloudflare warning and I have to log back in.

Greetings here! I'm here to present you my version of how I would change Priest's Core Set... new class.

...or is it? Well, Witch Doctor is actually one of the oldest classes in the Hearthcards Class Creator, dating all the way back to 2018, so basically when the tool was in alpha and not always available on the Hearthcards main site. While I haven't updated it expansion-wise for a long time, being stuck in RoS and running out of ideas, I still hold dearly to it, and so I'll fianlly share it to a broader audience, this time with a new Core Set to match current ones.

For your information, you can also check the class in Hearthcards Class Creator. Just scroll to the end of the search bar and find "Witch Doctor" with currently 152 cards in it.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Heroes and Cards

Hey all, I´ve noticed in this article 3 weeks ago that there is supposed to be Twitch event this weekend starting today with possible free Barrens packs according to this:

We’re planning to host category-wide Twitch Drops the weekend following the launch of Forged in the Barrens, April 2-4! We’ll provide full details for Forged in the Barrens Twitch Drops on launch day, but you can expect to earn Forged in the Barrens packs for watching a few hours of any Hearthstone channel on Twitch, provided you’ve linked your Battle.net and Twitch accounts. Stay tuned for more details!

Since there was no official word on this at the launch afaik, no schedule on Twitch, nor an article anywhere, I thought I might post this little reminder, if it´s still going to happen, so we won´t miss our precious packs.

Hi all,

I have a complete former classic collection and I am only missing 4 legendaries from the former Hall of Fame.

I would like to buy the classic bundle.

Will I receive 2 of the 4 missing legendary cards right away? And, the rest, from opening my approx. 60 packs (by chance, of course)?

An official source link/confirmation would be absolutely great :)

I am asking this because I know there have been all kinds of problems in the last few days.

Thx a lot for reading :)

Just rolled this guy up. Didn't they say they were removing it?

Most users of the site probably wont notice this or care about it too much but if you spend hours deckbuilding or swapping between pages/refreshing pages you'll notice it quite a bit. Whenever you load up a new webpage there's a blindingly white blank page for just a split second. I don't know anything at all about building websites so I don't know how hard it would be to change, if it can be changed, or if it's even for just this site. It's gotten to the point where I close my eyes every time the site reloads or goes to a new page. Changing it to a darker color or just dimming it a bit would make a huge difference in my opinion. Overall the site is pretty awesome and it's my favorite place to build new decks, I'm really curious though if anyone else goes blind after doing it for too long.

I took a screen capture of a Kranich stream that I was watching briefly, and this card seemed to do some extremely broken things. I've never seen it before. Can anyone tell me what it is? I can't even seem to find it here on the site.

https://imgur.com/iSU0No4

Edit - I cannot get the image code to work, so there's a link instead.

By "extremely broken" I mean this. It had rush, and it dealt 3 damage to two different units. Unless there was some other thing on the board that it was interacting with, but I didn't see anything that would have done either of those things.

Additions & Changes

Hearthstone

• Deckbuilder
  • Removed the "Only Wild" option because of lack of necessity.
  • Modes filter now filters cards properly in all cases using new tech.
  • Added the ability to filter cards by spell schools.
    • This comes in the form of a dropdown AND the "search" text field.
    • Dev Note: The filters are a bit crazy on the deckbuilder and I hope we can make it nicer.
• Decks
  • Archetypes below a deck's title are now linked to the deck listing for that archetype.
• Expansions
  • New internal method for flagging game modes.
    • This is going to help us so much going forward since expansions get flagged for every mode that exists now.

Bug Fixes

Hearthstone

• Homepage Deck Widgets
  • Fixed an issue where modes selection was not working due to internal changes.
• Deckbuilder
  • Fixed an issue when editing a deck's cards where it would tell you a tag was not selected even though one already was.
  • Duplicate cards will no longer display for Core Set cards.
  • Fixed an issue where Duels info would not remove itself after switching from Duels to another mode.
• Decks
  • Removed type from the deck listing columns because we are no longer using it.
• (NEW) Cards
  • Made changes behind-the-scenes to improve API response time on cards endpoint to improve the deckbuilder loading times.

(NEW) Site

• Changed background color to prevent white flashes when bg image is loading.

since patch 2.0 my play button is glowing like there something new, i already played the classic mode and switched in all modes (wild,classic and casual)

but it still glowing please blizz i want a non- ocd trigger button thank you very much! XD anyway anyone else with that problem?

When sorting decks I've created they all show up as recently updated within the last hour. I have a few hundred decks so that's clearly wrong. I'm trying to go through and update some old ones but they're all jumbled now. pls halp.

So I was playing Even Mage in wild, and trying the new cards... I had Ice Walker on the field and played Reckless Apprentice . In the end... No minion was frozen... Do you think this interaction should work? (Just on wording I think so)

Hi Flux,

I really appreciate all the work you and the team put into the site and just wanted to report a minor bug.

I created a new deck and clicked on the "Theorycraft" tag and that does indeed show up in a box under the deck's name (alongside a box for the deck's archetype and one for the format played in).  However, sometimes when I edit the guide or cards I get a warning message that says I need to select a tag even though my previous entry is still active. 

I didn't think much of this because if you just click the tag off and back on you don't get the message.  But now I've noticed that when I go to "My Hearthstone Decks" the "Deck Type" column is blank even though the tag still shows up when I click on it and look at the boxes under the name.  Obviously, this is a super minor issue but I just wanted to bring it to your attention.

Thanks again!

All this game is now is hope you get better randomly than your opponent. It's gotten stupid. Blizzard sucks. Bring back Ben, when the game had some integrity and every match wasn't a crap shoot 

I was browsing thru my collection and noticed I've got 2 Old Murk-Eyes. I think I must have gotten the second one when I was reaping all the free achievement rewards just after patch 20.0 went live. Unfortunately, no 4 Parrots, not even 2, as I still don't have Captain Greenskin from the Classic set. I'm somewhat hesitant to dust one because I'm not really sure if Blizzard knows about this already and what they'll do when they're aware of their mistake.

Anyone else got extra copies? What did you do with them?

I hope everyone is enjoying Forged in the Barrens so far! Pushed something exciting so I decided to put up a changelog.

I know people love to see these and I regret not posting them more frequently. A lot of the stuff that ends up being deployed is boring stuff that isn't user-facing though so it would be weird to post about it :P

New Features

Hearthstone

• Deck list images!
  • Decks now generate images when they get created (or shortly after based on site load).
  • These images display in embeds when linking to decks on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
  • The image will be recreated when your deck is saved with new cards.
  • TODO: Let you grab these images easily on the deck pages themselves for sharing easily.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed an issue where comments would remain cached after editing. The cache now correctly clears on save.

Hearthstone

• Classic icon uses Hearthstone's new classic set icon instead of the old one.

Known Issues

Hearthstone

• Deckbuilder is showing some invalid cards for standard.
  • We have a long-term fix for this that should be out on Wednesday and will make dealing with formats much easier for us.

Now that Libran of Hope is the only 9 mana spell in standard, what happens if u play it at full cost vs OMY? (I don't have the card to test it)

Everytime I play Ring Toss on standard I got only 3 options the new secret Oasis Ally, Rigged Faire Game and Netherwind Portal, the second time I only got the options left, already played several times and still the same thing after this patch, anyone have seen the same bug?

Anybody else getting this message and not being able to play? I've tried on and off maybe 25 times over 4 hours and it just wont let me play. Never seen this before when an expansion lands.

As I was experiencing extended downtime in any playmode, I went through all the flavour texts and noticed that there are quite a few (I might even say more than usually) lyric-inspired puns. Actually, there are so many of them that I suspect me overlooking quite a few.

Given that I still can't start a single game, I'll just post my findings and appreachiate any additions:

• Sunscale Raptor - All Star, Smash Mouth
• Desperate Prayer - Living on a Prayer, Bon Jovi
• Tinyfin's Caravan - Movin' right along, Muppets
• Nofin Can Stop Us - Don't stop me now, Queen
• Blood Shard Bristleback - ??? This one has to be a lyric, right?
• Rancor - Can't help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley
• Kindling Elemental - Disco Inferno, The Trammps
• Lushwater Scout - Careless Whisper, George Michael & Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Taurajo Brave - ???, might be a reference
•  

Since no one did this yet, let me start!

111 packs bought with gold.

Completed the commons in 29, the rares in 56.

22 epics, one of which is golden.

9 legendaries, one of which is a golden Kazakus, Golem Shaper.

I'm very happy with the results, and I wish you were as lucky.

Just putting up a thread here to keep track of archetypes we're adding to the site.

If you would like to suggest an archetype addition, you can leave a comment here. If you do that though, please provide us with a deck to look at!

Archetypes Added

• Hero Power Mage (Wildfire, Reckless, Mordresh, etc.)
• Push Ups Warrior (Handbuff)
• Watch Post Druid
• Watch Post Rogue
• Watch Post Mage
• Watch Post Priest
• Burn Warlock (Neeru, Altar of Fire)