1. right click on Notepad - select Run as Administrator
2. answer "yes" to the pop-up about allowing changes - blah blah bla
3. open the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (you'll have to change the file-type drop-down to "all" instead of txt files since hosts doesn't have an exention)
4. go to the bottom and paste the next line into it
5. 40.84.40.16 client.arenagame-a.east.magic-the-gathering-arena.com
6. save and close
7. Start MTG arena

Original post came from Magic Arena forum.

https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/57298

My heart is always with AOE2. However, after a long year passed, we can finally play this game on Steam next month. Are you hyped for AOE1? Feel free to share your thoughts.

I don't want to sound annoyed or smth. But there was a patch today (correct me if I'm wrong) which brought some card art updates and dalaran heist stuff. Have I missed the post or something went wrong? 

I've been watching this free to play series on youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxht-L8vCng&list=PL6pNhtiaol0n9CUcpKkMKUtJ16cm-sV0e

Just wanted to share it because it has been interesting to watch complete n00bs at this game try to advance on the ladder, and i have been crazy annoyed by their misplays and bad deck building.  At the same time it's really cool to see them grow as players and in skill level, they are still not great and haven't gotten too high on the ladder yet... but its a really fun thing to watch.  It could be worthwhile for any new players or anyone who wants to remember the old days when you knew nothing about the game.

And if not, will you? 

I have. Best thing about pre-order for me at least are the heroes. We just need more of them. :) 

Maybe should have put this in the salt thread, because I am definitely pretty salty right now ... but maybe their is some room for discussion here. 

IMHO, Something needs to be done about the Giant / Kadgar / CC combo. Crazy, over-the-top combo's in Tier 3 decks are one thing. They are another when they are Tier 1, and shaping a big part of the meta. 

If they get the nut draw, it's pretty much game over on Turn 5-6 if you can't deal with an 8/8 on Turn 4. Once you are staring down four 8/8's or 7/8 taunts, the options are pretty limited. 

And even without the nuts, you are facing death anytime you can't remove a giant. And even THEN, they can play the entire combo from hand at some point. 

I know there has been talk of HoF'ing giants, but I am kinda against that. Just bump the cost of CC to 5. The combo potential is still there, but it at least pushes it back a couple turns. 

Thoughts? 

During the Dalaran reveal Blizz said that they will add new lackeys with the new expansions.
If I remember correctly, they said there will be 1 new lackey for each expansion, at least for this year, but who knows?

What do you guys think, what will be the effect of the new lackey?

All lackeys are 1/1s, this lackey will probably be a 1/1 too.
Reborn is the new keyword for the expansion, so a 1/1 with reborn is the most obvious option, but that is kinda boring. We already had Possessed Villager and now Mecharoo. 
Maybe we will get another bad guy who joins the League of E.V.I.L. and the new lackey will resemble his/her effect, but I doubt that.

mindblast and vanish just got sent to the hall of fame. and they were made into commons. which means that you can DE your golden copies for 200 dust, or if you want to keep your golden copies you can scrap the regular ones for 20. just thought I would let everyone know. 

What class do you guys think that the 4 from LoE will be?

since i have almost every card from each class(except hunter) i wonder on which classes i should focus more while ignoring or even worst case disenchanting the cards in other classes... the hearthstone expansion are really expensive for me(even if i buy 80+50 packs bundle it wont be enough for all classes).

so i was wondering which classes you guys think i should hold on ? i really like rogue and mage for the fun perspective, i loved to play priest but priest is rarely very good or gets most of the time shity greedy cards. im one of the old players where i loved to play the 40 minutes control warrior matchups.

the only class i dont like is hunter... im not so sure about shaman either(the overloard mechanic sucks). Control warlock could be again possible in the future, but doesnt seem to be like that now(next exp maybe). i will still hold on to the cards, its just for future reference.

hope you can help me a little bit out on that on. i know its personal preference . to make it short : im more of a control player, but also like to play Tempo Rogue if it in a meta aviable.. hate playing aggro decks,

Can we have an option to hide people's signatures? I always have this on on every forum I visit because I find them distracting, especially when some people use animated images in their signatures.

I know we can delete our personal posts whenever we want but can we have access to delete threads we opened? If we can't for security purposes, it's alright. The reason why I wanted is that I should delete some of my threads I opened (mostly bugs/feature threads that are resolved) to reduce the overload of this site. Heck, we should have a stick thread for this to feel OoC fresh. Also, if a thread isn't visited/commented for a year, it should be deleted automatically. I know my idea might be against some rules but in the long run, more threads/decks mean more power for server and more slowdown.

Since the last update on Android I'm having an issue where if I leave the game for a second and go back it bring me back to the main menu.  I'm trying to copy a deck code and the option to copy still comes up but I'm at the main menu so it won't actually copy it.  Anyone else having the same issue?  I haven't tried on my Kindle yet so I'm not sure if it's only on Android or not.

One way they could separate the use of them from ungoro is by possibly making it so that both players and their actions count towards the quest. Possibly giving it a chance to add new strategy to the game. Do you think this would be a good idea?

Is this my phone, or does anyone else experience this? 

Every time I want to type a punctuation mark in this text editor, the prompt would just skip one space, like pressing space. 

Or do you enjoy the opening of each pack? The thrill of getting a legendary. Or not.

Well, I just played a game against spell hunter. If I recall correctly, if you used Dire Frenzy twice on the same beast - e.g. on a Vicious Scalehide - It would give you a 7-9 Vicious Scalehide on board and six 4-6 Vicious Scalehide in your deck, right? That is, while you buff the card on board twice, copies are only shuffled into the deck with the buff applied once. This is due to the card text stating "Shuffle three copies into the deck ..." (which implies no buff) "... with +3/+3".

In that game, Zul'jin casted multiple frenzies on the same scalehide, and the hunter then played a 13-15 scalehide, meaning that all the buffs were applied to this copy in the deck. This interaction is new, right? At least, I do not remember it working that way. And it would break spell hunter completely if you ask me.

Opinions?

Golden card test in 3,2,1 Malygos

The following link (clicking to page 2 of the comments from the new expansion announcement) gives a Server Error (500):

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/157-new-hearthstone-expansion-revealed-saviors-of-uldum-all-revealed-cards?page=2#comments

Well, Tıtle says everything. I couldn't see a topic about it and didn't see any comments in the site.

So wanted to point it out.

Pilfer now adds a random class card to your hand instead of giving a random card from your opponent's class.

Old text: Add a random card to your hand (from your opponent's class).

New Text: Add a random card from another class to your hand.

Your booty will be missed..

Has there been any news, or indication that we're getting a third annual Fire Festival?!  It'd be really REALLY nice of Blizzard to do right about now...  Please, Ragnaros!  Be the Savior of our Wallets by helping us increase our gold coffers before Saviors of Uldum!!!

After seeing the outstanding cinematic trailer I thought explorer's classes were pretty clear:

Elise has a magic book-> she is a mage,
Brann rides a dinosaur-> he is an hunter,
Finley seem to have something to do with animals and nature-> he is a druid,
Reno has a cannon with crystals that generate light-> he is a pally.

But seeing the whole announcement trailer I noticed the druid quest has Elise in its art, so I relized she had to be a druid, but this created a lot of other problems, since no one else seems to be a mage; Reading the comments under the videos and here on out of cards it seems there is a consensus on the classes (elise as druid, finley as pally for the golden fish, reno as mage, since he has those magic crystals and brann as hunter); but even this scheme does not make that much sense to me, because druids don't use magic books(I might be mistaken since I'm not a wow player, but I don't remember a single druid with a book in hs), pallies don't have animals and crystals that generate light have nothing to do with mages, so I had an idea: "What if Explorers were bi-class?" and after seeing the trailer dozens of time I noticed something else: the weapons have characteristics from various classes:

Finley's golden fish sword is an animal, but is golden and seems to be enchanted with light(druid-pally)
Elise's magic book seems to have both etheral powers and nature-related ones(mage-druid, plus she also rides an horse)
Reno's gun has crystals and generates light, but it's also an hunter weapon (pally-hunter, and he also fights with animals in the part where he is alone)
Brann is the problematic one, since he has less screentime than the others (he just appears with other explorers while finley, elise and reno have a solo part during the trailer) and he has not a consistent weapon (at the start he has a whip and at the end a shotgun) and even if I guess its main "weapon" is the dinosaur (which has nothing to do with mages, unless it's not something like a magical dinosaur, but it does not look like that, and it's fully grown up at the start and just an egg at the end), Brann's class choice might have a deeper meaning.

Except for Brann, who's not highlighted as the others, I can't unsee the double nature of the explorers' weapons anymore.
What do you think?

A new Epic Druid Hero, Elise Starseeker, has been revealed!

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An interesting side note in the new update notes:

"Downtime for Tavern Brawls has been reduced to 1 hour per week. Tavern Brawls will now begin every week on Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT and end the following Wednesday at 8:00 AM PDT  (times and dates will vary by region)"

I'm quite excited for this change. I wonder what you all think?