While I greatly enjoy the dungeon run style of single player content, it always annoys me how boring and repetitive the first few levels are.

I think allowing the player to draft a treasure and/or 3 cards *before* the first encounter would create a lot more variety in that first game, not to mention allowing the first boss(es) to be buffed a little to actually make the fight interesting. Rhastakhan's Rumble took a step in the right direction by allowing the player to draft a loa at the outset, but even there the fact that each loa has one starting deck means that after a while the first encounters become boring and predictable. And of course with Dalaran Heist we went back to picking a passive treasure and cards after the first encounter, which IMO is a clear regression (that said, being given a choice of hero powers and starting decks is a definite improvement).

Now I don't expect the existing adventures to be substantively changed, but it'd be nice if the devs could front-load a bit more choice/variance at the beginning of the run in future adventures. It'd make the first few levels more exciting, greatly improve the replay value and make it easier to fish for certain treasures/comboes once you're at the point where you've already beat the bosses and you just want to try wacky stuff.

I see people complaing about different bosses being to strong, but for me the most frustrating boss is actually the 1st one: Linzi Redgrin. There are games that you cannot win against Haro (playing Murlocs or other "swarmy" archetypes for example) and sometimes P.O.G.O. just starts shuffling your Muscles into his deck only to draw them and beat you, but most of the bosses have that - a situation / set of draws in which they are insane. That said that is why you play Heroic - to feel to challenge of facing the more difficult bosses and try to make your deck OP enough to beat them.

Problem with Linzi is that usually, his deck is just better than your starting deck most of the time. Your only chance is swarming him and taking the board from him, which can be really hard since his curve ussually tops out at 2-3 mana and if he starts losing he goes all face. On top of that there are many versions that require different plays against them (against Edwin you should play your Convincing Infiltrator, but against the version with Gang Up! you need to hold it until Gang Up! is played). There have been runs when I wanted to try particular archetype (Kobolds desire, Bomb Warrior), but just wasn't able to get through him like 4-5 times in a row. I think the challenge should come only after you picked something for the deck and have your treasure not before. It is just such a feel bad moment to lose even before you have any chance to customize your deck.

I think he should be at least made into 2nd or more only boss so that you can have at least some treasure/advantage to use against him or his appearance rate should be lowered so that you wouldn't play him 5 times in a row. Especially given that ALL of the other 1st bosses almost can't beat you even if they are super lucky. Wendy, for example, has stolen from me Frost Lich Jaina only to be killed before she played it and played my Wrench-Callibur (basically 16 damage!!!) that also wasn't fast enough for her.

If anyone is still interested in World of Warcraft some interesting leaks just came out on 4chan. Some really interesting stuff. I will bullet point some of the stuff said.

• Next expansion seems to be related to the Dragon Flights gaining in power again. Dragon Isles and Shadowlands
• 4 allied races seem to be coming. Vuperia and mechagnomes of course. And Light Forged Undead for Alliance and a Pig race that isn't Quilboar for Horde
• Nya'lotha confirmed for 8.3. It's going to be 3 or 4 zones big similar to Argus size
• Sylvana's end goal was to prevent N'zoth from being released
• Suarfang is getting the axe this expansion to save Sylvanas it seems. Sylvanas risked her life to prevent N'zoth's full return. (she is also no longer the warchief next expansion)
• The team is considering merging the factions when Baine becomes the new Warchief. Warmode off will allow you to enter Alliance cities as horde and Horde cities as Alliance.
• If they go through with this plan it will also be possible to raid and join guilds with the opposite faction. When warmode is on you can kill the opposite faction again. (they might scrap this merger)
• Level cap confirmed going back to 60 and the new expansion content will bring it up to 70
• Tinker is the new class coming and it starts at level 50. Tank+healer+dps
• They have confirmed new "class skins" coming to the game. They used Necromancer as warlock, and Dragonsworn for druid as examples. HOWEVER it seems you need to re level a whole new character to use these new class skins. As in you need to start at level 1 and make a necromancer instead of just changing your warlock.

Last he said the patch 8.2 is hitting the 25th this month.

Hello folks,

Disclaimer: i hate mobile websites. They lack overview, design and functionality almost every time. And on top: you dont need a special website layout at a 10 " tablet or similar sized devices!

So its quite anoying that the out-of-cards website forces you to use the mobil view. Most of the time i use the desktop version of website via Chrome -> ... -> use desktop website. That works 99%

But that is not possible here. You only get a bigger version of that mobile view, see:

1) mobile                                                        2) "use desktop" on mobil

3) desktop

Please change that or create a sub-domain without automatic mobil view (classic.outof.cards or sth)

thanks,

Phil

mike donais said that they would love to do at least one heist hero as a playable character. 

which dalaran heist hero would you want as a skin 

my choice would be captain eudora or tekahn

edit: i mean the playable characters not the bosses

*SPOILERS*

I'm excited for it, especially with being able to play characters other than Sora again (which was what I had hoped KH3 would have done more of originally). The extra lore teasers involving Luxu and Luxord also seems really interesting. Overall I'm happy with what will be included, although I'm a little put down at the thought that being able to play as Aqua or Roxas will only be for the Keyblade Graveyard, but oh well.

How has the trailer/announcements met or fallen short for what you hoped the DLC would bring?

Regardless of how you feel about the playstyle it is hard to argue that the class has not been tethered to this strategy for a long time now. Classes are supposed to have some variety but it seems that right now priest is tethered to the 'Big'/Rez poster child image.

Perhaps if the class had a new midrange archtype pushed its way it might shake the class up.

What do you think?

What if Blizzard were to buff the classic set cards the same way they buffed boomsday? I think such thing would be great and freshen up the game for a while longer than buffing an expansion that rotates in a year..

anyway I will suggest the buffs, they are either -1 mana +1 attack or +1 hp, if the card is so bad then -2 mana(like boomsday buffs)

I will choose cards that see no play at all and have space to open up a new archtype.

Druid (technically could buff almost ANY card, but I decided feral druid needs some love)

Savagery 1->0 mana  this card is really bad as is.. at least it should cost less.. also goes well with the next bufff.

Bite  4-> 3 mana this card never saw play (after it got nerfed in beta) druid has worse ramp right now it can be buffed.

Hunter - hunters got a strong classic set so..

King Krush 9-> 8 mana this card was ONLY good cause of [Hearthstone Card (katrena winterwisp) Not Found] otherwise it's terrible, with this buff it's a decent finisher if you can get there.. another suggestion could be +1 attack or even more minor +1 hp. it IS a legendary after all and the worst classic class legendary in that...

Gladiator's Longbow 2->3 durability, this card costs 7 mana! you are overpaying 2 mana over arcanite reaper for being immune which is a 0.5 mana effect looking at Candleshot this weapon has too little durability for how much it costs..

Paladin - not too much to buff here either, some card buffs might be too toxic for the game if buffed.

Lay on Hands - 8->7 mana at least lets you do something else the turn you play it..

Argent Protector 2/2->2/3 can't buff anything else there.. holy wrath is pointless and blessed champion would be too oppressive as a combo piece this card has a 0.5 mana cost effect attached to it.. could be a 2/3 really, great in arena.

Priest - his classic set SUCKS but can't be easily buffed in long term, but I did find 2 cards worthy low risk buffs.

Shadowform 3-> 2 mana hero power change cards cost 2 in other sets this card is fun to use but costs too much also you lose the healing for using it so.. yeah 2 mana.. still probably not playable but it's a fun card.

Holy Fire 6->5 mana could help priest since this card is played sometimes mostly cause of lack of other alternatives.. value wise 5 damage= 3.5 mana, 5 healing =1 mana bundling cost =0.5 good enough.

Rogue - just got nerfed but I got some unrelated archtype buffs.

Kidnapper - 5/3-> 5/4  this card is badly stated for it's cost

Patient Assassin - 1/1-> 1/2 it's a small buff but this guy is never played at all I am not sure though since arena exists.. and rogue is strong there..

Shaman the overload mechanic was underestimated as a drawback back in classic

Lightning Storm 3->2 mana, this card is not even played in shaman control decks, and is mostly a feelsbad when it is.. would rather lower the overload by 1, but I already stated that I would not change the card text.

Forked Lightning 1->0 mana this card is too weak atm

Warlock

Felguard 3->2 mana, if you are destroying one of you mana crystals.. it's better be worth it.. 1 mana "Cheat" for -1 mana the whole game? hell no..

Siphon Soul 6->5 mana overcosted removal, when it was played it was one of the worst cards in warlock..

Warrior

Mortal Strike 4->3 mana it's a fireball if you are meeting the requirement otherwise it's just an ok card

Cruel Taskmaster 2/2-> 3/2 more aggressively stated minion.

Mage

Icicle 2->1 mana worst card in mage, should not cost 2..

[Hearthstone Card (Etheral arcanist) Not Found] 3/3-> 3/4  never played card, easi'ish to counter.

Neutral

Illidan Stormrage 7/5-> 7/6 should be buffed.. I think his text should be more impactful but I can't change it by my own rules.

Arcane Golem 3-> 2 mana if you are giving your opponent a huge upside at least make it worth... was nerfed too hard..

I could puke. Honestly. After another game in arena where a extremely bad player once again got Kalecgos from Messenger Raven I was confused, bought HSreplay Premium and will uninstall this Activion $$$$ game.

Kalecgos is played after Messenger Raven in over 70% of players that score in average below 3 wins. Above the numbers go down until it is below 3%.

Do you honestly still think they don't use the same shit EA uses in Fifa, the worse you are the more luck and rigged matches? Believe in this and live in your world.
It is damn obvious.

For those out of the loop, Hearthpwn was re-acquisitioned by a group called Magic Find. They claim to keep the site running the same way it did before and "provide only the best that we can offer". According to my knowledge, Flux was offered a role in the reconstruction of the website, and declined the offer. The most common response to this is "FUCK YEAH! I love this site, thanks for keeping it running!", followed by "We had it great back then, now it's controlled by people we don't know. I'm off to Out Of Cards".

In my opinion, I'd probably use both. I too have a special attachment towards the old Hearthpwn crew, and going back to Hearthpwn without then is like a Hearthstone without Ben Brode. However, twice the websites means twice the forum posts, twice the decklist sharing, twice the trolling and twice the discussion. I don't know, I just wanted to get other peoples' opinions about this. Please don't take this as an aggression, I am not disapproving of Magic Find or their actions in any way; on the contrary I think it's great that they bite the bullet and keep Hearthpwn running. I just don't have anybody in my friends circle that has any interest in Hearthstone or it's forums.

Anyone here play Duel Links? Folk are always talking about Shadowverse or Eternal or Magic Arena or whatever in their Hearthstone downtime but I rarely see mention of good old Yu-Gi-Oh! I go through phases but I prefer it to all of the above and currently I'm playing it more than HS. I don't have any great insight to add, I'm just curious.

I remember that at one time on Hearthpwn, around the end of Ungoro era, we could be able to vote which cards are good or which cards are bad. It's different from individual card pages where we can vote. I believe there should be something sweet added for some twist: Let us vote cards while guessing at same time. People who got it right should get an achievement. I think these kind of "games" should attract more attention and unite the community more often.

So, what do you think of this idea? Is it good or bad?

Stands and their abilities from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure in Hearthstone! What do you think?

So model after the shell of mono red with some more late game.

Most people think i am playing aggro mono red and over commit resources. Kind of a fun deck.

1 Sarkhan the Masterless (WAR) 143
24 Mountain (RIX) 195
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil (RIX) 99
1 Mizzium Tank (WAR) 138
2 Legion Warboss (GRN) 109
3 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin (WAR) 137
3 Chandra, Fire Artisan (WAR) 119
1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen (M19) 149
2 Goblin Chainwhirler (DAR) 129
1 Demanding Dragon (M19) 135
1 Burning Sun's Avatar (XLN) 135
1 Siege-Gang Commander (DAR) 143
4 Shock (M19) 156
4 Ghitu Lavarunner (DAR) 127
4 Lightning Strike (XLN) 149
3 Runaway Steam-Kin (GRN) 115
1 Tibalt, Rakish Instigator (WAR) 146
1 Rekindling Phoenix (RIX) 111
1 Light Up the Stage (RNA) 107

I've been thinking of crafting the thing to play around with, put it in a couple of differed cheap mech decks... I've seen OTK quest mage with it in some video, anyone have experience playing this guy?

Hi everyone, 

first of all, nice job improving the site,

I was thinking about to add a Heroes Gallery in the guides section with all playable skins (similar to the cardback's guide format) 

What do you think?

regards

Dear Flux and the Team!

It would be awesome to find these two things added to outof.cards:

1. On each decks' page naturally insert its winrate from hsreplay.net. I bet there is an easy way to check winrates automatically once a deck is uploaded, and you can even give credit to HSreplay nearby, maybe even partner with them for some benefit! I would love this so much since its very easy to fell in love with a nice written guide and overestimate its competitiveness, so I usually check all decks on hsreplay just to make sure my expectations don't get too high. 

Check out my Paint skills (https://imgur.com/9oxoJgq):

2. The box with the most recent and hot decks was actually very helpful in browsing decks. Honestly, it is very uncomfortable to search decks when there are so many. Opening each in the list is just too much time. Even such if such feature doesn't make a cut to the front page, you could put that somewhere else (e.g. https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/ page). Although you have such a thing on the front page, it is not that informative and doesn't feature "by class" tab and has too few decks shown.

Some more pics, if I manage to insert them correctly (https://imgur.com/QzwE9Ye):

Thanks again for your honest work!

Home page is loaded almost instantly. No spinners/delays/placeholders. Well done! 

Introducing... the newest member of the League of Explorers... Izzy Jameson !

Izzy Jameson is the greatest explorer of Azeroth! Well, she will be, anyway. First, Izzy has to go on an adventure, to prove her worth. She first finds her calling, travels from the great Un'Goro jungle to the chilly Northrend wastes, from the deep Kobold-infested catacombs to the eerie Witchwood, just south of Gilneas. Finally, Izzy explores the Netherstorm with her greatest idol: Reno Jackson, and busts up a moneymaking scheme lead by the decieving Nokano.

Keyword Showcase: Decay

Decay is the class keyword of Archaeologist, representing the antiquity of their antiques. Decay is shown mostly on weapons as a way to make effects that last over time, but in KoFT, it's shown on Decaying Armor, a new type of Armor that is lost one by one each turn. Also, Decay also deals damage so Scavenger Crab's effect would trigger because of Decay. Some examples are shown below:

Decay cards would look dusty as shown above, and like Aluneth, the lightning icon would glow and the weapon, minion, or Armor would lose 1 Durability.

Alternate Heroes

Archaeologist Playstyles

Izzy Jameson knows many ways to outwit her opponent. She uses powerful, ancient artifacts to slowly beat you down, could recruit ancient temple golems to beat you down, or can utilize the scraps of Armor she finds along the way. Some of Archaeologist 's main playstyles are these:

• Passive Weapon Beatdown: These high power weapons can be cycled through so Izzy always has an artifact up her sleeve. These weapons grant long-lasting benefits.
• Killer Control: Every Indiana Jones movie features a main nemesis, but none are as iconic as the boulder. Izzy Jameson has a few tricks up her sleeve, many of them controlling the enemy.
• Discover the Way: It would be wrong to have the League's standout keyword not also be a main keyword of Archaeologist. From the Quest to Nokano, Archaeologist prominently features Discover as one of the ways to play.
• Armornipulate: An archaeologist would be nothing without ransacking ancient temples for everything inside! This includes everything, like random shields along the way, or an entire mine. Additionally, Archaeologist also can take advantage from "selling" off her Armor, gaining benefits from minions that need it.
• Dig, dig, dig: In The Boomsday Project, Archaeologist popularizes a unique type of synergy. Although, yes, Rogue does also have shuffle, Archaeologist gains more even value, preferring Midrange rather than combo.

Showcase Cards

Basic

Challenge Created Cards

Final Note

I'd like to thank maxlot, teknician, Skarlon, Bazil, link, Shatterstar, Cheese, Grand Inquisitor, krowski, and anybody else I missed who helped with Archaeologist on Hearthpwn or Discord. Thank you for taking the time to look at my class.

I took Dane's concept of Armor Shaman and got something's a bit riskier, but shorter in the outcome. It's always such a good satisfaction to see those Big Shill Priest beaten:

BigP got rekt

Hiya. 

 So I was idly flicking through the Internet and thought to myself "I wonder what's the longest anyone has played Hearthstone for in one sitting?" 

 Google to the rescue. Turns out it's 38 hours and 22 minutes non stop, streamed via Twitch by a Greek dude.

 That seems like it's beatable. 

 Anyone wanna try? It'll be for Charity obviously... 😉

 I mean, how hard can it be? Right? 

I believe wording on the title isn't correct but I will explain what I meant by that: Let's say I build a Druid deck. Druid has 18 pages, while Neutral has 94 pages. There, I am on 28th page of Neutral cards. Then, I need to have a look at Druid cards. After that, when I return to Neutral cards, it returns at 1st page, not 28th page. Same issue with Druid card section.

In short, whether we are Class card section or Neutral card section, when we interchange card sections, Deckbuilder should memorize wherever/whichever page we are, and it shouldn't return to 1st page every time. So, is it possible to implement this sweet feature? It also saves time for deckbuilding more conveniently.

I guess we all agree that Dalaran Heist is quite fun to play, and what really adds to its awesomeness are some of its voicelines. I couldn't help sharing some of my favourites with you, they just always make me smile a bit.

• One of the voicelines Togwaggle can say before meeting with Bartender Bob: "Such niceness, keeping inn open during hostile occupation."
• What Dr. Boom says if you face P.O.G.O. in Underbelly: (something along the lines) "This Pogo-Hopper has gone into rampage. Stop it! But do take pictures, I love a good rampage."

Have you got a favourite voiceline or two yourself? Please share, I'm interested to hear those. It doesn't have to be one of these between-encounters voicelines, it can also be bosses reacting to certain cards etc.

So yea I have done a few runs now where this has been the best treasure choice, sometimes twice.

From reading the card you would expect the enemy hero to take 2 damage per turn per copy, except this never happens.

No matter how many copies they have in hand they still only take 2 damage per turn. Is this correct? can someone explain this interaction to me and why it works this way and not the way the logic dictates on reading the cards

I have screen shots but not sure how to upload them on here :/ 

Apologies for requesting something that was on the other site but I'll admit that I really REALLY miss that.  It was a nice way to tell when someone added to a post when I see a new name up, especially when I post in something then stop seeing my name in the 'last by' column.

Though I guess the real idea is to have some way to know what threads have been updated by looking at the forum (no not a notification or some other page that lists updates) so, whatever way you see fit will work too.