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When making a custom class, the Basic Set is arguably the hardest set to get right. We all want to get to our flashy cards as soon as possible, but the Basic Set is the most important set. It defines the groundwork for the class. The quality of your Basic Set will greatly impact the rest of your class. The other hard part about it is that they can't be very obscure, because they're intended to be... Basic. They're cards that are intended to be very simple, yet very essential for the class.

Each class's Basic set should include:

Single Target Damage

• Demon Hunter: Shadowhoof Slayer, Chaos Strike, Glaivebound Adept, Inner Demon
• Druid: Moonfire, Claw, Starfire
• Hunter: Arcane Shot, Kill Command
• Mage: Frostbolt, Fireball
• Paladin: Hammer of Wrath
• Priest: Holy Smite
• Rogue: Backstab, Shiv
• Shaman: Frost Shock, Fire Elemental
• Warlock: Mortal Coil, Soulfire, Drain Life, Shadow Bolt
• Warrior: Heroic Strike

AoE

• Demon Hunter: Coordinated Strike (situational) Soul Cleave, Chaos Nova
• Druid: Savage Roar (friendly), Swipe
• Hunter: Multi-Shot
• Mage: Arcane Missiles, Arcane Explosion, Frost Nova, Flamestrike
• Paladin: Consecration
• Priest: Holy Nova
• Rogue: Fan of Knives
• Shaman: Totemic Might (friendly), Bloodlust (friendly)
• Warlock: Hellfire, Dread Infernal
• Warrior: Whirlwind, Cleave

Every class should have access to at least one non-friendly AoE with Shaman being the odd one out, presumably because they have Lightning Storm in the Classic set. Even Rogue, whom is supposedly the epitome of weak when it comes to AoE, still has Fan of Knives in their Basic set (and formerly, Vanish as well).

Card Draw

• Demon Hunter: Chaos Strike
• Druid: Starfire, technically Wild Growth also counts because of Excess Mana.
• Hunter: Tracking, Starving Buzzard
• Mage: Arcane Intellect
• Paladin: Hammer of Wrath
• Priest: N/A
• Rogue: Shiv, Fan of Knives, Sprint
• Shaman: N/A
• Warlock: Mortal Coil
• Warrior: Shield Block

Both Shaman and Priest are notably odd men out here. Shaman can be assumed to be out because of the existence of Mana Tide Totem in the Classic set. Priest is out because of the rotation of Northshire Cleric out of the Basic set and the change to Power Word: Shield.

Removal/Neutralization

• Demon Hunter: N/A
• Druid: N/A
• Hunter: Hunter's Mark
• Mage: Frostbolt, Frost Nova, Polymorph
• Paladin: Humility
• Priest: Shadow Word: Death, Shadow Word: Pain, technically Mind Control also counts.
• Rogue: Sap, Assassinate
• Shaman: Frost Shock, Hex
• Warlock: Sacrificial Pact, Corruption
• Warrior: Execute

Druid this time is the exception to all of the other classes. We can assume this is because removal is supposed to be a weakness for Druid and they make up in other aspects. Demon Hunter similarly has no direct hard removal, but does have a lot of access to damage and specializes in attacking (whether it be from your hero or your minions).

Once you get past that, you can also add cards that specifically fit to your class's themes. For example:

• Beasts for Hunter (Timber Wolf, Animal Companion, Kill Command, Houndmaster, Starving Buzzard, Tundra Rhino)
• Healing/Health Buffs for Priest ([Hearthstone Card (Power Word Shield) Not Found], Radiance, Power Infusion)*
• Ramp for Druid (Innervate, Wild Growth)
• Totems for Shaman (Totemic Might, Flametongue Totem)
• Discard for Warlock (Soulfire, Felstalker)
• Weapons for any weapon class (Fiery War Axe, Truesilver Champion, Assassin's Blade)

Northshire Cleric would also count for this category, but his since left the Basic set.

A class's Basic set usually only has 1 or 2 minions.

The class with the most is Hunter and Demon Hunter with 4. If you have more than 4 minions in your Basic set, you should cut a few of them. Rogue formerly used to be the only class with none, but has since had Plaguebringer added. For reference, here is the number of minions in each class's Basic set:

• Demon Hunter: 4 (Shadowhoof Slayer, Sightless Watcher, Satyr Overseer, Glaivebound Adept)
• Druid: 1 (Ironbark Protector)
• Hunter: 4 (Timber Wolf, Houndmaster, Starving Buzzard, Tundra Rhino)
• Mage: 1 (Water Elemental)
• Paladin: 1 (Guardian of Kings)
• Priest: 1 (Psychic Conjurer)
• Rogue: 1 (Plaguebringer)*
• Shaman: 3 (Flametongue Totem, Windspeaker, Fire Elemental)
• Warlock: 3 (Voidwalker, [Hearthstone Card (Succubus) Not Found], Dread Infernal)
• Warrior: 2 (Warsong Commander, Kor'kron Elite)

*Formerly 0

Top tip: It's also a really good idea for cards to follow more than 1 aspect, increasing utility and space. For example:

• Fan of Knives (AoE and Card Draw)
• Chaos Strike (Single Target Damage and Card Draw)
• Frost Nova (AoE and Neutralization)
• Pretty much all tribed minions count as well (such as Tundra Rhino, Water Elemental, and Dread Infernal)

This doesn't mean you should try to make every card like this, but it's nice to have should it happen. Some classes (Shaman and Druid) in particular may not follow some of these categories, in part because they have easy to access cards in the Classic set (Mana Tide Totem, Lightning Storm) or are intended to be weak in a particular aspect. You could possibly justify skipping one of these should that come up.

As a fanatic card creator, I've been making quite a bit of cards through the times. This is a place where i will be uploading new cards, alongside some that have been well received over the times.

As for my first post i will show you the two cards i'm the most proud that i've made. Feel free to ask any questions, or post any feedback in this thread :D

Ok, maybe not a very useful thread, but I really want to express my happiness! Finally, after more than a year (at least in my case) I am super excited about the expansion to come and Hearthstone in general again. Not only do I really like the concept of the expansion and the fact that it will be a theme for the entire year, but the game as a whole is heading in a great direction in my opinion. I feel like the game creators have started caring again about the game itself, as well as the community. Of course we will have to wait and see what the Year of the Dragon will bring, but you have to admit that it's all looking very promising (:

This website, still being in it's infancy, it doesn't seem to have that many deck guides. I'm a little short on time right now, but if people tell me what meta decks they want covered in a guide, I'll go ahead and make those said guides.

What's the deal with this site? It seems like a new hearthpwn, but there's no news anywhere on hearthpwn about it.

A new Legendary Shaman Minion, Swampqueen Hagatha, has been revealed!

Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!

Learn more about Rise of Shadows

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Rise of Shadows!

The card search should run the option "neutral" in the class filter imho.

It was a bit of a busy end of the week with the new expansion being announced so I wasn't able to get up patch notes for the site. Here's everything important you need to know from Wednesday to Sunday.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed an issue where it was possible to cause the homepage to error if you published an article that had an empty tag. Thanks for accidentally finding that one, Sylicas, and for only letting the staff see the article!
• Removed client-only rarities from our rarity drop downs.
• Usernames on the site may now only be alphanumeric.
• You can now edit your comments as many times as you like without needing to refresh the page because of shitty JavaScript.

New Features

• Hearthstone Card Reveals
  • Guides with unrevealed cards now display placeholder images.
  • Additional backend changes have been made to prepare for the expansion and make it easier for us to cover.
  • More card reveal related stuff will be coming early this week.
• Polls
  • Currently an early version.
  • All card pages now have rating polls for rating cards based on how you think they will do in Standard, Wild, and Arena.
  • There isn't any way to see the data yet, that comes this week.
  • No ETA on creating your own polls on the site, but those are on the todo list.
• Comment Replies and Quotes
  • You can now reply and quote comments!
  • Comment replies are nested everywhere except the forums so you can easily follow conversations taking place. So sorry this wasn't in at soft launch.
• Editor
  • Added a new row of buttons for Card, Card Image, and Deck insertions. 
  • You can use the card or deck ids for the above bbcodes. You can also use the card name for the card ones.

Changes

• Improved backend performance on many pages. The homepage especially should load just that tiniest bit faster.
• You can now access Recent Threads from the Forums Nav dropdown.
• Standard Hearthstone expansions now display in the Expansions dropdown. All other sets, please click on expansions!
• Hearthstone Mechanics
  • Added Combo (cards are not yet flagged with this, we need to resync our data)
  • Added Lackey
  • Added Twinspell
• You can now press on the HearthStation name at the top of the site on mobile to go to the homepage.
• Deckbuilder
  • The deckbuilder looks better.
  • You can now easily page through cards with the larger buttons or the scroll wheel.
  • Added a format option called "game format".
    • Standard will only show you standard cards.
    • Wild will show you cards from every set.
    • Only Wild will show you cards from sets not allowed in Standard.
    • Request for Comments: Would you like an Arena sort so we can display only cards that you'd get in Arena runs?
  • Changed the way the cards sort so it is now lowest cost to highest. Still need to sort them by cost AND alphabetically. Soon (tm).
  • Remove the save buttons at the top that didn't do anything.

The Deckbuilder is missing a filter for Standard Cards only.  

Way too hard to build a Standard Deck.  

I saw this Priest deck on twitch recently that allows the player to go infinite.

Cards Required:

• 1 x Awaken the Makers (Quest)
• 2 x Crystalline Oracle
• 2 x Spirit of the Dead
• 1 x Bloodmage Thalnos
• 2 x Dead Ringer
• 2 x Loot Hoarder
• 2 x Plated Beetle
• 2 x Seance
• 2 x Shadow Visions
• 1 x Shadow Word: Pain
• 2 x Spirit Lash
• 1 x Shadow Word: Death
• 2 x Twilight's Call
• 1 x Zola the Gorgon
• 2 x Mass Hysteria
• 1 x Zilliax
• 1 x Bwonsamdi, the Dead
• 2 x Psychic Scream
• 1 x Shadowreaper Anduin (Death Knight)

The key to this deck is to control your opponent until you begin fatiguing.  You need to keep both Spirit of the Deads in your hand along with Zola throughout the entirety of the match.  On your turn before you begin to fatigue you need to make sure you are in Shadowreaper Anduin form.

The combo is 2 x Spirit of the Dead, Zola the Gorgon, and Amara, Warden of Hope (Quest Completion).

Play both Spirits, Zola one of them and then ping your Zola to get 2 copies in your deck, you can now always play Spirit, Zola it, kill Zola, and avoid Fatigue forever.  Weave in Amara, Warden of Hope as required, very useful to have that extra Seance handy too.

Good chance of getting Amara spirited as well.

Looking awesome!

(sources: here and here)

Iv seen many ppl complain about PVE content not being free anymore. If you stop and think about what you are getting in return for your investment, it is actually pretty decent.

• There will be PVE content consisting of 5 chapters. You get the first chapter for free.
• Each chapter (after the first one) will cost 700 gold.
• Each chapter (including first one) will reward you with 3 RoS packs for its completion.
• Completing all 5 chapters reward you with a card back and a golden Classic pack.
• Owning all 5 chapters will reward you with a golden Zayl, Shadow Cloak.

So lets sum this up:

• You pay 2800 gold total (or $20) and you get 15 RoS packs, 1 golden Classic pack and a golden copy of Zayl, Shadow Cloak.

So compared to previous, free PVE content, where the reward was a card back only, for basically 1300 gold (or literally $0 lul, since 15 packs in shop cost $20), you get a golden Classic pack and a golden Zayl, Shadow Cloak. Obviously the gold price is not as favourable as real money, but i think in the end it is ok, since we have the option to use gold in a first place.

That sounds like a pretty damn deal to me!

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Friendly PSA: the Golden Classic pack apparently does not share a pity timer with normal Classic packs.

Very true. Golden Classic packs have its own, separate pity timer from the regular, non-golden Classic packs, do keep that in mind while opening.

Rise of Shadows is Hearthstone's eleventh expansion and is set to release on April 9, 2019.

New Keyword: Twinspell - You get a second copy of the spell (without the Twinspell keyword).
Schemes - Spells that get more powerful the longer you hold them in your hand.
Lackeys - These are 1/1 tokens created by other cards that have a variety of Battlecry abilities, such as dealing damage, giving other minions Attack/Health bonuses, or summoning new minions. More will be introduced throughout the year.
Old Mechanics: Look for some old mechanics that haven't been used in awhile to make a resurgence throughout the year.  We'll definitely be seeing the "Forbidden" mechanic from Whispers of the Old Gods where you are required to spend all of your mana to play the card (Forbidden: Ancient, Flame, Shaping, Ritual, and Healing).
Arena: The cardpool availability will change to include the following sets: Basic, Classic, Naxxramas, Whispers of the Old Gods, Goblins VS Gnomes, The Witchwood, and Rise of Shadows.
Pre-Order: $50 and $80 options will be available for pre-order and both come with the new card back "The Jewel of Lazul" shown below.

This thread is dedicated to discussing the impact of these cards on the ARENA environment.

Click below to see how each of the Arena Mods rated the cards revealed so far!

You can read each Mod's detailed card evaluation by clicking on the links below.

Below you will find links for all of the cards that have been revealed so far.

Update 3/14/19: Created initial thread.
Update 3/15/19: Added Arch-Villain Rafaam, Chef Nomi, Kalecgos, Forbidden Words, Hagatha's Scheme, Spellward Jeweler, The Forest's Aid, Togwaggle's Scheme, and EVIL Miscreant.
Update 3/19/19: Added Swampqueen Hagatha, Oblivitron, and Lazul's Scheme.
Update 3/21/19: Added Improve Morale, Omega Devastator, and Rafaam's Scheme.
Update 3/22/19: Added Madame Lazul.
Update 3/25/19: Added Clockwork Goblin, EVIL Cable Rat, Dr. Boom's Scheme, Blastmaster Boom, Wrenchcalibur, Heistbaron Togwaggle, Hench-Clan Burglar, Unidentified Contract, [Hearthstone Card (Travelling Healer) Not Found], Khadgar, Power of Creation, and Messenger Raven.
Update 3/26/19: Added Lightforged Blessing, Unleash the Beast, Keeper Stalladris, Never Surrender!, EVIL Genius, EVIL Conscripter, and Vereesa Windrunner.
Update 3/27/19: Added Hench-Clan Hogsteed, Jepetto Joybuzz, Dragon Speaker, Bronze Herald, Mass Resurrection, and Sludge Slurper.
Update 3/28/19: Added Crystal Stag, Crystal Power, Fel Lord Betrug, Hecklebot, Muckmorpher, and Walking Fountain.
Update 3/29/19: Added Commander Rhyssa, Ray of Frost, Mana Cyclone, Nozari, Unseen Saboteur, Shadowy Figure, and Duel!.
Update 3/31/19: Added Marked Shot, Catrina Muerte, Batterhead, Eager Underling, Magic Trick, Crystalsong Portal, Acornbearer, Vendetta, Nine Lives, Plot Twist, Dreamway Guardians, and Lifeweaver.
Update 4/1/19: Added Archmage Vargoth, Tak Nozwhisker, Desperate Measures, Big Bad Archmage, Call to Adventure, Underbelly Fence, Lucentbark, and Aranasi Broodmother.
Update 4/2/19: Added Dimensional Ripper, Shimmerfly, Hench-Clan Hag, and Archivist Elysiana.
Update 4/3/19: Added Barista Lynchen, Exotic Mountseller, The Boom Reaver, Conjurer's Calling, and the rest of the cards from the reveal stream.

This is a work in progress!

There are 5 uncollectible Lackey cards in this set. More will be added throughout the Year of the Dragon, and all will be available from cards that generate them.

Over the year, more Lackeys will be added into the pool, but for this expansion, there are only 5.

Schemes are new cards that upgrade each turn they lay in your hand. Save them for amazing effects!

Tech Options!

Evil Miscreants generate Lackeys, which are non-collectible 1-mana minions with powerful Battlecries.

The Lackeys

There are 5 uncollectible Lackey cards in this set. More will be added throughout the Year of the Dragon, and all will be available from cards that generate them.

Over the year, more Lackeys will be added into the pool, but for this expansion, there are only 5.

Back from the past, Forbidden cards are cards that have effects that vary depending on your mana.

First glance of the new expansion mechanic, Twincast!

When a spell with Twincast is played, it generates another copy of the spell in your hand. Similar to Echo, but it does not disappear at the end of your turn.

The great thief is back, with a bang!

Cooking up a storm, and a late-game answer against Fatigue Decks... if used carefully!

Kalecgos, the former aspect of the blue dragonflight, and part of Dalaran's Council of Six has joined the fight against the League of Evil.

Discuss about its effectiveness in the meta!

This will be an overview of important archetypes throughout the history of hearthstone. Updates are coming!

Beta:

Freeze mage

Frozen giants

Release:

Minion based mage

Secret mage

Nax

Deathrattle

GvG

Mechmage

BRM:

Flamewaker Tempo (machinegun)

Later:

No-quest Exodia, Quest Exodia, Giant Quest, Mill/Fatigue, Reno, Elemental, Aggro Freeze, Murloc, Odd, Odd Secret, C'thun, , Big Spell, Control

Some are probably missing but I find it interresting that mage has had every archetype represented, from the fastest aggro to grindy control and otk combo decks. The class has historically been weak at proactive midrange and controldecks, partly because the class had been relying on neutral minions from the midgame onwards. More reactive tempo playstyle decks have been viable several times, however, mainly because of strong secrets synergies and flexible burn spells like fireball and frost bolt.

Some archetypes have gone through big changes through expansions and nerfs, this will be explored more!

Welcome to HearthStation all! As of the creation of this thread, the website is still undergoing (very competent) development. As such, there will be surely be some problems or interruptions from time to time. In the likely event that you are the first to discover something that is not working as intended, please do let us know in this forum (with a NEW thread!) if you have a minute! If you are not sure if a thing is doing what is should be you can let us know that too, and we would be happy to shed some light on it and investigate!

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My wife got me to play this game with her reluctantly. I regret to admit that it is very fun and i keep playing it. I hate EA, but the developers are cool, as is the gameplay. I unlocked my first additional legend, Caustic, but i sort of wished i had chosen Mirage afterwards. Fortunately i read that Caustic is getting buffed. Anyway, has anyone else gotten into this lately.