shouldn't be time to know something about?

Hi,

Need some S.O.S help here. 

I had to delete and reinstall the HS app on my Mac. After forever, it finally installed itself. I logged in to my account and found out that the game decided that I am a new player with an empty collection that needs to start over. 

In the beginning, I thought it was a region thing, so I switch regions. It didn't help.

What do I do? How can bring back my cards, achievements, dust, and gold?  

Thank you for your help!

Hi, I have been experimenting for a while now! This is the result:

Hi guys!

I found a "funny" bug that should be considered to be fixed. Seems like you can be credited with "Throw a Snowball - Complete to earn 25 Snowflakes" daily mission even if you don't have enough snowballs.

The action of trying to throw it grants you this "achievement" instead of throwing it.

Ive been playing LoR for about a couple of weeks now and generally i didnt even look towards or try LoR, simply because i thought that Riot will also end up creating a annoyingly boring meta where a certain card(s) or deck(s) are overpowered and everybody plays those same cards, decks. This basically always happened in Hearthstone and in Gwent. Im not a long time player so i cant really speak all that much for LoR but what im about to write is something that seriously pissed me off with LoR.

Ill start by explaing why i hated HS and Gwent.

I hated Hearthstone due to the fact that there is no way a free to play player that didnt start day one or during the earlier period when Hearthstone released could properly play without getting absolutely destroyed by round 5 or 6 due to how few and useless cards the new player has. The game is way too grindy and there is no actual reward system whatsoever that would reward the player for completing dailies, quests etc. Even when the achievements finally came out, i still heard that they were absolutely useless and i just felt joy that i didnt even want to bother with HS.

I hated Gwent due to how much CDPR tried to make it like Hearthstone implementing a ton of new mechanics even though in the Witcher 3 Gwent was simple, amazing and fun. I loved that simple and fun Gwent. However and i bet people who have played Gwent can feel me on this one, having a Nilfgaard deck or "player" completely roll you by locking your cards, your hero power and refreshing his own hero power (hero power in Gwent can play a very big factor in actually winning a round or eventually winning the game) then yeah it wasnt fun, ESPECIALLY since there are cards in Gwent that literally let you just choose a card of your choice from your deck, basically a "win condition" and just blatantly win a round or the game. That seriously just pissed me off.

HOWEVER i HATE LoR CAUSE I CANT EVEN FUDGING PLAY THE GAME FOR THE 3RD DAY IN A ROW DUE TO "MATCHMAKING FAILED OPPONENT FAILED TO CONNECT".

Seriously wtf is even happening at or with their servers that this shitshow is still happening for the 3rd day in a row. I cant play it on PC or on Android and i literally just started to like the game, made a deck that rly seemed fun for me and wanted to try it out BUT OH WELL i guess i can only hope.

"200 years experience" indeed, cap. More like i will have to wait 200 fcking years just to finally play a game, jesus christ.

Competition Theme: Fond Fairewell

It's time to go out with a bang - get your game on!

• You must design a card with a Carnival Fairground theme
  • Fairgrounds and carnival games abound this week - any mechanical interpretation is fine, we're purely looking for flavour here

BloodMefist is asking for some fun and games to send off the season, so let's get creating!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jan 11 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 16 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 16 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 17 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 17 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 18 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

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Howdy, I'm Taka. Been playing MtG since Lorwyn, YGO for a little bit longer, League since Xin Zhao's release, and Legends of Runeterra for about three days. I know I have a lot of room to get better at any of these games, but I believe my observations here still apply based on my previous experience in other games.

Anyhow, let's talk Shadow Isles, or the equivalent of MtG's Black if it decided to take steroids and throw any sense of opportunity cost out the window. Last breath, death bonuses, sacrificial combat tricks, hard removal, a hard sweeper, a fling, good aggro with Fearsome, drain on removal, and, probably the most annoying currently, Go Hard that turns into a one-sided sweeper and win-con. Not saying it doesnt have answers: Im sure it does. But it is overloaded with so much good stuff right now.

As for Elusive, this is more of an issue with the lack of answers available and how much value certain units with Elusive have. Sure, it is the equivalent of MtG's Flying, but at least Flying in MtG is either available to every color or can at least be answered by those where it isnt. Most of Noxus removal does nothing without an ally on board or without the elusive unit in question already being damaged, and Freljord has Frostbite which is less of answer and more of a stall tactic.

Apologies if this is inappropriate or unfounded; just been having a lot of frustration dealing with these two aspects of this game.

Hi folks, 

Just wanted to chit chat a little about the impact of the nerfs in standard.
They are online for a couple days now and first statistics are rolling in.

A quick look on HS Replay shows a rather balanced playfield (i don't have access to diamond and legend data though).
The clear winners this time are paladin and hunter, followed by a majority of the classes pivoting around the 50% mark with only druids and priests at the bottom.

What amazes me the most is the huge decline of shamans. What a single attack point on a weapon can do is truly impressive.
This decline in winrate might be biaised though since many people disenchanted their bonespine knuckels and picked up more experimental shaman decks like aggro, highlander or OTK. 

However, this shows how cutthroat the fight for the top of the tierlist is and how little the differences in powerlevel can be.
A multitude of decks have popped up in diamond wich results in a surprisingly entertaining ladder experience (for me).
Different versions of warlocks, hunters, paladins, warriors ... A ton of decks seem viable. 

My prefered lists right now are OTK/deck of lunacy mage and ETC warrior.
It's been quit a while since some true OTK decks have been this viable! 

What are your first impressions and what decks work best for you? 
Do you think Hunters and/or Paladins will become as opressive as shamans were? 

Blizzard said, that [Hearthstone Card (Edwin van Cleef) Not Found] will rotate but Hall of Fame will be no longer and they will ease the access for new players. 

So, my speculation what will happen.

• Classic set will rotate, just like all Year of Dragon sets. If you have unopened Classic packs, you can open them and use in Wild format. 
• Blizzard will create a new set, lets call it Core set or will extend the Basic set with new uncraftable cards taken from existing wild cards card pool. This set will be granted to all players for free. 
• If you already have the card(s), you will get a new copy just like we get cards during last year Wild event (we got copies of cards like Evolve etc.). The technology is here.
• Each year (or as needed) Blizzard will update the pool of cards from Core set. They can remove cards or nerf them as needed, as there are no dust/crafting/pack costs. 

What do you think?

Hello everyone. After a long year of absent I am finally back to the community. This time I brought you guys a class that I've been brewing (and harassing people's DM to give their feedback LOL) for a long time. I entered this class for the Class Creation Competition in Hearthpwn and ended up at top 9. Now that I was eliminated, I'll present to you:

The Detective

A land full of people and magic power like Azeroth is a land full of mysteries waiting to be revealed and solved. The Detective is here to leave no stones unturned looking for clues and information and training new apprentices to join their rank.

Hero Portrait:

Margaret Christie is one of the most seasoned and renowned Detectives in all of Azeroth. She doesn't regret leaving her homeland Gilneas to adventure on her own when learning that it will enter isolation from the outside world, although she always wonder how useful to her investigation it would be if she was to become a worgen. Now rumors of unsavory magic has led Christie to use all of her wit, might and health potion to investigate the seemingly unsuspecting Scholomance Academy.

Margaret Christie's name is a reference to the author Agatha Christie and her most famous character detective Miss Marple. She was picked instead of the other famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes to give the hero portraits both more female characters and an elderly-looking character. She is the basic hero that represent the class that all players receive when they create their account.

Great Inspector Margaret is an alternative Hero the player can receive with this class. She is the hero the player will receive when you obtain 1000 wins with the class.  She is meant to be an alternative version of Margaret if she had kept quiet about her opinion on the Greymane Wall and remained with Gilneas, similar to Cap'n Valeera

Alternative Hero Portrait:

• Exile Noble Margaret is the class's Book of Hero bundle portrait. She is a younger version of Margaret who just got exiled from Gilneas for speaking out against the country's isolationist policy. Book of Hero follow her adventure from an outspoken but somewhat pampered and naive noble spinster woman into her rise of becoming one of the most famous detective in Azeroth who discovered and trained numerous other famous detectives like Arthur Holmes, Argus Poirot and James Chesden.
• Noble Lady Margaret Wu is the class's Hero Portrait for the Romance of the Three Kingdom bundle. The name is based on a major supporting character from the novel Lady Wu, wife of Sun Jian and mother in law of Liu Bei.
• Private Eye Margaret is the class's Reward Track portrait. In the vein of the portraits being a more "badass" version of the hero, she is the version of Margaret in her twilight year where she became an extremely influential private detective who run a massive network of crime fighters across Azeroth.
• Wraith Bainsher Margaret is the class's Tier 2 Tavern Regular reward. Similar to Demon Hunter, the class don't have a tier 2 Armor and thus I have to get creative. This skin depicts Margaret on her days of banishing Wraiths that appear in location that she wants to get into as a Detective since hiring an adventurer would cost too much money for an exiled noble.

• These three skins are the class's Mercenary skins, featuring the class's main Mercenary Annoc. A draenei who got corrupted into serving the Burning Legion (Legion Annoc), the death of his main master Kil'Jaeden has weaken the control of the legion over him enough to allow him to break free from the control of the Burning Legion.
• However, ashamed of his actions during his serve, he doesn't contact his old people and wandering around aimlessly until he met Margaret, who took him in, gave him a new name Watson to distant him from his past and train him as an Apprentice and partner him up with her adopted son as well as her first and most brilliant apprentice turned detective Arthur Holmes. (Santified Watson)
• The two rose to fame by solving numerous high profile crimes until Holmes's death under the hand of Doyle Moriaty. Watson was once again extremely depressed and beg for Margaret to assign the investigation of Holmes's death to him. However, after Margaret's refusal due to him not being a full fledge Detective at the time, he deserted Margaret to search for clues of Moriaty's organization at the Barrens to avenge Holmes. (Investigator Watson).
• His name is a reference to the character Dr. John Watson created by Arthur Conan Doyle. His previous name Annoc is an anagram of Conan.

Hero Power

Token:

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Detective Training is the default Hero Power of the class. It's basically a more consistent and strategic version of the Shaman Hero Power Totemic Might. The class's Hero Power support many playstyle of the class: From aggressive token spamming to a more controlling playstyle (due to the Taunt on the tokens) as well as hinting at one of the class's main theme of revealing cards to your opponent.

Detective Drilling is the class's upgraded Hero Power. It's an extremely powerful one, allowing you to create a much better token to have more board presence.

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Themes:

• Revealing cards: Playing as a Detectives mean that you will get into the enemy's business. But the investigation business also require absolute transparency for those evidences to hold up in court. Cards and effects that reveal cards and gain benefit from those effects will be prominent in the class. Note that a card after being revealed to the enemy will kept being revealed, which mean that reveal effect will not land on a card already revealed (which is the main reason why I put that word on the Hero Power).
• 0-Attack and 0-cost cards: Who doesn't love a zero to hero story? Unlike the other classes who require being gifted in some kind of magic or physical prowess, the Detective love their puny 0-Attack minions / Apprentices and 0-cost cards (some minions are even both) and will have prominent synergies to them.
• All for One: The class's main tribal synergy will not just specialize in two or three types, but all of them! Yes, the class's tribal cards will reward you for having as much as possible number of tribal minions in your deck!
• Crimes and Police: Crimes are of course an important part of the career of a detective, but they cannot do everything by themselves without a legal system as well as the police forces (or some equivalent of it in the Warcraft universe). The class will have cards reference both of these in addition to the usual detective work.

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 Strength and Weakness:

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Things the class excel at:

• Token spawning: Margaret Christie is famous for talent of training and attracting new recruits. The Hero Power as well as a high amount of cards in the class will allow them to easily hoard and spam out tokens.
• Survivability: Detectives don't get to the bottom of the truth by being easily taken out. The class will have excellent, cost-efficient healing and Taunt. Just look at the Hero Power itself!
• Combos: A detective strike when they have all the evidences and can make a case undoubtable. The playstyle of revealing cards and the high amount of cheap, 0 cost cards naturally benefit a combo playstyle. And the class would have the survivability to back it up. 

Things the class is okay at:

• Removal: Detectives don't start fight, but they finish them. The class will have good and efficient removals, but not too much of them.
• Board clear: Detectives work in the shadow, but sometimes they stumble across large cases that will have profound impact on the world. Board clear of the class will be efficient, if not numerous.
• Buff: The class have powerful buff, but they are very specific and are limited to the token playstyle half of the class
• Burst: Detectives name get made by how rapidly and quickly they can strike their cases with accurate deductions. The class will have a decent amount of burst damage in either spells or weapons.
• Card draw and generation: With a Hero Power that generate a very useful token for both the control / combo playstyle and the token playstyle, the class will back it up with a decent amount of draw options to draw into their win condition / important buffs.

Things the class is bad at:

• Turn 4-6: Detectives either strike first when the criminals are still at the crime scene or they need time to gather evidences. The class have little to no active play in these mana slot. Their play in these turns are either reactive (weapon, board clear, removal) or leveraging the the token you spawned earlier to help dealing with the opponent. This translate to an inability to play a midrange deck and an extreme weakness in these turn if not played smartly and rationing out your Apprentices
• Disruption effect: Since most important combo pieces you want to put in your deck needed (or heavily encouraged) to actively revealing cards in your hand to your opponent, you will be extra vulnerable to disruption effects. Your opponent will know a good time to play that Dirty Rat or Unseen Saboteur that can potentially destroy your entire combo.

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Class Keywords:

What better ways for the Detectives to learn or improve than to look through a few of the most famous cases solves by Christie and her other students or fellow Detectives? Cases are basically reverse Secrets where you will activate a powerful spell that will last until you or your opponent can satisfy the Solve requirement. Cases are designed so that your opponent will have to quickly solve them before they snowball out of control. However, you have to play carefully or else you'll end up solving the Cases yourself and lose the advantage. Of course, if the Cases are also hurting you, you can Solve them yourself. Cases took the place of the Secret slots, which mean you can only have 5 Case with different names active. All of the Cases and their supporting cards are named after detective novels and short stories.

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 Basic set:

Their Basic cards aim to establish the mechanic, flavor, strength and weakness of the class while also provide tools for them to play a two main playstyles: Aggressive token based or Control / combo:

• Lightborne Sidekick, Security Pistol, Interrogate, Criminal Reforming and Magnifying Glass are all unlocked at the start of the game
• Unlock Whistleblowing at level 2
• Unlock Orc Apprentice at level 4
• Unlock Self-Defense Training at level 6
• Unlock Bonus Payment at level 8
• Unlock Forensic Intellect at level 10
• Self Defense Training will NOT double buff a 0 mana 0 Attack minions since that will limit on how much or how powerful those I can print.
• "Hidden card" would be a card that isn't already revealed, so your Apprentices will not get in the way of revealing effects from the class and cards already revealed by another effect will not also be revealed.

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The Apprentice's Dossiers Set

Anticipating the dangerous mission ahead of her in order to get to the bottom of the truth at Scholomance Academy, Christie enlist a new generation of Apprentices in training to help her. Before they can venture into the darkness of the Academy, she brought out her old case files in order for these newbies to familiar themselves with her work

The Apprentice's Dossier set function as the class's Initiate set, with the goal to expand upon the class's theme and mechanic as well as introducing the class's main tribal synergy and class keywords:

Common

 

• A Scandal in Stormwind's name is a reference to the Sherlock short story A Scandal in Bohemia that introduce the famous Irene Adler. The name is also a reference to the Onyxia raid where she disguised herself as a Stormwind noble.
• The Problem at Elrendar Falls's name is a reference to the short story The Final Problem where Sherlock Holmes tackle his most famous villain Professor Moriaty at Reichenbach Fall.
• A Revendreth Mystery's name is a reference to the novel A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie. Revendreth is the newly-introduced land of the Vampyre in WoW.

Rare

• Sign of the Four Types's name is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes short story Sign of the Four.
• And Then There Were None's name is a reference to the famous novel And Then There Was None by Agatha Christie.
• Four Little Apprentices's name is a reference to the Agatha Christie's novel Five Little Pigs.

Epic

• Murloc in the Brown Suit's name is a reference to the novel The Man the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie.
• The Hound of Gilneas's name is a reference to the novel the Hound of Baskerville.

Legendary

Poirot's Favorite Case:

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• Arthur Holmes is a reference to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes by author Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Argus Poirot's name is based on one of Agatha Christie's most famous character Detective Poirot. All of the Cases he created are named after famous Agatha Christie novels: Death on the Nile, Cards on the Table, Evil Under the Sun, They Do It With Mirrors and While the Light Last.

Scholomance Academy:

Scholomance Academy is the set that the class will make their debut. Margaret Christie respond to call for help by one of her old apprentice James Chesden to help him investigate the Academy. What they found is horrifying: The Headmaster Kel'thuzad dabbled in Necromancy and has resurrected one of Arthur Holmes's most famous arch nemesis Professor Doyle Moriaty. As if that not enough, Kel'thuzad has also enthralled Chesden's old flame at the Academy Molly Butcher to serve as a bodyguard! Can they save Molly in time and put Moriaty back to the Netherworld where he belongs?

Common:

Rare:

• The Academy of Fear's name is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes story the Valley of Fear.

Epic:

Legendary:

Molly's Upgraded Forms:

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• Detective Alumni and Molly Butcher's name are reference to the series the Dresden File by Jim Butcher and its hero Harry Dresden (represented here by Detective Alumni) and his love interest Molly Carpenter.

Dual Classes cards (with Shaman):

• Doyle Moriaty is a reference to the famous Professor Moriaty, criminal mastermind and the man who almost killed Sherlock Holmes in the story the Final Problem.

Tokens:

Dual Class Cards (with Mage):

• Infuse on Infusor Voidion means that the spells will transform into Elemental with the same cost and stats equal to its cost that will also cast the spell. Example is in the token section below. He will activate the reveal synergies in your spells before infusing them. He also will keep any discount you had put on, but that will scale down the stat of the Elementals.

Token:

Duels:

Hero:

Hero Power:

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Treasure:

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• Skull Companion is a reference to Harry Dresden's magical skull named Bob, who is a major supporting character in all Dresden Files book
• Storm Front's name is a reference to the Dresden Files's first novel Storm Front.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire:

Common:

Rare:

Epic:

• The Singer in the Faire is a reference to the Agatha Christie's book the Body in the Library.

Legendary:

Token:

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• Mary Adler's name is a reference to two supporting female characters in Sherlock Holmes: Mary Watson, Dr. Watson's wife and Irene Adler, the woman who outsmarted Holmes in the short story a Scandal in Bohemia.

Darkmoon Races:

Dual Classes:

Token:

Ice Shard

Duels:

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• Kazzin's name is a reference to Detective Karrin Murphy, a major supporting character from the Dresden File

2021 Core Set:

New cards:

• Occult Speaker and Inciting Victim are the tools that were given to a new archetype that I plan to develop for this new year: Deathrattle Detective.
• The Irregular Summoning is a reference to a Sherlock Holmes character group called the Baker Street Irregulars who help him gathering intels and evidences.
• An Evidence is Announced is a reference to the Agatha Christie novel a Murder is Announced starring Miss Marple.

Returning cards:

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Forge in the Barren:

Common:

Rare:

Epic:

Legendary:

Token:

 

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• They Came to the Barren is a reference to the Agatha Christie novel They Came to Baghdad
• Watson the Deserter is a reference to the character John Watson, the sidekick for Sherlock Holmes.
• Occult Chaser Halsing is a reference to the occult detective Abraham Van Helsing from the novel Dracula.

The Wailing Caverns:

• The Big Sleep is a reference to the 1939 detective novel that was later adapted to a 1946 movie The Big Sleep.
• Verdan the Everliving is adapted from the boss with the same name from the Wailing Cavern dungeon in WoW.

United in Stormwind:

Following the event of Forge in the Barren, Watson finds himself tracking down the missing renounced Detectives Halsing to Stormwinds, where he suspect the Cult of the Damned, who is harboring an Occult Tome that hold incredible death magic. Watson managed to infiltrate the Cult and stole their Tome. But before he managed to destroy it, the evil power of the Tome lashes on to him, making it impossible for him to destroy the Tome. He now constantly struggle to fight against the whisper of the Burning Legion and the Scourge inside his head, threatening to go mad at any minutes. In one moment that he succumbed to madness, he resurrected Halsing and wrought destruction to Stormwind.

Common:

Rare:

Epic:

Legendary

Dead Mines mini set:

• Defias's Folly name if a reference to Agatha Christie's novel Dead Man's Folly

Fractured in Alterac Valley:

Finding that he is fighting a losing battle with the whisper from both the Burning Legion and the Scourge and wrecked with guilt, Watson now has no choice but to return to his mentor Margaret. While incredible disappointed and angry at him for disobeying her and acting alone, Margaret still goes out of her way to help him to manage his condition. However, as unrest in Stormwind grew, she is forced to step up and investigate what is going on, so delegating the situation in Stormwind to her apprentices, she came along with him as emotional support to a safehouse Alterac Valley. However, as luck would have it, the Alliance and Horde fighting in Alterac Valley broke out and killed a lot of people, driving Watson insane surrounded with so much death. Watson almost killed Margaret when she tried to snap him out of the influence, but stop at the last minute. In a moment of sanity, he begged her to kill him before he can hurt anyone else. Tearfully, she struck him down and hastily buried him in Stormpike Graveyard before going off fighting Tamsin.

Common:

Rare:

Epic

Legendary

Onyxia's Lair:

After gathering all the evidences collected by her apprentices, Margaret figured out Katrana's true identity as Onyxia and exposed her to the people of Stormwind. Teaming up with other adventurers and the other class Mercenaries, they chase Onyxia out of Stormwind and into Onyxia's lair.

• Alliance Can Remember's name is a reference to the Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember

A new Uncommon Orobos Creature, Sunken Acolyte, has been revealed!

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A new Common Harmony Creature, Dragon Slayer, has been revealed!

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This new meta report https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/wild-vs-data-reaper-report-25/ just came out today which is stat based, not opinion based, and it shows secret mage as the best deck by a large margin and having favored or highly favored matchups into every other deck except pirate warrior, where the matchup is neutral.  So there is no meta counter to this deck.  I wonder what experiences everyone is having with wild ladder related to secret mage?

A new Common Targon Spell, Gifts From Beyond, has been revealed!

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A new Champion Targon Unit, Aphelios, has been revealed!

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I haven't played while, ever but I am bored of standard and wanted to give it a try after 3 years.

I played a few games but on the 4th someone had Dinotamer Brann, that they played from there Shaman deck.

How did that happen, did he cheat/use a bug and is this common occurrence because it guarantied my loss and it was a bit unfair.

Proof is here: https://hsreplay.net/replay/PuvAcapMMs8gLK9CxcJikC

Hey everyone @ Outof.Cards

My friend Mike and I have been wanting a way to better (more smoothly and seamlessly) review each others’ VODs. The current options out there are either clunky, makes sharing POVs with friends difficult, or are missing key decision points (eg: discover options). So we came up with SquadOV: our (humble) attempt to make sharing easier with friends and to ensure that no bit of information is missed when watching replays. It's also totally free, no ads or anything.

Here are some sample pictures

Check us out now at SquadOV.gg!

Summary of Features:

• No need for other screen capturing software such as OBS! Records games automatically.
• View your matches anywhere, anytime! Match History and VODs are stored online for free.
• Saving match highlights from games has never been easier! Make a sick play? Can't remember what the discover options were? Re-watch it by clicking it on the event log. 
• Rating is recorded online after every game to make tracking progression easy! Automatically keep track of your Competitive Rating for Battlegrounds. No need to buy the tavern brawl pass to see your Battlegrounds match history! 
• Squad mode allows you to share and browse other users’ games within the same Squad! If you are both in the same game, the same game is synchronized to allow switching from one point of view to another with just a click of a button!

FAQ:

• I installed SquadOV and it’s running. Now what? Hop into a game! It’ll automatically detect what game you’re playing and record in the background. You can change the record quality on the bottom left.
• Difference between SquadOV and HSReplay / Firestone. Currently HSReplay and Firestone have post game stats but limited replay capability (for example battlegrounds and discover options are not captured). SquadOV keeps a clean VOD of the game play and syncs the match history to the VOD to allow you to go through replays much easier with defined events and timestamps. It also tracks personal rating on a per game basis.
• Is this Mac compatible? Currently not but we do plan to in the future!

Thanks again guys and please let us know what you think :)

Howdy again! I've got another champion attempt idea, this time for Sion. I've been tempted to try and do things like Renekton and Xerath but seeing as I have no idea what the mechanics they have in mind for the faction as a whole are, figuring out even a vague approximation of balance can be rather tricky. That said I might at least take a swing at it if they haven't already done the reveals for them by the point that I get around to it.

In regards to Sion himself I tried my best to make him exactly what he is meant to be; a massive juggernaut that gives off a feeling of impending doom. That said I'm very much under the impression that he is rather weak. I got stuck in this awkward middle ground with him where I couldn't give him spellshield without feeling slightly off the brand for Noxus, but without it he feels like he would be too slow and awkward to get on the board. Whether I'm right though is hard to say so feel free to give me your view on the matter. On the more important theming end of things I think I did pretty alright.

This is a pretty simple idea: somebody makes some flavor text, then the next person makes a card out of it, then repeat.

I'll go first!

Side effects include: Dying horribly, a fate worse than dying horribly, and a fate worse than a fate worse than dying horribly... seems perfectly safe to me!

Priest is completely broken in Wild. Here some suggestions how to balance it.

Wave of Apathy -> 2 mana

Mass Hysteria -> 6 mana

Psychic Scream -> 8 mana

Palm Reading -> 4 mana

Archmage Vargoth -> 5 mana

Raise Dead -> 1 mana

Spirit Lash -> 3 mana

And no I don`t vote for one of these nerfs, I vote for ALL of them.

PS: Over 40% of my meta at rank diamond 5 is Priest.

Greetings, all! I wanted to share a little bit about what we're looking to do for Runeterra content for the new year.

• New weekly series, Wednesday Deck Spotlights, which go in-depth to a specific deck including mulligan guides, card substitutions, etc
• More deck roundup articles that cover specific topics -- e.g., "Viktor decks"
• A complete set of beginner guides for new players. I realize these guides will be beneath everyone who's reading this forum post right now, but I think it's really important for OoC to have a solid knowledge base to help introduce new players to the game and lure them to our site
• More content for Labs and Gauntlets
• More engagement/recognition for community decks. Specifically, I'm thinking about something like a new monthly series that highlights some of the LoR decks submitted during that month.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to see more of? Meta decks? Off-meta decks? Please let us know in this thread.

The last time I've seen people doing this on ladder was at the start of AoO when it was clear that dhunters were extremely broken and its cards were widely available to everyone. Play was around 70% of the meta then, I think

Otherwise, I can't see why anyone would do it. In most cases, even now, tier 1 decks probably only make up somewhere around 20 - 30% of meta. So if you, for example, put double Kobold Stickyfingers, Acidic Swamp Ooze, and Frozen Shadoweaver into your deck in anticipation of evolve shaman, what are you going to do about the games when its not evolve shaman? Its sort of like creating a deck that hard counters the current tier 1 deck whilst being hard countered by every other deck around it.

Sure its satisfying to beat the current top dog. Not so much when you're being beaten by the tiniest runt of the litter.

Edit: If anyone is wondering why my post is worded like this, its because its supposed to be a response to OP, who apparently have removed his post

What level 50 reward portrait are you going to choose, or have already chosen?

I hit 50 last night, and can't make up my mind between Garrosh, Valeera, Gul'Dan and possibly Rexxar. Would be interested to know what everyone else is going for, and the thinking behind it.

The next gamemode will be called World PvP.

We gotta have the full set.

Competition Theme: The Price Is Right

The market is fluctuating - these Costs are all over the place!

• You must create a card which changes the Cost of a card
  • Whether it changes its own Cost or that of another card is up to you
• Your card cannot change the card, only its Cost
  • What this means is that Evolve effects or things like Deck of Lunacy do not count for the prompt - keep the card the same, just change the price tag!

DavnanKillder wants us to manipulate the market this week and send some card Costs into a frenzy!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jan 4 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 9 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 9 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 10 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 10 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 11 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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