Heya, y'all. With me having nothing to do this New Years Eve and with the Custom Runeterra section being so empty I thought I'd continue with my weird collection. Of the three I've posted thus far this one has me the most worried about balance. I don't know if she is too strong or to weak (leaning in the too strong direction) but I am still only trying to give an idea of a design. Did my best to offer a card that allowed unique gameplay but also offered something that felt like the champion. I did my best to show Ahri's mobile mage style of game play. I do think that the Charm spell might be too good but when comparing it to Troll Chant and cards of that sort it's hard to be sure.

Spirit Rush is not a collectable card by the way. It is only gained through the Level Up effect of the champion since otherwise I'd be offering damage removal to a faction in its entirety when that faction is not known for dealing damage at all. I had considered having Ahri's play effect be 'deal 2 to an enemy unit' or 'deal 2 to a random enemy unit' but I didn't want to take the damage aspect too far and thought adding some ephemeral synergy to her as well to make her a more flexible champion would be neat. Lastly I want to make it clear that Spellvamp as a key word is not meant to be something impactful enough to design a card around, it is useful yes, but healing your nexus for 1-2 isn't insane and thus I designed Ahri's Champion spell to be strong without it triggering. 

I'm sure I have plenty of other flaws in my design but that is why I share my work, to get creative criticism, so feel free to let me know what you think.

Edit: I made some minor changes due to wording I realized was awkward. This may have been a slightly overly ambitious champion design I'm realizing. >.>;  

Enjoy.

It's rough when you draft that really interesting deck then happen to get beat up with it and then presto, you never get to try it again.

Why not allow a casual mode where you can take it for a spin to your heart's content?

This is a really obvious idea I'm sure that has been brought up several times before. Right now I'm playing a very fun Elemental Mage deck with Silas Darkmoon and a surprisingly effective Deck of Lunacy. It would be so fun to be able to hold onto it for a few more plays after the fun is over.

Purchased a header, waited almost 24 hours and it's still not available.  Did I do something incorrect, am I misinformed, or is this an actual bug?

Howdy! Seeing as I got some rather positive feedback from my attempt at a Poppy champion for LoR I thought I'd make some other attempts. Once again as a side note, I make no promises of perfect balance. These are mostly just made to sorta preview a thematic direction I could see the champion being taken in. I did my best to base her on the play style she has in LoL.

Competition Theme: Oops! All Spells!

We better not see any minions in your deck - or at least, none when you play these cards!

• You must create a card which has an effect when your deck has no minions
  • Remember that your deck just needs to have no minions - weapons and Hero Cards are allowed as well as spells if you want to try something interesting
• Your card cannot be a Hunter or Mage card
  • We've seen how these classes tackle this idea - let's give a different class a chance!

DavnanKillder and grumpymonk come together to give us a magical prompt this week - just make sure there's no minions lingering around!

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, Dec 28 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Jan 2 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jan 2 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Jan 3 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jan 3 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Jan 4 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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What a surprise dissapointment for me. I absolutely love dungeon runs and the thought of it going PvP blew me away. I was grinning ear to ear when it was announced.

I even went 12 wins first attempt with a cheesy deathrattle Paladin spamming that button. That was before the meta settled. Now everyone plays the exact same imba garbage like robots and your chances are determined more by champ select than by your skill at this game.

I'm really hoping the team that manages this game mode take a nod from the BG team and actually take care of this game during patches. The first one solved almost nothing and imho this mode is totally unplayable at the moment which is a shame. 

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In the past year, Hearthstone has made great strides to offer new content for players. A new Class, Dual-Class Cards, an achievement system, a Battle-Pass (that nobody asked for), the Duels mode, additional minions, tribes, and heroes for Battlegrounds. Now this doesn't look like much, but to be honest this is a lot of content in one year when you compare it to previous years' habits of rinse, wash, repeat. Unfortunately with all the strides that Team 5 has made to make the game better, I've felt an itch that just can't be scratched, and that's the lack of formats.

Everyone here, since this is being posted in the Hearthstone part of the site, is familiar with Standard and Wild. We know how the rotations work, what cards are legal, and what to expect in April of any given year. So I ask, is it enough? Is Standard and Wild enough formats to play on the ladder? My answer is simply no and there are two main reasons for this answer. The Metas, and the collection.

The Meta within Standard waxes and wanes depending on balance changes, combo & archetype discoveries, and obviously the new cards that roll in every ~4 months (with the exception of this and perhaps future expansion cycles). The Meta gets changed up quite a bit on the release of a new expansion which is expected, and can be changed drastically like what we're currently seeing with Evolve Shaman after Demon Hunter got rebalanced. Eventually when Team 5 either throw their hands up and discreetly decide that Standard has had enough balance changes or is more or less into full swing of expansion reveal to keep everyone occupied, the Meta settles and become monotonous. Of course they're trying to remedy this by releasing a mid-expansion set of cards to hopefully shake it up enough, but either way that Meta will settle and players will get bored.

The Meta in Wild, for lack of better terms, has its' roots more planted than that of Standard. We all know Raza & Rez Priest, we all know Odd Paladin, we all know Secret Mage, we all know Bloodreaver Warlock, we all know Dead Man's Warrior, and so on. The deck variety in Wild will always be greater than that in Standard, but that does not mean better. Of the decks listed above, I've never once said to myself "Oh boy! I get to go against (Insert Deck name here) again!" Yeah playing against Galakrond Rogue sucked for a time but at least it was only a Meta deck for so long, as opposed to Wild decks where these offenders will be present until there's literally a card printed out exclusively to combat them. So Wild has its own level of staleness, which funnily enough is at the same time worse, and better than the staleness of Standard.

The second issue is the collection aspect, this is more of a Wild exclusive topic. This topic more aimed towards players who don't/haven't disenchanted their Wild cards. Currently in the game we have ~2,500 collectable cards, and not many of them are playable in terms of being viable in the Wild meta. Additionally, some of these cards never got support after their release, looking at you Moorabi. Beyond cards not getting support we also have powercreep which is something that can't always be avoided and in a way is needed for players to become better, an example being Silverback Patriarch and literally any other 3-cost Taunt minion. Those two simple things combined with the vast amount of cards available in Wild makes wanting a complete collection that much less important.

The only slight remedy of the having a complete or near complete collection being almost useless is the new Duels mode. Some could say that this validates a reasoning for players to hold onto old cards, and it does, but not all players like the idea of drafting cards, myself being one of them. But that's a mode that comes down to personal preference.

So all that above culminating to the point I wanted to make. It's time for Hearthstone to get a new format, preferably this one ;). Joking aside, I, as well as other players, are tired of being stuck in between a format that has the tired same old gimmicks since a deck's inception, and a format that gets stale even when new cards arrive. Some of you may say "Well if Team 5 does add another format, it'll get stale, people will complain about it's imbalances, and won't fix anything long term." Which is true but if Team 5 were to not add just one, but maybe two new formats, it'll give players enough to shuffle in between without getting bored/burned out as easily. Let's also take a step back and brainstorm what those could be.

Explorer - A format in which cards, depending on the amount they were played, get rotated out until the new Hearthstone year.

Pauper - A format in which only common rarity cards are allowed.

Tower - A format in which "random" is not allowed, and in which cards that create other cards is not allowed.

Tribal - A format in which all minions must share the same minion type.

Two-Headed Ogre - Make a 15 card deck, combine it with someone else's 15 card deck, and you go against two other players with their combined 15 card decks.

Hell, maybe even a format that rotates with expansions. What if we had Classic, Basic, Darkmoon Faire, and Whispers of the Old Gods in their own format for 4 months until the next expansion? This could've also been done when Boomsday came out, it could've shared a format with Goblins Vs. Gnomes along with mechs from other expansions.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I had some issues with making this forum but I actually managed to fix it I think? It seems to have the images. Anyway I'm not sure on the balance of this, and not even sure if this will stay up since I expressly asked them to take it down when I failed to put up the images. Either way I'm mostly just showing off the idea, I think balance wise I likely made her stats too high given her versatility but I wanted to share the concept at least and this was the only place I could think to given that there isn't a hub for custom LoR like there is HS.

Day 2, constructed invitational is up like an hour ago.

Twitch drops available, though like yesterday I have no idea how long it will take. Probably the same 1.5 hours.

I've seen a couple of games going around the forums so I thought I'd try to create my own.

I present: "Polar Opposites".

What you have to do is name a minion which is completely different from the previous one.

This means it must:

• Have different attack
• Have different health
• Have different cost
• Have a different rarity
• Be from a different tribe (also can't be tribeless if the previous card was tribeless)
• Be from a different class (also can't be neutral if the previous card was neutral)
• Be from a different set
• Not use any of the same mechanics
• Also, you must use a minion which has not been used before.

So, let's kick this off with the one, the only, Millhouse Manastorm!

Hey, I´ve just find out there is 2020 Hearthstone All-Star Invitational Battlegrounds Tournament going on today on PlayHearthstone along with Twitch Drops. Didn´t see any News on that, almost would´ve missed it. Go watch it for that extra 1 (or more?) pack.

At the time of posting, it´s live, going on for 3 hours already.

EDIT: Looks like you can earn just one Darkmoon Faire pack for watching 1 hour. Tomorrow is another stream, with possible Drops too (tho not confirmed).

Looking to get back into Runeterra.  Played heavily during the launch.  Had a decent collection (and 60K crafting materials).  Don't mind crafting/using wilds on new cards.  But don't want to spend much on pricey Champions.

So yeah, I am looking for deck suggestions.  New decks with mostly older cards.  I will of coarse read them over and see if any click with me.  

Hi everyone,
Today's deals seem very tempting, especially the gems and token deals.
Also, some packs seem to be half price.
Any opinions on what is worth? 

why don’t they show their requirement when you complete them? Been wondering that for a while now 

Time ago there was a rumor about the intention to renew the classic / basic cards.

Any news about that ? (I have a bunch of classic packs waiting to be open ...)

tks

So I was just knocked out of battlegrounds, but I was sitting first with 40HP (no hits on me yet) and 6 players left. N the next round I lost and hit for 12 damage and it ‘killed’ me and I was knocked our hit of the match. Glitch? Big? What in the heck?! 

Rastakhan's Rumble isn't exactly my favorite hearthstone expansion, but it still holds a place in my heart because it's the expansion that got me playing hearthstone again. It's the only expansion i've bought a preoder for. And it's the expansion with, in my opinion, the best trailer theme. Roll it.

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AKA a form of Speaker Gidra before it was released

As a form of Phase Stalker before it was released

Perhaps a controversial shrine to pick here, but mage had a lot of synergy that was waste with hero power in RR

Djinni of Zephyrs That would actually see play as a 2 mana 2/2 Plus it works with the paladin spirit

All of the priest shrines would be controversial picks here, i would change this to only minions if it were to be added.

Another class with three controversial shrines if added, i feel this is the least controversial pick and it's an effect that can be dealt with easily on a 2/2

Shaman is interesting since 2/3 shrines have already been added as of late with Vessina and Corrupt the Waters

Another class with three degenerate shrines, if added it would be either a one turn effect or a one time effect, Potential otks involved…

An easy pick. And since warriors are basically the Rush class it should be fine

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Hey everyone, 

to those who don't really play expeditions frequently proably won't be able to relate to this post so I am not sure if that post will be for you.

For those who do play expeditions frequently I would like to know if it is normal for expeditions that decks are that close to contructed level on low win counts that most of them have a cheesy way to end games without many ways to interact as the opponent, with cards that pretty much close the game once they hit the field and where your best bet is spray and pray that they don't hit their wincondition earlier than you can beat them. 

What kind of decks am I talking about? I talk about The Grand Plaza decks Lee Sin deck s Fiora decks with Unyielding Spirit (actually also) Teemo shroom decks with tons of the "both-player-draw" cards and removal (the classic) elusive spam perfect curve daybreak or all in noxus, decks that are so extreme at what they do that you have no way beating them at their game and where you have to find ways around them with your own kind of cheese. 

It feels kinda terrible to play that kind of expeditions where your deck needs to be crazy good to survive even the early rounds because the deck quality feels to be through the roof. 

I mean there are plenty explanations to me for this which are:

-only hardcore limited players are playing expeditions anymore

- there are 3rd party programms used  widely that assist with deck creation 

- powerlevel of cosmic creations is just busted in limited

- consistancy of draft themes is too high

- me being unlucky with the matchups (which is unlikely since then it would not have been that frequent)

Proably it is a mix of all of these factors. I just can say that play expeditions like this feels extremely hard to compete in and are just miles away from the experience i had the last times playing expeditions. 

I don't know if that is possible but i feel like riot should reduce the theme consistancy of decks so that cheesy onetrick decks are less a thing but who am I to judge...

What have you experienced yourselves? Have you been to expeditions since cosmic creations? If so: how has it felt to play in it? Did you experienced the cheesy onetrick issue aswell? Do you know a solution other than doing the same?

I don't enjoy a semi constructed limited where both players try to outcheese each other with their strats and removal is so rare and weak that you can't stop the cheese...

We have Hearthstone deck tracker and Hearth arena addons/ overlays, it’s be great to get one to help with or track achievements.

At the moment I either screenshot or wrote down ones I want to try for as I’ve a terrible memory and forgot what’s needed. It’d be good if there was an overlay/addon to help with them. Would it even be possible though? 

Hello everyone

This is the third time this has happened to me, this time i'm asking the community if it's the same for them. Every time this has happened my chances to win the last fight are really high but my health is lower than the guy that gets 1st place, the fight never happens.

What happened: I'm playing a Battlegrounds game and doing really well. For example, the last time it happened I'm using elementals, my minions are really big (60+/60+ stats, divine shield, wind fury, 80/150+ taunt) and only 3 people left (me and 2 more), I get to fight a real opponent, the other guy get's to fight a ghost, I destroy my opponent and i'm ready to go for the final fight but the Battleground game ends and i'm awarded 2nd place with no final fight.

Like i said this has happened to me 3 times by now in the last week, has anyone else see this? 

Edit: Oh and in case anyone was wondering, I know is not a visual bug due to the fact that I didn't make the first place achievement with the hero that I was using in that fight.

Competition Theme: Secret Santa Snowdown

As we did for our spooky celebration, you've got three separate prompts for this competition - your card just has to meet one of them to qualify!

• The Gift of Giving
  • Design a card which gives your opponent a card
    • On their board, in their hand or in their deck; give your opponent something to smile about this holiday season!
• A Blizzard Blizzard
  • Design a card which uses the Freeze/Frozen keyword
    • Whether chilling directly or benefiting from the cool, all types of Freeze cards are welcome here!
• Secret Santa
  • Design a card which interacts with Secrets (but isn't a Secret itself)
    • I'll let you in on a Secret - this one's may favourite!

If you're really in the holiday spirit, why not try and design a card which meets all the requirements?

Happy Feast of Winter Veil! Let's get ourselves in the festive mood to help liven up the end of a somewhat rocky year!

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, Dec 21 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Dec 26 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Dec 26 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Dec 27 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Dec 27 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Dec 28 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

Please note: This is a special competition and not in a normal season.

Competition Theme: When Worlds Collide

It's time to get creative and try out some new combinations!

• You must create a card which has at least two set-specific keywords or mechanics (from different sets)
  • There's only one card which has done this before - SN1P-SN4P - so you have a lot of room for new ideas

Hordaki is looking for your best mash-up cards as we come up to the end of the year - so get creative!

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, Dec 21 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Dec 26 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Dec 26 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Dec 27 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Dec 27 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Dec 28 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

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I haven't played as much the last few months and just wanted to hear what off-meta Hunter builds folks have been having (moderate) success with this expansion.

Things I've been exploring so far:

• Various types of Quest Hunter which still seems viable
• Have had moderate success with a taunt heavy Control deck centered around N'zoth + Jewel of N'Zoth
• Failed miserably at getting Spell Hunter off the ground featuring Jepetto Joybuzz + Malygos, Yogg, and C'thun...both a highlander version and a more robust duplicate deck 
• Also haven't had much success getting a Maxima Blastenheimer + Darkmoon Tonk deck to work with any consistency
• Oh, and I've tried out the decks from Mark McKz on this site and they were fun combos to try to pull off :) 

Has anyone had success with these archetypes or anything else off-meta like Highlander Beast Hunter, Corrupt (Y'shaaraj) Hunter, Dragon Hunter, etc.?  Thanks in advance!