Hey all, the first big site update for February has been released.

New Features

Hearthstone

• A Fan Creations Portal has been added.
• Card Design Competitions have been added.
  • We're happy to announce that Card Design Competitions now have their own system on the site! This has been a long time coming and this is just the first iteration of the system. Expect more from us in this realm in the future.
  • You can always find open card design competitions on the Fan Creations Portal.
  • A list of competitions will also always be available on the competitions listing.
  • If you run into any issues, please contact me or ShadowsOfSense via PM here or on Discord.
  • We will spotlight competitions in weekly news posts.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where RSS feeds displayed the wrong URL.

Competition Theme: How To Train Year Dragon

For this first competition, we'd like to see you create a card which utilises one of the keywords or mechanics introduced in the Year of the Dragon.

The full list of available keywords and mechanics is:

• Twinspell
• Lackey generation or synergy
• Schemes (eg Hagatha's Scheme or Togwaggle's Scheme)
• Reborn
• Plagues (eg Plague of Flames or Plague of Murlocs)
• Invoke
• Sidequests
• Breaths (eg Breath of Dreams or Corrosive Breath)
• Explorers (eg Azure Explorer or Bronze Explorer)
  • Note that to count as an Explorer, your card can only have a single keyword in addition to the Dragon-discovering Battlecry

Welcome back everyone! Man, it's good to see competitions return.

To celebrate coming back after so long away, we want to see cards all about what we went through in that time - the Year of the Dragon.

We've tested our new system quite a bit, but if you experience any issues with it, don't hesitate to get in touch with us on Discord, or by directly messaging me here on the site. We'd be foolish to think we'll get through it without a few bumps in the road, though hopefully we navigated through most of them over the weekend.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Feb 17 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sat, Feb 22 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Feb 22 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Sun, Feb 23 16:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Feb 23 17:00 EST (GMT -0500). Runs until Mon, Feb 24 17:00 EST (GMT -0500)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

No thread rules were added to this season. Please populate and manually edit this thread with them.

How To Enter

Once you've decided upon your design, it's time to enter! You can find the main competition page by clicking the banner above.

There, you'll find a section entitled 'Submit Entry'. This will take you to a form to fill out with the details of your card, along with a place to upload an image of it - use Hearthcards to create a great looking image!

Make sure you check your entry over, because once you've submitted you won't be able to change it.

HUGE patch notes today; so I didn't even notice this little nugget until I was rereading for the 2nd time:

Additionally, we plan to approach balance with a seasonal mindset, adjusting our methods as the meta goes through different stages between sets of new cards. Once we’re out of beta and get into our regular cadence of releasing new sets, it should look something like this:

1. New set of cards released.
2. First balance patch: mostly “medium”-sized number changes based on our early sense of outliers.
3. Second balance patch: Significant updates to underutilized cards, and the main patch where you can expect any major champion updates.
4. Third balance patch: Limited number changes to stabilize any meta issues.
5. Next set of cards released.

Since they've previously announced that they want to do balance patches exactly every 4th Tuesday, I believe we can make some reasonable inferences:

• New cards will be released in batches called "seasons", comparable to expansions in HS and MtG
• Each season will last 16 weeks (i.e., every ~4 months or ~3 per year)

Additionally, if we look a few patch notes prior to when they announced ranked mode, we can see they put that in context of "Seasons" too, so we can also hypothesize:

• Each Ranked Season will be exactly aligned with new card set releases.  (Contrast with HS, where each season is a calendar month its completely asynchronous to when card sets are released.)
• There will be some type of recognition / reward at the end of each 16 week period based on how high of tier you have on ladder.  So far they only thing they have officially announced is a cosmetic (a "beta-exclusive icon"), but I'd be really surprised if this didn't also include some form of in-game resources.
• Once the new season starts (i.e., when the next batch of new cards is released), there will be some type of ladder reset / loss of rank--again: I haven't seen any official announcements, but it makes sense that just because you hit Master once you wouldn't be guaranteed for life.   You'll then have 16 weeks with the new base of cards to re-climb and earn your rank for that season.

And finally, if you REALLY want to go out on limb, you could look at how they've been describing this open beta as a "Beta Season" and wildly speculate:

• The beta will have just 2 more rounds of balance patches, March 17th & April 14
• Riot's unofficial / internal / soft-target for closing beta and formally launching Legends of Runeterra is Tuesday, May 12
• The first expansion / new set of cards will release 16 weeks afterwards--i.e., Tuesday, September 1st

Obviously I've made a lot of assumptions in all of these points and even if I'm right that this is their unannounced plan of record its still subject to change (e.g., they find some critical bug they need to solve before releasing, or they get delayed releasing the mobile version to iTunes and decide its worth it to postpone just to have a consolidated launch, or they decide they want more overlap between their season schedule and HS's expansion schedule).  Regardless, its got me very excited so I thought I'd share.

Just thinking, apropos-of-nothing, of specific health break-points to think about in LoR. Meta's still in flux, of course, but there are enough trends emerging that we can think of:

1 - Vile Feast

2 - Mystic Shot, Fleetfeather Tracker, Laurent Protege

3 - Black Spear, Grasp, Fiora

[3] - Culling Strike; Power not health

4+ - Ehhh...?

8 - Major Ledros breakpoint - >8 health means four plays required to kill you, guaranteeing you two attack rounds

Obviously I'm not being in any way comprehensive here, and am mostly trying to stick to the main meta points (e.g. Get Excited isn't on there because Jinx is basically absent from the meta so far)... but I'm still confident I'm missing stuff. Thoughts?

what is the meaning of "ready your attack" ? tks

So, I'm curious how you guys feel about this. When you Shadowshift a unit that's currently in battle, the Living Shadow will battle the enemy unit instead. However, if you Shadowshift one of your units that's currently targeted by a spell, e.g. Mystic Shot, the spell fizzles out after Shadowshift resolves.

I feel this is inconsistent and the spell should hit the Living Shadow. The phrasing "in its place" suggests to me that, for all intents and purposes, the shadow should completely replace the recalled unit.

This is also (sort of) backed by a somewhat similar question asked about Stand United in this thread. Stand United uses the term "swap," which has the same gist, and apparently in its case, the spell hits the swapped-in unit instead of fizzling (I haven't tested it, myself, but this seems be true based in the thread replies).

Look, I could probably build a deck to get this done a lot faster. But isn't this just a LITTLE bit insane?

With how they recently reworked daily quests to be a lot easier, for the most part, why in the world sneak this one in?

I'm not saying it's impossible, far for it, but for only 50g, this is a REALLY tedious quest, and something you really have to go out of your way to build a deck around. I really think we could cut the number down on this one to something a lot more reasonable, like... even 30, I could accept.

So I was playing a Braum deck against a SI/Noxus aggro spiders and falling behind fast.  They played a Frenzied Skitterer, I figure: OK, sure they got buffed but my Braum went from 0/5 to 0/5 so no big deal.  I want to take some power off the board so on my turn I challenge the weakest spider, a 3/1, and I play Radiant Strike--except Braum only becomes a 0/6, so the spider lives.  :-(  Apparently, even though it said 0 attack, it appreciated that it should have been at -1 from the Skitterer so the attack portion of my buff cancelled out.  Quickly got overrun by fearsomes a few rounds later.

Just thought I would share that bit of experience.  

if i use united standBADCARDNAME  if  one of my units would be recalled or damaged does the spell still resolves because it still on field or flizzes ? i dont have it to test it XD.

27/03/2020: Combined with Blizzard's official take on the core sets. Also brand new layout!

PRIEST CORE SET REVAMP

Introduction

Following this post, I decided to post my own take on the Priest's core sets. The comparison is interesting because we had very different ideas.

I made a few custom classes in the past, so I had to think a lot about class identity and how to make a class feel unique while still being stable and balanced in the long term, and expandable with expansions. Like Shadows, I made a few custom cards, but most of my sets is nerfs/buffs and substitutions with expansion sets.

NOTE: This set was started slightly after Saviors of Uldum was released

Directions

The new core sets

Just considering the cards from this past year getting unnerfed I again thought about why T5 hasn't unnerfed this deck in today's HS.

There are and have been more consistent and easier OTK setups that have stuck around and big taunts (warlock) exist in today's HS when they didn't then, as well as Reno to go with the Ice Blocks in mage. Not to mention the much higher prevalence of hyper aggressive decks and massive armor gains that didn't exist in the same form of the Grim Patron meta.

Simply put, the deck would not perform the same as it did years ago so why keep the deck broken?

...you can see two Pogo-Hoppers in the background.

Just thought that was kind of interesting. No question what Blizzard designed that card for.

If you want to save your game, take "deny" out of it entirely.

I lost the game. I cry every time.

We have prepared our changes to the current reward system and invite you to become participants in our research. You will have the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of our idea. Perhaps together we can change the economy of the game, or vice versa, the results of our experiment could confirm the effectiveness of the current monetization system.

VIDEO VERSION 

Hearthstone is an important source of income for Blizzard. We respect that. But on the other hand, a crisis has ripened in the economy of the game. According to the results of our survey, only 2 percent of players are completely satisfied with the game economy and don't want any changes. More than half of players are convinced that change is necessary.

Our main goal is to try to offer a system that will not only allow Blizzard to maintain a high profit, but possibly even increase it, while also making the game economy more loyal to players. This would expand the audience of the game and allow completing a collection of cards for free. Subsequently, developers will gain  the respect that they deserve. 

As you know, we constantly monitor the number of rewards players recieve. Under the current economy during the 4 months between expansions, players have had the opportunity to receive rewards equivalent to approximately 110 packs (sometimes this amount is more, sometimes less). We propose to increase the number of free resources by almost two times, to 200 packs (as you know, you need to purchase approximately 250 packs to get the entire card collection). In addition, we propose introducing a generous reward for a complete collection.

CHANGES

Let's start with the our changes to the quest system. A daily quest should most often award you a pack from the current expansion.Sometimes you will be able to get a classic pack or 80 gold as a reward for completing a quest with a friend. If you refresh the quest you are guaranteed to receive a random quest for 60 gold, or in very rare cases, 100 gold. Thus, you can always choose between a current pack and a smaller amount of gold.

We also want to increase rewards for ranked play. If you manage to reach the tenth rank, you will receive an additional 3 packs. For the fifth rank you will receive 5 packs. If you have reached the legend rank you will receive 10 packs.

In addition, we propose to create weekly special quests with tasks that you can perform in solo mode. As a reward, you will also receive the current card pack. Events should occur every month, as a reward you will receive packs from past expansions and cards. Within 4 months, the reward will be equivalent to 40 old packs.

Thus, you will receive a reward that is equivalent to a minimum of 200 packs if you took part in all events, made 6 victories per day and reached rank 5 each month for 4 months. Most players spend much less time in the game.In this case, if you achieve 3 wins per day and also reach rank 10, your reward will be equivalent to 180 packs.And finally, if you managed to achieve the legend rank every month and won 9 times a day, you will earn at least 230 packs.

In other words, in the long run, players will have all the cards from past sets, regardless of whether they spent money or not. Creating a deck will be easier, and players will be able to use more classes and strategies. Moreover, players will not have to get rid of cards after rotation, since they will have enough resources. In turn, this will allow players to play in wild mode.

Another very important innovation is a special award for the full collection of cards for every new expansion. We offer a very valuable reward. First of all, you will get a golden pack. Secondly, you will receive a special set of golden cards from the current expansion. Let's look at this with the example of Descent of Dragons.

You will get 5 golden legendary Galakrond cards as well as 2 golden copies of Devoted Maniac and Shield of Galakrond. These will be promotional cards that you cannot disenchant. If you already had these golden copies, they will be automatically disenchanted from your collection for the full cost of crafting. And the main reward. A special new golden legendary card that will not affect the balance of the game, but will give a lot of fun to the players. It could be a card that looks like Whizbang the Wonderful or Elite Tauren Chieftain. Maybe it could be a card that will make your deck into random legendary cards. Why not? We are convinced that the developers and the community have a lot of interesting ideas.

The main source of income for Blizzard is still pre-orders. We suggest keeping the current pricing system for the bundles that were introduced in Descent of Dragons. 60 packs and a golden legendary card for $ 50; and 100 packs and a golden legendary card for $ 80. But in addition, we decided to add a new bundle. We called it the "Thank You" Bundle. In other words, by making this purchase you say thanks to the developers. The money received for the purchase will be spent on improving the game, experimenting with modes and new features. For just $ 10 you get 20 packs. This is a great opportunity for Free-2-play players to support developers.

Unfortunately, pre-orders are still too expensive. We tried to find a way to reduce the cost of packs, but this, in turn, inevitably entails a significant reduction in company revenue. Blizzard has created an ingenious monetization system that allows them to get the maximum possible profit. The company will definitely not give up on this approach.

DISADVANTAGE

Here are a few words about the main disadvantage of this system. About a third of players use a rational strategy for collecting resources. They collect gold for 3 to 4 months. This approach allows you to significantly save money and get the maximum possible number of new packs for free on the release day of a new expansion.

The main source of gold is daily quests. In our system, quests will almost always offer you a pack of cards as a reward. You can always update your daily quest

and choose gold instead of the pack, but it will not be as profitable. Thus, collecting resources over the course of 4 months will be a meaningless exercise, since all players are guaranteed to receive much more cards after the expansion release. They will only need to wait a bit.
We understand that our concept is not perfect, but at the same time, we believe, it solves many problems.

THE MAIN QUESTION 

Dear friends, here is the main question. If this monetization system appears in Hearthstone, will you have a desire to regularly pre-order? And how much money will you be willing to spend? Are you ready to thank the developers for their hard work and generosity? Please, think carefully and be honest with everything.

We created a Youtube poll. Just open this video on Youtube, find the "i" button on the screen and vote. Also share your opinions in the comments.

Scuttlegeist

It sure looks like one. It even synergizes with Spider synergy (chump tokens that die so you can play a 5/5 on the cheap). So why isn't it? Is it because it's a Ghost Spider? I know this sounds like another Ghostly Charger debate but this one actually seems significant, I can understand if it's just a gameplay balance thing because this card would actually be significantly better as a Spider (whereas for Ghostly Charger, it really doesn't matter either way, Beast Tag does nothing for Paladin) but in that case, couldn't they just replace the art with something blatantly less spidery? It just seems to cause a lot of confusion.

I managed to hit rank 10 for the second month in a row (3rd month playing) with Control Warrior that is heavily teached towards my meta (various Dragon, Face and Highlander Hunters, Galakrond Rogues, Token and Embiggen Druids, Mech Paladins etc).

Do you think it's viable in the higher ranks, I'm trying to reach rank 5.

Control Warrior?

Wild · Control Warrior · by troY · 6 years, 2 months ago

• 1 Eternium Rover x 2
• 1 Hack the System x 1
• 1 Shield Slam x 2
• 1 Town Crier x 2
• 2 Licensed Adventurer x 2
• 2 Questing Explorer x 2
• 2 Warpath x 2
• 3 Bad Luck Albatross x 2
• 3 EVIL Quartermaster x 2
• 3 SN1P-SN4P x 1
• 4 Restless Mummy x 2
• 4 Sky Gen'ral Kragg x 1
• 5 Brawl x 2
• 5 Dyn-o-matic x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Khartut Defender x 2
• 7 Dr. Boom, Mad Genius x 1
• 8 Deathwing, Mad Aspect x 1

13,320 Dust 912 0 Copy Deck Code

Just unlocked King Anduin and I'm glad they released rewards for 1000 wins, but I'm a little underwhelmed.
I was hoping there would be new voice lines and a unique entrance since it takes a lot to unlock these, what are your thoughts?

Maybe I'm just spoilt from playing with Tyrande!

There will be a balance change patch this Tuesday in runeterra which cards do you think will be changed (buffed/nerfed/reworked)?

Disclaimer: Those changes are suggestions/my opinion, also it doesn't mean I am salty for losing to the "op cards" nor I meme with the cards I suggest to buff.

My list:

Buffs:

Poro Snax, Kalista, Trueshot Barrage (from slow to fast),Funsmith(from 5 to 4, not enough fun as it is),Midenstokke Henchmen(cost reduced, stats too),Shady Character, from 1/1 to 1/2 (harder to just kill), Lux (didn't see her at all..), Emerald Awakener (+0/+1 , base, +0/-1 on the buff still the same on turn 10 but sucks much less when played on curve), Scuttlegeist (5/5->6/6)

Reworks:

Deny.

ramp tools(overnerfed, nobody consider playing them).

Battering Ram - not broken in constructed but is in expeditions.

Nerfs:

Commander Ledros (+1 cost, remove fearsome),Fiora (3 targets required for level up, doesn't keep count with new copies), Elise (2/3-> 2/2),Shadow Assassin (2/2->2/1 OR 3->4 mana cost), Kinkou Lifeblade(4->5 mana or 2/3->2/2 maybe both),Navori Conspirator (3/2->2/2),Inspiring Mentor (on buff +1/+1->+1/+0), Rhasa the Sunderer (cost +1), Hecarim (Cost +1), Wraithcaller(4/3->3/3 no longer has fearsome),Frenzied Skitterer (cost 3->4), Cursed Keeper (token is 3/3 instead of 4/4).

Expecting changes to some frostbite cards they are too efficient.

OK I probably missed some stuff that is clear that it needs changes and Riot will surprise us with cards we did not think were problematic or cards that we didn't think were too good but they got the big data, the win rates the play rates..

Hi guys (and girls)

Being a F2P player, it is sometime takes a desperate measure to get a free packs, by any means necessary (but not with shady activity).

I had, login from Samsung Mobile, to Apple IPhone, and Tablet, just to get those nifty free packs.

And I've just realized that there is one more way to get more free packs, recruit a player (up to four free packs). But the cons is, not just any recruit can do. It has to be lower than 20 in total level (not Ranks Level).

To anyone who kind enough to be my recruit, pass those lv.20, and let me have those precious packs, I would be so grateful.

In addition, you get 1 free pack (if you haven't got to lv.20). So it's a win-win.

So, here's my link.

https://battle.net/recruit/6ZTBJSTG28?blzcmp=raf-hs&s=HS&m=pc

Thanks in advance.

So I was on a quest to 100% the dalaran heist on heroic and during my, Chu run against Kalecgos he used a 19 dmg pyroblast on a divine shielded annoy-o-tron. My only question is why? I had lethal but why use it on a divine shield out of all my minions? Oh yeah also the twists and anomalies cost 2 mana now

I don't know about you, but I think the UI is the part of Runeterra that needs the most work. Let's make a list of changes we'd like to see!

Throughout

• More decorative buttons would be nice; existing ones are very boxy and bland.
• Shards and Wildcards should be visible on all screens except during actual play.

Home screen

• Shouldn't Quests and Vault be under Rewards?
• Maybe instead fill this space with personalized stats of some kind, or just bigger versions of the sidebar menu buttons.
• Or possibly some media links to instructional videos, articles, popular deck lists?

Rewards screen

• As mentioned above, Quests and Vault should be here, with PvP Bonus in one corner.
• Upper right -- Percent complete is redundant with the level info already given in upper left. Instead, how about XP needed for next level?
• Hovering over progress bar at the bottom should show Current/Needed XP to level up.
• Clicking question mark under available reward should still give info, not open the reward as it currently does.

Play screen

• Option for a more compact deck list would be nice.

Collection screen

• I don't know why, but I feel like this should be listed before Play.
• Option for a more compact deck list would be nice.
• Loadouts should be saved per deck.
• Enable right-click Paste when importing a deck.
• Player should be able to set the art for each deck image. (Right now, it seems to default to the most powerful Champion in the deck.)
• Player should be able to set a default "favorite" board and guardian for when none is selected.
• There should be a Random option for all loadout components.
• Maybe also a "favorite" checkbox to control which components may appear when Random is selected.

So ive been planning on making a Galakrond rouge and i see alot of pro decks that  have Flik Skyshiv (which i also have) and im just wondering what is the purpose of Flik Skyshiv in these decks?

I believe the title says it all.. I feel like the deck might lack taunts but so far the pressure's been enough to keep the advantage..

Sidenote: Frizz Kindleroost on curve is kreygasm

Zul'jin, Draconic Wizard

Wild · Dragon Hunter · by ARES · 6 years, 2 months ago

• 1 Flare x 1
• 2 Corrosive Breath x 2
• 2 Dragon Breeder x 2
• 2 Faerie Dragon x 1
• 2 Firetree Witchdoctor x 2
• 3 Bloodscalp Strategist x 1
• 3 Primordial Explorer x 2
• 3 Stitched Tracker x 2
• 3 Stormhammer x 2
• 4 Dread Corsair x 2
• 4 Flanking Strike x 2
• 4 Frizz Kindleroost x 1
• 5 Carrion Drake x 2
• 5 Cobalt Spellkin x 1
• 5 Rotnest Drake x 2
• 6 Evasive Wyrm x 2
• 6 Unleash the Beast x 1
• 9 Nefarian x 1
• 10 Zul'jin x 1

7,320 Dust 1,892 2 Copy Deck Code