I'm a wild main, but frequently watch various favorite streamers play in wild, watch tournaments, and hear about other people's experiences. While keeping cards around for *only* 2 years can be good to end the burnout of things like DKs, Tunnel Trogg, Defile, Reno, Aluneth and the like over the years it does make it so that the pool of cards is kept comparatively small, and in that small card pool random effects become less random with mechanics like discover or CCing a minion that barely has any minions in that mana slot.

For example, pretty much every standard player is familiar with the meme of warriors discovering their 7th Omega Devastator or 5th Dyn-o-Matic. Other players have listed mages' ability to very consistently spawn big taunts with almost every CC. Even going back further in the life of standard HS when Ice Block was not HoFed yet it was very common for mages to discover a 'random' 3rd or even 4th Ice Block because again the standard spell pool was so small.

So back to the title, do you feel standard's card pool size does it more harm than good? If you feel it does harm to the format how would you change it?

I can't say that I'm a deep player of cards games, but since I started Hearthstone I give a chance to few games. The game that actually most suprise me was Krosmaga . The first impression of the game seems like a more complex game than Hearthstone, but actually after few matches I could understood the game dynamic (of course not all the combos).

• The basic gameplay is far from Hearthstone. Each player has 5 Dofus divided in 5 lines, composed by 7 tiles. In order to win you need to destroy 2 real Dofus (2 of 5 are fake ones). The minions summoned move through a single line at the end of the player turns, based on movement value. In movement phase, if 2 minions face adyacent tiles the fight happen in a similar way to Hearthstone (but you can't decide if not attack). 
• There are 10 different classes. The game do not have anything similar to a Hero Power, so the class is defined purely by the cards. Classes have keywords or mechanics linked to them, so there is not the feeling that all classes do the same. On the other hand this causes some valance isues.
• The gold can be obtained by quests or wining (also by achievements). On interesting thing is that there are packs that includes (at least) one legendary so you can decide if going for legendaries or get bigger collection (are more expensive than the normal ones, but not super expensive, like 5::1).
• Decks are 45 cards.
• I would expected that the queues to play were longet. Of course there are less players than hearthstone, but most of the time seems that find a match is not a problem.

I would recommend this game, but there are 2 mayor issues to consider. The development of the game is in "stand-by" so there is not new content at this moment (for what I know). Also this affect to the balance of the game.

So, any thoughts about it?

(Dated 7/28/19: Last Revealed card was Dark Pharaoh Tekahn)

Let me begin by saying, that this card is a CUSTOM CARD, not an Officially Printed Hearthstone card! I want to make that clear because currently we are in the Saviors of Uldum Card Reveal Season and I don't want people to get angry because they thought this was a real card.

Now that I got that out of the way, GREETINGS My name is CovenantKevlar, (You can call me Kev) I'm a real big fan of Hearthstone and I've been playing since Curse of Naxxramus, I've always wanted to make very own Custom card but never had the courage to do so until now. Currently we are in the middle of the card reveal Season for Saviors of Uldum and I had an idea for what could be (or could've been) a card for the set. One of my favorite classes is Warlock and currently there has not been a Warlock Lackey Generator revealed. (especially when Dark Pharaoh Tekahn just revealed a few days ago)  So I theorized one!

I wanted the Lackey Generation for warlock to come with a cost similar to how EVIL Genius makes Lackeys, a price for Power! I choose to focus on the Discarding mechanic because currently in the Standard rotation discard warlock is in a weak position, It always sucks to discard cards you wanted to play  so I wanted to make a card that generated you value whenever you discarded cards. In terms of mechanics it would work exactly like Malchezaar's Imp This is my First Custom card submission so let me know what you think of it! If you think that the card is too strong or too weak I want to know, Your opinion will help shape other Custom cards I might make in the future.

Thanks

Hello everybody, I just returned home after my summer holydays (3 weeks on the beautyfull shores of Adriatic Sea, near the city of Ascoli).

I write not only to justify why I didn't post anything in 3 weeks, but also to say that I had a problem with my smartphone and my tablet: I was able to read outofcards, to write under the comments, but apparently when I used the button to publish my post nothing happened.

Has anyone else had this problem, or it was just mine?

Both are android based and I use a browser based on mobile firefox.

Just go to your profile and click the 'achievements' link.

This is a chart that shows how much dust you will need to craft your collection expansion wise. (From classic to Rise of Shadows) 

This is a breakdown of neutral cards per expansion wise 

This is a breakdown of cards of a class( in this case it is druid) expansion. There have been some fluctuation in classes where some of the class cards went to HoF or Hunter was the only card which received 2 legendaries in TGT (Which takes all total hunter legendaries to 20, for others it is 19) but more or less they are quite same.

Expect 8 of more charts like this. 

This is a dust wise breakdown of cards of a class per expansion(in this case:druid) 

.f you have noticed a pattern then you will that after MSG, Blizzard have reduced the number of neutral legendaries, instead increased the number of class legendaries by 1 (From JtUG).

As a F2P player from open beta I found this new trend more suitable. I have consolidated my attention to a single class (priest) & only craft Priest & neutral cards. After MsG I found it much easier to fill my collection than before. 

I have all of the priest cards & almost half of the Neutral collection (with entire adv: CoN,BRM, LoE, ONK) 

This is the current numbers of neutral cards I need to complete my neutral collection

From this chart you can see that I fared much better from Ungoro than I did before & I am filling up my neutral collection much quicker than before & because of no duplicate legendary rule it has become more easier if you only concentrate on a single class.

I know that different people might have different experience with this new system but for me this new breakdown was more favorable. 

How is F2P in MtG:A at the moment, compared to Hearthstone?

How much cards and stuff can you get without paying, playing from time to time?

And do you think, when times go by, and there will be more expansions... will it be possible to keep up as a new player?

Do y'all think Hearthstone should have a Creative mode in which players could create their own game modes (with certain sets, some card bans, and maybe some Tavern Brawl rules), similar to how it's done in other games such as Overwatch? It could allow people to test out their crazy ideas, it would be tons of fun to play, and it might give the developers some ideas for the game! It could even go a step further and the creator could choose certain cards to buff or nerf (just in stats, like the Boomsday buffs). This would allow for players who want a huge diversity of experience to have a lot of fun during the in-between months while not harming the new player experience! I think this could even feasibly happen, since I don't think it would hurt Blizzard's bottom line and it would actually motivate people to craft more cards to try out more cool decks!

I loved the Hearthstone Pack opener in HearthPWN back in the days.. We need a new one here.

Thanks in advance 

I'm not that good at creating classes, but wanted to do this for fun :) Sooooo, here's Rune Master. A class that revolves around Empowering cards by playing Runes. Runes count and play as spells, but have effects on cards with just mentioned keyword - Empower.

Advantages:

- Cheap spell synergy.

- Powerful Rune generation.

- A little bit of healing.

- Powerful, 5 Mana Secrets.

- Board clears and single removals.

- Control tools.

- Weapons availability.

- Low Dragon synergy, although Dragons seem to like Rune Masters and appear often in their presence.

Disadvantages:

- Almost non-existing draw.

- Anti-tempo plays.

- Lack of minion transform and Silence cards.

- Lack of minion flood cards.

- Lack of non-combo finishers.

Basic:

Basic set has some powerful options for Rune Master, and serves its purpose on introducing a player to the present themes. Runic Explosion also gives new players a taste of Empower before opening packs.

Classic:

Classic set gives class some tools to apply pressure and some enablers. It also introduces first 3 Secrets and Empower keyword. Note: Gristof Runeheart works like Jade Golems - Mana increases to 10 and doesn't any further, even tho Attack and Health do.

Additional Filters:

Runes:

As a player who loves to build decks and loves to see a meta with a great variety of different archtypes, the first month of an new Expansion ist my favorite time of Hearthstone.

As time is passing by the meta settles and  most decks just differ by a minority of cards. Sure sometimes someone finds a new deck and the meta might redifine itself a little, but overall the game loses it's appealing character to adapt and improve your deck.

So my idea to keep Hearthstone fresh:

Add a rotating pool of cards to standard

• These cards are from the old expansions
• Everyone  can use them without having them in their collection (like a extra section of basic cards)
• Maybe 3-4 class cards and 10-20 neutrals?
• Time per cyle 1 month

This way the game would stay fresh between the release of new expansions, while Blizzard woudn't lose money and standard would stay balanced by their Definition.

What are your thoughts on my Idea?

Hey All!

Recently we got to enjoy The dungeon run-like Tavern Brawl with a golden copy of Recurring Villain, Bronze Herald and Rafaam's Scheme as a reward. After receiving these rewards I looked them up in my collection and was surprised to I see I got two golden copies of each. As I mostly play Arena anyway I dusted the non-golden copies of these cards and kept the golden versions. 

Just now I opened a pack with a Rafaam's Scheme in it and was about to dust it, but then I noticed that the second copy of the golden version is gone. Same thing happened with the other two cards. I only own a golden version of these two cards now.

Is it just me hallucinating or did anyone else had a similar experience?

So the hunter, a class that used to be limited to SMOrc-ing before turn 7 slowly got sweet cards that allows a much slower play. Coming up is Anti-combo Hunter which I really want to try out..

My question is what survival(Heal)/control tools are the most efficient, including wild, off course.

Plaguebringer, the card which replaced Vanish in the basic set, is in my opinion a very poorly designed card. Constantly with their talk about class identity, Blizzard talks about how the Basic and Classic sets should give new players a good example of what a class does and what it's strengths and weaknesses are in a fairly simple manner. The Basic set especially should be very easy to understand, since those are the first cards a new player will have access to. So why, then, does Plaguebringer make use of the Poisonous keyword when no other card in the Basic set mentions it? This would lead new players to believe that Rogues are good at abusing Poisonous minions, which hasn't proven to be the case. They only barely have the most Poisonous minions/generators of all classes (Rogue has 7, Hunter has 6, Druid has 5) and as far as I know, only one of which (Envenom Weapon) has seen any serious competitive play in Kingsbane Rogue. I would be fine if this card we're in the Classic set, but I think it's a very poor design for a Basic card.

I haven't done an Arena run in some time, as I'd been tryharding on Ranked and messing around with the Solo content. I figured I'd give it a go with the new card sets, and had a blast going up 2-0 to start.

The odd reaction? "Where's my loot card?" Not a suggestion or anything, just a funny thought that went through my head. Wondering if anyone else had such a thought.

I first started thinking about this after noticing that Disguised Toast was doing a card reveal (and how he has been rather out of the HS spotlight for the time being, at least until new content releases). Then I thought back to Savjz (who I used to consume his Youtube content regularly before he quit HS. Now, I'm not saying that all streamers are burnt out on the game or that they even dislike the game. Nor, am I saying that specific streamers such as Toast are necessarily burnt out, as opposed to just taking a break (although at times I wonder if he really enjoys the game as much as his persona tries to sell his HS content, but that is complete conjecture).

However, it led me to the question in the title. If a streamer did start burning out and for whatever reason (mostly money probably) did not just quit the game and move on to something else, then would their half-hearted image and involvement in the game really be more of a good thing? I can't help but feel it would just create a little bit more potential for negativity in the community, or at least the false impression that the average player doesn't have fun with the game if some of the streamers in the public eye are burnt out.

Thoughts? 

Hi,

Would it be possible when looking at lists of cards (such as cards from new expansions) to display by picture?

Hi,

First - loving the new site.  You have done a great job since breaking off from *the site that shall not be named* :-).

I like that there is a Pro Decks list on the home page, would it be possible to make it a link that goes to a list of all pro decks on the site?  Also maybe the same for the Hot Standard and Hot Wild Decks as well?

Question - if I wanted to find all pro deck lists would I just select tournament decks on the deck page?

Thanks!

Hi,

This only seems to happen with Safari, so not a huge deal.

On the main menu (Decks, Cards, etc....) when I highlight Decks for example, then I move down to select something, the Expansion drop down appears over top.  

After further testing, this only appears to happen to the menu items to the left of Expansions.

I think it would be pretty neato if we had a section of this site dedicated not only to cards that have had nerfs/buffs, but cards that we know the early designs of to show what the process of making a card looks like.

Most of the time we only see the end result of a card and not how many/what kind of iterations it went through.

This is a feature that would be interesting to have, but in all honesty is probably near the bottom of the list but hey, no rush.

P.S.FixTheNoSpaceIssuePls.

A new Legendary Warlock Minion, Dark Pharaoh Tekahn, has been revealed!

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A new Common Neutral Minion, Vilefiend, has been revealed!

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A new Common Hunter Weapon, Desert Spear, has been revealed!

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Just out of interest, are entries 1 per IP address?

Seems a lot of user accounts that have posted were created in the last 24 hours, and though of course many may be legitimate, and new users of the site (which is great), I do wonder if some are just creating multiple accounts for a higher chance of winning.

Perhaps I'm just being overly suspicious :)  I've never tried to create multiple accounts here of course so for all I know it's one per IP address anyway.

If nothing else, it's great that giveaways like this are potentially attracting new blood to the site.

So after being disgusted by another hunter Venomizer+Missile Launcher I came up with the idea of above combo which should essentially give me the same thing for a whopping 10 mana. Any1 tried this? 

And how do i change the title of a thread I created? Now it looks horrible!

And I want to see his face when I counter his combo by my own combo.