I have played a lot of shaman and the lack of draw is a huge issue.

I feel like every other game I play with my shudderwock deck I am just a sitting duck hoping to top-deck something good.  And every other game I destroy my opponent with powerful battlecries and infinite value. Shaman has archetypes that work and are powerful. The issue is that they don't have enough draw/generation to get them to work consistently every game.

Every class needs some form of card advantage. Some classes are better at it than others, but no class should have zero draw. There are classes like Rogue or Demon Hunter who are very good at drawing, so they get cards that just flat out say "draw a card" on them with no strings attached. Then you have classes like priest and to some extent mage who aren't particularly good at drawing cards, but still have things to play since they get lots of card generation. Then there are classes like warrior and hunter who are meant to be bad at drawing, but they are still able to do it. Warrior gets to draw cards, but all of the draw has another requirement (usually damaging minions or putting specific cards in your deck). And hunter doesn't get hardly any draw, but they still function with cards like Tracking, Scavenger's Ingenuity, and Selective Breeder which, although they don't actually increase your hand size, help you dig through your deck to find the cards you need.

In the 6(?) years this game has existed, shaman has only gotten 10 cards with the word "draw". They are all either very expensive (Bogshaper, Ancestral Knowledge), have very specific deckbuilding restrictions (Spirit of the Frog, or anything that wants you to play murlocs), are very easy for the opponent to interrupt (Mana Tide Totem, Tinyfin's Caravan), or just simply don't draw enough cards to really be helpful Far Sight, Storm Chaser, Elementary Reaction.

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It probably only refreshes your permanent mana crystals and not the temporary ones like from The Coi or Innervate as it states “refresh” in the text. Similarly, it should not refill overloaded mana crystals either.

If you play the coin, you go to 5 mana.  You then have 5 mana.  Starting at 5 mana, you spend 4 of it on Refreshing.  That leaves you with 1 mana.  Refilling 2 mana per spell drawn should refill 4 mana.  4 + 1 = 5. 

The coin does not give you an extra mana crystal, gives you temporary mana which disappears once spent. After playing Refreshing Spring Water, you still only have 4 mana crystals, but only 3 of them are spent since you used the temporary mana from the coin to cast it.

Test it and see.

You got it Live4vrRideTryn! It was Sacrificial Pact.

I also find the golden cards annoying, but I can't really justify complaining about it since they were added to the track for free. If the devs had removed gold or packs when they added the golden cards, then I would be upset. But since the alternative to the golden cards is getting nothing at all, I'll take them.

You know what? Rhyming is hard and I'm not going to put a lot of effort into it.

I am swift to give and swift to take, 

Demons are my preferred taste,

I could once slay heroes and destroy the fel, 

Until a little man made me too powerful

I have Guardian Animals in my raptor hunter. It works as long as the raptors are 5/5 or bigger, and if they are 3/4 it isn't the end of the world. It's a lot better than Kathrena Winterwisp.

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The Final Frontier: Seems really hard to achieve without Aviana and Kun the Forgotten King. Ysiel Windsinger might also do the trick with enough set up (and preferably in Wild because Ultimate Infestation). Completing this the intended way through Celestial Alignment sounds like a bad joke. Getting Alignment off and ramping back to 5-mana with five 8+mana cards is a pipe dream. If you didn't get run down by that point your opponent will usually concede anyways.

Did you get this achievement when playing this combo? Because I didn't and I just want to make sure it wasn't just a bug.

Played Aviana, Kun the Forgotten King, The Lich King, Survival of the Fittest, Ysiel Windsinger and Ultimate Infestation for a total of 6 cards and got nothing. 

Oh sorry, I hadn't gotten to that yet, but I just assumed it would have worked with Aviana but I guess they hardcoded it for Alignment.

My bad there.

I don't think it works if you play more than 5 cards since the achievement says "5 cards" not "5 or more". I had a similar issue with Do it for the Vines not counting some of my plays. I cannot confirm this but so far it is my best theory.

Cobalt Guardian!

It's an old card that was never played but then was very popular in Battlegrounds until it was replaced by Deflect-o-Bot.

Don't make the same mistake as me with the rancor achievement and think that you needed to kill 14 minions. I did it with Doomsayer to start with an empty board, Mad Summoner to put 13 imps on the board, double Inner Rage to get the summoner to 2 health, then Rancor to kill everything. It was way more trouble than was necessary, but thankfully it only took me 3 games.

Right now I am working on summoning imps and casting 0 mana shadow spells. There are a few shadow spells in wild that already cost 0 mana, but Thaurissan is a good idea.

Now I wish I had saved my golden version.

Who would have ever predicted that a card with the text "Replace your deck with random cards" would be so powerful?

Blizzard recently gave out some dust in compensation for a bug with classic packs. I only opened 1 packs and got 100 dust, but today I got 700 more. I don't know why, but if they are still giving out dust does that mean I can buy the golden classic pack bundle and get extra dust? Or was this extra 700 just a fluke? I am not sure if I want to buy the bundle, but if I can farm extra dust from it then I will.

Did anybody else get extra dust today? Where did this extra 700 dust come from? And can I farm bonus dust by buying more classic packs?

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As for the epics,  I opened 11 out 67 which is around 1 in 6 packs.  I think that is also way above average but I can't remember what the timer is for epics.  I didn't get a lot of the ones I really wanted but no complaints. Oh!  Except for the fact that I opened a Primordial Protector which everyone gets at levels 65 and 75.  I would have thought these cards would have been taken out of the pool until we got them on the track.  I think epics are generally the hardest to collect completely.  I feel like I am now down 1 epic and am wondering if I should risk opening more packs until I get to those levels.  This is the kind of 'nickel and diming' that players do not like.  The game is expensive enough. 

The pity timer for epics is average 1 in 5, but guaranteed 1 in 10. So your epic drop rate was about average.

As for the golden epic thing, I also opened a Primordial Protector and faced a similar dilemma. Think of it like this, nothing was taken away from the rewards track to give us these golden cards, they were added on for free. So while it is annoying to open an epic that you would have gotten for free, just remember that getting excess cards for free is better than not getting any free cards. Also keep in mind that up until about a year ago, opening third copies of epics could happen all the time. I am kind of annoyed at getting uncraftable cards, but it isn't a huge issue.

It would have been nice if instead of pre-determined golden cards, it just gave you a random uncraftable golden card of a specific rarity, or if they were disenchantable. But like I said, these golden cards were added to the track for free with nothing subtracted. 

One thing that should be fixed though is how multiple copies of cards are displayed in the collection. It was mildly annoying to have two copies of the basic set, but now with the core set and the golden core set you can have four copies of a card sitting in your collection. Blizzard should find a way to condense all versions of a card into one slot in your collection. It would save so much space.

I opened around 35-40 packs and have only gotten 2 legendaries so far. But I have gotten a surprising 11 epics, two of which were golden. My legendaries were Firemancer Flurgl and Barak Kodobane, both of which were on my wish list. I also got this wonderful pack:

There is a similar bug for Rinling's Rifle. I think it is due to something going wrong when implementing the core set, which prevents those cards from being discovered and also prevents us from queuing into games with golden core cards.

Here is the updated version of my card. I didn't change it mechanically but I fixed up the wording.

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The main problem with this is that is is basically at the same power level as Big Game Hunter. It is better since it is cheaper and can hit multiple things, but it could also do nothing if your opponent doesn't attack your face. As for the art, would either of these work?

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For the fatigue warlock deck, I would include something to destroy your own minions so that you can trigger kenrethad or rustwix faster to more safely avoid fatigue damage.

This is my first idea. I am thinking about adding another effect like destroying enemy minions or restoring health to your hero so that the secret can have a more immediate impact when it is triggered. I am also not entirely sure if it is okay for me to use a non-collectible weapon, but using Libram of Justice doesn't feel the same flavor-wise. I should also probably change the wording to specify a 5/3 weapon with lifesteal, I will update that tomorrow.

(Grave Vengeance (and yes I see the typo and will fix that tomorrow as well))

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Though I do not doubt the power of murloc shaman, we do need to keep in mind that Underbelly Angler is leaving standard. This means that murloc shaman will have fewer cards, less recovery, and if they fail to snowball hard in the early game they will likely run out of steam and lose.