Hearthstone

New Keyword: Tradeable - Play the card like normal or swap it with a random one from your deck by paying 1 mana.

how does the swap work?

The card is put in the deck and a new one is drawn ? or is the card  destroyed ?

Omg, omg HYPED! Two hours from time of this post. Reveal time = best time

Poor Flux, who will get barely no sleep and has to deal with "i have zero bandwith"-online-station.net at the very beginning!

Anybody know if we will be able to get the Stormwind Tavern pass with gold?

Am I the only one who dislikes that T5 released these so early into the meta and has not bothered to update them, despite the fact most of them have been nerfed and do not see any competitive play? How many of them could you realistically keep a positive wr with anyways? It just seems kind of dishonest that these are being described as meta when only the paladin, priest, and warrior decks are.

My usual favorite has been The Thunder King since saying, "You serve well " followed by "Kneel before me!" has an awesome sexual undertone I hope my opponents pick up on during the many times I shout it in a game.

Lately it's been Annhylde. Her "Rise to meet your fate" threat is so perfect to spam the rest of the game when you have them at low life. The way she says it is just priceless.

Since some of you are very easily discouraged, I have cooked up a functioning Control Priest list that can hold the line against aggro decks and still play the long game. Use it. Learn it. And don't complain when you lose to Hunter because you failed to manage your ressources accordingly.

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It's not gonna be a tier 1 deck (as it shouldn't be anyways) but I'd be very surprised if you couldn't take this to Legend in the current meta (which I can't prove unfortunately because I'm already there).

Just play super safe into both Shaman and Demon Hunter and always except them to have the best cards in every situation because if you don't they will blindside you and you die.

I was playing some ranked just now and hit the next reward tier in Standard Ladder. As I was mindlessly clicking to progress the animations I thought something looked a little bit different about the rewards graphic. I went in to check and sure enough, the packs displayed for the month end reward look like they are going to be United in Stormwind card packs. I don't know if this was already noticed and announced, but it made some of my decisions a little easier. I was contemplating not logging in after July 31 until the expansion had launched to see if I could force it to be the new packs. Now I don't have to wait. I really think that is a nice move on Blizzard's part to make it so that we can get the new packs like that.

As an aside, I've also been saving my packs from the rewards track, tavern brawls, and Book of Heroes/Mercenaries to open with the new expansion. I've got 30+ of those to go as well.

Do we know when the expansion will be launched / reveal will start?

I don't remember hearing this anywhere so I'm curious if anyone knows.  When you use the tradeable effect does the card draw a random card and then shuffle into your deck, or is it placed on the bottom of the deck?  It doesn't really specify on the HS website either, just saying "Cards with the Tradeable keyword can be played like normal, or traded with a random card in your deck for the low price of 1 Mana.".  Thought that maybe it literally trades places with a card in your deck at random instead of shuffling, which if so could be interesting with Lorekeeper Polkelt in the game...  But likely not since I think the game doesn't predetermine deck order and just picks a card at random to be the card you draw (unless you've played Polkelt).

So has anyone seen a Twitter post, or some other clarification out there from a dev?  Since it doesn't specify that it goes to the bottom of the deck I'm going to assume it shuffles in, as the HS team's attitude on text the last 2-3 years has shifted to not always clarifying unless the effect does something different than expected.

Finding out the next pre-order hero skin will be Lady Katrana Prestor (aka Onyxia) for mage ended up being the straw that broke the camel's back, making me write a pretty salty comment about being annoyed it wasn't a rogue hero. Now, I'm the first to admit it is barely even a first world problem that the jpeg Blizz puts in a bundle isn't the one I wanted, and I wouldn't normally publicise my saltiness, so why did I care enough to do so this time?

There are a whole bunch of contributing factors that on their own wouldn't even be worth mentioning, but they nevertheless summed to one salty rogue main, so let's set them all out to see what really happened here.

* Note when I use the word 'devs' I don't mean the whole HS team, but only whoever has influence on the cosmetics.

An inexplicable imbalance

Anticipation for nothing

Wrapping up

So yes, it is the most minor thing that has no real impact when I'm actually playing the game. But I think my very last sentence contains the real heart of the problem: even if it is very unlikely Blizzard actually planned to screw rogue over with this, the fact it is beginning to look intentional is a real problem for players who have been waiting for a non-Valeera rogue hero for 4 years. It's eroding trust in the devs in a way that is just so silly and avoidable. And despite what it first looks like, it's not the frustrated rogue players who are being silly here because they actually have got the short end of the stick. No, it's the devs who could have simply commissioned a different bit of art at any time in those 4 years. No one would have been the slightest bit upset if Lady Prestor was Mathias Shaw instead, or if we never got Horseman Uther or Firefang Rexxar, so why keep avoiding rogue heroes?

The extension to this is that if we get a trio of Scabbs portraits in the Rewards Track, it won't really remedy the problem because it will look a lot like every class was going to get a trio of mercenary portraits this year anyway. You don't placate someone who's annoyed they have less than everyone else by giving everyone a treat.

So yeah, it is all a super minor psychological issue, but also so easily avoided that I'm still wagging a grumpy finger at Blizz and blaming them for needlessly creating it in the first place.

I just downloaded hsreplay deck tracker because I see you get nice charts such as in this deck: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/2086-legend-74-win-rate-tess-rogue.

But, I don't see any charts being generated on the mac version of the app. Does anyone know if there is some way to enable this or is it Windows only?

Hi all,

What is your estimate regarding the new HS expansion launch date (Now that we know they will announce it on July 1st)?

Thanks a lot for your shared thoughts :)

It's ridiculous. Two times in a row my Primordial Protector summons me 1/1's from a 5 cost spell. I follow this by playing the 4/10 taunt and of course it summons a posionous. Out of all the minions in the random pool of course I get the worst ones possible ALL DAY LONG. I swear to God this game is out for my sanity

My bombers are throwing pretty much every bomb my way. Even on an empty board where they have 3 minions, they'll find a way.

Game either draws all my high cost cards right at the start or gives me zero all game.

I watch a lot of arena streamers and one thing I notice is how lucky they get. Lucky drafts, opponents playing normal cards, normal curves, RNG always pans out in their favor. Then I play and become convinced the universe hates me.

At least I can rope and get my petty revenge on the ppl who get to enjoy normal luck. I wouldn't know what thats like

I'm talking about the standard/wild packs that are red in color. Is it worth picking up 10 packs of them since they will guarantee a legendary or is that not true for them?

Hi,

I need to find a Wild Dragon Priest with good card draw.  

Any ideas?

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to pick the community's brain on how y'all approach playing against DR DH as a Control or Midrange deck.  I find this match-up awkward to navigate and could use some help.

At first I tried to constantly keep the board clear, but my current strategy has been to ignore their summoning minions like Razorboar and Razorfen Beastmaster while playing my early small minions and going face. At the same time I save my removal for a bigger swing turn later.  My rationale has been:

1. I'd rather they kill off their own minions so that I can deal with the stuff they summon on the following turn instead of allowing them to attack with slightly larger threats
2. They don't usually run much healing so early dmg can help set up lethal later as even when you survive the initial waves of DR minions there's always Illidari Inquisitor lurking to kill you on Turn 8 and again on Turn 9 via N'Zoth

However, this obviously allows them to make favorable trades against my board early and it can be tough to clear everything later if they have taunts up from Renowned Performer/Death's Head Cultist or refill via Death Speaker Blackthorn.

Have you had success with a different strategy?  Or, if you play DR DH, what sorts of control/midrange strategies give you the most trouble?

Thanks!

Blizzard recently made old cardbacks and hero portraits available in the collection for those who missed out.  Does anyone know if these will be permanently available or will they be leaving the collection in the next patch if we do not buy them soon?

So its been two days now that I've experienced constant disconnects mid-game, usually around 5-8 minutes in (and almost always when Im in a good position to win). Coincidentally this is all happening a few days after being told that blizzard is moving towards this cross-region bollocks, which I'm fairly sure when implemented will break the game if not the servers.

Have anyone else been experiencing this? Its getting to the point that I might have to start switching to hyper aggro decks just so this bs doesn't keep losing me the game because Im forced to skip a turn from this constant irritation.

And no, I'm nearly 100% certain this has nothing to do with my machine or internet providers, because I'm still able to surf the net while this is happening, and I haven't recently made any new installations or updates that may screw with my system. Whenever I get disconnected, I would flip the battlenet interface on and can see that my account is 'connecting' and all their ads are missing, which is a sign that it might be something to do with their servers.

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