So I was playing Even Mage in wild, and trying the new cards... I had Ice Walker on the field and played Reckless Apprentice . In the end... No minion was frozen... Do you think this interaction should work? (Just on wording I think so)

All this game is now is hope you get better randomly than your opponent. It's gotten stupid. Blizzard sucks. Bring back Ben, when the game had some integrity and every match wasn't a crap shoot 

I was browsing thru my collection and noticed I've got 2 Old Murk-Eyes. I think I must have gotten the second one when I was reaping all the free achievement rewards just after patch 20.0 went live. Unfortunately, no 4 Parrots, not even 2, as I still don't have Captain Greenskin from the Classic set. I'm somewhat hesitant to dust one because I'm not really sure if Blizzard knows about this already and what they'll do when they're aware of their mistake.

Anyone else got extra copies? What did you do with them?

Now that Libran of Hope is the only 9 mana spell in standard, what happens if u play it at full cost vs OMY? (I don't have the card to test it)

Everytime I play Ring Toss on standard I got only 3 options the new secret Oasis Ally, Rigged Faire Game and Netherwind Portal, the second time I only got the options left, already played several times and still the same thing after this patch, anyone have seen the same bug?

Anybody else getting this message and not being able to play? I've tried on and off maybe 25 times over 4 hours and it just wont let me play. Never seen this before when an expansion lands.

As I was experiencing extended downtime in any playmode, I went through all the flavour texts and noticed that there are quite a few (I might even say more than usually) lyric-inspired puns. Actually, there are so many of them that I suspect me overlooking quite a few.

Given that I still can't start a single game, I'll just post my findings and appreachiate any additions:

• Sunscale Raptor - All Star, Smash Mouth
• Desperate Prayer - Living on a Prayer, Bon Jovi
• Tinyfin's Caravan - Movin' right along, Muppets
• Nofin Can Stop Us - Don't stop me now, Queen
• Blood Shard Bristleback - ??? This one has to be a lyric, right?
• Rancor - Can't help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley
• Kindling Elemental - Disco Inferno, The Trammps
• Lushwater Scout - Careless Whisper, George Michael & Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Taurajo Brave - ???, might be a reference
•  

Since no one did this yet, let me start!

111 packs bought with gold.

Completed the commons in 29, the rares in 56.

22 epics, one of which is golden.

9 legendaries, one of which is a golden Kazakus, Golem Shaper.

I'm very happy with the results, and I wish you were as lucky.

HSReplay posted the most popular lists for the first 2 hours of Forged in the Barrens. I wonder how much this is going to change over the next day.

Spell Mage - Forged in the Barrens Day 1

Wild · Unknown Mage · by Fluxflashor · 5 years ago

• 1 Brain Freeze x 2
• 1 Lab Partner x 2
• 1 Primordial Studies x 2
• 1 Wildfire x 2
• 2 Conjure Mana Biscuit x 2
• 2 Cram Session x 2
• 2 Imprisoned Phoenix x 2
• 2 Runed Orb x 2
• 3 Arcane Intellect x 2
• 3 Combustion x 1
• 4 Fireball x 2
• 4 Incanter's Flow x 2
• 4 Reckless Apprentice x 2
• 4 Varden Dawngrasp x 1
• 5 Ras Frostwhisper x 1
• 5 Refreshing Spring Water x 2
• 8 Mordresh Fire Eye x 1

7,160 Dust 793 0 Copy Deck Code

Control Priest - Forged in the Barrens Day 1

Wild · Control Priest · by Fluxflashor · 5 years ago

• 0 Raise Dead x 1
• 1 Draconic Studies x 2
• 1 Holy Smite x 1
• 1 Renew x 2
• 2 Insight x 2
• 2 Sethekk Veilweaver x 2
• 2 Shadow Word: Death x 1
• 2 Thrive in the Shadows x 2
• 2 Wandmaker x 2
• 3 Apotheosis x 1
• 3 Gift of Luminance x 1
• 3 Nazmani Bloodweaver x 1
• 3 Palm Reading x 2
• 4 Hysteria x 2
• 4 Void Flayer x 2
• 4 Xyrella x 1
• 5 Fortune Teller x 2
• 7 Soul Mirror x 1
• 8 Power Word: Fortitude x 2

5,360 Dust 1,104 0 Copy Deck Code

Rush Warrior - Forged in the Barrens Day 1

Wild · Rush Warrior · by Fluxflashor · 5 years ago

• 1 Athletic Studies x 2
• 1 Imprisoned Gan'arg x 2
• 1 Stage Dive x 2
• 2 Bumper Car x 2
• 2 Crabrider x 2
• 2 E.T.C., God of Metal x 1
• 2 Parade Leader x 2
• 3 Mankrik x 1
• 3 Playmaker x 2
• 3 Rokara x 1
• 4 Blademaster Samuro x 1
• 4 Kargath Bladefist x 1
• 4 Outrider's Axe x 2
• 4 Sword Eater x 2
• 5 Cutting Class x 2
• 5 Doctor Krastinov x 1
• 5 Mor'shan Elite x 2
• 5 Stonemaul Anchorman x 2

12,360 Dust 2,143 0 Copy Deck Code

Murloc Shaman - Forged in the Barrens Day 1

Wild · Murloc Shaman · by Fluxflashor · 5 years ago

• 0 Lightning Bloom x 2
• 0 Murloc Tinyfin x 2
• 1 Murloc Tidecaller x 2
• 1 Spawnpool Forager x 2
• 2 Cagematch Custodian x 1
• 2 Crabrider x 2
• 2 Lushwater Murcenary x 2
• 2 Lushwater Scout x 2
• 2 Murloc Tidehunter x 2
• 2 South Coast Chieftain x 2
• 3 Coldlight Seer x 2
• 3 Nofin Can Stop Us x 2
• 3 Voracious Reader x 2
• 3 Whack-A-Gnoll Hammer x 2
• 4 Felfin Navigator x 2
• 4 Firemancer Flurgl x 1

2,800 Dust 1,576 0 Copy Deck Code

Guardian Druid - Forged in the Barrens Day 1

Wild · Guardian Druid · by Fluxflashor · 5 years ago

• 0 Innervate x 2
• 0 Lightning Bloom x 2
• 1 Animated Broomstick x 2
• 2 Guess the Weight x 2
• 2 Wild Growth x 2
• 4 Overgrowth x 2
• 5 Lake Thresher x 2
• 5 Moonfang x 1
• 5 Taelan Fordring x 1
• 5 Twilight Runner x 2
• 7 Druid of the Plains x 2
• 7 Guardian Animals x 2
• 7 Strongman x 2
• 8 Primordial Protector x 2
• 9 Carnival Clown x 2
• 10 Survival of the Fittest x 2

7,000 Dust 975 0 Copy Deck Code

Hey fellow OOCians. The new Rewards Track has started, so it´s time to make a new progression thread. Thanks to NebuchadnezzarHS for making the first thread and for passing the torch towards me. I hope this one will be as useful as the first and ya´ll feel welcome and free to post your progress or thoughts on the new rewards track, whatever you like.

I know it´s quite soon into the new track, but some of you (me included) have stacked your precious Daily and Weekly quests, so you can share how much you jumped on the track if you´ve already finished them. Only one rule in this thread: please be nice to each other. Thank you and have fun! :)

Just got my packs opened eariler built some decks got the 2 Legendaries I wanted I didnt get for my decks.... and now It will NOT let me play standard mode... Classic, Wild yes but not Standard or Casual with a new Deck :(

Anyone else having this issue today

I get those Battlegrounds weeklys quite often (made a posting in the salt thread already). Because of that and the rerolls I have a single weekly quest open in the midweek quite often. Now I noticed that:

-if I've done the weekly "Win 5 ranked" and another weekly quest 

-and there is a single weekly quest in the left most slot

-and i than press reroll on that quest 

=> I get the ranked quest again!

Maybe a coincidence, but happend two times in a row. So i decided to make the thread, whether other users can confirm. By this way you could get a little bit XP extra, because it is 2,5K for the ranked vs. 1,75K for the others. 

Competition Theme: Even More Top Secret

This information is too precious to fall into enemy hands - so keep it hidden!

• You must create a Legendary Secret
  • That's it! No restrictions on these Secrets apart from only having one in your deck.

DestroyerR got this information to us, so now we should reward them by keeping it Secret!

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, Mar 29 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Apr 3 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Apr 3 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Apr 4 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Apr 4 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Apr 5 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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Me and a friend of mine called Spindan made a full review sheet for the expansion. We had pretty decent knowledge of HS and how the metas worked that we could be confident in ourselves. I'll post each class reviews/ratings and hope yall enjoy it.

Let's get the obvious one out of the way first,
Demon Hunter:
3/5

Pokeniner: Really interesting to see these Sigils cycle for DH. Might be something similar to Librams for Paladin. This could be the sign that control DH is getting more focus this year over Aggro. Sigil of Flame is a good addition to go with this. (Edit: Just recognized this is can be run in aggro to nullify any defense as Spindan commented)
Spindan: Ok, so apparently this may be HS' way to push control DH. That or it's a cycle. Compared to Mass Dispel it doesn't draw a card and the silence isn't instant, so we don't get a stupidly strong aggro DH tool. Ok. The main problem is of course the supposed downside. It only silences next turn, which means Deathrattle focused decks or handbuff deck, or any deck that doesn't rely on battlecries and pure stats get severely Loatheb'd for a turn. Rude. I'm not fond of this "I can set up a push for lethal next turn" due to the fact it can silence all taunt minions played next turn without any repercussions for you overall. Can't block a clear but you usually die to those anyway. It'll probably get into aggro anyway since 0 mana silence all enemies next turn. I expect it to at least be a 1 off of in many aggro DH decks for a bit.

4/5

Pokeniner: Replacement for Twin Slice. Will be run in every aggressive Demon Hunter. Despite what's given this expansion, Demon Hunter still has this large identity of aggression with its hero power and previous year.
Spindan: Less flexible than Twin Slice, but it can make up for it via the extreme niche of mana efficiency. I guess it can be used in the occasional OTK as well as standard aggro decks, but I don't see much use for it in wild while Twin Slice exists as is. Still, at least it's pretty balanced, I do like it. This card gives me CHORTLES!

3/5

Pokeniner: Sorry, good weapon, but I don't think Deathrattle DH will stick. It's got good tools, but it's just so weak compared to things like Soul. I'll wait for this archetype to grow, it's something pleasing from the sight of all the Aggro DH we've seen.
Spindan: 1 mana 1/2 weapon isn't much, but it does draw a DR goon which is good for setting up a DR deck. Isn't exactly synergistic with the legendary though along with Spirit. They may end up going into different decks.

3/5

Pokeniner: The Beastmaster has a Beast. Does that justify its namesake or flavor. Not at all, but now I see why. I really wish they just designed something different because its just an eye sore to look at. But it's a cool chain card. This > Razorfen > Death's/Berserker.
Spindan: I like that they're going for the Razorboar into Beastmaster, but just...Why print the same card but with all numbers changed by one? It's also a common as well. Wish we had something else like it generating boar-d presence. Ah well, it's still decent.

2/5

Pokeniner: Control Demon Hunter tool that probablt won't get supported well like in all the other expansions. Sigil of Silence is a good addition to go with this.
Spindan: Oh neat, a con- oh goddammit it's DH. Until we get some more relevant wincons, control DH may not be so plausible. And also non-outcast stuff. And some big lifesteal removal stuff. Could be ran in a big DH list, actually maybe? It does still disencourage your opponent from playing so a free turn to gain some mana is lovely. Not expecting it to see play though. Shame it's a neat card.

1/5 (This was before all the Deathrattle cards were revealed and we still hold strongly to this card. It also keeps this rating.)

Pokeniner: This is a Hunter card and Blizzard made a mistake. Change my mind. (When I say this, I mean that the flavor and design of this card screams Hunter rather than Demon Hunter)
Spindan: Due to my refusal to believe this is DH due to the fact there's like, no relevant DH minions with Deathrattle, I instead opt to rate this as a hunter card. Because it totally is one don't lie to me now. 3 mana 3/3 with Deathrattle spew out a bloated Python, Zixor, or even Educated Elekk. That's kinda decent. Pity we can't hit Teacher's Pet but hey, we should be thankful for that! Decent Hunter card, but I'd rather eat a worm than admit that it's an actual DH card. It's so out of nowhere to me.

2/5

Pokeniner: You know, I forgot this card existed as soon as I saw it. I even forgot to review it. That's how terrible it is. As stated by Spindan, its a worse Dreamway Guardians. I can tell they had to keep some Lifesteal cards alive for Demon Hunter but this ain't it. Demon Hunter has no board buffer and no real way to use these dudes except in Token Demon Hunter, which sucks.
Spindan: Remember Dreamway Guardians? Well how about them but mostly worse? The card IS better when unbuffed, but DH doesn't have much of a means to AoE buff, which means the card is overall weaker. I can see a DH highlander list slotting it in, but there's more relevant cards. If it was like Doubling Imp then it'd be fantastic with felosophy though! But as a spell, sub-par.

3/5

Pokeniner: Tool for Standard Demon Hunter to keep board in the coming meta, but won't be enough by itself.
Spindan: I like it, deal 3 damage to the enemies and tempo it? I think this is a fairly nice mid-rangey outcast. The better balanced 4 mana outcast-based DH leggie. Fuck you Altruis, this is MY alternative pick. Sorry Stelina, you could have been Warlock and I'd might have played you.

3/5

Pokeniner: 4 Mana 4/4 Draw 2? This is another Deathrattle support and looking at the archetype is strange. With the legendary you want them to stay in your deck. But with Razorfen, you want them in hand. I'm confuif their going to play something similar to Recruit Warrior, or something like Cubelock. Good draw, but I don't think it wil amount to much.
Spindan: The best way to support an archetype is with card draw, whatley knows it and so does Vengeful Spirit. A 4/4 for 4 that could draw a 5 mana DR is excellent tempo and you get another card for next turn. Decent synergy with Beastmaster but some anti-synergy with Blackthorn but hey, can't all be winners.

3/5

Pokeniner: So this is the big archetype build around. Overall, fairly good. Better than Oakheart imo. The only issue is that it won't see play because DH can do a lot more nuttier things before turn 7. Will be an off-meta deck, but won't be good enough.
Spindan: A 7 mana 3/6 that pulls 3 DR minions from your deck is interesting, it's a nice deckthinner as well as a way to create a board. The only "problem" I could see is well, what 5 mana deathrattles could DH run to enough of a tempo effect. I think it'd be possible for a deck using these to be made, but we'll have to see if we get some 5 mana DRs to use with this. I think it'll be played though.

I hope you enjoyed this starting pilot episode of P.S. Reviews. We've talked about doing this with the coming expansions, so I hope to do more of these for you guys to enjoy. If you want to look at the entire sheet before I post them all here, here's the link. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpWh4L5QpJ4fzVwBvRhWsJDSzlNQmvZsmvinOSk6oZ8/edit?usp=sharing

Hi guys. In anticipation of a new expansion, Azeroth's residents always try to identify the best and worst cards. Once again, we have combined community polls from Hearthstonetopdecks and OutOfCards into one list. Based on this data, we have determined the estimated power factor (%) for each card. After that, we divided all the cards into different categories according to a five-star rating. And as the icing on the cake, we've added the rating from a popular experts (TrumpSC and RegisKillbin).

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The Best Class Cards
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(Updated. added rating from Trump)

Hi guys,

does anyone know about this? I want to use the xp on the new reward track rather than the old one, but if it's lost, that would suck.

Thanks

As we know there are a lot of bugs in 20.0 patch. 

I''m currently tryn' to complete the Barrens achievements so I can collect the XP when the new Reward track launches. I have some 

• Priest - Heal 40 damage to heroes - I played a deck with lots of heals and healing minions. Eazy. 
• Priest - Start 5 turns with a full hand as priest - just create a slow control priest with removals and heals
• Shaman - Play Elementals 5 turns in a row - eazy, just play a lot of elementals
• Warrior - have 10 minions survive damage - eazy, just play and you will get that one
• Neutral - Swap 0 cost minion with 10 cost minion - I made a warlock deck with 3 minions (Wisp, Voljin and Ultrasaur and lots of draws) - got on first try

And I wanted to do the Druid - play 5 cards in one turn that cost 8 or more naturally. I made a wil deck with Ariana, Kun, Ysiel and some 10 cost minions and spells, played like 8 of these cards in one turn... and the game do not count them. Looks like it wants you to play Celestial Alignment specifically.

Have you encountered another achievment bugs or were you able to close other Barrens achievments early?

I noticed all of my decks suddenly say updated in the last 2 hours, and I checked and it’s the same thing with other accounts too, some accounts with 100s of decks suddenly show them all as being updated at different times in the 2 hours.  What is going on, is this supposed to be happening?

With the release of forged in the barrens coming soon I thought it would be a fun idea to try to guess what the name of the next two would be assuming the community is correct and it's an alliance themed expansion after and then something with both after that.

So first off is forged in the barrens. And for the alliance expansion, I am a main horde player since vanilla so I might be completely out of left field but maybe something with STV, hillsbrad, or even westfall? 

So we would have forged in the barrens, (maybe) Warriors of Westfall. And for the two combined, I hear a lot of people would guess it's the war between the two,but I think it would be the burning legion expansion. Where both groups would have to work together. That sounds more interesting to me at least.

And it would give demon hunter something to do in the expansion theme as well.

So maybe "Allied against the Legion" or something like that