Hearthstone

Introducing Taran Zhu, the Tactician

(Complete card set up to Ashes of Outland)

From the mists of Pandaria comes Taran Zhu, master of the Shado-Pan and expert strategist. Although trained as a monk, his strategies focus on leading and empowering his army to victory. Strength in numbers is his philosophy, as is giving strength to his numbers through minion buffs.

Class Strengths:	Class Weaknesses:
Numbers: Tacticians can use a variety of cards to build a large board. Strength in numbers indeed. Buffs: Through spells and the new Tactic keyword, Tacticians can build their minions up with strength and Taunts for the coming fight. New interactions: Tacticians see the value of their cards and have powers related to card rarity, positioning, and the new Shado-Pan Agent token.	No hero healing or weapons: Tacticians rely on their minions to execute their battle plans. Minimal board clear: Besides a few spells meant for single target removal, the only path to a clear board is through smart trades. Small minions: Tacticians need to stay wary of large board clear spells and be ready to deploy reinforcements when needed.
	New Keyword: Tactic A good Tactician should select his army to match the traits they desire. Minions with "Tactic (X):" will grant bonuses to any minions on the board that fit the tactic. Tactic minions work as an Aura but give permanent buffs instead of temporary, and can focus on stats, Mana cost, Keywords, tribes, or card rarity.
Upgraded Hero Power: Extra Strength The Tactician gains an extra buff from their hero power, but have to utilize proper minion placement to reap the benefits.	Cosmetic Heroes Genn Greymane was available as part of the Witchwood Mega-Bundle, while Lord Taran is Tactician's 1,000 win portrait.

Card Sets:

Basic

The Basic set sets the tone for the class with cards focused on minions, positioning, and Shado-Pan Agents; as well as introducing Tactics and card rarity.

Classic

The classic set expands on the mechanic introduced in Basic, with more Tactic minions and rarity interactions. The Jade Serpent Yu'lon serves as our legendary, providing a build-around where less valuable minions can become strong and prove themselves on the battlefield.

Tokens:

Curse of Naxxramas

Goblins vs. Gnomes

Blackrock Mountain

The Grand Tournament

The League of Explorers

Whispers of the Old Gods

One Night in Karazhan

Mean Streets of Gadgetzan

Journey to Un'Goro

Knights of the Frozen Throne

Kobolds and Catacombs

The Witchwood

The Boomsday Project

Rastakhan's Rumble

Rise of Shadows

Saviors of Uldum

Descent of Dragons

Galakrond's Awakening

Ashes of Outland

Battlegrounds

Solo Content:

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Icecrown "Your minions abandon you, Tactician! They know my victory is inevitable." In the Tactician's fight against the Lich King, he will steal your minions every turn. Players have to build a board fast and make sure not to give Arthas anything he can take advantage of.
Dungeon Run Taran Zhu is heading into the dungeons! Make your way through the 8 bosses and claim your treasure! Link to Tactician card buckets and starter deck
Rumble Run Let's get ready to RUUUMBLEEEEE! When Rikkar joins the Tacticians and Team Torga, he gets access to three Shrines: Paralyzing Relic will shock opposing minions away from fighting, Torga's Shell will provide a defensive boost, and Torga's Summons will return dead minions to your hand (from both sides). Along with the six Tactician Teammates (which you can find here), Tacticians will show Gurubashi Arena who's boss! Link to Teammate cards, card buckets, and starter decks
Dalaran Heist Tactician Hero (Abby-Ration) "So, 'Abby'. Maloriak tells me you're his brightest aberration yet. That's not saying much coming from someone not much brighter than an aberration, but let's see if you have what it takes." In the Dalaran Heist, Tacticians can control Abby-Ration, an new aberration with dreams of ruling Blackrock (or whatever Nefarian allows her to rule. Maybe she can rule the Grim Guzzler). In addition to the normal Strengthen hero power, Abby has access to two new ones. Summon 10 minions to unlock New Friends, and play 15 spells to unlock Random Rune. Link to card buckets and starter decks
The Dalaran Heist Chapter 6 - Skies of Dalaran "While those bozos put their little plan into action, we need to make sure no reinforcements get through to the city." While the Dalaran portals have been shut down, Nefarian still has to prevent help from flying in. Use a floating island for fending off the intruders but be warned - They aren't that stable. Too many minions on the board will destroy all of them, so avoid building too big of a board (or use it to your advantage and destroy your enemies). Fight against Dalaran heroes and heroes from past adventures to make sure the League of E.V.I.L. can win! Link to adventure guide and boss listings
Fire FEST-E.V.I.L. (Blackrock Crash) Nefarian's going home, and he's NOT happy. Play through the Blackrock Crash as Victor Nefarius and show this loser league how to properly take over Blackrock Mountain! "Hey, you lousy rat! STAY AWAY FROM MY STUFF!" For Round 6, Nefarian has to protect his lab from the other league members who see it as free loot. The other classes fight dragon Nefarian as normal, but Nefarian fights against a variation of the King Togwaggle fight from the Dungeon Run. He no take lab equipment. Link to card buckets and starter deck
Tombs of Terror Chapter 5 - The Pit of Scales "Elise, I've fought a lot of crocolisks in my days. But I ain't never seen a crocolisk flyin' or breathin' fire before!" The Pit of Scales, home of the crocolisks. At least until Obsidus took control and converted it into his personal rookery. Help the League of Explorers defeat the Plague Lord of Scales and restore order to Uldum! This wing's twist summons you an Eternal Drake, a Dragon that give you a Dragon when it dies and passes it's Deathrattle on to it. Use them to your advantage as you take on Obsidus! Link to adventure and boss guide

FAQ:

Q: How does Tactic work exactly?

A: Tactic works as an Aura, but unlike aura effects Tactic enchantments are permanent buffs instead of temporary. It works on both minions already on the board when played and minions played after the Tactic minion is on the board.

When you play a minion with the Tactic keyword, it checks to see if minions on the board fit the criteria specified on itself. If there are any minions that fit, the Tactic minion enchants them. Afterwards, any time your board changes it checks again. If it notices any minions on the board that fit the Tactic and have not been enchanted yet, it enchants them. The enchantments are permanent, so if the Tactic minion is destroyed the minions buffed retain their buffs (unlike a normal Aura effect).

Q: What about "upgraded rarity"?

A: Cards that allow you to upgrade a rarity will give you a card of the next rarity in the ranking (minions transformed into upgraded rarities will stay the same Cost). Think of Evolve, but with rarity instead of Cost. The ranking goes

Basic -> Common -> Rare -> Epic -> Legendary

Legendaries cannot be upgraded. It's like trying to evolve a Mountain Giant: it will be unaffected. And if there are no Legendary spells in Standard, upgraded spells can't go past Epic.

Credits:

Cards made with Hearthcards using the Demon Hunter class skin

Art found on Blizz-Art and Artstation (and occasionally Google Images)

Thanks to sinti, Neoguli, Doomer22, MalcolmReynolds, and Demonxz95 for balance input

Artwork credits can be found in my Imgur albums for each set

Basic, Classic, Adventures, GvG, TGT, Old Gods, Gadgetzan, Un'Goro, KotFT, Kobolds, Witchwood, Boomsday, Rastakhan, Shadows, Uldum, Dragons, Outland,

Changelog:

Thank you for reading, let me know what you think and what I can improve!

I've started building a Beast Zoolock deck around History Buff, Untamed Beastmaster and for the meme of it: Hir'eek, the Bat.

Faring well with it in Casual, but I'm looking for ideas to improve it in ladder matches (rank 5 and up).

Feel free to test and comment! :)

EDIT: One of the main problems is Control Warrior, but frankly speaking there aren't many zoo options to improve that matchup, so I chose to ignore it.

Both PC and Amazon (Android) versions just patched for me. But I can't find any patch notes or notice anything different.

Does anyone have information on what is updated or changed?

I just got a golden High Inquisitor Whitemane from this week's tavern brawl. I had completely forgotten that this was added to Classic.

Does anyone know how it interacts with reborn minions? I wonder if this new mechanic would make Whitemane more playable.

These three cards in particular enable some fun deathrattle abusing shenanigans.  Giving your cheap deathrattles like Dead Ringer reborn lets you complete the quest really easily and double up on the deathrattle effects without relying entirely on Twilight's Call!  Wretched Reclaimer is basically Terrorscale Stalker for priest, but even better since it puts more copies of the deathrattle minion in your rez pool for Twilight's Call and Psychopomp, you can use it on a Reborn deathrattle like Grandmummy to summon 2 copies of the minion (and you can even use it on the non-reborn half of Grandmummy to bring it back with Reborn again.) and you can use it on 1/1 copies from Mirage Caller and Twilight's Call!

I had quite a bit of laughs memeing around with a SMOrc Quest Priest yesterday that just kills the opponent by summoning obscene amounts of Leper Gnomes and Kobold Sandtroopers even if the deck auto-losses to any kind of healing or armor gain.

A midrange build with stuff like Nerubian Egg and Carnivorous Cube was doing much better for me with a similar level of fun too.

Even though Awaken the Makers normally promotes a control playstyle, it kinda works quite well for a midrange deck since you can complete the quest really fast and just use Amara, Warden of Hope as a 5 mana 8/8 Taunt for some big tempo and maybe cube it later.

I got an email from Blizzard trying to entice me to dust off my classic character in WoW by instantly leveling it up to 100. Which, may work for most, but for me not so much.  I'd rather live in the nostalgia of when I was in my 20's drinking beer, raiding like BWL/AQ crazy. Then I got another email about the classic only server getting ready to open up. I almost took the hook, but then I realized I am married with 4 kids, and I couldn't delicate the endless grinding hours for it. haha

Those email did bring me to a crossroads in my brain. I was stuck thinking about the endless hours of vanilla, and my 7 - 10 minute Hearthstone matches I try to squeeze in when I can.

I started to wonder what good expansions they could bring to Hearthstone from the vanilla days.

Here are my top 3:

First one that came to me was Dire Maul for some reason. An Orge Expansion would be fun, could also tie in to the ruined night elf city.

Second  was Darkmoon Faire. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been done yet. That place was always fascinating to me. Travelling band of gypsies peddling their wares.

Third would be an Alterac Valley type of deal. That place was a crazy pvp. Totally fluid, and a pvp holyland. I remember epic battles outside of Tarren Mill which isn't to far from the zone for pvp queue as well.

Welcome to this originally mildly salty thread, turned into a productive one!

I thought it was pretty fun to mention here all the obvious whiffs of Zephrys the Great, specifing the game context as precisely as possible.

REMINDER: zephrys the great calculates solutions based exclusively on PUBLIC elements. He does not know the identity of your cards or secrets, nor those of the opponent, but he can see that they are there and their number, plus health, weapons, board.

Let's gather enough data to improve his code!

Here i start:

(10) mana as Valeera the Hollow, with Eviscerate at hand, against Wild Secret Mage, with 2 secrets up (including ice block) and 1hp left:

i play Zephrys TWICE in the same turn, and in neither case did he offer me the SI:7 Infiltrator or Flare that could give me lethal.

Only 3 redundant options: Eviscerate, Fireball, Swipe. Twice.

Do you guys remember the the "Welcome to Uldum" quest for logging in when the expansion released? It rewarded us 3 packs from SoU. And we were promised 3 more through 2 quests named "Onward into Uldum". One of those rewarded us 2 packs and the other one - 1. We still haven't gotten them... So the requirements for the quests are "Play the Tavern Brawl" and "Win the Tavern Brawl". So i presume we will get them today when the Tavern is out...? Any opinions?

Hey friends,

I got my 9 year old daughter into Hearthstone, and she really enjoys it. She gets more out of opening packs and building decks than actually playing, but she has fun. She plays pretty rarely, so I don't want to put real money into her account. I build her decks with her and help her play, and we can barely win any games, even at Rank 21. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a viable deck for someone with a very limited collection. We're not aiming for legend here, just to be able win enough games for quest completion and having some fun. She has SN1P-SN4P and Vargoth, obviously, plus Zilliax, Kalecgos, Dr. Boom, Velen, Brightwing, and the new Shaman and Rogue quests. Not too many quality epics, etc. 

Thanks!

I was curious about the probably of burgling class cards with some out of the box card generators and I just thought I would share it. I am not stating the power of these cards rather just throwing some data out there. All numbers are rounded to the nearest percent. Also this is as of Saviors of Uldum Standard.

Pharaoh Cat Has a 35% to give a non-rogue class card.

Violet Haze Has a 58% to give 1 card and 12% for 2.

Jar Dealer Has a 37% for a class card.

Ravencaller Has a 60% to give 1 card and 14% for 2.

Tanglefur Mystic Has a 36% for a card.

Swamp Dragon Egg Has a 37% for a card.

Fishflinger Has a 29% for a card

Weaponized Piñata Has a 54% to give a card

Lastly Face Collector 

Played 1 time is a 54% for a card

Played 2 times is an 80% for a card 29% for 2

Played 3 times is a 90% for a card and 16% to get all 3 as class cards.

for reference: Shieldbreaker most people's opinion about the card back in rastakan that the card is great, but aggro plays Prince Keleseth.

them is essentially old owl in the current meta most minions you want to silence are taunts, and warrior now runs the taunt package which means their taunts are buffed also every deck runs Zilliax.

do you think them is worth inclusion in zoo/aggro warrior/murloc pally?

this is hard..
the new quests are crazy

How to get The Feat of Strength Achievement ?

Registered for an account on HearthStation.  (HearthStation  = Out Of  Card?)

Participated in the Out of Cards Uldum Essentials quest with the League of Explorers. ( HOW?) any link?

Title says it all. Have a look at this deck, then feel free to tell me how to improve because I think it can be optimized better with your valuable feedback:

So, what to do?

Hi there, 

A mate of mine is currently at level 25 and has had an account for a few months now. They havn't received the free SOU legendary quest or the SOU quest - this is meant to be given on login within the first 90 days of the expansion release. 

Does anybody know if he needs to hit a level e.g. 20 before receiving this?

A bit before the release of SoU we got a very nice article discussing each classes strengths and weaknesses.

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/148-keeping-hearthstone-unique-class-identity-breakdown

I'd like your opinion on what was said and what we got.

I personally mostly play hunter and from what I saw most of the hunter cards supports what the article said

Hyena Alpha fits both beast and secret synergies,

Swarm of Locusts just as Unleash the Hounds fits the beast synergies

The odd ones are Wild Bloodstinger (which is still a beast) and  the quest ,Unseal the Vault which, unlike the previous one that went with hunter's affinity with one drops, doesn't seem to fit at all...

Hunters are not known to swarm, don't usually wait for 20 minions to be summoned before killing the opponent and rarely has a board of tokens that sticks (it's usually 1/1s)

Now if it looked like Dinomancy and said  "give your beasts +x/+x " (I leave the figures, costs and details to pros of balance)  I would love it

Right now it seems Mech hunter will still rule supreme even though the class has nothing to do with mechs.

Greetings!

I love warlock. Some of my favorite effects involve discarding other cards. There are various types of discarding cards but I want to ask about Expired Merchant.

( I am making a huge assumption that Shriek or Reckless Diretroll basically work the same way except for targeting the highest card in hand, Shriek and Reckless Diretroll target the lowest.)

Here is my Scenario: 

I have Expired Merchant in hand along with Cruel Dinomancer and Reno Jackson. Assuming no other card is greater than 5 mana in hand which card will be chosen? Is this random? Is the card that is Alphabetical first/last? Does it target the cards from left to right or right to left. Does it choose the card based on which card set came first? Is there any rhyme or reason once two cards are of the same mana level in hand? Do I have to play Reno to order to guarantee that Cruel Dinomancer is selected?

Is this mechanical process the same when dealing with discarding your lowest and highest cost cards?

Thank you for your time!

Just curious if there are any decks in SoU that you thought were going to be good (or maybe just playable?) before launch that you've experimented with and they were just trash?

I got High Priest Amet so figured i'd give a Boar OTK deck a whirl since it seemed reasonable as a win condition in any otherwise decent Control Priest capacity. Ladies and Gentleman, it is NOT. 2-8 record, and the two wins didn't come from the OTK but just general win against other Control decks. I only got close to the OTK once, but they had two taunts up and I only had oneSilence so no go.

At least I learned my lesson after RR where I crafted a LOT to try and make Dragon Warrior work to no avail so I didn't craft anything on this but still...I get that a 7-card combo isn't the easiest to pull off but dang I didn't think the deck would be THAT bad. 

I don't know if Blizz planned this ahead but the classes that got twinspells now received highlander cards allowing for highlander decks to be made. Twinspells work fantastic with highlander as they are basically 2 spells in one.

Hi there - i kinda liked the idea to try to build a Highlander Deck in a Class that usually does not play this - so here is my Theorycraft:

Not sure how this will do, but im gonna try this a little and see how it does :) 

Little Guide (Gameplan and a small explanation) is on the Deck Page - will update the Guide as soon as i've tried this a few times.

Any suggestions or ideas?