Hearthstone

I don't know about all of you, but I have been sincerely missing the decks that were created and posted to help the community take out the achievements with the newest expansions.  Ever since I started playing TCGs in my teens with MTG, I have never been the best at creating decks.  I could pilot them well enough but the custom decks I made that were fun, let alone competitive, were few and far between. 

I looked forward to the "community" decks and walkthroughs that people were able to create to help other players get through the achievements for the rewards, and have fun exploring the possibilities with the new cards and tactics.  I know that with the exodus of key people here at Out of Cards left a hole where this was happening more on the regular... but I think that we can start putting these back together and posting them on the site. 

With that being said, has anyone had success at creating decks to help kill off some of these achievements?  I have created a few, but nothing I would say is dominating or competitive, or even getting "two birds with one stone" anymore.  The closest I have is a Shaman Totem deck I made where I included Pack the House as an E.T.C., Band Manager side board and included Melomania to "refill" my hand after dropping a bunch of low cost totems/minions.  Be damned if I can find a way to put Saxophone Soloist in there with any efficacy.

I did use Ghost Writer in most of my decks since it, in my opinion, is one of the best cards in the set.  But once I got the achievement I traded it out for another card.  What are you all playing to get these achievements done?

There wasn’t an article so I figured I’d drop a post here.  Don’t have all the details (sorry) but playhearthstone.com should.

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What would you say is the rarest card in your collection. (metric: The least players own it)

For me it's most likely Golden Captain's Parrot. :D

There are so many bad legendaries I still have golden ones off, but I think the Parrot can't be earned anymore (I wish I had ETC or Gelbin :/)

IFF it should be atainable again it's most likely golden Sherazin, Corpse Flower or golden Zerek, Master Cloner

Just a reminder to everyone, prime gaming does have 3 standard packs available this time.

details here !

https://esports.gg/news/hearthstone/hearthstone-twitch-drops-active-this-weekend-with-solarys-festival-of-legends-celebration/

The title to debate. With recent patch allowing us to spend gold into golden packs, a new opportunity has arisen. There are some points I would like to point out:

• Normal Pack: Costs 100g, at least nets you 1x20+4x5=40 dust from a pack.
• Golden Pack: Costs 400g, at least nets you 1x100+4x50=300 dust from a pack.

Therefore, spending a golden pack rewards you more with dust than 4 normal packs ever could. However, there is also the legendary timer to consider. I know that buying first 10 normal packs guarantee you to get a legendary but beyond that, I don't know the math. Same goes for golden pack legendary timer, what are the odds?

One can also play Arena and/or Duels, provided you're really good at it. Yet, does it really compensate for buying golden packs?

In short, what should be the best option for a regular player? Spending gold on:

• Normal Packs?
• Golden Packs?
• Arena/Duels?

I look forward to hear your thoughts on this matter. Thanks for reading and I wish you everyone have a great day.

I checked the live player count on playercount.com and it said 167,866 (Yes I know it means people currently online) and it said only 18% of that was American server players. I calculated 18% of 167,866 and it was just over 30,200. That is not a lot.  and a lot of those numbers are bots so its not completely accurate.

I've played like 10 games in a row of bots no real players. Actual bots all the same type of name, they instantly play their cards every time and make bad plays its easy to tell when its an AI. 

I don't wanna pay for an overpriced bundle for a game if half my matches will be against bots. Are the real players only in diamond? 

Does getting reported make you play against bots?

I don't know why im seeing only bots right now. 

EDIT: Thanks for some input, screw you for downvoting such threads. Found a new deck I enjoyed playing and reached legend for the first time!

I'm seriously considering quiting HS...

... And I've been playing since Open Beta

... Have a 100% Collection

... Am not an on/off but better/worse player (Never reached legend, but enjoyed the climb in several expansions, peaking at rank 1 5 stars :P)

... have all the original classes at 1k+ wins / DH 500+

If this gets any traction, I'll explain my personal concerns, but I would REALLY like to hear some new/positive/encouraging views on why one (I) should continue playing

it's really sad to see the lack of interest for Hearthstone ...

This is just my opinion secretly living on this site for a couple years. Also just a disclaimer that I'm not complaining about these issues, just highlighting them and my concern as I really want to see this site succeed as the place to go for all Hearthstone news.

Here are some rough concerns I've recently noticed but I can definitely understand real life gets in the way at times.

• The current Tavern Brawl is showing as closed at the time of writing
• The new expansion announcement of the announcement was hidden in this buddies update but neither have been covered at the time of writing
• Since Avalon's departure, I've sorely missed the Achievement guides and duels meta updates (these things happen though so it's understandable)
• In general I've felt the number of HS articles have declined to a point where the main page shows more Marvel Snap articles than HS 😓

I can totally understand things get in the way of this awesome site. Just hope things pick up and maybe we get more staff to add some more guides/meta updates etc.

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As the title says:

What are interactions that are counterintuitive or borderline understandable but you'd be happy to have known beforehand?

I just stole an Undying Disciple with Sylvanas, the Accused while having 6 minions on board, well knowing that the minion would die. Yet I was surprised that it died on the enemies side, hence nuking my board. (Instead of triggering on my side as it should have been "my" minion and the DR only affects enemy minions)

[You could also reframe this as bugs you should know about]

I am finally happy enough to publish my favorite deck that I have been playing exclusively for a year now. It is a more effective Thief Rogue that can be pretty difficult to learn but once you do, you will never have more enjoyable games. Happy to hear any suggestions as well!

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/43506-the-only-constructed-deck-worth-playing

If your opponent is about to pull off the Rivendare, Warrider combo, let them do it! I mean, sure, if they were a bad sport, spamming emotes or unnecessarily delaying the kill, then feel free to concede. But I'm trying to get the achievement, and people keep conceding literally seconds before I can do it. Just let me have this!

A set of new achievements popped up with the miniset.
Avalon, we miss your guides ! :)

I haven´t seen it mentioned anywhere, and I´d miss it too, if I didn´t casually check the in-game shop, so I thought I might post about it. If it was, I´m sorry. They´re the 4 Hero skins from the Lunar New Year event from 2 years ago and you can buy the skins for 1000 gold, except for Valeera, she is for 1500 with cardback.

I feel bad for the players, but could we please get the original Jaina portret back now?

will there be a round of nerf today? If not, when?

what about miniset announcement ?

Shouldn't be time for an announcement of the announcement?

From Reddit:

Hey everyone! I'm Aleco, the Final Design Lead on Hearthstone.

I know a lot of you have been asking about Standard balance changes. We're putting together a pretty big patch for ~1 week from now. In all honesty, I wish we could have shipped this patch a little sooner. The holiday break pushed our patch schedule, but the meta doesn't take a holiday, so I empathize with players who feel like this patch is coming late. Though I can't promise anything right now, we're chatting as a team about if we can adjust our patch cadence next holiday break. Hope you all enjoy the upcoming patch!

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/10fnmvh/standard_balance_patch_timing/

With 2022 coming to a close, I wanted to compile a nice presentation for every alternate hero skin. Alternate heroes are something I'm strangely passionate about, despite how inundated we are with them now and the fact that I don't even play Hearthstone anymore.

This is a visual list of every alternate hero skin organized by release order, as well as the year they were released. To qualify, the hero has to be a different character than the base hero, and only one character per portrait is counted. That's also including the two that are in the game but not currently obtainable.

EDIT: Apparently Whitemane and Mal'ganis are currently purchasable. My bad. Like I said, I'm not playing the game.