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Hey all,

I've been playing around with a handbuff Paladin deck in wild, using some of the token generators from the latest set to maximise value from the handbuff package previously available. So far I'm at rank 7, and climbing (if somewhat slowly) but most importantly, I'm having a ton of fun with it. From the pause of confusion when you play one of the many cards no other deck on the ladder plays, to the suprise of dropping a buffed Sergeant Sally after a Spiritsinger Umbra, this deck has produced fun gameplay, while not being completely awful.

I figured I'd post it here to get some feedback and opinions, as well as letting anyone interested try it out as well.

I Like Big (hand) Buffs (and I cannot lie)

Wild · Handbuff Paladin · by shaveyou · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 1 Brazen Zealot x 2
• 1 Crystology x 2
• 1 Meanstreet Marshal x 2
• 1 Smuggler's Run x 2
• 2 Grimestreet Outfitter x 2
• 2 Sandwasp Queen x 2
• 3 Infested Goblin x 2
• 3 Magic Carpet x 2
• 3 Ravencaller x 2
• 3 Salhet's Pride x 2
• 3 Sergeant Sally x 1
• 4 Arena Fanatic x 2
• 5 Barista Lynchen x 1
• 5 Blessed Champion x 1
• 5 Glowstone Technician x 2
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Fight Promoter x 1

10,500 Dust 2,188 3 Copy Deck Code

If you all browse the sub-reddit on a regular basis I'm sure you've seen numerous posts where people are asking, begging, pleading for new game modes/formats. Funny thing is, they just shout them at the devs without any explanation as to what they really want and never get down to the nitty gritty of what they're actually asking for. Since we just had WoW classic launch and some card nerfs I think it would be a good time to elaborate on some ideas that I think could potentially be implemented into the game without much change to how the game itself functions.

The way these formats are structured is that the higher on the list the format is, the more deck restrictions that exist. The further down, more deck freedom.

The Formats are:
Grandmaster
Standard
Tables
Pyramid
Brawl Block
Wild


Grandmaster:
-The most strict format, it is designed for the players who are at the absolute top of HS.

-Uses Standard cards

-Ranks 50-1 do not exist.

-You must play 25 matches before getting your placement number, then you proceed to climbing like you would the regular ladder.
--Pretty much placement matches to see where you are in relation to the other players you face.
--The number will change while you are offline.
---You beat opponents A and B but lost to opponent C. Opponent C beats opponents A and B while you were offline and climbs higher than you.
---Prevents people from just sitting at a rank.

-This format exists so Team 5 can selectively remove cards from the format in case of them being over powered. See Dr. Boom, Mad Genius, Conjurer's Calling, and Luna's Pocket Galaxy.
--Team 5 can also selectively ban cards that just simply see too much play.
--Team 5 can also ban cards that cause an OTK, or an overpowered combo that can't be played against.

-As to whether or not this format grants eligibility for Blizzard events/tournaments should be considered. I would like for this to be the replacement for the current Standard Tournament format we have now.


Standard:
-Should be left unchanged and left the way players are familiar with.

-If the Grandmaster format is implemented, the Standard format will most likely never be used for tournaments. 


Tables:
-Play with sets during a Standard year.

-Classic and Basic sets will be legal at all tables.

-Playing at the Kraken Table means that you are playing cards that were Standard legal in the Year of the Kraken.
--So on and so forth with every other year.
--"Launch year" will be used for the table that has Naxx, GVG, BRM, TGT, and LOE

-Undecided if this should rotate monthly or have all Tables present all year long.

-Table doesn't exist until the standard year has ended.

-Obviously shouldn't have a tournament presence.

-Legend Ranks within those Tables.


Pyramid:
-Undecided if Wild cards should be used for this format.

-Restarts at the Standard rotation every year.

-At the end of every month, the top %10 of cards included into decks (not win percentage based) are banned.

-Beginning of the year and when expansions release are very unbalanced but should level out within 1-2 months after.
-New cards are only added when the mode resets at the start of the standard year.

-Possible for fun tournament setting for Blizzard to host similar to The Wild Open.

-Has Legend Rank. 


Brawl Block:
-If you've played the Brawl you know what I'm talking about, if you haven't go look it up really quick.

-Rotates monthly.

-Has Legend Rank.

-Tournaments unlikely, due to monthly rotation.

Wild:
-Yep, It's Wild.


These formats wouldn't require too much work for Blizzard to do and I think it would be healthy not only for the players being able to play their old cards, but for Team 5 to sell old packs sounds like a win-win.

If you have anything else to add don't hesitate.

Edit 10NOV: Bonus 7th format made by this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3q4lss8mWE&list=LLxAejYPRSehTkS2VzxbXn9A&index=2&t=42s

Here’s 22 Highkeeper Ra’s summoned across all 9 classes!

I hope you’ll give it a watch!

Thanks!

When the nerfs hit I was able to craft Dinotamer Brann and I built a highlander hunter. I homebrewed the following list:

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I am still working on improving the list and I would appreciate your advice! 

thanks to everyone who gave me feedback! the deck is working out a lot better now than it was before. I appreciate it!

So I've gotten quite bored with the recent meta with the decks I had so I wanna craft something new, fun and viable.

I've come down to either Quest Wall Priest or Quest Druid, both seems really fun and quite strong after the recent nerfs.

Which one should I go with?

... 3 weeks from today. Probably about 10:00 AM PST (as usual) I checked the graphic about 8:30 this morning and again at 10:30. At 10:30 it said 3 weeks.

So, it looks like September 27 at 10:00 AM.

I bet we get an announcement today. Just speculation but it would seem right.

Good Hunting!

Mountain Giant and Frost Giant can get quite cheap in Even Mage thanks to Archmage Arugal, Book of Specters, and Garrison Commander.  Piloted Shredder, Piloted Sky Golem, and Khartut Defender are also pretty good with Conjurer's Calling, especially if you also use Khadgar! You can go from just having one Piloted Mech or Khartut to a full board of 6 or 4 drops and 4 or 2 drops!

It's nice for Even Mage to have a real win condition now that isn't just controlling the board with your Hero Power and Fallen Hero/Ice Walker/Spirit of the Dragonhawk, although these cards do a pretty good job of stalling till you can do a strong CC turn.

Even After Nerfs...

Wild · Even Mage · by Watermelon86 · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 2 Archmage Arugal x 1
• 2 Book of Specters x 2
• 2 Fallen Hero x 2
• 2 Garrison Commander x 2
• 2 Ice Walker x 2
• 2 Khadgar x 1
• 2 Snowchugger x 1
• 2 Spirit of the Dragonhawk x 1
• 3 Conjurer's Calling x 2
• 4 Goblin Blastmage x 1
• 4 Piloted Shredder x 2
• 4 Sandbinder x 2
• 6 Coldarra Drake x 1
• 6 Genn Greymane x 1
• 6 Khartut Defender x 2
• 6 Piloted Sky Golem x 1
• 6 Sylvanas Windrunner x 1
• 10 Frost Giant x 2
• 10 N'Zoth, the Corruptor x 1
• 12 Mountain Giant x 2

13,920 Dust 5,840 8 Copy Deck Code

Edit: I updated the list  !

I took out Chef Nomi and Tending Tauren.

Put in a second Nourish and im trying a Dreampetal Florist because we go the Maly Route now :) 

Edit: Updated the list a little bit! 

I took out the Dreampetal Florist because so far it was not needed nor performing good for me - and i put in a King Phaoris - let's see how it goes!

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Hi there

I wanted to try my Own Quest Druid build :

SoU - Quest Druid w/Maly

Wild · Malygos Druid · by FieselFitz · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 0 Moonfire x 2
• 1 Untapped Potential x 1
• 1 Worthy Expedition x 2
• 2 Crystal Merchant x 2
• 2 Keeper Stalladris x 1
• 2 Wrath x 2
• 3 BEEEES!!! x 2
• 3 Ferocious Howl x 2
• 3 Swipe x 2
• 4 Flobbidinous Floop x 1
• 4 Mark of the Loa x 1
• 5 Anubisath Defender x 2
• 5 Elise the Enlightened x 1
• 5 Nourish x 2
• 5 Oasis Surger x 2
• 5 Starfall x 2
• 6 Hidden Oasis x 1
• 9 Malygos x 1
• 10 King Phaoris x 1

12,200 Dust 1,397 0 Copy Deck Code

Right now there are 2 win cons - Malygos and Chef Nomi - you either shoot your Opponent down using Maly and Moonfires (or swipe) normal or with duplicates or you draw your Deck and try to win with Chef Nomi! If you played Elise at the right time you can Slam Nomi down twice :)

I also thought about including more Heavy Spells and King Phaoris but that seemed way to inconsistent. Well right now the list is not even that consistant. It´s doing decent and so far i'm standing 5-3.

I do not have Cards like Wardruid Loti or Cenarius - that's why they are not in there :)

What do you Guys think? should i focus on only one Win Condition or could this deck work ?

Seems pretty bizarre that once priest finally got a non dragon/non SS actual aggro(ish) deck that it gets nerfed while in the past paladin/warlock/warrior got to use aggressive strategies for significantly longer before ever getting nerfs (and even then some of those classes did not always get deck crippling nerfs for their respective decks in some of their respective metas).

I got it in a card pack but I’m a little conflicted if I should dust it or not. On one hand I don’t really play paladin and since it’s golden I could theoretically get the normal one in a pack as well. On the other hand it’s my first ever golden legendary from a card pack. If I were to dust it however are there any neutral/hunter legendaries I could craft? I don’t want any highlander cards as they are very meta-reliant and I feel would limit me in subsequent expansions. 

For reference I already have: Leeroy Jenkins, Boommaster Flark, Zilliax, Zuljin and Cairne Bloodhoof. 

With the recent nerf patch, here comes an opportunity for anyone who was around One Night in Karazhan era and claimed at least The Prologue, but havent bought the rest of the adventure yet, to jump on a great deal! If you buy first and second wing to get to Barnes, you can "buy" dust with gold at a premium rate at almost half its normal cost this way (compared to avg dust per pack).

If you want a simple explanation, think about it this way, you pay 1400 gold for a legendary (and a half) of your choice. Not a bad deal if you ask me.

Also, if you dont own any part of the adventure yet, the only option to get it is to use real money and buy the entire adventure - and you get an even sweeter deal for it! See calculation below.

Note: You must have reached at least rank 25 in Ranked Play to be able to open the adventure.

1st Wing: The Parlor (620 dust)

• 1x Moroes (400)
• 2x Ivory Knight (40)
• 2x Maelstrom Portal (40)
• 2x Protect the King! (40)
• 2x Silverware Golem (40)
• 2x Arcane Anomaly (10)
• 2x Arcanosmith (10)
• 2x Cloaked Huntress (10)
• 2x Deadly Fork (10)
• 2x Pantry Spider (10)
• 2x [Hearthstone Card (Priest of the Fiest) Not Found] (10)

2nd Wing: The Opera (1940 dust)

• 1x Barnes (1600) <<<
• 2x Arcane Giant (200)
• 2x Moat Lurker (40)
• 2x Onyx Bishop (40)
• 2x Kara Kazham! (10)
• 2x Kindly Grandmother (10)
• 2x Pompous Thespian (10)
• 2x Silvermoon Portal (10)
• 2x Swashburglar (10)
• 2x Wicked Witchdoctor (10)

Calculation

Buy 1st and 2nd wing with gold

• Dust total = 2560
• Cost in gold = 1400
• Avg dust per 100 gold = ~183
• Avg dust per 1 pack (source) = ~100

Buy entire adventure for $20 (equivalent of '15 pack bundle')

• Dust total = 4150 (2950 + 1200)
• Cost in gold = 1500
• Avg dust per 100 gold = ~272
• Avg dust per 1 pack = ~100

And if you decide to keep any of the cards, the dust gain increases that much more. Only downside is, you have to play out the adventure to get the card rewards, but is that really a downside? The adventure is quite good!

edit: After some calculations, if i am right, you can actually get almost three times your money worth of the dust value, if you buy with real money. Damn. Everyone who can should probably buy this lol!

The time has come! We have extra dust from DE nerfs! What, if any, cards are you going to craft with your nerf dust?

I'm not jumping the gun to craft anything as I'm not desperate for anything in particular. But when I do craft, it will probably be the following just to round off my collection, or give me some fun cards to toy with.

1. Frost Lich Jaina
2. Tess Greymane
3. Undecided, could be any of the following
   1. Brightwing
   2. Yogg-Saron, Hope's End
   3. Aluneth
   4. Armagedillo
   5. Dr. Boom
   6. Face Collector
   7. Old Murk-Eye

I'm getting sick of smorc, aggro and hunters decks. I go to wild, see (then crush) another boring-ass Odd Paladin.

The Hearthstone Gods decide to bless me with watching someone else for a pack of cards for the daily quest, so yeah, let's take a break and maybe there's something different ...

Friend of mine is using bomb hunter vs. a homebrew control paladin (Lay on Hands seen). I start rooting for the other guy, who rallies back with a buffed Crystalsmith Kangor and has bombtard hunter quit.

Another friend is in hunter vs. hunter and I'm rooting for server crash. Friend somehow loses to secret hunter before he can get his Zul'jin buffed twinspell beast factory up and running. Yawn.

Am I the only one logging in spectator mode and then rooting against the friend? Seriously, do you ever log into a friend's game and then go, "Your deck sucks, I'm rooting for the other guy now."

Just me or quest shaman super strong ? control warrior still worth playing with dr 9 to counter or is there another control deck out there ?

hee i though the nerfs shoudl hit at 7 pm CET but stil nothing is it even happening today

Hey Guys, i play Hearthstone since Beta and i wanted the opinion from the community on this topic since i cant remember a official statement from blizzard.

Does anybody else feel like if they are about to  jump from one rank to another ( rank 3 5 stars , so a win would lift you up a rank f.e.)

you automatically get matched against your worst matchup ? Horrible starthand , etc...

to sum it up - everything that can go wrong WILL go wrong ? including internet breakdown although you are connected to your wlan.

No salt over here just wondering if anybody else feels the same :)

I actually was refining though this week and what I realized is that following 3 cards aren't really good:

Neferset Thrasher - he gave my opponents more lethal then he gave me

Magic Carpet - seems to be just relic of the past and isn't all that good in current meta

Scarab Egg - well those 1/1s are literally not really good not to mention clogging the board.

I actually came up with my own homebrew variant which is somewhat different from lists on hsreplay (by at least 6 cards), I don't claim it to be the most refined, but it is pretty good and carried me to legend. I suppose it has some clanky cards like I'm not so sure about Sea giant, maybe knife juggler would be better in that place, especially now that Mage is getting nerfed. But here is my approach. Any thoughts on best Zoo tech choices?

Lackey zoo warlock, with good cards

Wild · Zoolock · by Trimutius · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 1 Crystallizer x 2
• 1 Flame Imp x 2
• 1 Grim Rally x 2
• 1 Mecharoo x 2
• 1 Sinister Deal x 2
• 1 The Soularium x 1
• 1 Voidwalker x 2
• 2 Dire Wolf Alpha x 2
• 2 EVIL Cable Rat x 2
• 2 EVIL Genius x 2
• 2 Serpent Egg x 2
• 3 EVIL Recruiter x 2
• 3 SN1P-SN4P x 1
• 4 Diseased Vulture x 2
• 5 Dark Pharaoh Tekahn x 1
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 10 Sea Giant x 2

9,640 Dust 7,215 8 Copy Deck Code

We can all more or less agree that  new quests didn't really shake up meta, another thing is whether it was their purpose or they were rather designed for "fun".

Regarding this matter, I want to know your opinion on the possibility of future buffs of quests or maybe they will be buffed indirectly by adding some support cards? If there was some feedback from game devs on this topic feel free to share it, I might have missed it :)

So I decided to make this thread since it can turn out to be pretty interesting. What are in your opinion unique decks of this game? I have few decks that just make me happy and satisfied when I play them because of their playstyle. Do you have any yours?

Anyfin Paladin

I just love this deck. Hear me out. Something which started as one of the first Control decks with Combo finishers is now by definition Aggro Combo deck with Control tools. The closest deck to this definiton was something Combo Control like prenerfed Patron Warrior. And the flavour is pretty neat too and summarizes Blizzards Paladin class identity pretty well. It has hordes of Murlocs,2 Giants, High Priest and Sunkeeper Tarim with DK Uther or Holy Ragnaros sprinkled on top.

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Reno decks

I know I know. Pretty generic inclusion but I still love the singleton decks. Because how they play out. Each game feels different and it has one of my most favourite legendaries attached to them from design and unque flavour perspective. You name it. Zephrys truly is great,Reno is amazing and something like Kazakus which literally lets you build your own spell are all amazing effects.

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Singleplayerwock

In 10% works every time. Hah. Seriously though. The abbility to just pull out the complete lockdown of your opponents cards,board and damage is extremely satisfying. Im glad those types of decks are not meta picks xD

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Odd Rogue

It might surprise someone. Such an Odd inclusion indeed. However I always enjoyed Tempo Rogue playstyle since the beggining and Odd Rogue is pure perfection of a Tempo Deck. You make use of your mana every turn. You punish your opponent for playing badly consistently and you have some buffs,heals, pressuring force etc. Really enjoyable deck if you like to play tempo decks.

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Anyfin Can Happen Paladin

Wild · Unknown Paladin · by FirePaladinHS · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 1 Righteous Protector x 2
• 2 Bluegill Warrior x 2
• 2 Dirty Rat x 2
• 2 Loot Hoarder x 2
• 2 Shielded Minibot x 2
• 2 Wild Pyromancer x 2
• 3 Divine Favor x 2
• 3 High Priest Thekal x 1
• 3 Murloc Warleader x 2
• 3 Muster for Battle x 2
• 4 Call to Arms x 2
• 4 Old Murk-Eye x 1
• 5 Shrink Ray x 2
• 6 Sunkeeper Tarim x 1
• 9 Uther of the Ebon Blade x 1
• 10 Anyfin Can Happen x 2
• 20 Molten Giant x 2

10,840 Dust 971 0 Copy Deck Code

Legendary Reno DK Mage

Wild · Reno Mage · by FirePaladinHS · 4 years, 1 month ago

• 1 Armor Vendor x 1
• 1 Devolving Missiles x 1
• 2 Arcanologist x 1
• 2 Book of Specters x 1
• 2 Dirty Rat x 1
• 2 Doomsayer x 1
• 2 Explosive Sheep x 1
• 2 Ignite x 1
• 2 Mad Scientist x 1
• 2 Starscryer x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Brann Bronzebeard x 1
• 3 Flame Ward x 1
• 3 Frost Nova x 1
• 3 Ice Block x 1
• 3 Potion of Polymorph x 1
• 3 Zola the Gorgon x 1
• 4 Fire Sale x 1
• 4 Kazakus x 1
• 4 Varden Dawngrasp x 1
• 5 Barista Lynchen x 1
• 5 Keywarden Ivory x 1
• 5 Loatheb x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Reno Jackson x 1
• 6 Reno the Relicologist x 1
• 7 Deep Freeze x 1
• 7 Mutanus the Devourer x 1
• 8 Jepetto Joybuzz x 1
• 9 Frost Lich Jaina x 1

25,340 Dust 24,585 34 Copy Deck Code

Legendary Reno Warrior in Saviours of Uldum

Wild · Highlander Warrior · by FirePaladinHS · 6 years, 7 months ago

• 1 Execute x 1
• 1 Shield Slam x 1
• 1 Whirlwind x 1
• 2 Battle Rage x 1
• 2 Dead Man's Hand x 1
• 2 Dirty Rat x 1
• 2 Doomsayer x 1
• 2 Shield Block x 1
• 2 Sleep with the Fishes x 1
• 2 Warpath x 1
• 2 Weapons Project x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Brann Bronzebeard x 1
• 3 Coldlight Oracle x 1
• 3 Ravaging Ghoul x 1
• 4 Piloted Shredder x 1
• 4 Restless Mummy x 1
• 4 Witchwood Piper x 1
• 5 Brawl x 1
• 5 Emperor Thaurissan x 1
• 5 Plague of Wrath x 1
• 5 Sludge Belcher x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Khartut Defender x 1
• 6 Reno Jackson x 1
• 6 Skulking Geist x 1
• 6 Sylvanas Windrunner x 1
• 7 Dr. Boom, Mad Genius x 1
• 7 Sneed's Old Shredder x 1
• 10 N'Zoth, the Corruptor x 1

17,940 Dust 2,763 2 Copy Deck Code

Solitaire Renowock

Wild · Shudderwock Shaman · by FirePaladinHS · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Evolve x 1
• 1 Glacial Shard x 1
• 1 Saronite Taskmaster x 1
• 2 Ancestral Knowledge x 1
• 2 Brrrloc x 1
• 2 Devolve x 1
• 2 Doomsayer x 1
• 2 Echoing Ooze x 1
• 2 Maelstrom Portal x 1
• 2 Murmuring Elemental x 1
• 2 Plated Beetle x 1
• 3 Acolyte of Pain x 1
• 3 Brann Bronzebeard x 1
• 3 Dancing Swords x 1
• 3 Elemental Destruction x 1
• 3 Far Sight x 1
• 3 Gluttonous Ooze x 1
• 3 Healing Rain x 1
• 3 Hex x 1
• 3 Lightning Storm x 1
• 3 Mana Tide Totem x 1
• 3 Zola the Gorgon x 1
• 4 Witchwood Piper x 1
• 5 Doppelgangster x 1
• 5 Hagatha's Scheme x 1
• 5 Loatheb x 1
• 6 Grumble, Worldshaker x 1
• 6 Reno Jackson x 1
• 8 Da Undatakah x 1
• 9 Shudderwock x 1

14,420 Dust 1,034 0 Copy Deck Code

Odd Rogue

Wild · Odd Rogue · by FirePaladinHS · 6 years, 9 months ago

• 1 Buccaneer x 2
• 1 Deadly Poison x 2
• 1 Patches the Pirate x 1
• 1 Pharaoh Cat x 2
• 1 Southsea Deckhand x 2
• 1 Swashburglar x 2
• 2 Fan of Knives x 1
• 3 EVIL Miscreant x 2
• 3 Hench-Clan Thug x 2
• 3 Magic Carpet x 2
• 4 Dark Iron Skulker x 2
• 5 Fungalmancer x 2
• 5 Leeroy Jenkins x 1
• 5 Loatheb x 1
• 5 Myra's Unstable Element x 1
• 5 Vilespine Slayer x 2
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 7 Dr. Boom x 1
• 9 Baku the Mooneater x 1

13,560 Dust 1,021 0 Copy Deck Code

And what decks are unique for you dear reader? Is it Kingsbane Rogue which has unique build around playstyle or is it something else? Let me hear your thoughts ^^

Time to have some fun!!