March of the Legion

The schemes are set, the troops are rallied, and the "FOOLISH MORTALS" are tempted... The Legion is returning to Azeroth!

This time they've come prepared with 54 powerful class specific cards! (with more potentially on the way)

Each set provides new "DEMONICALLY ENHANCED" support for a specific class archetype that has previously been low tier or even un-played.

Author's Note

I'm still quite new to custom card creation, and this is both my first time attempting to make a cohesive set, and my first time publishing anything online. I had a lot of fun creating this, but I'm aware it could almost certainly use some tweaking, so I'd really appreciate constructive criticism!

With that in mind, this is what I'm calling a Booster Expansion, a small update to bring under-used deck archetypes into the Meta by giving them a Boost in the form of new niche class cards, so for each set I will recommend some existing cards that I would use alongside my supplement cards.

As one final aside before we get into the cards themselves, despite generally being a Wild player, I designed these cards with the Standard Format in mind, considering that I find that the Standard Meta is more open to new and emerging archetypes, and It was a lot easier in terms of balancing.

Thanks for reading! And without further ado...

But what's an invasion without invaders? 8 Demonic Commanders! (and uh... 1 very enthusiastic Troll?) Lead this army to it's glorious conquest.

Let's meet them now!

Warlock Cards

Archimonde, Lord of the Legion has set his Warlocks to initiate the invasion, shuffling portals into their decks to create an unending swarm of empowered Felhunters in the mid to late game, closing out the match. Paired with on draw effects, and re-shuffles, those puny mortals won't stand chance!

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Plot Twist, Augmented Elekk & Aranasi Broodmother
• Fel Lord Betrug & Dollmaster Dorian
• Portal Keeper & Portal Overfiend

Druid Cards

Xavius, first of the Satyrs forces his Druids to engage in sacrilege by cutting down the very trees they once protected in order to power their demonic forces in this altered style of Token Druid, add in more Treant generation, and Buff cards, for a unique spin on an old classic.

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• The Forest's Aid, Force of Nature, Soul of the Forest & Garden Gnome
• Dendrologist & Mulchmuncher
• Power of the Wild & Blessing of the Ancients

Hunter Cards

Hakkar tames monstrous beasts from the abyss, granting the weaker specimens to his Hunters to summon in smaller sizes in order to then set up for stronger minions, and swing turns later on, combine these with the newest Quest, and a few other powerful beasts, and burn your enemies to ash!

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Unseal the Vault
• Revenge of the Wild, Unleash the Hounds, Swarm of Locusts & Dire Frenzy
• Scavenging Hyena, Springpaw, Houndmaster & Halazzi, the Lynx

Mage Cards

Jaina was a Dreadlord spy all along! and even now, she and her Mages are still keeping secrets, their lies provide ample defence though, which could lead to a formidable control style secret deck alongside the anti-aggro secret tech added in the last expansion.

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Ice Barrier, Mirror Entity, Splitting Image, Counterspell, Spellbender & Vaporize
• Arcane Flakmage, Kirin Tor Mage, Ethereal Arcanist, Arcane Keysmith, Cloud Prince, Sunreaver Spy & Secretkeeper

Paladin Cards

Yrel, once a beacon of hope on her homeworld, now leads her broken band of Paladins by the Legion's whims, sapping power from Divine Shields, in order to create a strong midrange minion based deck taking advantage of one of the Paladin's oldest but most un-used mechanics.

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Hand of Protection, Righteousness & Pharaoh's Blessing
• Zilliax, Tirion Fordring, Annoy-o-Module, Sunwalker & Giggling Inventor
• Blood Knight

Priest Cards

Veneratus peered for too long into the void and lost his mind, now he leads a dark cult of Priests who turn light into shadow for the Legion, this deck legitimizes shadow Priest both as a value style deck summoning large minions without the drawback, and as a potential combo deck akin to old Mind Blast Priest.

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Circle of Healing, Regenerate & Radiance
• Squashling, Hench-Clan Shadequill & Prophet Velen

Rogue Cards

Gallywix is always looking to profit, and a Demon invasion is the perfect distraction for him and his Rogues to rob the citizenry of Azeroth blind! These cards in addition to other thief style pieces could create a solid while varying deck, being fun and competitive!

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Bazaar Burglary, Pilfer, Clever Disguise, Academic Espionage, Vendetta, Pick Pocket & Stolen Steel
• Underbelly Fence, Hench-Clan Burglar & Tess Greymane

Shaman Cards

Zan'do was banished from his tribe for his unorthodox methods, but the Legion has welcomed him with open arms, his Shamans can utilize Overload with ease, gaining more than they lose to make a competitive Mana cheating deck.

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Lightning Bolt, Feral Spirit, Lightning Storm, Rain of Toads & Lava Burst
• Unbound Elemental, Earth Elemental, Sandstorm Elemental & Sludge Slurper

Warrior Cards

Mannoroth is the taskmaster of the Legion's armies, his Warriors are pushed to their limit, their rage makes them stronger, and their pain is the path to victory in this self damaging enrage style control deck, making use of Taunts that if not killed in one hit, get stronger.

Some cards I would recommend for this deck include:

• Inner Rage, Improve Morale, Battle Rage, Rampage & Commanding Shout
• Redband Wasp, Cruel Taskmaster, Bloodsworn Mercenary & Frothing Berserker

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Post Script

Hey! If you made it all the way down here, I'd like to sincerely thank you for reading through the whole thing! Like I said up top, I really would love feedback, so if you have any notes at all, please do leave them below. I'll probably be checking this thread religiously for at least the next few days, sharing for the first time can be nerve wracking you know? Either way, I had fun doing this, so I suppose it's all worth it already, If I'm honest I rather like just looking at it's formatting, very pretty... unless it all messes up when I press "Create Thread", first time posting after all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bye!

I suppose the subject says it all, but I was really thrilled to see my first ever front page deck. I'm 40-15 with it and I think it's a lot of fun (if weak against Quest Shaman). Lemme know what you think!

Did anyone get any packs at all from watching the Twitch Grandmasters over the last weekend?

The few people I've spoken to haven't gotten anything.

Given that apparently 63,000 packs were meant to be given out during the most recent broadcast run, would have thought the odds were reasonably high enough to get at least a single pack.

This has been bugging me for five months. Seriously, what does she say when you play her? All I can hear is "Glen Beck". Not even the Hearthstone wiki knows.

Can we put our heads together and solve this?

ROGUE SECRETS (0 MANA)

"But Cheese! Rogue already has Secrets and they cost 2 mana, not 0!"

Yes, but I started making this series of secrets before K&C, therefore before actual Rogue secrets were released. I thought it makes much more sense for Rogue secrets to cost 0 mana rather than 0 because it fits the combo nature of the class better.

My Rogue secrets are mostly based around keeping tempo.

In addition, I remade Evasion and Cheat Death as 0 mana Rogue Secrets:

Unfortunately I couldn't find any 0 mana effect that would fit Sudden Betrayal.

WARRIOR SECRETS (1 MANA)

Like Paladin secrets, my Warriors secrets cost 1 mana. They are mostly defensive Secrets rather than tempo ones.

Yes, I know two of them are called Last Stand. I fucked up.

WARLOCK SECRETS (4 mana)

Warlock secrets are expension, this is why their effect is powerful and their trigger conditions restrictive to not be easily countered. Warlock secrets are control-oriented.

I tried to think about secrets for Druid; Shaman; and Priest, but they don't feel like secret classes at all.

I guess something with Overloaded Secrets could be strategically nice but sort of complicated UI-wise.

In WoW classes have several specs that focus on different thing. In Hearthstone our classes are an amalgamation of all the specs from wow. Priest has both shadow spells and holy spells. What if we had specs in hearthstone too?

The simplest way to achieve this is new hero powers. Each class would have 3 powers that they can select for a deck. Here are some examples:

Mage:

• Fire: our current Fireblast hero power;
• Frost: "Freeze a minion."
• Arcane: "Gain Spell Damage +1 this turn.

Priest:

• Holy: our current Heal
• Discipline: "Deal 1 damage to a minion. Restore 1 Health to your hero."
• Shadow: Deal 2 damage to a minion.

These are just (probably unbalanced) examples but think of the diversity this could add to the game. There could also be cards that do different things based on which specialization your class has.

I recently got into wild but i would like to know what the strongest decks are in wild. I heard it might be secret/tempo mage but i could be wrong

Hi y'all, here's this idea I had for how alternate Hero Powers could be introduced without making them broken like Genn and Baku were:

The alternate Hero Powers would be along the same power level as the basic Hero Powers, but they would allow for different synergies, like the Hero Powers in the Dalaran Heist. I think this version of the effect is the most balanced, since like quests it takes up a card in your opening hand, and it can only start effecting the game starting on turn 4, which makes it not feel as consistent as Genn and Baku. Also, if it ended up being too good, its stats could easily be reduced to a 3/2 or even a 1/1, making alternate Hero Power decks have an awful early game. What do y'all think? Would this be a healthy way to introduce alternate Hero Powers or would it also end up being too powerful?

Dalaran Heist gave us the possibility to choose a hero power for our class. Why not bring this to the PvP part of the game?

Here's how I imagine it: Hero powers would become collectible just like other cards. HOWEVER they would not be considered cards properly speaking because they would have a specific slot for them in each deck list. All 9 existing hero powers would be part of the basic set. Then, from time to time, Blizz could give us collectible hero powers as the second class legendary slot for each class, kinda like Quests right now.

Non-basic Hero Powers wouldn't need to have the restrictions of basic ones. They could be passive; have a cost different from 2; have an effect with keywords in them and that is more specific than the basic hero powers which were designed to be versatile; etc... It would also be the occasion to give ping hero powers to classes that don't have one but desparately need one (hi Priest and Warlock).

Blizzard already has part of the code done for that since it's done in Heist. Pain Split and Touch of Bark, for instance, both look like good candicates. On the other hand, Cut-less and The Pact aren't due to the tempo they generate.

or am i the only stupid who does that. 

i mean, druids and mechs... c'mon... :D

I know there has been a little discussion some other threads, but I haven’t seen a dedicated thread about this. This isn’t a salt thread, more of a place for discussion. 

Secret Burn Mage is really out of control in wild. I feel the only way you can beat them is to get lucky that they drew horribly. 

Has anyone found a deck that consistently beats them. Teching in secret tech to every deck doesn’t help, there has to be a deck out there that is actually a hard counter to this deck.

More than half of my matches at rank 5 in wild are burn mage. It’s really getting old and I would like to start putting them in their place. I just played 5 matches, of which 4 were burn mage. 

Hey random Q: got a friend request; assuming salt incoming but I honestly find it funny so always accept, but I couldn't accept this person's request because they "had too many friends". My question is: if someone tries to accept your request but can't for that reason, does Bnet alert you in any way since players can't send messages to non-friends to let them know hey your friend pool is full? 

Parthenon 11553 on North America server, I want to be your friend - or laugh at your salt, as the case may be :(

Here are a few breakdowns on the new quests:

There are three quests that allow for zero flexibility in building:

Paladin: great reward, good deck, fun deck, but there's only one way to use this quest. Play all of the reborns and add mech deathrattles. There are really no other versions out there. And since they rarely re-use keywords, we might not get other reborns in the future to make the options more interesting.

Warlock: this deck was already built the moment the quest was printed. Plot twist is the only way. Unlike Paladin, though, this one doesn't really work. Also unlike Paladin, however, there is room for future development.

Druid: quest Druid is strong and may be fun, but there is no room for variety. Every quest Druid game plays out the same way. Leave mana for 4 turns, start playing the same bunch of choose ones. Even with more choose one options in the future, this deck is more or less set in stone. There's no way to aggro it, since you have to float mana early. 

The other decks work/don't work to varying degree, but they all allow some flexibility in style. You can aim for aggro, midrange, or control with most of them. Priest can only be control, but there are various approaches. Shaman is the ultimate example of flexibility. There are 1,000 battlecry minions in the game, so you have nearly infinitely many combos to play around with. 

There are 4 quests that can regularly, easily be completed very early in the game: Shaman, Druid, Paladin, and Rogue. Warrior can sometimes be completed early. Warlock, Hunter, Mage, and Priest all necessarily take a while.  

There are 3 quests that are in meta decks - Shaman, Paladin, and Druid.

Shaman in the only quest that is flexible, easy to complete, and good. Some of the other quests check of 2 of the 3 boxes.

What quests have the most potential in future expansions?

Shaman will always be good.

Warlock needs more plot twist synergies.

Hunter has an amazing collection of cards right now and still can't get the quest to work. It's probably not ever happening.

Rogue can complete easily with quality cards, but the reward is weird. The immunity doesn't matter much for aggro, and the damage is too low for control. Rogue would need more weapon synergy cards for this to work.

Mage has tons of cheap spells already. Maybe the reward just isn't worth it.

Warrior...who knows? It's a fine reward, but there aren't ways to build weapon centered Warrior decks right now. It's not fast enough for aggro, and for control, you'd rather have Dr Boom's hero power.

Paladin will probably be exactly as good as it is right now unless they add some variety in reborn minions.

Priest has plenty of potential to improve. Any control support will help this quest.

Druid will probably be exactly as good as it is right now unless they add something ridiculous in the choose one options.

I'm trash at this game (hardstuck rank 10 if you must know) so perhaps this is obvious, but please bear with me.

Dinotamer Brann reads "If your deck has no duplicates, summon King Krush. My question is, why is Highlander Hunter so strong if there are literally only 2 cards that benefit from it? I understand that [Hearthstone Card (Zephrys) Not Found] is insanely good, but is the combination of it's and Brann's value so good that it's worth running only single copies of cards? Or is there some other reason as to why the deck works so well consistently? Is a 2 mana discounted King Krush plus [Hearthstone Card (Zephrys) Not Found] enough to warrant cutting half your deck?

Hi, 

Is there an incentive (beyond unique content) for finishing all 5 tavern brawl bosses this week? 

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I didn't see a "Hearthstone bugs" thread to post this in. 

My problem is this: I was playing a game this morning, on the NA server, when suddenly a disconnect happened, the screen turned black, then the "Reconnecting to your game" message popped up. And then - nothing happened.

After a minute or so I restarted the client on my phone, to be greeted with the same message when the loading screen disappeared, again, black background. I switched to a different network and restarted, still the same. I restarted my phone, to no avail.

I waited until the phone screen turned off, then woke it to find an "unable to connect to your game message" with an unclickable "ok", restarted again to again see the "Reconnecting" message. It's been like that for over an hour now. 

I tried to post in the Blizzard support forum, but don't have my authenticator on me (still on an old device, never migrated it), so I couldn't log in. 

Does anyone have any ideas? 

thanks in advance! 

Just what the title says. I've been playing the quest a fair bit, as well as matching against it, and it seems to me like turn 1 quest and coin is worth doing. Sure, you've "wasted" the coin, but you get a quick tick on your quest. Has anyone collected data or have a strong feeling about whether this move is good?

Hello all - yeah it's a long shot and Fireside Gatherings exist, but I'm curious if there are any Denver players out there who might want to meet up and play? I always enjoyed sitting across from my friends, laptop vs laptop, and having a drink and yelling at my bad hand, etc.... We've all moved on to our respective jobs across the country and playing online, in the confines of my home, isn't nearly as fun. 

Anyway, any takers? 

**nice proof reading on that title /sigh **

Haven't been playing Wild for a while. Tried out the "Greener Choice" deck (which is great BTW), and this happened:

My opponent played Linecracker, 2x BEEEES!!! into it, then 2x Earthen Scales. 2591 armor yay!

But hey, I still won :P My Jade dudes were at least 5-6 steps ahead, so I hung on to the board and slammed his face in so many times, while he was chipping away 3 damage at a time with Malfurion the Pestilent. It was such a long game I was scared it would be called a draw.

Anyways GG to my opponent, it was a pretty intense marathon!

Hi guys,

I know it's mayorly early to speculate about the next expansion theme, but when i was reading the funnies on the cardbacks it said on the new raven one: "could it have been Medihv all along?". Which made me think, would it be that simple? 

As Khadgar (wielder of Medihv's staff) already made an appearance it would be logic to think that Medihv actually will make an appearance again in the next expansion as the "mysterious prophet" and with a theme related to the lore below?

As it states in lore: "He was slain shortly after by his apprentice, Khadgar and his childhood friend, Lothar.

Shortly before the beginning of the Third War, Medivh returned as a mysterious prophet, manipulating events in order to arrange the formation of a last-ditch alliance between the mortal races on Kalimdor, guiding them to victory at the Battle of Mount Hyjal.

He was slain shortly after by his apprentice, Khadgar and his childhood friend, Lothar.

Shortly before the beginning of the Third War, Medivh returned as a mysterious prophet, manipulating events in order to arrange the formation of a last-ditch alliance between the mortal races on Kalimdor, guiding them to victory at the Battle of Mount Hyjal."

What do you guys think?

Note: in the event that I missed anything on the forum and this was actually discussed, I actually read alot of the cards but not alot of forum stuff)