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The nerfs were only two days ago, but I can't disenchant Guardian Animals for 400 dust. Have I missed something?

Guys this has to stop. Why in the freaking world do people need to contemplate which one they want this long or get up to stuff more junk food in their face while innocent folks like me have to suffer this wait, like every other game?

i know it will never stop, but at least for the BG players on this website, can we make a vow to make ours picks quickly?

nevermind.  I thought I could get something of a BG community going, but there seems to be zero interest.  Good luck.

I have been having this idea for a while now, and i finally sat down and put it on paper, so-to-speak.

Fury warrior! 

Basically it would look like this(ignore my lazy edit on the weapon background and yes i know they're in class colors now), Basically what would happen is on this card:

Or something similar, it would turn your hero power into an extra weapon slot. The first weapon you equip would be normal, but the second weapon, would not override the first weapon like it normally would, instead it would rest on your hero power, making it unusable but giving you the power of two weapons at once(you would still get one attack a turn like normal), just like in WoW, if you want to dual wield you have to throw away a shield. For instance.

Let's say you have a 3/1 Fiery War Axe equipped, and you attacked with it last turn, this turn you drew your second Fiery War Axe, you would attack for six, and after attacking the fiery war axe in the left spot would break like normal, and it would shift the newly equipped axe into your main hand. Same would happen if your opponent used an ooze against you, it would only break the weapon in the "main hand"

Just thought I'd share for those that have not seen yet.

Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/update-on-scholar-jaina-and-horseman-uther/42044

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We wanted to update everyone regarding our new hero skins, particularly Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther. We are planning to add unique voice lines, start of game voice lines, and a couple other special voice lines to both Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther in a future patch. We’ve taken feedback on board regarding emotes for those and upcoming hero skins. The next skin, which will be released shortly, has new emotes for all 6 regular board interactions and a few other commonly played lines as well. There will be hero skins in the next expansions associated with their corresponding Book of Heroes chapters that will not have unique lines at launch, but we plan to add them as soon as VO recording allows. Stay tuned for updates here.

Adding context as to how we got here: We started out with the idea of adding skins for our classic heroes that allowed us to get more options for visual customization into the hands of our players at a much quicker than normal pace. We’re confident in the idea behind these skins and they’re already seeing a lot of use within the game. However, we missed here on painting a clear picture of the difference between these skins and the alternate heroes we’ve done in the past, that include all sorts of unique audio and visual effects. That’s something we should have gotten across better and want to ensure that we address in the future.

The Arcane Arcade

Whizbang the Wonderful has worked with people all over Dalaran to set up a video game arcade, and everyone's coming to its grand opening! Get your quarters ready, and earn high-scores alongside famous faces like Ragnaros, Medivh, Voone, Luna and Lynessa! Try out some of your favourite games (how many references can you spot?)

Each class will be playing one different genre:

Demon Hunter - Platformers
Druid - Survival Games
Hunter - Firstperson Shooters
Mage - Rhythm Games
Paladin - RPGs
Priest - Puzzle Games
Rogue - Stealth Games
Shaman - Tower Defense
Warlock - Horror Games
Warrior - Fighting Games

Streak - Casts again next turn if you did something this turn. (Note: This includes the Streak effect itself, so you can keep chaining them!)

Demon Hunter

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Competition Theme: Manual Of Monsters

It's time to invite some more of our favourite races to the party - who needs boring old humans?

• You must create a card which features a Tortollan, Tuskarr, Saurok, Vulpera and/or Furbolg in its art.
  • To be clear - at least one of these species must be present. Use your best judgement on the art - if it's Turtley enough it'll probably count as a Tortollan, for example.

Sinth has us off to the races this week as we scramble to include some of the lesser-used peoples of Warcraft.

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, Sep 28 17:40 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Oct 3 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Oct 3 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Oct 4 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Oct 4 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Oct 5 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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👏TAVERN REVIEW 👏

Alright, it looks like Elementals are a strange hybrid of both Pirates and Murlocs, it meshes the economy aspect of pirates and the board-buffing aspect of Murlocs, but does not really excel at either of them. However besides big stats, I don’t really see Elementals being able to compete with the Divine Shields and massive stats of dragons or being able to beat Amalgadon, the most played strategy right now. Unless it ends up being a very strong midrange strategy, I can see it potentially flopping. I’m not going to look into the individual cards, but most of them show a lot of promise, especially since their discover/draw effects are very targeted and low tiered.

Heroes:

Ragnaros: 3/5

Could potentially be very strong, actually! You can activate this hero power by turns 5-6 and this is a massive power spike as you just get so much free stats over the course of the game. However, seeing how fast the meta is at the moment, it could be a problem of “too little, too late” as you are forced to go without a hero power for so many turns. I am optimistic for this hero, especially since there are so many tokens that your opponents will be running. Not amazing probably, but has potential.

Chenvaala: 2/5

I am not very sold on this hero. He has crazy highroll potential provided you receive elementals. I will not write him off as of course, power-leveling is the meta right now, and if done correctly, can allow you to really pop off. However, he seems rather inconsistent and relies on the elemental tribe which I believe will not be that good. I suspect you will just use his hero power to quickly switch off elementals into Amalgadon or a Beast build and try to win from there. Very skeptical overall due to how inconsistent the strat is as you will probably die before you can really pop off.

Rakanishu: 1/5

Hero power is way too slow and at 2 gold is not even worth it. Edwin is much better in that sense, and even he is struggling right now.

Al’akir: 4/5

We have established that free stuff is awesome! This is very similar to the Lich King’s hero power and just buffs your dude for free. It can allow you to survive the early game easily (which we established was a problem) and reach those late game builds much safer. I would say he has the most potential to succeed among the heroes shown here is Rag or Chenvaala don’t blow my expectations out of the water. However, the hero power can also prove to be a hinderance in certain situations, but they are rare and few. You have Divine Shield to survive a first hit and Windfury to ensure the minion will always get its swings in.

So after our beloved lady Jaina, who do you think will be next hero to tell their story? I´ve heard some rumours it will be Hunter - some say it was spoiled by Blizzard themselves in some promotional video. Have any of you heard/saw something regard this?

I´m interested in your thoughts, which hero you´d guess is the next? Or which one you´d love to see/get?

For me, obviously as a Hunter main, I´d love to see Rexxar´s story the most.

Thanks for your replies and please, be nice to each other :)

Competition Theme: À La Card

We're hungry for some thematic cards this week, so see what you can serve up!

• You must create a card which is themed around food or eating
  • The most famous existing example is Priest of the Feast, but fellow Karazhan card Silverware Golem would also work - get creative!

It looks like grumpymonk has food on the brain this week - let's feed those thoughts!

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, Sep 21 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Sep 26 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Sep 26 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Sep 27 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Sep 27 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Sep 28 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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Greetings card fans.

I've been giving HS a bit of a back seat the last 6 months or so. (I got bit tired of climbing ladders and story modes don't interest me in the slightest.) 

So naturally I haven't been following the forums or websites for Hearthstone news.

However, this week i decided I'd log back on to play some strange decks so I came back to OOC looking for some inspiration.

I couldn't help but feel however there seems to be less of a community going on here than when the site first launched? Maybe I've got this all wrong but it feels to me like there aren't tonnes of decks with lots of up votes and comments like back in the hearthpwn days. So I just wandered, is that a thing or am i just looking in the wrong places? 

Did you all move on to bigger and better things? Basically my question is, where are all the OGs at? 

I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I was playing a Midrange Treant Druid just now against a type of Resurrect Priest in Wild and experienced a very strange interaction between Treants that had been summoned and died on their side of the board and their spellstone.  They were using the Radiant Elemental and Veilweaver to generate a ton of value similar to a Lyra deck might try to do.  Anyway, they had also played a few thief Priest cards to generate things like Soul of the Forest, and I also played Poison Seeds at one point.

Later, when the opponent played a 3 minion rez Diamond Spellstone I was expecting Radiant, Veilweaver, and a Treant as those are the only three minions that had died on my opponent's side.  Instead he got a Veilweaver and 2x Treants!

I was like, "WTF?!"  My Opponent was also like "WTF?!" and went bottom right to end the match instantly.  But in the few moments I had prior to his concede I realized the two Treants have different watermarks!  One was a Classic set Treant and the other was Naxxramas set Treant!  So despite the same artwork and same name, the game counted them as different minions in regards to the spellstone's mechanic.

Again, is this specific interaction common knowledge?  Does it sound like a potential bug?  Not that I really care as it's just one additional way a Resurrection Priest's game plan can get screwed up, but I am generally interested to hear if others have had similar experiences, or just your thoughts on the interaction.

This is not a salt thread.... This is an honest inquiry on things that I am starting to feel the conspiracy theory about with the matching system.  Does anyone know if the matching algorithm for games looks for specific cards and matches you up against people that have opposing styles of cards?

I ask this on both sides of the fence.  Whenever I play a common combo deck, I feel like I am constantly getting paired against aggro decks.  And when I switch to aggro, I get tossed a lot of control decks.  The same goes the other way though.  When I play something like Kingsbane Rogue, I end up playing against combo players and dog walk them.  

If there is such an algorithm, is it Blizzards way of saying, get better to beat the style of deck that kills yours... or is it a subtle jab to your kidneys?

I saw her in the solo adventure so either they wanted to make this encounter extremely easy by giving him garbage cards (more likely) or will warsong commander get a rework or something to do with injured minions/weapon? maybe they left her as she made sense.

One can only hope for justice to the most obvious "we don't want to deal with this card so we deleted it but it's still there for people to wonder just why it exists" card.

also Malfurion has "Night elf tag" foreshadowing that night elves being a tribe?

what is inside ? Mage cards, ok. But Classic of any expansion? golden or not?

You know what's not fun? Having no control. For me there is no point in playing the game if it is just being fed to me. This is getting tiresome. People qq'ed by the amount of dungeon runs they were churning out but guess what? Thanks to your qq'ing we get even worse solo adventures. Granted, the following DR's never captured the magic of the first one in Kobolds, but at least they tried to keep them fresh like with the shrines in Rastakan.

I'm sure some people like this and I don't mean to be a prick and alienate you, but after two goes with Jaina and seeing that I am going to have no control over the deck I'm using, I have no motivation to play it. I'd rather netdeck and have the ability to at least change a card or two to fit my play style.

If you want a return to Dungeon Runs, please voice your opinion, otherwise keep getting these.

Hi guys, 

does anybody know, what happened to my hearthstone? :D

Am I the chosen one? 

Just wondering what are your standards for voting here? 

Or is there an agreed upon standard?

For example, my current standards are:

• 1 - Pretty bad. Needs a lot more work.
• 2 - Not too bad, but still lacks in certain areas. Also generally boring.
• 3 - Average. Not bad but nothing spectacular.
• 4 - Stands out above the rest. Interesting concept.
• 5 - Head and shoulders above everyone else. Clear cut winner.

Competition Theme: Pure Of Heart

We're looking to give people the purest deckbuilding experience possible this week - get those Neutral cards away from us!

• You must create a card which has an effect when you have no Neutral cards in your deck
  • We're specifically looking for the phrase 'no Neutral' here - no getting around it with something like 'only spells'
• Your card cannot be a Paladin card
  • We've seen what Paladins have to offer already - what benefits do the other classes get?

This week anchorm4n is forcing us to pick a side - nobody can stay Neutral in this competition!

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, Sep 14 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Sep 19 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Sep 19 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Sep 20 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Sep 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Sep 21 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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