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There was a 3x class card offering adjustment that happened mid way through dual class event.  

Blizzard did not revert this adjustment when dual class ended.  

Blizzard has just reverted this adjustment as of the latest patch update.  

You'll be seeing 5-8 class cards as opposed to the 20+ class cards we saw previously.   

Classes that relied more on class cards to do well (mainly classes with poor hero powers) will be affected negatively in win rates.  

Play accordingly.  

Hi all, just shamelessly plugging the 4th installment of my themed deck series: The Banana Saga.

Amazingly this time the deck is not completely awful, but as usual the main feature is the story I have built around it, so check out the deck description if theme decks are your thing.

Is casual a place where there is supposed to be no tier-1 decks? or is it supposed to be just like ranked mode with no risk/rewards? What is your philosophy about the Casual format?

I personally think that Casual is a place where you can play whatever deck you want without having to worry about winning or losing. I think that looking at he format as a place where tier 99 decks can be viable is the wrong way of looking at it. I enjoy playing casual because I can be at rank 7 - 5 stars and still be able to try out a odd homebrew deck without having to worry about falling back to rank 10.

With the sale of the 3 shop hero portraits as well as the recent addition of the 1K win portraits I realised we have come quite far with the amount of hero portraits we could have gotten. 

So I was wondering what hero portraits do you use for your classes? Mine are:

Druid: Elise

Hunter: Aleria

Mage: Jaina (1K fire mage one)

Paladin: Lady Liadrin

Priest: Lazul (I would love to get Tyrande though)

Rogue: Valeera 

Shaman: King Rasthakhan

Warlock: Gul'dan

Warrior: Garrosh

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I wanted to make the new pre-order card back my favorite.  I used to have it on the 'Random' card back but even tho it says the new one (The Shattering) IS my favorite I keep having random backs.

I couldn't find another thread about this and wondering if anyone else has the same problem.

That's simple. Just go to the "Extra" tab on http://hearthcards.net/ and convert an existing card's cost into a tavern tier!

Remember that only a minority of regular HS cards would make sense in this mode (no spells/weapons, no card draw/deck interaction, etc...).

Here a some examples which I think are...interesting. Mostly because the same effect leads to a very different outcome!

Do note that in Zola's case, the golden minion will be the upgraded one!

Has anyone else experienced this?

I log in and update Hearthstone, SSDD with every other patch.  Only this time I go in an I have fractions all over my decks that have one gold and one non-gold card in them saying that they are no complete.  I go in and have to manually remove the golden copy from the deck and then re-add it back to the deck.  Most frustrating part of this, outside of having to do it for every single deck... If I log, it resets and I have to do the whole damn thing over again.

For example, I have 1 gold and 1 regular Sense Demons in my deck.  I have to go into my deck editor and remove the golden version, and then put it back in for the game to recognize what is going on.  It is seriously irritating when I am a casual player and play when I have a spare 10 -15 minutes on my hands to have to do this to the deck that I want to play.  Has anyone else experienced this crap with this or another patch?

Hello

I logged in today and now my Quest Paladin and my Tempo Rogue decks are 2 - 4  cards short.

What happened? I can't see any notes about cards being removed from the game. Did I miss something?

It's been two days since I received the daily quests after the update.

This is my first go at a Galakrond Zoolock. I tried to keep it in the realm of competitive. I think there could be potential for things like Jumbo Imp or Plague of Flames, but I think those come in to target specific metagame things. Ditto to the rusher Invoker.

I think Veiled Worshipper is crazy powerful, but with it's condition, only 4 Invokers, the natural Warlock hero power, and Solarium, I wouldn't be surprised if 1 is the correct number.

With Hearthstone Battlegrounds soon to be among us (and even playable by some), HearthCards has now received an update to allow you to make your own cards for the mode.

Look at Reshaper Murrie here. It's got a 6-star shield icon in place of where a mana cost would normally be. This signifies that it's a card for the Battlegrounds mode.

Let's try to make one ourselves. How do you do that? The first thing we need to do is click on the cog button (highlighted with the red circle). Clicking that will bring you to this menu:

We've seen this menu before, but now there's an option called "Mana to Tavern Tier (Battlegrounds)", which includes a drop-down menu. By default, it will be set to Off, but clicking it will give you a set of 7 options which include the standard Off, and the numbers 1-6, which represent the tiers of cards found in the mode.

From that point, just keep making the card as normal, and the result will look something like this:

When you use the option to change the mana cost to the shield icon, the icon will not show up whilst you make the card, but it will show up properly after you click "Create". There's no need to fill in a mana cost, because it will be replaced by the shield anyway.

So let's look at our finished card again.

It looks like a real Battlegrounds card, does it not? Something that is worth mentioning is that most existing collectable cards in the mode will keep their watermark, but new cards the are exclusive to the Battlegrounds mode will have no watermark. To achieve this, click the "Custom" watermark option, and then click "None" in the list of watermarks.

As the Battlegrounds mode is very fresh, we have yet to fully determine the balancing, but if you wish to see all of the cards in the mode, click here.

In addition, each card in the mode has a Golden variation (meaning there's finally a reason to actually use the Golden option). Golden versions of Battleground cards have their stats doubled, and their effect upgraded if applicable. Usually, this effect is doubled, but there are some exceptions (any card with an x2 effect will upgrade to an x3 effect). Some cards how effects that do not receive upgrades at all when made Golden, which include minions who's effects are entirely made of keywords, or grant a keyworded mechanic under a trigger (Cobalt Guardian, Toxfin).

If we make Loan Shark Golden, it will look something like this:

An interesting point to note is that Golden cards have slightly different text space to them, meaning that if you reduce the card's text size to get rid of an orphan in the text box, the finished card might still end up with that orphan. In this case, you'll need to reduce the card's text even further.

Custom class designs do not support Golden cards, so if you're making one of your custom class cards for the Battlegronds mode, you'll need to use an existing class design similar in color if you still wish to make it Golden.

Put together my first ideas for a Galakrond Rogue deck. I know we're still missing most of the new cards, but what do you think about it so far? (Guide included)

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Did I get this right? 

I hope battlegrounds is fun for more than a few rounds, but unfortunately i doubt it. 

can someone enlighten me why is faerie dragon suddenly in tempo rogue lists.. seems out of place.. or is it a prelude to next expansion?

https://hsreplay.net/decks/85nG4pBgIEuqMXRLF7n5qb/#gameType=RANKED_STANDARD

it has a quite good wr too.. what does it come to counter? big priest?

So, I have been struggling with a terrible internet connection lately but at least Hearthstone still worked. It would only maybe crash once on startup and afterwards be fine.

However, since sunday, maybe 1 out of 5 attempts gets me into the main menu; loading my collection may require up to 5 minutes and attempting to start any game tosses me out of the game for good. I know part of my issue is the internet but that is a problem that has gone on longer than these severe issues.

Is anyone else having trouble similar to this?

What do you think? 

Descent of Dragons is Hearthstone's 13th expansion and is set to release on December 10, 2019.

Quick Info

• Pre-order bundles return, with more card packs than usual (60 & 100)!
• Every class will be getting a legendary Dragon! In fact, this expansion will have the most Dragons out of any set.
• New Keyword: Invoke - Upgrade the mighty Galakrond! Playing these cards will also cast his Hero Power.
  Galakrond and Invoke cards will not be available in Arena (source).
• New Keyword: Sidequests - Similar to quests except they don't start in your hand and can be played alongside active quests.
  Sidequests will be available in Arena (source).
• New Mechanic: Explorers - Dragon cards for the non-evil classes which Discover a Dragon alongside another, class-themed effect.
• New Mechanic: Breaths - Spells that make use of Dragon-holding mechanics to power-up their effects.
• A solo adventure will be launching in January 2020. It is linear rather than a dungeon run.
• More free stuff than ever before including 5 Legendaries.

Arena Drafting Pool

The card pool for drafting will change to include the following sets:

• Basic
• Classic
• Blackrock Mountain
• The Grand Tournament
• One Night in Karazhan
• Knights of the Frozen Throne
• Rastakhan's Rumble
• Descent of Dragons

This thread is dedicated to discussing the impact of these cards on the ARENA environment.

NEW! We are adapting to a new scoring system -1 being the worst and 5 being the best score- to get in line with the general scoring system on the site!

Click below to see how Arena Mods at Out of Cards rated the cards revealed so far!

You can read everyones detailed card evaluation by clicking on their pictures.

Below you will find links for all of the cards that have been revealed so far.

This is a work in progress!

I've noticed the last two days I've been kicked off Hearthstone after a match or the game crashes on the PC more often.

Thought it was bad enough I couldn't play it on my tablet as we await the mobile patch/expansion purchase options there.

If you are playing an EVIL class, and you use a card has "invoke Galakarond", I am reading that the new hero power is triggered as well. That is, even if you don't have the new hero card equipped yet.

For example, if you are playing as a Warlock and you use Dragonblight Cultist, you will get the following result for 3 mana:

• 2 1/1 imps are created on the board, as that is the Warlock upgraded hero power (achieved after using Galakrond later in the game)
• the 1/1 minion actually becomes at least a 3/1 minion, as he gains 1 attack for every other minion on the board (including the two 1/1 imps)

There is a video on the Blizzard website for this expansion which shows how such a card works with the Rogue class.

Assuming I have this right (?), suddenly the "invoke Galakarond" cards seem much, much better. 

I'm happy that Hearthstone FINALLY got a new game mode. Even though it's not for me I'm happy that they've made something new to keep the community interested.

I wanted to ask the OOC community how you all felt about this game mode. Like is this what you wanted? Or would you have preferred something else.

Edit 05Nov: I’m glad I’m not the only one who isn’t satisfied with the game mode. I see some of you drawing the direct comparison to Heroes of the Storm in terms of being late to the game and it’s a very realistic critique. We all saw what happened to HotS, not saying it will happen to HS, but the Battlegrounds may go in that direction unless it gets continuous support (I don’t know if they’ve mentioned it anywhere).

I know they wanted to dive into the Autochess world, but they shouldn’t have. They should have innovated on something not seen in the digital CCG world. Hearthstone Mathematician just did an amazing video on a Two-Headed Giant mode that outlines most of the design questions for Team 5. This is a mode that would be more than welcomed in HS. 

Video: https://youtu.be/U3q4lss8mWE

Edit 07Nov: After playing several matches of Battlegrounds and sitting on the thought of the game mode itself.... it's not a new game mode, it's just a different game that utilizes Hearthstone assets. Let me elaborate on that.

Watching the Hearthstone panel for Blizzcon one of the designers explained how they came about the idea of Battlegrounds. They stated that when Autochess and the other Auto-battlers released that the team had a lot of fun playing those games and that they wanted to create one for HS. Six months later Battlegrounds was born and shown to the world.

If you notice in the previous paragraph the Dev said that THE TEAM wanted to create one. So I want everyone to think about that. I'm sure some of you all have browsed the Sub-reddit and read some of the post asking for new game modes and other posts that offer ideas for now ways to play the game (here's mine that I posted on OoC and the Sub-reddit: https://outof.cards/forums/hearthstone/hearthstone-general/1488-six-formats-hearthstone-could-easily-have). I just don't get it. Like we're here, telling the Devs what we want/would like to have/what needs improvement, and they give us something that literally nobody asked for.

Either way, Battlegrounds feels samey after a while. It's high RNG (Yogg be praised) and once you fall behind, that's it. There are key cards that if you don't find after re-rolling over and over again, you simply lose. The game "mode" is not for me. Still wanting and waiting on modes like the ones I've linked above. See y'all on ladder.