Hearthpwn

Played Hunter today, faced off against Big Mage. Switched to Big Mage, faced off vs Hunter. The tech/swap is o_O tbh. Next up, gonna start playing E.M.P. card to deal with mechs in decks... Not really, but I think you can see where this goes, right? It's nutty how the game can be sometimes. Some days are good for climb, some days you eat the butt off the chair so to speak.

Omegalul nope. Priest runs the roost. In 70+ games from my run of rank 19-5, 30% of those games were Priest games.

Yes. It's an aggro deck. It will adapt and evolve into being something that sticks around. 

To answer the basic question, fun/good. But someone else already hit the nail on the head. At 5+, it's Combo Druid and Jades (waves as a Jade player), Renolock, BakuPali, Big Priest, Kingsbane Mill Rogue -glare-, and the climb from the bottom up is at least friggin diverse.

This thread should have stopped after the first post. Trying to pair the buzzword of loot boxes and attach it to packs is like trying to pair the words shit and peanut butter for the sake of making an argument on "which is the more edible/healthy for you to consume".

First thing comes first, packs and loot boxes are -NOT- the same thing. At. All. Just ask Electronic Arts and WB about how their recent games turned out when they attempted to try and pull stunts to lock things necessary to the game play behind a their paywall, WHILE charging $60 to enjoy their game experience (you can see Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Middle Earth: Shadow of War for those examples). In Overwatch, there is a -option- to buy loot boxes for nifty skins during events and those are a HUGE gamble/investment for trying to get what you want... However it's an -option-.... No one is forcibly holding a gun to my skull or yours telling me or you to "buy these loot boxes or you can't play the game". Completely optional. If you sink your money into it for the gamble of getting -insert character here skin- and you don't get it, that's on you for sinking the money in and -gambling- to get that skin. You take a chance and you can lose out a lot of money. There -is- a gold option and they have held yearly events each year for certain skins and when the new event comes around, the older skins get discounted during that time to where if you have the gold, you can buy said skin. For example, I am a Reaper main, I want -all- of his skins. However, I don't -have- to spend $$ on trying to get his Halloween skin, the Biker skin, the Soldier 26 (even though I REALLY, reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllly wanted that skin at the time), etc, I'm given the option and temptation to drop $$ in for the gamble of it, but I also have the self control to go, you know what? Nope. That right there is a gamble I am not willing to take and make because there is no way I can properly say, "I will obtain this skin"

Now I can move over to the packs side of this discussion because THIS is where I will be most at home. I've played and enjoyed TCG's for a good chunk of my life growing up. Hell, I even would plant cards on the table and face off against people to win other cards. I also did business in the second hand market to make money to pay my bills and help build my decks. Games like Pokemon, Yugioh, and Magic (since they are the 3 titans in the TCG world) are what I like to call the "cardboard crack" games. It's not a slight against them, however, the prices of some of the cards for "meta decks" and just decks in general make the outcry that people have against Hearthstone laaaaaaaaaaaaughable.. Especially if you are a collector.... "$300 for this Blue-Eyes White Dragon? $600 for this deck because 3 cards in it cost 100+??" Yeah, people dropping upwards of $30-150+ for cards to be apart of the "meta" game in games like Yugioh and Magic, that's in the second hand market alone. IF and this is IF you are lucky enough to pull the uber card you want from that $4 pack that you take a risk and gamble on when you buy it, you won't have to worry about it. Otherwise, you're gonna cough up $4.25 per Yugioh pack OR drop $80 on 24 packs, praying you at least break even in the secondary market once it is all said and done or get the cards you want in 1 whack (which, HAHA, ain't gonna happen slick). Same can be said for Magic. Depending the meta game, you -could- walk into Wal-Mart, buy 3 starter decks of X game and have a go at competition, but if you're missing key cards, you still gotta cough up more, or pray for a sucker to come along to trade for the things you're missing.

With Hearthstone, it's an online CCG that's free to play. You have the ability to say "sure, I'll drop X amount of dollars on this game" ORRRRRRRRRRRRR you can play for free and literally take the time to craft and grind for your meta game deck. There are some cheap dust decks and then there's decks out there that are dust expensive and the beauty of it all, is that you have the choice on what you want to try and go for in this as well as other online card games. Cosmetics are just another thing that get tacked on to for companies to make $$ for people who want to sink in the money for these things because, "look at me, imma shiny shiny princess. weeeeee". No one is FORCING you to BUY -anything- in Hearthstone... Or Gwent.... Or Elder Scrolls.... Or Magic Alpha.... Or Duelyst... Or Shadowverse.... Or Fortnite..... Or -insert f2p game here-. You literally have freedom of CHOICE.

Honestly, while I understand the frustration of 0 needing to be clarified, the 0 cost being able to potentially flex into each side (evens and odds) because of it having no cost is what calls for clarification. For someone out there, they could add those 0 cost minions/cards to their odd deck and it would be interesting to see the sort of interactions/ideas in deck building someone could bring to the table. 

Where's LvGE and I can't translate the other players name tbh deck list?

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Aggro decks need good piloting. While drawing him early on does in fact increase your chances for a more powerful early game that will ultimately win you the game I am pretty sure that you made a lot of mistakes,by simply being new to the game. Watch your minion positioning and when to push for board or hold onto a few of your cards. I don't play aggro myself since I don't like the archetype but I don't see how your personal experience(being very minimal from what I see) justifies not crafting this certain legendary.

 Thanks for the advice. So far I only watched trump's beginner course. Do you happen to have any recommended sources for learning?

If anything, craft Tarim. He's a meta defining card for Paladins, while also being able to be discovered thru Stonehill Defender. Wickerflame and Rag Light are going to be rotating to Wild, but Tarim won't be rotating until 2019. Long term investment. The mage decks are fun no doubt, but for ladder as well as you having Uther already, Tarim is a VERY solid choice for crafting.

Kibler hands down

Brian Kibler is someone who is more geared toward talking thru his plays. 2 pm est is his usual start time.

Hearthstone: The Game Where RNG from a top decked Stone Hill Defender into Tarim makes your opponent the winner. #420yoloswag4jesusfam 

That and add to the fact that you can grab Tarim or Tirion with him, which are paladin's best Legends, hell the best legends in the game atm imo.

The fact that a small town like Portsmouth Ohio has a top 4 team with Shawnee blows my mind. I couldn't be prouder of my alma matter for making top 4. Hopefully next semester, we can win it all!

Parts 5-7 are live. Forgot to post them, but there is a log now