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Update: Just hit legend! Opinion on the deck remains unchanged, still super powerful. None of the current meta decks are equipped to deal with a Corrupted Carnival Clown, except for probably Warlock, which I ran into a grand total of zero over both days. i sincerely believe this to be a meta-breaker. Well done!

I've piloted this from Diamond 4 to Diamond 1, and I have to say, I really like this deck. There's a learning curve for sure, but once you get the hang of it it's super fun. Hopefully will get to legend tomorrow, but well done! This deck is very well suited to the meta.

Go to your collection, filter for Barrens, then search 'Missing'. It should show any cards you don't have.

This may not be my best, but it's certainly my favorite. Arrana Starseeker, staying on tavern 2 the entire game and using Saurolisks and Selfless Hero to beat up a big menagerie build, game finished on turn 17 or 18 I think.

I respectfully disagree, and here's why:

Corsair Cache was/is typically used to draw 1 of 3 weapons: Wrenchcalibur, Ancharrr, or Livewire Lance. 

In each of these 3 scenarios, the card always felt very powerful. Turning Wrenchcalibur into a 4/3 weapon meant that it ended up dealing 6 extra damage and adding an additional Bomb to the opponent's deck, Ancharrr dealt an extra 5 and drew an additional pirate, and Livewire Lance dealt an extra 5 and generated an additional Lackey.

The value gained from Corsair Cache in these instances ended up being (over the course of multiple turns) 2 mana to draw a weapon, deal an extra 5-6 damage, and generate another resource, be it a card or a Bomb. This damage and resource generation for such a low mana cost was very difficult for many decks to deal with, and led Bomb/Tempo Warriors into going face more often because they knew they could just finish you off with their weapon which would deal 9-12 damage because of Corsair Cache.

This of course was very strong, hence the nerf. What the nerf to Corsair Cache did was effectively cut the additional damage output in half, from 5-6 to 2-3 additional damage, which prevented these Bomb/Tempo Warriors from beating you down as easily as they had been doing. It's similar to the nerf of Boggspine Knuckles, which was simply just doing too much damage on it's own for decks to deal with it on top of the minions it was generating.

Unnerfed Corsair Cache would be even scarier now that Spiked Wheel exists. A 1 mana 4/3 (effectively) weapon would be insane in any aggresive Warrior deck, so unnerfing the card now is definitely out of the question while the card is in Standard.

As for changing the card to 1 mana, that would make the card ridiculously powerful as well. 1 mana cards that draw a card are incredibly powerful, see Consume Magic, Crimson Sigil Runner (which has been nerfed), Flare (which was nerfed from 1 mana to 2), Kobold Librarian and even Mortal Coil. All of those cards are/were quite strong, and they don't draw a specific card.

A 1 mana Corsair Cache as it stands now would be an immensely powerful card and would be an auto include in any Warrior deck that runs weapons.

In Wild it may be a different story, and it could maybe be reverted back to it's initial form, but as long as the card is in Standard I believe it should remain how it is.

TL;DR: It would be too powerful in Standard in it's original form thanks to it's previous uses alongside the addition of Spiked Wheel, but when the card rotates I could see it being unnerfed.

A lot of people in this thread don't seem to understand OP's initial complaint, or even understand what's going on, so allow me to explain. 

Firstly, the old Ysera is not being removed from the game, or buffed into the new Ysera, it is being moved to the legacy set. The new Ysera card is a completely new card.

Both Ysera's use the same Dream cards: Dream, Nightmare, Ysera Awakens, Laughing Sister, and Emerald Drake. Most of these Dream cards are being altered.

Dream now costs 1, and can only target enemy minions, Nightmare now gives +4/+4 instead of +5/+5, Ysera Awakens now costs 3, and only affects minions, Laughing Sister now costs 2, and Emerald Drake is unchanged.

3 of these 4 changes are very clearly nerfs, making the original Ysera much worse than before, which should be considered a nerf to Ysera.

It does not matter that this Ysera is rotating to Wild, it is still a nerf, and players who own Ysera should be able to disenchant it for full dust value.

The Core Set will be made up of temporary, non-disenchantable cards, much like the Wild cards that rotated back for an event a while back.

Take Shadowform as an example. You already have a copy of Shadowform. When the Core Set is released, all players will be given a non-disenchatable/non-craftable Shadowform for free. You now have 2 copies of Shadowform, one that you own and the non-disenchantable/non-craftable one that has been provided to everyone. A year from now, when the Core Set changes, the free copy of Shadowform will be taken away from all players. You now no longer have that free copy of Shadowform, but you still have your original copy. 

So in other words, do not disenchant your copy of Shadowform if you intend on using it in the future outside of when it's in the Core Set, and don't disenchant other cards for the same reason.

As far as players recieving a free Classic set, that is not true, players will recieve the new Core Set for free, which is replacing the Classic set. I can see how you misunderstood though, because it is a bit confusing.

The only dust opportunity as far as I know will be when the Basic cards are shifted to Wild and become disenchantable, then you can disenchant those if you would like for some dust, if I understand that correctly.

Hope my explanations helped!

Well, there's the 900-1000 XP daily from Daily Quests, and then there's the 5500 from Weekly Quests every week. So saying you get 2 low roll quests weekly, that's 12,300 XP weekly if you just complete quests.

12,300 x 17 weeks estimated between expansions is 208,900 XP from quests alone.

Now if you subtract that from the roughly 440,000 you say is needed to hit 350, you get 231,100 remaining XP needed through play time.

You can achieve such numbers through roughly 144 hours per month, or roughly 6 hours of Hearthstone per day.

That is a large amount of time, but more hardcore players would find it much more feasible to do than the 9 hours previously assumed from just play time alone.

(Keep in mind I'm going off the numbers you provided, as I am not super familiar with the XP system and if the Tavern Pass affects these numbers or not, so I apologize if my numbers are off.)

Just played a game of Battlegrounds as Millhouse.

I ended up coming first with only Goldgrubbers (basically.) My comp until the final couple rounds was: Goldgrubber (2x), Golden Alleycat, Golden Scavenging Hyena, Golden Righteous Protecter, and Golden Defender of Argus. And I wasn't even close to losing. Goldgrubber is a good card, pick it!

The first couple weeks of KotFT was the absolute worst meta of all time. Druid made up literally 40% of the meta at one point before it got nerfed, and it's winrates were absurd. It was nearly impossible to play if you didn't play Jade Druid, Big Druid, Token Druid, or literally any other Druid deck. In this meta at least 8 classes have a decent chance (sorry Shaman and Paladin)

Is anyone else experiencing insane frame drops/lag in Battlegrounds? It ran smoothly before the new patch, but now halfway through any game of Battlegrounds that I play I experience massive frame drops. One battle was so slow that my entire turn got skipped. I have to close the game and reopen it every few turns if I want to have any chance of taking my turn at all. Anybody else have this issue?

Unfortunately without Divine Spirit, Inner Fire just isn't good enough to be burst anymore. And now that Leeroy was rotated too, there's just no easy way to do damage from hand :/ So to answer your question, no, I don't think Priest is capable of any burst anymore, unless you really compromise the deck with Reckless Rocketeer, which seems like a no-no.

Hey, tried the deck out, played about 10 games with it. Very inconsistent, there's no card draw in the deck at all, so whatever you mulligan into you're stuck with. It can be strong, but I think that there are other midrange decks that do it better, specifically Demon Hunter. 

I find you can get very close to winning, but due to there being a lack of burst there's no way to win after your oppenent takes the board back. 

I feel like regular Galakrond or Highlander Priest are both better as class decks, and Midrange Demon Hunter seems like it just accomplishes much more against a larger variety of decks as a Midrange build.

I really like the idea, Silence Priest has always been one of my favorite archetypes, but without the draw provided by Northshire Cleric, I don't see anyway to make it work, sorry. Just my 2 cents.

I've recently started learning Russian for fun, other than that it's a normal student lifestyle, with some HS thrown in for good measure of course. :)

I used Trump's Token Spell Druid, it worked incredibly well against everything except Rogue, don't think I won a single game against Rogue. Warlocks and DH's were a piece of cake, which was awesome because that was the majority of my meta.