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Quote from ruxpendp >>

You're right that this would be very simple to program, and there would be many different ways of doing it.

However I can tell you with 100% certainty they don't do that. Here's why:

- If card draw was done client side (i.e. the hearthstone process on your computer determines what card is drawn, then sends that info to the server), you would be able to unpack the code and literally see the process hearthstone uses to draw cards. This is how we know exactly how spawning works in pokemon go, for example. Client side would be a bad idea however because it would be too easy to hack.

- If card draw was done server side (server tells your client what card was drawn), you'd still be able to test its fairness by recording the draws you make every game. For example if you have 1 pyroblast in your deck, you can start a game, draw your first card, and see how many times that first card is pyroblast. Depending on whether you go first or second, pyroblast will show up once out of every 27 or 26 first draws on average (1 divided by the number of cards remaining in your deck), provided you make sure it's not in your starting hand after mulligan. A short number of games would make the statistic volatile, over time your recorded average will approach the ideal mean. While I can't site my sources (shame), I can tell you that these tests have been done, and if hearthstone was found to have deliberately unfair draws you would have damn well heard about it by now.

- Most importantly, it wouldn't be in blizzard's interest. A free to play player who always gets bad draws would be more likely to quit playing entirely than buy packs or spend money. Even free to play players are very valuable to the economic success of hearthstone because more players means shorter ladder/arena queue times, more exposure to other blizzard games, an increased chance that F2P players will eventually actually spend money, and many other reasons. It's one of the reasons why hearthstone is F2P in the first place – to have a larger playerbase. Finally, if word got out (and it would, for reasons stated above) that hearthstone deliberately reduced the 'luck' of F2P players, it would be a massive scandal and would result in a mass exodus of people leaving hearthstone, never to spend money on it again. I certainly would.

 

...sorry this was so long

Quote from Are_you >>

Yes blizzard has coded a hard algorythm to punish free to play players (with a really good algorythm to not give you the cards you want to play) while it takes years to create more deckslots and their NPC's don't attack through some taunts and loose...

Yes they want to make money but programming useless stuff costs more than makes especially when it's not shiny. Use brain...

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My version has no fandram, 1 wrath and no savage roar. Much cheaper and can reach rank 5 fairly easy (asia). Beast Druid with the right hand can win every matchup, but with 6 5 drop, there is many time you are in the situation of having no play on turn 1 and 2, which result in losing the tempo game.

Quote from ScaryFishman >>

Thats just how Hearthstone works. You can 10-0 with a deck and couple hours later 0-10 without any changes to it.

Agreed, get better at mulligan and card draw basics.  

why no raven ? that just makes no sens to me, cut turn 1 off an aggro deck.

I just went from rank 14 to 18 in 10 games with this deck and no I'm not a newb.

Thats just how Hearthstone works. You can 10-0 with a deck and couple hours later 0-10 without any changes to it.

It works really well against pretty much everything but I have noticed the weakness against C'thun which has wrecked me 3 times in a row even C'thun priest halp :(

I can't agree with ditching the raven. With raven 1, then Saber or Mark, and then a 3 drop... just are amazing starts. Also I am running a cenarius instead of one power of the wild for game that go late. if you have a minion or two on the board, your 1 mana becomes a bonus 4/4.

your deck is an absolute mess lol

"shitty warden"

thats a joke, right?

Is there space for The Beast? kappa

for once i agree with reynad. jungle panther over mounted raptor seems to work better.

i like this version :)

i did -1Living Roots  -1Mounted Raptor for + 2Raven Idol

also -1Sir Finley Mrrgglton -1Savage Roar for +2Wrath

working fine