Hearthpwn

So I'm one of those lucky guys who got an invite in the last wave. I've been playing the game, enjoying it, loving it...while I'm in practice. I try Arena and I fail horribly, I go into play and I feel like I only win cause either I got a perfect draw or the other guy just has no luck.

I know there's some skill here but I feel like part of it are my decks to (in play, in arena I just suck at building decks). I go looking for decks to try out, and I'm finding a lot of fun decks...but none I can use. I'm lucky to have half the cards needed to build these decks. So it makes me wonder, how do you get rolling?

I need cards to build good decks. I need gold to buy packs or flail at arena. I get gold by winning. I need good decks to win...and now we start back at the beginning and loop till we feel like giving up. Should I just keep playing unranked games to make gold till I can build some decent decks? Is that my only option?

NOTE: Please no suggestions that I just buy cards with money, I have no income so gold is my only option.

http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-deck-building/830-general-consideration-when-building-a-deck

http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-deck-building/924-general-advise-for-the-shaman

http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-deck-building/767-new-to-deckbuilding-look-here

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/9793009950

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