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In your opinion, what card from the BASIC set is the most iconic and best resembles Hearthstone? (Neutral Minions)

This is missing Oasis Snapjaw , the first card with a moving golden animation. (Like it actually moves, though abruptly, not just sway around a bit)

Magma god, of course, meta defining.

My answer was going to be Fireball, but I guess we're ignoring class cards. I'd also like to say it's Chillwind Yeti - the card that started it all, in terms of vanilla balance comparisons - but Magma Rager has the super meme factor. Stonetusk Boar also sees more use than any of them, so there's that as well. I guess it's one of those two.

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This is missing Oasis Snapjaw , the first card with a moving golden animation. (Like it actually moves, though abruptly, not just sway around a bit)

 My Bad ! :'(
RIP OASIS SNAPJAW 

Magma Rager. It has it's own award named after it!

FOR THE ALLIAAANNCEEEE!!!

Has to be Magma Rager. What other card from that list is consistently a meme? First Ice Rager, then Shadow Rager, then you get Steel Rager. Also who could forget Amgam Rager? Nothing else on the list even comes close. Rager is the biggest running joke in hearthstone.

And it is not even close! It is teaching new  players what is expected by a vanilla card and "Yeti stats" is a commonly understood and frequently used  concept.

Magma Rager is the ancestor of meme cards.

And I also thought of Fireball, by instinct, but it is class limited, and probably biased by the tutorial, played as Mage.

Overall, I think the most iconic is Chillwind Yeti: it belongs to newbies and theorycrafters alike.

Chillwind Yeti hands down.

Remember Firebat's druid deck when he won the world championship back then? That's right, yeti was in it!

Magma Rager would be a close second though, but only because of the memes

Yeti forever in my heart 

Magma rager ol'da wei

Yeti

And if someone disagrees it simply shows that the person wasn't around when the game came out.

Magma Rager. I think people are confusing "best" with "iconic".

TAZDINGO HEHE

If only we can vote for two instead of one, it'll be 3/2&2/3 pair, like more vanilla then anything. But on the first place, yeah, Yeti.

I voted for Acidic Swamp Ooze. I say this because it's the one card that if you using a type of deck that needs weapon removal, no matter what happens to the card sets, if you don't have that one card others use, you will always be able to use Acidic Swamp Ooze as an alternative.

That said, if you want to start designing cards for the weekly competition or just for your enjoyment, I would have to agree with most people who say Chillwind Yeti as this card is designed to be naturally balanced. 

Memes aside, Chillwind Yeti. No contest.