Hello, I've just started playing Hearthstone a couple of days ago as a F2P player, and I've recently stumbled across this site. I have began playing with a paladin deck contains some elementals, C'thun-related cards, some "adapt" cards, and some cards that increase the attack and health of minions in my hand. Recently, I have been successful against certain decks such as Druid ones, Warlock ones, and Hunter ones (When it comes to Warriors, I just try to stabilize by stalling with my Hero Power so that I get enough guys in my hand to strengthen and overwhelm my opponents' minions with until they run out of cards. Against Rogues, I just pray and kill literally anything they put out. It works...surprisingly).
However, I have struggled to surpass ranks 10-15 (Cue humilitation). I'm not sure if it is due to my lack of skill, lack of luck, or lack of cards. (So far, I have tried looking for "pros" in the hearthstone community with no success, increased my faith in Fortuna, and slowly grind out a positive gain from the arena (I average 3-7 wins, and it seems like 3 wins give a fair trade). I also have no knowledge of card games beyond my what my friend taught me when she introduced me to Hearthstone. (For example, I have no idea what the heck a " Midrange" deck is). Do you guys have any tips and/or pieces of wisdom?
P.S. Do you also have any advice for using Hearthpwn and how to do other "things" (e.g. I've seen people use something called "innkeeper", post pictures of cards that aren't in the game, and personalize the bar under their posts with little GIFs). Also are there any "cultural trends" I should be aware of? (I keep seeing people use "kappa" and I have no idea what that means).
TL; DR: Enlighten a noob please.
Thanks in advance.
BTW, here's my current deck. I would love to have some critique as to what cards I should be aiming to gain and how to play this deck. (Keep in mind I'm a F2P player with limited dust and gold so there are probably some poor card decisions here...).
I think I got lucky. Kept facing a bunch of other guys doing weird things. Also, I keep getting a 8/8 that heals me for 8 health from that 4/5 guy that allows me to "discover" an elemental...and I keep getting "poisonous" whenever I casted adaptation on my small 1/1s and windfury or divine shield on my big creatures...
OP - welcome and congrats on doing so well to start with. Your deck is certainly eclectic - C'Thun Paladin is theoretically possible, especially with the hand buffs, but you don't have many of the cards that buff him up. Your deck most closely resembles a pretty successful archetype called Hand Buff Elemental. I would check that out.
Focus on using your dust to craft the missing rares first (for that deck, you will definitely want a second Servant of Kalimos and Tol'vir Stoneshaper). As you get more dust over time, you can swap in the epics and legendaries.
The first two cards I would suggest to take out would be Adaptation and Hammer of Wrath. Both are considered to be weak in general, and they have anti-synergy with a Hand Buff deck since they are spells that take up space in your hand that could otherwise be a minion getting buffed. Sub in Smuggler's Run for Adaptation and Aldor Peacekeeper for Hammer of Wrath.
Good luck! Come back to the thread and let us know how you did.
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Errrrr...care to explain what that means...? (It sounds like a sexual innuendo; I'm hoping I'm wrong)
"Face is the place" refers to the general philosophy that attacking the face (the enemy hero) is a superior strategy to trading (attacking minions with minions).
In a card game there are 4 basic deck archetypes: Aggro, Combo, Midrange, and Control. Aggro aims to end the game as quickly as possible by spamming cheap threats and draining the opponent's health before they have the chance to react. Control decks aim to slow the game down, grind the opponent out of resources, and then win with stronger, more valuable cards in the lategame. Midrange decks are in between. They aim to impersonate control decks in some matches and impersonate aggro decks in others. Combo decks, lastly, aim to win with some flashy wombo combo that kills the opponent in one turn.
Historically, aggro has been the most powerful archetype in Hearthstone due to a lack of effective counter-strategies, thus spawning numerous memes about the overpoweredness of aggro decks, including the phrase "face is the place," which originates from the following classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jenlSf2E8o
"Face is the place" refers to the general philosophy that attacking the face (the enemy hero) is a superior strategy to trading (attacking minions with minions).
In a card game there are 4 basic deck archetypes: Aggro, Combo, Midrange, and Control. Aggro aims to end the game as quickly as possible by spamming cheap threats and draining the opponent's health before they have the chance to react. Control decks aim to slow the game down, grind the opponent out of resources, and then win with stronger, more valuable cards in the lategame. Midrange decks are in between. They aim to impersonate control decks in some matches and impersonate aggro decks in others. Combo decks, lastly, aim to win with some flashy wombo combo that kills the opponent in one turn.
Historically, aggro has been the most powerful archetype in Hearthstone due to a lack of effective counter-strategies, thus spawning numerous memes about the overpoweredness of aggro decks, including the phrase "face is the place," which originates from the following classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jenlSf2E8o
Hello, I've just started playing Hearthstone a couple of days ago as a F2P player, and I've recently stumbled across this site. I have began playing with a paladin deck contains some elementals, C'thun-related cards, some "adapt" cards, and some cards that increase the attack and health of minions in my hand. Recently, I have been successful against certain decks such as Druid ones, Warlock ones, and Hunter ones (When it comes to Warriors, I just try to stabilize by stalling with my Hero Power so that I get enough guys in my hand to strengthen and overwhelm my opponents' minions with until they run out of cards. Against Rogues, I just pray and kill literally anything they put out. It works...surprisingly).
However, I have struggled to surpass ranks 10-15 (Cue humilitation). I'm not sure if it is due to my lack of skill, lack of luck, or lack of cards. (So far, I have tried looking for "pros" in the hearthstone community with no success, increased my faith in Fortuna, and slowly grind out a positive gain from the arena (I average 3-7 wins, and it seems like 3 wins give a fair trade). I also have no knowledge of card games beyond my what my friend taught me when she introduced me to Hearthstone. (For example, I have no idea what the heck a " Midrange" deck is). Do you guys have any tips and/or pieces of wisdom?
P.S. Do you also have any advice for using Hearthpwn and how to do other "things" (e.g. I've seen people use something called "innkeeper", post pictures of cards that aren't in the game, and personalize the bar under their posts with little GIFs). Also are there any "cultural trends" I should be aware of? (I keep seeing people use "kappa" and I have no idea what that means).
TL; DR: Enlighten a noob please.
Thanks in advance.
BTW, here's my current deck. I would love to have some critique as to what cards I should be aiming to gain and how to play this deck. (Keep in mind I'm a F2P player with limited dust and gold so there are probably some poor card decisions here...).
If you got to rank 15-10 with that deck, I don't think anyone can rightfully humiliate you for it.
I think I got lucky. Kept facing a bunch of other guys doing weird things. Also, I keep getting a 8/8 that heals me for 8 health from that 4/5 guy that allows me to "discover" an elemental...and I keep getting "poisonous" whenever I casted adaptation on my small 1/1s and windfury or divine shield on my big creatures...
Run the hell away from Hearthpwn and never come back, there's still hope for you.
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My mandibles which are capable of pressing down and tearing, my talons which are known to intercept and hold.
OP - welcome and congrats on doing so well to start with. Your deck is certainly eclectic - C'Thun Paladin is theoretically possible, especially with the hand buffs, but you don't have many of the cards that buff him up. Your deck most closely resembles a pretty successful archetype called Hand Buff Elemental. I would check that out.
Focus on using your dust to craft the missing rares first (for that deck, you will definitely want a second Servant of Kalimos and Tol'vir Stoneshaper). As you get more dust over time, you can swap in the epics and legendaries.
The first two cards I would suggest to take out would be Adaptation and Hammer of Wrath. Both are considered to be weak in general, and they have anti-synergy with a Hand Buff deck since they are spells that take up space in your hand that could otherwise be a minion getting buffed. Sub in Smuggler's Run for Adaptation and Aldor Peacekeeper for Hammer of Wrath.
Good luck! Come back to the thread and let us know how you did.
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...Pfffft. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Okay, I gotta learn how to reply to the right people...
Thank you Xaos! I'm gonna miss my adaptation card though...it was a really fun card. Also, I keep running out of cards...
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"Kappa" is one of many emotes used on the streaming website Twitch. Twitch is what most Hearthstone professionals use to broadcast their gameplay and make money. When you type "kappa" into the chat at Twitch, this image below pops up. This particular emote is generally used as an indicator of sarcasm.
Thank you LordPikachu.
On the other hand, I now know what a certain fellow meant when he said "You are such a wonderful person! Kappa"...
one piece of advice: Face is the place
Don't let the salty autistic people with their omnipresent negativity get you down
That'll do, Huffer. That'll do.
That'll do, Huffer. That'll do.
Play standart And do not disenchant cards. You should disenchant golden cards And cards, which u got twice...