Hearthpwn

This should give you some insight

Quote from ArcyroX >>

I really wonder that if it gets nerfed, would there be a full dust refund or not? Nobody crafted it so I guess refund wouldn't make sense?

 You can't dust it at all, it's like C'Thun.

Do we know which epic streamers will be taking part?

lol no

One thing I don't understand is  why people think magic screwed the old HP team, when you look at the timeline it goes like this
1) Curse begins to start shutting down hearthpwn
2) Links are spammed to their new site and old team has moved on
3) Magic purchases hearthpwn and keeps the site alive and asks the flux to stick around
4) Flux refuses and Magic still allows links to cards on the site

They saved the site, improve it's content 10 fold, compare this shit https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/6741-five-awesome-day-1-decks-featuring-sn1p-sn4p to this https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/6750-hearthpwns-top-decks-of-the-week , one is well formated and not full of fluff no one gives a fuck about ie some random streamer, no wonder flux thought the site was a laggy mess, he doesn't know how to format shit and thinks shilling for his stream or some other streamer is worth the bloat. What exactly am I missing here?

Is anyone really gonna miss half a news page being "Hey guys, check out my pack opening stream!" or "Hey gamers! Check out this streamer I feel like advertising this week!" and then him having the gall to blame the website for the lag. I hope his site does well but I'm starting to doubt they won't fill the site with unoptimized garbage given guys who came in a few days ago already identified and are in the process of fixing the old owners fuck ups.

Ads are a non-issue when uBlock Origin exists. But with or without ads out of cards has a shit website design and will take a lot more work to make people jump ship. Besides hearthpwn and outofcards aren't  the only two websites with a fourm. I'll move to the blizzard fourms before I move there if they don't hire or find someone to do a proper job soon.

The hearthstone tavern is the afterlife in WoW, basically when you are killed you shortly wake up in sort of a lucid version of where you died, for example in the animated short 'Hearth and Home' we see a young girl slowly making her way through a inhospitable snow ridden forest and when she pulls out her compass it spins out of control indicating that something is wrong and she isn't on Azeroth any longer, shortly after a magical Stuart Little appears and hands her a chest with the Hearthstone logo carved into it.

It's is naturally hinted at through these subtle clues that are which is deftly woven into this masterpiece that she was laying in the snow dying of hypothermia or after being attacked by wild wolfs shortly before her induction into this mystical place. There is also of course other themes I will get into, for example a few of the patrons of the tavern represent man's cardinal sins such as  the Innkeeper representing Greed, the orge magi representing Sloth beautifully characterized by his single line of "I'm not ready", the orc representing Wrath using his strength to intimidate the child  and also in a genius deconstruction of mentor trope, the Human Magi represents Pride with the line "But fear not, don't you know? A hero rises inside of you!", despite the fact he can no longer effect the material world he cannot let go of what he once was and lies to himself to try and regain the once noble title he had, fruitlessly.

I hope this answers your question.

I personally couldn't give a fuck who runs this place so long as they keep the news updated, frankly if they fix up the UI a bit they already are doing a way better job than Flux ever did.

Quote from Chimera >>

Hearthpwn won't be the same and will quickly be obsolete if it isn't already. 

Heartpwn currently has no mods effectively, so go nuts.

 But aren't you here?

I say met-defining. Only because I like Kingsbane.

I thought we would get a counter card this Rastakhan expansion... A Ooze for 6 mana for a 7/3 stats with battlecry: Silence and destroy your opponents weapon.

Nope... Nothing yet to counter this shit.

Call me when this card gets nerfed.

I literally fell asleep while watching ... Shit decks .. roping every turn .. not showing the new cards ... alot of non sense over analysing shit cards that no one will ever play 

Also Only 34K people watching at peak .. Remember when it used to be 150k+ ???

Can anyone tell me how to counters this cancer shit?

It always bothered me Paladins had no way of becoming immune. Now we just need:

7 mana spell: Hearthstone.

At the end of your next turn, the match ends in a tie.

First off - this isn't a salty "I lost" post so if your only answer is a link to the salt thread please go elsewhere.  I'm also really focusing on standard as that's what I mostly play.  There are two main points - OTK decks and Hall of Fame.

OTK

I feel like there's a lot of inconsistency in the design philosophy of the cards blizzard release when compared with previous statements, nerfs and hall-of-fames (HoF).  In the past the general message appeared to be that decks should be "fun and interactive".  Consequently mill and OTK decks which aim to stall and/or collect combo pieces were actively punished by nerfs and by having key cards rotated to HoF.  Decks like mill rogue, freeze mage, get-in-here warrior no longer exist as a direct result of this.  Yet the recent expansions have have introduced cards which appear aimed entirely at OTK decks (Time warp, Mecha'thun, Malygos shenanigans, Velen mind blast - there are too many to list!).  Now either Blizz doesn't foresee how these cards will end up being used (which is an unlikely and slightly terrifying prospect) or they've decided OTK is now OK (which seems more likely).  The argument that these decks are generally not competitive doesn't sit well with me as 1) they often are competitive and 2) losing a game because you've drawn against a OTK and you're playing control is terrible for the game.   The decisions made in the game should be as important as those going in to the decks  - after all, many people make no decisions about their decks and just copy the best ones off this site.

HoF  

The existence of the hall of fame has always bothered me.  The argument as I understand it is that some classic cards which will never rotate out are used in too many decks and limit the variability of the decks being built.  I think this is bull.  Cards only get used in too many decks when they're not properly balanced making them better than all alternatives.  Take Ragnaros - Lord of fire.  He was a staple in most control decks because he guaranteed 8 damage the turn he was played and was fairly immune to silence effects.   Would he see play today - maybe.  But the swarm nature of many of the decks would make him pretty ineffective in the current (and recent) meta.  Were he nerfed to say 0/8 with the same effect + gain 8 attack battlecry he would see even less play as silence is so prevalent.   Likewise azure drake would not feature in as many decks with a few tweaks.  Which begs the question - why move them to HoF?  Why do some cards get nerfed to oblivion (Warsong commander) while others get HoF? One argument which can't be made is that the HoF cards couldn't be nerfed without dramatically changing the essence of the card, as that's exactly what happened in the Warsong nerf.  So many of the cards which have been HoF could have provided useful tech options to some of the current meta decks (e.g. Sylvanus might have helped against Shudder and Cubelock decks, ice block definitely helps against some OTK, Coldlight oracle could be a useful tool against OTK decks) and after all isn't that part of what this game is about - seeing what cards are getting used regularly and tweaking decks to counter it?

TL/DR - Does Blizz have a design philosophy at all and why does the HoF exist when we have nerfs?  It feels to me like Blizz has no overarching ideology for how this game should play and is just making shit up as they go.