Hearthpwn

When I first started playing HS and saw the complaints on the forums for an auto-squelch feature, I thought people were just be dramatic. But now I get it. The number of times I greet people and get met with silence, then throw out a "well played" when they've got lethal to be met with a BM "greetings" is probably 10-15% of matches. How hard is to just not be a cunt? If you don't want to "chat" fine, but to be a cunt to someone who's congratulating you on victory is just asinine. Seriously, who hurt you so much that you meet friendliness with dickishness? 

I had a "legendary" weekend - opened 3 Legendaries in 5 packs (Gral, Loti, & Malacrass).

Also to the person playing Spell Damage Warlock while I played Even Elemental Hand Mage - I know you didn't accept my friend request because you thought I was going to BM, but I really just wanted to thank you for actually playing a Casual deck in Casual.

Let's get ready to RUMMBBBLLLLEEEE!

This could be both offensive (getting a good one for yourself) AND defensive by swapping your opponent's Rexar/Jaina for a Garrosh or Anduin that doesn't fit their deck. Of course with the Discover it could be that your 3 options are trash and theirs are great, but what do you expect when you make a deal with the Lich King?

When BM Goes Bad: Playing Mechathun Druid against a Secret Mage. I draw just abysmally while they draw very well - it's obvious by turn 6 or 7 that I'm not winning this. By Turn 11 or so they've got lethal so I throw down the toothless combo and "Well Played" and wait for the kill shot...but now they start emoting over and over and don't take lethal. Now this secret deck had a ton of pull in it, including Subject 9 and Glacial Mysteries, so funnily enough they enter Fatigue before I do. After I think 8 full turns of ignoring lethal while BMing, they're down to 10 life and 5 dmg Fatigue. I assume they were planning to kill me next turn before the Fatigue did them in, but I guess they weren't expecting that Starfire I had been holding. I am *a little* shamed to admit I did throw another "Well Played" at them when I ended my turn and the 6 dmg Fatigue blew them up.

Why is it every time you get the "win 2/3 games with X class" quest you can't STEAL a damn win?! I'm freaking 2-10 trying to win with a warlock deck with which I NORMALLY have a 55% win rate...I just want my third win so I can be done for the day...

Playing my "all the demons" warlock trying to complete the victories quest and roll into 3 odd warriors in a row. Wouldn't have me that salty, but in all 3 matches I played Bane of Doom and got Howlfiend in. all. 3. matches. There are 25 demons currently in standard, so the odds of pulling the same demon in 3 successive rolls is 0.0064%. Fuck you math, this is why nobody likes you!

I'm bummed that Dragon Warrior isn't as strong as I was hoping when RR launched, but man it is nice when I run into the cancerous sadsacks playing Spell Hunter in Casual. Just fill up the board with sticky dragons without attacking, drop Alexstrasza to cut their health in half and all the secrets in the world won't save them from the OTK's worth of SMOrc. Bagged 2 already today; probably a dozen in the last week or so.

I finally decided to make a run on getting Arthas and this guide has been crazy helpful. Most of these have worked like a charm so thanks a ton!

Random question for anyone who's beaten it: does it give you a little crown or anything over the shrine you've beaten it with like it did for Dungeon Run/Monster Hunt? Just curious if it tracks that too.

Rank 20 Floor: Players that achieve Rank 15 or higher during their Hearthstone career can no longer fall below Rank 20. This should ensure better matches for rank 20 to rank 25 players.

Generally I think it's a strong keyword - no obvious detractions (i.e. it sucks when you pull out a good battlecry minion in a way that doesn't trigger the battlecry) I can see; just all additive or at least netural. My (wholly uneducated) guesses based on what I would play:

Ironhide Direhorn - Probably won't see much play
Baited Arrow - I'm definitely adding to my Spell Hunter deck. Can see it being played in the hybrid decks that run Houndmaster and other beast buffs too.
Blast Wave - Mage has a lot of board clears already so not sure. Might see play before rotation as would be a huge boon to Mage Quest.
Farraki Battleaxe - really not sure if Buff Paladin is going to become a thing or not, especially while Odd Paladin is still so strong.
Totemic Smash - lol nope
Akali, the Rhino - On it's own nope, but the synergy with the totem makes me think it'll get used. A 9/9 Darius Crowley or 8/7 Zilliax would be pretty amazing...
Sul'thraze - Conditionally playable, but Warrior already has so many board clears...
Oondasta - Yeah I'm sure a lot of Hunter and Druids will play
Linecracker - I think so. The statline pretty is good on it's own, so can see this finding its way into decks
Arena Patron - Will definitely see meme play at least. Will be interesting to see if it becomes legit.
Sightless Ranger - Doubt it will see much play
Half-Time Scavenger - Maybe? It's just such a disjointed card I can't really guess.
Ticket Scalper - Some play at least, especially in decks without a lot of card draw.
Gurubashi Chicken - I'm looking forward to making a meme beast deck centered around buffing this bad boy to a ridiculous level. I'm sure the 5% of times I win with it will be worth the 95% of times I get my teeth kicked in.

Playing Deathrattle Rogue against Elemental Mage. Some lucky breaks push the game to the end of the deck, but they already got up Frost Lich Jaina so I know it's a lost cause but whatever let's play it out. They play Sindragosa and hero power the frozen champions while i'm fighting them off. At this point I have 1 card in my hand - Assassinate - and draw my last before fatigue - Violet Haze. Play Haze and get Plated Beetle and...Mecha'thun. Toss the beetle out to get killed even though there's no way to make this work, right? Not unless the Mage plays one of the legendaries they got off Frozen Champions...and it just happens to be Duskfallen Aviana. So next turn play the 0-cost Mecha'thun, Assassinate it, and snatch sweet victory from the frozen jaws of defeat all while the mage is spamming "Wow" over and over. Because yeah that earns it.

Mmmm...blood of the weak.