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While I understand your point, I think you're overreacting a bit. Currently the game does not do much to welcome new players who wont spend a ton of money or want to grind for months to catch up to where veteran players are. These quests would be easy if people in casual understood what their opponent was doing and helped it along. The faster these quests get met the faster the newer players will gain gold and better decks to compete on the level they really want to compete. Nobody who is new wants to just spam quests all day long. They do it to gain gold for packs and adventures so they can become part of the community. That's exactly where I am now. Went into casual today to do the Druid quest and finished it in a couple of games while trying to win with the crappiest deck possible. In some way it was more fun than getting destroyed in casual by veterans testing their legendary decks on my noob deck. It is definitely a step in the right direction. Eventually it will even out a bit and we will all be happy with the outcome. Give it time. 

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I am in ! i am not alone ! Thank you BSDAVE for the thread !

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Love this thread! 37 here. Job, wife, 2 kids. Used to play MTG for 15+ years. It became to expensive for me and hard to get to events. Hearthstone is so much cheaper and accessible for me. 

Please tell me I'm not the only one. Let me know other guys and gals are out there like me!

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I want these slippers. I need these slippers.

Ok looks like I'm keeping it. Lol. Thanks everyone. 

This is why I'm asking for help.

lul wild. lul nzoth in wild (one of the strongest archetypes there). lul throwing in stalag/feugen in a nzoth deck probably with sludge belchers shredders and boom to prove it "works". Yeah, if you tech in some decent/okay cards into an already powerful wild deck pretty much anything works. In wild you can pretty much do anything you want as long as you actually know how to play and you have a vast collection. There's a decent amount of original decks in wild from rank 5-20 because of the insane synergy and combos and cards that can work there, the only reason you see so many secret pallys is because it is one of the strongest decks in wild and after tempostorm came out with a tier list for wild, naturally everyone netdecked a tier 1 deck.

Wild was more unique before that tier list but after rank 5 there you pretty much see all the same decks, just like standard, because people are competitive and want to climb for legend, and if captain greenskin was in a tier 1 pirate deck then he would be played too. Most of those guys who are playing secret pally in wild do so because they want to win and it's a tier 1 deck, their definition of fun is winning, and most of those rank 3-6 players who are ABLE to actually play in the wild aren't too hindered by 1600 dust or a greenskin because they can just craft it if he wasn't just a niche legendary. Look up "time value of money", it's basic economics, to a new player 400 dust NOW is much more valuable and impactful than a captain greenskin later since he doesn't even have the resources to run a pirate deck. Plus the fact that 400 dust NOW can help him win games, makes decks and build a collection that can help him finish quests easier which snowballs the whole cycle.

Op is a beginner, I doubt he is playing wild and it'll take a long time before he even has a decent enough collection to play standard. I doubt he has adventures or naxx, I doubt he has even 1/10th of the cards to play a control warrior, I doubt he has nzoth which is one of the best legendaries from wotg and in the wild, I doubt he even has the baseline epics/rares like azure drake or brawl/shield slam. To people like us who already have huge collections, who have most of the cards, and who don't really care about the extra 400 dust enough (because we've been playing long enough to have most of the stuff to play whatever we want), yeah keeping greenskin or cho or whatever can be usable for fun decks. This dude who's playing can't even afford the dust for the basic cards to build around a pirate deck (read earlier posts).

400 dust is insane for a beginner and can really jumpstart a new player, I would gladly dust most legendaries not named sylvanos or rag or thalnos if I was a new player, but as a experienced player I don't mind keeping a nat pagle or cho. For the OP, 400 dust especially as a NEW player is so much valuable. Cmon dude, time value of money (or dust in this case). You're looking at it from a experienced player perspective who has the collection and luxury to play wild and have most of the cards to even be able to utilize a greenskin. To the op, most likely greenskin is pretty much gonna sit there doing nothing for a year while he gathers a collection that could be jumpstarted by the extra dust. 

I'm sorry, what? These new quests are the best thing to ever happen to casual. Now instead of running into netdecked Hunters and Shamans, you get to actually play against hilarious builds like an all-enrage all-battlecry deck. I built a self-mill suicide Rogue to do my 50 Rogue cards quest, and it was a glorious experience both for me and my opponents.

These new quests are so healthy for the game, it makes me wish they'd get rid of all the quests that require winning. It's an elegant solution to the tryhard mindset that's poisoned even casual mode for so long. 

I would dust it, 400 dust and being able to craft important rares/commons and cheap decks to get you going in the beginning has so much more impact and value than keeping a niche legendary that's barley used except for gimmick decks. I mean to even build fun pirate decks (they are not reallly competitive in any way, they're just a fun gimmick right now and nowhere even in the tier lists of the meta) you need to have a decent classic collection which you're lacking anyways, that 400 free dust is a godsend to beginners. Especially since in the beginning most of the cards you get from packs are useful since you don't have anything so unless you're dusting everything you get, 400 dust takes a long time to come by. Plus what's the chance that you have another 1000 dust lying around just for a specific pirate deck to actually be able to make use of captain greenskin? And if you do and use all your dust on it, the only thing you have to play (somewhat competitively) is a single pirate deck which is meh imo.

When I started I dusted "fun" legendaries like illidan and even a okay one like the black knight/malygos because I can't use it and get value from it anyways (since I lacked the decks and cards to utilize these legendaries even for "fun", even now malygos requires a deck built around him and black knight is a tech card to complete good and usually expensive decks) and it made the game so much easier, fun, and helped me progress a lot more faster by having that dust to actually build cheap full complete decks that can actually win. 

I completely agree BSDAVE about the quests without needing wins. I'll see what I can do about a guide in the coming days here. I used to play this game because I wanted to win. Then I realized that doesn't sum up what the game is about. It's a game. The point is to have fun. If you are constantly getting frustrated remember you are spending your free time doing it, and perhaps reevaluate what you want out of it. Like I said I played since launch and have a huge collection. Now it's about developing new deck ideas and sharing them and other tips to other players which I hope will help and inspire them. I love pulling off some epic combos that I'll never forget. If you look at my pirate deck, I've cast a 21/4 on a legend ranked player for 2 mana. Even though I couldn't see his face I knew he *%#¥ his pants. That to me is fun. If you ever need help in game send me a friend request the username is Serpa I'm number 1461. I forget if you need the #'s. 

Dust only duplicates and goldens, because we don't know what the future holds.

53 here.  My kids got me in to  yugioh when they were little kids.  I found HS about a year ago when my 26 year old son was playing it.  It is a good and entertaining game but I do wish for little less rng in the future expansion.

Just joined club 40 this year. Glad to know I'm in good company. 

37, but I don't play much beyond keeping up to date with my quests and laddering up to 15 or so each month. The fact that the game is so accommodating to such an approach means I'll likely be here forever. That, and the large amount of $$$ I front-loaded into the game 2.5 years ago means I can play with a full collection and little to no monetary input from here on out.

31 Here, would still play at 40.

40 here. I quit WoW two years ago when my daughter was born (just not enough hours in the day), so the odd game of Hearthstone is all that's left to me.