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Quote from Gucciboi23 >>

ramp: the amount of ramp cards currently have not been changed, but thank to cards such as ultimate infestation you can now afford to play a lot more of them and in the example of nourish, be able to use the ramp option more frequently. the ramp cards are as following, innervate wild growth jade blossom and nourish                                                                                                                                                                                         - ramp cards by themselves are dead cards, cards with no impact and therefor needs a good amount of value in order to be justified to put into a deck, especially if you play all of them with all these current forms of ramp options you can ramp for a total of 8 mana, if you re fast enough.

No.  The single largest factor in climbing the ladder is time.  Second is knowledge of the game.  Third is card pool (which can be achieved by paying or investing a lot of time).  I think this has been repeatedly proved by streamers who run F2P accounts to legend (Disguised Toast did one recently, Trump had done some multiple times in the past).  If you know the game well (all the cards, popular decks to play around) and have the time to invest (so as to minimize the impact of variance/rng over a large sample size) then you can have a consistently high win rate without paying.

I do feel the game is pay to have fun some of the time though, because it's hard to mess around with a lot of the fun legendary cards if you don't play a lot and don't have tons of hours to sink into the game without paying for packs and getting dust to craft what you want.

Quote from NationOfKnives >>

I wouldn't go so far as to talk about a "meta" in the first few days of an expansion.^^

This is a very fun deck.  What are your thoughts on adding a Circle of Healing to go for the classic cleric+circle combo?  I have found in many matches that I have multiple injured minions on board and I am running out of cards in hand.

I never have the time to make the climb to legend.  I typically end up around rank 10 each season. I keep myself motivated by playing decks that I find fun, like elemental handbuff paladin.  It's not a good deck and I don't win much, but I enjoy the play style.  For some people winning is the most fun, in which case find a good meta deck and have at it.  It's all about knowing how you can get the most enjoyment out of the game and then not letting other people's expectations and judgment get you down.

Thought I was rocking it with my Guldan deck, then Anduin showed me the light ... er, shadow?

I personally have hung out in chat after a stream ends.  Sometimes for the luls sometimes because I have just had the stream on in the background and can't be bothered to switch over and close it out. 

Viewbotting is a serious accusation and I think it shouldn't be thrown around so lightly 

With the new pack and legendary rules, you are guaranteed in first 10, 1 guaranteed every 40 thereafter.  So in 90 packs you can expect 3 legendaries and in 130 packs you can expect 4.  The averages will be a bit higher, but I think it's good to go in with the minimum expectations since someon has to be on the low and (and it feels like its typically me! [confirmation bias].

Personally, I opened 87 packs and only got 3 legendaries (Anduin, Archbishop, Arfus).  Below average?  Probably, but not lower than expected.

Two Big Questions to ask for each legendary:

(1) do you plan on opening any packs from the set the legendary is from again?  If so, keeping it will prevent you from re-drawing it again.  For example, I would not dust Onyxia because you get classic packs from tavern brawls and this card has seen play (and is often good for brawls/pve content).

(2) do you have a need for the dust now?  If you don't have an immediate need for the dust, then keep the card until you do.  I think its a good idea to only dust cards when I need to craft something else to make a deck I am actually playing with work/be better.  Otherwise, hold out to prevent drawing dupes, to keep the card in case it suddenly finds a use, or on the off chance it gets changed so you get more dust back for it.

I always love references, here are some of my favorites in KFT:

• Druid of the Swarm  The Druid awoke from troubling dreams to find herself transformed into a giant spider.  (Kafka's Metamorphosis.);
• Abominable Bowman Frosty the Bowman ... was an angry hateful soul ... with a fresh hewn bow and a missing nose ... (Frosty the Snowman)
• Bolvar, Fireblood He's so hot right now (Zoolander)
• Archbishop Benedictus Nobody expects the Archbishop's benediction! (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Snowfury Giant This minion goes all the way to 11! (This is Spinal Tap)

sneed's old abomination

Stealth nerf to Ironforge Portal

In all seriousness though, this one works well with that new Warlock spell Treachery

Quote from zorthander >>

I really was hoping for a free arena run and a KFT pack to rejoice until we get the expansion...

Team 5 ruined my expectations when they said we would have 3 weeks and 3 arena runs and then we just got 2 of them.

Quote from irthewinner >>

Validated Doomsayer

Doomsayer

Nerubian Egg

Lightspawn

Lightwell

Flametongue Totem

Primalfin Totem

Mana Tide Totem

Vitality Totem

Summoning Portal

Blood Imp

Public Defender

Dragon Egg

Runic Egg

Shieldbearer

Lorewalker Cho

Alarm-o-Bot

Devilsaur Egg

Street Trickster

Summoning Stone

Nat Pagle

Target Dummy

The official art won't be like this, it just looks blurry because the images we recreated them from were so small. When we get better art we'll update. Hearthstone is known for fantastic art, I wouldn't worry.

To everyone saying this expac see the last 3 cards.They are done with the filler shit and start revealing the big boys

Secret Hunter is back? 

If the idea is to control the board and drag the game out until you can whip out Deathstalker Rexxar and his Build-A-Beast Hero Power, then yeah, I can totally see Secret Hunter being a lot more dangerous with this expansion.