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Legendary cards that 100% will see play in some shape or form are imo:

Keeper staladris (No reason, Not to play this card)

Jepetto Joybuzz (Greatest neutral combo enabler)

High potentials, but entirely dependent on the success off the decktype are Blastmaster boom (i would say that bomb warrior is 100% meta, although it‘s quite strong rn), Kalecgos (if not this meta then probably the next) and scargil.

Barista will probly also find it‘s deck at some point! 

Had some weard DC‘s on mobile aswell. Lost a 8-2 arena Match because of it :‘(. But probably just a coincidence

I don‘t realy care about classes that much. As long as there is diversity in playstyles, i‘m happy!

That being said, deathstalker rexxar gave hunter the ability to play aggro and control at the same time! No bueno, glad it‘s over in a couple houres. Still a fun card when you play it yourself though!

Amazing achievement! Now go for the 12-0 :P Arena can be a fun place and a great way to save/earn gold! I got the 12-0 twice in over 2000 total arena wins so prepare for a long grind! Even the best players have to rely on luck for this one .. 

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Cloning priest‘s (Standard) consistancy has gone up a lot, otherwise it‘s a new Barnes at best! (Wich is still pretty good).

With shadowy essence and spellstone rotating, his reign is soon to be over.. 

 Any mage deck with Arcane Intellect or Cinderstorm or any warrior deck with Shield block or the dragon spell can use this card easily and get a lot of value from it.

I play control most of the time, this card and Zilliax will be in all my decks.

 Sure but in this scenario, it‘s just a 3rd copy of good spells. As i said, at best a Barnes-like effect for spells. 

Priests can double, tripple,.... up his effect which makes this card realy strong! And that is only with resurrection but they are pretty good cloners aswell!

Cloning priest‘s (Standard) consistancy has gone up a lot, otherwise it‘s a new Barnes at best! (Wich is still pretty good).

With shadowy essence and spellstone rotating, his reign is soon to be over.. 

No Profit at all in crafting golden cards when you already own the normal one (except rares: 10 dust Profit).

example: for a normal Baku, you get 1600 dust.

When you craft a golden Baku (-3200), blizzard Refunds only the golden one for 3200. You can disenchant it for 1600, so you net profit 1600. It‘s exactly the same to not crafting it in the first place.

Don‘t bother disenchanting commons and rares, the outcome is not worth it. 

I do disenchant all those „never-gonna-play“ epics and legendarys. I just don‘t realy know what to do with some of the quests and especially golden Valeera the shallow... 

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Well, i personaly sorta like the Ladder System - and it´s way better now than back in the days without save floors etc.

The only thing to make the 5 to legend grind more manageable would be to keep the winstreak bonus up to rank 2 or even 1 i think.

The other idea could be to invent more "save floors"! but i still like the Winstreak Bonus idea more :)

 It should still remain an accomplishment to reach legend, shouldn‘t it? In a bonus star system, everone can easily get there.. and that would defeat the whole point of legend.

It‘s simple but effective. Bad matchups are part of CCG‘s. People talk about a ban option but imo this only causes less diversity because some decks would litteraly become unplayable.

I wouldn‘t say that skill is not rewarded. Keep in mind that the competition at high ranks is big! Positive winrates between R3-1 can only be obtained by above average players. I know this isn‘t entirely true because 0 Star - Rank 5 matches fuel stars into the ladder.

My proposition wouldn‘t be a change to the ladder (in the end it‘s still all about your winrate, doesnt matter how many stars you get!). I would prefere an in-game stat tracker to analyse your gameplay and to show off to some friends (or oponents)

I would even go so far and say that you should get extra seconds per card played. Animations can be frustating and it feels realy bad when they interrupt your play! 

It‘s almost never relevant that your oponents animations take off time of your own turn but i guess this could be fixed easily by starting the turn only when the animations are through.

In the end, it‘s those animations that make hearthstone special for me, when compared to other CCG‘s

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Because, contrary to popular belief, the meta is in a great place right now, based on the number of viable decks. Also, lots of decks are still fun, and new decks are great to try out.

 Nice, i‘m not the only one!

Personally, it‘s the collecting aspect that get‘s me hooked the most. I go for legend every other month or so either because i reach rank 3 „by accident“ or because i find a deck particulary enjoyable. 

Hearthstone just offers something for every mood. Got lots of time and want to go on a raid? Arena is your place. Fancy some crazy interactions? There a plenty of meme decks! Not in a competitive mood? Just chill in a solo adventure. 

I think we have to differenciate between „popular“ and „good design“. 

It‘s almost impossible to have most cards see play in the era of netdecking and large scale Data analysis. Popularity is unpredictibel and meta dependent.

But the cards we have seen so far are >90% interesting! This has not often been the case. Granted, pack fillers probably will be revealed at the final reveal stream. 

Strange.. some of those are the cards i will miss the most :P

Lyra, defile, tar creeper (except turn 3 in arena), fireplumes hearth and even psychic scream. I know, most hate that last one! 

Following your list, you hate game swinging cards, early agressive/tempo cards and relevant rng. Nothing much left i would say? 

Not to forget: the expansions before witchwood offered only 50 packs/50$ without any legendary at all. And the „no duplicate legendary“ rule is a big game changer aswell! So yes, witchwood was generous but all in all it‘s still better then before! 

Maybe it‘s because the frozen throne expansion was hearthstones all-time financial high and they wanted to give something back to the community?