Hearthpwn

Ah, okay. I don't play arena so I wasn't aware of how it works.

The key difference in my opinion that makes Hearthstone absolutely unforgiving for new players that aren't willing to spend money is actually the crafting system; with cards having flat value, it can be more difficult to convert one crazy pull into insane value.

As an example, I used to play Magic: the Gathering. If I cracked a pack and got a good pull, it could mean getting enough store credit at my LGS to buy more packs or singles; if I kept it, I could trade it to someone for key deck pieces or sell it for cash. The dust system makes it so if I pull a legendary, it's worth 400 dust with no variation unless it's golden. Every card of a given rarity is worth the same and costs the same to craft. The alternative would be a trade-based economy where cards have dynamic values based on player perception rather than set values put in place by the developers. 

The static values of a dust-based system that allows for crafting has definitely been convenient for me at several points in the past; being able to save my dust from duplicates alone and make legendary cards is pretty convenient. Unfortunately, the four-to-one ratio most crafting follows ensures I wait a long time for such an occasion, rather than a trade based system possibly allowing me to go 1:1.

Just my two cents.

I can't even really play enough right now to know if it's fun; my preorder packs didn't leave me with enough cards or dust to make a somewhat viable deck. All the basic staple decks (tempo mage, control paladin, midrange hunter) for people with little to no money to spend on the game get ripped apart by pretty much everything I've played against since the set launched. Best advice I have is wait it out; have friends help you grind quests so you can get gold without having to waste a bunch of time with decks that don't work. I'm always told to play Arena and go infinite because it's apparently easy, but I've never gone more than 4-3.

what great insight

certainly haven't seen you say that before

Kind of surprised that no one has suggested Stitched Tracker, wouldn't it be pretty good?

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I'm so confused at this point, I don't I will ever be able to predict anything anymore. If Hunter gets 10-mana Dragon then for all I know they might push Beast Mage next...

Wasp seems like it COULD be good from my inexperienced perspective; having Inner Rage or Animated Berserker would mean that you could use it to work down Voidwalker or Northshire Cleric and still have a 4/1 on the board.

I'd definitely like to watch this card and see what happens with it.

I think I'd like to see some more spoilers first. Seventy packs or no, it's $50 I can avoid spending if it ends up not looking like a fun purchase.

I should have elaborated; I'm not a free-to-play player. I just want to find a more efficient way to utilize gold so I can minimize spending. I appreciate your advice, I'll continue to dust all golden cards. 

Personally, I wish that packs from Wild expansions would have been available for purchase with gold for a short time. What do you think could have been implemented or done better?

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I have made plenty of competitive and non competitive decks before, I beleive that this was very good a few days ago and I do understand that the meta is shifting extremely fast. Also this is not the easiest deck to play, but its definitely not bad in my point of view. You are free to dislike the deck my dude.

Alright. So before I say what I'm going to say I'm putting out a disclaimer. I'm not raging at the deck nor the creator of the deck; however, I am stating a opinionated view because, frankly, I was a little troubled about this.

The positive thing about this deck is that it's cool and fun to play. It was a creative idea and it deserves credit to that. Although, the problem is that this deck (competitively) is not all that powerful. In control match-ups you don't really have all that good of cards to put pressure. Most of the time you scratch away at their face only to have your threats picked off and removed. Two examples I can give: facing hadronox druid w/ good early game draw (but not keleseth) does not put enough pressure to put them in a game ending situation. They can very easily turn the corner on you and get a big board of taunts. Not only can they turn the corner on you, but another problem this deck has is its late game: there is none. From my experience you go to fatigue often in these control match-ups and you lose there. This deck draws somewhat a lot and burns out of it's threats quickly. My second example from facing a control deck was a big spell variant of mage. Even with a turn 2 keleseth the mage easily wiped off my early game threats, proceded to play frost lich jaina, and grinded me out. 

Alright so it's easy to say control matchups are not really that easy for this deck to beat. However, the aggro matchups are not good enough to make this deck worth playing. The reason decks like Hadronox druid are seeing play is because they specialize in destroying aggro and being able to pull a win from a control match-up. This deck is bad against control and sub-par against aggro.

Finally this is what troubled me: it wasn't the fact that the deck didn't perform good; it was the fact that the creator played it off like it did. Not only did he do that but as with every other deck this guy posts he beseeches the viewers for up-votes to the point where it is excessive. He states that, "I bet you would never beleive that a heal paladin could rival with the most any top tier deck in terms of tempo or being able to control a board as effectively as possible. Not so. With this deck, not only will you be able to have the nuttiest of curve but also be able to clear your opponent's board with ease!". In my point of view this is not the case. Right now tier 1 consists of: Quest rogue, Even paladin, odd paladin, spiteful druid, and cubelock. Currently, I'd say that this deck v.s. any of the control-ish tier 1 decks has a sore chance at winning. And it has a very sub-par chance at winning against the aggro portion. SO. My point is maybe stop asking for up-votes on decks you claim are competetive (and are not) and take time to make something good competitively. OR put a disclaimer to not come off like it's a competitive deck and say it's just for fun.

All in all if you wanna have fun go ahead and play it. But if you're looking for something to climb the ladder with go somewhere else.

This is just a terrible terrible deck.. sadly. Had hopes, even crafted stuff for it.. eh..

I'm so confused at this point, I don't I will ever be able to predict anything anymore. If Hunter gets 10-mana Dragon then for all I know they might push Beast Mage next...

Sorry for writing that's here, but i just cannot not say that. I just noticed that card-reveal-countdown on the right bar of main page. That is great idea, coz it was pain in the ass to keep tracking it by yourself. Much thankful to the one who did that. Good job guys