Hearthpwn

Blizzard don't want to make cards that attack your opponent's hand, I believe.

If you're facing a lot of Harrison Jones rather than decks like Zoo, change it up to Hammer of Twilight. Very poor value to use Harrison on that.

You shouldn't replace Tunnel Trogg because a replacement that's as good doesn't exist. Just craft it, it's 80 dust for both.

Competition Restraints:

• Mana cost of 7.
• Attack value of 7.
• 7 words in the card text.

Clarifications:

• Dealing combat damage first works when both attacking or being attacked.
• Attacking into or being attacked by a War Golem at full health will result in the War Golem dying and Maiev Shadowsong surviving, taking no damage in the progress.
• Attacking into or being attacked by a Molten Giant will result in the Molten Giant taking 7 damage, then Maiev Shadowsong taking 8 damage and dying.
• Two copies of Maiev Shadowsong attacking each other will deal damage at the same time for the sake of simplicity.

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Words can be very harmful, but as a recipient of it, you have some control over that.

Setting the 15yo's post about victim blaming aside, all you have control over is how you respond to the hate.

Chances are the person who flamed you was not thinking about you 10 minutes later. If you were still upset about his flaming, you've given him an amount of power over you that he isn't concerned about having and shouldn't have over you anyways. 

As far as dealing with it for children (as I'd like to set my daughter up with an account), it's a teaching moment on how to deal with internet trolls by not feeding them, which will be a useful lesson with all the other challenges she will face in life.

I like everything the OP said, but I think I disagree with the overall premise. I think people should focus most on what they have direct control over - our own responses to incidents like this. And less on what you cannot possibly stop others from doing.

My 2 cents.

It's easy to tell people to not worry about it when they get flamed or insulted but it's not really so easy to put into practice. There's plenty of people out there who will think nothing of it and just brush it off, but there are also many people out there that will be affected by it to some degree -- either slightly or majorly.

It's not so easy to just decide that you're no longer going to react to a certain stimulus. You eat something that tastes disgusting and it'll be "Don't let the taste bother you!". You stub your little toe and it'll be "Don't let the pain bother you!". In many cases these stimuli aren't severe enough that they'll leave lasting damage, similar to online insults, but it's difficult to just ignore them.

0: Preparation
1: Leper Gnome
2: Mad Scientist
3: Big Game Hunter
4: Fireball
5: Sludge Belcher
6: Emperor Thaurissan
7: Flamestrike
8: Tirion Fordring
9: Mal'Ganis
10: Mind Control

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But Gold Garrosh still the most awsome. And it's free!

True story. 

You say it's free, but I could work for half an hour and have enough money to buy a portrait. How long would I need to spend winning games to get Gold Garrosh?

Don't kid yourselves win-farmers. The only positive to come out of this is you getting your gold portrait. Don't make up crap about making low ranks "more competitive" to "help people learn". If you were so concerned about helping people learn you'd be volunteering your time to coach people. People don't get better by being beaten by people better than them. They get better by people better than them telling them why they aren't winning.

What I don't get is why people don't just play the game to get their gold portraits? Is the only reason you play this game for rewards and validation? If you're willing to sink so much time grinding into the game surely you actually enjoy playing it? Why not enjoying playing it while you earn your gold portrait?

I take it you're not having a ton of fun grinding wins at low ranks -- it's probably boring as heck. The new player is having no fun either. The new player is going to quit if they just keep getting stomped and see the only out as "pay to win".

obliterator has the drawback of costing 4 black.

This would give too many tips to your opponent.

Wait what

I think Tauren and Shaman are not the issues. The hero I am most curious about is Warlock. And I am curious about the Paladin hero, because the hero power seems to restrict a Paladin to an alliance human one. Lets see.

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You can repeat that it negatively impacts something as much as you want, there is no evidence of that. So just stop using it as an argument as if it was valid.

You say that it affects newbies, I told you how when I was a newbie it didn't. So I gave you proof of otherwise. So unless you have a counter to that, stop replying to me, much appreciated.

 Well aren't you the master of this thread? While farming R20 doesn't hurt anyone (and it really doesnt). The fact that you find joy in grinding out newbs at R20 is pretty lame. Blah blah you want free stuff quick blah blah sure. If you want to go at it 6h a day for about 6 months to grab all those portraits, sure its up to you. It is not however, how this game was intended to be played or how the portraits were intended to be aquired. The devs (likely) didn't say, "OHHH well if someone farms newbs they can get the portraits quicker yeah!!" .

People think you (R20 farmers) are a douche(s) because golden portraits are supposed to be a thing attained out of battling your way to the top over time, and gained as a testament to your adherence to Hearthstone core gameplay values. Blood sweat and tears. Instead you water the reward down into nothing. As a result of this trend most people scoff at golden portraits now for both Warlock and Hunter. A damn shame since Warlock is my class and it sucks to think people believe i got my portrait from farming newbs like you and others. 

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I don't look at means to reach my goals.

A person who'd proudly state those words... That is the exact definition I've always had about rank 20 farmers.

You seem to think you are the only f2p player in this thread but you are wrong. Many others here struggled their way to a better rank and collection (including myself) and not everyone shares your opinion about the matter. 

I even thought about quitting the game during a streak of horrible losses to players that clearly didn't belong in my rank. 

I know there isn't a perfect matchmaking system in any game so one should expect one-sided matches from time to time but getting beaten repeatedly by farmers wasn't fun at all.

You never complained about the farmers because you obviously always shared their line of thoughts. Anybody who didn't (such as myself) would, most certainly, complain about it.

It must be so satisfying playing the card right out your deck for 5 consecutive turns and win the game. I see your satisfaction through roping when having lethal in your hand, saying as much well played as possible and tries to add me after the game. No thanks. 

Famine
Hunter Spell
6 mana
Deal 2 damage to all minions. If this kills any minions summon a Starving Buzzard.

Change log: 5/14 - Updated effect text to make it more clear that this card summons only one Starving Buzzard no matter how many minions it kills.

Well, lots of ideas this time (all still in rough form).

Not yet sure which I want to revise.