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I was getting Wisp once I played the portal ... You just want to give up the match after this ...

The same happen to me : I know how sad it is.... When I played my Wisp, I was thinking what minion could be worse and couldn't find an answer....

Until the next turn ^^ I drew my second Unstable Portal and got a Dust Devil -_-"

Hey now. That Dust Devil was an upgrade from the wisp!

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I can definitely relate to the OP's frustration but I also don't feel it will be nerfed any time soon.

The thing with Unstable Portal is there are far more decent draws than bad. Hell, there's more extremely good/broken draws than bad. You have to have pretty bad luck to get a bad draw with it. Of course, most people that play it enough will see a bad card every once in a while. Hell, I've seen a bad card a few times and I barely play mage. However, you're much more likely to see decent or good cards.

The list of bad draws, (IMO):

• Any 0 or 1 cost minion
• Captain's Parrot
• Alarm-o-Bot*
• Starving Buzzard

That's pretty much it. Captain's Parrot is just terrible but in arena, it can still be useful. Alarm-o-bot is equally terrible but given perfect conditions can be good. Lastly Starving Buzzard is terrible but even then, it just makes it a vanilla 2 mana 3/2 and in arenas, it's still possibly to gain card draw. So, even these completely terrible cards still aren't even that bad, they're just not going to be as useful as just about any other draw.

So, these cards along with the 0-1 cost minions make up about 15% of the minion pool, meaning that every time you cast Unstable Portal, there's approx an 85% chance that you'll get something that isn't atrocious. Now I'm not suggesting that every other card is going to be amazing, but every other card with the discounted cost is going to end up being pretty decent and many of the times, will be outright overpowered.

Alarm-o-Bot actually has a really good chance of being good from Unstable portal. Turn 2 has a decent chance of surviving... And it stays 0 cost. So you can keep replaying it over and over again for free. That's actually pretty amazing. You do need to find a way to sneak him in obviously, but if that'ts one of your 3 worst possibilities... That ain't bad.

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Angry Chicken is the best Portal minion

Fixed your typos.

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To explain more if you care why I don't want to try for Legendary. You need to memorize the other Meta decks. That part isn't hard. Then you need to memorize their ideal starting hand. And what your ideal starting hand is against them. Personally, it gets more and more mechanical for me. Like long uninterruptable combos in a fighting game. To be competitive it is necessary, but it makes it feel like work for me.

This is the point of legend. It is supposed to be "work", skill and effort. Not a free reward. This is why it gives you a sense of achievement to reach it, and why it is fun to go for it.

That's fine that you feel that way. For me it's a game, and the achievement is making a great play in a deck I actually made. Not a title. That commitment might be for you, but it isn't for everyone, or even the majority. Finding a balance between top tier players, those who want to be, and then the 80% of other players is necessary. They are struggling with that right now.

If so than that must have been a glitch. There doesn't seem to be a reason it wouldn't work.

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If someone uses a card or two to take out Belcher, he did his job.

That's the point. He's not doing his job, if the card takes two cards plus great but that isn't the case any more. I've swapped him out for 2 [card]Arcane Nullifier X-21[/card] and the card is making a difference. 

So he isn't taking at least one card totaling 5 or more mana? If that's the case than you are in a lot of trouble. Because even polymorph + ping costs a mage 1 more mana than it does to play Belcher in the first place. So he successfully stalled a turn.

If someone uses a card or two to take out Belcher, he did his job.

Has this been tested yet? It might just give one since he destroys all mechs. But they could trigger simultaneously and both summon.

There are 6 turns prior to that where if needed, mage has several other removal spells. And ya know, other minions.

Hello all,

I really like the site and use the pre-made decks quite a lot (and tweak them a little to suit my tastes), however I kind of miss an essential option, now that I've reg'd.
It's true that sometimes you need to create the cards (or look for a good alt) to use in a deck. But what if you don't have any dust or painstakingly have to destroy some to obtain the amount? Wouldn't it be nice if you could submit the cards you have to the site and then use that information as a filter? This way you can rummage through decks you can complete, in essence: Elevated F2P, if you will.

Your thoughts, please.

why do people go to casual just to all play hunter and zoo... there is no real casual mode because everyone still plays tryhard decks

 why cant we have a mode where people play just for fun, its tiring playing every game vs people who either win by turn 5 or concede

this is not the expansion but the players. There are tons of options for new decks but as long as the "i want to ladder fast" mentality stays we wont see much new decks. with gvg there are now options for so many new archetypes but as long as people keep being shit at the game the game it self wont progress. I honestly feel sorry for all the people rushing to legend with netdecked hunters thinking they know how to play the game.  If you try making decks yourself and you will see how much gvg opens up for new archs. There are several players who have made high legend with new decks but these decks are new and therefor hard to play and gets no attention from the community.                            Edit: i definetly aggre in what you say about nerfing but i think this wouldnt have needed to be nerfed if people were better at the game aka Able to play more then just zoo or hunter.

You are not factoring the risk-reward. The scaling of the rewards after 4 wins far outpace the cost of below 4 wins.

Example, last time I did a 0-3 and was rewarded 1 pack and 30g. Thats a -20g loss.

I just finished a 7-3 and was rewarded 1 pack and 180g. Thats a 130g profit.

So winning 1 time of 7-3 will cover 4 occasions when I go 0-3.

Even if you average 3 wins, you should still make a profit...Someone do the maths to make sure ;)

The class has two EXTREMELY viable builds, which means they are already ahead of all the other classes.  And you are lamenting the fact that you can't create a third one?

Why would you ever play him over Dr.Boom?

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seems synergy is alive and well.  Just lost to assassin's blade + deadly poison + sword oil + blade flurry.

I will point out that with the exception of Blade Flurry, all of those cards are considered top arena picks anyway. No one had to "chase" that combo (unless they started with the Blade Flurry, which I doubt).

5 - Legend is a snoozefest. Especially if you're running into control mirriors.

Can't blame anyone for wanting to stay lower.

I recently got to rank 7 mostly due to win streaks. I usually end up between 12-9 at the end of the season (EU).

After 13 games (with only 3 wins in the middle) I understood that I don't have patience or time to deal with meta decks only focused to get to rank 5+. I faced 4 wallet warriors, 3 handlocks, 3 huntard zoo and the occasional FoN+SR druid or mech mage. No signs at all from the other classes or other types of decks. I was getting bored, tired and most importantly, not having fun.

This happened 1 week ago. During this week, I only played on casual mode and on ranks 19-15 in another account. Since I like to play every class and rank them at the same time (most of them are above lvl 48) this was a marvelous experience. Games are shorter, deck types are abundant, BM is almost non existent (in my experience), wins for the golden hero are easier to achieve and most of the time I was either improving my play style or tweaking my decks. Even when I lost games or went down the ladder, I never felt bad. I mean, why should I?...

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This is a long-standing complaint, that I also hope gets addressed eventually.

Ironically you'd likely be more evenly matched in ranked mode, where the stronger decks will climb the ranks and less effective decks will stay around 20.

you really don't know hearthstone, if you believe it.

in truth rank 20-16 is where the players farm their quest and gold.

you will only get a  "fair" match rank 16 ++.