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Each Hearthstone year starts and ends around March / April so we lose the oldest 3 sets in standard at that time next year.

If you are talking about the current old god cards in standard they will be usable in stnadard decks until March / April 2022. 

The forged in the barrens set (and next 2 set releases) will be useable until same time 2023.

Yeah, this happened to me last month too, but was quickly resolved once I changed to another mode and then back. 

I've played a fair few games in the post set meta. This is what I've seen.

DH - quite a few deathrattle builds. The deck is definitely better.

Druid - saw the new winged snake once, and they chained a few spells out of it but once it was dead it was gg.

Hunter - same old Face Hunter. 

Mage - not seen anything new really. Did see a secret mage which destroyed me lul.

Pala - barely any about, seems worse now.

Priest - not much has changed. Strong deck.

Rogue - not seen any. 

Shaman - second most seen class. Definitely better now, but still a bit reliant on doomhammer.

Warlock - seen quite a few of all varieties. Played a nice pain warlock which destroyed me. They drew loads of cards with an eater pd souls I couldn't remove.

Warrior - feels like it's everywhere for me. Lots of turtle kings. Class feels strong but beatable so its in a good place I guess.

Overall I'm enjoying it. Nothing feels too extreme.....yet.

Eating it gives you 2 extra mana crystals for the rest of the day.

Just one reward chest equal to your best result in a mode.

Exactly what others said, the star bonus varies between modes.

Thanks for the great detailed article its really useful, if only it would make me good at Duels.

2 wins on a run for me genuinely feels like an achievement even with one of the above decklists and picking the highest graded treasures from the lists.

Guess i just need to get good lol, but I feel like Ive never had a "broken" build yet regularly face opponents on 1-2 who have.

Well done! It is an archetype which interests me, but I don't have the quest yet.

The smaller golden bundle is showing as 158 GBP for me and the larger as 44.99 GBP.

Blizzard must be hopeful.....

It's tempting to go through with the purchase just to see if it actually takes that much money from me, it has to be a visual bug, right?!?!

Nerfs I am mostly ok with. 

Buffs I am thinking without exception any of those cards will suddenly feature in decks going forward, either because the cards still won't be good (deck of chaos) or because the issues with the decks the buffed cards go in still won't be good decks (elemental shaman).

Maybe the nerfs / buffs aren't 100% locked in yet and they are crunching numbers to make the next meta as balanced as possible.

This is pretty complex if true but great work!

OP it might help if you showed us the list you are using so we can recommend card switches.

Yes, as you say only 1 person should have each number in legend at a time (there are examples of this not happening).

Your legend rank will drop all the time even if you are not playing the game unless you win games.

You may find losing a game drops you hundreds of ranks, but winning only raises you a few. This is a sign your MMR wants you to be a lower rank.

To be honest, none of this matters unless you are aiming for a really high legend rank which will involve a LOT of time and winning!

I would also agree with SirJohn.

With the mini set, you know exactly what you are getting, but the key cards in the meta at present are not the legendaries and you could likely dust Crab riders etc easily.

The opportunity to get 2 barrens legendaries which if you get good ones will last you nearly 2 years of play is much better, and as stated you should really be getting at least 1 more legendary and probably a bit of dust to craft a few other cards you want to finish off a deck.