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These are really well thought out in terms of keeping the flavor of the hero from HOTS.  Some of these though are very OP though!

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Karazhan! So many fond memories of that place.

Let's say for a second that you are right and that players who farm at rank 20 shouldn't get golden heroes.  How would you detect that someone is doing that?  There are people that play a ton that can't get much higher than 20.  Would you check to see how often someone concedes on turn 1?  That could work, but then it wouldn't be all that annoying that concede on turn 2. 

I can't really see a system that would actually handle this correctly and not penalize players that really are not trying to farm.  Also at what point would they "earn" the rite to gain wins toward 500 again?

As a last minute addition, you suggest that players shouldn't be able to get to 500 unless they reach rank 5.  I don't think that's a good idea.  Rank 5 really is only the top few % of players and most people that play this game (not most people on here) don't play enough to be able to get to rank 5 in the first place and golden heroes are that carrot at the end of the tunnel for a lot of people.  

Even the more powerful version is such a minor buff that it's still very bad.  This completely changes the idea you had, but I think a more interesting mechanic would be to have a spell that is a fixed cost (say 6) and it deals (X) AOE damage too all enemy minions where X = the number of minions the opponent has.  I'm not sure how hearthstone would choose to word that, but you get the idea.  I don't know what class would get that spell (not mage obviously since they have Flamestrike).

Lord Bolton has a point

 Priest definitely, but Paladin and Warrior are probably the next two best options.

How you use the coin also depends on what class you are using.  Obviously for Rogue it can be used to enable a combo (most notably SI:7 Agent on turn 2), but for other classes it's not as obvious so it really depends on what class you are playing the most right now.

I really don't think it's a problem.  I mained CW for a long time and you only get up to huge armor totals against other control decks and just like any control matchup, the game really comes down to life totals.

The Fireball Ice Barrier combo is completely broken.  Unless the other player is running an insane amount healing to be able to survive 15 fireballs then they simply have 0 chance.  The above poster with Forbidden Healing would be able to beat this strategy...but it would take forever!

No, by pure math.

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Why is everyone so certain about these pity timers? I mean, even if you buy a huge amount of packs and get atleast one legendary every 40 packs it could still all be rng, right? So, only because large tests suggest pity timers, doesn't mean they actually exist.

 Why is everyone so certain about gravity? I mean, even if you drop a huge amount of objects and they all fall down, it could still be something else, right? So, only because large tests suggest gravity, doesn't mean it actually exists.

I don't see the need for a favorites feature, especially since you can use Innkeeper in conjunction with the existing filters to find decks that don't require cards you don't have.

Awesome, thank you for getting that out there.  I tried it out quickly and it appears to be exactly what I was looking for!

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buffing cthun and cthun is dead are 2 different things

Zoo has always been tough for control warriors because later in the game they can still draw 2 cards per turn.  The main thing is that you shouldn't be afraid to use your removal.  Do everything you can to clear the board.  With all the tapping they will be doing, you can easily set up a lethal in the late game.