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Quote from Tykaine_J >>

WoW and Hearthstone are two very different games.

WoW Classic will transition to TBC, but they will keep one or several servers for people who want to play Classic in Phase 6 forever.

Would they do that in Hearthstone? You would have Standard, Wild, Classic (real) and Classic (with expansions).

Seems kind of redundant, Wild serves that purpose.

 There is a big difference between Wild and HS before Standard format was introduced. The difference being that Wild is poorly balanced, and intentionally so. It is a place for... well wild things, crazy combos and so on by plan. Blizzard said they will only reactively balance Wild and AFAIK little to no cards were ever nerfed in Wild. I played some Wild recently and it was a mess, even at rank 19 I was seeing crazy powerful decks.

Conversely up to the OG expansion that introduced Standard we had many expansions but pretty good balance. Because it had to be that way, Blizz did not chicken out yet and effectively thrown half the cards into the trashpile each year. Both freeing them from having to make good, interesting cards while not power creeping and forcing people to depend more on the new cards which meant more money at the same time. First heavily nerfing, segregating to Hall of Fame and now throwing the Classic set into trash (Wild) wholesale is just more of the same and why I lost faith in Blizz and now am a 100% F2P player when I used to pay a fair bit.

If Blizz had not went the easy way of Standard format BS I would still support them monetarily and intellectually. That is why I think pre-Standard meta is something to bring back as well. Not just Classic.

I wonder that too. I mean I can't wait for Classic, best news they released since ... before the disastrous implementation of Standard? But eventually it will get stale. Despite my enthusiasm I realize that the meta for it is pretty much "solved." And given how classic cards are no longer part of standard pretty much only veterans will be playing, which means complete collections and meta decks will be the norm overwhelmingly. After a while I am sure this state will begin to grind on me.

Now Naxx, GvG, Blackrock and TGT are no less solved but it would refresh things and change up the meta. I think these expansions would make for a good rounding off point because that was the last time HS was whole, before Standard basically ripped it into two. That is the HS I want to play most.

That said I can see alternate paths they could follow. They could change the meta by nerfing best cards (or even better buffing worse ones). By introducing mini-expansions for Classic (like some wanted new raid tiers for Vanilla WoW) or even just single impactful cards could change the meta. Also they can do like TBC Classic, let people who want to keep progressing move on but keep base Classic around too.

Lots of possibilities, hope they don't cock it up.

Quote from Finalstan >>

Surely it is ok to disenchant if you only ever play Standard? This might change in the future of course, and then you will no longer have access to those cards, but if you only ever want to play Standard then I don't think this is an issue.

 It is, since Standard will always be the newest content + Core and you get all Core cards free to use during the year they are Core. But that is only for standard, you won't be able to use them in Brawls, Duels and ofc Wild and Classic which might or might not be a bummer for you.

• Basic cards and their Golden versions will be granted to all players that have Wild unlocked for free at rotation.

Thanks for all the replies, this is what tripped me up. I conflated basic with all classic cards. Also I did not know Blizz gave temporary cards before, I am only now coming back to the game after last playing seriously during Un'Goro. This explains why I thought we might keep Core permanently.

Like supposedly everyone is getting a full classic set for free. Does this mean those of us who already have a full set can just DE it all and have our collection replenished by the change? If not then does it mean a guy who starts playing a day before the change won't get a full collection for free but a guy who starts the day after will. Would suck to be the former guy then :P

Also the cards we will get with Core set, are they ours to keep? If so I could DE my copies of the only (so far) known Core card, Shadowform, and get it back for free. Or maybe they will disappear at the end of the year leaving us with only the cards we had to begin with.

It is rather confusing, but potentially that is a lot of dust. Though I am probably misunderstanding it :D

PS. Ideally provide sources along with your claims so I can verify them.