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It's not because of my skills. Any tips for me? . 

 It is because of your skills and the fact you are so adamant it isn't makes it difficult to help you. You are making bad decisions and it may be that you are playing purely DH and don't know enough about the decks you're facing or you're playing turn by turn rather than thinking ahead. Whatever it is, if you're stuck in gold then it's a you problem. Accept that and you can improve. I get to diamond with a meme mage deck that uses the quest and as much random or discovery cards as possible. It isn't a good deck at all but I'm very well accustomed to other decks and what their first 5 turns look like, then what to expect between turn 5 and 10. I'm an average player but I can at least cater my decisions, discovery picks etc based on what I'm expecting to come up and therefore counter it. 

If you're purely sticking with DH then that may be part of your problem. You aren't learning the opposition decks very well because your game plan is generally exactly the same for every match and there's a large focus on you going face. Whilst it's effective it's not a great way to learn the game. One of the things I like about the deck I'm using is I have to play differently, sometimes very differently, depending on what I'm against. I can't play against quest warlock in the same way I play against face hunter and I can't play against spell druid in the way I would against demon hunter. My game plan has to adapt which has been a really good way of learning. When I am choosing what spell to discover from smuggler I might take an ice barrier because I know something g is coming or I might take magic trick just to speed up the quest completion because I'm against priest and want to get as much value as possible. Against druid I'll focus on clears, wide freezes and polymorph. Against face hunter I'll go down the route of armour and hero freezes, like frost bolt.

It seems like you're buying into hearthstone having no real skill level and it simply isn't true. If it was true then people such as yourself wouldn't consistently struggle to get through the lower ranks. The longer you buy into this notion of no skill, you'll keep telling yourself its the game and not you, this will mean you never improve because you've already conjured an easy excuse for yourself in your head.

Yeah I really like the idea but maybe it would be better as a brawl which comes back semi often rather than its own game mode. The idea seems really fun and could open up loads of cool combos. Some classes having access to more healing or board clears etc could be very interesting. 

Good effort on the OP, other than a typo or two it looks legit and you've done a really good job. 

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I play casually, I put maybe a max of £30 a year into the game so maybe you do not have the same problem if you're a hardcore player. However I find myself constantly frustrated as they always throw loads of cards out each year, then I have to spend a month or two building a single deck. Which means I constantly come up against parings I just cannot beat, like Obelisk Eye priests. Where as before they removed all my decks I spent so long grinding for, I had fun and utility for anything. Each time they do it I play the game less and less, and I spend less and less money.... what is the point if they can just take the cards away from you? I know it's meant to be the fun part of the game, but it's not fun when you're left with no decks to play with. 

Blizzard always seem to screw their games, WoW was ruined with TBC and my favourite Hero on Overwatch was Torb and they ruined him in a patch. Now this is the last Blizzard game I play... but I'm going to spend all this time making new decks for them to just take them away. I think the next time is the time I stop for good.

 OP, I get how you feel. HS Is an incredibly expensive game. Some people have managed to stay F2P but they probably spend several hours a day playing to complete quests, save up gold and carefully craft the cards they want. That has no appeal for me. I have spent more money than I'd care to admit on this game because I really enjoy it. I don't have a lot of time to play, maybe two hours a week if I'm lucky so grinding isn't possible. When I play I like to have all the cards I need to make any deck I want. But that has a huge cost to it. Just to keep current and get all the good stuff I probably spend close to €150 per expansion plus I buy the adventures and some bundles if I think they're a good deal. I know a lot of people aren't in a position to spend as much money on the game.

The way I see it, HS either requires a lot of time invested or money spent in order to keep up. I don't think there's any other way.

I've said it before but the game is almost too expensive for me to justify anymore. Some €500 a year is no small amount of money and I'm not sure how much longer I'll happily part with my money just to enjoy a few hours of HS every now and then. I used to play much more than I do now. I suppose I'm dealing with the sunk cost falicy where I feel I've spent so much on the game it would be a shame to stop. It's great having a collection where you can make pretty much any deck you want to in both Standard and Wild and I would like to be able to keep up with the game but, "How long can this go on?", well I'm not sure.

 I agree with almost all of this but I would say there is a middle ground, rather than grinding hours per day or spending £500 per year and I feel I'm sat in that middle ground really. 

I don't grind the game, I have weeks where I'll play a couple of hours per week, I have other weeks where I play an hour or two each day. There are rare times where I'll play for several hours in a day but that isn't consistent or often. 

I pre order with the smaller bundle in some expansions, it really depends how much I'm playing but on average it's one or two expansions in the year. I do tend to get the bundles, with the exception of a few I don't feel we're good value. 

I've been pretty careful with the ball of fame changes and Baku and Venn HoF I made a ton of dust out of and I've typically done well with making dust in the rotations. I rarely used to craft any cards at all, I'd generally take whatever I got from packs or whatever legebdaries my bundle and packs got me and lean towards those classes. There were some decks I simply never used because I am fairly stingy with my dust. I started with not dropping below certain amounts of dust, say 1600 just incase there was a legendary I was desperate to use. Over time this threshold became 5k dust, then 10 and it's currently at 20k. If I get to this amount I'll shut off crafting except for extreme reasons and allow it to build again. I do dust some cards that rotate to wild, especially golden cards but I'll keep cards that I really enjoy or love 'just in case'. When this expansion hit I had saved around 5.5k gold, 35k dust and along with the small bundle I've been able to craft everything I want to play and I'm sat on around 19k dust with 4500 ish in duplicates.

My long winded point is that you can be in the middle and I certainly don't sink £500 a year in, now where close but then I obviously do play more on average than you. Overall though, as a company, Blizzard can't cater to absolutely everyone, no company can. Some people's circumstances simply mean they don't have the time, resources or both to enjoy the product and that's OK. It isn't the company at fault or the individual. It does seem there are people (not you) however who expect that whatever they want to participate in, they should be enabled to do so and that's when you get the entitled, bratty behaviour of the player base. 

People are so incredibly entitled with such short attention spans these days. I'd genuinely be interested to know the average age of this forum because I imagine it must be somewhere in the teens. 

We just had 3 sets rotate out, the card pool in standard is at the smallest amount it will be all year and we're in the final quarter of the latest expansion. The fact that games can continue to add new content at regular intervals is still quite amazing to me. 

I grew up in the 90s, with mega drive and the master system. You couldn't save in games that cost £40 let alone have regular content updates. The more content prole are exposed to, the shorter the attention span becomes.

The fact so many call the game boring, broken, stale etc by people who say things like 'I only bother logging in for the daily quest and I log off again'. Like, why bother? What sort of problem do you have that something that you claim doesn't bring you any joy still has such a hold on you that you login to earn some meaningless gold? You're either lying about not liking the game, which is just weird or your exaggerating for attention, which is just sad. 

Just do something else for a few weeks, read a book, play different games, learn something, watch a series on the million different streaming platforms we have available to us. I've never continued to frequent and post on forums of games I dislike or have gotten bored of, it's bizarre behaviour to me. I wouldn't go to the cinema to watch a film I know I don't like and spend the entire time bitching about not liking it or eat a restaurant where I don't like the food. 

It just comes across as really bratty and childish. 

I use it in my mage deck which is all around discovering and randomly generating things as well as a load of secrets. I fully accept that it isn't a competitive card or deck but due to star bonuses I can still climb to diamond with it. Personally I think its a super fun card and I've comfortably used this mage deck than any other deck since I started playing, which was somewhere around KoFT. 

If you don't want to mess about with less competitive decks though and you need a legendary or several cards for a different, more ladder climbing friendly deck, then seeing as it's golden it may well be worth the dust. Maybe worth just hanging fire until the cards for next months expansion are revealed, just on the off chance that mage gets some cards that make that sort of deck more competitive. I doubt it but we're so late into this cycle now that unless you're desperately wanting to craft something, it's probably worth at least holding fire for a few weeks.