Hearthpwn

None of those cards deserve nerfs. 

This opponent of mine had the worst luck over two turns in our Control Warrior mirror matchup. I play Hecklebot, which summons his Archivist Elysiana--a devastating blow since we were nearing fatigue. To make matters worse, he plays The Boom Reaver next turn which summons a copy of...Doomsayer. Moments like these make this game worth playing, I couldn't stop laughing XD

Big Beast Warrior is a lot of fun! The late-game synergies are fantastic if you can survive the early turns, which isn't that much of a problem with Warrior's control tools (unless you draw really badly). 

Here, The Boom Reaver summons an Oondasta copy, which then summons Akali, the Rhino, which pulls another Oondasta. The next turn, I play the 12/12 Oondasta to kill a Mountain Giant, which then summons an Amani War Bear from my hand. Fun times. 

Here, Archmage Vargoth sticks on the board so he re-casts Dimensional Ripper. Not as big a board as I'd hoped, but fun to pull off nonetheless.

I just had an epic 40-min game against another Control Warrior. I started off hot--I played on curve, shuffled about 4 bombs into his deck, and by turn 7 I had got him down to 18 health while I was still at full health with 17 armor. 

Then he plays Blastmaster Boom and fills his board with Boom Bots. I was feeling cocky, so I played Brawl thinking I could take all the damage from those bots. Sure enough, when the smoke cleared, I took 19 damage to the face...except Blastmaster Boom was the last one standing from the brawl. Oh shit.  My opponent then plays Dr. Boom, Mad Genius next turn, and the tables flipped from there. He got tremendous value from Omega Assembly, armored up to 10+, while I got down to 15 health after taking a beating from his minions and eating the bombs he shuffled into my deck.

It was looking grim...until he played Archivist Elysiana with 8 more cards left in his deck, which I thought was too soon. I kill his Elysiana with Omega Devastator, then I play my Elysiana a couple of turns later. I got an Arcanite Reaper, Baleful Banker, Proud Defender, Potion Vendor, and Alexstrasza, the latter I thought would be the trump card. My opponent had to get rid of Elysiana, so he summons three microbots and plays Brawl. Only this time, my Elysiana survives!

Momentum shifted to me once again, and we trade back-and-forth going into fatigue. Both of us were nearing death (I had 7 with 2 armor, he had 12 health), and I had 2 Alexstraszas in my deck, which I was sure would be the difference maker in fatigue. When our decks are finally empty, I drop the first of these beautiful dragons down then lean back, sure that he'll die from fatigue soon. He even hits me with a "Well Played," probably knowing the game was over. 

Except he was holding two more cards in his hand, and he plays one to reveal...another Archivist Elysiana!!! The lucky bastard's first Elysiana gave him another one, what the hell! I watched my hope melt away as he shuffled more and more cards into his deck. Admitting defeat, I mercifully hit concede. I may have lost, but that was pretty crazy. And fun, I must say. 

Lots of imbalanced-on-paper cards in this expansion, but I went with Walking Fountain simply because it's such a great card with an extremely cheap crafting cost. How is this a common? It's on par with Zilliax (better if you ignore the mana cost) and is waaaay better than Shaman's own class legendary, Al'Akir the Windlord . It should be an epic at least, and its extremely powerful nature just enabled the new Control Shaman archetype. 

I never thought I'd be able to play Cenarius competitively, yet here we are...

Good God, it's only been a day since the rotation/expansion launch and the Doomsayers are already out here screaming "THE END IS COMING!" 

RoS contains so many interesting cards, which will lead to numerous deck possibilities. Saying the meta is "set" after 1 day is just plain alarmist and frankly, stupid. Bomb Warrior is "in" right now (I'm playing it myself mostly because I main this class) but players will find ways to counter it, which will inevitably shape the meta. HS is far from dead. 

I can only imagine my opponent's face after he played Doomsayer on turn 6, which I countered with Blastmaster Boom to fill my board with Boom Bots, with the ensuing fireworks killing him. Lol

My girlfriend and I broke up a few days ago, so it's been a rough couple of days. Opening two legendaries in one pack helps ease the sadness somewhat, even if it only lasts a few seconds :)

Thank God I unpacked a golden Harrison Jones a few weeks ago, then. Your time is now, Harrison!!!

Hello everyone. As you probably know already, the world is ending, Hearthpwn is closing down. It has been a wild ride. Much laughter was had. Many tears too, even if 95% of them were shed this week, but regardless... the time has come to say goodbye. I've looked at several of the largest threads on this website (General Discussion only), many of them from before I was here. Behold, the winners of my contest!

9) Its about time Blizzard! [Undertaker Nerf Discussion]

A blast from the past, a relic of an ancient era when Blizzard still dragged their boots to nerf cards. We can shed a tear for how long a way we've come (and laugh at the 26% of voters that somehow thought it was a bad idea). Indeed, if my research did not fail me, this was the most popular Nerf Discussion on this website. Let's give it a hand, shall we?

8) Gender Representation in Hearthstone.

Perhaps not the most pertinent of threads, it's true, but this cesspit of Social Justice attracted a whopping 17 pages of replies from our lovely community, some less civil than others. Alas, the thread ended up locked after only 4 days, and devolved into a flame war for gender rights in general, but by God did it net those views and replies. Maybe don't give this one a hand, but remark its existence and be done with it.

7) This is why Competitive Hearthstone is a Joke

A textbook display, here, folks, about the argumentative flexibility of our own community. This legendary thread started as a complaint about Yogg (damn you, DiViNE_Priest) affecting the seriousness of the pro scene, but a quick trip to its 12th page will bring you to the end of a debate about Barnes and Fandral. Truly, we have masterful rhetoricians among us.

6) Why do people think aggro is easy or scummy?

Now, this particular thread, while earning itself its share of views, is not impressive by itself. There is a mild flame war in the middle, several lengthy replies, the whole package associated with the topic. It is, however, one of the most reincarnated discussions on Hearthpwn, and perhaps the less shitstormy one I've found. With popularity to spare, this thread can fairly be interpreted as a good representative of every time this topic was summoned back to life.

5) Most annoying class to play AGAINST/Which deck require the least skills to play?

This one is a tie between two similarly sized threads, about a similar topic. Many of these have we seen during our days here, and usually, unsurprisingly, people associate the decks they dislike the most with low skill floors🤔. Regardless, the threads have sparked many echoing discussions, such as the quest for the game's hardest decks to pilot. Maybe they won't win any originality awards, but they certainly had their influence on the forums.

4) How much money have you spent on HS?

Ah, this thread, this topic... What a rollercoaster of emotions that one can feel while he reads the 8 pages of replies to this thread! From overzealous F2Pers who want to declare their money-spending celibacy too eagerly to reckless individuals who probably should not be entrusted with credit cards, these sort of threads always sparked discussion in our GD, and brought fourth all sorts of colorful characters.

3) How will Blizzard inevitably nerf rogue?

I could not hope to finish this countdown without any recent thread to reference. nichocolates earned himself not only 21 pages of replies, but he also arranged a thread that aged as finely as wine, along with a string of replies that, inversely, aged as finely as milk. This here captures one of the main struggles of Hearthpwn: the quest for balance, the difficulty of distinguishing salt from real discussions, and the paradoxical attraction of the community to the threads they complain about. nicho, you might still be active here, so come on stage and collect your award.

2) All those players that rage-friend just to complain (BM)

• kla_guy's thread about collection completion percentage
• Eternal_HS's guide to Wild Mode
• Eternal_HS's sarcastic Dead Game thread that ended up backfiring horribly thanks to rabid fanboys not getting it
• Every Wild/Standard thread that, surprising no one, turned into a shitstorm
• Every Sherman thread so far
• The Pepper Thread, widely popular, just not my cup of tea
• The many aggro skill revisionist threads that hilariously called Zoolock a control deck
• Every Purify rage thread during the days preceding Karazhan
• That thread with only "MY JAWS THAT BITE, MY CLAWS THAT CATCH!" copy pasted all over
• Every thread complaining about netdecking/Big Priest/Casual
• Those incredibly disturbing threads by that guy with the muppet profile picture. To this day I still don't know what they were about
• That one thread that complained about Priest players being discriminated against
• That thread that calls Witchwood trash, gets bashed, and later became accepted as the truth once the Year of the Raven was done
• 1xbenx1's card viability predictions (at least I think those were in GD, but maybe not)
• The threads rightly praising the meta in Un'Goro
• The threads rightly trashing the meta in MSoG
• The price discussion about the Dalaran Heist
• ConCuThanKy1292's thread about chilling, that sadly got no attention from the community :C

And finally, the big winner

1) THE SALT THREAD

Honestly, who is surprised? The Salt Thread has been a godsend all these years, and we've taken it for granted. It has birthed legends, quelled flames and accompanied us through thick and thin. Pasting its link has become an overused joke, but it is a small price to pay for the boon that the Salt Thread is. There isn't much to add to it that hasn't been said already. I'd put the link on the title, but we all probably know it back and forth by now.

Did I miss anything?

Just opened The Boom Reaver and I have enough dust to craft Akali, the Rhino. I hate most current iterations of Warrior but I would be THRILLED to give Big Warrior a shot.

This isn't meant to troll but rather from the funny side of Hearthstone. 
If any apply to you then yes, you need to reconsider your choices in Hearthstone.

You know when you're facing a bad player when;
He has a name like; Swagbruh or DankMemes or A random food or item like 'Buttermilk' or 'HepaFilter' as their name. 
We also have the "watch out we have a badass in the house" names like 'killyoubro' or 'Annihilateyou' or 'Yourpwnd'. Add in bad spelling and numbers or cradle the name with x's at the start and end.
Sometimes we have the bad players who compare themselves to deities like "GodRank' or the opposite like "GodKiller'.
Then there are the slew of pants names which I see about quite a few a day like 'grumpypants' or 'swagpants' but really all the pants players should be called 'ClownPants'.

Aside from names to know you are playing a bad player is the choice of deck.
Most common is a mindless aggro deck and yes aggro is mindless and doesn't take much decision making especially when all they do is go face.
The good aggro players know when to trade and don't just go face.
Usually out of cards in hand by turn 4.
Currently we have the bad players picking the straight murloc deck.
They don't trade they just go face regardless of what deck you are playing or your minions on the board. Even if it helps them avoid death or better their situation in the match they will not trade cause must go face.
They concede by turn 7 if they haven't won by then. 
They play a minion that has a battlecry that has no valid effect to what they are currently doing. They just had a card so they played a card.
They may also play the most common deck and currently that is rogue. They will still play the pre-nerf version of it and do it badly. Like not noticing the combo isn't active on getting lackeys and then pause and wonder what went wrong.

They play very quickly. No thought goes into what they do. As soon as it is their turn they wildly play minions and go face and only go face.
There is an exception to their quick play style. If you play a taunt they stop.. freeze.. confused as what to do and most likely will concede after about 10 seconds.

At each turn when they go face they will alway emote either the hello, wow, or the threat emote without fail even waiting till they are able to again before ending their turn. In other words, just BM.

Some will not concede by turn 7 when they are losing. Some will then turn into sore losers and rope you each turn. I'm thinking they are hoping you concede cause they can't handle losing or just being the sad snowflakes they are. Again more BM cause they don't know any better.

That's my short list. What things do you notice bad players doing consistently? 
We all make mistakes in matches but the bad players do the above consistently and part of their playstyle.

They are fun to play against as they play straight up netdecks and are predictable and make mistakes and easy to win against.

PS: My favorite part of the comments are the ones who this post touched a nerve with and the great comeback of what amounts to "I know you are but what am I?!". 
Bad is bad and these players are ones who have been playing for some time. Aren't just kids or casual players. 
Just bad players from bad people who end all the posts with "kappa" still. Not a stereotype but a part of the Hearthstone community and have been there since the start. We've all seen them.

You know you are reading a bad thread when:

someone called synthetikmisery claims a players ability to play hs good is directly linked to their name. 

Some WoW nostalgia right there!
The card is simple but useful in e.g. Token / Malygos :)

A Cybertech Chip -esque card, to play off of the Rogue's Razorpetal generators and the more recent Deathrattle synergies.

Give it a shake, you wont beleaf what falls out.