Hearthpwn

This is looking interesting! How is Captain Greenskin doing? It's one of the few legendaries I don't have...

As players are getting better and getting access to more cards and netdecking, getting to legend has become almost impossible if you don't play countless hours. Which is very frustrating for dedicated players who are a bit more than casual and less than pros, and who are struggling for the legend card back.

Why don't they strech the seasons to 2 months instead of resetting it every month? When I feel I'm finally close (1-5 bracket) bam, the ladder resets. This would also decrease their burden on creating season rewards every month.

Shockadin is better because it has charges and magic damage, once you lose your board and opponent has taunts. This one is only low creatures and no charges, no magic dmg, so when he cleans your board, GG.

It's a shame Holyrock doesn't come here anymore. Kudos for him having created the most famous and consistent pala deck of all Hearthpwn! (even though its glory days are over... but still fun)

Great insight man. I'm also very fond of pala and looking forward for a really strong control one... I tested this one a bit but found the same issues: lack of heal, card draw and burst dmg. It's too defensive, you never really add some threat, just put a single taunt after the other and end up losing (with exceptions, when you get lucky and get the multiple taunts with KT thing, but it's far from consistent as, say, shockadin - constant 55% winrate after 400 games)

1st try, THANK YOU

Zoolock is also 50/50 in my experience (400 games with shockadin). You win if you play 1st with a good curve (1,2,3 drop) and start applying pressure. Always remove his stuff till you have equality-consecration or a good avenging wrath. If he goes 1st and put a voidwalker or any other 1-drop you're screwed.

Shockadin is my favorite deck ever. Fast and efficient IF YOU KNOW how to play it. Have around 400 games with it, avg 57% winrate. Good match-ups: shaman, miracle, hunter (been farming them these last days). Bad ones: ramp druid, ctrl warrior (almost impossible). Everything else is 50/50.

I feel now is a good time to get to legend with it, as people are messing with reynad's new hunter (very easy with this deck)

Great deck man! 1st try! Was very lucky to get both Nerubian Egg, so I killed both his 7/4 with the nerubians.

My modifications:

- poison seeds(2), - sunfury protectors(2), - mind control tech(1)

+ wrath(2) for removal, + unstable ghoul(2) for one-shooting the 7/4, + healing touch(1)

I was going to praise you for a relatively well thought out post, even if I did disagree with a couple of the conclusions, but your footnote is alienating enough that I don't really feel like going into a response since I get the impression you wouldn't much care anyway. By the way, if you want to get the attention of the "right people" perhaps you should try posting in the official forums instead. I'm not sure which right people you're hoping to reach here. 

Depends on your patience.

Rank 5 to Legend takes 1 win for every 1 loss, plus 26 wins.

If you average a 70% winrate, that's 7 wins and 3 losses per 10 games, so you are netting +4 stars per 10 games.  65 games to Legend.

If you average a 65% winrate, that's 6.5 wins and 3.5 losses per 10 games, so you are netting +3 stars per 10 games.  87 games to Legend.

If you average a 60% winrate, that's 6 wins and 4 losses per 10 games, so you are netting +2 stars per 10 games.  130 games to Legend.

If you average a 55% winrate, that's 5.5 wins and 4.5 losses per 10 games, so you are netting +1 star per 10 games.  260 games to Legend.

If you average a 51% winrate, that's 5.1 wins and 4.9 losses per 10 games, so you are netting 0.2 stars per 10 games.  1300 games to Legend.

I've been running Hungry Dragon over Dragonkin Sorcerer and I've found it to be a much better card in this deck. The 1 mana minion won't be able to get past your taunts, gives your opponent a minion that you can run into to take damage, then heal with Northshire, gives you a huge body for Northshire to heal, can trade with multiple minions or do big damage to face, its a 4 drop that baits removal protecting your later game minions, is insane if buffed with Velen's chosen, etc. It has virtually no drawback in my experience. 

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I don't think there's some sort of competition between reynad/tempostorm and hearthpwn. He probably just doesn't like how this website works and all.

I doubt that is the case. Reynad is the kind of childish person that looks down on people for being "worse players than him" in Hearthstone.

That's a bit rich coming from you! 

We have a Wrynner

Whenever I see this guy I can only think about how much he looks like Jaqen H'ghar for GoT.

1) Hearthstone is a game where I can play while doing other things like reading the daily news or whatever. I can even respond in a proper way to the surrounding people. no angry girlfriend or whatever :)

2) I can collect in the game and do not have the feeling that it is impossible to keep up or to obtain a full collection at a point. I have always a feeling of "progressing" in this game. Yes, sometimes more sometimes less. If I lose 5 times and win only 1 time it is frustrating, but in the long run it is not this ratio.

3) Due to lacking time and having a lot of other responsibilies I like about Hearthstone the lack of guilds and so on. I can schedule the game to my life, my life is not scheduled to the game. It sounds as a matter of course but it isn´t. Someone who played MMORPGs like WoW or MOBA like LoL or HotS knows that the moment you are in a community with other players, you kind of feel obligated to be online in certain times, even if it might not be the right thing to do.

4) I like that I am able to make a quick game of 10 minutes while taking a coffee break :)

5) After a long day I can sit and play and do not feel mentally exhausted or whatever call it after being done with the game. I am not on adreanlin, with the need of half an hour to "come down again". Instead I kept my brain active in a relaxing way. Sounds funny, but isn´t. Games where you need massive concetration and reflexes like in MOBA or even Starcraft you push your body in a state of massive pressure, where your body reacts as if you are in a "life and death" situation, pumping adreanlin into your blood for an anticipated "fight or flight" situation. The only thing which moves are your eyes and fingers though, which causes massive problems for your body in the long run.

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i seriously do not understand how anyone could argue this guy is healthy for the game?

Play Dr. Boom on a fulled board when your health total is at 1 HP... I'm sure Dr. Boom won't bring you any value. It is not an OP card, stop this madness. 

such argument, much wow

i didn't know how i could oversee this? a lost game is a lost game. damned... how insightful

clearly... if a card cant do instant 30 dmg to win you the game, the card is balanced... i understand it now... thank u very much

Nope you don't understand it. Unfortunately. Dr. Boom gives you time to react to it. Not like Undertaker or Leeroy or Starving Buzzard. 

Dr. Boom won't get nerfed. Get used to it. He is a balanced card. I'm telling you. Your sarcasm won't change the fact I'm right. You can still try.

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I think, as kahgro stated earlier, the main problem with dr. boom is, that you can play him 100% of time, he will never fail to get value, even if your enemy has the direct answer in form of BGH, u still have up to 10 dmg on your board in form of the doom bots.

and that is simply insane. 

now, his 7/7 body allready is "decent" on his own. if u add additional value to him by giving him 2 free 1/1 tokens, that is fine, but (also as stated earlier) this additional stats should come with a draw-back, a negative effect and not with a positive effect on top.

the random dmg to _only_ enemies is what makes this guy insanely strong. if the dmg would change to any charakter, you still have the insane value of 3 bodys, 9/9 stats for 7 mana. in my opinion this still would be too strong... 

you either need to nerf dr. boom stats to make up for his strong positive effect or you need to give him a negative effect for having insane good stats. (and not just a possibly negative effect)

i seriously do not understand how anyone could argue this guy is healthy for the game?

Play Dr. Boom on a fulled board when your health total is at 1 HP... I'm sure Dr. Boom won't bring you any value. It is not an OP card, stop this madness. 

I made a video using this deck for my deck spotlight series on YouTube. It's a good example of the current meta & how this deck fares against it. I hope you like it and/or find it useful!