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If you spot inconistencies or errors, please post them in the thread and it will be looked into!

Buildaround: Playing an archetype without this card does not make sense. Ex: Baku the Mooneater in Odd paladin 

Staple: The archeype can be played without this card, but it will almost certainly hurt your winrate.  EX Death Speaker Blackthorn in deathrattle DH.

Good card/near staple: The card performs very well in an archetype, but you can find replacements which are about as good.

Playable: The card is not strictly necessary for the archetype, but can be a nice personal twist or tech option. EX: Al'ar in deathrattle DH.

Niche: Used both for cards rarely used in common archetypes and important cards for rare archetypes.

THE TIERS:
The focus of this list is competetive ranked play. Fun/interesting cards and cards performing well in duels or other formats are usually not given a bonus.

TIER 1:
Flexible cards which see a lot of play in different classes and archeypes and important cards for the strongest decks.

TIER 2:
Cards which are typically very important for "tier 2" decks or viable tech options in tier 1 decks. Also contains some flexible cards which do not have the play- and winrates to be put in tier 1.

TIER 3:
These cards are typically not strictly necessary for competetive play, but that does not mean that they are never seen in the top end of the ladder! These cards are recommended for fans of particular classes or if you want to try a specific deck and have the dust to spare.

TIER 4:
These cards will typically gather dust in your collection and hurt your winrate as tech cards, but they can be used for meme decks, tavern brawls and curveballs to  surprise your opponent. Also the "graveyard" of staples of many outdated archetypes, especially in the Wild section.

TIER 5:
While the the tier 4 cards might give you some moments of joy, the tier 5 cards should bring mostly disappointment with their low powerlevel and how hard it is to make them work as intended. Many of these cards have common, rare and epic counterparts which are strictly better for almost every situation

Added a "how to read this list" section at the top of the OP. I should probably have done this a while ago, but for regular readers, I think this is all known information.

Yeah, Reno decks tend to have 10 or more legendaries these days...

Quote from Phoesias >>

This list is just completely useless

i mean just one example, Deck of Lunacy* - Playable in no minion mage.

OK. thx Captain Obvious. 

Give some more examples, please, and I will check if I have to do changes. Note there is a difference between "staple", "good card in", "playable", and "sees niche play in". Every card gets the same treatment, and the description should be matching how important the card is for the deck it is mostly played in. Regulars in this thread rightly often give feedback when they don't think a card is "staple" in a deck and should be demoted.

Some updates for the Standard section:
Kresh, Lord of Turtling To tier 2
Mutanus the Devourer To tier 2
Inara Stormcrash Tier 1 to 2
Cariel Roame Tier 2 to 3
Apothecary Helbrim Tier 3 to 4
Dark Inquisitor Xanesh Tier 5 to 4

Also added the new cards in the "Awaiting placement" section at the top.

This has to be the most imbalanced multiplayer content ever in this game! Other tavern brawls had turn 1 OTKs as well, but not a deck pulling it off this consistently! All you need is to go first and hard mulligan for that 2 extra damage.

I am obviously talking about Overload! + Wisdom 76 which can only lose to itself afaik.

It isn't. Midrange decks dominate atm.

It isn't released yet, you have some time still.

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it's ok, that some classes have stronger heropowers it was intented by HS team since the start. They said they balance it by giving classes with stronger Hero-powers, weaker basic and class cards (Warlock is a good example - best HP, weak cards).

This.

Also, there is a rotational balance of pure heropowers, mage>paladin>hunter>mage for example.

Yes. My feeling is that there are several "mini metas" at a given time or rank which are not caught on Hsreplay. A good meta call can be more important than knowing the deck very well.

The alternative is fine tuning the deck for what you are facing, which can also work.

At low scores like 0-0 and 1-0 you are almost guaranteed to face someone with the same score as you, and their deck can be anything. Randomness is random.

Thanks for the feedback!

Updates for the Standard section:
Archdruid Naralex To tier 1
Death Speaker Blackthorn Tier 2 to 1
Inara Stormcrash Tier 3 to 1
Murgur Murgurgle Tier 1 to 3
Al'ar Tier 3 to 2
Tickatus Tier 2 to 3
Keli'dan the Breaker Tier 3 to 4
Bru'kan Tier 4 to 2
Maiev Shadowsong Tier 3 to 4
Magtheridon Tier 3 to 4

They are really good at milking customers. This game costs more than any other game if you purchase all the bundles each expansion.

I am sure they are easily milking some people 500 to 1000 dollars a year which is absurd. 

Activision needs money to pay for all the defense lawyers.

Im very excited about the new expansion and I want to share my theorycrafts in the wild format. Some of them are just meme decks and some could be more than that. Lets start with the most memey one, the Thanoslock:

Do you remember Void Contract? Me neither. Just kidding, who doesnt want to make all things balanced for the mere cost of 8 mana (or 8 health with Bloodbloom)? Fatigue is our friend and unlike Neeru decks we cant burn our win condition. I have also added a single copy of DOOM! for the lulz.

Next up we have an OTK deck, which has unlimited damage. I mean its only limited by turn timer:

You want to draw your deck, play double Sorcerer's Apprentice and a Sanctum Chandler. Then you can play a free Ignite that will shuffle itself into the deck then you draw a random free upgraded Ignite. If you want Dirty Rat protection, you can add Simulacrum.

Now we want see what can be done with shaman's questline. You can build it as an aggro or combo deck, but I have decided to build a highlander deck:

The small rewards are quite helpful and the last reward is bonkers. I couldnt fit all the usual good stuff in here because we need to play overload cards, but on the other hand Im excited to play with new toys like Spirit Alpha or Charged Call.

Questlines, questlines... Lets see the paladin one, aka playing odd paladin without Baku:

Is it better than normal odd pally? Since odd pally is one of the best decks in the format right now, my answer is probably not. But I will still try this questline because I see some potential in it. As you can see I didnt include some of the odd pally staples, if you want to know my reasoning, its in the deck description.

I think we are done with the questlines... Oh wait we arent! Lets continue with machine gun priest hunter! This time we have Baku:

There is not much to say about this, since the deck basically builds itself. Im thinking about including a second Banana Buffoon instead of something like second Pen Flinger.

As you can see we are leaving the meme territory and the decks are getting more serious. So I will continue with a deck that I think is the second most powerful of my theorycrafts. You have guessed it right, its an Elwynn boar deck:

Insight tutors the boar. Shadow Visions and Thrive in the Shadows can get you Insight. Dirty Rat cant hurt you because you have Raise Dead and Twilight's Call. Mutanus cant hurt you because its too slow. I want to test a version with and without Dead Ringer. Its an excellent tutor for the boar (Im not sure if I need it) but it screws up the rez pool. Mass Dispel is for clearing taunts, but Shard of the Naaru is probably even better for this purpose. This is gonna be the first deck I will try with the new expansion.

Time for the last deck, which has the strongest 2-card opener in the game in my opinion:

Sketchy Information gets you Devilsaur Egg, so its a 3 mana 5/5. Thats already pretty good. Do you know whats even better? Preparation + Sketchy Information is a turn 1 play, without the coin that gets you a 5/5 on turn one. Pirate warrior can do better than this but it requires 3 or 4 cards to do so. Discolock has some disgusting openers but they require luck and without the coin, just from 2 cards, even they cant do better than this. So how do we make advantage of this combo? We want to play an aggressive rogue deck, but we cant play odd rogue since Prep isnt odd-costed. We also cant play Kingsbane rogue since Sketchy information could draw Kingsbane and we really dont want that. But we can play Scimitar rogue, a hyper-aggro face deck. We can still play the pirate pack and Patches. I needed to cut some cards so I decided to have less weapon synergy. The combo has a downside for sure, because you never want to play your deathrattle, but the new card even draws it for you, so it even thins your deck. I have high hopes for this deck but I also hope its gonna be nerfed if its as strong as I think it is.

And thats it. Please like, share, follow, subscribe, buy me a new house if you liked this content. Or you can just leave some constructive feedback. Or share your wild theorycrafts, Im actually interested in other folks ideas about the new expansion.

Not sure if links are allowed, but https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/raid-the-docks/

We are talking about standard viability. Magnetic hasn't been in standard for 2 years.

So guys, I am interested in trying LoR (Runeterra) card game, but I need some information because I'm not familiar with the company behind it:

a) What are the political stances of the creators? Which sides are they supporting if any in major conflicts across the globe? (Palestine/Israel, China/Hong Kong etc, especially curious about their stance on the Aegean Sea disputes cause I'm greek). Extra information about some of the political parties that the company top heads have voted for/support are also welcome.

b) Is the company environmentally friendly and against animal cruelty? I hope all materials used within the company are biodegradable and not animal tested, and that the game servers are powered by renewable sources.

c) I hope every race/colour/sex/gender/religion and belief is equally represented and paid, and that the company top heads are well distributed. Seeing how the shareholders that are members of the board in a company are usually too few to have representation of every group I can think of, they should be as diverse as possible, i.e. an atheist communist asian bisexual male that identifies as a female with visual impairment, a conservative Christian transgender vegan black woman etc.

d) Is every person within the company screened for criminal activity in their personal life? I wouldn't want to play the game just to find out 2 years in that a person of the staff is a wife beater or that the cleaning lady does drugs.

e) Despite it being a corporation, I wouldn't want the end goal of the product, the game, to be money and profit but the promotion of gaming as an art form and as a means to soothe the soul in these troubling, difficult times. I would want it to be 100% free with no microtransactions, no paid cosmetics and free expansions. Also guaranteed support for at least 50 years and live servers, in case I want to show my grandchildren what I used to play when I was their age. Now if the creators want to give back to the community and send me some pocketmoney through PayPal or credit card for playing the game it would be considered a plus.

Thanks in advance for providing me with the crucial information every sane gamer would need before enjoying their hobby. I know you guys are really up to date with all that so it won't be that troublesome.

EDIT: Stop sending me private messages about how the game works, the art, the world building, the sound and other irrelevant stuff. We are here for the activism, not to actually play the game.

I DO NOT CARE 

I hate ONLINE warriors MENTALITY WITH ZERO PROOF LET THE LAW DECIDE

lets see what the things where HMMM there was AMAZ ALLEGATIONs that there was misconduct with women FALSE

There was PURPLE allegations that there was misconduct with women FALSE

There was so many ALLEGATIONS of what ever and NOTHING has PROVEN GUILTY?

YES I"M CONCERNED IF IT WAS TRUE IF IT WAS TRUE let the court system decide with PROOF

NO one HURT ME and i'm not a misogynists' and I don't hate women

i agree blizzard deserves poop for blitzchung 

U realise right?  i can make false accusations and send u a 1000 page class action lawsuit drawn up by a lawyer that's fabricated right?  i just drop some money?  please use and exercise common sense wait for a verdict before we all jump on the band wagon 

Quote from Dendroid >>

Quote from SlydE >>

I'll wait for the conclusion of the lawsuit. There are definitely 2 sides of this story, and things which are perceived as discrimination can be something else when looking at the whole picture.

I am not saying Blizzard is 100% innocent either, but I do not like how people and companies are judged by the public as soon as a lawsuit is filed and some times even as an investigation STARTS.

 ...but pretending like it's as reasonable to assume innocence is simply dishonest...

 Everyone is innocent until prove the opposite is one of the absolute and non-negotiable foundations of modern society and free democracies together with the concept the State have the monopoly of the violence and apply her accordingly the law, don't matter how popular or not the corporations or people involved.

Here in my country a group of teachers are accused of child abuse, lose their jobs, reputation and one of them have the house burned and in the end all are innocent.

Unfortunately many people only give the real value of rights, health and freedom when lose the precious things we have at cost of many lives, don't trow this away so easily.

Now I am at 24.479 Achievement Points. Yes, I'm an achievement seeker.

Quote from Kayel>>

Did Blizzard make any announcement about the accusations? If are they collaborating to find the guilty or denying everything?

Yes, they did.

https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-widespread-1847339746

"We value diversity and strive to foster a workplace that offers inclusivity for everyone. There is no place in our company or industry, or any industry, for sexual misconduct or harassment of any kind. We take every allegation seriously and investigate all claims. In cases related to misconduct, action was taken to address the issue.

The DFEH includes distorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of Blizzard’s past. We have been extremely cooperative with the DFEH throughout their investigation, including providing them with extensive data and ample documentation, but they refused to inform us what issues they perceived. They were required by law to adequately investigate and to have good faith discussions with us to better understand and to resolve any claims or concerns before going to litigation, but they failed to do so. Instead, they rushed to file an inaccurate complaint, as we will demonstrate in court. We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family. While we find this behavior to be disgraceful and unprofessional, it is unfortunately an example of how they have conducted themselves throughout the course of their investigation. It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California.

The picture the DFEH paints is not the Blizzard workplace of today. Over the past several years and continuing since the initial investigation started, we’ve made significant changes to address company culture and reflect more diversity within our leadership teams. We’ve updated our Code of Conduct to emphasize a strict non-retaliation focus, amplified internal programs and channels for employees to report violations, including the “ASK List” with a confidential integrity hotline, and introduced an Employee Relations team dedicated to investigating employee concerns. We have strengthened our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and combined our Employee Networks at a global level, to provide additional support. Employees must also undergo regular anti-harassment training and have done so for many years.

We put tremendous effort in creating fair and rewarding compensation packages and policies that reflect our culture and business, and we strive to pay all employees fairly for equal or substantially similar work. We take a variety of proactive steps to ensure that pay is driven by non-discriminatory factors. For example, we reward and compensate employees based on their performance, and we conduct extensive anti-discrimination trainings including for those who are part of the compensation process.

We are confident in our ability to demonstrate our practices as an equal opportunity employer that fosters a supportive, diverse, and inclusive workplace for our people, and we are committed to continuing this effort in the years to come. It is a shame that the DFEH did not want to engage with us on what they thought they were seeing in their investigation."