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Thank you that was quick. 

Maybe she'll get more support in the next year but I highly doubt it since we all know blizzards anti contingency sets of the past (for instance introducing magnetic followed by declaring they will not print further cards with it after Boomsday.)

Captain Hooktusk sucks. You need to build a deck around her with mediocre pirates. Drawing these pirates makes her power turn weaker all the time but because she is so expensive the often comes after many drawn pirates.

Plus the opponent can prepare for her turn having his biggest board clear ready. And since the pirates only have rush it doesn't even too much to the enemy if he plays not a board dominant deck.

Thank you for opening this thread. I am also interested to know what is the smartest thing to do before tomorrow. 

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Baku the Mooneater, Genn Greymane

 This is the only save bet. 

Does anyone think the discard mechanic will get more support in the future or will blizzard abandon it after its last heavy but again futile push with Rastakhan's Rumble??

Since the quest and so many other cards rotate out but on the other hand Jeklik and the other supporting card of the last expansion will remain in standard for more than a year.

Don't forget that twisting nether also kills minions with divine shield.

Pyro equality does not. Additionally I don't get why blizzard would try to make control paladin more versatile by forcing them to always include two pyros in their decks. 

I just teched Zihi into my even paladin deck. There are just too many otk decks around. Works out pretty fine. 

You compare apples with cherries.

Equality reduces the hp of x units, but it does not kill like execute. If you face a massive board having only an equality in your hand does not help you.

This happens more often than you might expect. The obligation to have another damaging card or x minions on the board to actually neutralize threads is what made equality balanced in my opinion.

Additionally it doesn't make much sense to compare spells from different classes because they are always embedded in the whole set that defines what a class can do and what not. For example hunters mark got insanely stronger with candleshot. Paladin on the other hand did not get newer cheap direct damage cards to work with equality. 

So you complain about Blizzard failing with the design of Baku and Genn?

Honestly, Blizzard is failing all the time.

1. The Knights of the frozen throne and KnC Expansions that led to Warlock being massively op and a massive power creep.

2. They allowed newer beasts to work with Rexxar resulting in a ridiculously absurd hero power. 

3. Introducing Baku and Genn with witchwood blessing us with odd paladin as the top deck since then in spite of nerfing the deck. Even and odd decks now run rampant in wild. Andtthey terribly limit the balancing of cards like equality. 

4. Giving hunter even more strong cards with Rastakhan's Rumble plus the December nerfs that destroyed druid and lead to hunter stone.

5. Buffing kingsbane with Rastakhan's raiding party only quickly to realize the deck might be to strong resulting in a new and quick nerf.

6. Now even more mostly stupid and lazy nerfs nobody called for.

That's only the most obvious fails from my perspective. It appears as if the guys at Team 5 are just incompetent. So we can all embrace ourselfs for even more and more severe missteps by the balancing geniuses. 

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That is very true, but I feel like it is also very dependent on you acutually opening at least a few things you want/need. 
I always preorder and save up a good amount of gold but in the end it comes down very hard to pack luck imo. I basically opend everything I wanted in Boomsday and had so much leftover dust i literally didnt know what to do with; but in Rastakhan I only opend only the worst of the sh*ttiest epics & Legendaries (Gurubashi Offering 6(!) f+cking times) and I am still not where I want to be with my collection in this set. 

I feel like the economy of HS is okay..ish - a bit too luck based if you ask me, cause if i spend 150 bucks on a game a year i would like to not have to grind hard just so i can actually get what i paid for.

 I think this is a fair point. I really comes down to luck when you open packs or bundles. Sometimes you get 8 legendaries out of 80 packs and sometimes you get 3 bad ones and 7 times the same shitty Epics. It would be only fair to extend the no duplicate rule to Epics imo.

Better don't craft Reno Jackson but buy the whole adventure and get lots of good wild cards and legendaries. 

I can highly recommend even lock in wild. It's even without blood reaver Guldan and consists mostly of some must have Epics like the giants. I crafted my molten giants before they were hall of famed so I got them mainly for free for wild. 

The meta turned heavily against zoolock with the last expansion. 

Not only priest will be an autolose for zoolock but many other decks as well. 

Zoolock is considered tier 3-4 atm. So better switch to something stronger if you have the cards. 

Gratz. Got lunas pocket galaxy and Myras unstable element in gold on my alternate account.

But your catch tops that easily. Enjoy! 

I have multiple golden heroes, when I use it also a legend cardback and play some tier 1 decks in casual when I need quick wins. Also I am f2p. 

Why? Because I've been through the tough early phase every f2p has to go through and I value my time. 

Furthermore, youoor your friends can lower their expected ladder level easily by losing a couple of times. Then they'll face weaker opponents.