Hearthpwn

If you play a 3-card deck in a game based on 30-card decks, you must be prepared to hit the conceed button if you lose one of your 3 cards.

Tickatus is too slow to corrupt anyway.

Most of the time he is just a 6 mana 8/8, which is decent stats, but you aren't going to be playing that on curve. 

I played at the beginning.

I personally found the game to be far too small, with a pool of 200-something cards, you were seeing the same cards played in every class. It did not keep my attention for long.

Came back later in GvG and enjoyed it more when there were Naxx and GvG cards available.

For me, the peak period of Hearthstone was around the days of Knights of the Frozen Throne and Kobolds and Catacombs. Death Knights are still my favourite cards in Wild, and I enjoyed the decks that were around at the time. Also had a load of friends that played the game, many of which have since moved on. 

Ben Brode and the old crew were still working on the game.

The game is still fun or else I wouldn't be here, but it has lost some of its magic since then.

@ OP

Could you create a Classic Format forum, rather than deleting 2 days of posts and create an echo chamber?

Basics of foruming.

"There's a very high chance that we might see a Tauren hero in the future."

Good. Can we have a Forsaken hero too? Tauren and Forsaken are the last of the 8 original playable WoW races to be represented in Hearthstone as Heroes.

Actually, we could do with some more diversity in heroes in general.

Especially rogue. They have the least amount of skins at 4, and all 4 of those are dirty elves, and 3 of those are the same elf.

I don't believe Raza or Shadowreaper should be nerfed. 

Before Lorekeeper Polkelt was made, the deck was good but not as oppressive to get its combo online as it is today. It took about as long as any other OTK deck like Malygos Druid, Exodia Mage, ect.

I have a personal hatred of Lorekeeper Polkelt. It is unnatural, and it has NO place in a card game like this. Rearranging your entire deck in an order that suits you is just cheating and defeats the point of the game.

The effect is just too game-changing, and I can guarantee you he will create some more broken shenanigans in the future. Every expansion they make, they will have to do so with Polkelt in mind. He limits design.

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For Secret Mage - it's hard to target because there is no one problem card. It's a collection of cards that synergize so well together that you can't do anything to them. Play a minion? Explosive Runes. Play a spell? Counterspell.

But it's not the secrets that are the problem. If you nerf one of those, they will just create more secrets in upcoming expansions and we are back to where we are.

The biggest issues are Cloud Prince + Arcane Flakmage.

Nerf the daylight out of these two cards, and for the love of god, stop creating new secret-synergy minions. Every. Single. Expansion.

The deck would still be playable, as it has been for years now.

You are overthinking this.

I don't think anybody is realistically expecting Classic mode to be as big as Standard or Battlegrounds.

It's just a fun nostalgia trip that requires almost no effort for Blizzard to maintain. Once the initial work is done, they don't have to add anything else to it.

It will see a big drop in popularity after a few months, but as long as there is a small and loyal playerbase that enjoy playing it, who cares?

Personally, I am looking forward to using my golden Lord Jaraxxus again. Good 'ol handlock with Twilight Drakes, Shield of Argus, Molten/Mountain Giants ect.

As a Wild only player, it seems stupid they nerfed Hysteria for Standard, when the problem was Retched Tiller, a Wild card.

Considering crafting this for Renolock in Wild.

Can anyone confirm if the primes that are shuffled into your deck are 3 different ones?

If it can give duplicates, that's kind of a dealbreaker.