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Got my first 12 wins run in Arena yesterday. 

Game 7 was pretty cool: https://hsreplay.net/replay/5u5jRk63ipzHxefKQk3CVF

Game 10, huge brainfart at turn 8, ofcourse wanted to play the 6 mana minion :S : https://hsreplay.net/replay/JUZYGFKUUp8zAkzCcfjC5T

Game 13, Captain Hindsight: 'you should have blastcrystalled the 4/4', also I only saw the kara kazham was not very smart with the unlicensed apothecary after I wasted the coin : https://hsreplay.net/replay/FCTjEfJaopfS2MNJZhrzqJ

Game 14: I guess this is what we call Pirate Warrior in constructed? https://hsreplay.net/replay/CrxGPJxdtcUUQaqfR77mdc

Game 15: thank you courier :) https://hsreplay.net/replay/c4PUpige9Sr92kSukVZhx4

The community produces a lot of creative cards (for example the weekly competition here but also cards from the 'best of all time' gallery on hearthcards). I think it would be awesome to have some kind of sandbox mode where people can 'build' (I know making anything that's more complicated than a yeti is harder than it sounds) and play these cards just for fun. Maybe people from the community could moderate the list of cards playable there so it doesn't get out of hand. This way you won't have to test cards (the testing will be done by the people like testing the cards) and you won't be responsible when people start whining that it isn't fun.

 Wow, impressive post! Now, how do you think I should use this while playing a game? Let's assume I want to see a list of the possible taunt minions I can get from I know a guy, should I check this post, the wotog one, and get a list somewhere of basic/classic taunts and LoE/Karazhan taunts? Isn't it easier to go to http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?filter-show-standard=y&filter-premium=1&filter-taunt=1&display=3 ?

And what do you mean by fetched through alternate means?

I'm going for rank 5 again, made it yesterday after one or two months of not really trying and not making it. My plan is to buy 25 packs with gold when the expansion is released in a few hours and use the 500 gold I will have left to play an Arena run every day for the next 2/3 weeks. Then I'll make a decent deck with what I got from the packs and go for rank 5 in the last week of the season.

When WotOG launched, every player got a 'get 5 packs for 2 wins' quest. If you had 3 quests at the moment of the launch, it would overwrite the one with the least progress. Of course, this quest is better than any quest you may have right now as your least progressed one but it may be smart to make sure you only have one active quest when the 1st/2nd of December (depending on your region) arrives. I imagine you would get a normal quest and a Gadgetzan quest and no normal quest gets overwritten. 

I would take out Malchezaar. Running 1 card 2 times is not as bad as you might think. The chance of getting one copy of Shadowform in your opening 3 card (no coin) hand is roughly 39% if you mulligan hard for exactly one copy. In the 61% of cases you don't have a copy yet you're going to draw a copy on turn 1, 2 or 3 in 22% of the cases. This means that if you draw Kazakus on turn 4 you can trigger his effect in 53% of the cases. Ofcourse most of the games you won't draw Kazakus that early (especially if you throw him out of your starting hand when you see you have to find a Shadowform first), the same goes for Raza so you'll have even more time to draw a copy of Shadowform. Drawing Reno early is no problem because you probably don't want to use him until pretty late in the game, when the odds of being able to use his effect are already much better. 

Maybe the pro's of running 2 x Shadowform don't outweigh the pretty small con of sometimes screwing up your one copy in deck mechanic but you can only find this out by testing against the meta. My point is that it is not very stupid to put two copies of one card in a Highlander kind of deck, putting two copies of one card in your deck gives you a very good chance of having a 'clean' deck when you need it. 

 I just lost an arenamatch because my would be dead next turn opponent had Malygos and Summoning Stone on board and he Firelands Portals me for (a wild Prophet Velen appears) *20* damage, gets a Doomguard from the Firelands Portal, attacks with both minions and hero powers me for the exactly 30 damage total ..

It is possible but not a very good idea I think, Edwin is a second wincondition, especcially useful against aggro opponents. And against opponents of which I know they probably can remove a big threat I sometimes still create a 8+ Edwin so they can't remove my Auctioneer that turn.

Planning to go to at least rank 5 as well, made it 4 or 5 times in the last 7 seasons. Only made it with Hunter though, now I'm trying with Malyrogue. Dropped from 12 to 14 today by going 5-10 today so I stopped. What are the winrates you guys are having with Secret Hunter, I'm thinking about switching to that. I'm 55% now (47-39) with 3 different versions of Malyrogue this season.

The last 5 days I've played this exact deck, the version with -Kobold +1 Swashburglar and a version of myself with Kobold and 2 x Swashburglar -1 Sap. Getting pretty good with it, beating shamans and control warriors feels pretty good, secret hunters are my biggest problem. Barnes actually comes up with something good most of the time, only swashburglar and edwin are bad, the spelldamage guys are bad if you play barnes early (the 1/1 will get killed before you can use it, therefore playing Barnes on turn 4 is often not a very good idea), Thalnos or tomb pillager are always good and a 1/1 auctioneer can be really good. I also use a decktracker since a couple of days and being able to see what you may expect from Barnes is very useful. 

Conclusion: grind that gold and get Barnes ;)

Dark Iron Skulker is pretty good but I don't think you're going to have a lot of succes with this deck without Barnes. Also if you put in Skulker instead of Barnes you may want to consider switching the Kobold for a second Swashburglar because you already have a 2 dmg board clear. If you don't have Skulker Shadowcaster may be interesting too :)

Hi Johndoe, first of all thanks for sharing the deck and guide :) I played your version the last day of the previous season with medium succes (54% wr in 50 games from rank 13 to 9). Then I switched to ShtanUdachi's version which gave me 61% wr in 61 games from 19 to 12 (ofcourse gaining ranks this low may actually be tougher than 13 to 9 last day of season). I liked the 2nd Swashburglar a lot because of the perfect turn 1 and the fun and often nice stuff he comes up with but I started missing the kobold. Do you think having both and cutting out a Sap is a bad idea? It makes the Auctioneers worse ofcourse but I often find myself sapping 5/5 shaman taunts which isn't really efficient ofcourse.

Cool idea, I added the EU ones and the ones that didn't specify. Really looking forward to games that are fun and original and pwning you guys with my Grim Patron priest. VanLunturu#2439 (EU)

My general advice would be to never disenchant a card (regardless of its rarity), especially if you don't need the dust. As you said they can always get useful someday and you're gonna feel pretty bad when you have to spend 1600 dust to be able to compete in that Aviana meta :p Also, I think it's pretty cool to collect as many different cards as you can but that may just be the Loot Hoarder side of me talking.

P.S. I think Aviana and Nozdormu are the least useful/have the least potential to ever become useful

I would craft Bloodmage Thalnos or Ragnaros the Firelord