Hearthpwn

New meta confirmed:

Quote from YJHS2000 >>

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Forbidden Healing is bugged. The spell cost zero, yet does damage to you equal to mana spent after casting.

 That's not a bug that's how the card functions. Forbidden Healing costs X mana, where X is how much you spent and thus take X damage.  

 No, it cost zero mana and spends all your mana after being played.

 Update: The bug is intermittent.  Sometimes it deals the mana spent and sometimes not.  Can't figure any pattern to it.

• Forbidden healing NEVER spends any mana
• If you have more health than unspent mana, it will deal damage to you equal to your unspent mana and then heal for twice that much (effectively healing you 1 for each unspent mana without spending that mana)
• If you have less health than unspent mana, it will heal you for twice your unspent mana for free! No damage, no mana spent

Quote from sanchogrande >>

Bummer. PO is fun for various combos. Plus, it's a removal that costs you a minion, unlike many vanilla removal spells.

I don't see how using PO to get Leeroy to 14 attack is all that different from a 20/20 Cthun, anyfin, a huge Nzoth, or a 10/10 and 11/11 jade being dropped on the same turn. It's just a different late game win condition. 

Would have rather seen Auctioneer gone.  Conceal is not nearly as powerful without Auctioneer.  Maybe I'm just salty because I've lost twice to Jade Druids in the past two days who drew half their deck on turn 6 with Auctioneer, coin and double innervate (not to mention drawing 3 cards for 2 mana with wild growth at 10 mana).

Quote from BrokenCycle >>

I'm fairly confident that OTK paladin is the most consistent deck. Turn 2 wins are very possible and if they let you live until turn 4 you win almost every time, and with the small creatures this one counters Greater Arcane Missiles to make it harder for mage to get their damage in in time. 

This is my build:

Early turns OTK Buffadin Unknown Deck by BrokenCycle - Feb 16, 2017 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (9) 1x Patches the Pirate 2x Argent Squire 2x Runic Egg 2x Violet Illusionist 2x Stonetusk Boar	Ability (21) 2x Lay on Hands 2x Small-Time Recruits 2x Blessed Champion 1x Divine Favor 2x Holy Wrath 2x Blessing of Kings 2x Hammer of Wrath 2x Seal of Champions 2x Smuggler's Run 2x Solemn Vigil 2x Blessing of Might
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Runic Egg is the only card I have my doubts on. But the thing is: people don't kill it, so it's always there to buff.

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Just make it to turn 7 with decent health and Archmage Antonidas in your hand with a burn card and you can Fireball your opponent to death.

 Just make it to turn 7? Do you know how hard this is. Most games end on turn 3, a large portion end on turn 2. The "late" game decks are decks that have to get to turn 4 to cast Barnes into Malygos to hit you for 30. 

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Forbidden Healing is bugged. The spell cost zero, yet does damage to you equal to mana spent after casting.

 That's not a bug that's how the card functions. Forbidden Healing costs X mana, where X is how much you spent and thus take X damage.  

 No, it cost zero mana and spends all your mana after being played.

Lay on Hands = zero mana, draw three cards. Nice.

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Quote from YJHS2000 >>

Forbidden Healing is bugged. The spell cost zero, yet does damage to you equal to mana spent after casting.

 That's not a bug that's how the card functions. Forbidden Healing costs X mana, where X is how much you spent and thus take X damage.  

Forbidden Healing is bugged. The spell cost zero, yet does damage to you equal to mana spent after casting.

Just what I wanted.  I usually play it with Sword of Justice anyway, so it will be 4/2 instead of 4/3.  I can now kill my opponent's STB on turn 1 with my own patches, and can swap out that awful Argent Lance for Light's Justice to also kill opponent's STB on turn 1 and get my own pirates out faster.

Weasel Tunneler says hi

Advice: You're kidding yourself if you think you have "free time" between graduation and July 25.  Bar prep starts immediately after graduation and should be treated like a full time job for those 7-8 weeks.  You will be busier than you were in law school.  PLEASE don't let Hearthstone be the reason you failed the bar.  Also, after you take the bar, your brain will be mush for a week or two.  Not sure how it will affect your quest.

Best of luck in both.

Quote from aragon82 >>

Weapons are kind of direct-dmg spell using your health as a ressource. They are important for some(not my special friend Thrall of course) weapon-classes because they dont have much other tools for removal or reach.

I think the bigger problem is upgrading the durability to gain that extra charges "for free" and do some serious amount of additional dmg.

Seems there's some confusion on this point:

Hearthpwn: "Polygon recapped their trip to Blizzard a few months ago to discuss the Standard format alongside other community members. We've recapped the important parts below . . . We will see two expansions per year (start and end) and one adventure (middle). At least for now."

Blizzpro: "The Polygon article does state that these details are not set in stone, they were just talked about. Blizzard has NOT announced that 2 expansions + 1 adventure per year is what will be released so this is not confirmation. We apologize for the misleading title of the article."

Has Blizzard announced anything?