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One of the best written guides on hearthpwn. Thanks for your efforts. You've refreshed my interest in Dragon Priest!

Yes, so with N'zoth, Patches, Bloodsail and coin. You could have a 2/4 weapon and 3 pirates on turn 2. Huge tempo!

Brilliant. Got him first try. Guide is correct. Play control until he runs out of cards

I like this deck. Went 2-2 for the first 4 games, primarily because I was playing too controll-y. The description is right on, control the early game and then switch to aggressive. Trickiest part to learn is when to use weapons vs minions, but that just comes with practice. 

I like that the deck is relatively cheap and that the games are fast. I was looking for a deck to work towards my golden Warrior and I will definitely use this when I don't feel like playing control.

Nice job Pyro!

I went 7-3 with this deck today and ranked from 10 to 8. Highest rank I've been since before the Undertaker nerf! 

Belcher has definitely been the MVP for me.

Going to keep pushing with this deck tonight and tomorrow and see how high I can get.

Awesome deck and guide Talion, thanks for sharing!

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So in the last two seasons, when I have actually attempted to get to legend I pick two decks and for the most part stick to those two for the season.  If I am tired of the "well-Meta" then I just kick off an arena run.   

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Is that true? Did someone do the math behind it? I'd think that due to win streaks 45% would get you to rank 5 given enough time. What is the exact number?

Sorry, I should have been more specific...or is it less? :)

Yes, I suppose it IS possible for a deck with a negative win percentage to eventually get to rank 5 if you consider the extra stars for win streaks. But it's also "almost surely" possible for a monkey to type the complete works of Shakespeare over an infinite amount of time!

I guess what I meant to say is that there's no way that I could ever find the patience or the time to grind up to rank 5 with a deck that only wins 45% of the time. This game is supposed to be fun and I can't see how it's fun to lose more games than you win.

*quick update* 

Just won 3 games in a row in 15 mins with face hunter. I feel so cheap and dirty, but not at tilted :)

Hi Everyone. I'm a fairly casual player with very small windows of time throughout the day to play. Because of this I generally stay away from the ladder. I find it difficult to play consistently and keep win streaks going when I only have time for 2 or 3 games in a session. I also have deck ADD and really enjoy switching decks regularly. Because of this I usually hover around rank 15-14. Trying to rank any higher than that under the aforementioned conditions usually leads to tilting.

But tomorrow will be different in that I have a good chunk of free time to play on the ladder and I'd like to make it to rank 10. I plan to play somewhere between 25 and 40 games with the same deck over a 6-8 hour period, and I would love some advice on what deck to try with.

Here's a list of the decks that I will choose from. I've listed them in order of my experience playing them. Right now I'm leaning toward Tempo Mage or Dragon Priest, but I will entertain any convincing arguments for the other decks in this list.

Zoo Lock
Tempo Mage
Face Hunter
Dragon Priest
Freeze Mage
Midrange Druid
Control Warrior

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Tempo style, finding good trades early on with Fiery War Axe and Alexstrasza's Champion then switching it up to smorcing when you have the board.

Yeah I've been meaning to do an in depth guide and video showcase, but I had finals for the past two weeks and for the next couple of days I'm in Vegas.

Rogues dont have any heal, beside one earthen ring.So really just go ham. Play around backstab and si:7.

Paladins have loads of heal but they sacrafice tempo in the process(except for rag light). Just keep up the pressure and dont over-extend once they have 6 mana. Kill their turn 2-3 Doomsayer.

Mages really depend on their hand. Mirror Image is a killer here. Pretty much every time I face a tempo mage it either becomes a race or down to top decks. Freeze Mage just go face they usually dont want to waste spells to freeze our weapons.

Control Warriors you just need to play around Brawl. They dont have death's bite anymore so they cant clear our minions quite as well. Fatigue Warriors are a losing matchup. They just gain so much armor, basically you either blow them out or you need to wait to upgrade Arcanite and try to steal a win :/

It could also pyroblast your own face :/

Also known as "The Grinch who ruined Christmas".

Look that LoE in the title and doesn't have any card of LoE...

Hey! Let's stop all the fighting and focus on something we can all be truly upset about. That sound good? Yeah? Great! So here it is: my wings were just delivered and the sons' of bitches forgot my ranch dressing! The nerve! So now I have hot wings and no ranch dressing! I can't eat hot wings without ranch. Sure, I could call back and wait for the poor bastard to bring me 2 ranch cups but then I'm eating cold buffalo wings. It's a total lose/lose proposition. So while some of you don't like the cards that were shown at least you didn't just drop $20 dollars (wings/soda/tip) on hotwings and not get your ranch dressing.

right click on the virtual device before you start it then in settings change the number of processors from 1 to 2 .

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Sorry! Hearthstone can't run on this device because it doesnt meet minimal specifications :( I did everything step by step and still it doesnt work, tried to reinstall hs, didnt helped. Any help?

You need to change the number of processors on your virtual device to 2.  If it won't let you do that then you need to enable virtualization on your PC by going into the BIOS.

Imo, it's 100% likely to be an expansion. They'd have to be INSANE to hype up more Hero Skins this much (and I don't put it past them), and we just had an adventure. iirc, the only other time they released cryptic articles and art was pre-GvG, when they were teasing new cards like Unstable Portal and Mechs.

So here's what I think: It's going to be a new expansion/card set that's based around Argent Tournament and WoTLK. The new tribe they're going to release will be "Champions" as others had thought up, and I have NO idea what they could be. I also think they might give every class a weapon, like "Staff of the Mage" 1/3, +1 spell damage, and classes with weapons may get "Armors", which are like weapons that function as armor that have cool effects built in (eg., shield of the paladin: 0/4 weapon, When you hero is attacked, negate 2 damage from the attack and heal 2, remove 1 durability).

Lastly, I think around December they're going to use the cards they've released with the expansion they're teasing now to make an Icecrown themed adventure, which starts at maybe Wrathgate, and eventually you progress to Icecrown Citadel where you can defeat Arthas, unlocking the Death Knight class. (I guess it would have to be a free adventure if they did that..?)

It's really likely that this won't happen, but I can dream!