Hearthpwn

Silver Hand Knight is pretty much the same card, would you play that? probably not

it also contends with the other powerful 6 drops in the game

Cairne Bloodhoof

Emperor Thaurissan

Sylvanas Windrunner

The Black Knight

Sunwalker

Piloted Sky Golem

Why would you play Hogger over any of these for the most part. If anything he is less situational the TBK, but less powerful than the other 6 drops. Hogger is fun at low ranks, i remember opening him early on and thinking he was just nuts, but now he is really underwhelming compared to the other things the opponent does. I wish he would be playable because he is pretty cool, but overall it is going to be really hard to fit him into anything. You kill the 2/2 and ignore him entirely if your facehunter and any other agro deck, he just isnt enough to do what you want him to do overall in the whole scope of things.

MY favorite to watch would be Tides Of Time when he streams, which is almost never lately. Does any one know what is going with him and why is not playing/streaming often.

If he isnt on i like watching Reynad for the 20 minutes he streams before he flips his shit and leaves

Then its StrifeCrow before any after than

Doomsayer when your winning is the worst though. You cant simply take a couple good aspects and say it is better 100% of the time while ignoring the bad. You mentioned silence a couple times but ignore it because it might not happen, if it gets silenced, well your 4/3  sucks and dies to a ton of things and you lose massive ground. that right there is a massive reason for why it isnt better

take the best of one and compare against the worst of another, yeah that makes sense.

You also could get a 0/4 taunt for your opponent or 50 other terrible 1 drops for your opponent with a hungry dragon. just like you could get a lorewalker off a shredder and be like, damn no more spells for me to be casting anytime soon i guess, or even an egg that you cant activate or a doomsayer or manawrathe (sp). If your going to compare the cards you cant look at only one aspect of each card.

one will fit in a deck that can deal with the negatives much better than the other could. Combo is going to be better with shredder because it has to die twice unless silenced, dragon will be better as a card that is a massive threat and can win the game on its own in decks that can answer threats or ignore them all together.

bet you see him again next week... no spoiler on that one

chromaggus is better than nefarian btw. ill take an extra card out of my deck over the possible two of random crap of my opponents class. i can juts imagine double deadly poison in a non-weapon class, oh the value...

I think its because its more visually stimulating, because of that it causes us to look at it more and fixate on it and will chose to kill it first over another copy of it. I have noticed it as well from time to time, and caught myself killing golden versions before non golden ones.

since all of them are really meta dependent minus tirion, go with what type of play style you enjoy most. The greater amount you have listed that are left seem to be control cards. Of all of them i have played rag the most, i would think that or tirion would be your go to cards. The only taunt being played now really is belcher, and that is not in tons of decks any more. harrison is fun, but i only play him in a couple decks, and ooze can replace him if needed because its still a heavy hit when you ooze a weapon.

I would suggest Rag overall though, followed closely by Tirion.

Wait what! You mean to me that a service is being provided to us at our choosing and we need to pay for it? Thats just insane. No way should I have to pay for an option for something I want, that they have, that they are asking money for in exchange. Wait, they are going to give me something extra if I give them money ahead of time that I was going get regardless? Thats just wrong and unfair. Oh I have the option to get it for free minus the extra gift if I chose? Thats also bull, mostly because I have to play a game to get the free stuff other are CHOOSING to pay for... I wish people would stop bitching about this as well.

here is my submission.

works like Jarax does, but with a weapon, If it gets destroyed (should say death rattle)for any reason death rattle activates. I couldnt find a portrait maker or hero power one either so I used a card generator.

-The durability will only be reduced if the 50% activates, not on every spell. Feel this really balances the weapon and it randomly targets the board. can take a long time to activate because of this

- Hero can attack like Jarax does (had to post seperatly)

- Channel only casts targetable spells, frost bolt, fireball etc.. Balanced because its a random spell and random target

The closest I have made it to was 11 wins, did it with a rouge deck. I have been playing arena a ton lately. I am pretty much tired of standard right now. I can play pretty much anything from the 15000 dust control warrior deck to dirt as cheap zoo. But something about arena is just a ton of fun. I feel I have become a better player because of arena as well. I average 5 wins currently per run. Is there any tips any of you can give to help me reach the magical 12 win slot?