Hearthpwn

kill it without consequence or just ignore it

Not true and hopefully so.

Killing a Selfless Hero requires 1 attack/ping/aoe. While there are situations where the bubble it gives pays off, there are many in which it does not.

Killing an Argent Squire requires 2 attack/ping/aoe. If your opponent has to kill your 1 drop with minion or weapon attacks, it has already done the 2 damage the Hero does. If your opponent uses a hero power to do it, you gained tempo in the early game.

Best of all, if your opponent ignores it, it benefits from all those buffs you mentioned in your sentence about the dragonhawk, except it might get to use them twice because of the bubble.

You can keep it in your hand and play it on turn 1 without fear. The 3 others you mentioned get pinged.

The deck is very fun, I am using a Recruiter instead of Paletress so no crafting. One suggestion for the guide is to combine the mulligan lists up to Kazakus, then list the differences for the last few cards. Also, is the omission of Lyra from the without coin section mean always toss?

OMFG. I have now opened 2 more, 1 from the first wing and 1 from gold earned today, and I am now the proud owner of a Prince Keleseth. Also, from the prologue, got Valeera the Hollow.

92 packs. Taldaram, Lana'thel, Moorabi. I am off work today, don't really feel much like playing HS right now, tho.

SO OP. Or the Rogue quest. Either one is fine.

Definitely Paladin.

Gadgetzan Ferryman, def

to 4wd:

I think this is the answer, honestly. I think the ban idea would be fun, personally, where as see Shaman, concede is ... less so, but at least I don't have to wait for Blizzard.

It is dawning on me that:

1) Blizzard thinks a month from now is soon enough to fix the meta, though I have little faith in their ability to predict well how the cards they release will do so (see Spirit Claws). I disagree, and wish they'd act faster, after all the time between Karazhan and the nerfs was short.

2) Bans might really be a good idea, in game. I feel like the case for it in Casual is really solid. I leave it to others to figure out how it might work in other modes.

I don't know if you noticed, but at the recent HS World Championship, there were bans. These bans were frequently used against Shaman. The result is that many, definitely not all, but many interesting control decks were played successfully. Hamster fucking advanced with a Priest and a Paladin. 

I would like to have a game mode available to me to use at home, in front of my computer, or even on my phone, that let me influence in a small way the opponents I am likely to face. Even more than that, however, I would like Blizzard to recognize their repeated mistakes and take additional action so that Midrange Shaman is not in its own tier.

Yes, I misunderstood. It might be fair for the ladder, too.

But I was really thinking about casual, because I do stubbornly try to make off-meta decks quite often, and I am comfortable with staying in Casual mode with them. Running into a T0 deck there feels bad, man.

My idea was absolutely inspired by tournament bans. Also by queuing into repeated Shamans in Standard/Casual with my 'fun' deck.

Spoiler, tho: while I would use such a feature if it existed today, my post is a joke and a criticism of Blizzards choices over the Karazhan/post-Karazhan nerfs/through today time period. I feel like they did such an epically bad job of giving tools to various classes in Karazhan, then they made it WORSE with the nerfs, then every day that passes they continue to preserve the terrible meta we have by not doing something more, NOW, about Shaman. 

In the unlikely hypothetical universe where they rapidly implement such a proposal as mine, then I could play casual without cursing myself over my stubborn unwillingness to insta-concede when I see Thrall across the table, though that would provide me more time to play matches I might enjoy. But really, just fix Shaman.

You know what would be a really cool way to help out the HS player base when Blizzard prints Spirit Claws while nerfing everything else but Priest and Paladin? BANS. I would love to be able to set a banned class, even it meant I had to pick it from an extra menu every time I clicked 'Play Standard'.

Obviously, it would only be fair to do this for the casual mode, because choosing fun (fun: adjective. Describes playing decks for the following classes: Warrior, Warlock, Priest, Paladin, Rogue, Mage, Hunter, and Druid) decks is only an appropriate choice there. Ranked means winning with Shaman or giving Shaman free wins.

IDK if this is answered elsewhere, but if you craft these cards after the patch lands, can you still DE them for full value before 10/17?