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Quote from Kaladin >>

because fuck coldlight oracle, loatheb, potion of madness, ice block, etc

I get the feeling that you just championing your preferred play-style and disregarding others. Well, actually, you're belittling aggro decks by calling them brainless, but setting your personal standard as the value others ought to match is unjust.

The meta is like water anyway. It will find the path the least resistance and flow in that direction. You can be a rock in the stream and it will flow past you. You can be a leaf and flow with it. Or, you can try to divert the movement of the meta by finding an exploitative deck that shifts the stream. You are part of the greater game; instead of making a case for God (Blizz) to come move the river for you, why not accept your part in it?

And, honestly, the meta is less than a week old right now. Patience will bear out changes.

The meta perpetuates itself. What you are complaining about is the cultural milieu of the game: decks growing more efficient as they play against each other, shaping the meta around them as they do. Don't think about the players; each deck is an entity on its own and forms a part of the whole construct. The meta itself is like water in a pot on the stove: at the beginning, it has volume and potential. As time passes, there is less and less room to move.

Your argument against netdecking is to state a personal value and then demean each player that fails to meet that value. That doesn't lead anywhere. Why not be pro-active instead? Consider why the state of the meta is as it is. If you want to be a part of the larger community, create a deck that fits the meta by countering it or joining it. Right now, the pot is full of water. Don't complain, engage and be a part of shaping the greater meta.

So the five highest win-rate decks contain one or two new cards with the exception of Warlock who went crazy and put three new cards in. Turns out the best thing about Witchwood was the rotation.

Something to take advantage of the fact that dormant minions just take up board real estate. Behind a taunt against some minion heavy aggro deck, your op might lose half their board space in one turn.

Watching the Year of the Mammoth retrospective, I remembered how much fun this game is. It's too easy to get bogged down into the quagmire of the meta, bitching about this or that deck or match-up. It's good to be reminded how much fun the art direction, style, sound effects, and card theming are. So much fun! Yeah, gameplay is king with any game, but the aesthetic goes a long, long way.

Flavor Text: The most legal form of piracy we could find!

This article is completely pointless. The obvious first step is not to build a deck, it's to copy a Tier 1 deck code to your clipboard.

Tried out a Druid deck that focuses on abusing Spectral Tiger's immortal nature. Played against a Dead Man's Hand Warrior. N'Zoth and Ixlid gave me a total of eight Tigers. Poor Warrior, he never stood a chance. My immortal tigers were too much for him and his Coldlight Oracles just refilled my hand with further tigers. Not sure if it's a good deck or not, but it was perfect for that match-up and really made the start of the day fantastic.

While this analysis covers only Standard, Wild should also be considered. I'm not going to provide analysis, just getting the cards out there:

Druid

• Raven Idol
• Living Roots

Mage

• Arcane Blast
• Ice Lance

Paladin

• Avenge

Rogue

• Conceal

Warlock

• Power Overwhelming

This will also destroy spare parts, 1-mana Kaza potions, any 2-Mana spells from Renounce darkness that get that 1-Mana discount, any 3-Mana spells a mage might get off of Glyph, and the discover cards created from Explore Un'goro.

I'm sure I missed some and I know I skipped some like Sacred Trial or Light of the Naaru. The nice thing about Geist is that it will get better and better in Wild as time goes on.

This will do well with all the hunter dragon synergy cards.

N'Zoth is good immediately and doesn't make you save minions in your hand. 

Emeriss is bad immediately and makes you save minions in your hand so you can play them turn 11 and swing with them turn 12? 

That's terrible. 

The only thing still in my hand by turn 10 is Kill Command, and I don't think that's a minion.

Nice, with this Leeroy combo you can deal 4 damage to the enemy face using 4 cards.

Worth it.

It properly makes them 1/1 versions of minions that cost 1 more

I'm less convinced that the archetype survives without serious help.  Aisu's right.  No Medivh's Valet means you lose a super efficient burn + body.  Kabal Lackey is huge on early game tempo, when you get him.  Kabal Crystal Runner is a credible mid-game threat or a late game free body.  I don't see how Vex Crow makes up for it.  Firelands Portal is burn that it needs to do its job. 

If the archetype survives, it's going to look extremely different and is almost certainly going to be slower.

Deathstalker Rexxar will finally be updated, about damn time!

Free packs? And I'm not even playing on NA!

Give us some packs and we'll pretend that nothing happened.

Quote from YourPrivateNightmare >>

prime reason for why I never considered any other onlien card game than hearthstone. I don't care if ESO or Gwent are better games, I don't like their visuals so I'll stick with Hearthstone.