Arena: Golden Cards Can be Disabled in a Future Patch
Thanks to community feedback, Ben Brode has confirmed the team will work on adding this functionality in a patch later this year so you are not forced to use golden cards in Arena. It will not be available at launch of the upcoming Arena changes.
Quote from Ben BrodeCan I choose NOT to pick Golden cards in Arena?
We will be adding this functionality to a patch later this year, based on the feedback we read when the feature was announced.
Specifically, the option to completely de-goldenize your deck, post draft.
A man of his word.
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Why does Ben Brode always have an "Oops, I just shit myself!" Face on?
he is giving an opportunity for u to write something on forums
Whats with the gold haters. Gold cards are so fashionable and a really cool status symbol. My only really cool gold is a gold leeroy jenkins - what a flair to finish off the opponent.
(I am F2P by the way.)
It is also kind of cool when you are playing against a pay to win player that is loaded down with gold minions if you win you feel even better if you are Free to play, and if you lose you can shrug it of as a loss to a pay to win snob whos cash investment mattered more than skills.
I will probably dust leeroy BTW once the new expansion hits - I already had a non-gold version and don't care THAT much about the bling that i wouldn't trade it for a new expansion legend. But I love playing gold when I can.
Something something "mind vision advantage". That's what they're going on about on the r/hearthstone subreddit. For me, I'm happy to see someone like Kripp feeling like it's Christmas because his collection has an impact on arena now.
I fixed this bug myself. I disenchanted all my golden cards for epic amounts of dust.
as control player i would like to get an indicator which shows how many cards i have in my hand
anyway i play these type of decks, arest me mister policeman :D
How about a patch that allows me to choose NOT to use Standard in Arena? That seems just a little bit more important.
Great, now how about an "auto-squelch" option? :D
I imagine if you have a golden copy it makes all copies in your deck golden... I mean you could have 4 flamestrikes in your deck, it's not likely you'll ever have 4 golden version (unless you're Kripp and hoping for that day they nerf it.)
They have already told us exactly how it works.
If you have one golden copy in your collection, only the first draft of that card is golden. If you have two golden copies in your collection, ALL drafted copies are golden.
For Legendaries, if you have one golden copy, then ALL drafted copies are golden.
Who the hell don't want to use golden cards in arena!?!!?!?! Why? oh why?
A lot of people prefer to have an all-or-nothing approach to golden cards. Some see the moving cards simply as a distraction. Some don't like having half of their deck animated but the other half not. Others simply want to guarantee all of a given card matches (ie. the HS decklist is twice as long from 1 gold/1 non-gold because they will take up separate rows in the list).