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Hearthstone: Madness at the Darkmoon Faire |OT|: New Old Gods, Same Old Value

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NEWEST EXPANSION (August 6th, 2020)
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Announcing Scholomance Academy – Hearthstone’s Newest Expansion!

Scholomance Academy brings 135 new cards designed to supercharge your matches with arcane splendor and encourage all manner of never-before-seen sorcerous synergies.
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Phase 1:



This is a huge year for Hearthstone and a lot of changes coming to the game.



Remindme! 10 years

Blizzards Official Announcement for Year of the Phoenix

  • Ashes of Outland releases April 7, 2020
    • Prime Minions - Legendary minions with two forms. After they are removed from the board, they come back more powerful.
    • Imprisoned Demons - They are inactive for two turns but have powerful effects.
    • Outcast, the new Demon Hunter Keyword gives the card a bonus if it is cast while being the right-most or left-most card in your hand.
  • Introducing the Demon Hunterclass. Hearthstone's finally got a new playable class!
    • Illidan is the basic Demon Hunter hero.
  • The Priest class sees a large overhaul with the launch of the expansion.
    • New Priest Cards
    • Priest chard changes
    • Priest cards going to Hall of Fame
  • Card Pack Changes
  • Free Deck for New and Returning Players
  • Ranked Mode Overhaul
    • Star Bonuses
    • New Ranked Rewards
  • Hall of Fame for 5 Neutral cards
    • Acolyte of Pain
    • Spellbreaker
    • Mind Control Tech
    • Leeroy Jenkins
    • Mountain Giant

New Class: Demon Hunter

Hearthpwn Demon Hunter overview

With Hearthstone's new expansion, Ashes of Outland, we will also see the introduction of the game's 10th class, the Demon Hunter which will come to Hearthstone, for FREE, through a 4 game introduction experience starting April 2nd 2020.

But what is a Demon Hunter?

They are not Hunters, equipped with Bow and Arrows, the masters of Beasts, nor are they Demons, the foul spawn usually allied with Sargeras and the Burning Legion.
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In-depth overviews from outof.cards:

Demon Hunter Portal


Priest Class Overhaul


Ranked Play Overhaul



What is Hearthstone?

Hearthstone is a free-to-play online collectible card game.

How to Play?

Download the PC client (Windows, Mac) on the main site. Note, you will also need a Blizzard account to log in to their launcher.

Also available on iOS and Android.


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General:

Official Forums - Blizzard's official discussion forums.​
Hearthstone Wiki - Hearthstone reference written and maintained by the players.​

New Player:

Reddit Guide - Start here if you are completely new to the game.​
Beginner Guide to Free Cards 2020 - This guide is intended to help you find and obtain all the free cards you can.​
Trump Teachings - A video series by one of the game's most notable streamers. This is essentially​
Hearthstone 101 and is mandatory viewing for any new player looking for a crash course in Hearthstone strategy.​
Budget Rise of Shadows Decks - Reddit post outlining budget decks. (or just craft Whizbang)​

Deck Building and Sharing:

Hearthpwn- Most popular site for building and sharing decks.​
Out of Cards: Deck building, sharing, news and forums from ex-HearthPwn team.​
Gutshot's Hearthstone Collection Spreadsheet - You can use this to keep track of your current card collection.​
Disguised Toast - Meta lists, deck lists and guides​
Sharehs - List of pro player decks​
Hearthstone Top Decks: Top ladder decks sorted by newest submissions​
Hearthstone-Decks: Top decks, meta reports, guides and articles.​
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Stat Trackers and Meta Reports:

HSReplay.net: Most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for live stats, meta reports, decks. All stats generated from users of Hearthstone Deck Tracker.​
Vicious Syndicate Data Reaper Report: Home of the most popular meta report and lesser used live stat tracker​
Best Deck Lists to Climb the Standard Ladder - Metastats.net: Metastats is a lesser known compendium of game and deck stats. Decklists are selected using machine learning algorithm so there is some weird stuff there, but these are typically actual decks people are playing at the time.​

Competitive and Pro resources and twitter feed:

Competitive Hearthstone subreddit: Heavily moderated to focus on serious discussions and deck talk based on stats.​
ahirunHS Twitter Feed: Curated list of decks and tweets. A go to twitter account for many pros.​
neon31HS Twitter feed: Curated list of top ladder and streamer decks.​
HS Pro Deck Feed: Curated list of decks from top streamers and pros.​
YAYtears: Browsable list of Grandmasters, Battlefly Tournament and Specialist deck lists.​

Arena:

HearthArena - A website about Hearthstone Arena. It's best known by its Arena Drafting Tool that thousands of people use on a daily basis.​

Podcasts:

Top 20 Hearthstone Podcasts
Playerfm Hearthstone Podcast links
vS Data Reaper Podcast



ResetEra Hearthstone Discord Server
 
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Tagyhag

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That top 5 seems about right, maybe I'd switch Glowtron with Assembly.

Can't wait for tomorrow! It'll be interesting to see if Druid becomes as dominant as so many people are expecting.

I'm also very excited for the single player puzzles, though I haven't seem much about them. Only problem I have with that is those puzzles won't have the replay value as Dungeon Run and Monster Hunt. I understand that having ANOTHER mode like those might be too repetitive, but I hope we get something like that again, they're too much fun. Maybe something like Magic: Shandalar would be cool, though that would probably be too much work.
 
scarlet

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How do I record my pack opening on windows? Do I need to install a software? Or is there a built in method?
 
bunbun777

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Nice new fresh thread feel with some top 10 cards, nice job manhack. I never make the wall of shame for post counts but probably was closer than ever after last thread.
 
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nashman1313

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FTP here!! paid for a dungeon run once. Hunderds of hours for $1.50. I play an hour a day on average claer all my quests. Got 8300 gold for tommorow. Lets GO!

It is hard to be FTP but it is doable. Biggest suggestion I can give is pick three classes you like the best. Dust all class cards from the other classes your not using. Craft cards 2 weeks after exspantion for your 3 classes. Boom competitive meta decks while FTP.
 
Fer

Fer

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Oct 26, 2017
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I wasn't planning on opening my packs until the weekend, but tomorrow I go home early for my dad's birthday so I might have time. Hmm...
 
Cipher Peon

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Looking forward to the expansion!
After Witchwood kinda disappointed me, Boomsday at least looks AWESOME. Can't wait to get my hands on it!
 
Devonraynor

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The meta at the end of witchwood ended up to be the most stable the game ever was. Every class was viable and was represented. Hope this continues to be the case! Hyyyyped
 
Helot_Azure

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Oct 29, 2017
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Hope the mechs pan out. Still can't believe the Paladin legendary isn't a mech, but at least there's Glow-Tron.
 
DSP

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burgle rogue first, because it's the only time it wins lol.

I'm going to try bloodlust shaman next, seems like it could be decent.

Then aggro druid seems like another decent choice.
 
Raein

Raein

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Oct 27, 2017
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Why is Blizzard blowing their entire company's load in one week? BFA, this, and summer games in OW. Too much shit mang.
 
coolasj19

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I convinced myself to pre-order on account that when I don't I buy 2 orders of $20 and I may as well get it over with and open 100 packs. I'm moderately excited for wacky combos.
 
Luminish

Luminish

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squidyj said:
you can go to hspacktracker.com and itll tell you what to do there.

I am 15.89 dust below average over 35 packs.
That's 556 dust, feels bad
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Dust distribution is lopsided toward single big cards, so I would bet it's common for sample sizes that low to be below the average. A single legendary or golden epic would almost double your dust there.
 
ZeroX

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Oct 25, 2017
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Been looking to sell my account for a while, have a bunch of dust and gold saved up (hmu if interested), but this set does look pretty good so I'm actually willing to give it a shot and have nearly 8000 gold saved. Omega, Magnetic and Legendary Spells are all looking really fun. Positive about everything except maybe projects. But boy am I sick of this meta, and I like aggro.
 
bunbun777

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I really should go to sleep but I'm excited and playing decks that probably won't be played again.
 

Melubas

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I wish I wash hyped for this but Hadronox druid killed my enjoyment of the game, as did the current meta. I don't see any new decks emerging that beat Hadronox and big spell mage sadly. But happy for you guys and girls that are hype :)
 

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When you make an expansion with lots of interesting cards and ideas but then also release mecharoo so whatever.
 
scarlet

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Melubas said:
I wish I wash hyped for this but Hadronox druid killed my enjoyment of the game, as did the current meta. I don't see any new decks emerging that beat Hadronox and big spell mage sadly. But happy for you guys and girls that are hype :)
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To be fair big mage isn't that good. But yeah, I don't like this current meta too,
 
PS9

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Just started 7PM-7AM shift, expansion launches at 3AM. Planning on watching streamers until end of shift then cracking open 80 packs at home, can't wait :D
 

Melubas

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scarlet said:
To be fair big mage isn't that good. But yeah, I don't like this current meta too,
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I think it totally kills midrange decks (as does most of the meta) which is a big reason I dislike it. Plus Frost Lich Jaina is the most frustrating card to play against. But yeah, it's not on the same level as the other decks. It feels like the "control" and combo decks are just too powerful in what they do, either with endless board clears or endless refilling of their boards unless you get lucky with Tinkmaster.
 
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