I've lost an embarrassing amount of ranked games by accidentally FBing myself while trying to cancel out of the action...

Fucking phones...

 

I'm in love with Reno Shadowform Priest.

 

This deck has been my main for the last two months. It's amazing.

 

Been kicking ass with Midrange Paladin. Went from rank 16 to rank 7 and I am still winning at a good rate.

 

Started playing a few days ago, the amount of people with 4+ legendary cards at rank 17 is astonishing. Like seriously, how are they not higher?

 

Skill > Collection.

 

Luck > Skill

Fixed it for yah

 

Mysterious Challenger > Everything

Fixed it again.

 

Well yeah, but I don't have any skill, but sometimes it does seem a bit unfair when someone whips out an Onyxia and 3 secret cards against your 100% standard deck.

Also, secret cards are retarded, do you ever become able to predict them based on class or something?

 

There are archetypes, but like any CCG, you need to know the archetypes before you can guess the secret for some decks (Mage is like this), and for Secret Paladin / Hunter to a lesser extent, you just have to guess and test the triggers.

 

Oftentimes yes. You can often discern what secret is probably is based on what you are playing against and his previous moves. An example is that a freeze mage will play ice block/armor while a mech mage will often play mirror entity with a counterspell sometimes.

 

Paladins are a bit weird. I've seen anything between 3 and ALL THE SECRETZ. You just need to assume the worst. Don't play Deathlord into an unknown pally secret.


Or, you know, do, and laugh if it pulls out challenger...

 

Tempo mage plays 1/1 Mirror Entity and Counterspell (though some holdouts are still playing 2 entity). Freeze mage plays 2/2 Ice Block and Ice Barrier. If you see a mage drop a Sludge Belcher they're probably playing Duplicate.

Face Hunter only plays 2 Explosive Trap, but that's pretty rare nowdays. Most common in midrange hunter is Freezing Trap, sometimes Bear, and rarely Snake.

Secret Paladin should really only be playing 2 Avenge, 2 Noble Sacrifice, 1 Competitive Spirit, 1 Redemption, but occasionally you'll see somebody playing 1 Repentance as well (if they pull 5 secrets off of it, that's when you know). But I wouldn't play around Repentance unless that happens.

 

First time ever rank 4, then my happiness is shot down by getting smashed into rank 6 by only meeting priest & Cancer paladin.

 

I've seen midrange running x1 of freezing, bear and snake a lot more recently. The traps are one of the first things to get shifted around as the meta changes. More aggro leads to flame and bear. Control begets freeze and snake.

 

Tempo has also shifted partially from Mirror Entity to Duplicate.

 

They also have effigy sometimes, seen a few of those lately.

 

Too many low curve things in tempo for me to really like Effigy, personally.

Duplicate makes some sense because even if it's on a mana wyrm it's not the end of the world. I personally just run 1 mirror and 1 counterspell though.

 

Formats are coming to Hearthstone:

Standard- deck built solely from a pool of cards that were released in the current and previous calendar year, along with a core foundation of the Basic and Classic card sets (which will always be valid for Standard).

Wild- Every set.

We can rank up in either format and achieve Legend in both.

More deck slots for a total of 18.

Standard Format will be: Basic, Classic, BRM, TGT, LoE and the new Spring 2016 expansion.

Will be able to disenchant cards from the Adventure sets for normal dust value.

 

Much needed changes. Blizzard is addressing the two biggest concerns of the playerbase that have been active the longest; lack of deck slots and entry cost to the game.

By making a ranked ladded essentially locked to the game as it is now, they freeze the entry cost to its current (though not insignificant) amount, while making another format for those always on top of the current meta.

Good move on their part, I admit.