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There's plenty of stupid to go around in that story.

I agree, but there are at least three reasons why they have made it as is: - Random effects are fun for casuals - Random effects demand less text on the cards (in most cases) - Random effects don't have to stop the game and ask you for a decision. Note that there are ZERO cards in Hearthstone...

All those terms are really muddled and hard to properly define. You can ask 10 people and get 10 different answers. Here's a longwinded explanation of my use of the terms. In terms of concepts (not decks): Aggro vs Control (or Beatdown vs Control) are polar opposite roles on the same axis...

I don't know what you're talking about. I don't have any handy "75%" statistics to throw out, but let's look at the format defining decks of December/January: - Murlocs (Aggro) - January's Hunter UTH (Aggro) - Mage aggro (Aggro / Tempo) - Board Control Warlock (Tempo) - Board Control Rogue...

You're wrong, as should be evident to anyone that has played or watched any high level Hearthstone.

I made a lot of assumptions like that going into Hearthstone. What I didn't see initially was how much the game changes when the attacker gets to choose which targets to attack, instead of the other way around. It favors tempo quite a bit, and means that greedier decks aren't necessarily best...

There's not really a maintained centralized list, the metagame moves too fast. Whenever something gets known (generally through streams), it gets posted one of these places (and probably others): Hearthstone Players - Latest Decks, Net Decks, Decklists, Wiki, Game, Beta, WoW, Download, Release...

*shrug* I spent my dust crafting the Mirey Warrior Control Deck, and two days later it was nerfed. My alexstrasza was a sad use of 1600 dust.

It's not particularly strong. Assuming you place your minions with it in mind, it generally either kills 1 or 2 of your weakest minions, or damages your strongest. That's not very strong for a situational card. It can occasionally get fantastic value, but it's also a dead card pretty often.

Holy fuck please no.

If you want to enjoy constructed, paying $50 lets you get competitive instantly instead of grinding arena for a month. If you just want to do arena there's no reason to pay (assuming you can go infinite). But then again, I come from the opposite point of view, having way more money than time...

Potential to become as deep as MTG? Never. Potential to become bigger than MTG for a while, and keep going for a couple of years? Sure. Hearthstone is so much easier to get into, so much more immediately gratifying, so much more flexible with regards to how much time and money you want to...

Pretty damn good. Master, you're not running Alex and Gorehowl? Without the option to Alex someone to 15, the Mirey version sometimes feels like it doesnt' have nearly enough threats.

It's nothing to be embarassed about. Several of the people you see posting good results here have years of experience from other card games, which makes a lot of basic play second nature. This, again, allows us to focus our thought process on more advanced exercises like planning several turns...

If he's actually telling the truth and the same guy is repeatedly running arena with multiple Molten Giants with multiple Warsong Commanders and Brewmasters, or Alexstrasza+Gorehowl+Charge, it does sound cheateriffic. It's not inconceivable that the HS client is vulnerable to some memory hack...

Soft penalty, but it's not a dive. There's very clear contact. Could he have stayed on his feet if he wanted? Absolutely. Was it a poor challenge in a position where Sterling had very low chances of creating anything? Yep. Do I think it should be a penalty? Nope. Glad to be back in the top 4...

The trickiest part about the warrior decks is that it can be really hard to see which variant you are up against, and the tactics will be very different. If it's the giant version, you'll want to stall at ~15-19 life and then OTK him. If it's Mir3y's version (Alex+Gorehowl+Charge and...

It's also fun as shit to play, though. I threw a halfhearted version together with what I had lying around (Replaced Tink with another Execute, Cairne with Beast), played a couple of games, and it's a blast. PS: I'm probably playing it wrong, but since I haven't bothered ranking up yet...

You could always try drafting some minions. If you have "lots of flamestrikes" you should get board control for free from turn 7 onwards, at which point you can kill your opponent with whatever.

Pagle is great in the starting hand. He's at least 1.5:1 vs control (who will need to use removal to kill him), probably more. Against aggro he's a 2 mana 4+ HP heal which replaces himself (or more) half the time, buying time for you to get control. He's pretty bad when you draw him later on...

I think the Beast is possibly underrated, especially in control decks. In control mirrors, it's a big threat that will either cause serious damage or attract premium removal which then won't be hitting your other big guys. Consider also that three popular ways of dealing with big minions...

A few current sets of decks to give you an idea of some of the currently played decks: ApDrop's deck lineup:notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud Trump's deck lineup:http://i.filmot.org/TrI6oaX.jpg Murloc / Beef Stew (Not really a Tier 1 deck, but it's currently played a lot because the...

Yeah, in my wannabe pro days I used to memorize print runs so I could see what the person next to me in the draft probably picked. That was in Urza, I think they used fewer different runs back then.

Sealed in MTG is limited in duplicates because one pack can't contain two of the same card. Furthermore, you can't pick and choose. In draft, you could certainly pick up 6+ copies of some card if it was bad enough to be frequently passed.

Good point. Though, for practical purposes, unless you play lots of arenas per day, you can go "infinite" with less than that seeing as you get 40-60 daily bonus gold.

The top players have 70-80% win rates in arena over 50+ runs, so that throws the "pure luck" argument out the window. Here are Trump's stats since the last patch:http://local.se/trumpstats.pl. I personally have over 70% win rate over my last 10 or so runs (2 12-runs, no sub-5 runs, don't have...

I'm not so sure. It doesn't seem to be winning tournaments, and the HP minigame is actually kind of fun compared to banging your head against freezes/ice blocks and goldfishing hunters. It would be sad if every deck was only fighting for board control.

It does sound pretty far fetched. The deck is supposed to have enough cards/mana to - Kill all the opponent's minions and - Get some minions on the board and - Play 2-3 cards for a "OTK" kill It sounds really unfocused and greedy, but I'd be happy to see a new archetype arrive on the scene.

Second 12-win arena in a row. 12-1 Mage this time. No Flamestrike, no Blizzard, just mostly solid creatures, 2 Fireballs and a Pyro. So close to the 12-0 dream!

Yes, you're overly simplifying things. Just because you use Leeroy instead of Sylvanas and Power Overwhelming instead of Mortal Coil doesn't suddenly transform the deck into something else entirely. It makes you slightly more likely to be the beatdown against mid-range decks, but both decks will...

The issue is that if the opponent can deal effectively with Mukla, the bananas make it significantly harder to maintain board control, since you're now letting your opponent make super efficient trades with 2 free +1/+1s. It's giving your opponent the exact same trick you're relying on to win...

What "current aggro deck" are you referring to? AFAIK, the board control warlock deck is essentially what has been referred to as the "warlock aggro deck" of the last few months, with minimal tweaks. The only significantly more aggressive warlock deck I've seen was murlocs, which has always been...

Coming from a finance professional and bitcoin skeptic: That wasn't a bad read. The guy blows his own horn a bit too much, but most of his thoughts are sound.

To be fair, I expect anyone who hasn't lived under a rock knows what the main character in Twilight looks like. Didn't know his name personally, but I probably would if I knew someone who talked about the series. Had my second 12-win arena tonight. Shaman, shitty curve but lots of really...

Not so nice to see Suarez getting kicked to bits for the third time this week, without any form of protection from the refs at all. At this rate it will be a fucking miracle if he stays injury free.

Vaal ruins are desync city. So many small hallways. I hate the place for that reason. Spectral Throw is pretty broken for leveling, yeah. It falls off in the endgame though, since some of the most powerful support gems do nothing for it.

Liverpool finishing ahead of Man U at the end of the season would be a massive shock given where the two teams have been the last seasons. You're more likely than not to be right that Man U will finish in front, but anything else would be an embarrassment for them.

With fair decisions, we should be up at least 2 points over those two games, probably 4. I can stand losing because we're bad, but losing to bad refs just pisses me off.

But over the last couple of months there hasn't been a single deck that hasn't had a counter. Before the nerf, the "overpowered" freeze mage decks were forced out of the high-end ranked ladder because more than half the field started running heals and giant killers to counter it.

That's not going to happen before BTC can reliably be exchanged for USD on a large scale. The company clearly states they will not carry BTC on their balance sheet, but immediately convert to USD. As far as I understand, that's not currently viable. I still wouldn't invest a single penny in...