Last year, the year of the Mammoth, you recieved dust for Hall of Fame cards (HOF) "up to the maximum number of cards you could put in a deck, [for their] full dust value...." This is a short walkthrough to help you maximize your dust based on your goals. Some may think this is a simple concept but judging by the amount of posts last year....some people don't get it.

The cards being changed this year are:

• Coldlight Oracle (Rare)
• Ice Block (Epic)
• Molten Giant (Epic)

The last day to take advantage of this (based on last year) is as soon as the Year of the Raven begins. Dust is awarded when you first log in during Year of the Raven. (Best estimate is mid to late April)

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I. Short Answer

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This is very simple but...

• If you have a golden copy of the card, do nothing.
• If you have a Normal copy of the card you have a choice to make:
  • If you want to upgrade to a golden copy for free, craft the golden copy.
  • If you want the maximum free dust, do nothing.
• If you are missing a copy of any card, craft golden.

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II. Explanation

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For reference, this is a basic crafting table for Hearthstone cards.

Rarity	Craft Normal	Craft Golden	Dust Normal	Dust Golden
Common	40	400	5	50
Rare	100	800	20	100
Epic	400	1600	100	400
Legendary	1600	3200	400	1600

• When the changes hit, the dust is awarded to your account. You don't have to dust your cards, just have them in your collection.
  
• When the rotation happens, the dust you receive will be automatic based on the cards in your collection and isn't affected by how many copies you have beyond the max playable copies. For Common, Rare, and Epic cards the max playable copies are 2x. For Legendary cards it is 1x.
• Normal and Golden cards aren't rewarded separately. Remember, this is max playable copies.. Blizzard will give you the largest possible amount back meaning golden copies supercede normal copies. So if you have 2x Normal [[Coldlight Oracles]] and 1x Golden Coldlight Oracle, you will get dust for 1x Normal Coldlight Oracle and 1x Golden Coldlight Oracle because the max playable copies is 2.
  
• You will no longer be able to open the Hall of Fame cards in Classic packs after rotation.
• There was a special exception for Common cards but there are no Common cards this year.

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III. Examples

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• Example 1: I have 2x copies of Golden Iceblocks.

  Profit: 3,200 dust.

  You do nothing. You are already getting the maximum dust back of 3200 dust.

• Example 2: I have 2x normal copies of Iceblock and want to upgrade them to Golden.

  Profit: 200 dust from dusting normal copies you already had and 2x Golden Iceblocks.

  Craft the 2x Golden Iceblocks for 3200 dust. You will get 3200 dust back on rotation. Because you have 2x Golden copies you no longer need your normal copies of the card and can dust them for 100 each (200 dust total).

• Example 3: I have 2x normal copies of Iceblock and want maximum dust.

  Profit 800 dust.

  Doing nothing will maximize your profit here. You don't have to spend any dust and will automatically get 800 dust back. You get the same result if you craft 2x Golden copies and dust them after. Net of 800 dust.

• Example 4: I am missing a copy of Ice Block

  Profit 0 dust but a free Golden Card.

  You have no profit but you get a golden copy of the card for free. If you never want to play Wild you can dust them for 400 dust each.

• Example 5: I hate Wild, I just want dust and not the cards

  Profit Varies

  If you don't want the Wild cards you can still make a profit. If you are missing a card, craft Golden. If you aren't missing a card, do nothing. After you get the dust refund you can just dust the card for profit. For instance:

  • You craft 2x Golden Ice Blocks for 3200 dust.
    
  • You get 3200 dust back from Blizzard at rotation.
  • You then dust your two Golden Ice Block cards for a profit of 800 dust.

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On the last few expansions, each class got a special kind of legendary : Quests, DKs and weapons. So my question is quite simple : if Blizzard was to follow the same logic what do you think could be coming for the next one ?

My ideas so far are lengendary spells or balanced passive cards like we have in dungeon runs (read that 2nd idea somewhere I can't remember).

What would you like to see coming soon for the game ?

Here are a few to get things started:

Living Mama
Reckless Furry
Fecal Spirit
Hungry Carb
Unidentified Mail
Violent Teacher

Guys, take this as it comes, but tonight i was dreaming about beeing a player of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Lebron james was benched to let me play and i was stealing the show! (and u may wonder, what does this has to do with HS? we will reach that point) after the game i got so many interviewers coming at me and i was like "here they are, this is gonna be my 1st step into glory", but all they were asking to me was this: "what do you feel about the new Hearsthstone neutral spells? are they gonna ruin the game?" i woke up a bit later totally shoked.

so don't ask me why, but this is it. in the next expansion we are gonna have NEUTRAL SPELLS that can be used in any deck.

Btw sorry for grammar mistakes, im not a native speaker :D

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The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 82nd edition of the Data Reaper Report.

As always, special thanks to all those who contribute their game data to the project. This project could not succeed without your support. The entire vS Team is eternally grateful for your assistance.

This week our data is based off of over 3,500 contributors and over 70,000 games! In this week's report you will find:

• Deck Library - Decklists & Class/Archetype Radars

• Class/Archetype Distribution Over All Games

• Class/Archetype Distribution "By Rank" Games

• Class Frequency By Day & By Week

• Interactive Matchup Win-Rate Chart

• vS Power Rankings

• vS Meta Score

• Analysis/Discussion of each Class

• Meta Breaker of the Week

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1. Is ranked down??
2. 5 stars from rank 20 to 19??
3. My highest rank was 25??
4. Repeat

Let's be honest, we're all terrible people and gluttons for punishment. If we weren't, we wouldn't be talking about a card game with strangers on the internet and subjecting ourselves to the misery that is Hearthstone RNG.

That's why I'm here to offer a valuable service, if you tell me how you enjoy playing Hearthstone, I'll tell you exactly why that makes you the scum of the earth, the lowest of the low, the roachboy among roachboys. It's all the joy of accepting a friend request after a match without that bothersome step of beating someone on the ladder.

Since Ranked Play is still disabled and I don't have enough gold for Arena or the Brawl, I've been playing a little Casual just to complete my quests, and I honestly dislike it. Why can't we complete quests on Dungeon Run? That'd be way more fun than just playing matches that are simply pointless imo. What do you guys think?

As anyone who has played even a single game of Hearthstone knows, mill decks are a problem and always have been. It has always been such a powerful archetype that no tier list has been designed to hold it, which is why you never see it on a tier list. From day 1, the meta has been absolutely saturated with mill decks.

Coldlight Oracle is being moved the Hall of Fame, and it is about time. The card is such a deck definer, that Kingsbane Mill Rogue is named for it. Brode communicated this reasons for this as being:

• They do not like neutral card draw. It is a good point. Can you imagine if Novice Engineer, Gnomish Inventor, Acolyte of Pain, Cult Master, Gadgetzan Auctioneer, Bloodmage Thlanos, Harrison Jones and Nat Pagle existed? If those cards did exist, Coldlight Oracle would be the worst neutral card draw offender among them. It also muddies class identity. Because Rogue steals cards, and no other class does, not even Priest. And Rogue creates random spells, which no other class does, not even Mage.

• It can burn cards. This is a huge problem. It is far too easy to dedicate most of your deck to keeping your opponents hand full for the slim chance everything will line up to do this before you lose the game. Can you even imagine if they printed cards that burn cards in your opponent's deck so they cannot play those cards? If Gnomeferatu, Azari the Devourer and Death Grip actually existed, people might poop their pants in frustration.

• It limits design of cards that work with battle cry. And it does. Remember the worst battlecry synergy card, Brann Bronzebeard. The ladder was 96% mill.

It is great that they are taking steps to rid standard of this archetype that was too powerful. Instead of doing something to just merely make it competitive because some morons think it is an interesting alternative win condition and natural counter to combo decks that is rarely played with a very low win rate.

Seriously, how is anyone supposed to counter a mill deck? Just by playing their cards as fast as possible and going face? That could never work. It takes 6-7 turns to naturally fill your hand. Who can play even a single card in only 7 turns?

Now that mill is out of standard, we can try something new. We can try something that Blizzard has never shown any love to. We can try an archetype that hasn't consistently dominated the Hearthstone meta. We can finally try mindless auto-play aggro decks. It is going to be a huge change to see the game shift to decks so easy and mindless that amateur coders can create bots to play them and achieve a decent win rate.

I hope Blizzard doesn't get any backlash from this brave decision. They might be foolish enough to design a card to help mill stay in standard in some form. Given their recent track record, it is totally reasonable to expect a 9 mana 2/3, no tribe, Hunter legendary that forces your opponent to add a card from any card in their deck to their hand that automatically dies immediately. That way it cannot be bounced. They are 1 card close to fatigue and their hand is one card closer to the limit. Powerful stuff.

Chalk Board

Description: Welcome, gladiator! Build a deck for the Wild format using cards from every Hearthstone expansion!

This is part of the ongoing Wildfest.

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• This brawl has special rules for participation and prizing.

• It follows Heroic Tavern Brawl format. You must create your own deck for up to 12 games.

• First entry is free!

us to start having a rotating format in which cards from an arbitrary number of expansions may be played in a separate casual and ranked format.

For example: 3 expansions, rotating per month. First month is only basic, GvG, Karazhan. Second month is only Naxx, KotFT, classic. Third month is only Grand Tournament, Kobolds, basic. And so on.

So my questions are this. Are you interested in such a game mode? And do you think we've reached the point where we have enough expansions to have such a game mode?

Personally, I would love such a game mode, cause I think it would be a looot of fun. And I think we've either reached or at least are reaching the point where we do have enough expansions to have such a game mode be viable. If not sometime this year, then next year for certain. Likely by next year, after these next 3 expansions release, I think demand for such a mode will become heavy.

As you all probably already know, Coldlight is being taken out to the back and being shot to the green pastures of Wild. Considering this murders my favorite archetype in Standard(which I am massively pissed about, but won't get into unless asked), I decided to write a little ditty to commemorate the fun this little card's given me over all these years. Sung to the tune of "The Piano Man", I give you: An Ode To Coldlight

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Harmonica solo

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday

My regular deck's shuffled in

There's a jade rogue sat across from me

Getting ready to coin out Edwin

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He says 'Can you concede this one's all for me"

"That's the only way this game goes!"

"It'll be sad and so sweet and you'd never compete"

"And I'd be the best of us rogues"

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La la la didi daaa

La la didi daa da dummm

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Draw us two cards you're the oracle!

Draw us two cards tonight

Well I'm all in the mood for a victory

And you've got me feeling alright

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Now Prep in my hand's a card of mine

It gets me my vanish for three

And it's quick to combo

Or to ruin tempo

And there's no deck it'd rather be

I hear "Rogue I think you should be using me"

As my mana ran away with my sap

"And I'm sure that I could be the gamewinner"

"If I could get you out of this trap"

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Oh, La la la didi daaa

La la didi daa da dummm

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Now Geist is a really hard tech card

That lost his own place in a deck

It's played with an Agent

To kill a big Ancient

And then their Jade Idols gets wrecked

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Draw us two cards you're the oracle!

Draw us two cards tonight

Well I'm all in the mood for a victory

And you've got me feeling alright

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And the Mistress is practicing medicine

As their cards slowly get burned

Yes, they're sharing a deck they call Mill Rogue

But it's better than stinkin' tempo

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Draw us two cards you're the oracle!

Draw us two cards tonight

Well I'm all in the mood for a victory

And you've got me feeling alright

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It's a pretty good game for rank 18

And the Jade Rogue gives me a "Wow"

Cause he knows that it's me

That's been in the lead

Of this slow ranked game for a while.

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And the coldlight it sounds like a carnival!

And the milling smells like their fear!

And I know I'll go far

As they put stars in my jar

And say "Rogue what are you doing here?"

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Oh, La la la didi daaa

La la didi daa da dummm

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Draw us two cards you're the oracle!

Draw us two cards tonight

Well I'm all in the mood for a victory

And you've got me feeling alright

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Thank you very much.

Small edit: I realized I was messing up a rhyme by making "tonight" in the chorus "this game", so I switched it back.

Edit #2: Another edit to fix a rhyme I hadn't realized was messed up.

Hi all. I play on Asia, and the new season just started. I started at rank 6, 0 stars, but I've lost 2 games and I'm now rank 8? Is anyone else facing these large bugs?

I understand mill decks aren't too powerful or prevalent, but they sure are frustrating to play against. I occasionally concede if I queue into a Kingsbane Rogue not because I'm certain I will lose, but because I don't want to punch a hole in my monitor while desperately trying to dump my hand as the Rogue bounces Coldlight after Coldlight into Prep Vanish Coldlight again.

It's a unique archetype, but I'm glad it will exist in Wild only

IMPORTANT: Do NOT dust any Hall of Fame cards before the actual rotation hits. Blizzard only gives dust on what you own on the day the cards rotate into Wild.
 
Similarly, if you are going to craft some and want to be truly optimal, then wait until just before rotation as you could open the cards between then and now
 
So there are 6 scenarios which should cover all your bases depending on your collection and desires. Further, for those of you who don't know, they give you full dust reward for the copies you own BUT only for the amount you could put in a deck. So you can get dust back for up to 2 copies (golden taken precedent over regular) of all the cards in this HOF class (since only rares and epics are being sent to HOF this time)
 
For those who don't know yet, the cards moving to HOF this time are:

• Ice Block
• Molten Giant (unnerfed!)
• Coldight Oracle.
  

Surprising list for sure (in some cases) but that's not the point of this thread.
 
While I encourage you to read the full scenarios for better explanations the TLDR is: If you have 2x or more of the card already, then the optimal path (most dust) is to sit tight. Crafting golden versions won't increase your net dust count. And having 2x gold and 2x reg still only gets you dust for the 2x gold. If you don't have the cards, then craft in golden first... starting with the epics.
 

SCENARIO ONE

You DONT have the card and want max dust (not keeping the cards).
 
Craft golden of everything and then disenchant. If you can't afford everything then craft the epics first as it nets you the most return per dust spent

• Crafting rare in gold costs 800 and nets you 900 (so you get 1.125 dust per dust spent)
  
• Crafting epic in gold costs you 1,600 and nets you 2,000 (so you get 1.250 dust per dust spent)
  

 
Taking this one step further (as people still are asking) here is the example of crafting two golden coldlights vs one golden iceblock:

• 2 golden coldlights costs you 1,600 and nets you 1,800 dust (1,600 cost refunded and 2x100 DE gains).
  
• 1 golden ice block costs you 1,600 and nets you 2,000 dust (1,600 cost refunded and 1x400 DE gains).
  

 

SCENARIO TWO

You DONT have the card and want to keep them.
 
Craft them and get your dust back in a month or so. Go golden if you can afford it since you could always DE for more dust down the line if you decide to (and golden cards are awesome!).
 

SCENARIO THREE

You have non-golden cards and want max dust
 
There is no benefit to crafting golden (unless you just want to play with the shiny card for the month or so between now and when the HOF changes go live). In the future please note that only at the common rarity would crafting golden net you more dust... but there are no commons moving this time.
 
Here's the backup/breakdown.

• For rares*: You currently would receive 100 dust back and could then DE for an additional 20 so 120 total dust. If you craft golden it costs you 800 (which you get back) but can DE the golden for 100 and the regular version for 20... so you net 120 dust which is THE SAME.
  
• For epics*: You currently would receive 400 dust back and could then DE for an additional 100 so 500 total dust. If you craft golden it costs you 1600 (which you get back) but can DE the golden for 400 and the regular version for 100. So you net 500 dust which is THE SAME.
  

 

SCENARIO FOUR

You have non-golden cards and want to keep them.
 
Normally it would be craft golden commons only, then DE them while keeping the original as it would net 5 extra dust per card. BUT there are no commons moving to HOF this time so nothing to see here.
 
Here is a breakdown of one example since some people seemed confused by this scenario.
 
If you have regular coldlights, then you currently would get 200 dust back and keep the regular ones. Or if you disenchanted the regulars, then you'd have no coldlights left and 240 dust.
 
If you craft golden, then you spend 1600 dust (which you get back) and then can DE the regular ones for 40 dust. So you end up with the golden copies and 40 dust (160 dust less than if you did nothing).
Or if you disenchant the golden copies as well, then you end up with 240 dust which is the same as if you did nothing and DE'd the regular ones.
 

SCENARIO FIVE

You have non-golden but want to upgrade to golden.
 
Just do it then. You will end up with less dust than other options listed here... but this is the cheapest opportunity to upgrade them. You basically get the golden copy for free and then the dusting value for the regular version.
 

SCENARIO SIX

You have golden versions.
 
Yeah you just sit put and get a nice dust surge.
 
 

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Reminder of crafting costs and disenchant costs (but omitting common/legendary since they are not applicable for this years HOF class).
 

Rarity	Crafting Cost (Reg/Golden)	Disenchant Reward (Reg/Golden)
Rare	100/800	20/100
Epic	400/1600	100/400

The site can be found at http://www.hearthsearch.com

HearthSearch is a project I've been working on the last couple months. I built it as a final project for my web development bootcamp and figured I might as well share it with reddit.

Features include

• Deck searching with lots of different filter and sorting methods that can be mixed, including sorting by usage and LightForge score
• Minion soundboard
• Card usage percentages across decks by class
• Simple deck building/importing/exporting, pre-loaded with ~400 hearthpwn decks

The site is not finished or tested and there are quite a number of flaws, but my deadline is tomorrow and after that, I'm probably going to move on to something else, so I'd like to share it now.

Also, Site is hosted on Heroku, so may take a second to load.

Your experience may vary on mobile.

I'll take any feedback I can get. Thanks, community.