If a card is only good for 4 months I don’t find it safe at all. To me it’s the exact opposite. It’s the perfect example of 1600 dust wasted.

It’s funny. Elise was considered safe to craft few months ago, now it’s not. That practically means she never was safe to craft. It kinda says that any of these “safe to craft” cards are in danger of not being playable in just a few months 😀 … very reliable crafts 😀

Disenchanting legendaries isn’t very good idea since the pack change…

How important is Anduin in this deck? :O … He seems kinda out of his place to me…

Isn’t this just 100% same ladder deck like before KFT?

I really don’t understand the purpose of these gatherings. HS is trying to go live while MTG is trying to go digital… Kappa

I like the fact you mentioned that getting a full collection is unrealistic (without buying it of course). I think it’s important to realize because many people don’t. You already know my opinion. I think the whole system of getting cards in HS is really frustrating. Having a full collection = spending around $2500. Not having a full collection = not being able to adapt to the meta (which changes all the time) and not being able to use a full potential of those cards.

You say “Quality collection is a goal” but in practice this is much harder than it sounds. The real f2p player has to do many difficult decisions all the time. Meta is very “legendary heavy.” There is no tier1 or tier2 deck without multiple legendaries right now. Those legendaries are almost impossible to effectivelly get via pack opennings so these players have to craft them. Because the meta evolution is unpredictable (even best pro players make bad predictions) they never know for sure which particular craft is going to contribute on their “quality collection” and which is gonna be 1600 dust wasted for nothing. That last part is actually painful because 1600 dust is a lot for a f2p player.

You may think that fast adapting to the meta isn’t a big deal but you’d be wrong. Adapting to the meta is very important aspect of the game and good players do that on daily bases. Some cards suddenly get good and very unpredictably enter the meta. Who of the f2p players ever crafted cards like Velen to be prepared to highlander priest meta? Or even more currently – who of the f2p players had Prince Keleseth? And who of those players were willing to actually craft it after it become good? Because it’s not an easy decision at all. Paying 1600 dust for a bit spooky legendary that may or may not be viable in a few weeks/months is almost impossible choice for these players. Highlander priest is even another level. Because f2p players don’t have Velen, Raza, Anduin, a lot of them disenchanted Kazakus when Reno rotated out to have more dust to craft another decks at that time… These are just examples but realistically all f2p decisions are extremely hard and a lot of them are almost impossible to do right (as I said, even best players often predict badly).

You either buy all cards and play the game to its full potential or you will ALWAYS struggle… especially nowadays when new card sets are being released so often.

Great deck but too expensive for me…

exactly there is no tech because they’re counting on not playing against druid… but on ladder you have to tech against them (with some decks)

Very understandable nerfs actually… making highlander priest the top deck – highlander priest by itself costs like $150, so yeaaaa… money to blizzard

Pro tip: If you have problems with mirror matchup, Ysera helps a lot.

He’s not ‘Jarla’ but ‘Jára’ .. it’s funny.. those nicknames are actually unpronounceable for americans. Pokrovac is also pronounced totally different in Czech but it’s so difficult that he resigned and adopted that american pronounciation 😀

I don’t think I have to “learn the game” since I hit legend almost every month for years… It’s not like FWA. It’s only 1 charge of FWA. Nobody would play a 4 mana Fiery War Axe. The card itself isn’t bad, don’t get me wrong. But it’s not important to have to make those druid decks viable. It’s just a solid card choice that can be easily replaced by another solid tech card. So no, definitely not worth crafting as much as presented.

Malfurion is the most ‘meh’ in my opinion. I also play him but he’s easily replacable in any deck.. only good because druid’s good

Honestly none of them hero cards is a safe craft at the moment. All DKs look well on paper but in reality they are just ‘meh’ … The only DK that is worth crafting right now is priest.

The hero power is almost a non factor because in most turns you don’t have enough mana to play it. It’s basically summon two scarabs/spiders for 7 mana which isn’t rly that good… It’s a solid card but all of druids’ decks are perfectly playable without him right now.

I don’t think Malfurion DK is a good craft. It’s easily one of the worst hero cards. He’s only played because druid is very strong right now. All druid decks are playable without him though. The card itself does almost nothing. It’s not bad but definitely not mandatory.

Why to play this deck if you just could play pirate warrior that has pretty much the same cards and is faster?

Rly? I met it like 2 or 3 times since new expansion, and won every game against that

Yeah, sure you did…. 😉