You’ll receive the refund once Year of the Mammoth goes live, but we don’t have a concrete date for that yet. I would wait to craft anything until right before the rotation happens because you could potentially receive one of the cards in a pack and not have to craft it.

I’d probably go with Thijs’ list at the moment, we’ll probably end up changing out list to it.

Yes, he would essentially get a free Ragnaros. No problem!

They aren’t nerfed yet, so this guide won’t be updated until that happens. It will take a little while to determine what the replacements for those cards will be.

I said crafting golden common cards is the best way to gain dust if you ALREADY OWN all of the cards in non-golden versions.

Yes they are being removed once the Hall of Fame goes live.

If you have both normal and golden verions of Sylvanas and Ragnaros you would get 6,400 dust back for both Goldens and nothing for the non-Golden versions.

They aren’t doing it with any other expansion either, it would be THOUSANDS of dust returned. I find this to be pretty generous.

Yes and this is explained above, but if you already have a non-Golden Ragnaros you are going to receive 1,600 dust anyway. If you don’t have either, then it’s best to craft a Golden one.

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Thanks, glad I could help!

You will receive dust for 1 normal and 1 golden.

It’s only really worth crafting the golden cards if you don’t already have the normal cards. You would, however, gain a small amount of dust by crafting and dusting Golden Common cards apparently.

Here’s an explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/5uj8xt/maths_on_year_of_the_mammoth_dust_investments/

You can disenchant the cards, but you don’t get full value.

I wouldn’t want to play it without Patches, but you could probably run a second Argent Horserider.

It wouldn’t be doubling your dust, you’d get the refund from what you crafted and then you could disenchant the cards at the normal dust rate.

If you craft a Golden Ragnaros you will get 3,200 back.

Yes that’s correct, but it only really works if you don’t have Ragnaros already. If you have a normal copy of Ragnaros you get 1,600 dust, so you wouldn’t have gained anything.

Well, it’s possible we get something Icecrown. If you look at the expansion graphic above the second expansion has kind of an icy runes thing going on. Either that or it’s Ulduar.

Yes, if you don’t have the cards you can craft them and you will receive the full refund effectively giving you them for free.

Yes.