JalexanderHS's Articles
Power and Win Rate of the Decks – Analyzing the Official “Tier List” From Iksar
This week we got a meta update from Dean Ayala (Iksar) concerning their stats on the most popular and best performing decks (source). Standard Meta Update: (Last Full Week, All Regions, Rank 5-Legend, Alphabetical Order) Top 5 Population Embiggen Druid Galakrond Rogue Galakrond Warrior […]
Redundancy is Power – How More Of The Same Makes Your Deck More Powerful
When it comes to building a successful deck in Hearthstone, there’s a rule you should understand: redundancy is power. That is to say by increasing the number of similar effects within a deck, you can reach a state where the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts. Put enough […]
So You Want To Build Rogue in the Descent of Dragons Meta? Rogue Card Packages + Theorycrafts
Queuing up a misbuilt deck is among the easiest ways to lose at Hearthstone before games even begin. This may become especially true following the release of Descent of Dragons (DoD), as the set promises to bring some of the most powerful cards the game has seen in some time. Build your decks wrong and […]
Exploring Early Deck Ideas for Descent of Dragons
Spoiler season is one of the best parts of the Hearthstone release cycle. There’s nothing quite like getting to preview the cards coming to the game to get the gears turning in our heads when it comes to generating excitement. It’s that pure time of the cycle before all those ideas that sound so good […]
Pushing The Limits of Class Design
There are many aspects of the Developer Insight post about class identity worthy of discussion. In that post, the Hearthstone development team outlined their philosophy and vision for what classes are and are not supposed to be good at doing. As such, the most common discussions people will talk about focus on how class X […]
