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Genn Greymane – Can Even-Cost Decks Be Viable?

With The Witchwood expansion, Baku the Mooneater and Genn Greymane will bring two new archetypes to Hearthstone: odd and even decks. While Reno Jackson limited your deck to single copies of cards, Baku and Genn limit it to cards that cost an odd amount of mana or even amount of mana, respectively. […]

Baku the Mooneater – The New Justicar Trueheart!

Justicar Trueheart from The Grand Tournament shaped an era of Hearthstone: it allowed players to upgrade their Hero Power to a more effective one, and shined especially in Warrior, where gaining four Armor each turn enabled fatigue as a reliable win condition, and Paladin, where creating two Silver Hand Recruits each turn enabled endless waves […]

Is The Legend Ladder Currently Broken? Legend Players Have Faced Rank 10 Players (Hotfixed)

The launch of the new Ranked Play system in Hearthstone has been painful. On the surface, the change was minor: All ranks consist of 5 stars (previously from 2 to 5 stars) At the end of each season, all players are demoted exactly four ranks (previously bonus […]

What Happened to Spiteful Summoner?

When the February 2018 nerfs were announced, Spiteful Summoner was one of the cards that was predicted to take over the meta. Aggro is going to be weaker! Incredible swings on turn six will dominate the game! However, statistics show that Spiteful Summoner is […]

Defile – Solving the Hearthstone Math Puzzle

Properly used, Defile is the strongest board clear in all of Hearthstone. Dragon's Fury caps out at 10 points of damage, and while Reckless Flurry can go as high as the sky, it cannot deal with Deathrattle minions. Defile, on the other hand, can go on forever and wipe out anything with […]