You craft Golden Epics IF you don’t have the normal version already. If you have the normal version, crafting Golden ones won’t give you anything extra.

No, they are not. You should be able to craft all of them. Could you make a screenshot of your issue and post it here?

I’ve posted some of the speculations I’ve found online, and readers posted theirs in the comments in my quick analysis article: http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/year-of-the-raven-impact-changes-hall-of-fame-rotation/

Depends, I won’t miss either of those two decks. For me, they were some of the most annoying lists to play against.

And you will still be able to enjoy them in the Wild. HoF rotation doesn’t mean that the card gets removed from the game completely 🙂

That’s right!

Crafting Golden Epic costs 1,600 Dust, but dusting it gives only +400.

So yes, you get 3.2k dust from the Hall of Fame rotation, but only 800 more if you want to disenchant them.

I don’t really see a connection here.

If you didn’t disenchant your Wild cards, it doesn’t mean that you have enough Dust. It just means that you want to play Wild.

Not to mention that even if someone owns most of the cards, extra Dust is always useful – a new expansion is coming soon.

The event is obviously targeted at Wild players, and there’s nothing wrong with it. We didn’t have any Wild events for a long while, and that’s the point of Wildfest.

What are you talking about? Spell Hunter does not run Cloaked Huntress, it’s not a good card in the deck.

Maybe you’re thinking about Secret Hunter?

Spiteful Priest was mislabeled as Dragon Priest is this guide and it looked at the win rates for Dragon Priest instead. Sorry, it should be alright now.

Harrison is a really bad card in slow Warlock decks. Not only it’s pretty expensive, but those draws are often bad – by drawing 3 cards you risk milling yourself.

Weapon destruction is definitely a viable tech in the deck, but if anything, you want to go for the good old Acidic Swamp Ooze and not Harrison.

To be fair, I really don’t think you make the deck better by cutting Vilefin Inquisitor and Gentle Megasaur. Those are some of the best cards in your deck. Of course you CAN cut them, just like you CAN cut Voidlord from Control Warlock and play with only one, but it’s just not optimal.

Finja I can understand, it’s pretty good in the Murloc Paladin. But The Curator, while cool, also does not fit into the deck. It’s aggressive and Divine Favor is your refill, The Curator is too slow and will mess up with your Divine Favor. Not to mention that with just a single Megasaur, The Curator will often end up drawing just a single card, as you don’t have any other Dragons or Beasts. If you really, really want to go for a slower build with The Curator, you NEED to play 2 Megasaurs and probably something like Cobalt Scalebane too to get maximum value. But in that case, you probably also want to switch a bunch of different cards and go for a more Midrange deck, not an Aggro.

Same goes for Primalfin Lookout – you don’t need more “value” cards, because the more cards you draw through other ways, the weaker your Divine Favor will be. Even in Midrange build it’s not good enough, because in the early game (Turn 3) you aren’t looking to draw more cards, and in the late game you’d rather drop a Murloc Warleader (which are also obviously missing) to finish off the game than get a random Murloc.

And Sunkeeper Tarim is an auto-include, the card is almost broken. If you have it of course.

So I’m afraid that you made the deck significantly weaker. If those were budget cuts, I understand, but I would not recommend doing similar changes for people who do own the right cards.

That’s true, but it’s like a “win more” scenario. If you get Skull of the Man'ari and pull out a big Demon, you’re already on a good way to win. Not to mention that you often want to Carnivorous Cube it right away and not use Zola the Gorgon on it.

Prince Taldaram is more flexible, in a way that you can copy a Righteous Protector to get a 3/3 Taunt with Divine Shield, you can copy Mistress of Mixtures if you need healing, you can copy opponent’s Possessed Lackey in the mirror if you don’t get your own, and copying a Cube is a crazy good play.

So I’d rather play Tar Creeper, or maybe Stonehill Defender. But if you want to be a little bit greedy, then I guess that Zola might also work.

Short answer is: some lists do play it, others don’t. Squidface is good vs Control, but doesn’t accomplish much vs Aggro, it’s just too slow.

You can add them instead of Backstabs if you prefer.

Replaced as in you don’t have Prince or you wanted something else instead?

Zola is not a great replacement, she doesn’t find that much of a use in this deck, because she’s pretty slow. I’d rather run something like Tar Creeper to make the Aggro matchups better.

It’s a bit hard to replace, as it makes your Soulfire & Doomguard much worse in the mid game. But probably another 1-drop like Blood Imp or Acherus Veteran would make most sense if anything.

Like I’ve said, the deck list didn’t change. Since it got popular about a week ago, everyone is still playing the same list.

Some people are trying alternations, like Sea Giant, Silence, Consecration etc. but most of them just play this exact list 🙂

The “updated” tag at the top popped, because I’ve updated the guide.

Deck list didn’t change, but the guide was updated, because the old one was for the previous version of this deck.

Are you absolutely sure that it works that way? Last time I was playing Reno Warlock in the Wild (with both Imp Gang Boss and Defile), it didn’t. You still needed a 1 health minion on the board to initiate the sequence, just Imp Gang Boss would stop the Defile after 1st tick.

You’d need to damage your Imp Gang Boss or have another 1 health minion on the board. Then it would go this way: 1st tick clears the 1/1 minion (not Imp token), damages Imp Gang Boss and creates a 1/1 Imp Token, second tick damages Imp Gang Boss and creates a 1/1 Imp Token etc. It would be 5 ticks in total.

If it works the way you describe, then it’s probably some recent bug.

It’s good against other Paladin deck (Murloc), against Tempo Secret Mage, against most of Priest builds (best against Spiteful version, but it has positive matchups against Combo, Big and Control too). The only bad, common matchup is Control Warlock. Cube Warlock can be hard if they roll Voidlord, but not so much if it’s Doomguard. Jade Druid can also be punishing (uhh, Spreading Plague really destroys the deck), but not as much.

Like I’ve said, the deck is all over Rank 5 – Legend and high Legend. It wouldn’t be if it wasn’t good. Those ranks are most competitive and people really play the best decks there.

Your deck might be good against them, you might have gotten lucky, they might have been playing poorly, you didn’t even specify the rank you’re playing at. Don’t get me wrong, I respect your opinion, but I just have to believe the tier lists which gather thousands of games every day (HSReplay, Vicious Syndicate) a bit more when it comes to the deck’s power. Especially since my own experience lines up with them quite well, as I know for a fact that the deck is indeed strong right now (even if not the #1 deck on the ladder, I think it’s among a few best ones).

Right? When you think about it, it doesn’t make any sense. But that’s the point – balance first and lore second 🙂 That’s why they MIGHT decide to introduce some of the most powerful lore characters at some point. Old Gods were already scaled down quite heavily, as they’re one of the most powerful beings in Warcraft.