People had the same issue last time… To be honest, I have no clue how to fix it 🙁

Exactly, 2 is the total limit for the whole tournament, you can’t get more guaranteed packs.

You have some pretty bad community, then… Lots of Hearthstone players (or card game players in general) will be curious about it, so I wanted to do a quick early look & comparison with HS. I don’t think that writing a single quick article about it would be a bad decision. It’s not like I will start publishing Legends of Runeterra content here or anything.

Of course, we know how the system will work, but we don’t know yet how fast you will progress as an F2P player.

However, looking at the current state of League of Legends, I think that it should be pretty F2P-friendly. The game’s monetization is mostly about selling cosmetics, and that’s the thing they will probably explore in LoR too.

I also think that’s a huge missed opportunity for HS. I’ve been saying for YEARS that they would earn a lot of money if they introduced more cosmetics – new Hero portraits* / custom emotes / custom card art / game board customization etc.

*They DO kind of monetize Hero Portraits in a way that they bundle them with pre-orders instead of selling separately, although I still think that they should add more portraits you can just buy in the store.

Hahah, I think that it’s too early to tell yet. If we jumped the gun and created a new website for Artifact, for example, we would end up wasting a lot of resources.

But if the game takes off, we’ll definitely do some coverage of it – like good decks, guides etc. – even if not on a separate, new site, then on Fanbyte.com (which is our general gaming site).

It is F2P. You can pay real money to buy cards, but it seems that their main source if income will be cosmetics (that’s usually the case for Riot games).

So far it seems that the F2P system is pretty player-friendly, but I will have to play the game myself first before really judging.

You can Discover Death Knights, for example, so I wouldn’t be THAT surprised if there was some way to get Basic/Classic cards too.

He probably will! https://twitter.com/DisguisedToast/status/1183121700352708608

But I honestly doubt that it will be permanent – he’ll probably stream it once or twice 🙂

I can’t say that I have enough experience in the matchup (haven’t played the Baleful version of Quest Druid yet) to judge. Maybe the version is great against N’Zoth builds after all, and better overall, but people just haven’t learned how to play it correctly yet – it happens! I’ll definitely test it out soon – there’s just so much to play now that I didn’t get opportunity to playtest everything yet (given that between the event and Blizzard/Blitzchung drama, there was a lot happening this week).

Early tier lists are tricky to make, because I have to base them on my limited experience and limited stats available. So I often end up placing decks or writing their descriptions based on “gut feeling” more than extensive experience. But I don’t really know a better way to do it 🙂 When I update it ~two weeks later, I usually have enough stats to work with that I’m more confident in the list. I can’t leave it hanging for that long, though.

And yes, Zephrys is an answer! But it’s a hit or miss one, because it might not be active yet at the time your opponent drops N’Zoth. Sometimes you get those perfect games with 2x Nourish, lots of cycle etc. and then Zephrys is active early, but other times it’s not until way past your opponent’s Turn 10.

P.S. Could you link me the build you’ve been playing?

Apologizes about the Armor error – fixing it now (I just got the 7/7/7 number stuck in my head :D).

As for the Baleful Banker – right now, Banker decks report lower win rate than regular builds. According to stats we have so far, I don’t believe that adding Banker to your deck is beneficial. You can still get N’Zothed before you can, and it’s not a great card to have in other matchups (especially getting it in your early hand, where you REALLY want stuff to come back after skipping the first 4-5 turns). But of course, we just have stats from the first few days, things can change when we get more. Maybe it’s just that people don’t know how to play the Banker builds correctly yet.

And then, when talking about the answers I meant AoE board wipes like Brawl, Plague of Wrath, Plauge of Death, Equality + Pyro, Twisting Nether etc. I could have made it more clear.

But thanks for your input, I’ve added a mention of Baleful Banker in the deck’s description and I’ll be looking at the deck closely when updating the tier list after meta stabilizes.

I believe that Weibo statement was written by NetEase, who operate Blizzard games in China, and not Blizzard itself. At least it sounds like that. I mean, American company wouldn’t talk about China as “our country”, right?

Of course, there’s no way to prove it, but at least it sounds that way. And Blizzard could still force them to remove it. Just giving some more context.

Yep, sorry, Corbett fixed it already!

Oh yeah, sorry about that, it was a mistake. We aren’t back to rarity-based picks, it’s just that card buckets were (experimentally) removed in this latest patch. It means that you won’t be offered 3 cards of a similar power level (dictated by Blizzard) at each pick – meaning that you can see e.g. a bad, an average and an amazing card in a single pick, just like it was back in the day.

When the change was first talked about by Iksar on reddit, it was commonly misunderstood as going back to rarity picking altogether, but he clarified it.

The second part with Neutral cards will be out in the upcoming days, so stay tuned! 🙂

Yes, they are separate cards with separate import codes.

Sadly, our site doesn’t allow to have 2 cards with the same name, so I decided to remove the “Wild” versions and only have the “Standard” versions for now, until the event ends. So while I get why it would mess up with Wild decks codes, I didn’t think that Standard would be affected in any way.

Our decks are tagged as Standard AND they have the Standard versions of the card included, so I have no clue why it doesn’t import properly to HDT. Have you tried exporting from other sources, like HearthPwn or something? If it would work fine there, then it probably means that the problem lies on HSTD…

Sorry to hear that. Yes, it’s most likely the video ad. But to be honest, I usually have at least 3-4 tabs with our site open at the time and it doesn’t slow down my PC in any meaningful way.

But the thing is, they should import as Standard in game – I just tested it again. They are tagged as Standard on our site. It has to be something to do with HDT, out of my control. I don’t really know what can I do about it. Since HDT and Hsreplay are created by the same company, maybe they found some workaround for that.

Can’t you import them in game, and then HDT will automatically pick them up?

They’re selectable, like any other portrait in HS.

But really it’s different strokes for different folks. I like most of them to be honest. But the opinions are really diverse. Some love them, others hate them. The only thing that people generally agree on is that Rexxar looks bad, lol.

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/iksar-we-have-some-plans-to-remove-ds-but-it-comes-with-some-other-sweeping-changes/

They did not change – you still have regular Hero Powers. They’re Golden though (so you don’t lose the feature of 500 wins portraits).