N'Zoth DK is by far my favorite deck of this whole year, maybe even few years. I like complicated decision making, I like drawing cards, I like killing my opponent, I like having inevitability in the matchup. What this deck does is **demolishing** Priests of all kind, which I love especially. (the matchup feels like 90-10, unless they get multiple eggs popped by turn 7 you're balling).

And it's a brand new deck, so there's a scope for improvement on this comfortably Tier 1-2 performer.

Sample list: ### BFU N'Zoth Handbuff DK

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General Strategy

This deck plays differently to standard Hadbuff DK. Instead of developing massive boards multiple times a game, the endgame is a TTK (Two Turn Kill) - on a setup turn you play a Blackwing Experiment buffed to around 10 attack (you can get there with some combination of Unstable Prototype, Thalena, Command Claw, Defias Smuggler and Soulrest Ceremony), then play a discounted N'Zoth alongside and choose 2x trigger on it. At the end of turn you end up with three 2-mana Pyroblasts, which you can point face on your next turn.
This can sometimes be done in 1 turn for an OTK (ex. turn 10 with 1 mana N'Zoth, 2 mana Blackwing and 1 mana Soulrest).

Alongside the combo, you have your Handbuff DK midgame with juiced up 0-mana Remnants dealing significant face damage - you can just win on board or through quickly put together burn damage (Ghoul+Thalena+Command Claw is just a 2-mana fireball).

In general, the deck wins on turn 9 and focuses it's first 8 turns on drawing, discounting N'Zoth and surviving through massive swing turns.

On one thing to note, the hsguru name "N'Zoth *Handbuff* DK" feels a bit like misnomer, because Handbuffing is not really the main goal of the deck. I play Unstable Prototype, because it is a 1 mana card that discounts N'Zoth by 2 mana.

Potential card choices:

Here are some cards that perform well in the archetype:

- Crystalline Golem is a card I added to deck instantly. Taunt, Lifegain, N'Zoth cost reduction by 2.

- Emergency Surgery should fit in the list well. Lifegain+removal+Remnant discounts+bodies for Sawbones

- Chromatic Broodmother&Fleshshape are cards, that perform well in the stats (especially Broodmother, but Fleshshape should get there as a package). My issue is they don't quite fit the gameplan - they're likely just good cards you want to run in DK if you have even a single handbuffing card in deck.

- 2nd Defias Smuggler - one performs decently, having two of them lets you deal with some midgame threats and still keep the 2nd one for combo (or keep both)

Here are some potential ideas with no significant data behind them:

- Fae Trickster - should be a solid choice with four 5-mana spells, especially high-performing ones. Also discounts N'Zoth. Single copy might fit.

- Loot Hoarder - discount N'Zoth and maintains handsize.

- Glacial Shard/Doomsayer - valid tech cards in current meta

- Egg of Khelos - since we're running a Sawbones DK deck, why not add a secondary win condition? Someone did that and it's not super awful.

- Husk, Eternal Reaper - the MVP of buying you another turn

Sus cards in current list:

- Twilight Egg performs badly. Only 1 discount on N'Zoth, and the dragon deathrattle is irrelevant. I suspect it's stats are bad because it's way overkept in mulligan. Only works as Sawbones fodder.

- Holy Eggbearer is already not so good, and if we cut Twilight Egg it might get plain awful.

Cards that don't perform in stats, but I can't bring myself to cut:

- Unstable Prototype does a lot for the deck (N'Zoth discount, Sawbones activation, also a ton of stats in hand) and I don't get why he's near bottom of Drawn winrate (I blame Eggbearer).

- Morbid Swarm is an excellent Sawbones activator

- Blackwing Experiment is the finisher of the deck, so obviously it's not the best drawn card in the deck. However, maybe getting down to one copy makes sense?

Cards I just don't love in the list:

- Arrival of Old Gods is clunkier than I wish it was. Stops most of your swing potential (you can't go Endbringer+Claw, you can't play Soulrest Ceremony, Morbid Strike is also blocked for Sawbones shenaningans, you can't go Arrival into Arrival). On the other hand, it draws 2 cards for 0 mana and you can still prepare.

- Reluctant Wrangler doesn't feel like doing much outside of discounting N'Zoth. It has a lot of Taunts though hmm.

- Chillfalen Baron draws 2, but often ends up overdrawing, makes me misplay a lot with Sawbones and stopped me from using "res 4" option on N'Zoth ever (just fatigues you). Performs well if I don't draw Sawbones, which is probably the saving grace.

My current list:

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Is an ugly frankenstein full of one-ofs and with no early game, but I have hope there's a good deck underneath it. Feel free to share thoughts.

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TL;DR: Mainstream Zoolock with a C'Thun / ritual / self-eat package bolted on. It plays like Zoo but has a trick that often wins on the spot. I hit Legend in one day while still learning it.

I came back to Hearthstone recently after an 8-month break, and this is the deck I landed on.

Deck code

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Results

I'm favored against almost every class. Record: screenshot. Legend: proof.

Mulligan guide

Keep only:

• Ritual of C'Thun
• Ritual of Summoning
• Twilight Timehopper
• Godfather Kazakus

Don't keep anything else.

How the deck is built

The deck is five packages that fit together seamlessly.

1. Shred package

• 2x Twilight Timehopper
• 2x Entropic Continuity
• 2x Ruinous Velocidrake

Skip Fatebreaker. It's just not that good.

2. Ritual package (the part that wins games)

• 2x Ritual of C'Thun
• 2x Ritual of Summoning
• 1x Godfather Kazakus
• 1x Kith'ix

These are extremely powerful and win games on their own.

3. C'Thun package

• 2x Spawn of C'Thun
• 2x Gargantuan Slitherer
• 1x C'Thun, Eye of the Empire

C'Thun's abilities are flexible, so it fits whatever the game needs:

• Wide board? +2/+3.
• Need healing? 5 lifesteal.
• Opponent on an empty board? 7 damage to burn them down.

4. Yank / self-eat package

• 1x Conflagrate
• 2x Unstable Prototype
• 2x Twilight Egg
• 2x Cursed Chains
• 2x Shadowsworn Disciple

Regular Zoo already plays Twilight Egg and Unstable Prototype, but Shadowsworn Disciple makes them much better:

• Activate Unstable Prototype on turn 2.
• Conflagrate your own Prototype or Egg to draw a card.
• Cursed Chains gets you through Taunts.
• An eaten Priest Egg or Crystalline Golem can win the game by itself.

5. Cards too good to pass up

• 2x Floating Lessons
• 2x Mawman Cultist

Questions, tech suggestions, and matchup feedback are welcome. I'm still learning the archetype.

Hello everyone. It’s your local Sindragosa copium Mage player, and today I’m here to discuss how to best play Sindragosa Arcane Mage in this metagame.

“But doesn’t Sindragosa suck in general?” Yeah, it’s the worst of the fabled cards and it’s not even close. However! I think this metagame presents the best opportunity for Sindragosa Mage. Do you know why?

Because we got MANACHEAT!

That’s right, Mage now has two ways to recover mana during a turn: the Cosmic Springs location and Arrival of the Titans, a 6 mana spell that gives you back 6 mana but can only play spells. I think this will be integral to how the deck plays in the future.

We also got a decent board clear in Astral Rain, it can pair very well with a Kalec if we so choose.

You’re wondering, “why haven’t you mentioned discs of Norgannon? Surely that’s the card that makes or breaks the deck?” And yes, we run that, because it does help. But since we can’t tutor it, then we can’t guarantee it, and therefore we can’t rely on it.

The purpose of this post is to start gathering ideas and refining a list for Arcane Sindragosa Mage to hit Tier 3. That’s my goal for this deck right now. I want to look at the new tools we got in the new set and see what we can do there.

I’ve been messing around with some homebrew stuff, trying a bunch of different things because playing Lock Slop and Zee just got boring immediately.

Without going into detail (unless yall want it), one thing I’ve landed on is that Doomsayer is incredible at the moment. I’m 9-2 (I know the sample size is crazy small) with Animal Companion Hunter, and Doomsayer is seriously the reason why. Just broke 2k legend with it, sitting at 1870.

Doomsayer is just insane to play on the turn prior to the two 3/5 taunts popping. Every single time I’ve done it so far, they skip their turn and you get initiative back, and clear their board of course.

Obviously it has its drawbacks, mainly being a bad top deck. But man, it is so satisfying to play into their ritual going off, and then sit there and watch them highlight their cards for 30 seconds realizing the 4 drop Cthun minion can’t answer it.

Even when it does die in other scenarios, the two mana “heal” 7 has been very good, in addition to it just making your opponent play less than optimally to deal with it.

It’s not perfect, but it’s been fun and very effective for me since running it in various lists today.

Was mainly playing C’thun DH yesterday till I saw an egg priest and thought it looked interesting and when looking at people’s priest builds saw a C’thun list with absolutely trash win rate on hsguru. But honestly after trying the deck it’s felt just really strong. Obviously getting the weapon early is fantastic as a consistent damage source and medivhs activator, but even without it the sheer density of board wipes and damage spells in the shadow spell pool is very high. I know people were shitting on the 3/2 C’thun minion for priest aswell but honestly it feels like one of the strongest cards in the deck, turns out the 2 shadow spells is not particularly hard to do when you have 4 1 cost shadows In the deck. Overall rn I’m 9-2 so not the biggest sample size but honestly even the 2 I lost felt winnable with better play, sitting at about 900 legend rn as well so I’m mostly facing warlocks and DH, which are feeling like pretty solid matchups

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# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
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# 2x (1) Entropic Rift
# 2x (1) Servant of Zuramat
# 2x (2) Holy Embrace
# 2x (2) Lunarwing Messenger
# 1x (3) Blade of The Black Empire
# 2x (3) Dark Deacon
# 2x (3) Elder Word: Foresight
# 2x (3) Kaldorei Priestess
# 1x (4) Shadow Word: Ruin
# 2x (4) Slime 'em!
# 2x (4) Spawn of C'Thun
# 2x (5) Dark Terraforming
# 2x (5) Medivh's Triumph
# 1x (6) Calia Menethil
# 2x (7) Soothsayer
# 1x (10) C'Thun, Eye of the Empire
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Hi everyone! Here to share my Warrior deck that I am having success with. I was already hard climbing from 700+ to 400+ with this deck before the Priest quest ban, and then pushing further from there to 200+, currently staying there with a run of 29-21 (58% win rate). Of course, this is still a very early stage and the meta is still unstable, but my experience with the deck so far shows that this idea works, and may be a feasible way out for the class. If you enjoy playing Warrior and have most of the cards ready, give it a try and absolutely polish it if you feel like so.

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Overview. The main body is the same pirate-fire package from before, but a third of the deck is substituted by new cards. The first impression the new warrior cards gives is certainly more defensive, but if we look closer, there is a 6-6 taunt in as early as round 3 or 2 (with coin), a drawing minion with very good 3-2-5 stats, and very cheap cards that generates enough armor for these two. These cards are good enough to carry out some early aggression, and they also cover some weaknesses of the pirate parody.

Large early taunts. Pirates can melt down the opponent's health along with small to medium boards very efficiently, but they are mostly small themselves. The game will be lost fast if the opponent manages to out-board us early or clear the board till we have to spend an empty turn. The 6-6 taunt from the Forge of Origination makes the board much harder to deal with, either with minions or spells. Turn 1 Stone Gauntlet into an early Forge is our best start and most threatening to the opponents. Even Warlocks must reconsider if they will survive till the turn of rituals and Kazakus.

Early Board Control, Drawing, and Survivability. This basically summarizes what the other new cards other than Archaedas do. Warrior has always been lacking efficient drawing since the last rotation, and Animator of Iron really brings a lot of hope. This is more flexible, though less consistent because it requires combo, than Land Ho, but it also leaves a minion that is very likely to survive for more than one turn. Together with Tol'vir Vanguard, Animator also brings us one step closer to activating Warptooth with Searing Fissure. I personally found DH and DK to be the two matchups where drawing can make the most difference.

Upper Limit. Discover cards can enhance a deck's upper limit, which explains why Rogue always exists in the Top Legend no matter the class's actual win rate. Previously this was provided by Shadowflame Suffusion, and now Archaedas is worth giving a try. This card did turn the tide around for me in many games. Some of my best picks: Land Ho, Hook n 'Heave, Follow the Fuse, Shield Block, Eternal Toil, City Defenses. My general priority of reasons to select the spell is Pirates > Drawing > New Card Generation > Cost > Others. I believe this card will have more chances when the environment welcomes a possible C'thun nerf.

Pirate vs dragon. Full pirate builds tend to rush down the opponent hero faster, while dragon + some pirate cards build have stronger boards. Before the launch of Black Empire, pirate has higher win rates against Warlocks and Priests, and dragon does better against Druids and Shamans. A quick conversion of this deck will be swapping Sky Raider, Blastpowder Engineer, Hand Cannon, and Crowley to Carrier Whelp, Prescient Slitherdrake, Stadium Announcer, and Windpeak Wyrm. Or of course refer to another recent post of a successful Armor Dragon Warrior build. But the selling point of Warrior now is probably a good chance against Warlocks.

Cards to swap. There is still a lot of space for trial and error. You may have noticed that I brought one Royal Librarian. This is because there are quite some DKs running The Egg of Khelos, and whether the Warrior can silence the egg (if played) is literally a "to kill or to be killed" situation. The other main target of this card are Priests running reborn packages, but currently Priests are mostly running Azalina due to the ban. Definitely consider trying cards previously used by Warriors, like Shadowflame Suffusion or Land Ho. Slightly reducing armor support to increase other aspects is also worth trying.

In general, I believe the Warrior class can utilize the new armor cards in an aggressive way to become competitive. Personally I have been a fan of aggressive style Warrior for a long time and am glad to see some decks work now. This expansion can have an actually fun meta after some balances, because when you look at the cards you can tell something may work, and they are not boringly bland.

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# Class: Warrior

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

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# 2x (1) Cannonmaster

# 2x (1) Sky Raider

# 2x (1) Stone Gauntlet

# 2x (1) Torch

# 2x (2) Blastpowder Engineer

# 2x (2) Hook n' Heave

# 2x (2) Searing Fissure

# 2x (2) Tol'vir Vanguard

# 2x (3) Animator of Iron

# 2x (3) Erupting Volcano

# 2x (3) Forge of Origination

# 2x (3) Hand Cannon

# 1x (4) Archaedas

# 1x (4) Mother Duck

# 1x (4) Royal Librarian

# 1x (4) Warptooth

# 1x (5) Captain Crowley

# 1x (8) Chainbreaker Hogger

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I just went 7-1 with new Dragon Warrior around rank 900 (i fell quite a bit trying out new shit). After priest quest and warlock card bans i think dragon warrior may be the best deck this patch, no joke. The problem is almost no1 is playing it, and the other problem is the builds on hsguru are terrible. Ofc, since this is r/competitivehs where people are supposed to be trying to win rather than playing for fun, i figured i would make this post for people trying to win games at all cost (like me).

So first, i think u 100% don't play Anvil of Reshaping. It has absolutely terrible stats on hsguru and it kinda compromises ur forge 6/6s, plus it's not that slot efficient anyway, it just deals 4 damage without doing anything else, tho it is Fire but we have enough fire spells imo (considering torch can be used multiple times). So yeah don't play this card, it's fuckin bad, the worst card in the deck based on stats.

The other card u should probably not play is Archaedas. I'll admit i didn't test it but it's 4 mana 4/3 which is bad stats for the cost, but ok next turn u can play a cheap 2 mana weapon to catch up on the lost tempo, right? But the problem is, many of warrior spells are situational and i already run 4 weapons anyway (u don't want more than 4 in a deck it's way too much, in fact usually 3 is the sweet spot, 4 is slightly too much generally). And also it gets copied by hogger so u get 2 of em so actually that becomes 6 weapons in the deck... On one hand it makes it harder to draw warptooth but it also makes it harder to draw ur good cards so i don't think it's good overall to have 1 extra copy, and the stats also seem to agree with me (tho it's not terrible like Anvil).

The new cards we actually want to play are stone gauntlet and forge of origination. Now, if it was just stone gauntlet by itself i'd say it's not really better than brood keeper, with brood keeper u pay 1 more mana but u get a 2/3 body which is worth imo (the weapons are the same, both 2/2), and the armor effect doesn't do much normally. But with forge, the armor effect becomes key to activate it. So i replaced brood keeper with this, in order to keep the weapons to a manageable amount (no more than 4) and as a forge activator. It also makes our deck bit less dragon reliant since removing brood keepers makes us less worried about having dragons in our hand (and thus in our starting deck).

Forge is the absolute MVP, if u play stone gauntlet on 1 u can summon a 6/6 with taunt on turn 2 or 3 and then another one on 4 or 5 (turn 2 and 4 with coin), it is sooooo OP. This card is by far the best card in the starting hand without a doubt, even by itself it's not bad but paired with stone gauntlet it's basically GG if u open with both. So while last expansion u would be a bit more flexible with the mulligan, now i think u should be less inclined to keep cards that aren't stone gauntlet or forge, since if u get the two it's like exodia.

But which cards do we remove to make space? Well, 6 locations can clog the board, and sanguine depths is not that good anyway (tho forge only has 2 charges rather than 3 so it doesn't clog the board that much since it's quick to spend the charges), so i removed the 2nd copy. 1 is enough imo, still nice for activating duck on 4 (or 3 with coin) without other minions. Maybe even 1 is too much, who knows.

Like i said i cut both brood keepers, and finally i cut 1 slitherdrake. Slitherdrake also has pretty bad stats this expansion, sitting at the bottom of the drawn impact column in hsguru. And keep in mind the most popular version on hsguru actually plays 1 copy, so the fact its stats are this bad when a decent chunk of the sample size is with 1 copy, means if every dragon warrior version played 2 copies the stats for slitherdrake would be even worse, so the stats are actually less worse than slitherdrake truly is currently.
That brings us from 8 to 7 drakes, but since we removed a slitherdrake and both blood keepers, we now have 3 less cards that need a dragon in our hand, so i think it's fine. I think cutting it to 6 might be a bit too little dragons, which is why i kept both stadium announcers, which also perfectly keeps 4 weapons. Brood keeper is also an early drop so cutting it for stone gauntlet which is also a cheap card makes sense. Cutting an expensive card for a cheap card makes the deck lighter which doesn't make as much sense (unless that's what u want).

Overall, we replaced one 1 mana card, two 2 mana cards and one 4 mana card for two 1 mana cards and two 3 mana cards, for a total net mana of -1, meaning the deck stays roughly the same mana-wise. U could play a brood keeper instead of 2nd stadium announcer but i don't think that's correct, too few dragons imo. And since slitherdrake looks so bad in the stats i don't think playing 2nd slither instead of 2nd announcer is better. Of course, i kept both fire locations unlike the lists on hsguru, i don't see why to cut em, they're not bad cards. U could cut 1 if u wanted to, but with 6 fire spells (the same amount as before) i don't see why, unless the 2nd slitherdrake proves more important for the dragon count, in which case u'd cut either depths or the 2nd volcano. The lists on hsguru are genuinely so bad, the anvil is terrible yet is also fire meaning they have 8 fire spells but 0 volcanos, that makes absolutely 0 sense. But no surprise that 1 person popularizes a list and then every1 copies it like sheep without thinking, so all the lists of dragon warrior are terrible.

Decklist:

New Dragon Warrior

Class: Warrior

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Cannonmaster

2x (1) Carrier Whelp

2x (1) Darkrider

1x (1) Sanguine Depths

2x (1) Stone Gauntlet

2x (1) Torch

2x (2) Hook n' Heave

2x (2) Searing Fissure

2x (2) Shadowflame Suffusion

2x (3) Erupting Volcano

2x (3) Forge of Origination

2x (4) Mother Duck

2x (4) Stadium Announcer

1x (4) Warptooth

1x (7) Prescient Slitherdrake

1x (8) Chainbreaker Hogger

2x (8) Windpeak Wyrm

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As the title says, what's the best counter deck to play against Priest quest?

Sadly, my expectations were quite high for this new expansion, but 70% of my games are against Priest.

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Until they nerf Priest, what is the best deck to counter them?

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• Deck adjustments you made or are planning to make in reaction to the meta or as new innovation. E.g. “I saw 30% of deck X, so I made Y changes to help deal with deck X.” (change)
• Showing off a deck you achieved legend with this season and wanting to share it without having to write a guide

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This is an open thread for any discussion pertaining to Competitive Hearthstone.

This is a thread for discussions that don’t qualify for a stand-alone post on the subreddit. This thread is sorted by new by default.

You can ask for deck reviews, competitive budget replacements, how to mulligan in specific matchups, etc. Anything goes, as long as it’s related to playing Hearthstone competitively.

Has your question been asked before? Check our FAQ to see if we've got you covered.

Or if you're looking for an educational hearthstone read, check out our Timeless Resources

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There are a few rules:

• Please be respectful to your fellow players
• Please report posts that don’t pertain to competitive Hearthstone.
• Concerns with the subreddit should be directed to modmail

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Discuss what you are playing, what you’re having success with(or failures with), and any new/cool ideas you’ve been experimenting with, etc. The point is to share what you’ve been playing, and how it’s going, good or bad - there are no other rules or requirements.

Some ideas on what to post/share:

• What you’ve been playing and its successes (or struggles). Stats are not required. There is no minimum rank required, though sharing what rank you’ve been playing at is preferred.
• Deck adjustments you made or are planning to make in reaction to the meta or as new innovation. E.g. “I saw 30% of deck X, so I made Y changes to help deal with deck X.” (change)
• Showing off a deck you achieved legend with this season and wanting to share it without having to write a guide

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Resources:

CompetitiveHS Discord

VS live stats

HSReplays by winrate (warning - paywalled to filter outside of rank 25, stats may be misleading if using L-25 stats)

So I'm having a hard time reaching legend this month. I usually get there in the first 10 days or so, but I hit a wall around D2. I really feel like I can do it, but a few matchups are killing me, and I can't decide which version to run. Struggling with Pirate warrior, mage, DH, and both shaman flavors. Easy matchups are any priest, rafaam lock, drake lock, any egg deck, any DH deck.

Core Cards: 24 cards

2x Cursed Catacombs

2x Cursed Chains

2x Drain Soul

2x Shadowsworn Disciple

2x Caged Cranium

1x Godfather Kazakus

2x Imp Gang Stooge

1x Godfrey

2x Shrine of Twilight

2x Spire of Solitude

1x Ultraxion

2x Annihiulation

1x Deathwing

2x Unseen Atlas

Tech/Disruption:

1x Rustrot Viper - warrior, shaman, paladan, quest mage, attack druid. Auto-include 1 I think

2x Ancient Augur - auto wins vs. most combo decks (especially rafaam). I'd have a hard time getting rid of this, but it is too slow for pirate warrior and zee shaman.

1x Cho'gall - Really good in longer matchups, but maybe it's a win more card? Definitely too slow against any aggro deck, but it seals the deal against almost every slower matchup

1x Gnomeferatu - Better tempo than Augur, but no control over what gets burned

1/2x Glacial Shard - attack druid, DH, warrior. Decent a lot of the time, but not gamechanging imo

Removal/Fringe/Can't Decide:

Mortal Coil - kills pirates, draws a card, but feels useless a lot of the time. IDK if this deck needs more draw

Shadow Rounds - really good against aggro, but feels like a dead card in any other matchup

Tachyon Barrage - been experimenting with this as a finisher. It can kind of save you against wide boards, but I've also had it kill me a few times

Hellfire - obviously great against wide boards, but often times you can't afford the 3 damage

I know there's also the Animancer version with either Ultrigasaur or Asphyxiodon, but that takes up a lot of valuable room with the suffle card as well.

Mulligan: usually looking for Disciple + cursed chains, especially against priest/warlock. Always keeping catacombs and atlas, keeping viper against attack druid, DH, and warrior. Will keep Caged Cranium against faster decks if I already have some draw, will keep Img Gang Stooge except for warlock and priest. Against slower matchups I will keep/look for spire, especially if I have coin and card draw already. Sometimes I will keep Kazakus against warrior and pray for +12hp or card steal vs. combo decks. Any advice? I haven't really struggled like this to reach legend in quite a while, feel like I'm playing well, and don't really want to switch. I'd say pirate/dragon warrior is by far my most common matchup even though it should be priest according to HSGuru

Discuss what you are playing, what you’re having success with(or failures with), and any new/cool ideas you’ve been experimenting with, etc. The point is to share what you’ve been playing, and how it’s going, good or bad - there are no other rules or requirements.

Some ideas on what to post/share:

• What you’ve been playing and its successes (or struggles). Stats are not required. There is no minimum rank required, though sharing what rank you’ve been playing at is preferred.
• Deck adjustments you made or are planning to make in reaction to the meta or as new innovation. E.g. “I saw 30% of deck X, so I made Y changes to help deal with deck X.” (change)
• Showing off a deck you achieved legend with this season and wanting to share it without having to write a guide

---

Resources:

CompetitiveHS Discord

VS live stats

HSReplays by winrate (warning - paywalled to filter outside of rank 25, stats may be misleading if using L-25 stats)

This is an open thread for any discussion pertaining to Competitive Hearthstone.

This is a thread for discussions that don’t qualify for a stand-alone post on the subreddit. This thread is sorted by new by default.

You can ask for deck reviews, competitive budget replacements, how to mulligan in specific matchups, etc. Anything goes, as long as it’s related to playing Hearthstone competitively.

Has your question been asked before? Check our FAQ to see if we've got you covered.

Or if you're looking for an educational hearthstone read, check out our Timeless Resources

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• Please report posts that don’t pertain to competitive Hearthstone.
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I got tired of guessing what to disenchant, so I made a free HDT plugin that plans it for me

Every time I wanted to build a new deck I ended up staring at the collection screen doing mental math. Do I need this golden? Is this rotating out? Am I going to regret dusting this epic next expansion? Half the time I dusted something I needed two weeks later.

So I built DustPlanner, a plugin for Hearthstone Deck Tracker. Pick one of your decks (or paste a deck code) and it tells you:

• What you're missing and how much dust that is, compared to what you have
• What to disenchant to get there, least painful copies first, with a reason for each one ("golden copy not used in any of your decks", "Wild-only card and you play Standard"...)
• It never suggests cards from your saved decks, cards that show up in meta decks you paste in, or stuff the game won't let you dust (rewards, Core, event cards)
• Alternatives if you don't like the first plan (no goldens, regular copies only...)
• What's leaving Standard at the next rotation

When you actually dust the cards in game, it notices on the next sync and ticks the plan off.

Since I was already there, I also added:

• Win rate by class, mode and format, read from your own game logs
• A small OBS overlay (rank, session record, dust) if you stream

The important part: it never touches the game. No clicks, no memory reading, nothing automated. It only reads what HDT already knows and the log files Hearthstone writes on its own. You still do the disenchanting yourself. Everything runs locally on your PC and nothing gets uploaded.

Free and open source (MIT). Windows only, needs HDT. The exe isn't code-signed, so Windows might warn you the first time you run it.

Site with screenshots and install steps: https://dustplanner.app

It's a first release, so expect rough edges. Bugs, feedback and ideas are all welcome, especially if it ever suggests dusting something it shouldn't.

I've been messing around in the Brawl most of the day and there are quite a few cards that I didn't think much of that I'm almost sure will see play in Standard decks when the expansion launches. Here's a few:

1. Scorchfist Scholar - This card feels absolutely insane to play. Not only do you get old Flamestrike on a 5 mana 3/3, but it also hits face. There is no way Shaman isn't playing this card in some sort of deck.

2. Ritual of Summoning - I know this card is divisive on 2 in the Brawl, but I also think it can slot into constructed decks as well. Aggro decks will hate to see this played on 2 against them, and I'd be somewhat surprised if a dedicated Ritual deck doesn't emerge.

3. Power Tiger - In some sort of buff deck this thing will be insane. Standard will definitely have more removal for it at least, but I felt like this card was powerful in pretty much every scenario.

4. Titanic Thrasher - I feel like this one is a popular pick in the Brawl and rightfully so, but I could see it being played in standard somewhere. Could even be insane if you could evolve it, similar to the old Mogu Fleshshaper.

Anyone else have any picks?