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Yeah, just make sure to do all of the training missions against the Innkeeper with all of the classes - you get gold rewards for that.

If you're having trouble building a deck that works there's no shame in looking up a basic beginners deck. The MMR system is fairly decent at lower levels (meaning you won't get matched up against people with legendary cards), so it can be quite fun playing against beginners.

The best thing to do at first is to play as one class that you like for a while to unlock that class's basic cards. If you play arena at first, you might have a bad time. Do the daily quests or push on if you're having fun.

Be warned though; I've never played a game that put me in rage mode so easily when I wasn't prepared to handle it. And I've played countless hours of Call of Duty :D

 
See this is available for phones now. Downloaded and played and already got yelled at for playing when wife was trying to talk to me.
 
little burnt out atm (rng got me down)

new wing of BRM expansion out today, though... just beat it, was fun (last boss of wing was really great)

 
Like that commercial. There's also one with a press conference featuring the Ogre, but it's not as good.

Today they announced new heroes per class (not new classes, just different portrait selections):

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19508175/heroes-emerge-new-hearthstone-heroes-are-coming-6-4-2015

All they've displayed so far is Warrior, seems pretty cool.

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10 bucks is a little steep but I would consider it if the other ones are cool enough. Not a huge fan of Jaina's portrait in the game, myself, so... yeah.

 
They just released news about a new game mode called 'Tavern Brawl'.

http://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/blog_header/jj/JJUJOAWZJ6DQ1433784763430.jpg

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19508176/brace-yourself-for-tavern-brawl-6-10-2015

Each week, a different Tavern Brawl will pit you head to head versus another player using exciting and unique rules. One week might feature preset decks, while another week could have you crafting a brand new Tavern Brawl deck following specific guidelines, while others might offer buffs to specific minion types””who knows!Tavern Brawl can be found below the Play, Solo Adventures, and the Arena buttons on the main Hearthstone screen. You may have to toughen up before entering the fray””Tavern Brawl is unlocked once a player has a level 20 Hero.
The possibilities for fun inside Tavern Brawl are endless”” the only thing you should expect is the unexpected!
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Not much info beyond that. No word on the price or anything, but seems like a pretty fun idea. I also hear they plan to implement some kinds of rewards so there's that.

 
Tavern Brawl started today.

Region---------------Open--------------------------------Close

Americas------------Wed 10:00 AM PDT-------------Mon 3:00 AM PDT

Europe---------------Wed 05:00 PM CEST-------------Mon 6:00 AM CEST

Taiwan/China------Thurs 03:00 AM CST-----------Mon 6:00 AM CST

Korea-----------------Thurs 04:00 AM KST-----------Mon 7:00 AM KST

It's pretty ... odd. This week you get to play as either Nefarian or Ragnaros and play with pretty insane pre-made decks against other players. The reward for winning is... a pack of cards. One pack. (?)

Just seems like a big thing to put in the game with seemingly no real challenge or reward. Was fun for what it was, though.

 
I was having a crappy day until I had a game where this happened.

https://i.imgur.com/0qIrdNH.png

Context: He was basically working me the whole game. He has Dr. Boom on the board. I kill Dr. Boom with a crappy token with Power Overwhelming and am just hanging on with 8 health left and an Ironbeak Owl.

He has 15 health with a silenced Leper Gnome and two Boom Bots (they deal one damage, Death Rattle: deal 1-4 damage to a random enemy).

At 15 health, he pops Lord Jaraxxus and I say to myself, c'est la vie (actually said this is bullshit I hate this game, but I digress). Remember, 8 health left.

His Boom Bot breaks owl, deathrattle hits my face for 1 HP! Still a ray of hope! He hits my face for 3 with Jaraxxus's weapon and also 3 with his other minions, leaving me with exactly 1 Health Point.

In my hand(

My turn: I draw Mal'Ganis HOLY CRAP1!1 making me immune and boosting the damage of my demons.

His next turn is spent playing more crap Sea Giant and Jaraxxus's hero power: Summon Infernal. and a half-assed attempt at clearing my Mal'Ganis.

Next turn I draw Mortal Coil and hit his Leper Gnome and get .... Doomguard for the win!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

It was just the most incredibly lucky RNG I've had in the game, including the time Ragnaros skipped 4 other minions with taunt to hit face for lethal.

Here's the song I was listening to, making it possibly even 10x more insane.

 
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I won't update every week's Tavern Brawl, but I will say that this week it was Bananas and they upped the free pack reward to a higher chance of Legendary cards coming from them. Got Al'Akir (already had him, but nice to get the xtra dust)
 
As much as I enjoy these games, I can't help but think that WoW development has gone by the wayside.
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THIS. I would have to agree I also think the same thing. I mean it's cool and all but sometimes you need to stick to what made you big in the first place.
 
haha yeah. echo/stall mage is sick, I like the version with giants. Couldn't really tell from that clip exactly

most people run

http://static.icy-veins.com/images/hearthstone/12252-kezan-mystic-golden.png

so that doesn't happen lol. If you play ranked Kezan is a must because the meta right now is probably 50% Face Hunter/Some variant of Mage and then 30% Grim Patron Warrior and 20% Lock variant (mostly Handlock)

Here's Echo/Giants Mage (No Blizzard so the video probably isn't Giants Mage)

http://www.liquidhearth.com/staff/Hayl_Storm/New_Writers/Daisyx/EchoMage/DaisyEchoMage.png

ATM I run my own created Tempo Mage that I run in Ranked mode. Made it before netdeck variations came out shortly after BRM and I made it to rank 11 pretty easily and could push farther but I don't have the motivation:

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harry potter reference

My favorite win condition: If I can stall them out long enough with mid-game Flamewaker/Water Elemental + Fireball/Frostbolt, I can usually get Malygos out without them having any sort of removal as he's a 4/12. Then the 8 damage Arcane Missiles come out and if I have Frostbolt/Ice Lance = 16 damage + 15 damage Pyroblast :)

If I'm suffering early/mid-game I will save Lances/Arcane Missiles for Antonidas for free Fahrbawls. :)

Against zoo decks my deck is the most fun, though. Flamewaker + Arcane Missiles + any other spell = devastates everything cheaply. Apparently a lot of people run Tempo/Flamewaker mage now, though.

 
Yeah I watched a slight card reveal video and apparently this expansion is pushing towards a new mechanic called 'Inspire' which is a card effect that takes place when you use your Hero Ability.

There are also going to be quite a few cards that involve buffing/altering your Hero Ability. I'm gonna take this expansion easy, though. Like, slowly. If I had a bunch of friends who were into the game I'd probably go gung-ho but it's not greatly satisfying to compete against strangers. I'll still play it but not as much as I did last year

 
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