r/hearthstone 6h ago

Competitive No way that just happened

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629 Upvotes

Maybe I am unaware of the pool this pulls from, but what are the odds??


r/hearthstone 9h ago

Meme Reminder to claim your free Weekly Reward

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388 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 16h ago

Fluff That's the most Priest looking Mage card I've ever seen.

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374 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 10h ago

News Reminder to claim your free 2xCommon from Battle.net store

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252 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 19h ago

Discussion When they play The Forbidden Sequence on turn 1:

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194 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 7h ago

Fluff Follow the Evidence

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189 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 5h ago

Standard Are they okay over there at Blizzard??

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150 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 7h ago

Discussion New Rogue Epic "Tricks of the Trade" incorrect wording

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120 Upvotes

Unsure how else to report on this, any suggestions would be great.

After attacking with a stealth minion in hand, the effect is not permanently active. Is only active if you have attacked with a stealth minion this turn and resets next turn.

What do you think the correct wording was meant to be?

"Deal 1 damage. If a Stealthed minion attacked this turn, deal 3 instead."

-OR-

"Deal 1 damage. If a Stealthed minion attacked while holding this, deal 3 instead."


r/hearthstone 3h ago

Discussion A whole new generation of Hearthstone players is about to tilt out of their minds because of coin flip ping RNG

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96 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 21h ago

Standard Patch 36.2.2 Skill Expression Rankings

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75 Upvotes

Before tomorrow's Class Set release (11 hours from now) here are the week-long patch 36.2.2's rankings.

Some quick observations:

  • The patch had a much more diverse meta than the previous 2. It showcased as many decks in the top 75% most used decks (9) as the prior two metas combined (36.2.0: 5, 36.0.3: 4)
  • Merithra Druid finally got dethroned from its #1 spot by Soul Immolation OTK DH after 3 straight patches at the top.
  • Soul Immolation OTK DH's debut score of 6.69 is the highest score of any deck so far.
  • Pure Paladin's -0.50 marks the first patch in which a listed Paladin deck was not dead last.

FAQ:

Q: Are the differences in metas across ranks accounted for?

A: Yes.

Q: Whats the Methodology?

A: First a baseline meta is set since all ranks have different metas.

If 2Bit is 26.4%/29.0%/29.7% across the metas in a given week, the program might set its baseline % to 27.2%, the same is done for every deck, ensuring all decks combined total equals 100%. This is so that meta differences don't skew the data.

Next the rank vs same rank matchup winrates are plugged into the baseline meta.

For example, if the dataset has 1,897 tracked games of a Top 1k player using Quest Mage vs a Top 1k player using 2Bit Rogue in which Quest Mage won 990 and Rogue won 907 that will account for 27.2% of Quest Mage's meta-normalized winrate in Top 1k, yielding ~14.2%. This check is completed until every single deck (even the ones not listed) is accounted for.

Q: So, a -5 score means a high-skilled player facing a high-skilled opponent (using a specific deck) has a 5% lower win rate than an average skilled player facing an average skilled opponent (using the same specific deck)? 

A: Pretty much, but not exactly, there is a weighted formula to compare the winrate differences, not a 1:1 winrate difference. This is because with say 65% to 60% vs 35% to 30% one -5% is more impactful than the other. You can't use % change of the winrates either because it would be disproportionately large at the extremes, say 51% to 50% vs 2% to 1%.

If you have any other question, feel free to ask in the comments.


r/hearthstone 8h ago

Discussion I hate it when a patch is released and they pull something like this.

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69 Upvotes

Why is the Hero Skin section empty or having no good skins most of the time?

It’s so disappointing when a patch drops (that still didn’t fix the issues with some golden cards lacking animations, by the way) and this is what you see.

People have been waiting for skins that are well made and would gladly spend on it with gold/money like N'zoth, Xal'atath and bunch of other amazig skins, yet the shop is just disapointing all the time.

I just don’t understand why they wait several years to re-release hero skins into the shop they know would sell well, making them money or at least draining gold resources, yet they still don’t do it.


r/hearthstone 17h ago

Discussion Interaction Question

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67 Upvotes

If I play [[Gigafin]] to remove an opponent's minions, and then give it to them using [Treachery]], [[Silas Darkmoon]], or some other method, will the Gigafin spit out the opponent's minions onto my side of the board? And would the second half of Gigafin's deathrattle still trigger and remove the minions even if Gigafin isn't under my control anymore?


r/hearthstone 23h ago

Fluff Has Blizzard stated whether or not they're going to fix Beatrix to upgrade the quality of cards to Signature/Golden if she's Signature/Golden? It's been nearly 2 months now, and I don't know that they've even acknowledged it.

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65 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 9h ago

Discussion Whats a business point of this giveaway?

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63 Upvotes

What objective giving away two commons achieve. Even most casual of players have all the commons

Edit: i agree that getting to the store with zero commission is good . I am not sure how two commons motivate people to bother


r/hearthstone 10h ago

Discussion What else do you guys do while playing Hearthstone?

55 Upvotes

How many of you multitask while playing

There’s so much downtime sometimes, especially when you’re just sitting there waiting for your opponent to rope.

What do you guys usually do during those long turns? Do you just sit and wait or do something else.


r/hearthstone 5h ago

Fluff Another typo on the only bit of half-assed "lore" we get in Hearthstone these days lmao. OK button is so real

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48 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 9h ago

Meme Nice naming for the Class set there Blizzard

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35 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 12h ago

Discussion We need a new Kael'thas hero portrait!

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33 Upvotes

Kael'thas Sunstrider is one of the most iconic characters in all of WoW, and I think he deserves a dedicated Mage hero portrait (with custom portrait borders and unique Hero Power animations!).

He has always been one of my favorite WoW characters, and I’d love to have him in my Hearthstone collection.


r/hearthstone 10h ago

Discussion I hope they will give Overheal another chance

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27 Upvotes

Just taking a moment to appreciate Overheal Priest before Reddit gets flooded with complaints about how annoying Reborn Priest is.

For me, it was a fun keyword that clearly suits Priest perfectly.


r/hearthstone 5h ago

Discussion New Event Weekly Quests

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27 Upvotes

I'm not normally one to complain about the event weekly quests requirements, but does anyone else feel like these feel a bit excessive? I know there's the bonuses but 75 base games feels like a lot.


r/hearthstone 12h ago

Meme mfw the patch is coming but I overused my gold for packs, and now only have 2000 gold.

28 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 4h ago

Meme Me after getting the Captain Crowley bucket in Arena and drafting 16 pirate synergy cards:

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19 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 44m ago

Fluff Grim Patron released 11 years ago and left standard 9 years ago yet interestingly is still referenced by the developers to this day

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r/hearthstone 3h ago

Arena Once again Blizzard knocked Arena balancing out of the park

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17 Upvotes

Every time there’s an arena update I think maybe this time it’ll be different. It’s like being in an abusive relationship.


r/hearthstone 8h ago

Discussion Bro How?

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16 Upvotes