Dusting everything from Mammoth

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Is anyone else planning on dusting pretty much everything from Year of the Mammoth? I have no interest in ever playing Wild, and I did this with the previously rotated sets. I could count on one hand the times I had to build a Tavern Brawl deck and genuinely wanted a couple cards from the non-standard sets.

I’ve spent maybe $10 of google play credit from google surveys on this game, and always have had multiple meta decks from this dusting strategy. I’m curious if there are other like-minded players who will cast away all cards rotating out.

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I do something similar to this too. It seems like a pretty good strategy to stay competitive in Standard without breaking the bank. I usually close in on having all the cards in standard rotation this way.

The only downside I could see is, they could remove standard as the competitive mode. They would need to re balance a ton of cards to make wild the competitive mode and its not likely that this happens. Though, if it did happen I would probably just quit Hearthstone at that point.

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I prefer Wild (for now) but this won’t happen as it would lower or remove incentive for pack purchasing at the scale people spend now. In addition Wild is just flat-out harder to balance because of the larger card pool.

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I do the same. F2P for life (bro fist)

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Already done on this account. Been playing decks with no rotating cards with the last week. Definitely a strange feeling but happens every rotation. So many strong cards leaving this time though.

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I hope you didn’t dust hall of fame cards. I would wait until after expansion hits just in case.

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Why so entitled?
20chars

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Also if that’s what you want go for it. But there’s gonna be a lot of strong cards rotating and if you in the future would like to try out Wild, you’d have a pretty nice card collection to start off

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No, because i love wild. Specifically because wild decks do NOT lose their value after 2 years; if I get bored and leave hearthstone for a year, as I’ve done before, I come back to decks that are intact and competitive, although there are likely fun upgrades from new sets to make.

It’s the same reason I play modern in MTG. I haven’t been able to play paper magic in a year and a half now, but my modern decks will ALWAYS be there for me to pick up when I once more have the time.

I DO do something similar though. I dust virtually everything from certain classes i have no interest in ever playing(war, shaman, pally, hunter). 90%+ of my games are warlock anyway(I’ve been loyal to my class for over a decade, counting WoW)

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Illidari, Just noticed, except for pally, it’s horde classes you dislike :stuck_out_tongue:
Last year I did excactly what the op said, dusted most of my rotating cards except for iceblock and portal.
This year is diferent tho, not only will I not dust my rotating cards but I just crafted an extra wild deck.Yes, right before rotation.
Im more and more losing interest in standard which leads to increased interest for wild, and the fact that there ain’t gonna be many things you can play after rotation adds on it.

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No.

:thinking:
:man_teacher:t3:
:no_good_man:t3:

And I also finally spent gold and opened Karazhan.

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To all the people abovve me that are considering to dust their whole collection.
Then try to reconsider by reading the topic below

My oppinion within this topic:

This is a good advice, if the reason is that people dust their collection because they only play standard then what is the reason you only play standard ?, i assume that they dont have much wild cards because of the dusting each time.
Dusting cards would be equal to shooting yourself in the foot.

, i play this game for quite the amount and i play both wild and standard each month, wild has way more fun in it since thee are so many decks.

Ofcourse i play standard more after the rotation but after 1-2 months we have seen most of the decks.
Its just 135 cards being added so even maybe after 2 weeks we have seen most optimised decks again

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I’ll likely do it with some gold cards, or those I know I’ll never play, but otherwise, I like to keep a large collection.

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I think it depends on where you are in your Hearthstone life, the first year you play, it might be a great idea to dust those cards, to start rotation with enough resources and knowledge to take better advantage of the up coming year, and that should be enough buffer to have a strong start to build a good collection, after that yeah, you should keep as much as you can.

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But I like my collection.

I’m hording cards because I just don’t like disenchanting anything lol

Plus I’m holding for the outside chance that Barnes gets nerfed (probably more chance of seeing a pig fly) and I’ll hope back into wild…

Some people might find that a little strange but I dislike that card soooo much that I would rather avoid a whole game mode rather than face it every so often.
No point making myself tilted so I just avoid it.

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im f2p and ive always done this. youll miss out on a tavern brawl now and then though because getting a win without wild cards is…difficult. ive kept a lot of priest, hunter and mage cards though. this rotation ill be keeping all cards for those classes.

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I dust all wild cards at every rotation and have done since the initial wild/standard split.

I am always usually really happy when the rotation happens because I know I will never see particular stupid cards ever again.

Eg. I hate jade mechanics.

And for this rotation, I am looking forward to seeing the last of certain death knights.

Also, it gives me 20k dust~ every year to play with. I still have about 5k dust from last year’s rotation. The additional unexpected flushing down the toilet of divine favour, odd/even cards and doomguard is just extra icing on a beautiful cake.

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At least save the cards from your favorite classes. Disenchant wild cards from classes you don’t play.
Bad or golden cards you’ll most likely never play should be a safe disenchant as well.

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If you play brawl or wild then dont dust cards.

Is this rainfall btw,its a nice bait post.

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Probably not, because i prefer playing wild, but if i was in a financial situation where i could not spend money on HS, i would do the same.