which mode should i play?
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Always do the daily quests for gold, always do the weekly tavern brawl for a free pack.
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First off, welcome to the game!
Since youâre asking about modes, Iâm taking it for granted that you have completed the tutorial and have played Standard up through the apprentice ranks. (i.e. you have a rank that says Bronze, Silver, Gold, etc.)
While building your card pool, Standard will be your primary format. Your goal should be to learn the game and build up gold/dust to invest as you see fit. Make sure to complete your daily and weekly quests, as this will help you advance in earning gold, packs, and cards.
Some people also enjoy Arena as it is good for building up your collection of older cards you can use in formats like Wild or Twist. Personally, I prefer to use my gold for packs, but I understand the appeal and have met people who have had better luck than I did in Arena. That said, you also earn passes for free Arena runs as you work through the set progression.
Tavern Brawl is a lot of fun, and you may have seen some quests in your log that want you to play it, but the format changes weekly. This week you are provided with decks so you can play it. Next week, it might be constructed decks so it might be difficult. If the cards allowed are Standard you might be able to steal a few wins. If Wild cards are allowed, maybe swap the âWin 5 Tavern Brawlsâ quest out for a different weekly.
Wild is going to be difficult to get into for quite some time. There are just too many cards youâll have to either craft with dust or gamble your way through opening packs to collect. If you want to get into it down the road, Iâd recommend doing some research on HearthstoneTopDecks or TempoStorm to get a handle on what the staples are and invest some dust when you can afford it. (Again, Arena is also helpful.)
Twist is basically Tavern Brawl except itâs ranked and lasts a month. The first few seasons were inaccessible to new players as they were based entirely on year 1-3 cards. But, the devs are actively trying to get out of that problem. Last season, despite still being Wild, was easier to get into as only common cards were allowed. So new players could easily craft powerful decks for it; my nephew is new to the game and he had lots of fun. This season, wrapping up today, followed a tenth-anniversary theme adding a set each day. So, this week it would have been playable for you, but back at the start of the month not so much. Itâs also not available every month (next season isnât until May), as the devs need extra time to come up with new formats.
Hope this helps!
Oh⊠Also one hot tip.
Right now, most of your matchups are going to be either other newbies or bots (depending on the time of day and whoâs around).
Unless youâre knocking out a quest to play as class X or a specific mechanic, play as Death Knight (may still require completing the Path of Arthas solo campaign). Until your Standard collection is up to where you can build better, it has the best tool kit both out of the box (Core recipes) or to build into (Plaguebringer is playable as high as the Platinum tier on the ladder).
And keep an eye out in the Shop for âCatch-Up Packsâ and expansion minisets. Youâll have to grind your way to 2000 gold to purchase them but the former will fill your collection with legendaries and the latter will give a helpful selection of Standard cards for current expansions.
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I would not bother with this game. This game has become an un-playable mess over the years. I just came back after a few years of hiatus and the first thing i come to when going through the ranked mode were an onslaught of bots with random generated letter names.
When you get past that, you will find people (real humans) who will play combo decks that will kill you in one turn from hand past your max life, have and generate cards that seem to always answer either your board or your decks goal, or will just straight up win from pure random chance. So if your looking for a card game that has a more focus skill than cheap random effects and less power creeping cards, than this game ainât it chief.
Battlegrounds is alright, everyone will be at the mercy of RNG when it comes to finding unique minions and who they fight so itâs a lot more fun than the base game. Although I stopped playing before Hearthstone team decided to super monetize this game mode. Besides that the mode is a nice time killer.
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standard. arena is bad if you donât know cards anyway. build tempo DH deck, its cheap and easy to learn
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The unninstall mode. This game is a rigged joke.
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Iâm amending this comment given the information I didnât have when I wrote itâŠ
If you want a quick and dirty to get into Wild with, invest your dust in the DK cards that went over to Legacy when Core rotated and focus on Frost runes. My deck list is below.
Core DK used to be a solid Unholy rune deck to start out with for Standard, now Iâm not so sure.
That said, the bot farms have apparently responded to Blizzardâs attempts to ban them by doubling their efforts, and itâs become overrun. Iâm seeing more complaints about Wild, but blind guess, Standard has probably been impacted too. Enjoy the free cards/packs from ranking up, is my advice on how to weather the bot storm.
Frost
Class: Death Knight
Format: Wild
2x (0) Horn of Winter
2x (1) Bone Breaker
2x (1) Icy Touch
1x (2) Astalor Bloodsworn
2x (2) Defrost
2x (2) Frost Strike
2x (2) Harbinger of Winter
2x (2) Northern Navigation
2x (3) Asphyxiate
2x (3) Chillfallen Baron
2x (3) Construct Quarter
2x (3) Glacial Advance
2x (3) Hardcore Cultist
2x (3) Howling Blast
2x (3) Nerubian Vizier
1x (3) Prince Renathal
2x (3) Reap What You Sow
2x (4) Might of Menethil
2x (4) Remorseless Winter
2x (6) Marrow Manipulator
2x (7) Frostwyrmâs Fury
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To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Dude⊠I picked the perfect time to teach my nephew the game. Was it two sets back now, when they were giving out the free catchup packs? I feel sorry for people coming in since they stopped doing that.
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Iâd argue the OTK decks are also bots. The playing things a solid 30 seconds into my turn after their fuse should have run out is a dead giveaway. These are a cancer, and not new. Literally, been around since the beginning.
Ignore all the âadviceâ others have offered for this is what you need to do:
Break out the credit card and buy, buy, buy, buy packs and sets. You buy until you have every available card.
That is the Hearthstone way. Once youâve obtained every card and set, you then go to Google and look up Warrior decks (itâs the favored class) and before long, youâll be legend.
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If you grind for what feels like 3 months maybe youâll have enough gold to break into a solo adventure where you can earn cards that may or may not be outdated by 9 years of powercreep since they been added! Just make sure you aim for the Leaguey adventures, otheriwise youâll be forced to make your own deck to fight an impossible foe when you could have rogueliked your way through a story binding of Isaac style.
Didnât they make those cards craftable?
Dont waste your time with this game. Its a total scam. It will only bring you frustration and it will make you waste your precious time. Thank me later.
Duh⊠Itâs a game. Wasting time is the point.
Play to âhave funâ, this game has gone to the head of many, they believe that the universe is obliged to give them explanations and solutions to their frustration⊠donât end up like them 
