I would love to have an invisible rank option (for myself.) I play ladder mostly for the tavern pass rewards. I love experimenting with off-meta decks. I don’t care about my rank in the sense that I’m not seeking to climb – and it would be a really nice feature to be able to turn it off and be surprised at the end of a season where I landed.
Players could enable / disable visibility at will. This would not hurt anyone who likes seeing their rank but it would give players like myself who enjoy playing with lots of different decks to still earn tavern experience and not have an unwanted metric popping up on their screen.
Not to be a jerk but then what’s it matter? Besides, hiding your rank will not blind you to your wins and losses – inadvertently giving you an idea where your rank is at anyway.
Jokes on you, I forgot to switch from casual to ladder once and after a huge winstreak I was like “how is it possible that I haven’t ranked up yet?” 
The feature of hiding your own rank would make the game faster (less animations), but I find it pointless tbh.
I don’t care about the rank either
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Killuminati, I don’t think you’re being a jerk. Maybe saying I don’t care about it was misleading. I do find it to be disappointing after a whole bunch of losses in a row. I’m human and it can be discouraging, especially when you are experimenting, which I do all the time.
I’m not trying to be a jerk either when I say don’t know why anyone would object to an optional enhancement. It has no impact on ladder at all. It would just be at an individual’s preference. I think we have all been there when it would be nice to just turn off rank. And I know you can just go to casual – and I would – but then I miss out on tavern experience.
Whether or not developers would have any interest / time / bandwidth to program this is another story and I get it…just an idea.
That’s the issue here, from a developer standpoint that’s a complete waste of time when there’s millions of features that could be more useful than that.
It took them years to implement random card back and a few extra years to have the heroes added and it’s still bugged in modes like Arena.
I can’t remember if Streamer Mode (ctrl + shift + s on PC) does this during a match. It doesn’t do so between matches, so no help there.
But if seeing your Rank bothers you that much, seriously consider playing Casual instead. You still complete quests like in Ranked (except the weekly Ranked one obviously) and earn XP for the Rewards Track.
I am all for enhancing various aspects of the game, namely QoL updates. The reason I am having trouble understanding the purpose of this suggestion is because despite hiding rank, you cannot hide the outcome of your matches. So, even if implemented, you’ll still have an idea what your rank is anyway. You’ll have an idea as to your overall win-loss ratio, even with your rank hidden. For this reason it seems unnecessary.
This isn’t a point against you but mostly in your defense. What I’d argue against the idea that resources should be spent on X (say a suggestion like this) or Y is that they’re not mutually exclusive efforts. Different teams do different things. It’s like saying we should focus on feeding the poor and drop all we’re doing to help non-human animals in crisis. We can do both.
All due respect to everyone who responded, I’m simply offering a suggestion that
I would like and that I thought others might be interested in. You don’t know until you bring up an idea.
As to concerns over a development team’s resources, I write programming memos for a large insurance company for a living. I work constantly with IT. This is a pretty simple screen display on / off option enhancement. I’m well aware of development teams’ time limitations, Bee, which I did mention in my earlier post.
People are welcome to disagree, and from this small sample this isn’t something people seem to want. All well and good.
Wishing everybody fun in the game. Thanks for the responses.
How about branching this idea out into a customizable user interface? This is one (of the many) the great things about FFXIV. The game allows you to do a ton of UI customization without downloading a bunch of add-ons (like WoW requires).
Hiding rank could be one of the many things optional to players.
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As I am a legend & a star at the same time, I don’t play for rank in heartstone anymore, i treat games like girls u see, once I reach the top rank once in a game, I no longer have use for it anymore.