I’ve recently broken my arm (limiting my ability to play PS4 games) and so am returning to Hearthstone as my primary video game. Since the Year of the Dragon is nearly upon us and several expansions will be rotating out of the standard format, I’m searching for a deck that doesn’t rely on cards from retiring sets. I have 12,075 dust. Obviously, there is no sure fire way to guarantee what will be competitive when the new expansion arrives. But I’m hoping to hold on to at least half of my dust while crafting cards for my interim deck that will be available in standard play for at least a year. Any help would be much appreciated as the scope of activities I can participate in has narrowed substantially. In a perfect world I’d just save my dust till next week. Alas. I’ve preordered Rise of Shadows so I’ll just hope luck is with me. If it helps, I’m partial to Paladin, Priest, and Shaman and tend towards preferring control decks.
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I did figure this might be the case due to the overwhelming number of competitive decks that use Odd and Even mechanics. I really wish Blizzard would make retired cards universally available (since they have no market value nor value to the more popular standard format) - especially since the season officially ended on the 27th. This was a terribly inconvenient time in Hearthstone to break a limb. Thank you for the prompt response and well wishes.
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Like you, I’d probably have to have my arms broken in order to get me to return to Hearthstone. I check in every couple of months to see if anything has changed. The game seems to be geared more and more towards children.
Secret Paladin looks like it will remain viable after the xpac; it will just need some minor changes, and it’s a relatively cheap deck to craft, so you could start there.
Cheap current archetypes that are getting good support in the next Xpac are Secret Paladin and Zoo Warlock.
Edit: Odd warrior is very strong right now if you want a control deck. You get a full refund for crafting Baku and Dr. Boom is a great long-term craft if you want to do control.
I don’t know about before but after there is this list on this website.
Every deck has today and every day turn 5 Zilliax.
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But they handed out a free cheat card today for Paladins. Archmage Vargoth.
toss out your guaranteed secrets you get on turn 1 and 2 for protection along with you Secret Keepers. Now even though the card says cast a spell randomly and the spell you cast says A MINION. I have yet to see the spells cast on enemy minions. So you get back to back to back Spikesteeds, Blessing of the Kings, Bell buffs.
Playing against a Paladin who has 2 12/20s on the board turn 6 and got both auto defense secrets all in under 10 cards.
So you know what they say, you dont have to have skill you just have to know how the RNG works.