Still no gifting until friends for X amount of time?

With the new treasure excavation I thought about the “Treasure Goblin” again. The idea is to play some sort of meme deck that is like fooling around with random cool stuff but it’s probably not really going anywhere. If the opponent defeats the Treasure Goblin (me) I would drop some “awesome loot” on them. Last time I checked though it wasn’t possible because for some strange reason you needed to be friends with someone for a certain amount of time to gift them stuff. Is that still the case? Not sure how much and often I would do it, but I think it would be really fun every so often. I also like making new friends and what better way to start than this, right? I know HS is not much of a social game, but… yeah, I really wish it would be since it’s my favorite game.