This is my personnal opinion and I needed to speak.
I’m an old school F2P player, who played since Nax extention. Back since the game was very good and still pretty strategic. Still I was not a ranked climber but more of a Arena player.
But nowaday, the game is became crap. And I’m far to be the only one thinking that.
For at least 2 years, blizzard slowly destroyed it. Cause they smell the money they can make, the pre-command make to 20 to 80€
First, the rotation which make a huge part of your collection useless.
Then new extention that bring more and more cards way more powerfull then before, wich they release more and more frequently so the card became more OP quicker.
Then they added more RNG to the game cause its “fun” you know ?
And now the free gold from quest is hugely reduce
Now this game is a “fun” game with absolute no strategy in it, everey single card is so strong individually that every class can have absolute broken decks. So the win depend way more on what you draw. And that’s for the ones that can pay to get a decent collection. That’s without talking on cards that depends on RNG way more present now.
Blizzard reduced the quality of this game to make it more attractive and make the players more attracted to pay.
I don’t even know why i’m still playing it, maybe nostalgy.
Sorry this just needed to go out, that’s my personnal view.
But a sure thing, if you want to play a competitive strategic card game, find another one, cause HS is no more one.