Updated Free Decks for New and Returning Players

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The decks awarded to new and returning players have been updated with Patch 25.0! Returning players who have been away for 90 or more days will be eligible for a free deck just for logging in. Returning players will be eligible to claim these returning decks each time they are eligible. New players will be eligible for their free deck after completing the tutorial, the Starter Quest quest chain, graduating from the New Player Ranks (Ranks 40-1), and then returning to the main menu.

Players will get to borrow all these decks for one week following their eligibility, so they can try them all out before making their choice.

It’s possible players may not see their chosen deck in their deck lists if they do not have an open deck slot when they choose their free deck. The cards for the deck (aside from the Core Set cards) will still be added to their Collections. They can clear a deck slot and use the deck codes below to construct the decks. Core Set cards are free to all players and are earned by leveling your account. Cards may be added to, or removed from, the free Core Set from time to time and are not a permanent part of players’ Collections.

Guff’s Guidance
Class: Druid
Ramp your mana with Nourish and Guff to set up for powerful minions to close the game out!
2x (0) Aquatic Form
2x (0) Innervate
2x (1) Dozing Kelpkeeper
2x (1) Druid of the Reef
2x (1) Planted Evidence
2x (2) Attorney-at-Maw
2x (2) Earthen Scales
2x (2) Jerry Rig Carpenter
2x (2) Moonlit Guidance
1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard
1x (3) Prince Renathal
2x (3) Wild Growth
2x (4) Park Panther
2x (4) Widowbloom Seedsman
2x (5) Nourish
2x (5) Spammy Arcanist
1x (5) Wildheart Guff
2x (7) Scale of Onyxia
1x (7) Topior the Shrubbagazzor
2x (8) Miracle Growth
2x (9) Insatiable Devourer
1x (10) Raid Boss Onyxia
1x (10) Sire Denathrius

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Beasts of the Deep
Class: Hunter
Overwhelm your opponent with a combination of Wildseeds and big Beasts to create an unstoppable board!
2x (1) Batty Guest
2x (1) Irondeep Trogg
2x (1) Peasant
2x (1) Tracking
2x (2) Doggie Biscuit
2x (2) Frenzied Fangs
2x (2) K9-0tron
2x (2) Selective Breeder
2x (2) Spirit Poacher
2x (3) Harpoon Gun
1x (3) Prince Renathal
2x (3) Ramming Mount
2x (3) Wild Spirits
1x (4) Azsharan Saber
1x (4) Blademaster Okani
2x (4) Stormpike Battle Ram
2x (5) Pet Collector
1x (6) Beaststalker Tavish
1x (7) Hydralodon
2x (7) Mountain Bear
2x (9) Insatiable Devourer
1x (9) King Krush
1x (9) Wing Commander Ichman
1x (10) Sire Denathrius

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Magical Mastery
Class: Mage
Magister Dawngrasp has mastered all the spell schools, have you? Cast a series of big spells and then re-cast them with Dawngrasp’s aid.
2x (1) Pelican Diver
2x (2) Amplified Snowflurry
2x (2) Far Watch Post
2x (2) Mailbox Dancer
1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard
2x (3) Nightcloak Sanctum
1x (4) Blademaster Okani
2x (4) Deepwater Evoker
2x (4) Reckless Apprentice
2x (4) School Teacher
1x (4) Varden Dawngrasp
1x (6) Balinda Stonehearth
2x (6) Barbaric Sorceress
2x (6) Grey Sage Parrot
1x (7) Magister Dawngrasp
1x (8) Mordresh Fire Eye
2x (9) Rune of the Archmage
2x (10) Drakefire Amulet

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Jackpot!
Class: Rogue
Generate random cards to try to hit the jackpot! Tess Greymane and Contraband Stash let you double down on powerful cards you get.
2x (0) Preparation
2x (0) Shadowstep
2x (1) Blackwater Cutlass
2x (1) Gone Fishin’
2x (2) Double Cross
2x (2) Jackpot!
1x (2) Maestra of the Masquerade
2x (2) Perjury
2x (2) Reconnaissance
2x (2) Serrated Bone Spike
2x (2) Tooth of Nefarian
1x (2) Vanessa VanCleef
2x (3) Ghastly Gravedigger
1x (3) Prince Renathal
2x (4) Private Eye
2x (4) Swiftscale Trickster
2x (5) Contraband Stash
1x (5) Queen Azshara
2x (5) Sprint
2x (5) Wildpaw Gnoll
1x (6) Crabatoa
1x (7) Tess Greymane
1x (8) Shadowcrafter Scabbs
1x (10) Sire Denathrius

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Impfused with Power
Class: Warlock
Swarm the board with Imps to power up your cards! Imp King Rafaam will resurrect and empower your Imps to close out the game.
2x (1) Flame Imp
2x (1) Flustered Librarian
2x (1) Grimoire of Sacrifice
2x (1) Voidwalker
2x (1) Wicked Shipment
2x (2) Imp Swarm (Rank 1)
2x (2) Impending Catastrophe
2x (2) Vile Library
2x (3) Fiendish Circle
2x (3) Imp Gang Boss
2x (4) Mischievous Imp
2x (4) Murlocula
2x (5) Shady Bartender
1x (6) Dreadlich Tamsin
1x (6) Imp King Rafaam
1x (6) Sylvanas, the Accused
1x (10) Sire Denathrius

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Embrace the Pain
Class: Warrior
No pain, no gain is the motto for this Warrior deck! Damage your own minions to empower them and overwhelm your opponent.
2x (1) Beaming Sidekick
2x (1) Dredger Staff
2x (1) Irondeep Trogg
2x (1) Sanguine Depths
2x (1) Warsong Envoy
2x (2) Anima Extractor
2x (2) Crazed Wretch
2x (2) Crooked Cook
2x (2) Cruel Taskmaster
2x (2) Injured Tol’vir
1x (3) Acolyte of Pain
2x (3) Imbued Axe
1x (3) Rokara
2x (3) Weapons Expert
2x (4) Whirling Combatant
1x (6) Decimator Olgra
1x (7) Rokara, the Valorous

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Enjoy, and we’ll see you in the Tavern!

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There is something wrong with the system if the decks can change while players are testing them like happened this time. Imagine playing with a deck a few days, and then suddenly being unable to keep it as promised. There should be a choice between keeping the former, or changing.
Having said that, this decks are quite better on average.

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I thought I’d get the selection to pick from all of the decks I was testing and that they just rotated, so I could test more. I would not necessarily say this selection is better than the last, I was winning a lot of games with that priest deck and DH would have slotted in with my collection perfectly. Now I am looking somewhat forced into picking the druid, some of the others are okay, but I already have picked up a few legendaries from these sets.

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The decks are better on average (dust cost, legendaries, etc), but the selection of classes of course will depend on preferences. I agree Priest and DH decks were good, and were replaced by other classes. There really should be a deck per class as before: it’s really absurd that players that like certain classes are left apart.

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They are not really better in terms of dust value, it’s an almost identical spread of epics and legendaries. It may look better on paper, but actually include a lot of legendaries that are from core set and epics from the track so maybe you are mistaken.

The argument one could make is that they are worse because you can no longer select bless priest, I was having a really good win ratio with that deck and it was only a few cards short of being a top deck as per the VS Syndicate report.

Now I don’t really worry either way, I picked up guff and well it doesn’t help me much right now, but guff is still guff, I will make it work at some point.

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As I said, I understand your frustration with the change and the selection, but the new decks are undeniable far better. It’s easy to see comparing the decks that remains: the Jackpot deck has one non-free legendary more (Crabatoa), and 2 epics (Gravedigger). The Hunter deck has one more legendary (Inchman), and 3 epics (2 Devourers, 2 Wild Spirits, -1 School Teacher).

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It’s not really frustration, I still picked up the same amount of legendaries and epics, just that these epics and legendaries are less useful to me in their current state.

I already had one of these hunter legendaries and I had Scabbs from the rogue one so that makes little difference to me. The priest deck that is no longer there on the other hand is basically 3200 dust off of the best deck in the game, so you could have grabbed it, bought like two legendaries and had the best deck in the game. Whereas with hunter there is a deck there but it costs like 10k extra dust. You cannot just assess on the basis of pure dust value because the bulk of the cards are not ones you would craft and whatever value they have to you is well just that, maybe the legendaries that you don’t think are useful have about 500 dust value, whereas a valuable epic that you would craft is still worth 400 dust, the priest deck had 6 good epics that you would probably craft if you wanted the best deck.

It’s okay though, I realize that with my collection and the new set I’ll be missing 100 rares so I’m just going to retreat to classic mode for a while and play catch ups.

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Why do the “standard” cards not become " Owned"? after they have rotated , they should s till be our cards even if they are standard now, example Tess greymane and vanessa vancleef, these 2 cards DO NOT belong to you even if they “gave” them to you for free, please fix this

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Please fix standard cards not staying in your collection. leave it as is now , not disenchantable, but please give us the cards in general? why do i have to craft these in order to own them if you are “giving” them to me for free

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everyone loses the free core cards that rotate no reason for that to be different for returning players.

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I’ve just realized @GnomeSayin is spelled to sound like “know [what I’m] sayin’”!

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Yup and I just got forced to pick my decks the day before this change so I got stuck with the crappy decks lol

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@GnomeSayin, sorry for being off topic, but can you give us more avatars? With the release of Death Knight, it’d be nice to have some of those.

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It would be nice if players who didn’t play on other servers could take advantage of this.

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@GnomeSayib…

A little off topic, but this is very important to me…

Can someone tell me, was the N’Zoth portrait EXCLUSIVE to the purchase of the Madness at the Darkmoon Faire mega bundle? I’m arguing with other players that it was not exclusive, and therefore, Blizzard can resell it to their heart’s desire.

As someone who purchased this bundle, and loves the portrait, this is very concerning to me. All feedback is welcome.

Thank you. :blush:

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90 days? Was it not 120? Should I wait for next expansion, would i get more value? More standard -last expansion cards?

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It definitely was originally 120 and reduced to 90 days