r/hearthstone 22h ago

Discussion New and Returning Player Weekly Discussion

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This weekly discussion is designed so that everybody may ask any and all questions regarding the game's mechanics, decks, strategies, and more.

Are you an experienced player, or have you picked up some knowledge along the way? Please help out by offering your opinions and best answers!

Please keep it clean and add more than just a one or two word response. Keep in mind not everything will have a 'best' answer.

Check out our wiki for answers to some common questions and links to terrific community resources about deck ideas, card info, and news!

See previous week's discussions.


r/hearthstone Dec 03 '25

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r/hearthstone 11h ago

Community My N’Zoth handmade mug

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r/hearthstone 8h ago

Meme Why did Blizzard release this card. Are they stupid? It clearly breaks the rules of this game.

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438 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 1h ago

Competitive I am absolutely sick of playing against Priest

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This is my last 40 games at ranked. 40% against this one class. I don't care how good or how bad they are at any given time, they will never not be the most annoying class to play against. The longest class to play against. Time to finally introduce a class veto for Standard.


r/hearthstone 8h ago

News Reminder to claim your free rare from Battle.net store

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122 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 7h ago

Fluff Is he shy?

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93 Upvotes

This leper gnome is weirdly croped. Is he shy or did the small indy company make a oepsie.


r/hearthstone 7h ago

News Blizzcon Twitch drops - Sept. 12.-13.

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67 Upvotes

More info: https://blizzcon.com/en-us/viewership-guide/

The golden pack is nice.


r/hearthstone 58m ago

Arena I just went 12-0 with Death Knight!

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This was a fun run! I think starting at 9-0 I only started facing Warriors

Unfortunately I couldn't easily screencap the decklist on mobile (I swear I play in english on desktop lol). I did start by picking the Death Wing Hero and got 2 each of the 5 and 6-cost Heralds. No 4-cost Herald sadly, but the aoe spell was exceptionally great.

What also helped a lot was the annoying 1/1 3-drop with reborn that summons a taunt (and scamming with Dark Gifts or the 5-Mana Summon 3 4-drops of course)

Sorry that I can't recall any of the names, just wanted to share my happiness rq. I'll definitely use the skin just for bragging rights!!

This is actually my first flawless arena achievement. I feel like I played most of my arena runs before achievements were added, but not sure how many from the past could've been added to that count. (And if duels was still around I probably wouldn't have even gotten this achievement)


r/hearthstone 3h ago

News September event schedule overview

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r/hearthstone 8h ago

Discussion Which card's voice line lives rent free in your head?

74 Upvotes

And why is it... Who am I? None of your business. Stop asking questions.


r/hearthstone 7h ago

Discussion Unpopular Opinion - I think Pirate Warrior is a healthy main boss to have in the meta game

46 Upvotes

Does the deck have some serious gas? Sure, but it's gameplan is so linear and there are a ton of tools out there in pretty much all classes to work with and push metagame into a decent spot. Work in some early high health minions, removal, and taunts...I promise it is counterable.


r/hearthstone 9h ago

Wild Came back after years of being away and bagged this golden Queen

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51 Upvotes

Playing a steal deck with this in wild has been so much fun as I've gotten to try out so many others decks and cards that there is no feasible way I could afford to play with now.

I know that people don't love this card, but it has been so much fun getting to actually experience lots of variety in this game since coming back, so I'm sorry if this has driven you nuts recently. I don't even get mad when half my deck gets deleted by the little 5-cost robot because I can just requeue and have another fun, completely unique game!


r/hearthstone 9h ago

News 8951 (-11%) fewer players reached Legend this month (ex. CN) | This many Players reached Legend in August 2026 + Some other Stats & Graphics

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Hey, it's neon31 from Hearthstone-Decks.net here.

On the first of each month, we review the number of players who reached Legend, and some of you may be interested to know that we also have an article on the website featuring a more detailed overview of the past months.

If you are interested in learning how long it takes to reach Legend, check out this article - if you got, for example, a 10 Star Bonus and expect a 59% Winrate, you'll need, on average, 110 games. We include our graphics, both those that include and those that exclude China.

Summary

Including CN: Compared to the previous month, we got -10% fewer Legend Players (281k to 253k)

Excluding CN: Compared to the previous month, we got -11% fewer Legend Players (82k to 73k)

Standard went from 194k to 168k (-13%)

Wild went from 87k to 85k (-3%)

How many Players reach Legend?

(WITH CN) This graphic shows how the numbers of Legend Players have changed over time.
(Without CN) This graphic shows how the numbers of Legend Players have changed over time.

Legend Players: Comparing the Servers

(With CN) This graphic shows how many Players reach Legend on the different servers.
(Without CN) This graphic shows how many Players reach Legend on the different servers.

Legend Players: Comparing the Formats

(WITH CN) This graphic shows how many Players reach Legend on the different formats.
(Without CN) This graphic shows how many Players reach Legend on the different formats.

Legend Players: Comparing the Years

(With CN) This graphic shows how many Players reached Legend compared to the previous year.
(Witout CN) This graphic shows how many Players reached Legend compared to the previous year.

Detailed Numbers (Vs previous month)

Standard Wild
NA: 14766 vs 16883 NA: 5317 vs 5437
EU: 26190 vs 30741 EU: 7373 vs 7587
Asia: 13689 vs 15487 Asia: 6031 vs 6182
China: 113097 vs 130619 China: 66223 vs 67939
Total /w CN: 167742 vs 193730 Total /w CN: 84944 vs 87145
Total w/o CN: 54645 vs 63111 Total w/o CN: 18721 vs 19206

Detailed Numbers (Vs previous year)

You asked for it, so here is a simple & quick look at the raw data vs the previous year as well!

Standard Wild
NA: 14766 vs 15399 NA: 5317 vs 4917
EU: 26190 vs 24205 EU: 7373 vs 8019
Asia: 13689 vs 14928 Asia: 6031 vs 3751
China: 113097 vs 183385 China: 66223 vs 117501
Total /w CN: 167742 vs 237917 Total /w CN: 84944 vs 134188
Total w/o CN: 54645 vs 54532 Total w/o CN: 18721 vs 16687

r/hearthstone 19h ago

Discussion Blizzard Punished Me For Their Mistake

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Hello, I don’t post at all but wanted to come to the forum to get advice on how to fix this.

I purchased the latest mini-set and was charged $39.98 instead of the normal $19.99 somehow. It showed up on my cc statement as $39.98, in my Apple Pay (I play mobile) as $39.98, but the app said I paid $19.99.

I reached out to the Blizzard helpdesk and was sent copy/paste responses that basically told me it wasn’t their fault and to take it up with Apple.

So I did - I went to Apple and they said talk to your credit card. The credit card asked what I should’ve paid and corrected it to $19.99. I thought I was done.

I logged in today to find I had the cards still but over 7k in negative dust.

Blizzard sent me an email saying they saw the chargeback and that I need to buy the set again. I still paid the $19.99 and can see it now corrected in my online cc statement but Blizzard basically made it impossible to ever craft a card again.

For a billion dollar + company this is atrocious. For any company really, but especially one that is awash in cash. I’ve played for over a decade and spent hundreds of dollars.

Any advice on how to get their attention to fix this? I know it’s only $20 but I feel like if I drop it I feed right into their hands. Plus nowadays $20 is a lot given prices for everything else.

Please help with any advice or if this is something you’ve seen before and what you did to fix it.


r/hearthstone 5h ago

Discussion Is there any design space that feels oddly underused by the game?

14 Upvotes

Lets start with my example:

There is, as far as I can tell, currently only 2 cards that have conditions where you can choose from multiple methods of fullfilling it, namely [[Bounty Wrangler]] and [[Storm the Gates]].

Feels like there is much room to design cards that have conditions that can be achieved through multiple routes. For instance mana thirst effects that can be achieved earlier under certain circumstances or something that both a spell focussed deck and a minion focussed deck can achieve in their own way. Or even a choose one quest that lets you pick the criteria at the start of the game.


r/hearthstone 7h ago

Fluff What are the odds?

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13 Upvotes

r/hearthstone 4h ago

Wild Came back after 10 years

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I stopped playing shortly after the split to wild and standard. Last week i decided to get back in and ive hit diamond 5 in under a week, mostly with this "control odyn warrior" that cost me under 2K dust to craft with score 92-34. Im confident i will hit legend this month, but i am looking for improvements since i dont know the meta all that well.

Id like to stay on wild so i can use my old cards, but i have around 9k dust to spare. I dont want any tempo/secret mages etc, i like good old slow control decks where you have to actually think and not just all face. The game changed majorly, but from gold to diamond i was playing against three types of decks.


r/hearthstone 13h ago

Discussion Even if the win rates are relatively balanced, the actual gameplay feels like it offers very little player agency.

31 Upvotes

The outcome of many games seems to depend heavily on whether you draw specific cards in the mulligan and whether you go first or second. Once the game actually starts, it often feels like the result plays itself out almost automatically.

If you only look at overall win rates, this might appear to be a healthy and well-balanced metagame. But in practice, it often feels less like you're making meaningful decisions and more like you're simply competing over the result of a coin flip.


r/hearthstone 1d ago

Pack Best pack ever?

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314 Upvotes

Emmmm is this rare!


r/hearthstone 10h ago

Discussion Torch is OP

19 Upvotes

Also the artwork is NSFW


r/hearthstone 5h ago

Discussion This game runs like absolute garbanzo (constant connection issues)

6 Upvotes

Can somebody tell me what the hell happened to the client? I haven't played for 2 weeks and now suddenly I can't discover 1 card without severe connection issues anymore. And it won't reconnect me automatically, but instead I should restart the game manually just to be able to navigate my turn properly and without game skipping it entirely.

Again, I have no internet issues, I'm playing on pc with good connection, but somehow hearthstone doesn't really work properly. Does anyone else also having connection issues with the game?


r/hearthstone 2h ago

Highlight I love Well Rogue

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4 Upvotes

The Libram Paladin died.


r/hearthstone 1d ago

Discussion P2W Skin bug report

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413 Upvotes

Duality Azshara activates when the user gets below 15hp which happens on opponents turn, once you do the damage the transformation makes the hero untargetable (similar to stealth from Cloak of Shadows) until animation finishes. Effectively this makes it impossible to queue new spells until all the queued cards+transformation has finished, this can cost the enemy player even up to 15 seconds. P2W garbage company
(screenshot as an example where this happened to me)


r/hearthstone 1h ago

Discussion First time a returning Shop Bundles got reduced?

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I don't really care, but if someone bought the bundle before it would really ashame for the ecosystem of the shop! Maybe just lower all prices.

Hope some people, that got baited by fomo, get more aware of what they are spending money on and many also people that bought it before should send tickets to get 1000 runestones back. I don't remember if this happened before.