Yes! I play in the toilet while taking an epic dump

Uncle advice,

Few ways to quickly learn the ropes:

1. Play with the AI, get familiar yourself with the game and card mechanics
2. Watch on youtube how some of the Pro players play. Recommended players to watch are Husky, Cripp, TotalBiscuit, Trump, Artosis, Day[9]
3. Read feedback and deck idea from Heartstone's official forum and other sites like hearthstoneplayers.com, www.hearthpwn.com
4. For Arena players, I recommend watch TotalBiscuit's Lord of the Arena series and read Trump's Arena card ranking http://ihearthu.com/trumps-arena-card-rankings/
5. Go checkout http://www.hearthhead.com/ to read what each card does and read the comments/critics, get a feel how good each card is
6. Mess around with some of the deck ideas, and experiment what works for you or with what cards you have at your disposal
7. Lastly, have fun!

Add me to list

jaychow/ MajorChow#1239 / The Americas / Random

I play with all 9 classes to get a feel of each class mechanics, current fave is Hunter an Pally as I like critter rush decks.

I was running this deck, its a Masters level budget beasty rush deck and give me good wins. If you got better cards, can stick in a legendary Hogger or King Krush.
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/9793019838

There's an article in Forbes suggesting the open beta may occur in November after Blizzcon, so anytime soon. And yeah its gonna Blizz's new cash cow
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/201...-next-cash-cow/

Would suggest play all as you'll get a feel how the different heroes deck play style like and know how to deal with them when other players play against you. This is must do especially Arena where you are given random hero and cards to pick with. Also playing all heroes to level 10 net you free 100 gold as well as all the hero basic cards, so thats an incentive.

For Play mode which you build your own deck, pick hero(s) or deck style you like or best built with the limited cards you have. Your deck should 'flow' meaning all the cards come out easily each turn when and where you want it, and synergy where cards can combo off with each other. Good example I recommend is the hunter deck in the earlier thread. This part you have to focus due to your limited resources (cards and dust) to build the best few decks that suit your play style, in particular early on when you start building you library of cards.

I not guru la... just a lil more experienced and spending too much money/time on this type of hobby

Your situation is called overextending, meaning used up your cards too much and too soon in mid game then jammed up. Video to explain below for your learning/viewing pleasure

HS: Don't overextend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkbd_HwlFaM
HS: Overextending and strategy to conserve cards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u-nOnPShiU

General ideas for most decks (in Play or Arena)

1. Check your deck mana curve, you should have majority 3 or 4 casting cost cards, and half of that for 0-2 and 5+ casting cost, so its like a bell shape. But again depend on deck strategy (e.g. druid can innervate and wild growth, so you can 'afford' more 5-6 casting cost cards)
2. Card advantage is big, so pick cards that draw more cards or have 1 for 2 benefits (e.g. novice engineer, loot hoarder, azure drake etc)
3. Starting hand card selection is a big win/lose factor. Generally you don't want casting cost more than 4 on your first hand draw (unless those are your key combo cards)
4. Always have some AoE (area of effect) spell to wipe the board, such as holy nova, consecrate, twisting nether, etc. This can be game changer in any deck setting.
5. Have 1 or 2 badass finishers (e.g. stormwind champion, ancient of war, etc) in your deck for late game, as you don't want to be drawing a 1/1 card when you could die the next turn.

its a cantrip card, and its agree its abit overrated when you have choices. But for deck building with limited cards or beginners new into this game its pretty decent.

Yeap, of course the legendary cantrip is Thalnos ... 2 in 1 teh tarik action:
Kobold Geomancer (2 mana 2/2 +1sp)
Novice Engineer (2 mana 1/2 draw a card)

No embedded viruses yeah ... after gold/dust/cards go missing and end up in your account

On its own Thalnos is not an obvious pick for most people but he's a hidden combo gem for any decks running 6 or more spell damage cards. Few times this guy was ignored early on and help me wipe board with starfall later, simply because no one cares for a 1/1 plus killing it give you a card advantage (so it replace itself with a new card if killed). Its also a good bait card for those who realise how dangerous this guy is. IMHO a must have for spelldecks builds.

Thats a sweet card against slowporks

GG! decklist please.

Take out
abusive sergeant
windfury
Thrallmar farseer
booty bay bodyguard x1
darkscale healer

stick in
Bloodlust
Senjin shieldmasta
feral spirit
lightning storm x2

Sheildmasta is a solid taunter, usually trade 2 for 1 cards to take him out in early game, run 2 if possible, same goes to feral spirits, a 1 for 2 card! Bloodlust many times win games for me as all your totems come alive and becomes +3 attack shock troopers ftw. Lightning storm perhaps is the cheapest AoE in the game with 3 costing mana, and the overload is negligible in mid to end game. Good luck!

yeap.. all the toothpicks become beatsticks for those not prepared

I think lorewalker cho has potential for some crazy stuff, got deck ideas on this ?

Oh noz... maintenance day Now I remember why I hate Tuesday when WoW goes offline

goo news its back online earlier than expected!