News:

Disguised Toast gets banned for 4 days for exploiting

Apparently someone shared a bug with DT that involved doing something that caused your opponent to rope indefinitely in wild. Then if you closed the client and opened it back up you got a free win.  He tried it in stream to see if it worked in Standard

Bug where you could survive with Armor at 0 HP has been hotfixed.  (source)

Latest Update is live:

Deck Importing – It’s now possible to copy and import Hearthstone decklists.

Copy a deck by selecting the hero portrait at the top in the collection and press the copy button

If you copy a decklist, Hearthstone will recognize it and ask if you want to import it.

Questing with Friends – Most quests can now be completed during Friendly Challenges with friends from your friend’s list.

June cardback added – The Magic of Dalaran

When viewing “Pick a Replacement” from a deck recipe or imported decklist, the ghosted card on the left will now take you directly to Crafted mode.

Golden cards and non-golden cards share a same slot in a decklist.

Ranked wins now go beyond 500 and they updated to show your numbers prior to the update.

Alternate Heroes, like Maiev, will now have golden borders once you get to 500 wins for that Class.

You can drag a golden card out of your Arena deck to “de-goldenize” it.

Deathwing and Bloodmage Thalnos now have entry animations.

Improved the cancel process when casting spells on mobile.  It’s now easier and clearer to do so.

After more than 3 years of playing, Kripp presses the button to disenchant all his extra cards.  Ended up with 662,075 dust!  However, when he pressed the button the game client crashed. His original goal was to save up enough dust to craft an entire golden collection. But with the size of the new expansions, he realized that he wouldn’t be able to do this completely without spending tons of money.  So he decided to just go ahead and press the button.  The interesting thing is that the client shows 659,77 before he started.  Blizzard never anticipated anyone having more than 99,999 dust.

Shaman

In recent weeks we’ve seen an increase in popularity with the Shaman class.  Currently there are really 3 different types of decks that are quite popular.  Those are the Elemental Shaman, Midrange Shaman and the Token Shaman.  Shaman has benefited quite a bit after Un’Goro with the instability of the meta  Un’Goro has created one of the most diverse use of decks across all the classes that we have not seen in the past. In fact, most decks have viable counters preventing them from completely rolling over the rest.

The Token Shaman continues to rise however the competition has started taking notice and the counters are starting to slow its dominance.  The Token Shaman is so strong right now, that it was quite popular at the America’s Playoffs and Kuonet qualified to China using it.  The deck list itself is interesting because just about every version uses the same cards.  There are a few variations but the core list is very good.

The Midrange Shaman is much more diverse and it appears to have started shifting over to more of a Spirit Echo Jade defensive build.

So that brings us to a point of looking more closely at the deck itself and what Un’Goro cards drive this new build.

Standard Token Evolve Shaman

2 x Bloodsail Corsair

2 x Evolve

2 x Fire Fly (Un’Goro)

1 x Patches the Pirate

2 x Devolve

2 x Flametongue Totem

2 x Jade Claws

2 x Malestrom Portal

2 x Primalfin Totem

2 x Mana Tide Totem

2 x Stonehill Defender

2 x Jade Lightning

2 x Bloodlust

2 x Dopplegangster

1 x Aya Blackpaw

2 x Thing from Below

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