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What if Demon Hunter Was a Temporary Class?

A recent Iksar Q&A revealed that Demon Hunter was meant to potentially be a temporary addition to Standard at some stage in development. With almost two years since the class’ original release, how is it shaping up as a permanent part of the Hearthstone roster then? With hindsight, would it have been better to follow […]

Fractured in Alterac Valley Was Supposed to Promote Slower Strategies. Has That Come to Pass?

After the dominance of Questline decks in United in Stormwind and the lack of viable slow and control-oriented archetypes, Team 5 member Celestalon has gone on record in a Twitter post stating that the design team’s explicit goal was to “make slower strategies viable” in the new set. With the second batch of nerfs slated […]

From Burglary to White-Collar Crime: The History of Thief Rogue

It took many years and multiple iterations, but Thief Rogue has finally emerged from meme status to the top dog of the metagame. What kind of cards did it take to get us there, what were its previous failures and what does this all tell us about Hearthstone’s card design? Let’s enter the vault and […]

Hearthstone in 2021: A Year in Review

The Year of the Gryphon has brought along a wide variety of new modes and elements to the game, but has it lived up to the expectations in a year of unprecedented disruptions? Core Set: A Long-Overdue Decision Team 5 finally took a page out of the MTG developers’ playbook and introduced a […]

Too Much Of Everything: How Warlock Became The Degenerate Class

Having tons of cheap card draw options, extremely mana-efficient heals, and the ultimate resource-cheating option in Tamsin Roame, there’s little Warlock can’t do right now in terms of non-interactive combo finishers. How did we get here, and is there a way out? Tamsin’s Troubles Of […]