Hi! I have been thinking about reinstalling hearthstone, after not having played for a few years.
Is it possible to play without dropping a bunch of money at the start? I have no cards after frozen throne.
What is the meta like at this point?
Edit: thanks for your reactions! I'll play a few games these coming days, and I'll decide if I want to keep playing after the nerfs.
Posted Dec 17, 2019, 10:32 PM UTC · edited
There's a legendary called whizbang that straight up gives you a random deck start of game based on the current deck recipes so that would be a good place to start if you want to play standard.
While I too love [[Whizbang]] very much, it will unfortunately rotate into Wild in April, so new/returning players shouldn't craft it at this point unless they wish to play it in wild format (not recommended).
Yes, but it is possible, but it’s not like you’ll be able to return and do anything you want. You’ll need to complete dailies, and it might take a few months to catch up without spending. If you’re willing to accept that, you should have no problem.
In April, 3 sets are rotating out, so I would be working for the next few months towards then— collecting 6 sets of card is hard.
As for meta, a set launched last week, and nerfs are coming this week, so it’s a little unknown.
Also consider playing wild, where you’ll have more cards.
You should check out battlegrounds too
If you had alot of cards pre frozen throne then you could easily get back into it, I can back about a year ago and was only instested in playing standard and arena so I disenchanted all my wild cards and had like 15k dust which is enough to make 2-3 tier 2 decks or 1 Highlander deck lol
You are probably rank 25, just install it and build a wild secret mage deck without the legendaries (~1100 dust), hit legend this week and consider staying around for the other game modes ;)
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/wild-secret-mage-17/ but replace the weapon and iceblock with 2 x arcane intellect. Ez rank 5 or legend if you practice!
You can always just play Wild. You can use your old cards there and there are some good cheap decks.
Standard is Shamanstone atm till the nerf comes in like a few days.
There's also a brand new f2p mode called Battlegrounds that is extremely fun and easy to learn.