Just finished Heroic Black Rock Mountain! Woop woop! Wow the struggle.
Think the biggest misconception lower level players have is that a good deck requires legendary cards.
No, some good decks use legendary cards. Others don't. The only legendary you might find in a Warlock Zoo deck is maybe Loatheb? Which is a legendary card that comes standard with purchase of Curse of Naxxarams. There isn't a single legendary card you'd use in Face Hunter, outside of potentially Leeroy Jenkins.
That's two decks that can get you to rank "Legendary" (The highest rank in Hearthstone) if you play it well. Low dust cost, beginner player friendly.
The step up from that would be mid range aggro decks, which would be like Mech Mage, which doesn't require a legendary but performs better if you have Archmage Antoinadas, which is of course one legendary.
So yeah, if you want to use a control warrior deck, you'll need epics like Brawl, and legendary like Alexstraza, Dr.Boom, Grommash Hellscream, Sylvannas, etc. etc. and that's extremely expensive. But you get what you pay for: a deck like that is absurdly consistent, has been meta every season, and offers a ton of decision making. That deck would cost as much as a TCG deck would if you wanted to be at the higher levels of play.
Still, I value normal packs over Blackrock Mountain. Naxx is a must to play hearthstone, but blackrock mountain had few cards that are of real big worth. I've purchased both expansions, and have probably spent ~$400 on packs, and I have essentially every card in the game. Certainly I have the cards to make the exact deck any professional uses of any class in any tournament (Outside of not having Edwin van Cleef for weird combo rogue decks...), and that's sort of my point. I don't have just a professional level deck, I have all of them with that money. And that's a lot cheaper than any Magic the Gathering sort of situation.
Last edited by Bodhisattva; May 29, 2015 at 05:33 PM.