I thought it would be very helpful to have a thread where people can post things related to competitive Hearthstone.

Things that this includes:

• Guides
  
• Decklists
  
• Tournament Discussion
  
• Tips for playing well

Things that this does not include:

• "Fun" decks that do well at rank 19
  
• Why "Competitive Hearthstone" is an oxymoron
  
• Which deck is the current cancer
  
• Crying about RNG

Here's a few helpful resources:

• Icy Veins - Guides and Decklists: http://www.icy-veins.com/hearthstone/
  
• Hearthpwn - Guides and Decklists: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks
  
• r/competitivehs - Collection of Guides and Articles: https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveHS/

A guide a recently read through was all about how to effectively practice hearthstone to improve as a player, either as a new player or an older player experiencing a plateau.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveHS/comments/54h7zf/how_to_practice_hearthstone_the_guide/

To summarize, the author's main points were:

1) Hearthstone is game of making connections between board states and how you and your opponent will react to them
2) "Skill" in Hearthstone revolves around being able to predict what your opponent will do for each possible play in order to make plays that they will not be able to answer
3) To practice effectively, we have to target one area of our game that needs work, e.g. predicting an opponent's turns 1-4 or making assumptions about what cards are in their deck, and focus on improving that.
4) To improve the focus area, we should do a combination of learning from our previous practice sessions, watching the top players and see if we make similar decisions, and then play games to get first-hand practice.


Hopefully this thread can help both new, and experienced players.

This post was edited by Mastersam93 on Sep 27 2016 03:08pm

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There is a weekly HS tourney that I attended last week with bo3 conquest format with 1 ban. Last week I took renolock, midrange hunter, dragon warrior. Every single match I play warrior was banned and I also banned shaman every possible chance. I ended up getting 4th place. I want to experiment with different deck lists, so I'm curious if anyone has any advice on a 3 deck rotation they have used or might use in a similar format.

ISO : what counters aids shaman and cancer hunter simultaneously

Last tournament i went experimenting mode, brought reno mage, otk warrior, token druid and control shaman, i was going to ban shaman>hunter>rogue because i built my decks to do reasonably well against warriors. In the upper bracket finals i got hardcore fiesta'd by my opponent (3-1), then in the lower bracket i was too tired and nihilistic to concentrate and got steamrolled (3-0). So in the end i finished 3rd but it was a really cool experience, and showed clearly that ppl dont expect 'exotic' decks in tournaments (i won all my matches 3-0 or 3-1 before the semi finals).

A good resource for finding what deck counters what is the Vicious Syndicate Data Reaper Report. The current one says that the nothing currently has favorable matchups against every type of hunter and every type of shaman.

http://www.vicioussyndicate.com/vs-data-reaper-report-19/
http://www.vicioussyndicate.com/matchup-chart-data-reaper-report/