The only one it really disliked was my Warrior selection, where it threw together cards that presumably do have good win rates, but don’t seem to come together into anything cohesive. I tested out every class with my collection, and it came up with eleven decks that I actually want to take to ladder, somewhere I haven’t really been interested in for many months. It’s essentially formalising the practice of netdecking, but customised to your collection and using complete data in a way that gives Blizzard the edge over the third parties that players have been turning to for as long as Hearthstone has existed. Theoretically, it could somewhat take the fun out of actually trying to come up with new decks, but I’m just not sure that many people did that anyway. Where they would likely encourage crafting extravagant decks to eke out an extra couple of percentages, this new system means I feel like I’m making the best of what I've got on hand, and will be able to challenge the ladder with at least a real shot of, you know, winning some games. That’s a big departure from external websites dedicated to tracking the most ideal combinations of cards. Sometimes that means ignoring them and just making the rest of the deck as powerful as possible, but often it does actually try to play to their strengths. Plus, if you put in a few cards yourself that you know you want to play with, it'll work around them. If you own every card, it’ll simply tell you what the very best deck for that class is at the time, but if you don’t (and almost no one does because Hearthstone is expensive as hell) it’ll still let you know what’s best from what you do have. The new builder works by accessing Hearthstone's internal statistics and selecting cards based on their actual likelihood to, well, win you games. And it actually (mostly) works, bringing a helpful aid for players old and new. Now, though, it uses fancy things like win rate data and machine learning. Previously, the auto-complete feature technically could slot cards into an incomplete deck, or even make one from scratch, but it seemed to take little into account besides mana cost, often making nonsensical or simply weak suggestions. One of the updates for Hearthstone’s Year Of The Dragon has hatched early, bringing a new and improved deck builder to Blizzard’s collectable card game.
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