History YMMV / HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft

* ScrappyMechanic: The sheer amount of random effects in the game can drive players insane. For example, cards like Multi-shot aims at 2 random enemy minions, so if your opponent already has a cluttered board, pray that card will hit the minions you really, REALLy want to destroy. Or when you play Doomguard, it will randomly pick two cards in your hand and disposes of them, and you can just kiss your best cards goodbye because you don't get to choose what cards to discard.

*** Currently they've been nerfed to low tier but they're still not very fun to play against and tend to drag games out inordinately long (note you don't get any more gold for a long game than a short one). They're just regular scrappies now unless you're new to the game because their free deck is among the strongest in the game.

** On the other hand, the amount of gold that you can get per day is limited[[note]] 200 from matches + whatever you can get from quests + whatever arena rewards you get.[[/note]] Having dominance quests thus allows for more gold per day, which means more packs or arena runs. Dominance quests is actually favored by Arena-only players because the quest alone contributes more than a third of the entry price to said arenas.

** ExplosiveOverclocking: Raising the minion's health too high (specifically, past 2,147,483,647) will cause it to instantly die as its health overflows and becomes a negative number.

** A nerf to Mind Control has brought some of the heat off Priests. This led to mages are dominating tournaments, getting the ire of the community.

** The mage's Pyroblast spell. For 8 mana, you deal 10 damage to anything on the field, the opposing hero included. That means that if a player ever fights a mage and goes under 10 health, the game might as well be over, because there's nothing you can do to stop them from chucking a big, fat fireball from hitting you in the face.

** On the other end, there's a reason why Garrosh is one of the least played characters.

** A nerf to Mind Control has brought some of the heat off Priests. Now mages are dominating tournaments, getting the ire of the community.

** A nerf to Mind Control has brought some of the heat off Priests. Now mages are dominating tournaments getting the ire of the community.

** A nerf to Mind Control has brought some of the heat of Priests. Now mages are getting all the hate.

** The priest, as well, with many players stating they'll flat out concede to a priest just to avoid playing against one.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Say it with us now: "YOU FACE [[LargeHam JARAXXUS]], '''[[NoIndoorVoice EREDAR LORD OF THE]]''' '' '''[[AwesomeYetPractical BURNING LEGION!]]''' ''

** On the other end, there's a reason why Garrosh is one of the least played characters.

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** ExplosiveOverclocking: Going past the 1 billion health destroys Cho on the spot.

* TierInducedScrappy: Valeera the rogue is considered overpowered by quite a few players.

* DesignatedHero: The subtitle is Heroes of Warcraft. That said, two of the "heroes" are Gul'Dan (an evil warlock from the franchise's backstory) and Garrosh Hellscream (the BigBad of Mists of Pandaria).

* GameBreaker: HuskyStarcraft and his friend Sinvicta discovered that, using "Divine Spirit"s[[note]]"Double a minion's Health"[[/note]] and Lorewalker Cho, who has the odd effect of adding a copy of any just-cast spell to your ''opponent''[='s=] hand, you can very easily get a Minion up above [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOD7Ni_3NIc 1 billion health]]. Add an "Inner Fire"[[note]]"Change a minion's Attack to be equal to its Health[[/note]] and you have a ''very'' dangerous Minion. However, the utility of trick is limited, as it requires the two opponents to work together.