Welcome once again dear readers to the Touchstone Tavern, your mobile gateway to the world of Hearthstone[Free]. Your usual guide, Mr. Tasos is on a temporary break. It has been just a few short weeks since the launch of the Witchwood Hearthstone expansion and the start of the year of the raven, but it sure feels like a lot longer. We've had some great decks take shape around this new season. While there are a few older builds still lurking, this is one of the best times to get back in and feel that fresh new game scent just permeate through the competitive standard format.

A Fond Farewell
We would be remiss if we did not take a moment to remember our departed developers, Ben Brode and Hamilton Chu. It was a bit of a surprise hearing that there would be a leadership vacuum on the Hearthstone and Blizzard teams. There seems to be a buzz around both of these visionary individuals with ominous notations on their parting messages and twitter accounts citing "moving on to something new." Will they be working together on a new game" Was this an orchestrated move" Only time will tell but we are certain the gaming world will be richer if they do decide to stay in the industry and continue creating content. New Year New Meta
Over at Tempo Storm it seems a flood of Rogue and Paladin is set to wash through the upper echelons of Standard mode competition. 4 separate Rogue decks are in the top 12 and 3 Paladin decks are in the top 5 as of this week. This is a huge ...