How much do you want to bet that , that little meeting between Soros , Pelosi , and all the billionaire liberals involved hiring a bunch of trained monkeys to change ballots postelection in preperation for a recount call by their puppet stein ? <| sep |> Pauper isn ' t the kind of mode Blizzard needs to make , as users that want it will make it themselves to play with friends if they really want it . It ' s a nice mode for fun between friends , but if you could do your daily quests and get up the ladder and get ranked rewards and gold for pauper mode it would really hurt Hearthstone overall . It would actually be a terrible idea for there to be a builtin pauper mode . Not only does it change how Hearthstone has to balance cards having to account for Pauper on top of Standard , and Wild doesn ' t get much thought but it gets a little , but it also means Blizzard would lose an absolute shitload of potential profit . Why would people pay money for rarer cards when there is a mode they can play 100 % free with only the cards that are free or super cheap ? Don ' t trick yourself into thinking Blizzard is a charity , they are a company , and if Hearthstone didn ' t make enough money they would kill it off and move on , like what happened with the WoW TCG . MTGO isn ' t Hearthstone . You DO understand MTGO costs a $ 10 fee upfront , right ? That means they can be more generous with features if they want to , since they have no leeches , only people that have proved they ' re willing to pay to support the game . You also need to account that MTGO has existed since 2002 , that ' s 14 years , and the interface is horrible because it ' s old and cares about function more than looks . Hearthstone is not even 3 years old yet , and every year they add SOME big new stuff like Adventures , Tavern Brawl , and the WildStandard split . Tournament modes will come , but you have to realize the game is barely out of infancy .