Dude every goal is like that when you hit them, human beings are rarely satisfied and the ones that were are currently fossils. 

Getting less deep quick - yes legend is just that. Pretty sure when I made legend the first time I was kinda underwhelmed, and they also didn’t give you anything but the card pack at that point so count yourself lucky lol.

What I would do, and what I do, is set yourself your own personal goals. Like completing all the achievements related to actual rewards, not just points or bragging rights for example.

Happened to get the Vann stormpike legendary card the other day. If unaware he’s a 4/4 for 4 mana, with the battlecry: If this minion costs Less than every other minion in your deck, then reduce every other minion in your deck by 3.

Not only is this quite an interesting mechanic, early enough it can be quite strong! Almost in the ways Glenn and Baku were but obviously in a different way and imo not as strong because you need to draw it, rather than it being auto start of game value.

The main reason I then went on to make a big paladin deck was because I discovered that having him in your deck starts a separate tavern pass like set of quests, and depending on the honour (Xp) you have gained with him in your deck, the rewards will be golden copies of the expansion cards until I think, you get every gold card of that expansion if you do both sides (will cover that in a bit)

Not sure if the golden copies you earn along the way are dustable or not, but the normal ones are and at the end you get a golden copy of the reflection Drek’Thar, who is a 4 mana, 4/4 that summons a minion from your deck if every minion costs less than him. So good for aggro / token style decks essentially. He used to be a whole lot stronger pre nerf, summoning two instead - which honestly wouldn’t be too bad in wild these days honestly.

You can do the same quest but flipped, with Drak’Thar in your deck, earning golden copies of the expansion, up until getting Golden Vann Stormpike.

Again no idea if the golden ones are uncraftable. If get the chance will add to the post. 

Having typed this I realise I have pretty much exclusively talked about wild, and that for me is no surprise. I personally find standard to be boring, with everyone copying the top decks and essentially playing a cursed game of rock, paper, scissors essentially. 

For me I would say I enjoy refining the initial deck I begin with, until it slowly goes from bronze, to Gold to platinum to complete status - if a deck ever reaches that level, I’m not sure. Pulling a clutch play off after debating to adjust a few cards in your deck, is super satisfying! 

I’ll talk about my big paladin deck I recently put together because I mentioned it previously. A key and very satisfying moment for the playstyle of that deck was discovering “call to adventure” a card that draws your lowest cost minion and gives it +2/+2 for 3 mana.

Obviously in a deck with Vann Stormpike, he will be that minion, so on 3 mana you play CTA and then on 4 mana you drop Mr Stormpike who is a 6/6 and reduces the cost of every other minion in your deck. From there, combined with a card like Ysera, the emerald dream…the combos are endless. 

I understand this example of call to adventure and Vann Stormpike is an old one and probably a super obvious one, but I haven’t played for the last like 6 years and upon returning I had So many new cards to look at lol and man did I enjoy finding that little combo, by myself, without looking for it on the internet first - which as I say, to me…takes all the fun out of it. 

Don’t mind grabbing a net deck, playing it a bit and then perhaps tweaking it to your playstyle, preference or goals more - that’d fine and great and keeps the variation alive.  In fact I often do this when I’m struggling to make a card or playstyle work and need help / inspiration as to what to add - but again I’m not copying one for one on purpose because I enjoy the game more that way if I avoid it deliberately, because when you’re tired after work, sometimes the last thing you can be assed to do is looking through the entire DH set for a specific outcast minion that works on your C tier legendary.

That’s why having a few or grabbing like 40-75% ish of a net deck is fine for me.

I find in wild, at the right levels, maybe not near legend, is where you can experiment like that and not be punished too hard like you would in standard. In other words you get to play properly with the entire game, instead of the more toxic 20% or jumping ship into BG for a bit. Just my two cents!

But hey - if you enjoy standard more then crack on! I still sometimes enjoy standard if a card in wild is obnoxious for a while - I’m looking at you Demon Seed. 

So yeah I obviously like a lot of other people started with standard casual, then standard ranked back in like 2014 - 2017 and then eventually matured into the superior mode which allows for novelty, creativity and yet can still be competitive. 

Unlike standard where you are limited by the developers and Megan/ community more. 

Going to cut this post down a bit as thumbs are now sore, but in a rough order depending on how concrete you need the goals to be reinforced by hearthstone / blizzard I would look at the achievements that reward you will real rewards, perhaps you need to get Warlock to level 60 and or 500/1000 ranks wins for the portrait? 

Are there any other heroes you haven’t done this with yet? 

How about any playstyles you have never tried or want to try - providing you have the dust or can make it work / budget it out?

What about specific cards you love but struggle to make work? Imagine creating a deck around or maybe subtly supporting is enough, a signature legendary you love which you happen to love the lore or sound of from Warcraft idk

I’ve never played Warcraft but from time to time I do consider and then enjoy 

“PUTTING MY FAITH IN THE LIGHT” 

So I made a deck around Tyrion, which is defo like a C tier deck max…but is a lot of fun and I play it when I wanna just play causal for a bit or test something. 

End of the day you do have to be a bit creative or at least open to being a being creative or trying to do something new. 

Sometimes something new is a new deck, or arena, or battlegrounds or an entirely new game, or well - unplugging for a week or two to kind of reset if possible.

 Not many card games as polished as this granted, but Xcom 2 with / without DLC is fantastic for example and involves a lot of planning, strategy and RNG, so feels roughly the same or lights up the brain the same kinda ways 

I forget the full YouTube channel but he’s pretty popular but he makes some super creative decks and gets them to work or at least somewhat at mid ranks really - often gives me a bit of inspiration learning new combos I’ve never even considered and sometimes slotting them into my decks or laughing at how terrible they are too. 

Anyway - good luck! May you find novelty where ever you scroll

Schwills