Question: If I create a golden card, are there any special perks in battle? I am just wondering since I am planning to level Anduin to 15 and get the golden Mind Blast and I want to know if there are any perks. Thanks!

Answer: 
The only differences between a gold card and a regular card are its appearance and dust costs (for expert set cards). Gold cards that create other cards will create the gold version- a gold mind vision will create gold copies for example- but again this effect is purely cosmetic.

Using an entirely gold deck will get you a golden coin when you go second, instead of the regular coin.

Aside from looking cool, gold cards can be useful in deck testing. Using a gold copy and a regular copy of a card allows you to tell which copy is which. If you keep track of how often you see the gold one, you get an idea of how often you'd draw that card if you only had one copy in your deck.
The argument [has been made](http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/26jfqy/this_golden_card_is_weaker_than_its_normal_version/) that gold cards could actually hurt you in the case where you have a golden card and a non golden card of the same card in a deck. If your opponent thought steals you and sees one of them, then you played the other, they now know you have another of that card in your deck.