Patch 29.0 Nerf Reverts & Wild Unbans – Full List of Changes!

Patch 29.0 dropped earlier today and it came with a big immediate impact on the meta. The reason are multiple card changes we’re getting shortly before every rotation. Over the course of their time in Standard, multiple cards from Year of the Hydra (2022) were nerfed because they were deemed too powerful. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they would be too powerful in Wild format too. Many of those cards can get buffed to their original state to be more competitive in the eternal format… and that’s exactly what happened. Additionally, some cards that were previously completely banned in Wild for different reasons got unbanned and changed now.

Also, keep in mind that some of them were only partially reverted. If a card was e.g. nerfed twice, or buffed then nerfed again, it might have gone back to its middle state rather than the original release.

Here’s a full list of reverts divided by classes:

Death Knight

• Blightfang is a 3 mana 3/3.
• Glacial Advance discounts the spell by (2).
• Construct Quarter costs 3 mana and has 3 charges.

Demon Hunter

• Relic of Dimensions costs 5 mana.
• Felscale Evoker is a 5/7.

Druid

• Miracle Growth costs 7 mana.
• Death Blossom Whomper is a 5 mana 6/5.
• Wild Growth costs 2 mana. (I’m using the Classic version with no Nature spell school for the image above but I’ll update it with the correct one when Blizzard posts it.)

Hunter

• Fox Spirit Wildseed (summoned by Spirit Poacher, Stag Charge, Wild Spirits and Ara'lon) is a 3/1.
• Bear Spirit Wildseed (summoned by the cards above) is a 2/5.
• Stag Spirit Wildseed (summoned by the cards above) is a 5/4 and gives a 4/2 Greatbow.
• Hope of Quel'Thalas is a 4/2.
• Faithful Companions copies the summoned minion on Manathirst.
• Halduron Brightwing is a 3 mana 3/4.

Mage

• Arcane Wyrm is a 1/2.
• Nightcloak Sanctum has 3 charges.
• Spitelash Siren is a 4 mana 2/5.

Paladin

• Feast and Famine costs 1 mana.
• The Purator costs 5 mana.
• Lightray costs 9 mana.

Priest

• Boon of the Ascended costs 4 mana.
• High Cultist Basaleph costs 4 mana.
• Switcheroo is unbanned in Wild, nerfed to 5 mana.

Rogue

• Scribbling Stenographer costs 6 mana.

Shaman

No changes.

Warlock

• Vile Library gives an extra +1/+1.
• Tome Tampering is unbanned in Wild, nerfed to 6 mana.

Warrior

• From the Depths reduces the cost of Dredged cards by 3 mana.
• Thori'belore is a 4/4.
• Nellie’s Pirate Ship (summoned by Nellie, the Great Thresher) reduces the cost of Pirates to 1 mana.

Neutral

• Pufferfist is a 3/4.
• School Teacher is a 5/4.
• Smothering Starfish is 3 mana.
• Prince Renathal changes starting Health to 40.
• Mechwarper is unbanned in Wild, nerfed to a 4 mana 4/4.