Great ideas. I have to agree that Wild cards should cost less dust. I also feel that may drive a bit more experimentation in decks.

Mine was close enough to this, dropped Pyroblast and a few others turn one and opponent rage quit pretty soon after. If you high roll, you can just blow through an opponent fast. Ice Block is also a good add.

Another option is “Restricting” cards for certain classes or making it to where some cards can only have one instead of two copies – however as an amateur indie dev I am sure this is a LOT of work on the backend.

Summit? They should be doing this more regularly. Wild has been hard to balance and at times (to be fair, Standard does this too) can lead to oppressive metas. Discard Warlock is too dependable at the moment – but if you had asked me during Kobolds & Catacombs whether Cataclysm was gonna be a problem card in a few years, I would have thought it madness. And yet…

Does Team 5 have people that specifically consider card costs for, say, Shaman class knowing Even Shaman is a thing? Likely they do (Grand Totem Ey’sor is a 3 drop) or perhaps players are (certainly) more creative than they think? (Popping the Twig of the Mana Tree with Sphere of Sapience for instance is a thing).

And Demon Hunter is almost not worth playing in Wild whatsoever at the moment. How do you remedy a class that hasn’t been around as long? Death Knight has managed a tier-2 placement at last (thanks to Construct Quarter) but it’s still got the drawback of lower card pools to choose from.

An “Extended” format sounds like a solution but its more money to keep up with. However having a smaller pool of cards can make balancing easier in the long run. Some other solutions:
– Allow wild decks or wild “collections” for reduced prices to help with building legacy collections
– Discount old adventures and wild packs in general (or perhaps intro deals like they do for new/returning players) to lower barriers to entry

Unsolicited predictions ahoy!

Astalor – 1-mana increase for all “levels” of the card

Playing Undead Death Knight and wow – those little bumps make a difference. For instance: Corpse Bride. Getting to drop a 5/5 with a 10/10 then follow with a FREE Corpse Giant is the kind of explosion turn that DK really needed.

However, Meat Wagon seems pointless. Who risks slashing a Lord Marrowgar just for three corpses? They should have made it “Discover a minion in your deck and destroy it: gain three Corpses.”

Renathal was due and this doesn’t kill the XL format. Reno decks will still happily play him in Wild and I still see him plenty on the ladder.

look on the bright side, Death Knight. At least you’re not Warrior right now.

Poor Warrior. I feel the whole “Fire Warrior” idea seems to be setting up archetypes for future expansions – both the Legendaries this cycle don’t really fit the Enrage plan. Enrage Warrior is barely 50% right now.

Have to agree with all of this. The class just feels like it comes up short and definitely doesn’t have those “OH MY GOD” turns – although Lord Marrowgar is SCARY when you set it up right. But like you said, Unholy is SLOW. (And shouldn’t that Stitched Giant *seem* like it should be depending on Undead summoned vs. corpses spent?)

To me, it seems like instead of going brute force power like they did with Demon Hunter to make people play the class, they went for variety in building the class instead. It’s cool and novel to be sure, but the class identity just feels… slow. It’s like they went in a lot of different directions but didn’t hone any to perfection.

Fun fact. This card is CORE SET for Death Knight. Hope you’re ready to play around it.

RIGHT??

The Coin + Shadow of Demise + Necrolord Draka = 4/3 + 3/3 weapon for 4 mana. And with Edwin? it’s just nuts.

Well, good thing I play Miracle Rogue.

Honestly it should be 12. All the other Giants are, but as someone said earlier, it could likely be Crystallizer.

Yeah Stealer going up two mana will really slow that wincon down but Flesh Giant laughs at this nerf. I was expecting them to up the damage required by one for each questline step, but…. Eh, Blizzard’s gonna Blizzard i guess.

I think it will be Stealer and the Flesh Giant. The Giant should be 12 like any other giant. As said before, it sucks losing to the Stealer. But Shaman’s power creep is likely to be of concern. It was highly played at Silvermoon.

They have been playing it “safe” with nerfs – but i agree with you. I think Stealer is the big culprit that makes those non-interactive combos possible. If they reduce the Lifesteal that Warlock gets, it would force them to not rush the combo as well.

Hunter is doing well because the Quest decks are greedy and Hunter can go face before they finish the combos. Honestly Hunter might be ok. Warlock is largely targeted because of the hate against then right now. People don’t hate on Hunter as hard (and honestly, when i lose against a Face Hunter, i don’t feel screwed.)

Warlock’s Quest has been oppressive in both Standard AND Wild. Anxious to see what they do about it.

As for Anacondra, I think its surge in use was because of Muzzy winning surprise matches with it at GM this past week or two. Mind you for those who watched, the deck can very much be feast or famine.

I had it when i logged on later today. Must have rolled in quietly as a hotfix? Either way if you don’t have it yet, check now!