Mage and Rogue both hit again with the Wild nerf hammer also knows a Hall of Fame. Rogue indirectly of course, but Oracle was a Rogue card pretty much to begin with. Can’t complain about it, and we’ll have to wait and see what the next expansions bring of course but I can already see another year where Leeroy Jenkins can smash our faces in with the newest aggro decks or where sick card draw can be abused with the Auctioneer. Assumptions, I know, I know. That said, I’m already hyped for the new expansion.

Well, well, well, it only took them two years to nerf patches, what a joke, but Wild definitely needs to be protected. Therefore I’d expected Jade Idol to be addressed as well.

We can only hope they learn from these mistakes. They created a Hall of Fame for a reason. Just because a card such as Patches is from an expansion and will eventually rotate out doesn’t mean that it can’t create the same problems that cards such as Azure Drake did, which is to be auto-included in the majority of decks, creating this boring homo-genic feel to all those decks.

Cube-Lock will be the new cancer then? Designer Dean Ayala said in an interview at the World Championship that he doesn’t think it will be that oppressive (they play-tested Cubelock a lot before the release of Kobolds apparently). But yeah, this from a dude who’s in the same team that releases cards such as Patches, Bonemare and Corridor Creeper without any inkling of the consequences. The same can be said for Spiteful Summoner. I hope that he’s right though.

Some of them have been on my wishlist for more than a year as well.

Gadgetzan
Bloodmage
Alexstraza
Doomsayer

May I add Leeroy Jenkins?

Wouldn’t mind seeing iceblock go either although is it iceblock alone that creates such ”solitaire” decks? I think it’s a combination of cards. Iceblock in the current Secret Mage deck isn’t really having the effect you describe and quite an effective for triggering Mediv’s Valet or just surviving for one more turn to push that final damage. Sometimes the secret doesn’t do shit for you when you have it in the early game.

You make a good case for Doomguard though, but so far I’m not that annoyed by it. Silence should just get nerfed. 0 mana cards are simply unfair bullshit.

In the end all the good cards can be removed from the classic set eventually leaving only the mediocre to bad cards. Time for an evergreen type of set that rotates card in and out every now and then to keep things fresh.