The biggest reason is so that they don’t introduce non-evergreen keywords into old expansions (and especially basic/classic). On the case of Devilsaur, as Elzein pointed out, it would also be a functional change.

But the likey official explanation will be “old players this, returning players that…”.

Do NOT craft Imp Gang Boss with Reno unless you’d rather play it over Bloodreaver Gul’Dan in your deck.

Shaman was the best deck for a almost an entire year and tier 1 or top tier 2 after. It has enough sins to pay for. And Warrior is even worse.

Soulpriest sticks around after the Circle of Healing (which is the entire reason to play it) very, very rarely and in most matchups you actually want the ability to heal, especially since it can turn off a crucial Binding Heal. Decks are tempo-focused at the moment and although the 3-attack is relevant, it has 1 health when used with Circle and is too easily cleared with tempo gain for the opponent. If it’s at full health, you played a Sen’Jin Shieldmasta without the taunt on turn 4 or simply managed to ping them for 2 on turn 6. Sub-optimal in most cases, even though the Sen’Jin body can sometimes be relevant.

Yes? It’s a better Auchenai Soulpriest.

So glad you asked! Update will be going out later today or early tomorrow!

There is absolutely no reason to play Lyra in this deck. Update is coming out today so hopefully that will explain things better.

If this deck continues to take off, we will expand our guide and it will include a replacement section!

Loot Hoarder is a great cheap minion that will help you cycle through your deck. Alternatively, if you want more safety (and slightly less reliable Dragon’s Fury), you can go for Arcane Intellect or Frost Nova to keep you safe with the Doomsayers.

Because the Voidcallers have been cut and he’s not even half as good without summoning one of them?

What you are referring to is a completely different deck that’s quite honestly a high-level gimmick that aim to exploit an unusual approach that people don’t expect when thay face Priest and is generally safe. Rogue does pretty much the same thing but better.

Well then it’s a good thing that “big spell priest” does not exist. There is a big difference between “playable” and “good”, not to mention that nobody would play a symmetrical aoe damage spell if they didn’t know how much damage it will deal to their own minions. Makes planning impossible.

The only way to do this is to not have minions, which is a bad sign already. Conceding the board means you need a way to not die which is sustain, not aoe.

The “big spells” mage deck will be garbage and will never see play outside of rank 20. Also this kills your own minions and is completely uncontrollable.

There is a heavier-cycle version that uses Clodlight Oracle, it’s a perfectly fine source of draw. This specific list here doesn’t because it’s more well-rounded, but you can totally play Oracle. If you want to be better against pirates you can take out somethung clunky. The best thing to cut is Mass Dispel, but you can also get rid of the Auctioneer if you are facing mostly aggressive decks, however that will hurt your control matchups noticeably.

That’s not even close to your main win condition, I don’t know where you got that idea from. This deck wins by bursting people down with Velen and Shadowreaper Anduin’s hero power.

No, I can’t stop. First of all, it’s way too good of a play on words to pass up for this expansion. Second, aside from ratings being wildly inaccurate, they give too much wiggle room for a serious analysis later on. If you want ratings, you can always go watch Trump, then craft “5-star cards” that are garbage and will never see play in good ladder and/or tournament decks because people still have no idea how to properly evaluate new cards.

I think it’s more than unlikely to not have played any ramp spell whatsoever before that point.

That means that you are not sending enough stuff at the opponent’s face. If you completely run out of cards, you have an OTK with Prophet Velen when you have your Shadowreaper Anduin hero power. Velen, Radiant and a bunch of 0- and 1-cost spells (that costs 0 thanks to Radiant) and Mind Blast in the same turn.

Yes, Kobold should be able to return Atiesh, no reason not to.

Glad you enjoyed it! You are absolutely right about Crush of course, I’ll have to edit that blunder out.