While it does suck that we lose pretty much the best way to farm tasks and coins, I’m honestly kinda glad that grinding will now feel a bit more dynamic than just running the same bounty back and retiring at the mystery node. Hope they implement more ways to earn packs then from tasks though, now that tasks are harder to farm.

Better than amalgam in hooktusk decks at least, so may see play there.

While I do agree with many of the points you made here, I have to disagree with some of the things you’ve said here. Firstly, changing lackey to a 2/4 is insane, that would be a buff, not a nerf. It’s already insane tempo AND value generation as it is, it really should not have 6 stats total. It’s clearly one of the if not the best card in tempo rogue and it’s still going to be a very good card after the nerf.

I understand your concerns with preparation, and I do agree that many rogue spells were designed with preparation in mind. But isn’t that the problem? No one card should be so polarising that every spell printed has to keep it in consideration, similar to what Genn and Baku did to odd and even cards. While this may result in an overall weaker rogue class for now, it allows more design space for more powerful rogue spells to be printed in the future. I do agree that it is quite a significant nerf though, though a 2 mana discount is still very powerful.

Many of the cards you stated are quite powerful and can be considerations for nerfs. However, no other class has really come close to the power level of rogue this expansion, except maybe warrior, and nerfs to many if those cards would simply destroy certain classes from popularity, such as nerfing conjurer’s calling, which I do agree is an overpowered class but is fine to exist for now as the mage deck it is in isn’t overcentralising like rogue is. I do agree that they should have at least looked at Dr. Boom, though, that card singlehandedly makes warrior the only real viable control deck out there.