Point is … the Hero Power is useless for Rush Warrior anyway. So you still give your opponent an upgrade. Which you usually never do (besides you playing a combo deck, but even then, permanently upgrading your opponent isn’t the most clever thing).

Anyhow. Blizzard will never nerf them this way. 😉

‘…Give the same buff to both players, akin the Project cards from The Boomsday Project…’ how can this be a suggestion? If I give discounted/upgraded hero power to my opponent (who might be playing with odd AND even cards) and I’m cutting my card pool in half … then I have a clear disadvantage most of the time, right!?

This would only remotely work if there where a ton of other ‘if your deck contains only’ cards like Murkspark Eel. But even then I’ve my doubts.

Besides that, good article.

I want that shirt!

Even if you get Hakkar (and that gets destroyed), isn’t casting his blood once better than drawing and multiplying it? Of course, Grand Archivist has to stay alive in order to do that. 😉

How do we get those cardbacks. Man, they are beautiful. Especially the ‘white’ one.

I’m not interested in the deck but your reply deserves some praise. Great reply!

Maybe that’s a dumb question but … how can this be post-nerf and early Legend if the nerfs kick in today?

We all know they are NOT doing this (filling niches).

By now it is pretty safe to assume that Blizzard wants to make Basic and Classic completely irrelevant to sell more new product – especially as the HS year will change with the next expansion.

Hail Activision – f***ing up Blizzard completely. I imagine them having dinner with Disney, laughing about all those stupid fanboys/girls …

Jeez, I’m really upset right now. 😉

If by ‘dead’ you mean ‘competitively dead’ then I’m sorry to say but … yes.

Glad to see Even Shaman get killed though, to many Shamans on Standard ladder *ironyoff*. And yes, it is a dominant force in Wild but who cares about Wild (Blizzard told us that they don’t)? I’m a Wild player btw, there are other problems than Even Shaman in that format. 😉

They will nerf those shortly before they rotate out of Standard. 😉

Spot on.

Okay … now that I’ve read it …

‘This doesn’t mean […] that all Basic and Classic cards should be ineffective…’

*slowly but surely making all relevant Basic and Classic cards ineffective*

Sorry, but this is totally ridiculous. Just kill those f***ing 2 sets entirely and stop bullsh**ing us with ongoing nerfs.

Without reading I have to say this – due to this next change, this will be the 4th time in this HS ‘year’ that a deck I built for a F2P friend will become uncompetitive. I can’t imagine how frustrating that is and I’m pretty sure this will be the reason she now stops playing HS alltogether.

God job, Blizzard.

Well written. I especially like the upgrade paths, that’s very clever.

Same now for Mage because of the Mana Wyrm nerf. Don’t expect to see any competitively viable Mage deck anytime soon … :/

– By playing Element, you have absolute gas for 1 – 2 turns
– After that, you draw your buffed up weapon every turn

I’m afraid you’re right about this. :/

Nonetheless, I’d actually appreciate it for the sake of HS getting better as a game.

Regardless of that, yeah, the concept of Basic and Classic sets has to be redefined fundamentally.

‘… explained by the need to make other 1-drops more viable and to create design space, but it’s fairly clear in retrospect that these changes were much more about their overall power level than anything else.’

Too me, there’s no conflict … because of their high power level, those cards restricted design space. Therefore they were nerfed. Just a different way to describe the situation. 😉

Blizzard should skip the concept of Basic and Classic Sets entirely … I know that would be a fundamental change, but in my oppinion it’s better to clean up a big mess in one fell swoop. In the long run, discarding those sets would solve so many problems.