That would be soooooo much dust.

Yeah Divine Favor is pretty crazy, wouldn’t mind to see that rotated. Equality is definitely an overpowered card, which might be why Paladin hasn’t been getting more board clearing tools.

I think Warlock could lose more than N’zoth and Doomguard and still be good, plus we don’t know what surprises Blizz has in store for us with the first set.

Well to be fair I did put her in the “Could wait until a future rotation” section.

Thoughts on Umbra are pretty polarizing. It’s great if you can set up a 25 damage turn but outside of that it’s bad. Taldaram is a staple, I recommend going that way.

Yeah I think Mage will be just fine without it, just different.

I disagree.

I want to see Ice Block mage go. With it gone they can create different, more interactive defensive tools in Mage.

^What Syder said.

The issue with Ice Block isn’t the power level of the card, or the skill level of the decks it goes in. I actually enjoy classic Freeze Mage, but the strategy has been around too long, and if you think about it, at its core it’s the same strategy that all Mage decks use: hide behind Ice Block and blast your opponent in the face. Ice Block pushes Mage into a style of deck that is non-interactive and stale. Given the choice, would I rotate Tirion to Wild? Absolutely, but this article wasn’t “Why Blizzard should rotate every good card in this Classic set”. When Tirion is a meta staple there are things I can do about it. I can silence or polymorph him, I can kill him and then play a weapon destruction card to destroy Ashbringer, I could even steal him with Mind Control. There are plenty of ways to interact with Tirion, and within each of those methods there are multiple decent cards I could choose to do it. Each of those cards I could tech in for Tirion would also be useful in a plethora of other matchups. If I want to interact with Ice Block and I’m not playing Paladin I HAVE to run Eater of Secrets, crippling my deck against every other match I play. Even if cards like Tirion are a problem, they are not comparable to Ice Block.

I agree that Cubelock isn’t brainless, you definitely have to think about what you’re doing. The problem is even it’s Cubelock and Highlander Priest being very decision heavy, the outcome of matches they’re involved in too often come down to who drew their necessary combo pieces first. I think the standard rotation along with any or all of the HoF candidates being moved would allow value matches with lots of decisions that actually matter to come back.

In general do you guys prefer balance changes over the Hall of Fame?

I dunno, the most F2P friendly deck has got to be Wild Inner Fire Priest, that deck will always be there for you.

That’s a good list, I wouldn’t mind seeing any of that go. I’d be a little sad about preparation but I would understand.

I just think they’ve been too relevant for too long. They’ll be back again.

I wouldn’t mind seeing Edwin go, but the problem is probably more Prep and Backstab. Zero cost spells are really good.

If there were better ways to interact with it I don’t think it would need to be rotated. However, if there were better ways to interact with it then it probably wouldn’t be playable. I wouldn’t mind seeing Cold Blood go, but I’d be surprised if they rotated before moving or changing some of the other Rogue staples.

It is true that if you draw cards in a bad order the deck can be clunky, but when Pirate decks draw Patches it’s devastating, and he’s still too strong. I agree that Doomguard is balanced, I would never suggest they change it, but that’s not the only reason to rotate a card. Azure Drake was rotated last year not because it was overpowered, just because it was good enough to prevent you from considering other options. I think Doomguard does that in Zoo lists, playing a different finisher is just worse, even if Doomguard isn’t too powerful on its own. Doomguard is likely to rotate eventually, but I think it is one of the best candidates for rotation that year because Cube lock loses nothing, and needs to lose something.

Spiteful Summoner and Inner Fire Priest will still be around, but it will be nice to be done with Raza Priest. Barnes rotates in April too, so Big Priest might be too meh to play 😛

I’d be surprised if they did that, I think they’d be more inclined just to rotate it. The problem is that you can’t interact with it without handicapping your list against other decks. If they just printed a better anti-secret card that would solve the issue if they REALLY wanted to keep it around.