I do not think the card would see play then. Bombs can wait until fatigue and just add more every turn once there.

If Mecha’thun becomes very common, silence effects will follow. Then the Mecha’thun decks will need to add more combo elements to the deck, and soon they are actually Mecha’thun combo decks. Then, they will have a harder time defending against more aggressive decks. At which point their popularity will fall, and pure control will be more popular again.

Some level of cyclicity is inevitable in the meta, of course.

The aggro – midrange – control – combo fan fight will go on forever, I’m sure. Yet, I do not wish for any of the players to be punished for playing the game.

Then it would be a dead card. I think “Give your Battlecry minions +1 Attack” has a small flavor advantage compared to that change. As an archivist, Elysiana would surely appreciate the sense of history in that adjustment.

It would at best be cyclical: people start cutting Elysiana, so others see an opportunity and start adding it back in. Actually, what would even punish people for keeping it in. It is just one card slot, two with a bounce, and bounce can be useful with other cards in non-mirrors.

Yes, it happens in control games, but control players are people too!

Untargetable by minions does not currently exist in the game. Also, it does nothing against Shudderwock.

Simply removing bombs has the problem that Bomb Warrior would start shuffling in fatigue so you draw all the bombs immediately.

That could work, although it would be mandatory in all control decks, and Bomb Warrior would run it too and go toe-to-toe into fatigue alongside lots of bombs. Control overall would be weaker against aggression, but not running it would always lose against a control deck that does.

It’s not just about the power level, it’s also about control mirrors lasting twice as long as before. That is a quality of life issue by itself.

Maybe. Then there would still be another issue, actually, called Da Undatakah.

It is already limited at 30. You can build a Control Shaman list that avoids hitting the limit fairly easily.

From Discover to random might do something, as it would allow some of the other suggestions in comments here, such as making Elysiana a Deathrattle – that would also get rid of the Shudderwock issue, but open up Undatakah issue.

You cannot do thing on your opponent’s turn at the moment, so you cannot discover the new cards if your opponent kills Elysiana, unless there is a major change in the way the game works.

If you can shuffle + bounce / repeat the Battlecry, the problem is there at full force. If you give it to one class, that class becomes the best control class, or if it is a non-control class, such as Rogue, the card will never see play.

This approach might help some. It will still be mandatory in control decks and add length to games, but at least less than full 45 turns.

Still mandatory in all control decks. Control Shaman wins every other control deck in fatigue with Shudderwock.

I have played thousands of games with control decks, and the first time I reached the turn limit was now during Rise of Shadows.

I know some people had got there with tons of armor in some games before, but it was extremely rare.

If Elysiana adds any cards to the deck, it will be mandatory in all control decks.

If it does not counter bombs at all, Bomb Warrior will rule. The recent Gamer’s Assembly tournament that banned Elysiana had 7/8 people in top-8 with Bomb Warrior.

Then it will still be mandatory in every control deck and Control Shaman will be the only deck to ever have the effect twice because of Shudderwock.

Whirliglider and Tracking see some play in this archetype more generally too. They usually replace cards such as Unleash the Hounds, Leeroy Jenkins, and Acidic Swamp Ooze. I think Mecharoo and Galvanizer are core cards for this, and I really like the build featured here.