Well yeah, I could not possibly happen to know that they will go with such a quick nerf patch. 2 weeks after the release is unprecedented. My work on this update is basically thrown to the garbage and I will have to do it again when the new meta settles down.

I’m glad that I didn’t update the Epic guide yet, because I’ve meant to do it tomorrow, lol.

Yes, but Shudderwock was not nerfed, Grumble was not nerfed etc. so even if you’ve crated a whole deck, you will only get a refund for Saronite Chain Gang (which is nothing).

Tbh I don’t think that the deck really deserved a nerf right now given that it’s not dominating the meta anyway and it’s going to rotate out in ~3.5 months.

When cards rotate out of Standard, you still own them, but they can only be played in Wild. They’re still in your collection, just like they are right now, so you can decide to do with them whatever you want.

You can just keep them to play in Wild – I would generally recommend doing that unless you’re sure that you will never play Wild. Alternatively, you can Dust them at the normal rate, which is 12.5% for Commons (5 from 40), 20% for Rares (20 from 100), 25% for Epics (100 from 400) and 25% for Legendaries (400 from 1600). That’s for regular cards, Golden have a higher rate.

There are rare exceptions – sometimes when they rotate out a Classic card (Classic is a set that was meant to be in Standard forever) to “Hall of Fame” (basically a set that consists of Wild-only Classic cards), then we BOTH get a full refund and get to keep the card. But so far there are only 13 cards in Hall of Fame, so you can’t count on a lot of extra Dust (e.g. last rotation Ice Block and Coldlight Oracle rotated out).

There are multiple warnings about that in the article.

I can’t just say “don’t craft cards from 2017 expansions”, when there are stuff like Deathstalker Rexxar, Prince Keleseth or Sunkeeper Tarim in there. You really need some of those to make certain decks successful. They ARE still good crafts, just will be relevant for only ~3.5 months in Standard.

You always have to keep in mind that cards from the previous Standard year have a much shorter shelf life and take that into account, but if you’re not a F2P player on a very tight budget, getting them is not a bad idea lots of times.

It’s only played in a single, not very popular meta deck* (Even Paladin), and it’s not even required there – multiple builds don’t run it, meaning that it’s not a must-have card. I definitely wouldn’t craft it right now unless you absolutely want to play a specific, Glass Knight build and you have lots of spare Dust.

*Even Paladin is a pretty strong deck in my opinion, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s severely underplayed, with less than 0.7% play rate on the ladder (according to the latest Vicious Syndicate’s Data Reaper Report).

Thank you, fixed it!

It’s actually possible with just one. It just has to die, then you have to play it again and it has to die again. It happens commonly in a longer game, especially thanks to the Oaken Summons.

You’re right, but then it would not revive any Taunts 🙂 You prefer full board flood + 2 shuffles than just 3 shuffled by a LOT.

I’ve tried, and it feels a bit underwhelming. If you go for a more Midrange build, it doesn’t have enough ways to swing the tempo, the Dragons are mostly too slow. And if you play the Control variant, Odd version just seem better. And both Odd & regular Control Dragon Warrior share a similar problem – they’re too fair. They don’t have any infinite value win condition (like Deathstalker Rexxar / Frost Lich Jaina) or powerful combos (Shudderwock Shaman, even Control Priest). I mean, there’s Boom, which is nice, but it’s too random. For the sake of value, you want the Discover Hero Power and it happens only 1/5 of the time.

I’d say that those decks have a higher chance to work after the rotation, when a lot of those crazy win conditions other slow decks have will rotate out.

You’re right, fixed that. Thanks!

You’re right, fixed that. Thanks!

Of course, I had to remove it for some reason… It’s there again with the latest update. Thanks!

Your quote is from the section about Aggro matchups, so what does Control have to do with anything?

You’re right, it’s definitely a consideration. I’m talking about Tracking issue in the guide, but the thing is that the card is just so good that it’s difficult to justify dropping it.

HOWEVER, given that Hunters are very popular right now, teching in Flare instead might actually be a good thing. It still cycles, and it’s good in the mirror. If you drop your Zul’jin after their Zul’jin, clearing all of their Secrets is amazing.

Thank you! 🙂

Thanks for explaining, but I do know the difference between the words “good” and “well”. In your example, “good” refers to the noun (Warrior) and “well” refers to the verb (“doing”). However that still doesn’t explain it to me. The word “well” can also be used as an adjective in certain cases. I’m copying a passage from the Cambridge Dictionary (source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/discourse-markers/well)

“Well as an adjective

We use well as an adjective, normally after a linking verb such as be, look or get, to mean ‘in good health’:

A: How are you?

B: I’m very well, thanks. And you?

Are you feeling OK? You don’t look very well.

In American English, it is common to use good instead of well in this context. This is less common in British English:

A: And how’s your mother?

B: She’s good. Thanks for asking.”

I’ve been taught (and more than taught, heard it hundreds of times) that you can use “well” as an adjective, in the context of “in good health” or “in good state”. Like you can say that someone “is looking well”, as in “is looking healthy”, “is looking to be in a good state/condition”, that’s why I’ve used it here.

So, given that, what’s wrong with the word well in that context? I see that “good” would probably fit better, since “well” is mostly used to describe someone’s HEALTH and so. You COULD stretch it out here probably, but “good” is safer. That said, I think it still makes sense and is grammatically correct (or maybe I’m missing something important and making a fool of myself now).

Thanks for pointing those out.

I’ve fixed Boomsday Project right away, you had to catch up a very early version right after it came online.

As for the second one, what’s wrong about that? “new version of Odd Warrior has popped out and it’s looking quite well so far”, meaning that the archetype is in a good state. Maybe quite good would it better, but isn’t saying quite well correct? Obviously, I’m not a native speaker, but it sounds fine to me.

You can also Boomship + Shield Slam your Hakkar if you think that opponent might be holding Silence or Transform effects.

The second Florist was meant to be a Ferocious Howl, but I’ve made a mistake when building the deck on our site. Sorry for that 🙁

Raven Familiar, should be good enough just to play around with the deck. But if you want to get more competitive, you would need to make other changes. E.g. Chain Gang is no longer that good without Keleseth, but on the other hand, you can run Voodoo Doll (you can’t with Keleseth, because you want to ping it and you can’t ping it if you make it a 2/2). So you would need to make a few adjustments in total – Keleseth is always impossible to replace 1:1, as he affects most of the deck.