Budget decks were just updated for Descent of Dragons meta! While some of the decks didn’t change that much, I offer two alternative builds that would need some Epics to work better – Deathrattle Rogue & Aggro Overload Shaman.

Let me know what you think!

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We’ll have an early Wild impressions that showcases how DoD has affected the meta released quite soon (next week). Full tier list update will follow, but I’m not exactly sure when yet!

Because the card is insane, you hard mulligan for it and get one copy of it before you play your Highlander cards 90% of time?

I mean, Quest Druid which runs tons of duplicates plays Elise & Zephrys… so I don’t see how a single duplicate would be such big of a deal.

I wouldn’t call it a buff. It will be comparable with Sea Giant now IMO. Guaranteed 8/8, 1 card instead of 2, only 1 mana more. Mogu still bette because 1 mana cheaper and has a chance to high roll, but it’s class card and not Neutral + requires 2 cards and not 1. Might be slightly stronger, but not by a lot.

The biggest strength of Mogu was it coming down so early, sometimes as soon as Turn 4 (even 3 when Evolve Shaman played Desert Hare, lol). Delaying it by a turn or two will hurt. It’s generally harder to deal with an 8-drop on T4 than with a 10-drop on T6.

1 + Overload (1) is generally better than 2, but yeah, it’s a weird card to nerf… It was strong, but not problematic in any way.

Yeah, regular Commons don’t give you that much Dust anyway. But I was lucky enough to have a golden version – 400 for a single golden Common!

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Anyone who started playing after Rise of the Mech event or took a break at that time. He was given out for free only between June 3 and July 1, so ~half year ago. So people who didn’t get it for free could open it in Boomsday packs or craft it later.

Why?

No BG changes were announced, we had Primalfin Lookout nerf in a recent hotfix, and I don’t suspect seeing more BG changes until after Christmas. But they might always surprise us and take this opportunity to slip in some nerfs/buffs.

You’re right, I forgot about it – the changes were announced like less than 10 hours before the patch has dropped if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I also think that’s the case. The truth is that this patch comes too early. Nerfing something before the meta has settles is not the best idea, because that thing might not be AS overpowered as it immediately seemed, and other too powerful decks might be discovered that might also warrant a nerf.

But they didn’t want everyone to quit over Shaman so they had to take drastic measures. I hope that if something won’t work out and one OP deck will be replaced by another OP deck, they won’t be scared to act again after 2-3 weeks.

Thank you, I’m glad to hear that 🙂 The card should be fixed now by the way!

A dev has recently confirmed that it’s a bug and it shouldn’t happen – it will be fixed soon!A dev has recently confirmed that it’s a bug and it shouldn’t happen – it will be fixed soon!

A dev has recently confirmed that it’s a bug and it shouldn’t happen – it will be fixed soon!

In the initial announcement, they’ve said that the update is coming next (so this) week, not that they’re going to announce it then. So if their wording was indeed correct, we should expect a patch by Friday. At least I very much hope so.

After someone gets knocked out, his minions get back into the pool.

Discover still draws minions from the pool – so if a few players have picked something already, you have a lower chance to Discover it.

Oh wow, I just read your comment. Sorry that you feel this way, but I think that you’re missing the main point.

This is a BUDGET deck. Using only Common & Rare cards. Most of players have lots of those cards already, so the entire crafting cost of the deck is a few hundred Dust. It’s meant for players who don’t own Epics & Legendaries that are used to build the full deck, want to test it out before committing to the full build, or are new players without big collections yet.

Yes, the deck is “bad”, but so is every budget deck. You can’t build an amazing deck without using any Epics or Legendaries. I build budget decks for every single class every expansion. And it’s simply the best option available to Priest. Unless you have another one – then I’ll be happy to see it.

I’ve playtested each of those decks and it actually worked okay during that time. It was one of the best budget decks, in fact. I even got a bunch of wins against full-fledged meta decks in Legend. But it’s also not the easiest deck to play, especially if you are running a weaker deck than your opponent (because you lack Epics / Legendaries) – then you have to win by outsmarting them and just playing better than they are.

Not true, J_Alexander has just hit #2 Legend with a different Anubisath Rogue build.

Mark my words – Necrium Apothecary is probably the most broken SINGLE card from the expansion and it’s not talked about just because Galakrond Shaman is even more broken (but that’s because the whole Galakrond package is just crazy). If it doesn’t get hit by the nerf patch, people will complain about it in a week. Not sure if Anubisath version is better or maybe Whelp version will be played more after all, but Rogue is really strong.

We’ll be making deck guides after the patch 🙂 Wanted to start this weekend, but don’t want to commit resources to something that might be useless in a few days.