THE PLOT THICKENS!!!

I was thinking about the massive loads of dust as well. Compared to other rotations, this basically makes one Legendary craft possible if you had two copies of all those cards.

This is HUGE. Nobody expected that Genn and Baku will leave! That should shake up the meta and even things out for classes with powerful Even/Odd archetypes. Love it!

Welcome back to the team, Mister Skiffington!

As for the changes, I hope that both the Arena Seasons and the solo-player content will provide just enough juice throughout the expansion so that players will have something to do during the last two months of the cycle! If they manage to pack in enough content, this could really be the update that Hearthstone needed.

Thanks for everything, Evident! <3

Thanks! Priest and AoE is a problem, yes. Psychic Scream was a very Priest-like solution, and I expect something very similar in the first or second expansion of 2019.

Thanks for the kind words! We try to keep things not too long, so great to hear those pieces still contain all the useful info 🙂

It may be a very popular archetype in the current meta, but it’s also one of the least successful Rogue lists in recent history. It’s honestly just an amalgamation of many different archetypes, and most cards in there have been talked about in this piece 🙂

Thanks for the kind words! We will indeed enter the darkest of timelines, but I always try to highlight those archetypes that may come out ahead after the – what WoW geeks would call – Great Sundering. 🙂

Thanks!

Regarding Priest and Hunter: You’re not wrong by saying that both archetypes lose a lot; but it’s also evident that both themes will stay relevant within both classes, right? Especially Big Priest could still be a very good deck with one or two new cards that revolve around the Resurrection theme.

Good question! I’ll try to go deeper into that topic when we publish the Warrior and Shaman piece, because your point may be one of the biggest value issues with the upcoming rotation.

A belated thanks for the feedback! 🙂 I fully agree – healing makes or breaks the Warlock class as a whole.

I have the feeling that we’ll see that particular GIF a lot more in the upcoming weeks 🙂

You’ll have half the fun with Void Contract, so that’s better than nothing! 🙂

Control Paladin will definitely rise up after the rotation. It got plenty of decent tools, and while Uther DK will rotate, we could still see a “new old” archetype rise up.

Even, Zoo and Control Warlock will most likely stay somewhat viable. Don’t disenchant ANY cards until you know what’s coming with the next expansion!

Very good input! Dread Corsair definitely has a place in this list, and there are many Legend lists around that run it. I still like Elven Minstrel because it adds so much more snowball potential until Valeera comes out, and it always has been such a fantastic value tool with Coin in hand.

That is why I’d rather replace Ooze instead of Minstrel, depending on the meta. Corsair does well in control matchups, and does so much better compared to aggro matchups (it’s decent against Odd Paladin, but not as good as one would think).

Again, very well put! 🙂

They can be silenced! They instantly turn dormant when silenced.

Well, Raiding Party mainly serves the purpose of re-drawing Kingsbane! That’s everything the archetype could have wished for, although I can understand your feeling of not using the card “the right way”.

I didn’t cover Walk the Plank and Backstab because we have cards that do the same but better.

Backstab serves as a combo enabler, but we have plenty of that already. If you want to play Backstab you need to play more combo cards, and that puts the archetype into a diferent direction that in my opinion doesn’t make it better.

The same goes for Walk the Plank. If you want even more hard removal besides Doomerang, Sap and Vanish you should play Vilespine Slayer instead, as it has been played regularly in the past. Removal and stats on the board! It only had to go because we need space for the pirate package around Raiding Party!

Envenom would be a nice addition against archetypes like Taunt Druid or Control Warlock. However, we do want to have 2x Leeching Poison solely because of higher chance of draw. Feels bad, but serves a purpose.