I figured they’d simply revert the aggro DH and Pirate Warrior nerfs to create to decently viable decks (and the original pirate warrior might genuinely be a tier 1 deck still) for those two classes. But the leaked DH buff points to that they’re going to try and find a way to make the new pushed archetypes viable for the classes where those didn’t hit the mark.

To answer question 2: Yes, it seems so. and on question 3: He’s Swedish. It happened in Sweden, the trial was in Sweden. More or less anyone is free to call the court and ask for information pertaining to a trial that has been held. It’s public information.

also, what does question 4 have to do with anything? Sure, they can do wrong – but that doesn’t really mean Blizzard needs to let someone be part of the competitive scene if they find out they’ve been found guilty of sexual assault/sexual harassment and in this case – even suspected of rape. And considering what’s been going on at Blizzard I can understand why they wouldn’t want to keep him in their pro scene.

I see 1 of 2 things happening with this card, depending on how the meta will look after the expansion hits:

1. Priest can get into the late game most if not all games and priest will win almost every single game. We end up with mirrors closer to a coin toss than hearthstone.
2. Priest doesn’t get to the late game often enough. Priest ends up only being a barrier to entry for
all other control decks in the game as they will have close to no chance against priest now. Warlock can hope to get lucky with their mills.

I don’t really like either option to be honest. I want the game to have more control options. Not 1 that might not even be good at anything but pissing off control.

Could definitely see raise dead be nerfed. Possibly 2 mana or more self damage. Of note here is that more self damage would be a “buff” to warlock and their new questline coming up in the next expansion.

Actually, a nerf I could see is that discover cards can’t discover discover cards. Even thought that would hit other classes then priest as well. So maybe having renew unable to discover certain spells.

Of course, not being able to generate generation from generator cards as a blanket nerf might not be to bad overall. Depending on what the control decks gets in united in stormwind to compensate. Because we are in dire need of good control to deal with the aggro problem.