Wouldn’t mind Bliz nerfing the auto buff on Abyssal Curse (“Each Curse is worse than the last.”)

Garotte’s Bleeds needed a ton of Spell Damage buffs (and considerable player skill) to pull off a mid-game OTK. Abyssal Curses do the buffs for you with no effort. Skip all the actual gameplay and watch the deck do the killing for you.

Scrapping auto-buffs on Abyssal Curse would feel right. Or even dropping it to ‘every OTHER Curse is worse.’ Still an annoyance but not an autopilot OTK.

He just pushed it back 4:30 – 5:30 PST.

Iksar AMA on Twitter 4-5 PST.

Hopefully he’ll address the dusty elephant in the room.

Thanks for clarifying. I wasn’t questioning your citation of the nerf, only Blizz’s rationale – which you explained. When in doubt, or when there’s competing factors, they treat it as a nerf. Allowing for exceptions, I’ll take that as the guideline.

Phenomenal summary from all angles. A++ job.

There are only tradeoffs now in whatever they do to resolve this multilayered debacle. Nothing will fix this, there are just varying degrees of bad compromises. Salvaging PR seems way more profitable long-term than being short-term stingy on the dust because giving it away looks scary bad to the accountants. WE SHALL SEE.

Rapid Fire’s cost +1 and damage +1 is a nerf, not an even wash? So we’ll get full dust refund on this one too?

You can keep cards you crafted with the extra dust, but you can’t keep the extra dust to craft cards with.

This directly punishes everyone who waited to craft cards.

I would have left the mistaken extra dust untouched, then comped all players who didn’t get any a free 2000 dust so they wouldn’t get left out.

Not that anyone “deserved” any extra dust. But customer goodwill is priceless and this was a ripe opportunity squandered.

Great suggestion. Crowdsourcing always posts a solution within a day, and voila.

I also don’t expect to get him, but you never know. I’d love to see those wolves chomping.

Outstanding. I’m smashing the like button.

Perhaps we’ll get a chance to acquire Diamond Drek’thar at some point. They must have designed both diamond versions in advance rather than waiting until knowing the winner. Shame to let him go to waste.

TFW no Nimbus card back…

Winter Veil hero skins are posted for the “Winter Veil Cheer Bundle.”

Any word on this yet?

Leatherworking Kit functions like Avenge with the slight limitation of beasts.

Weapons are one way to work in the Avenge mechanic. Secrets are another since they sit over the top of the board like weapons and persist over multiple removals.

“I also like change and I welcome new decks, but when a whole archetype is dead I don’t see it as an upgrade”

^^^yes^^^

Don’t see how the aggro toothpaste ever gets put back in the tube. Wild will never have control decks again, it’s pure aggro from now on. Once you calibrate around aggro you can’t re-introduce control unless you nerf all the Questlines. It’s a forever change in gameplay.

RIP control until Questlines rotate out of Standard.

The Questline killer. One of the strongest cards in the Stormwind era. Warlock, Mage, Druid Questlines just collapse. Also stalls Hunter, DH, and Priest. Not broken, just a monster tech card.

Thanks so much. Just realized there’s a golden pack reward for completing BOH, so I flew through Gul’dan’s puzzles with your guides.

Blizzard solved the balance issues by flatlining the Meta, removing all interactivity, and making Standard a draw race to zero.

Nuking the field was always an option for leveling it.

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