Oh also it’s kind of a letdown that this huge demon that has been hyped so much in the book of mercs storyline is just a mountain giant 2.0

I guess evenlock in wild got some buffs but I doubt this card will have any play anywhere else. Handlock will never be competitive in standard because you can’t afford to do nothing but tap for the first 3-4 turns. If only warlock is given card generation on the same level as priest, handlock will be playable.

strictly worse darius crowley

What is up with the tickatus comments? You know damn well this is just going to eat the 1-3 soul fragment demon. Also the last time I checked paladin was still sh*tting on everyone, good luck winning when you eat a 1-1 paladin minion.

The main problem with shaman is that when it’s strong it feels unfair, and that’s because it is unfair, look at hearthstone’s entire history, everytime a shaman deck was tier 1 it relied on playing good cards on curve, you couldn’t beat bogspine knuckles on 5, you couldn’t beat galakrond on 7, shudder on 9, tunnel trogg on 1 + totem golem on 2, you name it, it doesn’t matter what you play, if they have it, you lose, your only hope to winning was that they don’t have it, and the reason that these decks didn’t have 100% win rate was that there was no good draw options in the class so when they didn’t have their good cards they just took their loses and moved on. And when the good cards were nerfed the class took a nosedive to trash tier everytime, never to be played again until the next good card was revealed.

Priest also suffers from the same problem, but tier 1 shaman decks were generally pretty fast, whereas priest has always been a control class (with the exception of inner fire decks) which leads to longer games which makes it more hated than shaman.

Turns out when you nerf both the best deck and the next best options, nothing really changes. Who could have foreseen this :((((

These nerfs arent nearly enough to push back paladin, especially with bloodlu- i mean, conviction being unchanged and hysteria being nerfed (only viable control decks were warlock and priest anyway).

Also, nzoth being buffed to 9 mana may actually be a secret nerf because most decks that run nzoth usually run yshaarj too and nzoth being 9 mana means it cant corrupt clowns anymore, which I feel like is a big deal. Not to mention most of the time the 1 leftover mana won’t be used. Being able to play it on turn 9 is also not really a big deal as all boardclears are cheaper than that.

Warlock buffs are a joke, I dont think the shaman buffs are any good either but warrior may be promising

I have been wondering why they haven’t done any buffs since boomsday (not reverts) , especially for standard, I haven’t really seen anyone else bringing this up on any forum either so I am pleasently surprised to see that buffing standard cards wasn’t a one-off thing.

Hopefully shaman will be at least half decent and if it is, hopefully they won’t put it back in the garbage tier after two weeks.

i cant imagine this card being run aggro since it’s kinda slow and doesn’t directly deal damage but I can see it being used as an enabler for some kind of minion based combo.

mini DOOM!

friendly reminder that core set will have the hero power support cards for mage

new spiteful summoner? kinda too expensive though

it’s too early to say we won’t see highlander decks in standard anymore since the new expansion cards haven’t been announced yet, for all we know it’s going to have the most op highlander cards.

i looked at the original tweet, says it cant generate itself

Will alex be able to generate itself again or is only the cost nerf reverted?

I’m a little confused about some demon hunter cards, so the expansions rotating out are rise of shadows, uldum, descent of dragons (and the miniset for it), right? Ashes of outland doesn’t rotate out right? Then why are crimson sigil runner, spectral sight, ashtongue battlelord and glaives of azzinoth are in the core set when they are already ashes of outland cards? It sounds really dumb to include them in the core set if ashes of outland rotates out and this core set changes at the same time (which is next year april). Isn’t this just wasting card space in core set? I guess glaives are buffed 1 mana in core set but still I don’t understand the underlying logic of this overlap, why not buff the original card in outland set then? Also I can’t seem to spot any outland cards in the core set for other classes (but I haven’t looked very thoroughly so I might have missed some), why is this a demon hunter thing?

In the FAQ it says no dust refunds but is there any other way to gain dust from all this? Also, for future reference, a post for the 2014 meta decks and/or fun decks would be greatly appreciated.

Should have read 5 or more…

I dont understand why they decided that spell damage is the common thing between shaman and mage, mage doesn’t really care about spell damage, it’s always just a plus on the side for their cards but shaman doesn’t even benefit from spell damage. This shaman-mage cards are just mage cards tbh, with the exception of the devolving one.

i dont think kun will ever see the light of day again cuz of this