still playable, playing handlock means always living on the edge and combined with some of the other nerfs (bye bye combo druid and arcane smorc-bot) this isn't too big of a deal... i won't dust my golden moltens, i still love'em
I feel they should've increased the mana cost to 22. Well, I think we won't see giants in the ladder anymore. It's a shame, I think they are cool cards
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Whoever designed Jade Idol and thought it was a good and healthy card for the game has clearly never played HS.
So now when you're near death, you can spend your whole turn playing an 8/8 that spent most of the game costing 11+ mana in your hand and doesn't do enough to keep you from dying. Why would I ever run this over another giant body?
Handlocks my main deck, so this is very disappointing, hopefully it'll still be playable but honestly I just don't see it. On the flipside, with the removal of a ton of burst from the game and the overall nerfs to silence and BGH things might even out. Time will tell.
Not deserved nerf, Handlock has not even been tier 1 for so long, and the archetype completely depends on these giants. They killed it, if you are down to 5 health any shitty spell can kill you, its too risky. Should have been 22 mana at most.
I too think the increased mana cost a little bit harsh, but I also think Handlock will come back and going to be strong in Standard.
Not so sure anymore, though...
how?? handlock lost alot of good cards, healbots, belchers, implosions, malganys and voidcallers, darkbombs, there was literally zero reason to think handlock would be tier1 deck, since it will be even more vulnerable to all the decks with easy reach...
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Buff to Holy Wrath Paladin? XD
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seems fair with the bgh nerf
still playable, playing handlock means always living on the edge and combined with some of the other nerfs (bye bye combo druid and arcane smorc-bot) this isn't too big of a deal... i won't dust my golden moltens, i still love'em
I feel they should've increased the mana cost to 22. Well, I think we won't see giants in the ladder anymore. It's a shame, I think they are cool cards
Whoever designed Jade Idol and thought it was a good and healthy card for the game has clearly never played HS.
10 HP wasn't risky enough, hah? Now Jaraxxus can play it for 10 mana with 0 HP. Shame on you Blizzard!
Playing Hearthstone since Oct 2015. Favourite class: Warlock.
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So now when you're near death, you can spend your whole turn playing an 8/8 that spent most of the game costing 11+ mana in your hand and doesn't do enough to keep you from dying. Why would I ever run this over another giant body?
Probably the worst nerf for me personally. I hope it's still playable in Warlock.
Handlocks my main deck, so this is very disappointing, hopefully it'll still be playable but honestly I just don't see it. On the flipside, with the removal of a ton of burst from the game and the overall nerfs to silence and BGH things might even out. Time will tell.
Sucks
Don't think this is playable anymore. Not sure it really needed the nerf either, not seen Handlock dominating the world lately.
Too strong. Probably dust them now. It's better to play Freez Giants now.
Not deserved nerf, Handlock has not even been tier 1 for so long, and the archetype completely depends on these giants. They killed it, if you are down to 5 health any shitty spell can kill you, its too risky. Should have been 22 mana at most.
WOW! This is a MASSIVE buff! Now I can easily OTK my opponent with Holy Wrath. 10/10
Sounds good to me. Warlock will most likely have more ways to spend health or deal damage to themselves so this makes sense.
I too think the increased mana cost a little bit harsh, but I also think Handlock will come back and going to be strong in Standard.
Not so sure anymore, though...
I'm almost happier about this than I am about Force of Nature!
Too bad Mountain Giant didn't take some splash damage from the ol' nerf bazooka!
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No other card got so severe a nerf. A 5 mana cost increase? I think this may have just been nerfed into oblivion.