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freeze is favored against every aggro deck, except some double innervate fel reaver druid bullshit, what are you talking about? shaman matchup is like 60/40 or 55/45 for freeze

Who knows, maybe they'll make a legendary that's anti emperor. Every turn he's alive, make all the cards in your opponent's hand cost one more.

Of course all the control decks will complain until the chickens go home, but nothing is without controversy.

I don't think Alexstrasza herself needed to be nerfed, but SOME part of freeze mage did (Ice Block personally getting my vote). The deck has always been strong, and by it being ignored it's practically guaranteed to always be a part of the meta in Standard (defeating half its purpose).

(And cards like Eater of Secrets are never going to kill the deck, because they'll simply hurt too much in any other match-up. Even match-ups that kill the deck will hardly remove it, as Freeze Mage has to be fighting them more than half the time for it to longer be worth it.)

Quote from DragonConsort >>

Alexstrasza is far from the only non interactive part of freeze mage.  Every turn is no interaction.  Frost nova+Doomsayer.  Mad scientist, play secret...freeze a million times, run card draw.  Drop Alex, know off half the opponent's life.  Next turn drop the spell burst combo.  All those other examples...those decks actually put stuff on the board, and interact actively with it.

Combo druid was a counter to freeze mage, combo is gone now.  The other druids don't fare so well.  Control warrior, yeah that is still a great counter.  Too bad not everyone loves playing that specific deck.

 

I think that to nerf freeze mage they'd have to nerf either Ice Block or the burst potential of the deck and not Alexstrasza and if they didn't, it's because we gonna see a lot of C'Thun decks and that Ice Block is one of the rare counter to a 20/20 c'thun on turn 10.

fm is only as strong as it is now because of emperor. with it, they can do 30+ damage. Without emperor though, they are limited to about 23 damage at most. once he's gone fm is going to lose a lot of power and will probably slink into tier 3 or 4

Perhaps they're going to create an anti-alex -- like... a bringer of life and hope to counter Alexstraszas death and despair..?

Alex reads:
Deal 15 damage to an opponent -- in decks she's used in...

So... and anti-Alex could just read: Restore 15 health to your hero.
Cost 9 mana and be an 8/8 taunt.

Quote from TescusTyranus >>

fm is only as strong as it is now because of emperor. with it, they can do 30+ damage. Without emperor though, they are limited to about 23 damage at most. once he's gone fm is going to lose a lot of power and will probably slink into tier 3 or 4

I have 3 copys of her waiting in my collection... would have been 4800 dust. :(

Without a doubt. frost nova doomsayer will now work much more percentage of time because of owl nerf... With bgh nerfed, alex's 8/8 body probably might deal devastating damage to your opponent. The only thing freeze mages lose are their mad scientists, which i believe won't mage a slight impact on freeze mage.

Seems like that control decks aren't taking a single hit while aggro decks are getting crushed.

Although I hate control warrior, I feel like that I will be crafting control warrior when standard comes just to counter freeze mage. 

 Holy mother of necro. Take a look at the date before posting.