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Lol.  After playing 70% matches against druid in the past few days, I can safely predict that these two tweaks will have little affect on those decks.  But with druid's best competition also getting nerfed, I see Druid being even more pervasive than before,  WTG Blizzard.

 No more turn 1 fledgling, no more innervate infestation, no ridiculous gadget chains (in druid), no more early turn recovery against token shaman, no more aggro decks to punish silence priest and secret mage, less pirate warrior to punish slower aggro, fewer aggro decks in general to prevent greedier decks that pace with jade, etc.  This changes a lot more than you think. 

 I never lose to these things.  I lose to Druid being able to empty their hand playing jades/ramps ans then just kill me, create board presence and refill hand all at the same time on turn 10.

 Well, I only ever seem to lose to them when they do that well before turn 10.  Otherwise, I'm way ahead on board because my opponent had a slow opening.  You also missed the part about a number of jade druid counters becoming stronger (although admittedly some are getting weaker too). 

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 yeah, I think that is the biggest part of meta prediction that many are missing, There are decent counters to Jade Druid, Miracle Rogue, Tempo Rogue, Possibly Big minion Shaman, that are weak against PW and Murloc Paladin. With both of those being significantly weakened These decks will raise tiers... who much will they raise? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the meta was significantly different (Though I still Expect Jade to be there),

Highlander priest, big priest, jade druid, maybe control warlock and some new kind of zoo. Some iterations of control warrior and paladin might also see play, but I certainly doubt if they will be any good.

If there happens to be too many jades, quest mage may pop up as an option. Basically almost the same meta, only with a tad slower jades and no aggro decks.

In response to the OP. I personally don't expect Shaman or Quest Warrior to do that well post patch. Midrange Hunter and Exodia Mage will imo slightly improve their position. The biggest winner of the changes has to be Priest both Highlander and Big. Imo Highlander Priest will challenge Jade Druid's top position, but I still expect Jade Druid to remain the strongest deck around.

I reckon jade druid is going to be a helluva lot better.

Meta slowing down, priest rising up... it's going to wreck harder than it does now.

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Standard priest and standard druid will rule in both standard and wild.

The game has enterred the worst stage ever. I played 20 wild games last night and in 15 of them they were priests and druids with no wild cards whatsoever.

This is just wrong. People are just braindeads...

Kinda fun looking back at this thread.  The meta is still new though. 

We are still in the first week so we still haven't fully seen what the new meta will be. There are some surprises like Aggro/Tempo Rogue doing well against a good portion of the meta decks. We still are seeing a lot of greedy jade decks to counter the highlander priest, but they leave themselves open to get rushed down which why the low curve Midrange and Face Hunters are doing so well. Hell, we even have mid-range evolve Shamans starting to gain a footing. I like where we are moving with the meta at the moment. 

Once more things get figured out we may see the major problem decks pre-patch fall out of favor in the meta, but right now the best deck still seems to be Control Jade Druid at high ranks. At least now you don't have to ask yourself "How does this beat pirates" when making a deck.