It's almost certainly going to be: deck of lunacy, sword of the fallen, pen flinger, far watch post, mor'shan watchpost, and a rogue card (maybe efficient octo-bot or field contact). Spring water is good, but a lot of cards are good, and they have been doing their best to not kill archetypes with recent nerfs.
What are you even on? The 'unnerfing' is cards that had previously been nerfed having the nerfs reverted. Pen flinger and broomstick are entirely unrelated.
That isn't an un-nerf, it never cost one mana in the first place. It is still happening, one mana lock and load will be available to everyone in the core set.
On the flip side, it is an actually good card that doesn't work well with a tickatus strategy, thus encouraging slow warlocks that play something other than tickatus.
I don't think they want, or should want, highlander to always be around. It's fun to give it support every once and a while, but not everyone likes highlander decks or the play patterns they create.
There was no y'shaarj at the world championship. Tickatus warlock is an awful deck that gets wrecked by anything with face damage. There is no point in arguing about cards in theory when you can just look at how they are performing, and it's clear that y'shaarj is not a balance problem.
I mean... milling is pretty random and not normally that good. How often does your deck actually draw down to its last five cards? If you don't get to the bottom of your deck, you just draw the next five cards in your deck instead of the top five and it isn't that big of a deal. The effect doesn't really stop you from playing the game unless it is actually something that can create an entire mill strategy, a few cards off the top of your deck feels kind of bad but in terms of the mechanics of the game doesn't normally mean much.
This mostly provides a way to get the advantage in late game control matchups, or as a counter to combo decks that intend to draw their entire deck and need several specific cards to win (which tend to be the least interactive decks in the game).
The robes are very common when you get to higher win totals, but the solution might be as simple as making them round up instead of down. There are a lot of powerful passives, and the fact that they feel broken is part of the appeal, robes just seem a little bit out of line with the others.
Kolento actually seemed relieved to be exiting GM, hopefully we continue to see him at tournaments but he might have needed a break from competitive play.
It's difficult to predict whether priest will be good, but I'm really hoping we are pretty much done with galakrond, I've seen enough of him in the last two sets. Quite a few of the priest cards have potential, including some that you seem to be dismissing, they will just require a different type of deck.
The meta doesn't get solved all that much faster because you let a few streamers play early, and even with the theorycraft streams I still see plenty of variety on expansion launch. The meta gets solved because of large scale data analysis on millions of games, not because a few streamers get to play a few hundred extra games.
How is the idea of having dual class cards a copy of mtg dual lands? I don't think mtg is the originator of the basic idea of combining things together.
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That would still allow for the wretched tiller OTK
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These cards are also in wild...and 4/5 of the nerfed cards see significant play in wild.
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It's almost certainly going to be: deck of lunacy, sword of the fallen, pen flinger, far watch post, mor'shan watchpost, and a rogue card (maybe efficient octo-bot or field contact). Spring water is good, but a lot of cards are good, and they have been doing their best to not kill archetypes with recent nerfs.
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What are you even on? The 'unnerfing' is cards that had previously been nerfed having the nerfs reverted. Pen flinger and broomstick are entirely unrelated.
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That isn't an un-nerf, it never cost one mana in the first place. It is still happening, one mana lock and load will be available to everyone in the core set.
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Because they want to bring it back into standard at some point, and 1 mana 1/2 is a better balance point to do that.
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On the flip side, it is an actually good card that doesn't work well with a tickatus strategy, thus encouraging slow warlocks that play something other than tickatus.
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I don't think they want, or should want, highlander to always be around. It's fun to give it support every once and a while, but not everyone likes highlander decks or the play patterns they create.
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There was no y'shaarj at the world championship. Tickatus warlock is an awful deck that gets wrecked by anything with face damage. There is no point in arguing about cards in theory when you can just look at how they are performing, and it's clear that y'shaarj is not a balance problem.
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I mean... milling is pretty random and not normally that good. How often does your deck actually draw down to its last five cards? If you don't get to the bottom of your deck, you just draw the next five cards in your deck instead of the top five and it isn't that big of a deal. The effect doesn't really stop you from playing the game unless it is actually something that can create an entire mill strategy, a few cards off the top of your deck feels kind of bad but in terms of the mechanics of the game doesn't normally mean much.
This mostly provides a way to get the advantage in late game control matchups, or as a counter to combo decks that intend to draw their entire deck and need several specific cards to win (which tend to be the least interactive decks in the game).
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The robes are very common when you get to higher win totals, but the solution might be as simple as making them round up instead of down. There are a lot of powerful passives, and the fact that they feel broken is part of the appeal, robes just seem a little bit out of line with the others.
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Kolento actually seemed relieved to be exiting GM, hopefully we continue to see him at tournaments but he might have needed a break from competitive play.
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It's difficult to predict whether priest will be good, but I'm really hoping we are pretty much done with galakrond, I've seen enough of him in the last two sets. Quite a few of the priest cards have potential, including some that you seem to be dismissing, they will just require a different type of deck.
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The meta doesn't get solved all that much faster because you let a few streamers play early, and even with the theorycraft streams I still see plenty of variety on expansion launch. The meta gets solved because of large scale data analysis on millions of games, not because a few streamers get to play a few hundred extra games.
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How is the idea of having dual class cards a copy of mtg dual lands? I don't think mtg is the originator of the basic idea of combining things together.