The First Week of Frozen Throne: World of Malfurion - Value Town #133
This week on Value Town, ChanManV, Alliestrasza, and J4CKIECHAN talked all about the first week of Knights of the Frozen Throne! The adventure, the cards, the decks, and more all in this week's Value Town.
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I would prefer to keep Innervate, being such an iconic card. Ultimate infestation should be reduced a bit (from 5 to 4 maybe?), but what really needs a big nerf is spreading plauge, as it punishes aggro for doing the only thing it can do against Jade Druid: trying to win before late game. Nerfing the scarabs to 1/3 shold probably be enough: the card would still get you a turn, or even a bit more, but not 2+ like before.
I personally vote for nerfing Spreading Plague to spawn 1/4 instead of 1/5 and Ultimate Infestation to change every 5 into 4. That will get druid power level a bit down while still be quite strong.
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Innervate needs to go to Hall of Fame.
but innervate is basic? SInce beta it's not even classic card. Only classic go to hall of fame
To be honest, I think that they did test druid, but they tested the wrong druid decks. They probably looked at a new hadronox-taunt druid, perhaps a classic ramp druid with the Lich king, and maybe a token druid with Spreading Plague. They probably thought, "Well, these decks appear to be either slow, or really rely on a good board state to be good, so they'll have counters in the more aggressive decks." They may have justified it by saying, "Well, Druid is a control class as a whole, buffing it will possibly slow down the meta, and the bad aggro matchup will be amplified."
I suspect that they failed to envision the sort of hybrids what would come to dominate the meta. I suspect that they saw cards like Ultimate Infestation as a card that only would work in ramp druid, with the overdraw potentially crippling its use in other control decks, failing to envision it being run in a new version of Jade.
TLDR: They probably did test out Druid pretty well before the expansion, but they didn't test out the best decks Druid had to offer.
Shame they didn't mention the interactions with the bosses and the new Lich King card. They were pretty amusing, especially the one for Lady Deathwhisper!
So, does burn Mage counter this Druid or not ?
Quest Mage does
Face palming quite hard when they talked about the adventure mode and confused killing the Lich King with all classes to get the Arthas paladin Hero skin for doing every single mission with all classes...
the lich king in the very last mission right?
Yes, The Lich King is in the last mission which will be different for every single class. I think I heard that in the paladin one you start with 1 hp.
Mage at 1 hp
I miss Noxious
Every one cries about druid and i am sitting here getting pissed that i face pirate scums and mage assholes again...I prefer faceing jade druids in all my matches than those two cancerous decks.At least against druid decks i can play my deck even if lose because i am not dead by turn 5 or getting burned by a bming c*cksucker that sits behind a million ice blocks.
i rather face 5 druids in a row that resurrect priest or other shenanigans priest
There are still people that have problems with the occasional mage that one happens upon in ranked? That's amusing.^^
Are you familiar with this card?
Just let me tank all of my other fucking matchups! : ) ) ) ) ) )) )