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The change to the chain gang does nothing in wild with the doppelgangster still available
hence they will probably change that too as it has very similar wording (or not because they don't care about wild LUL
Question. How does this card work with Doppelgangster in its Battlecry pool? The 2 2/2s it summons are not identical to the base minion.
It triggers the Battlecry as it reads, "Summon two copies of this minion."
I feel so bad for shaman. This card is truly bonkers - it really is - it's a 5-star card in a vacuum. But Shaman is just so bad - it's even worse than it was last rotation. I'm sorry, but 1-card can't fix an under-powered, broken class with little direction and poor cards compared to other classes.
As of 1 day on ladder, Shaman is STILL the worst class in the expansion at high ranks. That might improve, but it's doubtful. Shaman needs a buff across the board for this card to win more than 43% of its games. The problem is, Blizzard can't give shaman good cards now for 2 years, because even a little more defensive power will make this deck broken. Nobody wants that, so I wouldn't expect much.
Also, the animations are really long. It's fun the first few times, but honestly, gets boring to play and play against, and causing ropes really sucks when trying to ladder quickly. That's another reason Blizzard won't improve Shaman cards to make this deck more defensive.
I actually wish the card didn't have 1-mana infinite recursion - it would have then just been a great value card, and then we'd see growth in the Shaman class with future expansions. But now they can't do that. What was once a good value card is now a means to an OTK, and we all know what blizzard thinks about that. It's such a short-sighted card design :(
I pulled a Shudder, and crafted a Grumble for the deck. It's effective, and a not terrible control OTK, but if they nerf Shudder, I wouldn't mind getting my dust and keeping grumble for future use.
The deck doesn't win enough to deserve an immediate nerf. I'm way more concerned about future cards in Shaman because of this card's existence.
Idk, I'm at a positive winrate, but that may only be because people don't know how to play against it yet.
Needless to say, I agree that the future combo of Shudder+Grumble opens up too many doors rather left closed.
Yeah, there's definitely people above 50% playing the deck - even I was when I played it for 10 or so games. According to hsreplay.net, it's now at 42.x%. For the health of the game, I'm pretty happy that's the case, but I feel bad for shaman all the same. I gotta think there was a better way to expand Shaman's viable options without making an obviously broken OTK card. I so wish this was just a good value card and they got other good cards to replace Jades.
Well there's every reason to think that Shaman will be in a more healthy place in a few months. I think people are over estimating how broken Shudder could be, when there could easily be fewer battle-cries than normal next time.
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The card is totally broken but it can pass through 2 fucking walls of voidlords and win, so its ok for me, still blizzard can do some changes to the game so once the opponent is defeated, the animation stops and the game just ends, that would be fair for everyone...
Most stupidiest card in the history of the universe. Why isnt this hotfixed yet? retarded..
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How could this bullshit card pass the QA?
Wait Blizzard has a QA team?