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Hey, Conjurer's Calling mages.

F*ck you.

Interesting that this card is seeing play again. With all the giants and turn 6 Tyrantuses running around hes doing alright for himself. 

I still think it should deal 7 damage instead of out right killing them. It could be 3-4 mana 4/2 - Battlecry: deal 7 damage to a minion with 7 or more Attack. You'd have to pull one or more damage in most cases, reducing the tempo loss for playing big minions, while maintaining his flexibility and usefulness.

I think due to the new quests being added to the game with the new Un'Goro expansion, this card could see some more play, as it is a card that single handedly gets rid of the big minions you get as rewards. Now this depends of how often we see Quest decks around and of how many other cards with 7 attack or more are added. Example of cards like this are Kalimos, Primal Lord, Swamp King Dred, the always seen Flamewreathed Faceless, and maybe the new Ravenous Pterrordax.

This, of course, if the meta slows down, but with the new early slow cards I'm feeling like this expansion can actually slow down the meta, specifically thinking about cards like Tar Creeper, Tol'vir Stoneshaper and even Gluttonous Ooze.

Still incredibly effective removal, even after its nerf; it offers a mildly threatening body, hard removal and it's in classic neutral. Just because it isn't an auto include, practically broken card doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to see play. The people calling this card bad, useless or dust worthy probably haven't even played it much post nerf; in no way is this card even mediocore, it's kind of great.

Well, it looks like this minion is getting good again. In ranked, I face mostly shamans with 7-7 and this guy just kill it straight away. 

With every card from Gadgetan giving +/ +/ in random card in hand this guy should definitely see some play again,killing C'thun for 5 mana was not bad anyways

Let's compare this with Hemet Nesingwary and Shadow Word: Death

•  Both of them are 5 Mana. BGH has 4/2 stats while Hemet Nesingwary has 6/3 stats. They have 2/1 stat difference.
•  Both of them targets specific minions. BGH targets 7+ attacks, Hemet targets Beasts. In standart, there are 51 (49 collectible + 2 tokens) 7+ attack minions and 76 beasts (50 collectible + 26 tokens). In wild, there are 68 (64 collectible + 4 tokens) 7+ attack minions and 87 beasts (58 collectible + 29 tokens).  Number of beasts are more than number of 7+ minions in general. However, destroying a 7+ attack minion is more valuable than destroying a beast (regarding their attacks) and 7+ attack minions are more usual than beasts (which are mostly used by Hunters and Druids). So, there should be a stat difference between these two cards.
• BGH's effect is very similar with Shadow Word: Death which costs 3-Mana. Hemet's effect is similar with Sacrificial Pact which costs 0-Mana also heals 5. But there are only 2 neutral Demons (1 is Illidan Stormrage which nobody uses and the other one is Imp of Imp Master) and there are 28 neutral Beasts in Wild (4 class have their own Beasts). So, we compare these spells with mentioned effects; BGH's effect is worth 2 Mana while Hemet's effect is worth nearly 1 Mana. 
• At finally, if we compare Hemet with neutral Legendary minions that has 1-Mana spell effects (like Captain Greenskin which has effect of Upgrade!)  5-Mana 6/3 is okay.  (Captain Greenskin is 5-Mana 5/4. That's kinda better). Then, if we compare BGH with neutral non-Legendary minions that has 2-Mana spell effects (like Bomb Lobber which has effect of Flamecannon) 5-Mana 4/2 is okay. (Bomb Lobber is 5-Mana 3/3. That's also kinda better)

What I am saying is BGH nerf is not bad. It's balanced. But 3/3 or 4/3 BGH would be better. Or even 4-Mana 3/2 BGH. Yeah, that's it.

Still playable in classes with little removal (Druid), but not an auto-include. Best nerf ever by Blizzard!

still running him :)

So it turns out killing C'Thun for 5 mana is still pretty good.

I do have 2 copies of BGH now. Is there any sense to DE one copy?

You can disenchant them during the nerf period for full dust. If you need him back you still have 400 dust ready.

-.- I was 2min searching him on 3costs mana for dust it

It's still good

The nerfs went live! Why is it still showing 3 mana BGH in the above image? He costs 5 now!

edit: Looks like it's been updated to 5 mana in the above image. :) I will be dusting my BGH and if he's still meta, recraft one later on.

The issue isn't the cost it's the fact that you basically can't play a big minion because you lose next turn. I think keeping it at 3, but making him switch health with a target is a better choice, simply because that way there has to also be another form of removal to kill the creature, and you don't get an automatic 2 for 1.

400 dust or expensive removal? Hard choice.

now it is like high-risk-high-value instead of low-risk-extreme-value

GJ Blizz

it's a good nerf i'd say.  now you won't get tempo'd out instantly for investing in a big minion.