Hearthpwn

great work, interesting post, thank you very much

Seeing a lot of the stable cards I have become use to seeing so often makes me excited about what is to come. If it wasn't already clear the next expansion has a lot of pressure on its shoulders as how it will or will not replace these cards. In blizzard we trust! 

I don't think Dragon Priest is DOOMED. It loses early game cards and taunts and relies more on the late-game greedy cards. A Wrathion here, a Second-Rate Bruiser there, a Bloodmage Thalnos with Holy Smite combo for the Blackwing Corruptor, use the Netherspites to summon a few dragons to make a Drakanoid Operative or two click, and then parlay a Deathwing, Dragonlord that could follow up with Ysera, vanilla Deathwing or Nozdormu (annoyance of all mobile Hearthstone players, slow-animation card plays, Gadgetzan Auctioneer users and combo players like Miracle Rogues). Or just N'zoth to resummon the dragonlord.

I doubt the next adventure will give much help to dragon decks; it's more likely priests with dragons may have to wait for the bigger card release in the summer. So the question is can you put quality fill and stay alive to drop the heavyweights, if you have them.

Rez priest is doomed though with one of its cornerstone spells eliminated. Spell priest loses a lot from a good AOE in Excavated Evil. My thief priest deck loses Nefarian. Purify decks and OTK priests lose a few of the unicorn summoning cards. And all priests lose HUGE with the retirement of Entomb. That card to me is the biggest loss for priest.

Very cool list ! it seems you took a lot of effort to do it !

good to know what each archetype future will be.

also, i liked the jokes about some classes and archtypes, i also think freeze mage is so unfair against some decks, just stalls the game and them use a perfectly balanced (Alexstrasza)*cough* how fair is to go to 30 health to 15 for example, and then, be in the lethal range just because of a single card?

i don't like cards like anything can happen too,  cards alone that can kill you instantly please go away to oblivion !

Anyway, everyone has opinions, if i don't like one card, there will be always someone that like it too. just the time will tell how the meta will be! very informative post ! =)

Meta is gonna have a massive shift. Without new good cards, priest is going straight back to trash tier class.

Risk of oblivion lol. dont be so bleak theres a new expansion coming XD

It was a great read, thanks for the effort on writing this.

I am very exited for the next Standart rotation, I hope blizzard can step up the game this year and provide us with great options in there and in Wild.

I don't care that much for archetypes as I usually build decks in the begging and then net deck what seems interesting if I want to climb fast or if meta is fixed like it it now.

But again thanks for the well written post it was a pleasure to read something of quality and with some jokes here and there, I believe your post deserves way more attention.

OP: I love you.  Freeze Mage can suck it.

Also, as a Dragon Priest main (in the absence of a decent Hunter deck), I'd be cool with the deck going more control, although the loss of Twilight Whelp and Wyrmrest Agent will make surviving the early game a lot more difficult. Potion of Madness does help, but some cheap Dragon presence is important to the deck, too. Netherspite Historian is a great value, but not a strong enough board presence alone.

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OP: I love you.  Freeze Mage can suck it.

Also, as a Dragon Priest main (in the absence of a decent Hunter deck), I'd be cool with the deck going more control, although the loss of Twilight Whelp and Wyrmrest Agent will make surviving the early game a lot more difficult. Potion of Madness does help, but some cheap Dragon presence is important to the deck, too. Netherspite Historian is a great value, but not a strong enough board presence alone.

Hell yeah dude!!! Face Priest would kick so much ass. 

I got Wrathion in one of the first two Gadgetzan packs I opened. I don't run him, since I don't feel like I have enough Dragons in my deck to reliably pull more than one card. Azure Drake and Power Word: Shield, combined with Netherspite Historian and my hero Drakonid Operative, generally give me all the draw I need. 

my prediction : mage and priest will replace hunter and paladin at bottom when rotation come

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Shaman will lose Tunnel Trogg and Totem Golem will have more effect than you think. That is why I  disagree with your analysis. Current metaleader position will plummet if there will be no equally good early game minions in the next expansion.     

1) All the early game overloads (Wolves,bolts, claws, Faceless, lightning storms) will be real minus without benefiting the Trogg occasionally.  
  
2) Replacing minions will be not so threat and need immediate removal. Think how hard is to find answer to perfect1-2 Trogg-Golem start and how much damage it will cause over time. 

Current meta is now over 20% shamans according trackers. I think upcoming rotation will at least drop them from top position. Another point is RenoJackson departure, which might even make aggrodecks more viable.  

Take my +1 sir.  :)

Had a lot of time to build this, great job!

Great job!
Do you think Priest will ever be Tier1 without reworking Basic-Classic set? 

What about calling the classes by their names? This could be a good summary otherwise. 

Very informative, thanks.

here im really hoping for blizz to give a lot of love to mage Next expansion, i wasn't worried last rotation because mage kept a lot of useful things but in the next rotation Jaina is basically losing all her useful cards, maybe we'll have to use Cult Sorcerer as a c'thun fueling engine?

oh as for the guy that commented that shamman will be bad, that's not possible, most Jade shammans aren't even using trogg or totem golem, pirate package+Jade package is strong enough by itself to make Shamman a t1 deck, and neither of those is rotating out,