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Good job Blizzard on all nerfs! Except this one. It should cost 6 mana i think.

Changing the mana cost doesn't mean anything with this guy. Yeah, it's a big deal, but big minions are still unplayable while he has this effect. It should have been something like "Deal X damage to a minion with 7 or more attack"(OR even 'that costs more than X mana') That way there's a chance he's not enough to take out the bigger minions. This effect still limits design space.

Fair. That's what this is. In fact it's still pretty good. Just not as groslly good as it was before since your opponent could destroy that big minion you spent all last turn by Paying jus 3 mana, getting a minion and having enough mana left over to play something like dr boom. Atleast now it is a considerable dent in their tempo in exchange for value. Exactly what I wanted.

This is excellent. Exactly the nerf I had in mind. Very pleased.

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I'm very satisfied by this nerf.

The effect itself is still very important. SO MANY big minions coming with WoG, you can rely only on class hard removal, not enough.

But now, it's not a huge tempo swing. 5 is a good price. Good job blizz.

 Killing a 7+ cost minion: -7+ mana for your opponent
Gaining a 2.5 value minion: -2.5 tempo for you

4.5 mana worth of tempo gained for killing a 7 cost minion;
A 5 mana spell that reads: Gain 9 or 10 mana


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I just wish it did 5 damage to a 7+ attack minion, or 4 damage to a 6+ attack minion... for 3 mana.

That's just so much cleaner.
You STILL lose the game to the tempo loss of getting your 7+ mana minion killed, decks running BGH will just perform worse against decks with few or no 7 attack minions.

That's the kind of balance I hate:
Cards that completely wreck specific cards -- but are bad against decks that don't run those specific cards.

It's so blatantly Rock, Paper, Scissor-y, and I want a deeper strategy than luck and matchmaking.

Personally, I was hoping they would increase the attack threshold of Big Game Hunter's effect. Make it something more niche through patching up high cost or control intensive matchups, not what mana cost a deck can swallow. Still, it's something. Hopefully enough.

The card is now literally impossible to play for tempo on 3, without any target. This is big deal. Well done bliz. Cards with this stron an effect should not be flexible too.

Yeah still good...nope.  5 mana for crappy stats, and hardly being able to do anything else your turn.  Also no one dropped a 4/2 at 3 just to have something on the board, it was a tech card.  Now it isn't even that.  Regardless of the meta, this is garbage.

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Changing the mana cost doesn't mean anything with this guy. Yeah, it's a big deal, but big minions are still unplayable while he has this effect. It should have been something like "Deal X damage to a minion with 7 or more attack"(OR even 'that costs more than X mana') That way there's a chance he's not enough to take out the bigger minions. This effect still limits design space.

Exactly what I expected. The common 5 mana 4/2 deals 2 damage, epic 5 mana 4/2 kills a giant. At least they didn't turn it into a Hemet that only kills dragons.

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Changing the mana cost doesn't mean anything with this guy. Yeah, it's a big deal, but big minions are still unplayable while he has this effect. It should have been something like "Deal X damage to a minion with 7 or more attack"(OR even 'that costs more than X mana') That way there's a chance he's not enough to take out the bigger minions. This effect still limits design space.

that's just not true man, big minions aren't even unplayable now while BGH is unchanged. it's just that now throwing out a BGH is not as much of a thoughtless play. It costs more, so do you use it on this 7 mana minion or save it for something more threatening down the line and spend your 5 mana elsewhere? 

I support a BGH nerf but I really never got the community attitude of "Oh it has 7+ attack it's unplayable because of bgh", like, every card is unplayable then because there's a card that counters it. BGH was just too much of a tempo swing, spend three mana taking down their huge guy leaves you with plenty of mana to put out a pretty good tier minion in addition to the 4/2. 

They could have at least bumped the stats to 5/3. Horrible nerf. Another horrible nerf.

Didn't need to be nerfed. Not sure why people who include control cards in their decks are being punished this update.

Still better than Hemet. Rofl

He's going back into our collections, but if a pest ever becomes a big problem, he'll always be on call.

BGH is the Orkin Man of Hearthstone

For 5 mana, he should be a 4/3 at the very least.

I think I will be crafting a second BGH especially with the addition of a lot of big minions with this expansion. Blizzard can't redesign this card yet, because it's needed once the meta gets slower and transitions more into a dropping big minions after big minions play style.

finnally :D

Hm, Well balanced, Blizzard!

So you destroy any big minion (for 5 mana) like Deathwing or others and have 4/2 minion on board. 
BGH will be a must have minion even with this mana cost.