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Reno Jackson is rotating out of Standard, and it's been revealed that there aren't any Highlander cards to support the archetype in Un'goro.

It feels like the new direction for Priest and Mage are dependent are Quests, and those classes need x2 of a lot of cards to reliably complete their Quests. And as for Warlock, putting Kazakus in a Discard deck seems like a mistake. 

Is Kazakus functionally retired now?

Maybe in priest, but i doubt youd be able to make anything top tier with it.

Priest will have a even better reno in quest form now, however don't forget we are losing bran as well which also helped kazakus. So i think it could be used in priest.

For Priest, it's quite doable to do an effective deathrattle highlander deck, but the Mage and the Warlock quests do not feel compatible withKazakus imo.

Imagine you build an highlander Warlock deck for the quest, but you discard Kazakus on the way... not gonna happen

Quote from Rimousqui >>

For Priest, it's quite doable to do an effective deathrattle highlander deck, but the Mage and the Warlock quests do not feel compatible withKazakus imo.

Imagine you build an highlander Warlock deck for the quest, but you discard Kazakus on the way... not gonna happen

I think we've seen enough of kaz for the past 4 months

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Reno Jackson is rotating out of Standard, and it's been revealed that there aren't any Highlander cards to support the archetype in Un'goro.

Keep in mind brann is rotating too, and that gave you significantly more kazakus value. That rotating out might not have as much impact as reno leaving, but the impact is still huge.

We already have a thread about this topic:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/card-discussion/189203-is-kazakus-dead-in-post-reno-ungoro-meta