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3 mana 2/1 .. with a text that says .. "who uses me is dumber that it looks.and shuffle some stuff in your deck as well"

My guess is they make it 4 mana and its never played again unless some crazy deathrattle deck is created in future expansions. 3 mana 3/2 would be a fair nerf that wont kill the card completely.

3 Mana 3/2: Add a 1/1 to the top and bottom of your opponents deck would be interesting. Its a tech against aggro and highlander after you play your 2nd bird.

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3* 4/3 - Shuffle 2 into both players decks. 

3* 3/2 same text

3* 4/3 shuffle 2 on the bottom of opponent's deck

4* 4/3 same text

 Wait a second, shuffling them on the bottom is actually a buff vs Highlander decks because there is no chance of drawing them before Zephrys/Alex 

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5 mana

 I don't think they will nerf the mechanic itself, because it would ruin the card's flavor (and Blizz often highlights how so called flavor is important to them).

So if, in my opinion, they have only stats and cost to mess with, I think they are gonna nerf them significantly to simply discourage people from putting it everywhere they can. 

4 mana so many people claim being almost certain, is not a big nerf. Slower decks, which are not based on tempo, could still play it. And if Highlander was a significant part of the meta - they would still do. I can see Priest running 4 mana Albatross easily.

People saying 2 mana is too much of a nerf for Blizard, because they usually just bump things by one mana, surely don't remember Blizzard's overkills from the past. Equality anyone?

No way they're taking away the ability to disrupt highlander decks.  Higher cost or lesser stats.  I suspect the latter.  

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The 1/1s are spell cards. Like bombs or hakar 

 That's what I think should be, but those spells can't be neutral for sake of pure paladin.  Counts as all classes could easily end it in case they have ideas for other classes.

Since they're not as creative, it'd be 4 mana :\

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The 1/1s are spell cards. Like bombs or hakar 

 That's what I think should be, but those spells can't be neutral for sake of pure paladin.  Counts as all classes could easily end it in case they have ideas for other classes.

 

 Idea is nice, but it's not logical by any means. It's clearly a minion, with a body and stats. They could maybe change albatross to shuffle cards like "summon a 1/1" - and without additional draw, so the messing draws up remains as a part of the effect - but then there's no disadvantage of being forced to actually pay 1 mana to have it not clogging your hand.

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The 1/1s are spell cards. Like bombs or hakar 

 That's what I think should be, but those spells can't be neutral for sake of pure paladin.  Counts as all classes could easily end it in case they have ideas for other classes.

 

 Idea is nice, but it's not logical by any means. It's clearly a minion, with a body and stats. They could maybe change albatross to shuffle cards like "summon a 1/1" - and without additional draw, so the messing draws up remains as a part of the effect - but then there's no disadvantage of being forced to actually pay 1 mana to have it not clogging your hand.

 Those cards work like for druid ysera and are spells, so it solves mage, still mess w/HL, same we meant, but all of those draw a card after.  

If they keep them as minions, those tokens could have 'draw a card when drawn', so it's still a pest, but not as much.

they either nerf stats or change mana they  never change card effect.  I think it will be 5 mana or 2/2 for 3 mana

Make it a spell. 2 mana - Shuffle 2 albatrosses into your opponents deck.

This way Priest cant do their bullshit resurrect it 10 times to ruin your entire deck - and ruin your fun at the same time.

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The 1/1s are spell cards. Like bombs or hakar 

 That's what I think should be, but those spells can't be neutral for sake of pure paladin.  Counts as all classes could easily end it in case they have ideas for other classes.

 

 Idea is nice, but it's not logical by any means. It's clearly a minion, with a body and stats. They could maybe change albatross to shuffle cards like "summon a 1/1" - and without additional draw, so the messing draws up remains as a part of the effect - but then there's no disadvantage of being forced to actually pay 1 mana to have it not clogging your hand.

 Those cards work like for druid ysera and are spells, so it solves mage, still mess w/HL, same we meant, but all of those draw a card after.  

If they keep them as minions, those tokens could have 'draw a card when drawn', so it's still a pest, but not as much.

 Making them draw another card when drawn makes the Albatross useless. It has two purposes:

• to mess up with Highlander
• to give opponent bad draws

Under this change it still messes up with Highlander (but not so badly actually, because it's only one card for them to draw, not two), while making the "bad draw" aspect of the card completely irrelevant.

I strongly doubt anyone would play Albatross in current meta (where Highlander isn't that big of a deal) if it didn't give opponents two dead draws.

He's now a mech with Magnetic, Divine Shield, Taunt, Lifesteal, Rush.

Personally I prefer that it cost the same, have the same statistics but for that I would like to put two birds on each deck. I don't want to be killed.

Birds battlecry draw a card?

I hate this nerf so much. It’s an anti-highlander tech card in tons of decks. Highlander decks are already awesome. Their win rate will improve big time when Blizzard does whatever they do and they will have to adjust again. 

edit: less one attack or health would be not the end of the world but mana and double shuffle are needed for tech application.