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It seems to me that they are probably concerned with buffing cards in general, and this move indicates that they are not interested in retooling old cards. This makes a certain degree of sense, I think. This is obviously just my opinion, but I have the feeling the community reaction to changing BBB to 4 mana and Magma Rager to a 5/2 instead of releasing these new cards would have a larger community backlash. People are upset about the power creep, but no one has really made the argument that these new cards will see play. So if they made this change to the old cards, everyone would just be asking what the point of the change was. Then they'd start to complain about other cards and say Blizzard should change them and why haven't they done it yet. Or they'd demand more changes to the updated Magma Rager and the BBB. When people ask for buffs, they are almost always saying "Make this card competitive" not "Make this card marginally better but still bad."
For me, this comes down to an issue of design space. The community perception of the purpose of a buff would be to make a card good, not just better. These new cards are better than the old ones, but not so good that they'll see any play. I feel that cards like this one are only going to exist in the form of new cards, as there would be little point in going through the trouble of buffing bad cards to slightly better cards. The power creep precedent has been set, yes, and perhaps it's not the best thing for the game, but I think setting a precedent for buffing now would probably be worse in the long run.
Also, BBB still can be potentially better in the Joust deck where you want expensive cards XD
Nothing doing, traveler.
This actually is the first and so far only valid argument for these cards. (...not the Joust part ;)) Still, then I wished they had added a tribe or a useless Battlecry (like deal one damage to both heroes) to them to dodge the powercreep, just to show they still care about not releasing purely better and better cards. Or like I already said, some kind of a Hobgoblin that works for 1 Health minions.
This is a community issue, personally I would highly appreachiate if the worst cards in the game would get some minor buffs that make them juuuuust a little better, talking about stuff like Hemet Nesingwary or Magma Rager, but I would not like buffs that would turn existing bad cards into staples.
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I think this card is better than folks give it credit for. I could definitely see it finding a home in some taunt heavy decks.
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Its reasonable, but shredder is the most popular 4 drop and it trades favorably into this guy while the ever present 4 drop weapons also give the heckler issues.
it got nerfed right afterwards because it was broken as shit buffed.
thats why they dont buff up cards.
"you can't escape me"*
*or my mech mage.
so next edition we will get a CC3: 5/3 taunt?
Magic the Gathering does the same, and that's still going strong after more than 20 years.
I would therefore humbly suggest that you are full of shit.
Why would they do that? Or are you embarking upon a "slippery slope" argument?
It was buffed during closed beta. All sorts of changes were going on then.
And for those who think cards WILL be buffed, there's this message from Ben Brode:
https://twitter.com/bdbrode/status/536587749994684417
Q: Will we see a buff on cards that are underpower and considered terrible ever?
A: (from Brode) Very unlikely
You're right - that doesn't have anything thing to do with the slippery slope fallacy. The message from HAL9000, however, does.
Interestingly, your post demonstrates another fallacy: A strawman argument.
whats the point of bad cards, if there are their strictly better versions? And they said they dont want to buff cards out of fear of making them too strong and that they would require alot of internal testing etc. Which obviously doesnt apply HERE, since they are just happy to release those strictly better versions instead of making the terrible cards more relevant, if not for constructed, then atleast for arena
But is Magic the Gathering better or worse for it?
I say worse.
By far:
There's a reason I'm playing Hearthstone instead of Magic right now -- and that is that I'm fed up with powercreep, cost creep and bad cards being printed for the sake of selling more packs, and being unable to play cards that I like because they're DESIGNED to be bad.
And that's exactly what bad cards in Hearthstone do as well:
They increase the cost of playing, and they reduce the variety of cards you see in play.
I mean: Aren't there anyone else in here absolutely sick and tired of seeing the same decks over and over and over and over?
Trump has become unwatchable because he plays Patron:
Draw, draw, draw, armor, draw, draw, rope, armor, draw, rope, armor, draw, rope, armor, rope, concede OR rope + combo
Its just the natural evolution of Booty Bay Bodyguard and Magma Rager. As long as you have cheaper removal for creatures, their powerlevel is just fine.
More like 'because he puts a couple of grams of heroin in his coffee'.
Grats on finding ONE example, especially a game that people who play real life TCGs are basically forced to play because it's the most popular one. Don't act like other TCGs don't have power creeping anyway.
Still, Blizzard didn't include power creep until now, I can appreciate that, I guess.
Love his insults !
He has Taunt because he's heckling the opponent... kinda like if you were in a fight with multiple people and kept talking the most shit you would likely be attacked first. It's really not that hard of a concept.
YOU SMELL LIKE A LEPER GNOME!
no i dont, i shower
at worse i smell like loatheb
no, i have funyons