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warsong commander and starving buzzard will be there FOREVER.

 They can easily return warsong back as it was, as 2 very needed cards for the patron deck will be gone

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warsong commander and starving buzzard will be there FOREVER.

 They can easily return warsong back as it was, as 2 very needed cards for the patron deck will be gone

 Not this year tho.. Next years first expansion will throw away patron and emperor. Plus Wild would be broken and one of the reasons they nerfed it was future design space.

To people who are crying about some of the most beloved control-oriented cards going away: They are also removing quite a many cancer-educing aggro cards from standard format.

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The first standard tournament is going to be these 3 classes: Huntard, Freeze mage, Combo Druid. 

OH THE DIVERSITY! 

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The first standard tournament is going to be these 3 classes: Huntard, Freeze mage, Combo Druid. 

OH THE DIVERSITY! 

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warsong commander and starving buzzard will be there FOREVER.

 They can easily return warsong back as it was, as 2 very needed cards for the patron deck will be gone

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 Not to mention that Rogues only actually lost oil so maly rogue and any other rogue types (other than rattle) should be reasonably strong too. 

 "Only". Lol.

Standard seems like it will be very boring, there really isn't enough cards in HS yet for this. I mean, the card total of HS is like half MTG standard.

It seems mostly like an excuse not to balance content or design it properly, tbh. Which will of course also lead to wild mode being useless.

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Standard seems like it will be very boring, there really isn't enough cards in HS yet for this. I mean, the card total of HS is like half MTG standard.

It seems mostly like an excuse not to balance content or design it properly, tbh. Which will of course also lead to wild mode being useless.

 

 

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Standard seems like it will be very boring, there really isn't enough cards in HS yet for this. I mean, the card total of HS is like half MTG standard.

It seems mostly like an excuse not to balance content or design it properly, tbh. Which will of course also lead to wild mode being useless.

 The difference is that MTG standard contains 90% filler while only about 60% of Hearthstone cards are filler.  The cardpool up until TgT was almost the exact same size as standard will be anyway and that meta was fine (outside of patron warrior). 

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 Standard seems like it will be very boring, there really isn't enough cards in HS yet for this. I mean, the card total of HS is like half MTG standard.

It seems mostly like an excuse not to balance content or design it properly, tbh. Which will of course also lead to wild mode being useless.

I guess there will be Annoy-o-Tron2 and Madder Scientist in the new card set! Ready to buy!

We realy need some cards to stick around like belcher, chow, healbot, loathep those cards fill roles and would just stupid to have them releasing reprints with slightly changes over and over just to get more money.

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We realy need some cards to stick around like belcher, chow, healbot, loathep those cards fill roles and would just stupid to have them releasing reprints with slightly changes over and over just to get more money.

Really not sure how I feel about these changes. On the one hand I am glad to see some of these op cards, like dr. 7 "gone" but on the other I will miss some of them. I really hope the do a good job rebalancing the classic cards.

Also I really fear that the wild format will go extinct over time. Blizzard will most likely only focus on keeping the standard format somewhat balanced. With new cards coming out sooner or later there will be some OP-uber-deck that will just ruin the fun for everyone, kind of like secret-pali only worse. Either that or new people to HS will never be able optain all the old cards, hence only play standard and with old people quiting/leaving the game it might go extinct that way ... of course this is somewhat longterm and speculative ... but who knows.

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Although they haven't mentioned it, I'm really hoping they do "reprints" - where they include some cards from GVG/Naxx in with packs from the new set - and allow players who already have those cards to use them in Standard. So instead of the next expansion having ~120 cards - it has ~160 cards, with 120 being new and 40 being some GVG/Naxx cards, keeping them in circulation. This would help keep the card pool saturated while not adding any extra development time. 

Obviously I don't think Dr. Boom or Piloted Shredder should ever get back into Standard circulation, but tech cards like Antique Healbot and Kezan Mystic are not OP cards but fill roles that will leave a hole if they're just outright removed from the new dominant play mode. Of course the other option would be to give them the Ice Rager/Evil Heckler treatment - and essentially just make a slightly modified version of the same card again. If the new expansion has a similar number of cards to GVG/TGT - it'd really suck for any of those cards to be retreads when we're about to lose so much of our existing cardpool.

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If I don't manage to get Kel'Thuzad by the time this roles out imma get rekt on Wild mode T_T

RIP me

 Why?  O.o  Also, if you've played any of Nax then you don't need to finish it before formats. 

This is some next level bullshit. Now they won't even have to *think* new cards, just release Sludge Belcher2, Sludge Belcher3, Antique Healbot3, Deathlord4 every subsequent year. For f2p (and good luck getting everything within the year) or straight out of your wallet!

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If I don't manage to get Kel'Thuzad by the time this roles out imma get rekt on Wild mode T_T

RIP me

 Why?  O.o  Also, if you've played any of Nax then you don't need to finish it before formats. 

Someone made a cost comparison on the battle.net page saying that if you get around 93 dust per pack, you would need about 40 packs to craft the higher end cards of Naxx. The total cost for only some of the cards would be around 4000 gold in total (Assuming you get e target amount of dust). The entire adventure costs 3500 gold (and thats with all the cards), so by unlocking each wing and getting Kelthuzad, i'll be able to not only have all the staple cards for Naxx, but also be able to get a better grip on Wild mode sooner than saving dust. 

That and the fact that we won't get any interactions with Bosses like we did with Kelthuzad T_T, his emotes were the best.

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In all honesty, my opinion won't matter much, because this change really only affects those of us who are in too deep to not already be collecting Naxx and GvG cards, and don't have a collection large enough to have already completed the Naxx set. This giant change is really for those who are on the extreme sides of the spectrum, from newbies to vets

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Standard seems like it will be very boring, there really isn't enough cards in HS yet for this. I mean, the card total of HS is like half MTG standard.

It seems mostly like an excuse not to balance content or design it properly, tbh. Which will of course also lead to wild mode being useless.