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Ever since Beta, Pirates were a forgotten tribe. Always referred to as the joke tribe. Even Blizzard completely ignored Pirates as there were hardly any Pirate cards. But then came Year of the Kraken, which introduced a lot of Pirate cards, all of them really good.
Say what you will about the pirate meta, but these cards, Patches especially, made Pirates finally viable. So good that non-weapon classes could finally run pirates. However, with the new year and the Patches nerf, these cards are rotating out in April, and leaving Pirates in the dust since there was only one new Pirate added in Year of the Mammoth.
So, what's next for the tribe? With the nerf of Patches will we get more Pirates again? Will we get pirates that aren't cancer? Or will the tribe just suffer the same fate at Mechs?
Honestly, the only decent thing I'd like to be done with pirates is like my take on a Pirate class. Rather than being Aggro, using tribal synergy to be control or midrange.
I wanna see more crazy aggro
It is fine for me, that they aren't in the spotlight for some time in near future(I hope so)
They will survive as an Aggro tribe in Wild, thanks to Ship's Cannon.
In Standard, it all depends on the next expansion, but i bet they will stay dead at first, while they receive increasing support across new expansions.
Pirates and especially patches will always be relevant in wild as a package due to Ship's Cannon. it is the main reason why decks like pirate warrior are still tier 2 in wild and are more than enough to climb to legend.
the thing is that Pirates are really weapon based, and really centered around growing weapons or benefiting from weapons and weapons are a very delicate mechanic to say the least, for example upgrading a weapon basically counts as a Damaging spell with the new attack of the weapon, so for example using Upgrade! on an Arcanite Reaper is basically a 1 mana fireball, we could see more pirates in the style of Phantom Freebooter or Bloodsail Raider or maybe even Dread Corsair, but it's probably wiser to have this particular tribe contained and controlled, Blizzard might actually have figured this ouy back in beta tbh and that's why there wasn't that much support to pirates over the years.
"So what's gonna be the future of Pirates?"
Hopefully they go away for quite some time. I am completely good with no-Pirates for an entire year.
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After nearly 2 year of non stop pirate action, seriously who give a shiit, most of the players so glad they dont have to play or play against any pirate for a year.
I don’t think Blizzard wants a meta anymore with so many neutrals. And that’s mostly what pirates are.
Give them to Rogue and Warrior and make some insane sinergies!
Is only a matter of time until we start seeing “building cards” isn’t it?
who fucking care about cancer jesus christ wtf is wrong with you
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Card Design ChampionAmm, I'm going to start with the typical sentence eveyone repeats over and over again - we should wait and see what the next expansion has to offer.
Yes, the strong pirate package will be gone and there will be only Phantom Freebooter and Golakka Crawler left, which will remind us of it. But I think we will see more of it in next hs year. And the reason for me thinking this way is because Patches the Pirate 1) is rotating out, 2) is getting nerfed. I remember how people discussed this long ago, that the devs were in a double bind because of his presence, that they couldn't introduce new strong pirates in the Year of the Mammoth, because they would risk increasing his power and dominace even more. Now that this card is gone, now that wild is going to breathe a bit freely from the change to a busted card, this will give the devs the goahead to implement new pirates in the next expansions. I'm not saying this will happen as quickly as in the upcoming one, but this will occur eventually and I'm more than sure about it.
i’m optimistic about the future of pirates in wild if not in standard. of any of the other tribes had a free 1/1 it would be insane (except mechs in standard guess). pirates were already a fringe playable ladder deck before patches, and with patches rotating out of standard blizzard can finally print strong pirate support cards again without fear.
Vvreeeew.
Vvreeeew.