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Rexar man, its way worse than Jaina. its a single card that give an aggro deck infinite big minions, infinite heals, and infinite removals. Its disgusting and im looking so much forward to seeing it, and all the other hero cards leave standard.

I am excited that, atleast in standard, I will never face a Warrior again who just actively tries not to play the game.

As for Jaina, she was powerful, like all DKs, but remember power alone is not to be feared, fear instead those who wield it. Which I feel is very fitting considering you need to actually use your brain a bit when playing her. 

She sure was annoying and one of the top 3 DKs, but the most broken is Rexxar, no discussion. 

Clears the board, come at turn 6, turns aggro decks in control value decks who smash fatigue decks, gives hunter healing... *uck Rexxar. Second square Guldan, refilling the board with powerful creatures is not the worst part, the hero power is insane. Jaina is very close, but I wouldn't say she was THAT annoying

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The most over powered card in the game. Only a Mage would consider it balanced. 

 I disagree. Gul'Dan is much worse.

Jaina is actually a very slow card to use initially and when an aggressive deck or sometimes another control deck that has pressured you enough has you down low on health you can't always play her and expect to live. Many times you have to be somewhat ahead on board and/or life to safely use considering that when you first play her she is a 9 mana gain 5 armor and summon a 3 attack lifesteal minion without rush. Compare that to the high swing, high value, and high tempo play of Gul'Dan.

The hero power now, is the epitome of a control card/playstyle. The creation of water eles is not just controlled by the mage player, but also the opponent as well. By the time the opponent has played Jaina you already know how many and what types of board clears & single target removal the mage has access to when creating a water ele. You generally know when it looks like you should play around Blizzard, or FS, or Meteor. A good player should also know how they should order their trades to prevent/minimize 1 health being left on any minion. The hero power itself really isn't overpowered, it just punishes bad plays for the aforementioned risks. Also, against other control decks that hardly play many minions at a time it forces the mage to use their removals inefficiently just to create a single water ele and once they're out of removal they have pretty much lost.

Compare that to Gul'Dan's hero power which always has a consistent effect with no requirements.

 We are going to have to agree to disagree on this. I don't believe FLJ is some high brow control card that punished bad players at all, it's an over powered card that saves bad players and is ridiculously powerful for good ones. The biggest problem isn't the hero power, it's giving an entire tribe lifesteal. The epitome of bullshit, imo.

Definitly going to miss this card in standard............ohhhh the amazingniss of odd paladin conceding when frost linch jaina was played on turn nine ;)

Cuck Jaina!

Rexxar will be missed though :( He made hunter great again

It's been fun Jaina. I created you in gold on day one and had around 2k+ wins with you. Thanks for all the fun. It's time to move on now. 

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I am excited that, atleast in standard, I will never face a Warrior again who just actively tries not to play the game.

As for Jaina, she was powerful, like all DKs, but remember power alone is not to be feared, fear instead those who wield it. Which I feel is very fitting considering you need to actually use your brain a bit when playing her. 

 No, you had to use your brain playing against her. 

Fun powerful card but also game winning, I'd still place it third behind Rexxar and Gul'dan. Rexxar was better than all the DKs put together.

I'd go as far as saying the population of Hearthstone players is going to drop after the expansion as Rexxar was such a crutch to bad players that they are in for a shock when they have to think about what they're doing.

Gul'dan and Jaina were on par in my opinion. All the other DKs were pretty balanced really.

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Unlike a lot of the other dks *cough*rexxar*cough*, jaina actually was a well balanced Dk

 Wait what ?

All three Rexxar, Jaina and Guldan was OP.

Rexxar was always the worst for me, before the last couple of months when Jaina and her lifesteal was almost impossible to beat. So many elements and removal spells.

Im looking forward to a new meta withour Even and Odd decks (specially Odd).

good riddance. I just wish they made all the dks viable... valeera, Garrosh were pretty underwhelming consdering what the other ones got.