As the title suggests, how different do you think Standard would have been had they not HoF'd those two cards? What decks do you think would have been meta?
Off the top of my head, I think Even Warlock and Odd Rogue are two decks that could've seen some play. Even Warlock would have had a dragon package, using cards such as Nether Breath, Firetree Witchdoctor, Evasive Wyrm, Zzeraku the Warped, and a few others. For Odd Rogue, I'm mainly just taking the Wild version and seeing what cards it would've had access to in standard.
Also, do you think it was a good thing they HoF'd those cards? How impactful would it have been if they hadn't?
Like lackey's are currently, what started as a great idea became far too busted and annoying to play against. If they had kept them for the full 2 years I think many of the cards from they YotD expansions would have been very different. They absolutley did the right thing HoFing them and I think another year of odd and even decks would have lost a lot of players. I think the problem is blizz put these feel good OP cards in for people who just want big flash swing turns, and the downside isn't anywhere near enough to balance the positives. Plus they're reluctant to include any kind of tech to counter them (BL albatross) so people don't cry when their OP deck is actually shut down.
As the title suggests, how different do you think Standard would have been had they not HoF'd those two cards? What decks do you think would have been meta?
Off the top of my head, I think Even Warlock and Odd Rogue are two decks that could've seen some play. Even Warlock would have had a dragon package, using cards such as Nether Breath, Firetree Witchdoctor, Evasive Wyrm, Zzeraku the Warped, and a few others. For Odd Rogue, I'm mainly just taking the Wild version and seeing what cards it would've had access to in standard.
Also, do you think it was a good thing they HoF'd those cards? How impactful would it have been if they hadn't?
Like lackey's are currently, what started as a great idea became far too busted and annoying to play against. If they had kept them for the full 2 years I think many of the cards from they YotD expansions would have been very different. They absolutley did the right thing HoFing them and I think another year of odd and even decks would have lost a lot of players. I think the problem is blizz put these feel good OP cards in for people who just want big flash swing turns, and the downside isn't anywhere near enough to balance the positives. Plus they're reluctant to include any kind of tech to counter them (BL albatross) so people don't cry when their OP deck is actually shut down.