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I'm all for this. We have tech cards for almost every other situation (silencing buffs/powers, instant kills for certain requirements, destroying divine shields, stealing secrets, getting rid of secrets, destroying weapons) but when warriors can easily add 10 armor in a turn, there should be a way to strip that off with a card or minion. Even if it wouldn't be played due to poor stats and only being good against 1-2 classes, it would be nice to know you could run a card like that to take down a control warrior.

If we can have cards that never see play (Hemet, Cho, Nat, Anomalus), then why not a neutral legendary that removes 10 armor and is a 2/4 for 5 or 6 mana?? 

The best way to remove armor is to damage the opposing hero; but I wouldn't mind a tech card that removes armor.  That said, in a 30-card deck I would be very reluctant to include it; as only one class accumulates large amounts of it.

2 manas 3/2 battlecry "Destroy all opponent's armor".

If this exists I will prefer to use Ooze, is much less situational.

remove all armor is likely too much, as such an effect shouldn't be too cheap for how brutal it is, but its so narrow at same time, not worth a card slot. But tech cards are good for meta environments, and perhaps there are softer ways to slightly punish armor without completely sidestepping it, and minor enough you can put the effect on an efficient body?

2 cost (mech minion)

If your opponent has armor, minion gets +1 atk

2/3

or

3 cost weapon - shaman

deals double damage to opponents with armor

2/3

etc

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I think what people are actually frustrated about when they think they're frustrated about all the armor on the warrior is the disproportionately good board management toolkit that warrior has. If they weren't so good at suppressing minions, warriors wouldn't be able to stack up that much armor anyways. 

And if the total of health and armor is less than the health cap, armor is exactly the same as healing. Having a card that removes armor would be pretty unfair to warrior as a class, since it would effectively be a "undo all the healing you've done for the last few turns, invalidate some of the cards you've spent to do that, and allow me to kill you" card.

If the total of health and armor is above the health cap and keeps growing, things can get pretty demoralizing, but this is only possible because the warrior is able to manage the board so well that the armor never gets beaten down, so really I'm not sure it's the armor that's the problem. 

The only appropriate way I could think of to destroy opponents armor would be to only destroy an amount that brings the total of health and armor back to the health cap. That way, the game might not be hopeless, but it wouldn't invalidate the healing property of armor and give instant lethal.

The problem with armor is that, usually Control is favored against Aggro while being weak against Combo, but Control Warrior is favored against both, which is pretty unfair. That is why Control Warrior has always been the most powerful Control deck since beta.

I agree that armor should have a cap, or that Shield Slam should consume armor equivalent to the target's hp (so that they will need to trade armor to remove big minions).

I don't believe it should be "all armor. " maybe like 10-20 armor instead 

I can say a card that destroy's all armor is not that OP since it will only hit control warriors. 8 other class + Aggro warriors would make the tech card useless. It could be like Light's Champion

Quote from rysencloud >>

To anyone aggreeing with this is probably because they just lost the face race vs a control warrior and they are salty about it .Get over it.CW cant really exist without armor.And then fatigue warrior would have to leave too.Dont just destroy decks because you are salty about the classes.

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First, with Justicar set to leave standard before too long, I think it'll be a lot less likely to see those absurd 30/40/50 armor stacks anymore.  Second, I'd rather just cap armor at 30 instead of creating a tech card.  It doesn't seem unfair to control Warrior to have an HP hard cap at 60 between health and armor.

 ooo I like the Cap idea

The only thing that I would agree to would be that fatigue does damage to health and not armour.

Removing armour as others said is too situational and only geared toward warrior matchups.

A 2 mana spell for mage "Remove 3 health from hero or minion" instead damage is a very better tech card, you can kill the low health warrior because your early agression but gain so much armor after and works a regular card vs everything else.

Removing armor - no. Armor cap? - absolutely!

I've honestly never felt like armor has been the issue. To me it's always been shield slam.

The way warriors can abuse armor can feel a bit unfair, but I'm fine with them gaining a ton of it.

I can see the potential for an effect along the lines of 'If this minion attacks an enemy hero with armor, deal 'x' extra damage'. But I don't see effects that outright remove armor being a thing.

I hope they add armor countering cards, so tiresome playing vs warriors that has like 30+ extra HP, that you can't even deal with with Alexstrasza. Also, could be nice versus mage and druid of course.

The idea has some merit and precedent.  Both Harrison Jones and Ooze directly counter the Rogue hero power.

And no one can stop freeze mage :/

To me the only problem is that warrior can get for 9 mana 20 armor plus 6/6 body plus 2/4 body from two cards only.

No. It'll be fringe; you're basically playing it for one archetype of one class: control warrior. In Mage and Druid, armor isn't considered much. The viability of Control Warrior is that it can survive the brunt of aggressive decks and then come back with armor. Control Warrior isn't even that OP, and never has been that OP, and requires more skill than a lot of decks to play properly. Limiting it by giving everyone a card that destroys a big part of that deck is stupid.

A card like that will never be printed, and if it ever is, shame on Blizzard, because it's not something necessary or fundamental towards the improvement of Hearthstone. It's a reactionary card to make, and reactionary cards ruin the game, ie. every OP card Shaman got in the passed few expansions. No, no, no, no, no, a million times no, a card like this should absolutely not exist.

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To me the only problem is that warrior can get for 9 mana 20 armor plus 6/6 body plus 2/4 body from two cards only.