I noticed when I played a Corrupted Strongman, when it got hit by a devolving missle it turned into a Desk Imp meaning it had the Corrupted cost of zero as its mana consideration for the devolve. It sucked but it got me thinking.
Maybe if the cheated out cards mana wise like Dread Corsair was similarly posted as a 0 mana cost on the board it would ease up on the Evolve runaway situations.
I realize this would probably have bigger consequences beyond this specific reasoning.
When a card is corrupted, it becomes an entirely new card. The corrupted Strongman didn't get its cost reduced to 0, it IS a 0 mana card (if you notice, the mana cost is white, not green). That's why devolving it will turn it into another 0 cost card.
I don't have a problem with this deck, it is way less opressive than midrange shaman or prenerf Galakrond era but something bugs me with this class, never in HS history shaman have a normal presence in the ladder, or is completely gone at a point you start to forgot the class even exist or infested at the point of vomit inducing.
Why shaman never hit the mid ground?
You probably forgot about Murloc Shaman or Control Shaman (used by Hunterace to win worlds) during Rise of Shadows or Token Shaman during Un'goro. Even Shaman was alright too.
When a card is corrupted, it becomes an entirely new card. The corrupted Strongman didn't get its cost reduced to 0, it IS a 0 mana card (if you notice, the mana cost is white, not green). That's why devolving it will turn it into another 0 cost card.
You probably forgot about Murloc Shaman or Control Shaman (used by Hunterace to win worlds) during Rise of Shadows or Token Shaman during Un'goro. Even Shaman was alright too.
In the next balance patch they will make Shaman unplayable again, just like what happened during Galakrond's dominance.