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Or, as I have discovered, Fire Elemental and Azure Drake. That variance is why I hate Dr. Boom so much, and would love nothing more than for it to be nerfed until it's just 400 dust.
It's contradictory to say that there are no good 7-drops, but if Dr. Boom were nerfed, there would suddenly be another broken 7-drop.
Mass Dispel + Lightbomb technically works. Of course, that's still 10 mana vs. five, and requires you to play Mass Dispel.
What's the third one? And BGH is only played because of Dr. Boom. As soon as Dr. Boom is nerfed, and starts dropping off of decklists, there'll be no reason to run BGH.
That's actually a pretty good nerf. Up the mana, drop the attack out of BGH range to compensate.
Ragnaros the Firelord is hardly played, to the point where there's a thread asking why nobody plays him. Sneed's Old Shredder has hardly been touched since GvG's release, because it's very slow. Kel'Thuzad is practically a class legendary for druid. Grommash Hellscream is an actual class legendary and thus not up for comparison.
While this is probably not due to Dr. Boom (except for Ragnaros the Firelord), your statement was incorrect.
While it's not his fault that other cards are underperforming, the fact that he isn't may be an example of how he's OP. After all, if every other high-mana legendary is performing worse than he is, wouldn't that mean he's stronger than every other high-mana legendary? Isn't that a little imbalanced?
And there's no real counter to him. Even when BGH was in every deck (which severely limited deckbuilding), Dr. Boom was still omnipresent. If a card that's played in spite of its hard counter being present isn't OP, then tell me what is.
That's only true if Dr. Boom is good against aggro. And, as a 7-mana card, I doubt he is.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Yes, he's in every deck and needs to be nerfed. No, he's not strong enough to facilitate a new deck type which then becomes over half of the meta. A better comparison would be 5 mana Sylvanas Windrunner.
Yes, but casual players are at a stark disadvantage without Dr. Boom. And there's definitely more casual players than there are professional players.
That's not at all what I said. What I said was Cenarius is only weak if played in a situation that isn't optimal, like every legendary except Dr. Boom.
To be honest, those are just decks I could remember as being somewhat viable. The same argument obviously goes for aggro, which includes the immensely viable shockadin and face priest. In terms of fully viable decks, I have a different list.
Seeing as the original post was arguing that heavy legendaries are weak, I don't see an issue with just grouping the decks that run these legends together. I don't think it matters what specific deck type it is, as long as it runs slow cards.
Runs a couple 7+ mana legends (with Dr. Boom): Control Warrior, Handlock, Midrange Paladin, Ramp Druid, Combo Druid (5 total)
Runs a couple 7+ mana legends (No Doctor): Freeze Mage, Patron Warrior (2 total)
Fast: Hunter, Zoolock (2 total)
I'm inclined to disagree. When Dr. Boom is rivaling 9-mana cards like Cenarius there's a problem, and adding in more OP 7 mana cards would just make it worse.
Cenarius is only weak for his mana cost if you use him on an empty or near empty board. He was meant to support Token Druid, by giving them a late-game Power of the Wild to use on a heavy board. His treant option was only meant as a worst-case scenario vs aggro or on an empty board, similar to Ancient of Lore, so naturally it's a bit weak.
Late Game decks in HS (that run Dr. Boom) : Handlock, Control Warrior, Midrange Paladin, Freeze Mage, Overload Shaman, any Priest deck, Dragon Paladin, Ramp Druid, Combo Druid (9 total)
Late Game decks in HS : (without Dr. Boom) : Freeze Mage, Patron Warrior (2 total)
Fast decks in HS : Hunter, Mech Shaman, Mech Mage, Zoolock, Shockadin, that one face Priest deck that was popular for all of 5 seconds (6 total)
Spending the entire turn to kill one card, while destroying any semblance of a board you might have, isn't efficient. It isn't even card efficient if you have any minions on the board.