I am DrBalanced#1976 and I've been playing HS since the start, being a Top 100 legend player every month for the past years. This is the first time I make a rant post. I'm doing this to call Wild players to start asking Activision | Blizzard for a nerf to these two overpowered cards that alone already have high power, but when combined make Aggro Druid the best deck in the format by a large margin.
People playing at lower ranks wont notice this, but when you get to the Top 100 you get to see this deck a lot. As many other board based archetypes before, its the combination of stats/low mana cost and card refill that makes it totally unbalanced. Not even Reno Priest or Reno Warlock, decks that have a large removal kit, can deal safely with the board before Voracious Reader comes in and resets your progress to zero.
Some very niche strategies can beat it with a lot of effort, for example Even Shaman, but only after you get your health reduced to less than half in the first 6 or 7 turns before actually swinging the game. This, of course, considering your opponent didn't Embiggen + Pirate board flood + Voracious Reader in hand. Other broken cards like Mark of the Lotus are also part of the problem but my main take is on Voracious Reader specifically.
Some suggestions would be to make Embiggen cost 1 and to reduce Voracious Reader health to 1 so it can be pinged. Added a poll so you can vote a discuss. ¡Have a good day!
In general, its not a good or balanced game. Something like mark of lotus should have never even been printed. There's so much braindead dumb crap I cant even meme anymore.
If Embiggen makes minions cost 1 more, I'd say +1/+2 would be more fair than +2/+2.
I don't like embiggen druid either. When I'm able to clear the board + reno = win for me. Some times 2x embiggen + Voracious reader in very first cards will be lethal for me, if I haven't drawn reno.
I've gotten used to playing against this deck often, so I play Raza priest. Simply mulligan for Reno and board removal and it's not too hard to win. Mindrender Illucia is also playable early, especially if you have AOE, Reno, or value-generating cards in hand.
Hi mate, i am a wild legend player too . Tbh we had way worse archetypes in the past: nagalock , darkest hour warlock , pre nerf quest mage ecc.... but i truly belive druid need a bit of changing i already made a post on how embiggen should be 1 mana (and problably gibberling 2 mana too.. ) .
I wouldn't change the cost of voracius reader as it can help hother aggro's to be a bit more consistent other then aggro druid. Maybe it should be a 1/2 instead of 1/3 tho.
Problem with reader is you cant nerf its cost but the effect. If you nerf cost to 3 it will brake odd DH decks. And these are all about killing you with their hero power. But if they can push curve to more cheap cards it will become a big problem. It will be the same thing they did with kingsbane rogue. Before leaching poison nerf you were playing some form of mill +weapon buffs. After the nerf me have big weapon me go face.
I don't think aggro druid is that great, it's just terrible that you see the same deck every other game you play.
It's the same like face hunter in standard, but once you get to higher ranks you don't see them as often anymore. It makes climbing a terrible experience imo.
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I am DrBalanced#1976 and I've been playing HS since the start, being a Top 100 legend player every month for the past years. This is the first time I make a rant post. I'm doing this to call Wild players to start asking Activision | Blizzard for a nerf to these two overpowered cards that alone already have high power, but when combined make Aggro Druid the best deck in the format by a large margin.
People playing at lower ranks wont notice this, but when you get to the Top 100 you get to see this deck a lot. As many other board based archetypes before, its the combination of stats/low mana cost and card refill that makes it totally unbalanced. Not even Reno Priest or Reno Warlock, decks that have a large removal kit, can deal safely with the board before Voracious Reader comes in and resets your progress to zero.
Some very niche strategies can beat it with a lot of effort, for example Even Shaman, but only after you get your health reduced to less than half in the first 6 or 7 turns before actually swinging the game. This, of course, considering your opponent didn't Embiggen + Pirate board flood + Voracious Reader in hand. Other broken cards like Mark of the Lotus are also part of the problem but my main take is on Voracious Reader specifically.
Some suggestions would be to make Embiggen cost 1 and to reduce Voracious Reader health to 1 so it can be pinged. Added a poll so you can vote a discuss. ¡Have a good day!
In general, its not a good or balanced game. Something like mark of lotus should have never even been printed. There's so much braindead dumb crap I cant even meme anymore.
RIP TCGs
Fun > Meta
Wild is broken because it's wild.
If Embiggen makes minions cost 1 more, I'd say +1/+2 would be more fair than +2/+2.
I don't like embiggen druid either. When I'm able to clear the board + reno = win for me. Some times 2x embiggen + Voracious reader in very first cards will be lethal for me, if I haven't drawn reno.
I've gotten used to playing against this deck often, so I play Raza priest. Simply mulligan for Reno and board removal and it's not too hard to win. Mindrender Illucia is also playable early, especially if you have AOE, Reno, or value-generating cards in hand.
Hi mate, i am a wild legend player too . Tbh we had way worse archetypes in the past: nagalock , darkest hour warlock , pre nerf quest mage ecc.... but i truly belive druid need a bit of changing i already made a post on how embiggen should be 1 mana (and problably gibberling 2 mana too.. ) .
I wouldn't change the cost of voracius reader as it can help hother aggro's to be a bit more consistent other then aggro druid. Maybe it should be a 1/2 instead of 1/3 tho.
PRIEST
The nature of wild is be broken.
"Wild is better"
W-what?
I barely face either, let alone problematic.
Reno Priest is like half of the matchups.
Problem with reader is you cant nerf its cost but the effect. If you nerf cost to 3 it will brake odd DH decks. And these are all about killing you with their hero power. But if they can push curve to more cheap cards it will become a big problem. It will be the same thing they did with kingsbane rogue. Before leaching poison nerf you were playing some form of mill +weapon buffs. After the nerf me have big weapon me go face.
I think Embiggen should be changed to cost 1 mana.
That is all.
I don't think aggro druid is that great, it's just terrible that you see the same deck every other game you play.
It's the same like face hunter in standard, but once you get to higher ranks you don't see them as often anymore. It makes climbing a terrible experience imo.