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This is the effect that I wish that Gonk had. Better application and more versatility than just building OTK combos.

With the release of the first expansion of the year it is always a good time to play wild if you find yourself getting bored of the meta in standard a month or two after release.

With only 4/6 of the year’s full sets released it can feel quite ‘short’ of a few cards at times. Witchwood definitely had this feel and thus the high Baku/Genn frequency.

That being said, this will be one of the most fresh feeling meta’s in a while, with hopefully very new mechanics and some sleeper cards coming to light. Watch out for wild though, because quite often new cards can have some absolutely broken interactions with existing wild cards. Star Aligner Druid.

Literally want to see warlock dropped off a shelf, cheating out a 9 mana cards with no repercussion on turn 4 is stupid

 also want to see DK losing out as well. Construct Quarter is beyond the stupidest thing on the planet not only that, they just have too many good control cards early on in the meta. Which is to be expected because none of its cards were rotated out except maybe a few core cards. like lets be honest, Horn of Winter ? theres a reason why innervate got nerfed, its basically the same exact thing.

Additionally Vampiric Blood and Patchwerk alongside Theotar, the Mad Duke disables every control decks win condition. and don't get me started on their insane curve.

Honorable mentions for bullshit Marrow Manipulator who's not even a legendary ( this should be enemy minions not face) and Frostwyrm's Fury (literally just compare this a second to Firelands Portal

but lets talk the real elephant in the room. you can practically run every one of their legendaries to full effect in almost every variant of their deck

This is so lame really. 

Hey guys where is the I-win button?

On behalf of Britain I apologise  :)

They might need to nerf demon seed further to 12/12/12. Lots of players testing it out now. They also need to nerf mine rogue and big priest. I really hope Rena gets reverted to 40hp next year, so many love him. 40hp didn't kill aggro but it will help slow the meta.

They unbanned the demon seed so I don't really think Drek'thar would be that much of a problem for the wild format. This is such a useless and frankly stupid design in its current form, why would you ever play a 4 mana minion with heavy deck restrictions, only to recruit one random minion from your deck, makes absolutely no sense. I know it can be abused, but so can many cards in the wild format.

Or is it not rotating this year ?

Also I hope they unnerf Renathal next year, best card they ever printed, such a shame it had to be nerfed to keep aggro decks in the loop.

But these days every class has this ability, which was once rogue and priest exclusive - except brewmasters. And there are many other ways to replay minions over and over again. This together with mana cheating leads to absurde gameplay which is as worse as in duels. 

Hearthstone is more abusing than skill. Luck, randomness, mana cheating and abusing mechanics like battlecry (see the latest annoying shutterfvck spam, which will get worse with the expansion) lead to success - no skill needed, just neckdecking copy & paste meme decks. 

Stealer of Souls is literally the only card in the deck that was a cost card. Everything else says "deal damage to your hero". 

Unless they reword some of them, it isn't going to make a difference.

We're nearly 11 months into neptulon being a problem in wild. I don't expect a quick fix if it does break wild.

The Demon Seed is going to break wild again. The 6 extra damage won't matter. The whole problem is that wild warlock has tons of ways to damage self and get good bonuses out of it, plus that crystalizer card is deal 5 self, armor 5 (After you play the reward it's deal 5 to enemy, armor 5). Plus, with all the ways to burn through your deck, fatigue becomes an issue for your opponent. Let's not forget that standard is getting a fatigue package which can slot into the deck now.

It's good to see they're toning down face down in duels as a lot of the face damage supporting cards and hero powers got hit. But they should've removed priest's passive hero power to damage face period. They also need to axe all deathrattle support. Fighting deathrattle decks is always miserable.

As a Wild player, I'm so scared of Odd Paladin and Questline Warlock. Might be the PTSD, but I'm shaking.