Hearthpwn

It's OK to be suspicious at things because bugs exist in games, even in Hearthstone just like we saw with Nat Pagle. Anyway, I just played 10 games vs innkeeper and here are my results:

2dmg : 7

3dmg: 12

3dmg: 11

If you combine mine and claeshj's results with OP's, you get 44%, 28%, 27% chance respectively. At this point, I'd say that OP just had really unlucky RNG moments, not that a card is bugged.

Of course new players feel daunting when you keep releasing OP cards over time.

ConsiderPiloted Shredder. This card blew out the 4 drop competition and cards such as Chillwind Yeti, Dragonling Mechanic, Gnomish Inventor or Sen'jin Shieldmasta see almost no play. One over the top card effectively "nerfed" all other cards in this case. After Leeroy Jenkins got nerfed Arcane Golem saw more use.  As far as card balancing goes, it was a very good one since some decks do run Leeroy Jenkins even in TGT.

You have to make more powerful cards in new expansions? Wrong again. Consider how an uninteresting, stricktly worse than Frostbolt card such as Darkbomb became a staple in many Warlock decks (granted that it came around as Soulfire was nerfed). Then we got Quick Shot because Hunters surely didn't have enough face damage. It's not like their hero power does face damage through taunts. God forbid making it deal 2 dmg like Lava Shock or hit only minions like Flamecannon.

I admit that hindsight is 20/20 but Blizzard is just making it so easy for me. For any new cards, if you are on the fence whether to make it slightly better than old cards are slightly worse, always go for slightly worse, especially if you are going to resist changing/banning cards in the future. Any new cards added to the game will potentially have synergy with old cards making stronger new decks.

This isn't rocket science. And I refuse to believe that developers at Blizzard are unaware of this simple fact. What I believe is happening is that just as it happened at other companies, the quality of games at Blizzard are compromised by business interest. "What do you mean nerf the new card, isn't that a good thing since people will buy more packs?" Nevermind that in the long term it will actually hurt the business. This isn't WOW or Diablo where you could just make old content obsolete, yet Blizzard is heading in that direction while giving us BS excuses. "chat channels are no necessary in battlenet" "lol doesn't need sandbox mode; and technology isn't there yet for replay" "you don't need more than 9 deck slots" "simcity doesn't work in offline mode" "we want cards to feel real" There's a limit on how much white lie players will tolerate and Blizzard is really pushing it these days.

What a joke. What really devalues a card is few OP cards/decks completely trashing other cards/decks.

Also, if they are going to bizarrely insist treating cards as "real" now and resist changing them, then maybe we should start banning certain cards from play just like real card game would do. Let's see how good people would feel then?

A real card can get banned, but you won't change a digital card because it wouldn't feel real? This argument is as bad as "you don't need more than 9 deck slots."

Rogue's own Shadowform

aka 'not gonna see play even if it costed 1 less mana'

Like you said it makes your hero power almost like casting Power of the Wild, so it is a proper comparison. At worst it's just 4/3 body if you couldn't manage to use hero power.

It might actually see some play. It could replace 1 Light of the Naaru in decks that run 2 of them, or just an additional card in those types of decks.

However, I don't think you'd want to run 2 copies this one. It's mana efficient, but not card efficient unless comboed with Auchenai Soulpriest. Maybe some synergy with Holy Champion but it is unclear how good that combo will turn out.

Oh also I think this card raises the value of Prophet Velen a bit.

This is not a "different" or "creative" card.

Crazed Alchemist saw very limited use, and often it's used to target enemies which this card is incapable of.

Inner Fire is a better, single-target version of this card, and it also saw limited use in dedicated decks running likes of Deathlord and Gilblin Stalker. Does this card make that deck better? No it does not, as the deck' typical gameplay gives you only one viable target for Inner Fire at any given time.

If new viable priest deck utilizing health-to-attack concept were to emerge in the future, cards I mentioned would see use first.

This card is for Burgle, Nexus-Champion Saraad, Spellslinger and Nefarian.

Edit: Forgot that this affects all minions, so I scratched out that part. However, it now means that it could potentially benefit your opponent as well. So the point largely still stands.

I'm not yet convinced that this would be worthwhile.

It's not comparable to Stormwind Champion. Power of the Wild is a proper comparison.

"Increasing the randomness can increase the skill. Crackle isn't as obviously manipulable as Knife Juggler but the question remains when do I play it and do I risk playing it on something with more then 3 health? Do I have a backup if it doesn't work out? I think it represents intense skill and just feels bad when you lose. We can make it feel better or worse but I think it adds additional skill to the game."

Well this statement just made me lose a bit of faith in hearthstone future, very sad.

More RNG = More skill. - Lead Designer

RIP Hearthstone future is bleak.

Ben Brode just pretends like he is stupid one. Actually he knows what cards are OP and what community wants. But they won't give us that, until they found a way to get more money from it or they felt like that its enough.

Just think about it. The undertaker was OP. They didnt nerf it half year. It was in 4th quarter of Naxx. It means a lot of people should buy that quarter. And they wait half year to grab money as much as possible. Same will be with Patron.

All we know that community wanted to choose cards from arena. Most of arena players get a lot of duplicate cards from pack in a few weeks. All those who need classic packs had to buy that ones (it was the only choice). After TGT they didn't give us a choice, they give random ones. It means if we want TGT pack, we have to buy them (again).

See? It's just a business. They don't care about community. They just want more and more money.

LOL @ nerfs kill experimentaion.

Pretty much the exact opposite of that is happening.

Just like how when watching Trump build new TGT decks he would say stuff like "I want to play this new card, but it just feels so bad to cut Piloted Shredder."

Guess what he did in the end?

HE DIDN"T PLAY THE NEW CARD IN FAVOR OF Piloted Shredder

Trump in that case, resisted experimentation, specically because of how OP Piloted Shredder is.

If Piloted Shredder was nerfed, that would increase experimentation. Everyone would have to find the appropriate 4 drop for each deck, instead of just relying on the OP card for everything.

How they can continually state nearly the complete opposite of reality on these matters is beyond me.

Wait, I just read this again, and I realized something...

• Nerfing cards devalues your collection and doesn't make it feel like a real card if they can be changed so easily.

...since when Hearthstone cards feel like real cards? The game is not realistic in any aspect. Transforming your minion into one of the same cost (Recombobulator) is impossible in a real card game. 

Please Blizzard, drop that "Apperently simple, extremally fun" thing, Patron is not allowing pepole to have fun, and competitive card games are not meant to be simple/easy.

And before that guy comes...

"Hearthstone? Competitive? Is this a joke?"

Hearthstone is a competitive game, but it doesn't feel like one. If you played before GvG, you know the game wasn't that RNG-based at all, it was something like 80% skill, 20% RNG, nowdays I would say it's 60% skill and 40% RNG.

I agree with what you said, but...

I think they should address more problematic cards like mad scientist, dr. boom, etc. Instead of continuing the rng based cards and interactions.

Dealing 8 damage to the face with the Boom Bots is indeed pure skill :p

Jokes aside, the thing is, Hearthstone was meant to be "for fun", but the game became competitive, and Blizzard should understand that. 

A few months ago we heard about all the people who couldn't beat Illidan, now they're reporting to us about the mass of sheeple who couldn't even wrap there heads around Hemet!?!

Lol, people can't use Polymorph on Fen Creeper...

RNG promotes "Intense Skill"? What a joke.

"Increasing the randomness can increase the skill." Oh Ben you innocent fool.