Any nerf to Luna's Pocket Galaxy (which is perfectly fine as it is, in my opinion) would send the card back into uselessness again. It's only barely playable right now, because 5-mana-do-nothing-on-turn-5 is a HUGE tempo loss and that's the point of the card. The benefits are there to help you get back that tempo loss.
The tempo loss would indeed be a downside if you tried to use Pocket Galaxy in a tempo deck.
But you don't use it in a tempo deck. You use it in a control deck that can probably clear or freeze the board on turn 5 or 6, so it's almost never a big deal to play Pocket Galaxy ASAP. As a control win condition (which it really is), it should cost at least (6).
So no, the tempo argument doesn't fly, and it was foolish of Team 5 to reduce the cost by (2). A two-mana shift is almost unheard of when nerfing cards, so I don't get why they would think it's OK when buffing one.
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Regardless if he is a problem or not, I think it would be good idea to just... rotate out whole basic / classic pack and create new one. Some cards are played since beta and they are always relevant and viable (like Sap, Shield Slam, Brawl, Swpie, FIreball, Frostbolt, Hellfire, Hex, Polymorph, Animal Companion, Kill Command, Leeroy), so maybe it's time to get rid of them? Like wipe everything and start pretty much from scratch. That would be good opportunity for Blizzard to use all their experience from all those years and redesign the game (maybe in more healthy way), give classes new identities (maybe even along with new hero powers), direction etc.
I'm not saying, that those cards are OP or problematic (though they sometimes are...) but I think that would be healthy for the game, to give it some freshness and new excitement. Also some classic cards are just bad nowadays (due to power creep and other things) and since Blizzard is unwilling to buff or replace them, maybe it's the best move to dump them as unnecessary burden? Not to mention, those cards are limiting Blizzard's design capabilities (that's why they are HoFing them one by one, which is by the way unfair, when some classes are losing key cards while some remain untouched).
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For me this is far superior zoo variant. Huge damage potential (due to pseudo-charge efect) and sticky board are making this deck very effective. So far it's also dealing pretty smoothly with Rogue and Warrior, so I'm calling it now, that it might be considered T1 soon. If you are Warlock fan, give it a try, you probably won't regret it.
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There's even better strategy. You can build your entire deck out of techs, then you will have 100% win rate against everybody. It's that simple!
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Not true. They've been both HoFed, that's why we got 100% dust refund from them.
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Dr. Boom wasn't OP before rotation, because there were even stronger hero cards out there. Now, when most hero cards are gone, this single card rises warrior to another level, giving him insane value (close to infinite). That was fine, when every class had access to pretty much the same value generator, but now it's like playing different games. For me (as a Warlock-only player), Warrior = concede, because in most cases it's waste of time.
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And that's exactly why we all should complain! Blizzard is doing this on purpose, because... well, money. They don't want you to have 1-2 favourite classes and wrap your entire collection around them. Usually only 2-3 classes at the time are viable, so you either play as them, either you will have miserable game experience for incoming months (or even years), before "your" classes become playable again. This is especially frustrating for F2P players, because all they can really do is wait and farm gold, not really having fun in the process. If zoo will be yet again the only viable Warlock deck in current meta, then I'm done with HS. It's simply not worth time and effort.