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Quote from Kovachut >>

Rafaam is better than Elise Starseeker, because he's faster and offers taunt on top of having a good stated body. As a control warlock player:

 It's a totally dead card up until turn 7 and you can't play it whenever you want to like Elise. You're acting like there aren't a bunch of glaring negatives with this card. 

Quote from Highwayman37 >>

The equality nerf was specifically related to Baku imo, which is very short-sighted and quite frankly, bullshit.  Baku will rotate out eventually so they destroy a classic card because they made odd pally too op? Should've nerfed Baku by changing the hero power to one 2/2 recruit.  Would've solved everything.

Unfortunately Blizzard appears to no longer nerfs legendaries, so instead classic cards are being fucked around with.   

 This is exactly what I think and I totally agree with you. Like point for point. 

So after reading through some patch notes, I am honestly bewildered and kind of scared for the state of this game as it stands. 

Equality? 4 Mana now? 

This has to be the most insane nerf I've seen in a while. Honestly I could make a case for it being THE craziest nerf I have ever seen.

1. This card has been a staple in Paladin Decks since, well, forever

• It does well in token decks, allowing smaller minions to take out bigger minions
• It does well in control decks, allowing for an amazing 2-card clear 

I just don't understand this at all. It seems like a change made in response to a problem that has only arisen of recent, and it seems to be only in response to recent meta changes. 

I need some opinions on these changes and perhaps an explanation as to why this was justified. Please help me out here

Rating scale 

1-Terrible, will never see play because it's so awful

2-Bad, won't likely see play

3-Average, in the right meta sees play

4-Great, going to see a decent amount of play

5-Should see tons of play

Neutral

Druid

Hunter

(Will continue later)

Really not as bad as people are making this out to be. Likely won't see much play but still not a bad card by any means

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Quote from Kaladin >>

 There are more efficient ways to play two cards in order to draw two cards in Warrior.

It's a combo that breaks even and digs you 3 cards deeper into your deck for 6 mana.

6 mana, play 2 cards (Scalper, Boots), draw 1 card (boots), deal 5 damage w/ rushing Scalper(and presumably remove a card from your opponent), draw 2 cards.

But I'm not sure if that's good, in particular because Rocket Boots is just bad on its own, and Scalper is suspect on its own. And that's a lot of mana for something, as you said, Warrior doesn't actually have much difficulty doing.

 Yeah these weird combos tend to never work out. When a card is only in a deck for one other card it never ends well. There would have to be other cards that Ticket Scalper and Rocket Boots both synergize with in the deck in question for that combo to ever see play. 

Quote from Kwakdizzle >>

If I had to push as far as realistically possible to create a mech perfect for being a magnetic target, it would have been this. Super cheap, super durable, and yet not abusable by aggro. Great design.

I hope magnet warrior/paladin/hunter actually becomes a thing.

 Sorry but you're totally wrong. This is definitely abusable by aggro. Lmfao 6 stats STICKS and Aggro relies heavily on constant damage. This card provides that, be it just one damage. 

It can also be buffed in the form of cold blood on turn 3 for a ton of tempo, a 3 mana 5/5 is insane. So yes, very easily abusable by aggro. 

wow nice story dude

Lady in White is bad, Genn is kinda meh tbh

Seems slow. What makes Auctioneer so good is that you can draw into cards that can draw you more cards whereas this only draws minions and doesn't add fuel to the fire 

Solid card, but there's enough garbage hunter spells around that it probably won't be useful outside of a super aggressive beast hunter that wants lots of cheap minions anyway

This doesn't do anything for me, but it may see play simply for it's beast tag and the loss of other early game options. Even then, if it does see play, it's like the 29th and 30th card in your deck.

Definitely a solid card for Standard, especially with the rotation of Dire Mole and Fire Fly.

Not good enough for current Wild.

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Quote from Maximal_HS >>

Such dust, Just compare it to Greater Healing Potion.

 So....a pretty useful card that will see a lot of play then?

No. I said to compare this card to Greater Healing Potion, just to understand how bad this card is. You need 11 turns for it to become similar to potion. Do you people here understand what "compare" means? And Greater Healing Potion did not see a lot of play anyway.

4 turns for it to become Iron Hide for 4 mana. This got to be one of the worst cards ever printed.

They are trying to get rid of auto-includes from the basic/classic set.  Pretty simple.

1 - They want folks to use new cards.

2- They want folks to buy new cards.

If 25 cards of your deck are just auto-include basic/classic cards you just get enough dust to craft the other 5 and forget buying packs.

They don't want to nerf those cards into OBLIVION, but enough that you probably don't throw then into every deck because they are just good enough.  They want you to have to weigh them against potentially better and new options.

The equality nerf was specifically related to Baku imo, which is very short-sighted and quite frankly, bullshit.  Baku will rotate out eventually so they destroy a classic card because they made odd pally too op? Should've nerfed Baku by changing the hero power to one 2/2 recruit.  Would've solved everything.

Unfortunately Blizzard appears to no longer nerfs legendaries, so instead classic cards are being fucked around with.   

So this is cheaper Novice Engineer ,but it draws  a random spell ? It's good with Bran and it might be good in tempo mage .

Does this mean you have infinite attacks? That's pretty neat to say the least.