Not sure that Shaman needs a Nerf with evolve going away.
It's a shame blizz was too lazy or incompetent to own up to their mistake of introducing evolve. I haven't played hearthstone much at all since then and I think there are many others like me. Maybe I'll get back into with the new expansion releasing soon
Not criticizing this deck in particular, but I found this deck doesn't work on a fundamental level.
The biggest issue is mage doesn't have tempo secrets like hunter, yet the stats of kabal lackey and kabal crystal runner all encourage an aggressive playstyle. Secondly, mage secrets are just bad, easy to play around and redundant, like mirror image and potion of polymorph triggering together on a 1 drop. The third problem, medivh's valet and ethereal arcanist, all work against your secrets actually being triggered. In a way, you are punished when your opponent plays into a secret. Ice block is too late game of a secret to work very well. The fourth problem is card draw. The sheer amount of secrets you need play and the cost reduction means after turn 4 you can play your whole hand and there's so little space to actually fit card draw in this deck. This is really bad because all the strategy of which secret to play just goes out the window when you only have 1 secret in your hand and you need to play it to keep up the tempo. This leads to the fifth problem. After turn 5 the cost reduction don't even matter. You just end up playing poor minions for a pay off of a 0 mana 5/5 which is nothing in a meta where players are making 1 mana 7/7s.
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I know things are still shaking out, but according to HsReplay the worst matchup is Holy Wrath Paladin: 49.41%, lol
Look at all that green!
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I broke down and crafted shaman
It's like playing the game on easy mode, really quick rank five after not playing for a few months
Obviously needs a nerf
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Not sure that Shaman needs a Nerf with evolve going away.
It's a shame blizz was too lazy or incompetent to own up to their mistake of introducing evolve. I haven't played hearthstone much at all since then and I think there are many others like me. Maybe I'll get back into with the new expansion releasing soon
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It lags so hard on mobile I often miss whole turns
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Shaman and evolve exists and you complain about flamewaker???!
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Honestly kinda underwhelming
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cyclone mage is like tier 4, literally one of the worst decks in the meta right now
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39 min! Reno with 1 extra starting mana and double hero power.
Focused on low cost spells combined with flame wakers, Antonidas, Van Cleef etc.
Use vilespine Slayer to OTK the head at the very end.
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Aren't the rules pretty vague and open ended? Something about "offending" a group of people?
That could pretty much be applied to anything.
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Obviously to farm gold / complete quests