Finally, Blizzard seems to understand that nobody cares about a recipe brawl two weeks into an expansion. It would have been even better if they had released this brawl last week, but hey, at least we're going in the right direction.
It's not quite right yet. When I launch HS with the Innkeeper open, it does display the green check mark and the message that it synced successfully. However, I wanted to check my profile to make sure that everything did sync and what I got is in the attached image.
I'm pretty sure that I own neutral cards that cost more than 1 mana :)
On the other hand, old runs will be retired when the expansion after Rastakhan hits, because at that point Year of the Raven will end and expansions from 2017 will go to Wild, but that's in about 4 months.
(Edited to fix the year because I can't count. It's 2017, as in Un'Goro, KoFT and K&C, not 2016.)
I'm a Wild player, but it's a fact that Wild ladder is only Standard on crack, that's why I want to see Kingsbane disappear forever. The only counter is milling it and it's not easy to burn that.
This. KIngsbane is the reason why I left Wild completely this year, after only playing Wild during the year of the Mammoth. It might have been a EU thing, I don't know, but Kingsbane rogues seemed to be all over the ladder, while I hardly ever saw those Giant decks everyone was bitching about. Decks against which you can concede on turn 1 if you're not playing a SMOrc deck are toxic as fuck for the meta.
Are you seriously trying to say that when Undertaker was nerfed, it was just to free up design space for the future, and not to address an OP deck that had completely taken over the meta with a WR over 60%?
Tempo Mage hasn't been a thing for several expansions. If you're talking about the Aluneth deck, that's Aggro Mage.
I don't play that deck, yet I don't think this nerf is right. For starters, Mage wasn't in a great position anyway in the current meta. I agree that it could be annoying to play against when everything lined up perfectly and a Mana Wyrm snowballed to win a game single-handedly. But it wasn't nearly consistent enough to make the deck competitive.
Furthermore, in typical Blizzard fashion, it was more of a complete annihilation of the card than a nerf. The only positive thing that can be said about the future Wyrm is that it might still be playable in Arena. By upping the mana cost of the card, instead of, for instance, making it a 1/2, they delay the deck's game plan by one full turn, making it completely unplayable.
Also in typical Blizzard fashion, the Classic cards, especially Mage Classic cards, are getting the axe instead of more problematic cards from expansions in the Standard rotation — yes, Explosive Runes, I'm looking at you. As a result of this greedy approach, the new player experience keeps getting worse, but they prefer adding 25 ridiculous new levels in Ranked to addressing the real issue.
So we've got a card that is not the strongest card in a deck that is at best tier 2, in a class that has no other serious Standard archetype (don't try to tell me that Exodia Mage is anything more than a joke) and this is your definition of a nerf that “needed to happen”? Okay...
That reminds me that I'm still waiting for the new strong decks that were supposed to be built around Warsong Commander. Oh well. Better not hold my breath.
There's another option besides game-breaking OP and trash-tier unplayable cards. Or at least, there should be. If every card released is either pre-nerf Undertaker or Magma Rager in terms of power levels, this game is fucked.
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Finally, Blizzard seems to understand that nobody cares about a recipe brawl two weeks into an expansion. It would have been even better if they had released this brawl last week, but hey, at least we're going in the right direction.
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It's not quite right yet. When I launch HS with the Innkeeper open, it does display the green check mark and the message that it synced successfully. However, I wanted to check my profile to make sure that everything did sync and what I got is in the attached image.
I'm pretty sure that I own neutral cards that cost more than 1 mana :)
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That's nothing new by a long shot. They were already doing it nearly 3 years ago, see this Trump video from January 2016 for example.
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On the other hand, old runs will be retired when the expansion after Rastakhan hits, because at that point Year of the Raven will end and expansions from 2017 will go to Wild, but that's in about 4 months.
(Edited to fix the year because I can't count. It's 2017, as in Un'Goro, KoFT and K&C, not 2016.)
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Well, people complaining about Druidstone are no longer going to. Hunterstone is taking over.
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This. KIngsbane is the reason why I left Wild completely this year, after only playing Wild during the year of the Mammoth. It might have been a EU thing, I don't know, but Kingsbane rogues seemed to be all over the ladder, while I hardly ever saw those Giant decks everyone was bitching about. Decks against which you can concede on turn 1 if you're not playing a SMOrc deck are toxic as fuck for the meta.
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You must be new here.
(coughIminchargecough)
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Warsong Commander since she was nerfed. Which is quite weird, since Team 5 told us that there would be some powerful new decks built around her.
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Are you seriously trying to say that when Undertaker was nerfed, it was just to free up design space for the future, and not to address an OP deck that had completely taken over the meta with a WR over 60%?
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Tempo Mage hasn't been a thing for several expansions. If you're talking about the Aluneth deck, that's Aggro Mage.
I don't play that deck, yet I don't think this nerf is right. For starters, Mage wasn't in a great position anyway in the current meta. I agree that it could be annoying to play against when everything lined up perfectly and a Mana Wyrm snowballed to win a game single-handedly. But it wasn't nearly consistent enough to make the deck competitive.
Furthermore, in typical Blizzard fashion, it was more of a complete annihilation of the card than a nerf. The only positive thing that can be said about the future Wyrm is that it might still be playable in Arena. By upping the mana cost of the card, instead of, for instance, making it a 1/2, they delay the deck's game plan by one full turn, making it completely unplayable.
Also in typical Blizzard fashion, the Classic cards, especially Mage Classic cards, are getting the axe instead of more problematic cards from expansions in the Standard rotation — yes, Explosive Runes, I'm looking at you. As a result of this greedy approach, the new player experience keeps getting worse, but they prefer adding 25 ridiculous new levels in Ranked to addressing the real issue.
So we've got a card that is not the strongest card in a deck that is at best tier 2, in a class that has no other serious Standard archetype (don't try to tell me that Exodia Mage is anything more than a joke) and this is your definition of a nerf that “needed to happen”? Okay...
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That reminds me that I'm still waiting for the new strong decks that were supposed to be built around Warsong Commander. Oh well. Better not hold my breath.
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Shhh! Don't give them ideas!
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By default, Arena runs don't expire. Blizzard only retires active Arena runs at the beginning and end of special events.
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There's another option besides game-breaking OP and trash-tier unplayable cards. Or at least, there should be. If every card released is either pre-nerf Undertaker or Magma Rager in terms of power levels, this game is fucked.
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I guess Blizzard's intentions are for Tournament mode to beat the record of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy for longest development time.