Hearthpwn

Usual indie company jokes aside, this whole Azerite Snake thing was a massive fuck up. In a game with so much bounce, how did they not expect this card to be a problem? The only thing they could have fucked up worse with this would be to have given it to rogue.

They even added extra powercrept bounce like Saloon Brewmaster to the game. It clearly was their intention to make the excavate cards bouncable

Magister Dawngrasp

• Temporarily banned in all Modes.

how many days does this monkeys need to fix this ?

Wheter or not this nerf was deserved is left in the middle. The only thing they really accomplished was make the same three classes as the previous expansions viable, with barely any change in cards. Paladin, Hunter and Druid, Druid having changed the most. Should have just waited for the big balance patch, rather than completely killing another class and leaving the same ones untouched, making the game very stale.

This nerf means changed almost nothing. 

We need warlocks control decks to recieve a nerf or another nerf to this card, try to kill a warlock before turn 9 who just aims to stay alive its quite impossible Warlock got so many amazing tools for staying alive. There are just no counter play once they start reducing your health one turn at a time.

There should be a real reliable counter when your at 10 health and you know they have the bloody worm. No other uninteractable kill condition goes live as early as the worm does. This card just aint fun to play against. 10 dmg/reduce your health 10/10 lifesteal is just way to much value in a 6 mana minion.

The nerf should have been to change the battlecry to reduce your oppnents maximum health to 15/20 or deal that 10 lifesteal dmg but not reduce the maximum health so you could counter it with life steal/heals of different types. Most decks have no counter for the card they just need to kill them before they kill you and as I said Warlock has such an amazing toolkit for just staying alive its really hard to kill them early on.

This is a server-side hotfix change. They can not change the effect - just "The big numbers" - Stats and Cost. 

It will receive a different nerf aimed at actually addressing the problematic aspects of this card, the cost increase is a stop-gap solution until they can get around to actually doing that. 

Ain't fun? Wait till you go again Ogre Rogue that mana cheats 20 mana of card a turn and they say this deck is cheap lol

"Fixed a bug where Glaciate and The Azerite Ox could summon Colossal minions directly into play."

What makes that a bug?

Buff for The Azerite Ox imo. The only colossal you can get is Ozumat and since it's instantly summoned, it's basically a dead option for the first discover as if you pick it, it fills your board with 1/3s and you don't get the second.

The deck is struggling not being able to play 2 snakes in the same turn, from the few games I played. Good fix !

But pretty often after getting first Snake you know you have like 3 turns to do something, or most likely you're dead. I'm not sure will this fix the problem. But I also understand the attempt to nerf, but still keep it in play instead of nerf too much and destroy it.

It wasn't a super high win rate deck and slowing it down a little so it can't be bounced so early will definitely allow faster decks to farm easy wins off the deck. Meaning even if you play control decks you won't be up against the card nearly as often.

That being said, if you are playing a slower deck that plays for attrition and run into this matchup, the counter-play measures are still too limited.

It should have stayed at 4 mana and been changed to lifesteal, deal 10 damage to the enemy hero. This would keep the decks losing matchups against aggro where they are, but help opposing control decks by allowing the ability to prevent leathals though healing or armor.

Keep in mind: This is a hotfix change. They can only change things such as the Cost or Stats. Touching the effect is off the table until the next client update, which is 2 weeks after launch at least. They very well may change it to "LIfesteal, deal 10 damage to the enemy hero" but that's outside the scope of changes they can do right now. 

I mean, that's what makes it a good card though. Having 2000 Armor Druid last patch, even if it wasn't good, still felt shitty to lose to. 

Maybe. But the reason why The Azerite Scorpion has that condition, is because of how and how much the Rogue cards are able to Excavate, specifically Drilly the Kid and Rogue's access to bounce effects. In Warlock, excavating 8 would essentially require having played and gotten the Excavate effect off of every accessible Excavate card they can have in their deck, which seems like a pretty harsh condition for The Azerite Snake to be good in my eyes.

Rogue is turning out weak this expansion - wishing well is too random, you are long dead before excavating 8 times and ogre gang can't fight toe to toe Vs aggro paladin and elemental shaman or miracle Naga DH. Maybe the nerf to warlock will allow control decks to arrive and counter these oppressive aggro decks so Rogue can actually have time to summon and bounce the ogres 

still overpowered but this will do for now