Reward & Promo Set Cards Restricted to Wild Format
An update has been made to Blizzard's Standard and Wild FAQ which confirms we will not be able to use cards in the Reward or Promo sets in Standard. Additionally, you will no longer obtain Old Murk-Eye or Captain's Parrot from crafting Murlocs and Pirates. RIP Old Murk-Eye.
Quote from BlizzardWill Reward set cards such as Gelbin Mekkatorque and Old Murk-Eye be part of Wild or Standard format?All current Reward set cards, including Promo cards, will be restricted to Wild format.
When Standard format arrives, the Captain’s Parrot and Old Murk-Eye cards won’t be given for collecting their associated classic cards, but can instead be crafted (and disenchanted).
Acquiring the Promo cards Gelbin Mekkatorque and Elite Tauren Chieftain remains unchanged: the normal versions of these cards can still be crafted or disenchanted, while the golden versions were acquired via special events and cannot be disenchanted or crafted.
Another deck gone for good in Standard...
I guess Paladin also loses the murloc variant besides the secret and midrange ones.
Losing avenge is not the problem, they lose the staple cards they share with midrange like minibot, muster, belcher, shredder, Dr. Boom, Loatheb, etc. and there's also a big chance that Knife Juggler will get nerfed.
Glad I already got my golden Murk-Eye and Captains Parrots. Guess I can dust the regular versions when standard hits.
RIP Randuin! :(
I think this gives them more freedom to allow for promo/reward cards in the future by not having to worry about their potential impact on Standard play.
The promo cards were never intended to be competitive, and apart from token druid for a small time weren't. This makes sense that they would be removed from standard. However,
I don't see why the reward cards are effected. You get them for getting other classic cards. My guess is that the way of obtaining isn't very obvious and they just want to remove that kind of way of collecting cards. Indeed, there was no promo card last Blizzcon. Going forward, they will probably keep all cards obtained though expansions.
My hope is that in the future promo cards will be offered as "Platinum" versions of existing cards, given that they said it would be too confusing too have alternate named versions of existing cards.
Basically an excuse to get rid of yet another broken charge card, ye Old Murk-Eye.
Rip tribes. You were never meant to be.
Anyfin is broken. Murk Eye never was and still isn't. They made this problem with the introduction of Anyfin to a class that really didn't need any more buffs.
Anyfin is still broken when you take away the charge cards that gain synergy with the Anyfin?
ok
What's better? Taking away the card that prevents you creating cards like Anyfin or just not printing Anyfin or anything closely resembling?
RIP Anyfin Pally
True, it may still survive. But I'll no longer consider it OP.
Blizzard
Questioning your intelligence and pissing off it's fanbase since 1999.
Murk eye is legendary you cant get 2 :)
I'm glad Old Murk-Eye isn't in standard, but I wish the way of obtaining him remained the same.
That's where I'm at. The collectible reward thing for murlocs and pirates was one of the few unique little details in the entire game and should be expanded upon more than anything.
But at the same time this murders that everyfin is awesome cancer. I'll take it.
I was really hoping golden ETC and Gelbin would be craftable, but I guess it makes sense to not devalue the very, very few times they've actually given out any kind of cards exclusively. It still feels weird though, to be able to craft 99.9% of a golden set and then just have two cards that you'll never be able to do that with just because you may not have been around at the right time.
And again I cannot understand the phylosophy behind this move. You devaluate a card (obviously) and at the same time you make it harder to get.
We do not have enough data about the coming expansion(s) and the classic rework to judge whether any of the reward/promo set will be too good in standard play. I am sure Blizzard took everything we (community) don't know and made the best decision. However i strongly disagree with the second part of the decision: making them no longer obtainable with the previous conditions.