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Imagine patches being a 2/1 and not a legendary, that means you can kill doomsayer T2 with small time buccaneer. It also means you can win the game on turn 3.

Well the only viable way of stoping pirates i found in paladin. Well at least works for rouge and warrior, shaman is another story. I found that if you take a bunch of 1/2 and 1/3 murlocs and get them +1/+1 in turn one, or even better coin +1/+1 smugglers run then drop them to the table as 2/4 that early and for low cost, you can overwhelm he pirates. Especially with coldlight seer buffing your murlocs with +2 health. 

this is the most sad thing i have ever read on hearthpwn....

"It took almost two years to get balanced and ready for play."

Better make it three years then.

Better make it a 4 mana 7/7 with charge with the same effect 

If you put up a dictionary, you can find the reason in the V section, as value.

Thing is, you don't pay any resources for him. Not just mana, but also card. This is why he is that strong. It helps basically with everything. In zoo and aggro with flooding, or zero mana ping, in control decks and combo decks he helps with getting into more impactful cards faster. He with new 1 mana pirate helped skyrocket pirates to highest tiers.

Quote from FaceTheGround >>

Begin the game with:
Your opponent with 29 health
A free 1/1 pirate
1 less card in your deck for combo purposes.

That is the card we are looking at.

I love the idea of triggering things based on deck construction (like Patches, Malchezaar, Reno, etc.) but Patches might not be the best implementation.

Maybe something more like a 1-mana 1/3 with "When you play a Dragon, reveal this minion from your deck and destroy it." Great to drop on turn 1 for early defense, great to get pulled out of your deck for late game.

When a deck can get past a turn 1 doomsayer (see Amaz in seatstory) you know youve crossed a line.

You think they give a shit about crossing the line?  Or care about balance at all?

Nope.  Paining a Doomsayer with your turn 2 is equivalent to passing, but you lost a card.  The point of Doomsayer is to refresh board.  Getting past a turn 1 Doomsayer means killing it and having stuff on the board still.

I don't see too much zoo these days.   

Wrong overall, paining a doomsayer with no board is pointless, yet paining a doomsayer when you have twilight welp or north shire cleric seems to make more sense. why? point of doomsayer is for you to have initiative  (tempo) the following turn and paining it denies your opponent that, but i think i get where you're going. 

currently in the top 200 in legend, and i have been seeing  a lot of zoo's these days (not going to post proof, i've posted a lot of comments these days with pics, u can look it up yourself. but thinking about it now, makes sense for zoo to come back, a hard counter (not even really that hard) to zoo was control warrior. now that cw is out of the picture b/c of well, every control deck ( from highlander priest, mage to reno lock, to jade druid) zoo should do pretty well in the oversaturated meta of miracle rogue and pirate warrior. 

It took 2 years to come up with a legendary 1 attack 1 health charge pirate. Seems logical. 

 Really what they MEANT to say is that it took two years worth of expansions, adventures, and rotations for them to feel comfortable releasing such a card.