Patches the Pirate Loses Charge - Four Card Nerfs Coming in February
Four cards are being nerfed! These changes are not yet live and will be available in a February patch. They will all be disenchantable for their full value once to patch arrives. Please do not disenchant these cards until that patch - Blizzard won't help you out get the correct dust value.
- Bonemare now costs 8 mana, up from 7.
- Corridor Creeper now has 2 attack, down from 5.
- Patches the Pirate no longer has charge. His voice line will also be changing. (Source)
- Raza the Chained's effect now sets your Hero Power to 1 mana, up from 0.
We've got dedicated threads available to discuss each card nerf.
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Quote from BlizzardIn the upcoming 10.2 update, we will be making balance changes to the following cards:
Bonemare - Now costs 8 mana. (Up from 7)
Bonemare has been quite strong in both constructed and Arena. It has a big, immediate impact on the board, and since it’s neutral, it’s been finding its way into a wide variety of decks.
Increasing its mana cost by 1 will give opponents more time to utilize powerful late-game cards to counteract Bonemare’s effect on the board.
Corridor Creeper - Now has 2 Attack. (Down from 5)
Due to the way that Corridor Creeper’s mana cost reduction works, it can cause big swings based on whether or not it happens to be in-hand at the start of the game.
Since it’s a very strong neutral card, Corridor Creeper has been played by a lot of classes. By lowering its attack, we reduce the overall swing potential and power level of the card, but still allow players who draw it early to benefit from having a low-cost minion to play when the game state is ideal.
Patches the Pirate - No longer has Charge.
As we move closer to the new Hearthstone Year, we had some concerns about allowing Patches to remain in his current state after moving out of Standard. Patches’ strength has caused almost every class to add some Pirates just to benefit from him, and his early game power forces control decks to include a good answer to him. This change should give Wild players more flexibility when building their decks.
Removing Charge will lower his power level, ensuring he shows up in fewer decks and allowing opposing players some additional time to respond to Patches, making him less “in charge” of the early game.
Raza the Chained - Now reads: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, your Hero Power costs (1) this game.
In a similar vein to Patches the Pirate, we had some concerns about allowing Raza to remain in his current state forever. Raza is currently an important combo piece along with Shadowreaper Anduin, and can lead to games that rely heavily on drawing him by turn 5. Adjusting his Battlecry will lower his overall power level when combined with Shadowreaper Anduin in Standard, and keep his power level reasonable in Wild as we prepare for the new Hearthstone Year.
Once these card changes are live with Update 10.2 next month, players will be able to disenchant the changed cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks. Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you in the tavern!
You missed fixing Spiteful Summoner , Carnivorous Cube. Would have been a extremely balanced with those two sorted as well.
Good changes.
Aw yeah finally holding onto 3x Bonemare paid off
I just crafted [card]Shadowreaper Anduin[/card] like a month ago....oh well.
Shadowreaper is still a strong card and one of the best DKs out there. The investment will be useful in future decks, so not all is lost.
Yup definitely still one of the best DKs out there just no much closer from the others
March patch:
The team don't see the power level warlock because the nerfs and after them the ladder almost turn into 100% warlocks then we decide to release a patch with some nerfs for the class.
The weapon and the cheater mana recruit increase the cost to 7, Voidlord only summon 2 1/3 taunt, Doomguard only have charge if played from hand and the pact now cost 4.
Bonemare was so strong its still playable after the nerf
1. You can only have 1 lich king (surprisingly you can have more than on 8 drop too!)
2. Bonemare is still a decent top curve for aggressive tempo decks
3. The lich king is highly inconsistent, and is mostly teched as a longer game option
4. This being a card game with limited space, any car that is "a little" better in any way trumps other alternatives
Well, I won't disenchant anything (I'm trying to get all the cards from all collections), but I'm pretty pissed that I didn't saved duplicates on those ones
+ Why not make Creeper 3 Attack? With 2, they just completely killed the card, destroyed.
Yes! Thank goodness these came out. I have a golden and regular patches so it's time to cash in. As much as people might hate it, the Raza nerf needed to happen for the sake of wild. I feel like the Creeper nerf is fairly harsh though...
Well, I see your point. However, it's still loses the aggressive trade or damage. I remember disguised toast made a video about patches where he discussed the WR of PW when people remember to attack with him and when they forgot it - and there was a significant decrease in WR when they forgot it. The deck thinning is fine but it's still a token that doesn't do anything. You might as well play a recruit card then. But yea I might have exaggerated when I used the word "worthless".
@thazud8D: Not only PW is playing Pirates and Canons in Wild, Aggro-Pala plays them too and even some Hunters.
Oh damn. Well, the more you know. :-) Cheers.
Blizzard: "We closely watch the tournaments before deciding on what balance changes to make."
Almost all Cube and Control Warlocks blacklisted at the World Championship.
No nerfs to Cube and Control Warlocks.
Whats your problem? There were nearly no Warlocks played in the championship, so Warlock must be fine! ;D
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I'm sorry for telling you this but Blizz only returns 2 cards at their real value (because you can only take 2 in a deck) the rest of the copies only have value to disenchant and if you have 2 gold cards, only returns the cost of those. So it does not help much to have 20 copies of a card. :(
Is this true? It actually makes sense but for some reason wasnt how I assumed it worked...
I haven't been pressing the button for a while now to try to cash in on any late nerfs. I guess I'll find out with my bonemare collection!
As a Wild player, i really appreciate nerfs to both pirate decks and Raza Priest. I guess we will see if Blizzard decides Jade Druid or Cubelock are also a problem in the future.