Druid Reveal - Crystal Stag & Crystal Power
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Druid has literally nothing as of now when the rotation happens. They lose Branching Paths, Naturalize, Spreading Plague, Ultimate Infestation, Malfurion the Pestilent, and their ramp options are trash. Druid is gonna be the new Shaman for a few expansions, is my bet. Every year we seem to have one or two classes that are competitive garbage. This is Druid's year in the dumpster.
Hard to argue with that really. I still have no idea why they nerfed the class identity of Druid. It was such an unneeded knee jerk reaction.
Because ramp is OP and unfun to play against and shouldn't be so easy or prevalent. If not eliminated it should be weakened and it was.
Big Beast Druid should have options
Druid was always a relevant class only rarely being low tier, ramp was really too obnoxious in druid, games shouldn't be always about drawing wild growth early, into nourish early.
Except by their own words Ramp is their class identity. They took that identity away from them. The fact that they have no direct removal is the balancing factor.
Druid has like 7-8 themes to them.. the classes aren't black or white, paladin has like 10 directions by now.. if every class had a single niche the game would be really boring
Not according to Team 5 though.
Talking about big themes here:
restoration -healing touch-basic set
ramp-obvious.
armor- hero power, natural defenses.
hero attack damage without weapons-basic/classic set/rastakan/hero power.
lunar theme- moonfire, starfall, etc.
Beasts- classic set, reccuring theme.
Shapeshift- druid of the...
Choose one
obnoxious OTK decks.
i guess they just remembered druid have healing too like Healing Touch, Ancient of Lore and 2 wild healing spell instead of going armor
I guess the heal archetype worked so well for paladin that they decided to give it to druid too.
I'm so dissapointed that this ain't paladin cards. They tried to force that archetype onto us for so long now and the first actually good cards they make for it are druid cards???
New expansion but your talking about mecuthun decks in new expansion. Come on
Crystal Stag is nutty if you can play it on curve in a Midrange/Tempo/Aggro deck, the question is: Is it possible to build a deck that let's you do that without the rest of the deck being hot garbo?
Currently I would say that it's probably not possible, but there's still lots of cards to come. :P
Crystal Power may be a okay situational card for the Mecha'Chun Druid deck that runs 2x Auctioneer (although that deck loses the Annaconda so may be slightly less good), and will most likely be put into Malygos Druid if that is still playable after the rotation. - Outside of that I don't see it being used a lot though.
Mecha'thun Druid loses Naturalize, which is still the only real way you can kill Mecha'thun in Druid, which means the archetype is dead - barring some new way to kill it on the same turn, which I doubt will happen, since they rotated Naturalize because they didn't want Druid to have efficient single target removal spells.
Does this still have the same target with Fandral?
So it deals two damage and then heals the same target? I assume this is the way it works, since Wrath still has one target.
If so, that's a bit disappointing. I know Fandral is Wild now, but it's like they were trying to not make it work with Fandral and only work with the new Druid Legendary (forgot the name). I hope that is not their plan with Choose One going forward.
tbf this is literally the only choose one card ( at least of what I can think of) that does not work with fandral lmao. They can't print one card like this and say "it's like they were trying to not make it work with fandral." And it would feel more bad if they thought "Hmmm, I want to make this card, but it doesn't work with fandral so lets not print it."
For the record, Druid of the Saber doesn't work very well with Fandral either. I mean, it's not disastrously bad, but not every card needs specific Fandral synergy.
Druid has respecced from tank to restoration. If they don’t get a single piece of armor this expac I could live with that.
Let's face it...
Even if druid gets some of the best cards this expansion (which has not been the indication so far), it's highly unlikely any archetype will be viable at all. What we're looking at right now is Druid being the worst class in the game in the Year of the Dragon.
Trump is one of their most popular streamers and he’s one of the few still loyal to the game. So many others like Amaz abandoned the game for Dota Auto Chess. And I don’t think they’ll be back since they’re getting more views now on those videos than they did on hearthstone. Sad stuff.
They really should of got a more entertaining dude to do the 'unboxing', it actually seemed like it might of been a lot of fun.