ROGUES ARE GETTING NERFED! 4 Card Changes Coming May 22
In a blog post from Blizzard this afternoon, they have announced changes to Rogue cards and Archivist Elysiana. The patch comes out May 22.
- EVIL Miscreant - Now has 4 Health (Down from 5)
- Raiding Party - Now costs 4 Mana (Up from 3)
- Preparation - Next spell cast cost is now reduced by 2 (Down from 3)
- Archivist Elysiana - Now costs 9 Mana (Up from 8)
Quote from BlizzardAfter evaluating game data and working through internal and external feedback on the most popular decks currently in the meta, we’re looking to address the power level and overall pervasiveness of Rogue decks, alongside a specific interaction with Archivist Elysiana. Look for these changes in an update slated for May 22.
We chose to focus primarily on Rogue in this update due to seeing the meta stabilize around the class’s most popular decks. Currently, if you want to build a deck that is strong against Rogue, you have just one reasonable option: Warrior. If you compare Rogue to Warrior, however, you’ll find that the latter class has a wide variety of good and bad matchups, which makes it unlikely that it’ll overtake Rogue in popularity in the current meta.
While we recognize that there are other powerful and popular decks (like Token Druid, Conjurer Mage, and Mech Hunter), we decided to not address them in this update because they all have varied matchups. If any of these decks were to emerge as the new prominent strategy, there are plenty of decks available to combat them, which would allow the meta to continue shifting.
As always, we’ll be evaluating the results of these changes over the coming weeks and look forward to your feedback. Read on for details on these changes, our thought process around them, and our goals for each of the cards we adjusted.
- EVIL Miscreant - Now has 4 Health. (Down from 5)
- EVIL Miscreant is meant to be a value-generating card that creates future swing turns, but having 5 Health on this minion means Rogue players sacrifice very little to set up those turns. We expect that EVIL Miscreant will continue to be a great option for Rogue decks, just at a power level that is more in line with other available cards.
- Raiding Party – Now costs 4 mana. (Up from 3)
- Rogue already excels at drawing cards, so having another powerful option that offers consistent results has resulted in Rogue games that play out a little too similarly than we think is fun. We’re making this change to better represent the power level of drawing from a very specific subset of cards.
- Preparation – Now reads: The next spell you cast this turn costs (2) less.
- All changes we make to the Basic and Classic sets are aimed at ensuring Hearthstone’s long-term health. Preparation is currently seen as such a powerful card that it appears in nearly all Rogue deck archetypes. That said, the change we’ve landed on is a small one. While we do want the card’s power to decrease, we also think it’s important for Preparation to remain a reasonable option, since it fits the Rogue class fantasy so well.
- Preparation is regularly used to reduce the cost of cards like Sap or Eviscerate, and those interactions will remain unchanged. Reducing the cost of your next spell by 2 as opposed to 3 opens our design options up a little more to create higher cost Rogue spells without having to balance so closely around the assumption that they’ll be cast alongside Preparation.
- Archivist Elysiana – Now costs 9 mana. (Up from 8)
- Our goal here was to preserve the feeling and power level of Archivist Elysiana when it comes to general use, while making much more difficult to play her multiple times in the same game. Shaman will still be able to replay Elysiana through Shudderwock, but this is not as common or problematic as what we’ve seen in control Warrior decks. Now, playing Elysiana alongside cards like Baleful Banker or Youthful Brewmaster should be a less consistent strategy.
I am surprised that they chose to nerf Preparation instead of Waggle Pick... Preparation nerf will be painful for wild miracle rogues and I think that Waggle Pick in standard is much more annoying thanPreparation which was there since begging. Even with Raiding Party nerf the combo with Waggle Pick and two Dread Corsair still exist.
Exactly...Waggle pick with Deadly poison and Leeroy Shadowstep is a 4-card 2-turn combo for 24 damage which is easy to pull off in a tempo class. I hope the nerfs might slow their draw down enough that it's harder to pull off.
Nice to see blizz is making nerfs :D
Cool, cool.
Now to tech against mage.
soo if i craft elysiana now i will get the refund after nerfs?
Nope, u only get the full dust when you destroy the card
If you craft her now you can enjoy her until the nerfs come. At which point you still need to disenchant her to get back your dust
listen to dps
Die hard rogue here.
Good thing is that now will be less rogues. I hate ppl who play something because its popular and powerfull
As far as i can see problem with rogue atm... mistrel nerf? ok, riding nerf? ok
BUT HELL NO TO NERF Preparation
what about dr boom? I run also control-ish warrior with boom, and values that it generates helped me to win a lot of times,
So if a card, especially legendary one, is strong and helps you win games, it needs to be nerfed? Sweet logic lmao. Agree on the rest tho.
should i DE Preparation?
i have 2 common and 1 in golden. and Archivist Elysiana in common.
I never hurts to DE nerfs bc you can just buy them back at the same cost if you change your mind later
disenchant them the day the nerfs come out and just don't spend that dust until the meta has settled or until you figure out if you want to play those cards again, then you can either recraft them without losing any dust or craft something else
Dissapointed.. Warrior still no nerf.
Elysiana - idk => assume we have warrior with elysiana mirror match-up. Player who has coin can still play elysiana and shuffle it with banker for example / or return with panda on hand.
Evil Miscreant => wow , 1 health point less OMEGALUL
You know, 1 health point less may actually be huge.
Let's take the Rogue Mirror for example: now that EVIL Miscreant is a 1/4, it can be killed by Eviscerate, Backstab + SI:7 Agent or a Wagglew Pick swing.
It's still a strong card (the cost is the same, so Shadow Step shenanigans will still be out there), but at least it will be a little more manageable on board, especially during the early game.
Not sure if you will still run youthful in control warrior or any warrior deck that runs Elysiana, but if it is still run its really unfair for the person going first. Just save coin which is easy to do in a control mirror play Elysiana then coin brewmaster. Personally I would have just nerfed it to 10 mana so this issue could be avoided. I'm surprised boom and waggle pick have not been nerfed, hopefully we get a second set of nerfs soon after this because its looking like a warrior/mage meta, not sure if rogue will still be viable. Also rip wild players, one day big priest will be addressed.
Ah, yes. Just need the whole class which I like (inevitable). No prob with that.. BUT FOR F SAKE WHERE IS BARNES MENTIONED?? THAT FCKER IS SO BROKEN FOR SO LONG
So... The new nerfed Preparation is going to be a worse version of pre-nerfed Innervate. Thanks for the free dust.
To be fair, innervate was nerfed, so if you're casting a spell, it's better.
They don't want my feedback.