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.
WTF, why they dont nerf the cancer warrior.
since Elisyana is almost a Warrior card, i think they actually nerged warrior, not much, but at least 45 minute matches wont be the rule
I'm shocked they didn't make a change the hero Dr. Boom. #fail
no Barnes nerf still?
don't get me wrong, I think these nerfs are justified, but Barnes has gone un-touched for to long.
"they still need more data to conclude if Barnes needs a nerf" Kappa
And I just frigging crafted Preparation too. Oh well, at least I'll 1600 dust from the golden one I own.
Still waiting for warrior, mage and hunter nerfs.
Now coin will decide who is going to win in warrior mirros because you will just keep the coin for the late game in mirror and you will always win in value because your opponent wouldn´t be able to bounce back again elysiana without the coin. Mage is going to dominate the meta I love it! Also 0 wild nerfs to barnes or blodbloom or odd paladin. And I love that this nerf will nerf also kingsbane rogue.
I've heard that it supposed to be 10. May be they will fix it, or for some reason they changed their mind..
If there is no way to play elysiana and bounce in the same turn(except the coin) nobody is going to play the pandaren. This is pointless to play this card if u can use it only with coin.
I hope so...
If was still playing old pre bounce control warrior, this change doesnt affect me :D
Your Shaman will cry when he see Jaina.
Every deck has its counter. The nightmare for control shammy is the greedy dragon list with 8 mana spells. Other than that its not hard to beat mage as control shaman.
Dr. boom wasn't touched, really?
Preparation was way too powerful and swingy for the longest time so its a great change. I know a few will be upset because it means rogues will have to think a little more now but these are all fantastic changes.
Will we c Hunter, Mage, and maybe some shaman now? Warrior we already see every game. Time for another class to shine. I'll give it 1 week before nerf a different class comes up lol
You will see JUSTMAGEstone
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Blizzard f....ork you ;) Prep - seriously? "If you compare Rogue to Warrior, however, you’ll find that the latter class has a wide variety of good and bad matchups..." no comment we just love those looong games...geeeza.