May 22 Card Nerfs Are Live! Rogue + Archivist Elysiana Nerfed
The patch has arrived that brings us nerfs to three Rogue cards and Archivist Elysiana. As usual, mobile updates will come later in the day.
Card Nerfs
Four cards have received changes with today's patch. You can learn more about the reasoning behind the nerfs here. Cards nerfed are disenchantable for full crafting value for 2 weeks.
- [Discuss] EVIL Miscreant - Now has 4 Health (Down from 5)
- [Discuss] Raiding Party - Now costs 4 Mana (Up from 3)
- [Discuss] Preparation - Next spell cast cost is now reduced by 2 (Down from 3)
- [Discuss] Archivist Elysiana - Now costs 9 Mana (Up from 8)
Miscreant nerf isn't too bad, better -1 health compared to +1 mana or -1 lackey.
Still very powerful (with some RNG lackeys) and playable.
I mean, was the mana cost ever the problem with Elysiana? It's not like you play her on curve or anything. I would think it's the mini arena deck you get to draft.
9 mana prevents copying Elysiana with Banker or bouncing it back to hand with Brewmaster
Oh crap you're right. I forgot about that part of the combo. Well now I just feel dumb. Thanks for pointing that out.
This nerf is not about curve but about possibility of warrior to return this card in the hand or shuffle it back in the deck. For 9 mana you could do that only with coin. So in warrior mirror match there will be no longer games until the draw. The one who starts second and manages to keep a coin until Elysiana-turn almost automatically wins the game.
that means, warriors will keep a brewmaster/banker in their deck just in the hope of going second in a mirror match?
I highly doubt that. Bankers & co will vanish from control warrior decks with this change
Should be interesting to see which aggro deck benefits the most. Definitely should be a more aggro centric meta.
I feel sad about Preparation nerf
It was completely unnecessary. Totally got the wild growth treatment. I can’t believ how emotionally attached I got to prep. Was my favorite card along with Auctioneer package. Nerf to prep hurts all of rogue not just 3 or more mana spells. :(
Here's to a new, and better meta.
Amen.