17.6 Balance Updates - Many Nerfs planned for July 14th!
Blizzard just posted about some huge, widesweeping nerfs that are going to happen to the game next week, on July 14th.
Quote from BlizzardOn July 14, we’ll be releasing a patch that includes balance updates for several cards in Standard. Craftable cards listed below will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks after the 17.6 patch goes live.
Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
Old: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (0). → New: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (1).
Corsair Cache
Old: Draw a weapon. Give it +1/+1. → New: Draw a weapon. Give it +1 Durability.
Metamorphosis
Old: Swap your Hero Power to “Deal 5 damage.” After 2 uses, swap it back. → New: Swap your Hero Power to “Deal 4 damage.” After 2 uses, swap it back.
Kayn Sunfury
Old: 3 Attack, 5 Health → New: 3 Attack, 4 Health.
Warglaives of Azzinoth
Old: [Cost 5] → New: [Cost 6].
Dragoncaster
Old: [Cost 6] → New: [Cost 7].
Fungal Fortunes
Old: [Cost 2] → New: [Cost 3].
Galakrond, the Nightmare
Old: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (1).
Galakrond, the Apocalypse (Rogue)
Old: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. They cost (1).
Galakrond, Azeroth's End (Rogue)
Old: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. It costs (0). → New: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. They cost (1).
We have some Battlegrounds updates planned for the near future as well. Stay tuned!
Nope, is not the box.there are 2 of 8 mana spells that coined out in turn 5 are game ending.is logical the nerf.it was too much from just rng for mage
At least they nerfed the who most valuable cards last so we can get most of our dust back. But seriously, do u even playtest bro?
My golden kayn aprove this Nerf 👍🏻
Damn! what you're gonna do with the dust ?
Wait for the next expansion i guess
me happy too
So they sell the DH skin first and then nerf the DH. OK.
This is what they always seem to be doing now, its a Scheme to make good money and then some months later actually care about Balancing them after the Fact. xD
New expansion will have even more super OP cards, to force people to buy, really hilarious and obvious, stay safe, dont get fooled guys.
They been nerfing DH, tho. Anyone who bought the skin thinking DH wouldn't get nerfed again is a sucker.
this can be extended to all standard ladder
So rouge gonna play even more coin generating cards now
Its more about fact that they cant play 7 mana galakrond in turn 7 and play cards drawn by his battlecry same turn since they are no longer 0 cost
13 out of 45 DH cards had to be nerfed or changed
i'd say there'd actually be still a couple more added to that who would totally qualify, too (hero power, spectral sight and sightless watcher)
nevertheless that's a 3rd of 'em all, yikes!!
When do these ( gala, DA ) rotate out? In 4 months right?
no, next april
Ohh, thx.
Best way to nerf Rogue Galakrond is to specify the discount instead of the final cost. It can read like 'Draw 4 cards, they cost (3) less'. I made up the number, but you get the point. So if you draw a 0-mana card, it will still be 0 mana, but Kronx or Heistbaron will be 3 mana instead of 0.
I would have done: they cost AT MOST 1. Or cost NO MORE THAN 1. Solved the problem :)
It can be worded like "Its cost is reduced to (1) ". If the card is already 0-cost, this is not qualified as a reduction, so the cost is untouched. I wonder why dev cannot do like this. :P~
It took them almost half a year to realize that Alexstrasza is broken while she was really a queen of every trolden video since her release.