19.2.1 Patch Notes - Edwin & Boggspine Nerfs - Battleground Change
Blizzard just announced some balance changes to both Constructed and Battlegrounds. Read all about it below!
Quote from BlizzardWe’ve got a small balance patch with a few big changes planned for release this Friday, January 8!
Standard Balance Updates
Edwin VanCleef
- Old: [Costs 3] → New: [Costs 4]
- Dev Comment: The last few weeks have been the best Edwin has ever performed as an individual card (the highest win rate card in multiple Rogue archetypes). Alongside cards like Foxy Fraud and Shadowstep, the frequency of early 8/8 or 10/10 Edwin VanCleefs reached a point we are no longer comfortable with. We want to evaluate how the rest of Rogue's kit performs without this very powerful iteration of Edwin. Cards like Foxy Fraud, Swindle, and Prize Plunderer are important pieces for future expansions and card interactions, so we'll be keeping close tabs on how they perform with the influx of new cards and Edwin's nerf.
Boggspine Knuckles
- Old: 4 Attack → New: 3 Attack
- Dev Comment: We're lowering the attack on Boggspine Knuckles in order to cut into the fluidity of Evolve Shaman, increasing the required investment of playing a 5-mana weapon without a free Dread Corsair, and reduce the overall damage output the deck is capable of over multiple weapon charges. This change lowers the amount of explosive plays available to Evolve Shaman and should create an overall healthier meta.
Edwin VanCleef and Boggspine Knuckles will be eligible for a full dust refund for 2 weeks after the 19.2.1 patch goes live.
Battlegrounds Balance Update
Elistra the Immortal
- Old: 7 Attack, 7 Health → New: 4 Attack, 4 Health
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Infinite Toki’s Temporal Tavern would not function correctly with the New Recruit Darkmoon Prize.
- Fixed a bug where Ysera’s Dream Portal, when used with the New Recruit Darkmoon Prize, would not offer a Dragon when Bob’s Tavern is full.
Also sorry this didn't get into the notes but: Yes Edwin will still rotate later this year and yes we will be reverting the nerf (along with others) at that time.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) January 8, 2021
We'll be looking at Wild more frequently throughout the year, setting some things up to help us do that better.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) January 8, 2021
Any card release has the chance to shift Wild to some degree, the upcoming mini-set being no different. There's some good stuff!
Thx Blizz :) 3200 dust for Edwin
the nerf is perf... you guys really want to kill a card and not make it playable... this is how there make it drop win rate so it will be close to each1 else in the meta
Well, I guess now the only way for me to get a huge Edwin on turn 1 is to... do the exact same thing we're doing anyway...?
Coin, foxy, step, foxy, Edwin is still a 10/10 on turn 1.
Anyway, good on the knuckles nerf. Nobody was happy with the state of shaman, except all the degenerates that were playing it simply because it was too good.
That wasn't the problem dude. The combo you're talking depends of 3 cards IN MULLIGAN. And also being second LOL.
The problem with Edwin is that in Miracle Rogue you generate 2 or 3 easily, and paired with Whirlkick Master you could get a lot of value AND a big boy. And in late game, sometimes you could throw 2 Edwins in the same turn if you got lucky. This nerf seems correct to me.
Does Blizzard even play their own game? It's called EVOLVE Shaman. Not Weapon Swing Face Shaman. Sick nerf dudes.
the nerf is fine... befor you could clear each time but die becouse 4x4 dmg is half your hp now its only 12 dmg so it will lower the win rate but not kill it
Yup just not having the free Dread Corsair to boot is huge.
Except that it basically is. In certain matchups the minions are basically a distraction while you dish out 20+ face damage with weapon swings alone.
What is the next rogue class set being nerfed to oblivion?
If a card is trouble in Standard just HoF the damn thing, a least you can play in Wild and get full refund without the need to dust, nerfing to oblivion like that make the dusting the only option and for a short window, my sorry for everyone open this crap, terrible, completely useless garbage legendary after the full refund period...
Edwin is strong but fine card, unfortunately it belongs to Rogue’s card pool, so Blizzard decided to nerf him as many others... unnecessarily.
Well, one less class with a playable classic legendary
Aww poor rogues. Its going to be harder to scam wins on the early turns. Terrible
best way for rogue to deal with shaman got nerfed to smithereens, but boggspine gets this small nerf to not get dread corsair on turn 5 (or 3)? I don't like these changes. More coming soon 4 sure..
Edwin was a horrible way to deal with Shaman. One Revolve and you might as well concede.
Was that it?
How efficient nerfs ... Applause for Blizz...
thx for dust blizzard
Just put him in Hall of fame.
They actually said it will rotate and be unnerfed later this year.
https://twitter.com/GW_Alec/status/1347599655102660610
what a joke with the weapon.. it wont make any difference