Reverted Nerfs Announced - Druid, Hunter & Mage
A selection of Nerfed cards will see their nerfs reverted later this month and before Forged in the Barrens goes live. Blizzard announced the cards for Druid, Hunter and Mage, as well as technically Demon Hunter, which sees no cards being reverted.
The Changes:
- Keeper of the Grove from 2/2 stat line back to a 2/4 stat line.
- Ancient of Lore Same stats, now has choice to draw 2 cards, instead of 1 again.
- Starving Buzzard Now a 2 mana 2/1 with same card text again.
- Flare Now costs 1 Mana.
- Dinotamer Brann Now costs 7 Mana again.
- Hunter's Mark Now costs 1 Mana.
- Mana Wyrm Now a 1 Mana 1/2 stat line.
- Conjurer's Calling Now costs 3 Mana again.
- Dragoncaster Now costs 6 Mana again.
Accompanying this will be a change to Wyrm Weaver to a 4 Mana 3/5 statline with the Spellburst effect "Summon two 1/2 Mana Wyrms".
Quote from Alec DawsonWhen the 20.0 patch goes live later this month, there'll be a number of nerf reverts. This is before content unlock/rotation, so for a short period of time there will be a very interesting Standard meta. When considering reverts for 2021, we also considered future rotations. 1/4
Quote from Alec DawsonCould a card come back into Standard? We chose to softly revert those, as we'd like to avoid cards shifting between two costs or statlines each year. This will be the case for cards like Mana Wyrm or Flametongue Totem. They'll be back one day! 2/4
Quote from Alec DawsonAnother factor was looking at the level of positivity a revert brings to the Wild environment. Adding power to already strong archetypes wasn't high on our list so you won't see cards like Level Up being reverted this year. Want these reverts to enable you to play old decks. 3/4
Quote from Alec DawsonHere's a batch for today. DH gets none, so we'll do Druid, Hunter, and Mage. Full revert unless noted.
Druid:
Keeper of the Grove
Ancient of Lore (*editor's note, originally tweeted Ancient of War, but corrected to Lore later.)
Hunter:
Starving Buzzard
Flare
Dinotamer Brann
Hunter's Mark (costs 1)
Mage:
Mana Wyrm (1 mana, 1/2)
Conjurer's Calling
Dragoncaster
Quote from Alec DawsonAs part of this Wyrm Weaver moves down to a 4 mana, 3/5 and summons two 1/2 Mana Wyrms.
There are already alot mages in wild .... secret mages.
I mean in Standard, these cards will be around for a short while before rotation.
Would buzzard be good at wild at 2 mana at all ? Cant believe that we are at that point of a game where i am asking that question
Face hunter with Buzz+Unleash and a lot of small beasts. It was very good and the only good carddraw hunter had.
Agree but at 5 mana its a bit too specific/late ? Its ok reffil but u shoould be winning at that point not say drawing 2 to 3 cards. If u want to draw why not just relly on Reader ? Also what would u cut in that list ?
it was good 5 years ago, but if the last few months have shown, chain drawing is a very strong strategy
It can replace master's call in beast hunter decks.
Guess they didn't say when this is happening, huh? Maybe a few days we'll get to play with these.
Anyway, that's neat. Guess I'm going to go back to playing Dragoncaster in my highlander mage deck and playing Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron on turn 5. One last hurrah from standard!
Weeeee!
Rotation when they are mot a issue anymore in standard.
The first quote says that the patch will go live before the rotation, so for a small period they will be in standard. That's why I was wondering when it would happen/how long we can use them in standard.
Well this is good news for these cards. With the nerf of Hysteria it tells me they can quickly nerf cards. So I'm quite unhappy with some cards that still need work. I'm cool with Tickatus being what he is but 6 mana 8/8 c'mon. Make him a solid 4/4 we got a deal. No more than 6/6.
Nice I like
where are the new cards from the expansion ??
As the Rolling Stones said "You can't always get what you want."
Blizzard will reveal the new cards when they are ready for it. Hopefully that's actual soon and not Soon™...
We'll be on top of that coverage too, as soon as it happens. :)
But i cant wait ðŸ˜