Hearthpwn

Hah, I held on 3 hoping for a change! Good times!

Extremely slow.

Quote from H1st0ry >>

Guys... stop saying "you get her for free!" because you get the current version out of classic packs and you will get the new version out of classic packs. They dont remove the packs guys! You get the new "level up" and "already here" cards for free. Ysera the Dreamer is not a level up card... like Ysera was not a level up card.

 Wrong. 

Quote from H1st0ry >>

So classic packs will be useless? I dont think so... 200 cards are the cards that you have when you start a new account and then the level up reward. NOT the pack cards. Like I said. You and a LOT of other people will be crying when they see what they get. Ysera is NOT part of the free set. They will rename a lot of things. Otherwise the current classic packs would serve no purpose... 

 You're demonstrably, proven wrong, why are you arguing? The new Ysera absolutely is part of the new set, we know this 100%. 

Quote from Andrei2007 >>

I don't understand your question entirely, but you get the entire CORE set for free, every year. You don't get any card from Outland, Scholomance, or Darkmoon Faire.

Exactly, the entire CORE set for free. But if I'm not mistaken, it has been said that the CORE set will be changed/and updated every year or so.
If that's the case, I'm assuming we always get the "updated" CORE set for free. 

I have pretty important question that i don't see answered by Blizzard.

Is this change will also affect Ysera in soon to be Classic format? She was quite popular option in slower decks if i remember correctly and for genuity of that format she should be rolling unnerfed versions of dream cards there.

Classic format will use old state cards for all cards.

Good.

Thank you for your quick answer, friend!

OLD Ysera, in Wild, will use the new, nerfed, dream cards. It's almost a straight downgrade. Nothing to do with new Ysera whatsoever.

Why would anyone use old Ysera over new one? Which deck currently use Ysera in wild? You should be grateful that you get new Ysera loaned for free and that you get dust refund for old Ysera so you can actually craft a card that is useful in wild.

I am grateful for the free dust for an old, nerfed card; I was explaining that it was a nerf, and thus the logic for dust refunds.

Honestly, neither Ysera will see much play in Wild.

Which deck plays old Ysera over new Ysera?

Theoretically any deck that wants dream cards but doesn't want to play ysera from hand. No such deck exists right now, I believe. But duel and recruit mechanics don't work with new Ysera, for example. But obviously there are better things to recruit.

Very easy answer. Dragon rogue. My dragon rogue which runs apothecary and deathwing to pull dragons from the hand runs ysera. Would be terrible to run the new one over the old one since I’d never get the Battlecry.

One consequence is it will force players to choose whether or not to keep old Ysera for classic mode (knowing that it will be useless in Wild) or take the dust but have one less tool for Classic.  In classic era, Ysera actually held some value because it was the ultimate value/greed card that was really difficult to remove.  

Interestingly, this last-minute change might make Ysera one of the rarer legendaries floating around in classic mode.  

On a side note, Ysera was the first golden legendary I ever unpacked (way back at launch). Fortunately, I also have a non-golden version because I am wayyy too sentimental to ever dust her.

theoretically res priest can use her but even then its sub optimal

Why the unnecessary nerfs? she wasnt much played to begin with.

The nerfs are because of the new version of ysera being printed which will use the same dream cards and it would be overpowered if they didn’t nerf the dreams. They could’ve used separate dream cards, but decided not to and og ysera was a casualty, not the target.

Quote from Stalladir >>

This!!! There will be basically no reason to run Ysera in Wild. The only way you get value from OG vs New is if you get her via random effects like Dream Portal from Ysera, Unleashed or evolve. My only guess is that Blizzard plan to revert this nerf once Ysera the Dreamer will leave the game next year.

 it could be worse, it could be Deathwing.

what about in a Highlander deck?