Best Hearthstone Cards in Standard - The Mount Rushmore!
Blizzard tweeted out the Best 4 Hearthstone cards in Standard, and the results will likely not shock anyone. Read below!
Quote from BlizzardMt Rushmore of the top 4 cards in Standard! ⛰
• Rinling's Rifle
• Demon Companion
• Adorable Infestation
• Warsong Wrangler
So the best cards in standard are hunter cards that proc Intrepid Initiate or tutor out Trampling Rhino
Literally every spell activates Intrepid Initiate. Therefore all Hunter spells should be removed?
Bullshit, the best card is Southsea Scoundrel, no context.
Decent status for 4 manas, get the best card for both players from opponent deck but only him get closer to fatigue and you maybe burn opponent cards too.
all hunter poooooog!!!
It's noteworthy (but not surprising) that so many community members' minds jump straight to "Should we nerf it?"
It's as if people believe the top cards in the game always need to be taken down. Guess what -- no matter how many cards you nerf, there will always be top cards in the game.
Dude the problem is when the top four cards of the game are from the same class. That’s a balance issue.
Not really. Aggro decks have to contain consistently strong cards, or they will not work at all. If these cards were worse, there would be no Face Hunter, period. I know that would make some people happy, but that doesn't mean it's a balance issue.
Hunter doesn't need the best four cards in standard to be strong. Even if these four cards saw mama nerfs, Hunter would still be in the top five classes.
If this is such a huge balance issue, why wasn't anyone talking about Hunter until this tweet came out?
Most of the complaints have been about things like Mutanus, Tickatus (still!), and Priest.
It just shows how easily people are led by the nose. Post a meaningless image with zero context and zero explanation, and everyone goes nuts without really knowing why.
The game is fairly balanced, but I still have some nerf suggestions... I'll just say that I mostly play midrange/control and hate priest and OTK DH atm. There are nerfs to almost every class, maybe hunter would need some more:
- Warsong Wrangler - give all copies +1/+1
- Piercing Shot - can't target friendly minions
- Il'Gynoth - deal damage to enemy hero equal to health restored through lifesteal (can't damage when full HP, this change kills the OTK deck but enables its inclusion on midrange/control decks, similar to E.T.C.)
- Illidari Inquisitor - 7/8
- Incanter's Flow - reduce the cost of arcane spells in your deck by 1. Add a random arcane spell to your hand
- Arid Stormer - 2/4
- Lillypad Lurker - 4/6 (this card didn't really need to be buffed)
- Renew - 2-mana
- Raise Dead - 1-mana (would replace Renew in Wandmaker, less healing and more minion generation)
- Apotheosis - +1/+3 (too strong with Samuro)
- Tickatus - destroy 4 cards
- Venomous scorpid - 4-mana 1/4
- Clown - corrupted form summons 4 copies of it instead of 6
- N'Zoth - 10-mana (old gods must cost 10!)
No
Didn't you already make a thread on this? I'm not sure if blizzard devs look at hearthpwn. Might want to take it to the actual bliz forums. Not trying to be rude.
Ironic there's no Warrior cards in Mount Rushmore
Warsong Wrangler is the only card that i hate of this 4...
blad 3 of these waste cards are hunter cards
Technically they all are hunter cards.
...th.... they're all hunter cards... ._.
So, is it played win rate? How do they decide what makes a card the best here?
Inb4 blog post tomorrow that all 4 of these cards have been nerfed. =P
I'm not sure but I do believe they have said they were looking at nerfs. Seeing how demon companion and adroable infestation would both be absolutely unplayable at 2 mana, I'm expecting them to tone down the other cards of face hunter. Probably something like +1/+1 on wrangler.