All Current Standard Expansions' Statistics
Today we've prepared a few tables with statistics from all the current standard expansions. Let's get right into it. [Choose One cards added]
Minion Tribes:
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Spell Schools:
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Evergreen Keywords:
Please note that we're counting the "keyword on the card itself", not only the effect.
Example1: Secret as a keyword also contains minions, weapons, and spells, hence we're counting all these cards.
Example2: Deathrattle keyword is also mentioned on a Deathwarden card and we're counting it in.
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Is there something that surprises you? Tell us in the comment section.
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This kind of made my eyes bleed, staring at these numbers.
Oof... we got 1 dragon in expansions this year. Would have liked to see them sprinkled in a bit more. I suppose we got a bunch of 'new' dragons with core set.
Quillboar and Totems only real use in Standard is another slot for N'Zoth, God of the Deep resummon. Circus Amalgam fits in nicely there.
Only 16 combo cards? It doesn't feel real!
I am surprised they dropped Quilboar so quickly
Quillboars are a Battlegrounds only tribe and they only added them to the constructed minions for consistency reasons. They never even had support there to begin with.
We need to talk about totems... the two "totems" added in Darkmoon Faire weren't even totems, they were "all"! >_>
Also, I like how in the graphics above, I didn't have to stop and think about what each row was representing... that's well designed!
Thanks ❤
Yeah about totems in Darkmoon Faire... There's only Grand Totem Eys'or and Circus Amalgam. Sad to see the devs adding such an interesting legendary totem and then not printing a single totem since.
I was kind of thinking that the lack of new ones is an acknowledgment that the totem system simply isn't working. You have Ey'sor and Totemic Reflection and Totem Goliath currently in standard and yet totem decks simply still aren't viable. Part of the problem with Shaman since the game's inception has been that they're the only class with a random hero power. When you can't depend on what's coming out of that hero power and when its theme is largely to produce 0/2 minions (as opposed to the more versatile 1/1s that Paladin produces, for example), then the design window is narrow. How would you produce cards in theme that were viable minions? The only other totems currently in Standard are Trick, which is even more random and, thus, not viable; Mana Tide, which is way too vulnerable to ever be a reliable source of draw (Shaman's other major problem, which is why one of the key cards for the new Frost Shaman is Wind Chill and why Dungeoneer is a required card in all current Shaman decks); and Goliath, which is still overcosted for what it does, even after the buff. My thought was that Ey'Sor was actually the last gasp on the current design and that a redesign of both hero power and the totem system is in the offing, similar to the change given to Priest a while back (and Priest is still struggling with consistency, which speaks to the initial design flaws for both classes.) That's probably part of why Shaman is getting an actual Frost archetype in the new set, rather than the facsimile that they tried with Knights. Gotta have something to do while a whole segment of the class identity has been ignored and is being redesigned.
Agree, but I don't think they'll ever (in a near future) change the hero power again, maybe some core cards like the mana tide totem, but that's all. Totems are dead and will stay dead until something big happens and It's sad at least for me, I've always loved totems. :/
I actually forgot about Eys'or, I thought the count was for the duplicate of Amalgam... oof!
I even played a totem shaman deck back before splitting axe rotated. Tragic :\
I remember being excited that Totems were no longer the only tribe without a legendary. I found success with a Totem shaman deck during Darkmoon, for one if the darkmoon metas it felt particularly good.