Blizzard just posted images teasing the upcoming balance update. We suspected that it will drop this week, but we didn’t exactly know when and which cards will be affected. Now we do!
Until full patch notes release, we only know WHICH cards will get changed, not HOW! We know that full patch notes are coming tomorrow. Given that the notes usually drop an hour before the actual update, we should probably expect the update itself to also release tomorrow (although they might be reserving a chance to postpone it if something happens).
Until then, all we have is a list of affected cards:
Standard
Nerfs
Neutral/Rework (?)
Battlegrounds
Battlegrounds also get quite a few changes, with 6 buffs, 5 nerfs, and 4 neutral changes/card reworks. We will see how are they going to affect the meta.
This will likely kill hound/cleave hunter while leaving each other hunter archetype working and making them more likely to rise again to the top.
We will see likely only a small impact should they remove the card draw from “Order in the Court”, leaving room for other paladin archetypes to rise again to the top next to aggro paladin.
DH will likely be super dead if they nerf the Naga as they did with the Siren in mage back then until they revert the Nerf in the future.
The excavation warlock is already more or less dead, so we’ll see what the real nerf to the snake will do.
As for Nathanos, I hope they make something fancy, so he can become a way to make the beast/deathrattle hunter more of an option.
It is about time