Just a quick reminder – patch 20.4 was released on June 4, nearly 2 weeks ago. The update only nerfed two cards, one of which was nerfed a few weeks earlier, but you might still be holding some extra copies of them that you might want to get rid of.
After a card gets nerfed, you can disenchant it for its full crafting cost. The grace period ends 2 weeks after the patch – in this case on May 26 (most likely around 10 AM PT / 19:00 CET, since it’s the regular patch time).
Neither of those cards look very promising after nerfs – Hand of A’dal seems still playable, but Paladin in general isn’t doing very well. Unless you’re playing it right now, I’d consider disenchanting them. After all, you can craft them back again for the same amount of Dust you got in the future – or you can get some other cards that are more useful right now instead. The deal is even sweeter if you’re holding some Golden versions. For example, if you Dust a Golden Common, you have enough Dust to craft an Epic, which is amazing trade for people who don’t care about Golden cards.
Here’s a full list of cards you can Dust with the amount of Dust you’ll get for them:
- Hand of A'dal – 40 Regular / 400 Golden
- First Day of School – 40 Regular / 400 Golden
It’s hard to believe that these two cute nerfs affected so much the domination of “Uther”. 1 less health on the buff or 1less radom -1 cost minion in the hand are capable to bring down him? I do not think. Probably with the new set made some decks/classes stronger or people they want to play paladin right now and in the next season he come again to dominate the ladder. At any case I hope nobody feels bad for “Uther”.
Paladin isn’t doing well? So the nerfs were actually significant in bringing them down?
Of course, they’re pretty substantial nerfs, and there aren’t really any good replacements for what were two of the class’s best early game cards.
It was arguably the strongest class in the game, now it’s in the bottom 3. Even the best Paladin decks right now are maybe low T2 / high T3 at most. So yeah, between the nerfs, the meta shift and the class not getting anything strong that supports their playstyle from mini-set – Paladin has been brought down.