I would swap the positions of Dr. Morrigan and the Boomzooka – met the first a view times, but didn’t see the second a single time.

Besides that, great article.

I never really understood why they canceled that ‘Murloc Promo’ – even if Old Murk-Eye is only playable in Wild.

Cool. Thanks!

Nice! But … Blizzard doesn’t want my money …

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I guess I’ll try again later, then (already used different payment method).

Oh mys … Maybe she doesn’t get played that much. 😉 Annoying problem nonetheless, hope you’ll be able to fix it.

Okay thanks! Never realized there’s a source link … 😀

So many Boars … what’s with those?

Yeah, synergistic small creatures might work. And with the ability that lets you draw 2 more and makes you immune to fatigue, that might work, too.

Still not comfortable with it.

One card is missing. Does anyone know which one is it? I added 1 Grave Horror.

A late replay, didn’t log in lately.

I just want to point out that I didn’t use the wording ‘wasting it’ once – I’d never argue that crafting other cards is ‘wasting dust’ and I think that adds some needless uncomfortable tonality to your response.

I find Elixir of Vigor to be nearly unplayable. Because every non-op-minion in your deck dilutes it when you play him. Point is … you HAVE to play early minions to compete with the enemy board (even more so in Heroic mode), so you will draw weak minions in the mid- and lategame … which are dead draws because when you play them then, even MORE weak minions dilute your deck.

tl;dr: Aside from very specific strategies (Robes, other mana reduction) and only OP minions in your deck, Elixir is not good imho.

I’d still say that it’s not always the case that you don’t lose anything and therefore can disenchant all nerfed cards.

If you don’t keep the ‘extra dust’ and instead use it to craft other cards and you then need one of the disenchanted cards, you’d have to disenchant other cards – thus losing dust then. I had that experience with cards like everybody’s beloved little pirate squid Patches and Giggling Inventor.

Of course you are totally right that when those cards are never played again, it’s correct to de them.

I think people should only disenchant nerfed cards if they need the extra dust right now. If not, you might hold on to them to have a bigger collection in the future.

Maybe that’s a stupid question but … is ‘More Arms’ buffed to 2 Mana, too?

I can’t see what this has to do with overhauling the concept of basic and classic cards!?

Regardless of that, no, not all new MTG players play casually. I play MtG for over 20 years now and it’s more like the opposite – most new players start competitively and switch to the casual formats (Commander, 2HG) over time.

Yes, in general there are more casual MtG players than there are casual HS players percentagewise. But this (the lack of a real casual HS scene and format) is another topic that has to be discussed somewhere else.

The Buff to Necromechanic … I know it’s only relevant for the Wild format (and the deck is niche) but … what a power creep to Baron Rivendare o.O

And there already is a competitive Shark Rogue deck … now that Hopper is 1 mana, it might include that card.

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/lackey-rogue-rise-of-shadows-4-legend-j_alexander/

Imho, you can cut the weapon removal and include 2 Hoppers and 1 Lab Recruiter (2 if you cut a Farseer).

If most of the cards are recurring, for a short period only. They could even start with transforming the evergreen sets into the first core set.

I don’t think MtGs Core Sets punish new players – they (WotC) even brought back the concept after trying to go without it for a certain period of time. Yes, I do understand that MtG offers more ways to add cards to your collection, but the concept should be portable nonetheless.

The Preparation nerf is something the game really needed – the timing, though … this would’ve been a perfect Hall of Fame card, especially from a game designer’s point of view because they could’ve used that Hall-of-Faming for the new HS year and the first expansion that came out (RoS).

This way, we got cards like Unidentified Contract (barely playable even with an unnerfed Prep) and there might be another ‘expensive’ Rogue spell in the upcoming expansion (although I think they might change that spontaneously).

That said, I’m not getting tired to say that all of those Basic and Classic nerfs wouldn’t be necessary if Blizzard would overhaul the concept of those sets completely. Just do it like MtG: Remove those sets and create a rotating Core Set of cards with some new cards and mostly existing cards (which also rotate).

I have to disagree partly – remember that you can only re-craft the cards if you keep the dust you gained when you disenchanted them.

So, even if you’re theoretically not losing dust, if you craft other cards and don’t have redundant dust ‘lying around’, you’re not able to re-craft them. And if you then need the cards again in the future, you might loose dust then when having to dust other cards in order to re-craft them.

I’m missing the strategy in this strategy guide … :/