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Scholomance Academy Card Review #3 - Flesh Giant, Ace Hunter Kreen, Mozaki, Master Duelist, Totem Goliath, Glide, Felosophy and more!
I agree with about anything you said except Felosophy, i dont think DH want situational cards like that. You dont always have a demon in hand, and well, your battlefiend should be dropped turn 1 almost every time so…
I dont like the idea behind Glide against control decks. If your opponent is holding on to a brawl for max value and u get it out of his hand… Against a warrior obviously having Risky Skipper in hand it’s insane…
If the card becomes meta, it will push everyone into “just using” their green cards every turn… I dont like this idea. You shouldnt be punished for holding on to good cards to get value out of it. They HOF’ed Divine favor for that reason, it punishes having cards in hand, not a great concept.
Glide
Can i know why the DH can now punish me for holding to 7-8-10 cards? Why is there even such a mechanism at all in the game? This is even more punishing for control decks than the paladin card (forgot the name) ever was.
When the paladin drew cards, he was gona draw a lot of cards, but at least the control still had his brawl if he was holding on to it. With this card, DH can draw a lot (their curve needs to be super low) AND fuck your hand over.
This will encourage control deck to just play everything on curve, by fear of getting punished. Control deck will get less value out of everything.
I mean, just imagine Quest warlock holding on to a 0 mana Malygos…
Cabal Acolyte
So, the 6 mana priestess isnt seeing play… will this be?
It will most likely be used with something that cost 2 like penance or something.
Seems a little better than priestess. Can be dropped on empty board too.
Flesh Giant
well whatever minion that gives mana when you damage yourself. To be honest i’m not sure i like this giant, seems a little too good…
Survival of the Fittest
You could compare this to Ysera Unleashed, i guess, take a turn slower to get a much better deck in the long run. But Ysera gives you a body on board… while this buffs your existing board…
Survival of the Fittest
Well, this is only with Kael’Thas right? There’s no way in hell you “just” play this turn 10…
And to take advantage of it you need a minion heavy deck, preferably a lot of small creatures… How do you have KT+ cheap spells + minions heavy?
They either completely blew this card out or they have some special way to cheat big spell (but they just nerfed dragoncaster, wtf…)
Lightning Bloom
You dont need to be condescendant like that. I got legend last 2 seasons playing combo druid.
I didnt think of it for wild, but for wild, you’re right it might be equal/better than innervate. It’s better in your combo turn, weaker probably out of it. Would you play 3or 4 innervate in that deck if you could? Will see.
Shan'do Wildclaw
The problem of this card for hunter is that it’s not a beast itself (at least problem for wild).
Nature Studies
This can play into spell heavy decks. Probably better than moonfire right?
First Day of School
Yep seems good for aggro (pure paladin was in dire need of 1 drops).
Wand Thief
If Reno mage is still a deck, this probably goes right into it (but it’s perhaps gona be tricky to activate). The current mage spell pool is really good…
Lightning Bloom
It looks weaker than innervate to be honest, unless you’re trying to hit super key turns (reno mage would want to play this to cheat mana for instance). But shaman? It looks weak for druid too, in the long run you’re paying a card to get 0 mana out of it.
Probably only viable with overload (if the card draw totem was still in standard).
Diligent Notetaker
This is super good, just probably not in the good class. Shaman doesnt need incremental value, it needs a win condition…
Troublemaker
This looks game ending if your opponent cant remove it or kill you next turn.
So you can drop this if you’re not too behind on tempo/too low on hp.
Sometimes you’ll want it to remove something and ofc it wont. It looks like a great finisher for nowadays enrage decks.
Rattlegore
Wait, does this summon a 9-9 then an 8-8 then a 7-7 and so on?
It’s a 9 drop without taunt or battlecry or rush… but it’s closing control games on it’s own if your opponent doesnt have silence/transform/sap
I Am Not Prepared: The Diary of My Race to 1000 Demon Hunter Wins (Week 11)
Reading the article again, yeah, ok, i jumped to conclusions too fast. I remember that in the previous article (a couple days before the last nerf) he claimed Demon Hunter was fair… That’s why i read “silly” as “undeserved”, my bad. He keeps saying something is wrong with every nerf, in one article he said that he cant adjust to the meta if the meta changes with every patch.
What’s wrong is not the nerfs, it was the state of Demon Hunter at Release, and here we all agree.
While you could make the argument that something went wrong, i dont think so. If you played with the deck at release for just a couple games you would immediately feel the deck was insanely overpowered. I cant believe playtesters didnt see that. I think the way they released it was planned, they kinda want this Day 1 of the expansion to be completely crazy. It was the same with galakrond shaman the previous expansion. About shaman they even said they wanted it to be very powerfull on release, but claimed they just pushed it a little too far.
In my opinion it’s part of a strategy to bring back players for every expansion launch, to bath and lust in that craziness. And you better be there Day 1, because day 2 the crazy deck is already nerfed.
I Am Not Prepared: The Diary of My Race to 1000 Demon Hunter Wins (Week 11)
I hope you see one day that your articles are pretty biased. First paragraph u start saying it’s silly DH gets nerfed while it was the best winrate and playrate at every rank bracket. I mean, dude, what do you expect?
The more i think about it, the more i dont like Glide. Against Dragon Queen alex it’s ridiculous… If your opponent is freezing to clear next turn it wrecks his plan…
I think if felosophy would be used, it would be more about a late game value bomb (it’s also easier to get it in outcast position in late game)