I agree. It’s rightly classified as a buff when we only look at Standard format. But it’s a clear nerf in Wild format. Even if they didn’t plan for it specifically, a relatively popular deck became much worse.

I think in cases like that (when a change is both a buff and a nerf at the same time), they should give out full Dust refunds.

I think the whole idea of more dynamic boards that players can customize is great as long as you will be able to earn pieces by playing (like from the in-game events) or with Gold.

But it’s something they should absolutely say in the blog post instead of leaving us in the dark. Most players will just assume the worst.

Replicator is basically there only to combo with Hodir, it’s pretty insane late game combo. It’s used for slower matchups, you can pretty much ignore the card against Aggro.

It can be used to OTK enemy with Huffer from Patchwork Pals. You play Hodir one turn, then next turn you play 5 mana Replicator (turns into 8/8 because of Hodir), 1 mana Replicator (turns into 8/8 and summons a copy of itself) and Huffer (turns into 8/8 and summons three copies). You end up with four 8/8 Huffers this way (32 damage). Also works with King Plush if you get it from Mystery Egg. Or any other 4 or less mana minion, but if they don’t have Charge it’s obviously not OTK.

But I would personally cut it (and I won’t make a dick joke in this case).

Yeah, I’ve seen them, but I’m only posting what’s currently available in the shop in those updates 🙂

I mean yeah, they made some seriously stupid decisions in the past (including very recent past), but I don’t think they ever doubled-down like that after a massive community outrage.

No way, that would be a PR suicide.

The archetype has existed ever since TITANS… You win with Sif + cheap burn.

Whizbang’s Workshop Bundle had a higher than usual value, now we’re back to normal.

I wish 20 packs + 2 Legendaries became the new normal, though 🙂

If you’re having fun, that’s definitely how Hearthstone is supposed to work… for you 😀

I’m also wondering. Blightfang and Construct Quarter were buffed from even (4) to odd (3) but neither was played in Even DK in Wild, they were just too weak.

Both “undead” and “undeads” are grammatically correct plural forms of “undead”. In fact, when it comes to fantasy settings, you more commonly see “undead” as a plural. E.g. you can say “I see many undead”.

So it means give +2/+2 to all Undead minions in your hand.

I think they should just write “Undead minions” or “all Undead” to be more clear.

“Is Wild Saved?”

Lol

Mind Control generated by Anduin’s Gift will cost 9 mana.

You’re right, it’s missing from the official image. I’ll add it to the list 🙂

There’s nothing “woke” about that statement, it literally happened, although it’s a bit more complex.

Both Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra were promoted to co-lead Blizzard from different positions. But she was paid less than him because the position she was promoted from was paid less. They both asked to get the same payment multiple times and were denied.

She was only offered equal pay AFTER resigning (they probably realized what big of a PR nightmare that would be if she spoke about it publicly), but she decided to quit anyway.

It was one of the most idiotic things Blizzard could do. I mean, they specifically hired those two for “equality” after all of the sexual harassment, discrimination etc. cases came to life. And they didn’t think that paying both of them the same would be a good idea.

I agree that Velarok needs a balance pass, but I think that 2 cards would be a nice compromise between what it was before the buff and the current situation.

Or make it 3 but count cards played while he’s in the deck too. That would reduce his early-game power dramatically (that is the biggest issue) but later you would just draw him and he would be active.

Thanks, I’ve noticed that too, she has been available for an hour or so and then gone.

But Hat has already confirmed on social media that she will be back soon (I assume in 1-2 weeks).

Mercenaries is also essentially dead. They announced that the mode will no longer be supported about a year ago: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/big-final-mercenaries-update-coming-in-patch-25-4/

However, unlike Duels, they decided to leave it in the game because it costs them basically nothing and it won’t get “broken” and need fixes. The difference is that Mercenareis has static content and new Hearthstone releases have no impact on it. In Duels, however, all of the balance changes, new releases etc. affect the game. For example, let’s say that a card get buffed and it’s now broken in Duels. Or one of the cards/treasures/whatever available in Duels gets bugged because of some newly released thing and it keeps crashing the game.

So there would be two ways going forward – one is to keep bug fixing and balancing Duels (probably not very often, but still, they would have to keep some people on that task) and the other is to just remove it completely.

So ultimately, they probably realized that almost no one was playing Duels so they decided that axing it completely is better option than just leaving it in and letting it become more and more imbalanced/buggy with time.

It’s sad and I don’t like them removing game modes, but the truth is that Hearthstone isn’t getting any younger. Playerbase gets smaller with time and Duels was never very popular to begin with. I would love them to repeat the success of Battlegrounds, but at this point I’m not sure if it’s ever going to happen.

Sure, sometimes I think asking the community for a bigger input in stuff like that would be cool.

Then I read comments about Hearthstone balance on social media and I no longer think that :p

Sorry for a late reply. If you’re already past apprentice ranks there’s no way to go back to them.