We would do a longer one like we usually do, but we’ve got the codes yesterday and really want to finish it before Galakrond’s Awakening launches so the winners can enjoy it right away. In other words, we haven’t got much time.

You’re replying to an old comment 🙂

Crowd Roaster actually had ~2.5% play rate at the time I was writing this (which is not that bad), mostly in variants of Highlander Mage and Embiggen Druid, as well as some random Highlander Dragon Paladin builds. Masked Contender has seen play in some full Secret Hunter decks (although they’re rare) as well as certain versions of Highlander build. Haunting Vision I will probably remove – the card is played in some Galakrond Shaman builds, but let’s be honest, those are pretty bad after all of those nerfs (and even then the card is not necessary).

But in general, I would not recommend crafting any of the “Good” cards from Year of the Raven UNLESS you have lots of spare Dust and you really want to play a given deck. That’s mostly because those will rotate out in less than 3 months. The only one I could truly recommend to every Warrior player is – like you’ve mentioned – Town Crier. The card will bump your win rate by even a few %, it’s really amazing (and it’s in the “Best” section for Witchwood, by the way).

Epic Crafting Guide was just updated for the Descent of Dragons Post-Nerfs Meta. Just like Legendary Guide, it was a nightmare to update, because we didn’t have a single meta that was stable for more than a week because of constant nerf patches as well as the upcoming content releases. Still, I decided to push it out, because an update that will get outdated quickly is still better than no update at all.

I’ll try to push out another update after all of the Galakrond’s Awakening cards launch in February.

Yeah, they’ve said that they will be using all the mechanics introduced in Year of the Dragon, so I would suspect a Scheme card making a comeback too!

Yeah, both versions are viable, and it mostly depends on the decks you face. According to HSReplay stats, faster version has higher win rate on average (at least at R10-Legend, those are the ranks I’m usually pulling stats for – it still has a big sample size, but it ignores the lower ranks where people play decks least optimally) and that’s why I’ve decided to feature that one.

Yep, thanks. Didn’t manage to invent a time machine… yet 🙂

Zul’Drak Ritualist is a great tech vs Resurrect Priest, actually. And it’s also better than Mad Summoner against other decks, so yeah, you can totally add that if you keep facing Resurrect Priests.

Any spell, just like Yogg etc. works.

And while it wasn’t explained precisely (like every single interaction), what I’ve gathered from dev Tweets / reddit comments is that the minion just disappears, it’s like it was never there. So their Deathrattles won’t trigger, and the minion won’t “die” (so won’t get added to Resurrect pool for example).

I’m NOT sure if its Battlecry gets revoked, like let’s say that you play Shudderwock – does it trigger its Battlecry? That’s something we don’t know yet.

And the cards are stretched out over a few weeks, which means that depending on their strength, the meta might change slightly every week :p

But I have to agree with you – I like quick balance changes and more content in general, but it’s been too much this time around. Expansion, two balance updates new adventure’s launch packed into ~1.5 months.

While I do not mind it as a player, it makes my job super difficult. I can’t keep anything up to date without it being irrelevant again in a week :/

We don’t have reveal schedule for this expansion, but given that the first part launches January 21, we’ll probably have cards revealed over the next week.

Yes, you do get full Dust for her. And the change is pretty minor, the card is still great, just can’t high-roll (which is fine, it was really unfun to lose just because she rolled herself).

And Warlock is still viable after the nerf 🙂

That’s not really what happened, but okay.

Format will be similar to the oldschool adventures, it won’t be another Dungeon Run clone 🙂

It’s my bad, the deck wasn’t Holy Wrath build, I was just adding it quickly and my mind have assumed Holy Wrath after seeing Shirvallah 😀 I fixed it.

To be fair, if you forget to Dust her and leave her around, it won’t be the worst thing ever, since she’s still perfectly viable 🙂

The best course of action is to disenchant all the cards you AREN’T playing. If you do play Pirate Warrior or Galakrond Warrior and Ancharrr / Scion of Ruin turn out to be viable, there’s no point in dusting them (because you don’t gain anything if you have to craft them right away anyway).

If you don’t play a card and it gets nerfed, you should Dust it simply because even if it turns out to be viable, you don’t lose anything by re-crafting it. And if it doesn’t turn out to be viable, or you won’t play it anyway, then you got yourself a lot of free Dust. E.g. even if Necrium Apothecary is still good, but you don’t play it, you’d rather have its full crafting Cost than the actual card (because you can use that Dust on something else). I explain this philosophy more in-depth in the post with post-nerf deck lists (https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/descent-of-dragons-post-second-nerf-meta-decks-best-hearthstone-pro-streamer-deck-lists-for-all-classes/)

In your case, I’d definitely dust Necrium, Dragon’s Pack, Invocation of Frost and Fiendish Rites (since you play the rest of nerfed cards).

You could already do that before :p When Vanish & Mind Blast have rotated out to Hall of Fame, they’ve changed their rarity from Basic to Common. And, as you know, you can disenchant Commons just fine.

Both for 700 gold. Only the first chapter is different – you get EVIL side for free (with 4 cards) and you buy the Explorers side for 700g (but it gives 3 bonus cards = 7 in total).

They should rotate out with all Year of the Dragon cards – so with the first expansion of 2021 (most likely April 2021).