Yeah, it would be great, but the problem is that Zephrys’ thinking isn’t that complex. He won’t offer you cards to mess up with your opponent’s strategy (at least not on purpose) simply because he has no clue what that strategy is.

Maybe in future we’ll get a card built on machine learning that will get smarter with data, but we aren’t there yet 🙂

They never said that there will 100% be a patch on January 5th (it’s Sunday anyway). They just said that IF it will be necessary, they might do another patch after January 5th. So the question is – do we need another patch now?

I honestly don’t think so. It’s not the healthiest meta ever, but it’s relatively balanced, and the strongest decks have their own counters. I don’t think that we really need another patch. We’re probably going to learn more after New Year, but I would be very surprised if we got one. The only chance IMO is some kind of quick, emergency patch if some overpowered deck gets discovered over the next few days etc.

Of course, if Deathrattle Rogue becomes more popular, everyone would run those. But the point of Zephrys is that he can substitute most of the other tech cards and be useful no matter what situation you’re in. Which normally makes him great in a very diverse meta, but it just doesn’t work the way most players expect it to work against Apothecary. I honestly think that Zephrys is good enough anyway, but I wouldn’t mind them hard-coding it to always offer Silence vs Apothecary (at least if you get down to 0 mana first).

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In the Rogue & Shaman guides, I’ve added those alternative builds at the bottom 🙂

Budget decks were just updated for Descent of Dragons meta! While some of the decks didn’t change that much, I offer two alternative builds that would need some Epics to work better – Deathrattle Rogue & Aggro Overload Shaman.

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We’ll have an early Wild impressions that showcases how DoD has affected the meta released quite soon (next week). Full tier list update will follow, but I’m not exactly sure when yet!

Because the card is insane, you hard mulligan for it and get one copy of it before you play your Highlander cards 90% of time?

I mean, Quest Druid which runs tons of duplicates plays Elise & Zephrys… so I don’t see how a single duplicate would be such big of a deal.

I wouldn’t call it a buff. It will be comparable with Sea Giant now IMO. Guaranteed 8/8, 1 card instead of 2, only 1 mana more. Mogu still bette because 1 mana cheaper and has a chance to high roll, but it’s class card and not Neutral + requires 2 cards and not 1. Might be slightly stronger, but not by a lot.

The biggest strength of Mogu was it coming down so early, sometimes as soon as Turn 4 (even 3 when Evolve Shaman played Desert Hare, lol). Delaying it by a turn or two will hurt. It’s generally harder to deal with an 8-drop on T4 than with a 10-drop on T6.

1 + Overload (1) is generally better than 2, but yeah, it’s a weird card to nerf… It was strong, but not problematic in any way.

Yeah, regular Commons don’t give you that much Dust anyway. But I was lucky enough to have a golden version – 400 for a single golden Common!

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Anyone who started playing after Rise of the Mech event or took a break at that time. He was given out for free only between June 3 and July 1, so ~half year ago. So people who didn’t get it for free could open it in Boomsday packs or craft it later.

Why?

No BG changes were announced, we had Primalfin Lookout nerf in a recent hotfix, and I don’t suspect seeing more BG changes until after Christmas. But they might always surprise us and take this opportunity to slip in some nerfs/buffs.

You’re right, I forgot about it – the changes were announced like less than 10 hours before the patch has dropped if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I also think that’s the case. The truth is that this patch comes too early. Nerfing something before the meta has settles is not the best idea, because that thing might not be AS overpowered as it immediately seemed, and other too powerful decks might be discovered that might also warrant a nerf.

But they didn’t want everyone to quit over Shaman so they had to take drastic measures. I hope that if something won’t work out and one OP deck will be replaced by another OP deck, they won’t be scared to act again after 2-3 weeks.

Thank you, I’m glad to hear that 🙂 The card should be fixed now by the way!

A dev has recently confirmed that it’s a bug and it shouldn’t happen – it will be fixed soon!A dev has recently confirmed that it’s a bug and it shouldn’t happen – it will be fixed soon!

A dev has recently confirmed that it’s a bug and it shouldn’t happen – it will be fixed soon!

In the initial announcement, they’ve said that the update is coming next (so this) week, not that they’re going to announce it then. So if their wording was indeed correct, we should expect a patch by Friday. At least I very much hope so.