A little over a week ago, Team 5 announced that they were close to releasing a balance patch, but in the end, they had to delay it due to internal issues and instead release the changes alongside Forged in the Barrens, patch 20.0.
Even though they didn't tell us what cards will be changed, the community started theorizing about them by itself. Many players, including a handful of pros, directed their attention towards Aggro Rogue, one of the best decks in the current meta and known for quite the relentless and uninteractive game plan.
Today, the saga continues! Blizzard has published the updated decks for new and returning players, but they may have made a mistake of listing Nitroboost Poison as a 2 mana spell.
They very quickly edited the post to place Nitroboost Poison at its current 1 mana, but it was too late. Everyone has already noticed it and posted it on Reddit (big thanks to Makkara126 for noticing it!).
As always, there aren't official statements about it - it might have been just a (very unlikely) typo and we should definitely wait for an actual announcement, but if this change were to be correct, what would you say? Do you think it's deserved? Do you think other cards need to be touched before the Forged in the Barrens meta will start? Let us know in the comments.
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Comments
Tomorrow. Or soon.
I would be surprised if they didn't nerf this card. Corruption at 1 mana is the easiest thing to trigger, and 4 damage for 1 mana is just too much. Eviscerate is balanced at 2 mana, and cold blood had to be nerfed. Nitroboost Poison is arguably better than both of those cards.
Actually, if you account for durability, it's 10 potential damage with fresh Self-Sharpening Sword, for 1 mana. More if minion can attack again. Even Deadly Poison is really deadly in weapon decks, and this is stronger :)
Corruption hype
Still better than evis. Minion buffed and weapon with at least 2 swings
Raising it to 2 mana does not kill the card. Since it's the most expected nerf, I'm sure this is a leak, not a typo.
Adding more damage along with the mana increase would arguably make the card stronger than it is now -- still extremely easy to corrupt and super cheap to play, but adding a TON more damage per mana on a durable weapon. I would not want to see that.
They promised a nerf to burst. Instead of nerfing the real problem cards (Passage, SSS), they nerf perfectly fine cards on their own. At 2 mana, unless it reads +3 now, it is unplayable.
Woah, but making it 2 mana will just evaporate de card... unless they increase the buff stats
In that picture, if Nitroboost Poison was above Corsair Cache, that would be a reason to believe it to be a typo.
However, since it's in-between Corsair Cache and Ringmaster's Baton, alphabetically sandwiched with two other 2-Cost card, this points to it being a leaked nerf.
I mean they did promise nerfs in 2 weeks
Okay, short attention span theater's short attention span.