Today's surprise hotfix patch arrives with a big ban(g), as Jailer's meta-breaking crimes have been noticed by the Hearthstone team. He's now facing a temporary suspension (until the next balance patch) from both Standard and Wild formats.
For Battlegrounds enthusiasts, the patch contains some anomaly-related Hero bans as well.
You can read the full patch notes below.
Quote From GnomeSayin Patch 27.4.3 is a server-side hotfix patch rolling out today with the following updates and bug fixes.
Hearthstone Update
- The Jailer has been temporarily banned from Standard and Wild
Dev Comment: We’re putting The Jailer in jail for his crimes against the meta. When we made our last set of changes, Druid was still developing as a class following the Mini-Set. After our changes were locked in, Tony Druid appeared as a top archetype in Standard. We know that we want to adjust something in that deck in our next balance window, and we also know we don’t want this deck to warp the meta in the meantime, so we’re temporarily banning The Jailer until our next scheduled balance patch.
The Jailer will be released on bail (unbanned) in our next scheduled balance patch. At that time, we’ll make other adjustments to address Tony Druid and anything else that needs tweaking.
Battlegrounds Updates
The following heroes have been banned from the following Anomalies:
- Golganneth’s Tempest: The Rat King
- Gladiator’s Spoils: Fungalmancer Flurgl, Infinite Toki, Maiev Shadowsong, Onyxia, Patches the Pirate, and Vanndar Stormpike
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Sinister Soulcage could target enemy Undead minions.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Sif’s cost was not reduced by Primordial Studies.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a visual bug with Kabal Lackey’s updated effect.
- [Duels] Removed Elixir of Vigor from the Passive Treasure pool due to an unintended interaction.
- [Duels] Fixed a bug where Remembrance of Ice would resurrect minions killed by opponents’ Frost spells as well as yours.
- [Duels] Fixed a bug where Optimized Polarity would trigger off certain Magnetic Mechs.
- [Events] Fixed a bug where the “Alone in the Dark” event quest was triggering based on when a friendly Titan was destroyed, instead of when you destroyed a Titan.
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Comments
Here's a long-term fix for The Jailer:
Battlecry: Destroy your deck.
[Aura] Your other minions are immune.
Jailer is powerful, but fine, by himself. It's when you get him on the board alongside Tony or MalGanis that we experience one-player games.
Edited to better explain battlecry vs aura.
Kinda wish they banned Thaddius alongside it. What it's doing in Questline Warlock is not particularly healthy. The deck may not be top of the meta but that's definitely a bannable gameplay pattern.
Lol well, its not entirely unexpected.
Ive said this time and time again whenever toxic cards like Algalon the Observer, Bonelord Frostwhisper, Theotar, the Mad Duke etc. are printed: Why do it? If its good it'll be toxic, and if its not good then its completely unplayable. So what is the point, other than feeding more to players whose sole intention is not to win but to annoy their opponent.
So right now we see jailer being temporarily banned. I'd like to ask team5, why is jailer being targeted when the obvious evil-doer here is Tony, King of Piracy
Or perhaps more pertinently. Why team5 persist in designing druid to be the only class that basically doesnt care what the opponent is doing? Not since DoD that we're even bothered about what druid does, its usually kill them before they do whatever bs combo there is at the moment.
History repeats itself, we simply misunderstood the Jailer's intentions and yet still banned him!
"A cosmos divided will not survive what is to come."
I think it's obvious that it was a mistake to make Tony a thing. Jailor was already an unfun card to play against but any control deck could answer it and faster decks could still finish up their game because immune negates taunts. We saw deck swapping mechanic already but it required a much tougher setup to make it happen permanently. Tony has too big of a disruption effect for the current state of the game. So they can either rework Tony or completely nuke Anubarak to disable the combo. But again, without Tony this win condition wouldn't even be possible to think about