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I want to add that Wandmaker a potentially better budget sub than Marshspawn because Shaman has pretty much exclusively great 1-cost spells (ranging from utility to extra burst) and can be played at any point without conditions.

Nice deck lists! Immediately shared the article with some F2P friends, they seem like good starters for people trying to get into the game.

be given a deck created by an algorithm to get spells and minions based on a theme and mana curve.

So many ppl forget this...

Thanks again for posting this, it’s one of the most fun hunter decks — the only thing I changed is I couldn’t resist putting in Sneed’s Old Shredder instead of bird which I know makes it less competitive but I like how it can make for interesting moments.

u mean Shaman Overload Wisdom 76. my last 4 games were mirrors, wins on turn 1 with sword of queldelar windfury HP and any other 2 dmg minum spell or the rockbiter

I agree on all your points! I haven't had time to play a lot this week, so I'm still on the "Play 10 Shaman games" step of the Fire Festival questline. What's even better is that the Nozdormu quest works in Wild, so it's a perfect fit for aggressive Baku decks like paladin and demon hunter. Took me about 15 minutes to get 150 g (I completed 2 weekly quests at the same time), so quite efficient!

It totally skips my understanding why people care about cosmetics so much. Boards are fine as they are. If they add personalised boards eventually people will ask for random board, which is what we have.

And Hero skins have gone way too far. I just lost interest in what the other player uses besides the regular/golden/1000 win.

Emerald Drake and Laughing Sister?

*Villains

I hope they make the Dalaran heroes playable.

And the Sentinel Sanctuary's music is also, simply beautiful. Instant favorite.

The Problem here is that you can't make challanging adventures that uses your own decks, because of the gigantic cardpool. They tried to fix this problem by only allowing standard decks in GA, but that didn't really worked out that well.

Done.

Only if you are Player 1, you best use it to heal unless you got the perfect curve.

I miss adventures. The challenge of Book of Heroes/Mercenaries is underwhelming.

My thoughts on these nerfs:

Gibberling: Long overdue, glad to see this nerfed. Also this probably hits Token druid in Wild pretty hard as well.

Renew: Why was this nerfed? The problem with Renew was that it was played for free thanks to Palm Reading. Actually most of the generation issues were because of Palm Reading so weird that that didnt get nerfed. Also you can't get it from Wandmaker anymore, which is also a HUGE blow to ALL priest archetypes. 

Hmm now that i think about it, nerfing cards because of Wandmaker, cards being abused because of a different problem card like Incanter's Flow. They keep nerfing cards that are strong because of problem cards, instead of the actual cards that create the problem.

Apotheosis: Welp rip priest. the ONLY decent control class is DEAD. Blademaster Samuro + Apotheosis was probably one of priests only ways to not die to aggro. Great to see the class, that is SUPPOSED to be all about "healing" nerfed so they can't heal as much. What will priests use now? Devouring Plague? lol.

Dont get me wrong, i HATE priest. Priest is my most hated class in hearthstone. BUT this just seems like they nerfed it WAY too hard. They didnt solve the generation problem, but rather nerfed healing so hard that priest dies to aggro before they can generate stuff. Also these changed nerf EVERY priest achetype, not just the generation priest decks... I just find it weird that their fine with letting aggro deal 20+ dmg in a single turn, but when a class that has a class identity of "healing" heals 20+ health in a single turn it's not fine..? I guess this is what happens when they listen to aggro players complaining about control decks..... Yet again i want to stress that i HATE priest, but i'm not okay with this being nerfed THIS hard combined with the fact that priest is the only decent control deck. What will control players do now? Play control warrior that can't generate enough armor to survive against aggro, or control warlock which also dies to aggro?

"Back in my day" deck types follow a "rock paper scissor" format. Control beats aggro, aggro beats OTK, OTK beats Control. But nowadays it's rather Aggro beats everything... Man i miss those times where metas had varied amount of decks consisting of aggro, control and OTK, rather than different version of aggro decks....

Ironically priest cant actually beat other control decks. Out of the four control decks that are currently in the tiers 1-3 (priest obviously included here), only control shaman can be confidently beaten. The reason why they currently play that extra heavy load is - unsurprisingly - to be better against other priest, which is more or less everywhere in legend.

Also, its premature to suggest that priest cant deal with aggro easily. There are cards that can deal with early boards like Holy Smite, Condemn (Rank 1), even Wave of Apathy isn't way off the charts since it does combo well with Cabal Acolyte, and does indeed slow the game down. There are also 1 drops that can help out the early game like Reliquary of Souls, Cleric of An'she, or cards like Death's Head Cultist which incidentally is still an okay inclusion because nzoth can raise it back later.

Do you really think that just because Renew is now 2 mana and samuro does roughly 5-7 less healing suddenly face hunters are going to start rolling past the deck like its nobody's business? If the aggro deck high rolls with a strong early board that also means they have less reload and let's be honest here, even the current priest build will still struggle against a wonderful 1-2-3 turns from the opponent, more so if they are deathrattles. Hell, if Im seeing half my games are against aggro, all I'll do is slot in Armor Vendor.

Nope, it's just my bad English grammar (: 

Hint: they are royal brothers.

the most iconic "makes another thing" card is Deathstalker Rexxar imho.

This card is not give you another card, it just makes not what the first two cards do. Is I'm used "make" word wrong in this context?

If we're getting adventures again, I hope that it's as a part of/instead of the minisets rather than another thing to buy on top of the minisets.

Since they fucked up with First day at school they are terrified to keep Priest playable.

lol, you're crazy if you think Priest can survive this and win against aggro. If anything Priest will become more greedy and only win against other control decks. The reason Priest doesn't try to win against aggro with other tempo options is because aggro can put 5-4 stats on board on turn 1 with the coin and you can't counter that with anything Priest plays except accept at least 5 damage and try to survive.