This is some nice, flexible removal. Remove a big target, or 2 smaller ones. The "bottle" synergizes with 1-cost Priest, if that's going to be a thing.
insane that you cant comment anything negative without getting downvoted; everything you said is 100 percent true ppl just hate to admit when the hs team fumbles the bag (which is often)
wow, all this time they've had to work this out and they didnt even attempt to keep any of these cards playable. ive gotten used to the balance team being completely incompetent over the years but for them to take this amount of time just to completely and utterly ruin THREE LEGENDARIES is just embarrassing. tony and jailer are now completely worthless and at 9 mana yogg will almost certainly see zero play outside of druid. i mean seriously, they didnt even attempt to keep any of the original concept of tony, they just gutted the card in its entirety.
also tony is now a hard counter to literally any mill deck so if you were someone that enjoyed the 1 month there was finally a viable mill deck again now you get nothing!
ALSO best deck in standard is by far plague dk now so get ready to exclusively queue into a deck that is so completely braindead that it literally plays itself once you have helya down
but thats totally more fun than playing against druid right??? : )))
Yogg is still a great value card for reasonable price as any other titan is. And now it can be used in any deck as it doesn't need spells. If prison of yogg was played then this yogg will too
Love the concept, but summoning a bunch of 1/1s is pretty weak, even with Lifesteal. Can you buff the board or give them rush? I don't think Priest has a way to do that.
There was also Bolf and Mal'Ganis that could be comboed with Jailer. So I agree on another poster is that it is to future-proof him. He would've had to be looked at again if he was left alone.
A 4/6 Taunt for free, or maybe for just 1-3 mana, is good. It's not great, though. I guess if you reduce it to 1 mana, then you can copy it with Pip the Potent.
I'm going with 3 stars here. Several new cards for Priest have this "1-cost" synergy, but it's too early to say if it will be competitive. The only thing I'm thinking right now is that it might make Astral Automaton good.
I actually like the Yogg nerf. The whole point of Yogg is casting random spells, and now he does this. Playing him for free always felt like cheating when I did it, and as Rogue, you can do it over and over.
Yeah, The Jailer's nerf is a bit heavy handed. Destroy your deck and The Jailer can still be destroyed by effects such as Twisting Nether? Back to jail with you!
Guess the funding for team5 must have been severely stretched, because these harken us back to the brode days when nerfs more or less remove cards from the game.
Because the nerf to jailer, yogg and tony is about as unimaginative as it can get. Jailer now gains immune as opposed to giving it out, not even a stat buff. Tony is practically warsong-ed, being now completely worthless. And yogg got neutered to such an extent as to render it unusable to all but meme. Is it really that much to ask for yogg to either have a limit to the mana reduction, or just replacing the Mass Hysteria ability.
Oh well, I guess that's an easy 3200 dust, more if there are still some that havent dusted tony from before.
Other nerfs are fine. Embrace of Nature definitely needs nerfing because it'll be relevant throughout its lifespan, its still relevant even post nerf to me. Rake and Prison Breaker have been responsible for patching over weaknesses of both druid and rogue so it had to be done as well. I still think rake will see play, but probably prison breaker would be confined to rogue.
I don't understand why did they nerf Jailer when it became a problem only when paired with Tony. And not only did they nerf him, they straight up annihilated him.
Yogg nerf is great, I hoped they will drop the reduction altogether and they did. Making him 20 mana would just make his use more polarizing where Rogue and Druid would still abuse him while other classes wouldn't play him at all.
Tony rework is great although I'm not sure why is he 7 mana, seems a bit extra.
Pretty good card, actually. Stats and cost are decent, and the free taunt is nice. It won't likely stick around for more than one turn, but if it does, great value.
New Priest Spell - Invasive Shadeleaf
This is some nice, flexible removal. Remove a big target, or 2 smaller ones. The "bottle" synergizes with 1-cost Priest, if that's going to be a thing.
New Priest Minion - Benevolent Banker
Good card! It's Thrive in the Shadows (very playable card) on a stick, with the possibility of copying an opponent's card instead.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
insane that you cant comment anything negative without getting downvoted; everything you said is 100 percent true ppl just hate to admit when the hs team fumbles the bag (which is often)
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
wow, all this time they've had to work this out and they didnt even attempt to keep any of these cards playable. ive gotten used to the balance team being completely incompetent over the years but for them to take this amount of time just to completely and utterly ruin THREE LEGENDARIES is just embarrassing. tony and jailer are now completely worthless and at 9 mana yogg will almost certainly see zero play outside of druid. i mean seriously, they didnt even attempt to keep any of the original concept of tony, they just gutted the card in its entirety.
also tony is now a hard counter to literally any mill deck so if you were someone that enjoyed the 1 month there was finally a viable mill deck again now you get nothing!
ALSO best deck in standard is by far plague dk now so get ready to exclusively queue into a deck that is so completely braindead that it literally plays itself once you have helya down
but thats totally more fun than playing against druid right??? : )))
New Priest Spell - Swarm of Lightbugs
It gives you a full board if you want to Overheal them all. Maybe we can work with that?
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
The Jailer is still an excellent counter to decks like Plague DK, it's an alternate Steamcleaner.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
Yogg is still a great value card for reasonable price as any other titan is. And now it can be used in any deck as it doesn't need spells. If prison of yogg was played then this yogg will too
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
he already did that with the ability that fills your hand. now he'll never do it because no ones going to play him
All Showdown in the Badlands Day 5 Hearthstone Card Reveals - October 23
Are these signs of a Priest deck that will do more than just copy and play the same powerful minion 13 times?
Sure hope so, pardner.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
Nerfed Tony is now a hard counter to Mill Druid. He went from the Dark Side to the Light.
New Priest Spell - Swarm of Lightbugs
Love the concept, but summoning a bunch of 1/1s is pretty weak, even with Lifesteal. Can you buff the board or give them rush? I don't think Priest has a way to do that.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
There was also Bolf and Mal'Ganis that could be comboed with Jailer. So I agree on another poster is that it is to future-proof him. He would've had to be looked at again if he was left alone.
New Priest Minion - Thirsty Drifter
A 4/6 Taunt for free, or maybe for just 1-3 mana, is good. It's not great, though. I guess if you reduce it to 1 mana, then you can copy it with Pip the Potent.
New Priest Minion - Pip the Potent
I'm going with 3 stars here. Several new cards for Priest have this "1-cost" synergy, but it's too early to say if it will be competitive. The only thing I'm thinking right now is that it might make Astral Automaton good.
New Priest Spell - Posse Possession
This is just ok. Getting a 4/4 for 4 is weak, but the hand-read can be nice. Plus, occasionally you'll get a copy of a nice deathrattle or something.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
Jailer is unplayable now.
I actually like the Yogg nerf. The whole point of Yogg is casting random spells, and now he does this. Playing him for free always felt like cheating when I did it, and as Rogue, you can do it over and over.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
If I had to guess, The Jailer nerf is future-proofing so he doesn't limit design space or allow for a toxic combo going forward.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
Yeah, The Jailer's nerf is a bit heavy handed. Destroy your deck and The Jailer can still be destroyed by effects such as Twisting Nether? Back to jail with you!
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
Guess the funding for team5 must have been severely stretched, because these harken us back to the brode days when nerfs more or less remove cards from the game.
Because the nerf to jailer, yogg and tony is about as unimaginative as it can get. Jailer now gains immune as opposed to giving it out, not even a stat buff. Tony is practically warsong-ed, being now completely worthless. And yogg got neutered to such an extent as to render it unusable to all but meme. Is it really that much to ask for yogg to either have a limit to the mana reduction, or just replacing the Mass Hysteria ability.
Oh well, I guess that's an easy 3200 dust, more if there are still some that havent dusted tony from before.
Other nerfs are fine. Embrace of Nature definitely needs nerfing because it'll be relevant throughout its lifespan, its still relevant even post nerf to me. Rake and Prison Breaker have been responsible for patching over weaknesses of both druid and rogue so it had to be done as well. I still think rake will see play, but probably prison breaker would be confined to rogue.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
I don't understand why did they nerf Jailer when it became a problem only when paired with Tony. And not only did they nerf him, they straight up annihilated him.
Yogg nerf is great, I hoped they will drop the reduction altogether and they did. Making him 20 mana would just make his use more polarizing where Rogue and Druid would still abuse him while other classes wouldn't play him at all.
Tony rework is great although I'm not sure why is he 7 mana, seems a bit extra.
Hearthstone Balance Patch Coming Thursday - Tony, Yogg-Saron & The Jailer Redesigned
The Jailer didn't get nerfed. He got lobotomized!
Great to see Yogg getting his randomness back. Yeah, there were the tentacles, but it wasn't the same.
Holy Springwater
Cheaper than Healing Touch
More versatility than Holy Light(Shadow finisher)
All Showdown in the Badlands Day 5 Hearthstone Card Reveals - October 23
Yea thought the same, bumped it from a 2-star to 3-star card
New Priest Spell - Holy Springwater
I love these 'excess' cards. So the healing doesn't go to waste.
New Neutral Minion - Whelp Wrangler
Pretty good card, actually. Stats and cost are decent, and the free taunt is nice. It won't likely stick around for more than one turn, but if it does, great value.