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I may be biased since I'd love the dust from the Archwitch, but is it really a buff? It gets -2/-2 for 1-mana cost reduction with the same meh effect; maybe we are far from the vanilla days where 1-mana was 1/1 stats but still...

It's harsh but I like the fact that they recognized that it was a serious problem in Wild even if the Standard counterpart will suffer.

I bet is a discover-like effect.

I bet Barov is like a discover effect, so you can only pick from 3 random choices.

I may be biased since I'd love the dust from the Archwitch, but is it really a buff? It gets -2/-2 for 1-mana cost reduction with the same meh effect; maybe we are far from the vanilla days where 1-mana was 1/1 stats but still...

Call of the Wild is a bit different since the 2 damage from the hero power also helped out a nice bit on 10.

TY!  Thought so but these are the sort of rules arguments I remember getting into my friends about as we downloaded the DCI handbook and argued for hours over a single turn.  Honestly the digital format makes me happy to just avoid that sort of thing altogether. 

That free Mage pack is larger than the hero portraits. They are hyping up that one, single Mage pack like it's Smaug's personal gold bidet. I resent it.

I'm very excited for Battlegrounds parties, though. Finally! 

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Changes to Darkglare is brutal. Literally destroyed the card. They might as well have just change it to a 2 mana 2/3, your Flame Imp and Tour Guides cost 0. In standard there's literally no more use for this card, which is kinda a shame since pain warlock is perhaps the most challenging meta deck to play Ive encountered in quite some time.

Secret Passage nerf is a little weak. I guess the idea is that they didn't want this to completely be unusable since its literally the only card keeping all rogue players from yet another galakrond build. Its still decent I guess.

Cabal Acolyte nerf is unexpected. I didn't particularly find this card oppressive in any way, but evidently team5 thought priest was getting a little out of hand, what with Wave of Apathy being literally everywhere.

Now for buffs (of which we won't get any dust from, sigh*)

Totem Goliath slight buff wont change much of anything. Totem shaman matches are decided early game, not late game. If anything I'd say that buffing Runic Carvings would be more impactful.

That willow buff was timely. Perhaps the best way to describe it is that it should've been 8 mana from the start. What the hell does team5 think a 9 mana card should be like? Maybe, just maybe at 8 mana this card will be playable in some meme deck. Its still not very good at the moment since there's only literally one demon card warlock would want off this but its going to be here for another 2 years so maybe at some point this card will take prominence.

 

You can still cheat mana with Darkglare, just not as oppressively. You can play a Tour Guide the turn before so you can tap for free on your darkglare turn and get 1 extra mana for it. Don't forget about Raise Dead as well. Darkglare costs only 2 now so it's still a pretty good card in that deck. I'll admit the change makes warlock look underwhelming compared to mana cheating capabilities of other classes, druid for example.

Secret Mage’s power varies a lot less than Darkglare’s does from what I’ve seen, so it does make some sense at least. A lucky Darkglare turn can get some really ridiculous board states out, whereas a Secret Mage is just a relatively standard burn deck

I'd still prefer if you could JUST buy the skin, I dont really want to pay for packs I dont need just to get the skin.

Mogwai attempted to make Pix! work so you don't have to.

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I don't have Shen or Taric yet, but I'll definitely be giving these others a try. Thanks!

If you have some Lulu but no Shen, you might be more interested in pairing her with Zed since you received at least 2 free. Here's a deck from Swim:

Dunno, zoolock can have quite a lot of draw, the card was already good just as a cheap unit.. Sure you can't do those crazy combos but the card should still be good in a zoo deck.. It'd a decent 2 drop the deck doesn't have many anyway I wouldn't underestimate it. 

I sense Stockholm syndrome.. Just like with deny and will of ionia in LoR the card is kinda busted I don't think it's a remotely fair card.. It's something that used to cost around 5 mana (myra's unstable element) but w/e at least it' s a bit less tilting to play against post nerf. 

It took them forever to nerf Barnes (and I still don't know how necessary that truly was).

They do nothing to Secret Mage but give it more good cards.

But Darkglare has to die already? Really?

I don't have Shen or Taric yet, but I'll definitely be giving these others a try. Thanks!

Yeah. I'm devastated.

I guess I don't really know how obnoxious he's been in Standard. In Wild, I just think about the fact that they've done nothing to Secret Mage but give it more good cards. But for some reason this can't stand...

Not yet unfortunately.

Finally! Nerfs! Can't wait to see how they nerfed druid! I finally can play the game and not do only the quests every 3 days!

*see the nerfs*

Nevermind! 

I think the unique lines are only meant to be in relation to "rarer" heroes from shops and events. Otherwise, they would happen too frequently and become grating to some people. But, yeah, I see your point.

From what I know, the effect wouldn't trigger because when a card refers to itself, the effect is tied to that specific card.

So, if you attacked with Angel of Destiny, it died, and you summoned another one, the new Angel didn't attack this turn, so the effect doesn't activate.

So mobalytics has finally gotten solid meta rankings for the call of the mountain meta.

What we are seeing is that bilgewater is pretty much dominating in all it's forms

With targon only being represented in B tier.

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/meta-tier-list

The reason for this is pretty straightforward

As I had mentioned before Targon champs aren't good.

They don't present win conditions.

In fact non champ plays like jamming a spectral matron at 8 onto the scourge and buffing your whole board is better then Sol

So is just buffing everything in your board, deck, and hand by 2

Or one sided board wipes

Or double vengence

etc. etc.

The other big issue is the 3 slot, bilge water has a 3/2 that summons a 2/1 on average

Targon has a 1/2 or 2/1 that doesn't do anything

In fact grabbing a 0 mana snake is often the right play and people don't do it

Anyway I digress what do you guys think of the meta

Mostly okay changes. The buff to Totem Goliath probably won't be enough to help Shaman, though. What i really like is the change in the interaction between Headmaster Kel'Thuzad and Professor Slate. Now there's some real potential for late game swings and i love it! I still need to craft Kel'Thuzad but i should be able to gather enough dust to do it.

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Ah, right.