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Will there be replacements for PO, IL and Conceal?
Since the introduction of the "Hall of Fame" I was always wondering if Rogue, Mage and Warlock will get a replacement for their missing cards in the classic set.
It's just 1 card for 3 classes, but it is still kind of "unfair" to reduce their cardpool by 1 card to tool with.
Did a dev or someone else from Team 5 mention something like that?
Btw. this is not a flame post, I'm just curious.
Edit: Inconsistencies
Edit2: Holy moly, I didn't expect such a simple question going off like this. Thanks to everyone writing something (even to the guys who called me an idiot and other things), so that this got big enough to get an answer by Ben Brode himself.
Ben Brode
It's possible we will backfill eventually, but we don't currently have plans for it. Part of the reason for making these cards exclusive to wild is to reduce the power of the evergreen sets so the game doesn't feel the same every year in Standard. So we'd have to choose carefully what to add.
Shatter is an example of a card that might be good backfill for Ice Lance. It's simple, pretty fun, and helps solidify the identity of Mage. It's also not likely to keep the meta from shifting by becoming an auto-include for Mage or making it very difficult for us to make powerful Freeze effects.
But again, I don't think this is something we'd need to do right away.
Ben Brode
We are very far from a world where decks use 30 expansion cards. Many of the top decks right now run 20+ classic/basic cards.
Part of the goal of the new Hall of Fame is that we might get down to an average of 10 or 12 cards per deck being from classic/basic. At least at the high end of competition.
If folks want to keep playing the same decks/cards every year, that's fine with me. Wild is supposed to support that. (We have work to do on making Wild feel more supported, though, and we announced the beginning of those plans in our recent blog.) We do need a place that changes more frequently (which means the cards being played are mostly from rotating expansions), and that is what Standard is for.
Ben Brode
Maybe something from a future set? But if I had to choose now, maybe Curse of Rafaam? It's a bit 'texty' for a classic card but maybe it'd be fine.