I disagree, there are many tier 2 and 3 dragon decks and decks using dragons, both warlock and druid are commonly running dragons also mage has a quite solid highlander dragon list.
So although the top decks aren't tribal dragon decks there are viable dragon lists.
It's now a 1 mana cheaper sea giant with - 5/-4 in stats but with rush, with that comparison the card looks SO much weaker than it was I used to play zoo a lot casting a sea giant is easier said than done, yes it's a lot of stats but it normally comes up at least at turn 5.
and you need not only a big board, but also the mana to cast it. The nerf makes this card, much harder to play on a 3 v 3 board scenario this costs 3 instead of 1 and that's the most common scenario for this card.
Harder to play- good, evolves into 10 mana cost minions - bad..
Well there wasn't much to expect on this department really.. I think they should change the mana cost+ evolve effects once and for all.. but they seem to not understand that.. sadly..
at least now it will have a higher cost..you don't see shaman running Sea Giant it's more in line with the cost reduction mechanic.. at least you need to invest more on board to get a cost reduction and you can't get it for 1 mana from your own board alone.
STILL too good.. expect seeing this card nerfed again next patch.. they should've also upped it's mana cost to 6.. it will still be abused by every token deck..
This is a bigger nerf than it looks like a mana nerf is huge it slows down shaman by a lot.. it gives you more time to deal with shaman and prevents "perfect curve" scenarios where you can play krunx or 2 of those befor galakround.. well now you can with coin but coin is typically a bad win rate thing..
This is the key, strongest card in Galakround shaman it slows down the whole deck, it still can be strong and still do the same stuff it does but a lot slower..
Aggro decks are defined by their speed not by being all about the face... In the last meta rogue and rush warrior were definetly aggro decks as well as any zoo deck they are aggro..
The fact that people associate aggro as going face all the time is misleading.
That's right, that's why epics should be more common.. The likely hood of a 40 dust packs is too high.. I really think that the worst value should also be a rare case... Opening packs is exciting, but most of them being the worst case suck.
The legendary cards distribution is fine what is not fine is the epic card distribution.. Epics are too rare for how many you need.. There are too many bad epics for them to be as rare as they are now..
Or you know make common cards yield more dust just a small increase from 5 to 10 will go a long way...
There was a similar case with jade druid in koft, but at least you could text Skulking Geist and feel good about the match up.. But what card can beat so much diversity and rushers? None..
I am fine with waiting.. they have enough pressure as is.. let them work.. they have a great game on their hands hope for a more polished beta launch.
I miss the game and I would like to play it but I understand their side too.. they are devs after all.. compared to blizzard we won't be disappointed for sure.
Not sure why everyone has such a hateboner for Warrior. I've played the matchup a bunch of times and while it's strong it doesn't really seem overpowered unless you're playing a real greedy deck with lack of defense.
If anything Parachute Brigand needs to be a 2/1 or something because it's just not fair when that thing drops twice on turn 1 and you have no realistic chance of getting rid of it.
I have been playing rush warrior + galakround I have NO idea why people are playing pirates it's clearly inferior to rush warrior, I have been winning none stop, even against shamans..
Rush warrior had 2 problems: lack of reach, and lack of card draw that doesn't loses you as much tempo, guess what galakround does? +3 attack and card draw.. Pirate warrior while strong just has so much of it's power on a legendary weapon that if they don't draw it well it's just a meh deck and even the "god draw" is not that insane..
What list of Rush Warrior are you using? It sounds interesting.
here's the list I use, I don't own a second copy of the galakround reward dragon so I don't play it I normally don't craft cards early in the expansion so I don't own it, feel free to run 1 less berserker for it, it's really strong once you proc it.
I am surprised pirate warrior doesn't run the mummy, it's one of the best warrior cards...
This list is of course not optimized but I think it's superior to pirate warrior because it got a lot more staying power and is not dependent on high rolling.
Edit: I played the list right now and it does need tweaking it was really good day 1 but not anymore. I still think a pure pirate warrior is just too dependent on ONE card and that's why they should be inferior to other lists which work without it, that being said the list has a problem of being too reactive for a tempo deck.. I reccomend taking such a shell as rush warrior from SOU (before the disaster of TOT) and add the galakround package to it and probably also the 1/2 pirate as it's a value generator that can be played early, been playing with it, it's strong.. just that it's quite MEH against shaman.. but shaman.. is shaman.
Yeah I agree rush isn't even shaman's theme it's warrior and hunter all the sudden shaman gets a full set of rushing elementals.. Why? It had a sub theme of spark 1/1s on booms day but that's OK I guess since it was different from the big rushes from warrior and beast rushers in hunter.
But spamming 2/1 rush guys for low cost... That's a bit too much I think.
Remove rush or make them 1/1s also consider nerfing the battlecry of galakrond cause it's too easy on shaman due to quest and having the only double invoke.
Turns out this card is preeety good happy I opened it, it's half a volcano most of the time, and it only costs 3, running it in my highlander handlock and it does work, if any card was the hardest to cut the duplicate of it was this card it's amazing.
Correctly rated 5 stars, too bad control warlock just isn't there.. Once shaman gets nerfed.. Maybe, but zalae has been playing control galakrond handlock and doing fine hope it will be better next week.
if Faceless Corruptor is not on that list I'm going to scream.
Also, the really dropped the ball on Shaman this time. Galakrond is so op that he improves the winrate of any deck you put him in by 5%...and Galakrond Shaman sits at over 60% winrate.
Let that sink in: a completely new deck (well, sort of) immediately rises to 60% winrate without even having been refined. The last time that happened was Even Paladin with Call to Arms at 4.
Not sure why everyone has such a hateboner for Warrior. I've played the matchup a bunch of times and while it's strong it doesn't really seem overpowered unless you're playing a real greedy deck with lack of defense.
If anything Parachute Brigand needs to be a 2/1 or something because it's just not fair when that thing drops twice on turn 1 and you have no realistic chance of getting rid of it.
Running Weapon removal is key at this point. If you can shut down Ancharr early and they don't have Hoard Pillager in their opening hand then you're good (although they might need to nerf the Pillager to 5 to make the weapon removal not pointless)
I have been playing rush warrior + galakround I have NO idea why people are playing pirates it's clearly inferior to rush warrior, I have been winning none stop, even against shamans..
Rush warrior had 2 problems: lack of reach, and lack of card draw that doesn't loses you as much tempo, guess what galakround does? +3 attack and card draw.. Pirate warrior while strong just has so much of it's power on a legendary weapon that if they don't draw it well it's just a meh deck and even the "god draw" is not that insane..
Eternium Rover is still the king of the early game, you add the rush/enrage package and you have a very sturdy early game, the invoke cards provide the mid game and galakround gives the insane late game.
And Faceless Corruptor needs a huge nerf the card was insane enough on paper.. on practice it's even more insane, and I thought the targeting was random as well..
minimum a 7 mana card not even 6 mana, that's a Bonemare buff effect..
Imagine if Bonemare had rush itself, gave rush to target instead of taunt, had better buff with hand buffs and to top it off was 5 mana instead of 7.. that's the card blizzard released. (well you can't go face with it, but still...)
I disagree, there are many tier 2 and 3 dragon decks and decks using dragons, both warlock and druid are commonly running dragons also mage has a quite solid highlander dragon list.
So although the top decks aren't tribal dragon decks there are viable dragon lists.
Also as a side note, galakrond is a dragon.
Happens to me too-pc windows 10.
Weird but don't care too much since I know what a card does by name/picture anyway.
It's now a 1 mana cheaper sea giant with - 5/-4 in stats but with rush, with that comparison the card looks SO much weaker than it was I used to play zoo a lot casting a sea giant is easier said than done, yes it's a lot of stats but it normally comes up at least at turn 5.
and you need not only a big board, but also the mana to cast it. The nerf makes this card, much harder to play on a 3 v 3 board scenario this costs 3 instead of 1 and that's the most common scenario for this card.
Harder to play- good, evolves into 10 mana cost minions - bad..
Well there wasn't much to expect on this department really.. I think they should change the mana cost+ evolve effects once and for all.. but they seem to not understand that.. sadly..
at least now it will have a higher cost..you don't see shaman running Sea Giant it's more in line with the cost reduction mechanic.. at least you need to invest more on board to get a cost reduction and you can't get it for 1 mana from your own board alone.
STILL too good.. expect seeing this card nerfed again next patch.. they should've also upped it's mana cost to 6.. it will still be abused by every token deck..
Well this is one of the strongest shaman card but I never felt that this card was annoying to play against.. it had a fair price..
will still see play in any deck it was played in probably, but it nerfs shaman all around which was the purpose...
This is a bigger nerf than it looks like a mana nerf is huge it slows down shaman by a lot.. it gives you more time to deal with shaman and prevents "perfect curve" scenarios where you can play krunx or 2 of those befor galakround.. well now you can with coin but coin is typically a bad win rate thing..
This is the key, strongest card in Galakround shaman it slows down the whole deck, it still can be strong and still do the same stuff it does but a lot slower..
Even if it's tommorow why don't they announce what they are gonna nerf? Quite curious tbh.
Aggro decks are defined by their speed not by being all about the face... In the last meta rogue and rush warrior were definetly aggro decks as well as any zoo deck they are aggro..
The fact that people associate aggro as going face all the time is misleading.
That's right, that's why epics should be more common.. The likely hood of a 40 dust packs is too high.. I really think that the worst value should also be a rare case... Opening packs is exciting, but most of them being the worst case suck.
The legendary cards distribution is fine what is not fine is the epic card distribution.. Epics are too rare for how many you need.. There are too many bad epics for them to be as rare as they are now..
Or you know make common cards yield more dust just a small increase from 5 to 10 will go a long way...
There was a similar case with jade druid in koft, but at least you could text Skulking Geist and feel good about the match up.. But what card can beat so much diversity and rushers? None..
I am fine with waiting.. they have enough pressure as is.. let them work.. they have a great game on their hands hope for a more polished beta launch.
I miss the game and I would like to play it but I understand their side too.. they are devs after all.. compared to blizzard we won't be disappointed for sure.
here's the list I use, I don't own a second copy of the galakround reward dragon so I don't play it I normally don't craft cards early in the expansion so I don't own it, feel free to run 1 less berserker for it, it's really strong once you proc it.
I am surprised pirate warrior doesn't run the mummy, it's one of the best warrior cards...
This list is of course not optimized but I think it's superior to pirate warrior because it got a lot more staying power and is not dependent on high rolling.
Edit: I played the list right now and it does need tweaking it was really good day 1 but not anymore. I still think a pure pirate warrior is just too dependent on ONE card and that's why they should be inferior to other lists which work without it, that being said the list has a problem of being too reactive for a tempo deck.. I reccomend taking such a shell as rush warrior from SOU (before the disaster of TOT) and add the galakround package to it and probably also the 1/2 pirate as it's a value generator that can be played early, been playing with it, it's strong.. just that it's quite MEH against shaman.. but shaman.. is shaman.
Yeah I agree rush isn't even shaman's theme it's warrior and hunter all the sudden shaman gets a full set of rushing elementals.. Why? It had a sub theme of spark 1/1s on booms day but that's OK I guess since it was different from the big rushes from warrior and beast rushers in hunter.
But spamming 2/1 rush guys for low cost... That's a bit too much I think.
Remove rush or make them 1/1s also consider nerfing the battlecry of galakrond cause it's too easy on shaman due to quest and having the only double invoke.
Turns out this card is preeety good happy I opened it, it's half a volcano most of the time, and it only costs 3, running it in my highlander handlock and it does work, if any card was the hardest to cut the duplicate of it was this card it's amazing.
Correctly rated 5 stars, too bad control warlock just isn't there.. Once shaman gets nerfed.. Maybe, but zalae has been playing control galakrond handlock and doing fine hope it will be better next week.
Yeah got dissapointed by that as well, hope it gets fixed next week as well..
Quests complete mid interaction, usually trigger, they need to add an a exception for this quest.
more comparable to Bonemare- making every 1/1 on board you leave a potential 5/4 next turn.
I have been playing rush warrior + galakround I have NO idea why people are playing pirates it's clearly inferior to rush warrior, I have been winning none stop, even against shamans..
Rush warrior had 2 problems: lack of reach, and lack of card draw that doesn't loses you as much tempo, guess what galakround does? +3 attack and card draw.. Pirate warrior while strong just has so much of it's power on a legendary weapon that if they don't draw it well it's just a meh deck and even the "god draw" is not that insane..
Eternium Rover is still the king of the early game, you add the rush/enrage package and you have a very sturdy early game, the invoke cards provide the mid game and galakround gives the insane late game.
And Faceless Corruptor needs a huge nerf the card was insane enough on paper.. on practice it's even more insane, and I thought the targeting was random as well..
minimum a 7 mana card not even 6 mana, that's a Bonemare buff effect..
Imagine if Bonemare had rush itself, gave rush to target instead of taunt, had better buff with hand buffs and to top it off was 5 mana instead of 7.. that's the card blizzard released. (well you can't go face with it, but still...)
Hoping for nerfs to mct, faceless coruptor, mogu, dragon maw poacher, and some warrior cards as well..