This Week's Tavern Brawl is "A Peek to the Past" - Basic & Classic Commons & Rares

Published 6 years ago by Fluxflashor (Updated 6 years ago)

Let's take it down a notch, there, brawler. Make a deck using only cards from the Basic and Classic sets, but none of those fancy Epics of Legendaries, ya hear?

We're jumping to the past in more way than once this week with the Tavern Brawl! We first saw "A Peek to the Past" in 2017, where the brawl was shown twice (May & October) and then it was locked away in the great Hearthstone vault. Since then, we've had quite a few changes to these two sets making this brawl very different from the original balance. Here are all the Common & Rare changes.

Demon Hunter is NOT available for play in this week's Brawl - good call, Blizzard!

Removed Basic & Classic Cards Since 2017

Year of the Raven: Coldlight Oracle
Year of the Dragon: Naturalize, Doomguard, Divine Favor, Vanish, & Mind Blast
Year of the Phoenix: Acolyte of Pain, Spellbreaker, Mind Control Tech, Auchenai Soulpriest, Holy Fire, Divine Spirit, & Northshire Cleric

Added Basic & Classic Cards Since 2017

Year of the Raven: Tome of Intellect, Call of the Void, & Pilfer
Year of the Dragon: Plaguebringer, Radiance, Siegebreaker, Gift of the Wild, Righteousness, SI:7 Infiltrator, & Arcane Devourer
Year of the Phoenix: Psychic Conjurer, Power Infusion, Kul Tiran Chaplain, & Scarlet Subjugator

Basic & Classic Balance Since 2017

Cold Blood - Now costs 2 mana, up from 1.
Equality - Now costs 4 mana, up from 2.
Flametongue Totem - Now costs 3 mana, up from 2.
Holy Nova - Now costs 4 mana, down from 5. Can no longer damage enemy heroes.
Holy Smite - Now reads: Deal 3 damage to a minion.
Hunter's Mark - Now costs 2 mana, up from 1.
Mana Wyrm - Now costs 2 mana, up from 1.
Nourish - Now costs 6 mana, up from 5.
Power Word: Shield - Now costs 0 mana, down from 1. Now reads: Give a minion +2 Health.
Sacrificial Pact - Can only target friendly demons now.
Shadow Madness - Now costs 3 mana, down from 4.
Shadow Word: Death - Now costs 2 mana, down from 3.
Temple Enforcer - Now costs 5 mana, down from 6. Attack decreased from 6 to 5.
Thoughtsteal - Now costs 2 mana, down from 3.
Wild Growth - Now costs 3 mana, up from 2.

As you can see, there have been a ton of changes to these sets from back then! With 15 card balance changes, 13 removals, and 14 additions, we're in for a fun week! Priest is the only class to receive a massive overhaul, though changes are sprinkled in every class that isn't Warrior.

What decks are you looking to play this week?

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Vandaren LV.8
6 years ago

This is the first time ever when i click 'complete my deck' and the AI put a pair of Chillwind Yeti in there.
I don't know, man.. It just feel wholesome!

Horus LV.17
6 years ago

When Chillwind Yeti is quite literally auto-include ^^

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Horus LV.17
6 years ago

Vanilla was a simpler time

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Meteorite12 LV.8
6 years ago

Feels nice to have a reason to use Highmane again, midrange Hunter was as good of a deck for this brawl as I thought it was
RNJesus LV.5
6 years ago
Hmmmm...
turns out one particular class is broken in this scenario
Brawl Deck
Tavern Brawl · Tempo Demon Hunter · by RNJesus · 6 years ago
1 Argent Squire x 2

1 Shadowhoof Slayer x 2

2 Chaos Strike x 2

2 Faerie Dragon x 2

2 Sightless Watcher x 2

3 Aldrachi Warblades x 2

3 Coordinated Strike x 2

3 Ironbeak Owl x 1

3 Satyr Overseer x 2

3 Soul Cleave x 2

4 Chillwind Yeti x 1

4 Dark Iron Dwarf x 2

5 Glaivebound Adept x 2

5 Nightblade x 2

6 Argent Commander x 2

8 Inner Demon x 2
480 Dust 3,888 4 Copy Deck Code

GameTheory345 LV.7
6 years ago

Wait, I thought you couldn't play DH in this brawl?
It literally says in the post, "Demon Hunter is NOT available for play in this week's Brawl - good call, Blizzard!" or have I misunderstood something?

RNJesus LV.5
6 years ago

you can't CHOOSE it when creating a deck in the tavern brawl page, but if you copypasta the deckcode and go into the tavern brawl it works.

GameTheory345 LV.7
6 years ago

Huh, I didn't know that. It reminds me of a bug where you could put cards form another class in your deck by copying the deckcode.

Tumbleweedovski LV.8
6 years ago
Just drop a Questing Adventurer and go to town.
Tempo Rogue
Tavern Brawl · Tempo Rogue · by Tumbleweedovski · 6 years ago
0 Backstab x 2

0 Shadowstep x 2

1 Argent Squire x 2

1 Deadly Poison x 2

2 Amani Berserker x 2

2 Defias Ringleader x 2

2 Eviscerate x 2

2 Fan of Knives x 2

2 Loot Hoarder x 2

2 Novice Engineer x 2

2 Sap x 2

2 Shiv x 2

3 Questing Adventurer x 2

3 SI:7 Agent x 2

4 Plaguebringer x 2
880 Dust 2,003 0 Copy Deck Code
DarkFrostX LV.11
6 years ago

It's Yeti tiiimeeee!!!!!
Hydrafrog LV.17
6 years ago

Just went Mage to kill it... I am not a fan of this brawl

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Grumpy000 LV.12
6 years ago
Won at the first attempt with this deck
Aggro Paladin
Tavern Brawl · Aggro Paladin · by Grumpy000 · 6 years ago
1 Argent Squire x 2

1 Blessing of Might x 1

1 Noble Sacrifice x 2

1 Secretkeeper x 2

1 Worgen Infiltrator x 2

2 Amani Berserker x 2

2 Argent Protector x 2

2 Dire Wolf Alpha x 2

2 Faerie Dragon x 2

2 Knife Juggler x 2

3 Aldor Peacekeeper x 2

3 Consecration x 2

4 Blessing of Kings x 2

4 Dark Iron Dwarf x 2

4 Truesilver Champion x 2

5 Frostwolf Warlord x 1
1,240 Dust 1,685 0 Copy Deck Code
scuac LV.7
6 years ago

Isn't Ice Lance missing from the list of cards removed?

FrostyFeet LV.19
6 years ago

I believe it had already rotated when this brawl first appeared, and therefore wasn't included.

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KitsuLeif LV.4
6 years ago

That awkward moment, when you copy a Demon Hunter deck string for this Brawl and it actually works. Fix your game, Blizz! xD
Pezman LV.16
6 years ago

Mur-lock FTW!

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Riffraff LV.7
6 years ago

Thanks for the idea. My opponent conceded on T4.

RubinoCE LV.7
6 years ago

Let the aggro battles begin
BigE LV.7
6 years ago

I've been wanting this because I'm fairly new, and I want to see what the "old days" were like: far less crazy. It seems like there are far fewer comeback mechanics. It's harder than I thought too because I am not so familiar with the older cards. Still fun. Cobbled together a zoolock deck.

AngryShuckie LV.13
6 years ago

Epics and legendaries were just as important in the old days as they are now, so it's not really a great representation of what the metagame was like, especially since so many cards have changed or been replaced.
What this brawl does show well though how most decks didn't have enough tools in a specific direction to make the really focussed archetypes we see today. There were a couple of decks like Freeze Mage and Miracle Rogue that were an exception, but most things were a bit more midrange-y because you had to make up the 30 cards somehow.
You might find it quite interesting to watch a few Youtube videos from HS beta (late 2013 to April 2014). Kripp and Trump have plenty from back then, but there's lots more if you're not a fan of them.

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