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

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?