It was just a couple of weeks ago when we witnessed a historic first in Hearthstone: banning a constructed format card in the form of Stealer of Souls from being accessible for the Wild mode deckbuilding. We've seen bans before in Arena and more recently with Duels, and we know they can be imperfect (while Discover mechanic and various card generation loopholes exist, they remain inherently unpredictable). But this set a different kind of precedent - perhaps one that we might revisit again in the future when a simple nerf doesn't make as much sense across the board.
However, for the dust refund purposes everything operated in the same way as with the actual nerfs - the card was still considered "modified", so its disenchant value has been adjusted to give back the full amount of dust. This window of opportunity should be closing with the end of this month, so now it's the final chance to take a peek at your collection and pull that trigger if necessary.
Quote From Blizzard
- Stealer of Souls has been banned in Wild.
Stealer of Souls will be eligible for a full dust refund for 2 weeks after the 20.4.2 patch goes live.
If you bought the Wailing Caverns Mini-Set, then you already had those 2 copies of Stealer of Souls to do away with. And it's possible you might've picked up even more from any Forged in the Barrens or Standard type packs.
The card hasn't made any great impact on the Standard format, so it should be a simple call. If things change with the upcoming expansion, recrafting is easy (if you don't pull any new copies from your packs by then). Otherwise we can enjoy an extra handful of dust to play with.
Note that depending on your timezone and region of choice the dust refund might still be active by the time Ranked end of season rewards become available - and that means Barrens packs and a number of Rare cards. If you by chance hit any Stealer of Souls, keep that in mind!
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Comments
I have 3 copies, 2 from the wailing bundle and 1 from a Barrens pack. I was planning on dusting the 3:rd but I can only get 20 dust from it. =/
Hmm, it is still available in game as 'modified' and to be disenchanted for 100 dust, at the moment of writing. Have you tried restarting the client/game and looking again? There is sometimes that occasional bug which doesn't show the dust refund correctly.
And I would recommend to dust all 3! If you decide you want it back in the next expansion then you'll always have that dust to use.
I tried to restart and it actally worked, thanks!
Nifty! Don't know what causes that visual bug at times (other than the game just trying to deny us any extra dust!). Funnily enough the refund is still active, 6 hours after EU reset (and one of my Barrens packs did have another Stealer). Quite a generous extension, maybe even Americas can make it in with their end of season rewards.
America extension confirmed. I got a Stealer in one of my season reward packs and insta-dusted it for full value.
Nice going. Turns out it was actually active all the way up until the patch - I gathered my Ame server rewards good 7 hours after the reset and managed to land another Stealer for full value as well. Glad the packs decided to be so generous to us.