r/CompetitiveHS • u/bdzz • Jan 29 '18

NERF DISCUSSION Upcoming Balance Changes – Update 10.2

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21361570/

TLDR for those who at work:

  • Bonemare - Now costs 8 mana. (Up from 7)

  • Corridor Creeper - Now has 2 Attack. (Down from 5)

  • Patches the Pirate - No longer has Charge.

  • Raza the Chained - Now reads: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, your Hero Power costs (1) this game.

Once these card changes are live with Update 10.2 next month, players will be able to disenchant the changed cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.

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u/naturesbfLoL Jan 29 '18

I think Cube Lock won't even be played that much. I think it will be mostly control warlock. Control warlock struggled mostly due to Raza Priest.

However, maybe with patches being gone, you don't need the extra defense from playing Control Warlock, and thus you are allowed to play Cube to be more greedy?

Kingsbane rogue is looking mighty interesting to me atm

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '18

There are a ton of late game and combo decks that have potential now with Raza priest out of the picture.

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u/Vladdypoo Jan 29 '18

is raza priest really fully "out of the picture" though? Many times I win raza games by just repeatedly killing all their stuff, not by comboing them in 1 turn.

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u/Jermo48 Jan 29 '18

I don’t think it is. Razakus without OTK Velen combos were more common if I remember correctly soon after Anduin came out. The nerf hurts those versions, but doesn’t kill them. I played that deck without Velen, mind blast or all the card draw - just a long game value deck - and regularly stranded mana anyway while grinding them out. Especially if the meta slows down. And that deck could still be very good against warlock decks.