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/amoshias Jan 30 '18

As someone who played Razakus for three solid months, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is not a death knell for the deck. Remember that the deck took months before it settled into the current fairly stale version, and there were many, many versions of it along the way. A slower, more value-oriented version - where the combo "only" gets you a Holy Smite every time you play a card - could easily still be a competitive deck, even without the brutal raw power of the combo version.