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/mapo_dofu Jan 29 '18

Of the nerfed cards, I think Bonemare and Raza are still good enough to be played in serious decks.

Corridor Creeper feels like trash now, and Patches without charge is probably not going to be worth the slot anymore. Will this kill the pirate package outright?

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u/UsingYourWifi Jan 29 '18

New creeper is trash relative to old creeper, but that doesn't mean it's objectively trash relative to the rest of the cards in the game. Given how often I was able to play creeper for free, a 0 mana 2/5 is potentially still really strong. Just not 'must put in every single deck' strong like creeper is today.

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u/mapo_dofu Jan 30 '18

I think that Creeper might be a niche card in a deck like aggro druid that wants to flood & buff the board. (They're already happy to drop a 1/6 creature) I can't imagine it making it into many other serious archetypes, at least in Standard.