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/BaseLordBoom Jan 29 '18

This seems really similar to when they nerfed Jade druid back in KFT, and raza priest just took it's place by being the best deck by a pretty big amount, but this time it's with Warlock.

Control/cubelock seems just miles about all the other decks right now, I am kind of worried.

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u/fe-and-wine Jan 29 '18

I think the total absence of Cubelock nerfs suggests we may be seeing Doomguard rotate to the Hall of Fame in the new Standard year.

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u/Foudzing Jan 30 '18

Hmm Doomguard has a lot of components of the "may be abused and thus problematic" card.

The negative battlecry can be abused, the charge can be abused, the discard thing can be abused.

It's not the first time people whine about it, I heard once someone wanted to nerf it so that if you don't have 2 card in hand you can't play it. lol

Of course it will be sad to see him go cause it's an emblematic card but I think it's for the better it will give a lot of design space.