Slowing down the snowball-start for Alba?
Gross!
How about, realizing most classes in wild can’t counter game-ending-combo well, and Alba is a chance-tool to affect combo, and not instantly either. This change exactly delays Abla’s effect 1 turn at minimum, let me bring you up to speed.
A snowball staring a whole turn later, matters more and more as the match goes on. Meaning, its not just a 1 turn mana nerf, or a 1 turn tempo nerf, this is a snowball starting too-late to matter, to affect combo. By the way, the last thing Alba cares about is Reno Jackson, those are just anti-aggro decks that are not effective vs the combo-field. Like, nobody’s playing Alba in wild to “Bring it to Reno, Zeph, and Mage-Highlander”. It’s more like “Lets slow down this Youtube-combo deck my opponent info-shared”. Now, you’ve nerfed our ability to do just that, for all classes. Ok?
Is this a case of standard balance getting priority and targeting the neutral card in an oppressive synergy-combo with Alba over whatever class in standard is breaking apart reno decks over there? Like, standard’s balance, negatively affecting not-meta in wild. The catch is, it’s not like in 2 years you’ll hit us back with a wild-only buff to Alba back to 3, or compensate us in the collection manager for lack of angles to the meta. Dust isn’t balance.
But, you nerf one angle of approach to the whole wild meta?
Meta-shrinking move right there.
Minus well nerf Weasel Tunneler if that’s your logic Blizz…make it 2 mana, 1 mana Weasel is too OP v Wild combo yes?
To boot, i own Waygate gold from an unpack, and even though i don’t play meta, i can see that mana cheat on turn 5-6 now instead of mana cheat on turns 3-6 is still going to be meta-defining. Mage sees barely-less play? Aggro gets 1 more turn?
Totally expected, mana nerfs matter, the combo potential w Alba is sabo’d, couldn’t you raise it’s effect to 3 birds to compensate for the low-combo potential now?
I think that would be fair to us Wild not-meta players.
Bad Luck Albatross: “Now costs 4 mana, but hey, here’s a bone Wild-non-OTK people, shuffle 3 birds instead of 2, so you get something for your loss”.
Yes?