29.6.2 Hotfix Patch

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@GnomeSayin-11972

[Hearthstone] Splish-Splash Whelp is banned in Standard.
o Dev Comment: Since our last balance patch, Druid has emerged as a warping force in the meta, and both a power and play experience outlier. We’re banning Splish-Splash Whelp as one of the class’s strongest cards for accelerating them to their early power plays. This is a temporary emergency action that we’re taking until we’re able to re-evaluate and adjust in our next planned balance pass (after the launch of Perils in Paradise). Any cards that are weakened at that time will get our usual dust refund treatment.

Well, what can I say… The supposedly ‘brilliant’ plan to ‘fix’ or at least spice up the abhorrent meta didn’t work in the end, did it? Who would have thought… Thus these emergency measures, I suppose? Good, good… Now, if you’d also ‘fix’ those, ahem, anomalies, Standard might be worth a try again, if you ask me.

It’s disputable whether banning the card in question is a good decision, as this article [1] argues, or it’d be better to address the root of the problem, which’d be Doomkin, if you ask me, but I guess it’d do for now as a ‘temporary emergency action’.

[1] https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/29-6-2-hotfix-patch/