A 5 mana board clear that wipes an entire board no mater if there’s 7 10/10 minions on the board. If there was a top 5 of cards to nerf this is one of them.
Not sure what the tweak would be but how about :
The thing is you have to have the corpses, and that can be an issue in many games.
It sounds like you went all in on a wide board not prepared for the clear more than an issue with the game or the card.
Next time figure they have a free celestial or this card ready and play accordingly.
That card is simply stupid, it should have been nerfed since day 1.
It activates multiple times so u cant use sticky minions or divine shield to escape it, stops consuming the corpses after the board is clear and is quite easy to make that spell dmg go insanely high.
It was just to force DK as a class at launch.
So much salt.
It is a good card and on brand for DK. It does not need adjustment.
Stop playing your whole hand into it.
I sense you’re playing the deck yourself. Otherwise you wouldn’t be defending it tooth and nail. It is overpowered compared to other board clears historically and currently.
Flamestrike costs 7 and clears 5 health minions.
You gotta build corpses to use it so it seems like a fair card to me.
Sucks to have this one blow up your board but you gotta identify when you know it is in the deck and play a bit more conservatively around it.
Flame strike does not require you to have five minions die before it does five damage, either.
The fact that it requires a corpse for each tick is why it works as it does.
There are no statistics that show the card to be some kind of outlier power wise; it simply beats people who play their whole hand into removal.
This is one of those classic moments where people need to play better rather than a card needs to be adjusted. It is a core card at this point, so it is not new.
Edit: And I have been hunting achievments for fun, so not abusing anything. I managed a 20/20 plant golem today, though.
The Devs don’t have to balance cards but DECKS. DK has some pretty good cards but the win rate might not be good anyway. For example Death Growl was a barely “OK” card until the Zerg because it was extremely OP to spread the Zerg deathrattle and so cheaply.
Corpse Explosion is good but limited. You only have 2 and if you use it early it’s meh and if you use it very late then the opponent might not care too much because half of the opponents have extreme value late game.
Always has been, always will be broken.