Buffs:
Nerfs:
So much dust from SC miniset.
AMphibians spirit is so damn good. maybe less stats or more mana?
edit why foodfight? man warrior is so toxic sometimes tho
I guess they abandoned Maestra and Eudora forever if they didnt buff them now.
No love for the new crap Rogue legendaries either
It’s a nice start but more is needed.
Well this should shake things up…
What i needed was this pic, i cant be bothered to read.
Phew I was worried I wouldnt have to face a horde of people playing 10/10 plants for the next 2 months. Thanks for getting on top of that. I can’t wait. Also imbue shaman probably doesn’t need buffs with them hacking away at the other decks. Unless for some reason they’re buffing the elemental part of living garden.
Looks like they’re attacking tutor / mana cheat… now if they would just learn not to print so many tutor cards and such brainless mana cheat cards.
Although looking at it the imbue hunter OTK deck looks to remain untouched… so lets look forward to that being 80% of all matchups after the patch
Nerf to both boost and artanis tells me the summoned zealot is getting nerfed
Defense crystal nerf… heard some people suggest changing it away from deathrattle mostly cuz of armor DH. Not sure if I like that since they aren’t the only starship deck and it might either break those decks or worse somehow make another starship deck do stupid things (like if it’s a battlecry, shamans can do battlecry things)
Amphibian’s spirit - I predict it’ll be hand of a’dal all over again. 2 mana +2/+2 with an effect is actually quite fair (shamanstone just a few weeks ago had companion which was +2/+3 even). The real culprit is how easy it is for hunter (and shamans/pallies previously) to keep a board to make use of it. The nerf will scale it back some, but unless everything else about hunter is nerfed, it will still be used and people would think hunters only got a slap on the wrist.
All that said, spawning pool nerf is gonna affect them. And location lock who will also see giant nerfed.
Food fight and dungar nerf is probably because cheating out 10 mana dragons (and ressing it for warriors) turned out to be a little too much, if not in win rates than in feels (but pre-nerf unkilliax? That boy lasted for many more weeks 
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I hoped they will hit colossus too. Like i know the priest one is just as powerfull, but at least it can whiff. The mage one has no whiff potential. Just kills you.
There are also slower versions, so im not sure if the nerf will affect it too much.
And yeah, imbue hunter will go crazy.
Can’t wait to dedust my Artanis and use the dust to craft something fun
So the best deck is barely touched. Cool I guess 67% winrate is not enough for hunter. Lets make it 80%.
Im sure there are plenty of ways to counter a 25/6 charge that shuffles your taunt into your deck xD
They saw what arcanite defense crystal did in the last expansion, so they left it at 4 anyways with the new DH kit.
Now they nerf armor gain and pretend that King Plush otks with little counterplay wont be an issue.
I wish there was more foresight with their balance patches. Its like they trust the community to not abuse the obviously broken interactions available to us xD
This a clear case of not nerfing the new stuff to sell more packs. I know what I’ll be playing on ladder this month.
If you guys think Warlock won’t feel a nerf to 20% of it’s deck, you’re on some heavy copium.
Hunter, on the other hand…yeah, still a problem, possibly bigger than ever
Hot take:
All in all, they missed the target big time in nerfs and totally whiffed on buffs.
Yep, this patch is probably a miss that will tee up an actual deck deletion patch later.
Although the mini set is going to be faster this time, so… Probably like 2 weeks until that starts getting revealed.
I don’t understand how they missed parrot sanctuary. Like give me a break wtf? It’s literally the nerf target on murmur shaman.
Seeing there 2 of the draw tutor cards of starcraft, but not the nydus worm, makes me think its not going to be ehe change i expected of simply drawing 2 cards,
Also i don’t understand why the ceaseless expansion if it wasn’t causing problems and normally took a long time to be active…
I expect ceaseless to get a more major rework due to 0 Mana board clears being bad design.
We haven’t yet seen what nerfs they’re doing. If they remove rush from the zerg location that’d be huge on both hunter and location warlock. They did miss the hit to Plushie but clearly they don’t want to hit a viable imbue deck right now. Then we need to see how meta shifts impact everything else.
In terms of buffs, buffing the minions doesn’t help imbue Priest at all unless they’re doing something really substantial like giving them imbue (2). Even then imbue priest has borderline unfixable problems with current tools.
Buffing the imbue neutral payoff is a good call. Patch isn’t perfect but I do think they’ll address much of what feels toxic in this meta and keeps players from playing. Which is their main goal at this stage.
Edit: I also expect to see the imbue priest signatures in the store soon with these buffs.