So; this isn’t my idea, but I spoke with someone who said that they thought prohibiting Standard cards from Wild would help to balance the format some.
I’m not a card designer or a content creator, so I thought I would ask others:
Good Idea? Bad Idea? and why?
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Wild format would die like that, i dont think you want that.
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Explain why, so i have an argument to carry back to Discord?
one of the worst suggestions you made…do you realize that would mean wild would get new cards only once a year ?
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Flooding wild with a years worth of expansions sounds like a balance nightmare and in the meantime it’s just stale.
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You’re just getting wild to pre actual standard cards meta.
Will not only be boring (return to solved meta) but also not gonna solve anything because the standard cards gonna eventually rotate.
Reality is that many in wild want something that just isn’t it’s purpose.
Wild is where everything merge to create the most powerful decks possible and is balanced on the fly because it’s virtually impossible to predict.
Said it a ton of times but…
Those people think they want wild but they don’t.
I kinda think the ideal for most would be a 4 months format with a rotation in arena style.
That way older cards still useful but not every damm card in the game history at once.
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I don’t think it would die. would it decrease interest? yes.
It would make it harder to form decks and would temporarily descrease the turnover in decks.
Oh my deck is not quite good enough but if I grab this card and this card I think it would work. oh doh they are in standard for almost another year. forgets about wild…
But yes I think it’s a dumb idea, what are you trying to acheive?
oh lets keep those overpowered cards like theotar out of wild? except wild is not that balanced anyway.
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Not my idea, but ty for the wisdom.
I see what you mean. and I will carry this back to my friend:)
Unless you are making exclusive sets for Wild if you cut off all the standard cards from it you it will become stagnant and that means boring.
Why do you think Classic sees no play whatsoever, they left it in the dust and dont release more sets to keep it fresh.
A long period of that in wild (1 whole year) would kill the mode.
“Apathy is death. Worse than death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects.”
Be glad Wild still has a corpse at least.
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It’s not really a terrible idea, despite what some of the people here are saying.
The biggest downside, and the reason it would never be a thing, is that they release new cards and it doesn’t do anything to wild for 2 years in some cases.
So imagine you’re playing wild, they release a new card, and you can’t play with it for years. That’s not a good business model.
And plus, when I see new cards, it’s fun to play with them to interact with my old cards. I’d have to wait 1-2 years for that. That really blows and makes wild less fun imo.
Wild would be a lot better if it just rotated sets every month or so. This would keep the meta always changing. I have no idea why they haven’t done this yet. It seems like a no-brainer.
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Well; I play, but I know nothing about card design really other than the vanilla test.
When my friend suggested this it sounded sketchy to me, but interesting.
Thought it would make a good conversation, but some players here aren’t capable of that.
Ty Shy:)
I think it’s stagnant and boring now. There are only a couple of truly viable decks in any given class.
but, my idea was to limit Wild to the same # of expansions as Standard, of the players choice.
What do you think?
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Standard cards are necessary for wild mode because it sells packs. It’s akin to standard: these players want new cards. Blizzard wants money, and believe it or not, some of these players buy standard packs and or minisets to have these new cards, even in wild mode.
Go play classic. Or, ya know, a different game.
Like I said: Not my idea, but a friend’s. And you, are certainly free not to participate.
But presuming you want an actual conversation, this was my idea that I rebutted to him:
Let me know what you think without the tone, and We can have a real discussion.
This idea just sounds like someone who loved the way wild was a year or so ago.
Delaying cards for two year would just push back the changes you see now until then. What this person is probably hoping for is that the standard cards that get moved to wild do so in a nerfed form so they get to keep doing the same things.
Players don’t like modern standard because the old roles are no longer supported in the old classes and they hate it. This guy moved to wild to try and preserve it, but the power creep of new standard is warping wild.
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Because thats not wild. I fully support it as a new format alongside wild & standard, but not as a replacement to wild.
this is a terrible idea, if they did this change i would just stop playing hearthstone
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I agree with you, completely ban standard decks, but if there is at least one wild card out of 30 or 40 cards, then such a deck is allowed to play in a wild format.
Wild is Wild!
There no space for any prohibiting
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What makes you think you wouldn’t complain about 2-year-old Wild, when you complained about Wild 2 years ago already?
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Again: I’m not sure how well you read this point, but I’ll try once more:
This? is not my idea.
My idea that I responded to my friend with was to only allow the same # of expansions as Standard, of the players choice.
Reading Comprehension is a thing and it is necessary to read all of the thread in order to be up to speed.
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