On his twitter, Iksar asked what were player’s favorite and least favorite parts of the early meta. The pros almost uniformly complained about Pocket Galaxy, Conjurer’s Calling, and Dr. Boom.
I myself think the worst card to play against is Pocket Galaxy, but really all three of those three cards are likely going to see a change at some point.
at least this time it seems the early meta has less aggro decks
i personally don’t have any major issues yet.
I think this is the closest we have to keleseth 2.0
Amazing what happens when you buff a card by dropping the cost 2 mana. It goes from being unplayable to being the most complained about card.
I should add that I’m having a ton of fun. I really like the expansion. It’s probably going to get worse as the meta settles, but right now with all the experimentation, I’m having a blast.
Apprentice needs to be smacked by the Nerf-Hammer a little, and the most obnoxious Mage decks in Standard and Wild would be taken down a notch, without becoming unplayable.
But if they do become unplayable, it would just prove how hard certain decks are carried by cards which reduce the cost of other cards in your hand to 0.
HOF Mountain Giant
Remove “Rush Mechs” from DR Mad Genius
Nerf Luna to like 7 or 8 Mana
Remove “Twin Spell” from Conjurer’s Calling
“Get rid of all the decks I don’t like”
2 weeks later
“Get rid of all the NEW decks I don’t like”
To be fair, sometimes it’s also “Get rid of all the old decks I STILL don’t like.”
the best mage deck in the game runs like, 2 new mage cards so lol?
whatever it takes to deflect from how broken blizzard’s pet class really is huh
Well.
Hero cards should be probably HoF. That is more about general community feeling than their impact or power.
Not have hero cards for every class just not feels right.
Pocket galaxy should be nerf too but I not think it should be a cost nerf. At 5 Mana it fits really well and still risky to play.
Maybe minions cost should turn into 2 or 3 instead of 1.
And conjurer’s calling I feel like should be left alone and designed around. It’s one of those cards that are hate not only because they are good but because they let people “escape the matrix” on the big number of uses.
CC on giants is powerfull but CC in the correct enemy minion is brilliant.
Just not let the hate for past metagame be bad for our future and we gonna be right.
Obs: I not like prismatic lens decks in general. They feel like Barnes was for big priest in the past except by the fact it has even more RNG.
The pet class that spent half of last year with two tier-2 decks, only to see one of them hit with the nerfbat so hard (RIP Mana Wyrm) it pretty much vanished. That pet class, you mean?
I can’t hear you over the sound of me opening another one of Yogg’s puzzleboxes.
Cyclone/Giants is SO last expansion.
Except everyone still uses CC Giants, they just throw in Yogg as yet another Win Condition
Oh now it’s JUST CC Giants?
Well, I guess you’d better get accustomed to Mage having something decent to play most of the time. If it isn’t this, you’ll complain about whatever else works when CC rotates out.
Mage getting a board full of giants is now just decent.
For the actual powerlevel it is.
And in general it isn’t full. Is 2 or maybe 3.
Full board is 7 minions. Please do not go the hyperbolic route.
Biggest annoyance of the early expamsion meta:
Why on earth is Tomb Warden a mech?
Sigh…
Other than that making Dr. Boom even better than it already was, the pocket galaxy + conjurers decks are also beginning to wear on me, Ive been enjoying things.
Quest hunter is quite fun, and has interesting mirror matches.
Mage will still be good without Pocket Galaxy at 5 mana (baffling decision to buff it), and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to either change the cost of Grave Horror or increase CC to 4 mana.