I meant to explain why a deck with a lower winrate in higher ranks can still be oppressive and meta warping in said ranks. I don’t think I did a good job getting my point accross though. I was too lazy to elaborate. Although there is truth to the ‘‘just play X card’’ argument, since teching cards against dominant decks is normal in TCGs (whatever you want to call HS, I call it a TCG), consistency and options play a big role in how people feel about them, in the end.
Although I also disagree with his proposed solution, this is not about Plush, neither. If you hit Plush, there are alternative beasts to buff for an OTK
So you do have to hit the imbue, in one way or another
People were all salty about Mage doing it in +10 turn and Blizzard answers their whining by making Hunter do it in half the turns.
I have no love for Hunter or the devs but since i share a deep distaste for those enlightened players i find myself loving this whole ordeal.
Well done Blizzard, now you cant say i never praised them.
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Plush have to ability to clear the board before the OTK.
I can’t rem any other beast able to bypass taunt and deliver face dmg in one card
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The new one, forgot the name, from the miniset, has rush and if it survives the dmg (which it will) it proceeds to deliver its own attack dmg randomly spread to other enemies
You can easily picture the most frequent scenario - that’s the exact same OTK as with Plush, with just one cardinal difference - you don’t get to pull the same thing twice in the same turn, because the first iteration will clear the board, so your second one can’t proc its dmg
Which means that the backup plan is slightly slower, less reliable, but perhaps even stronger, control version of what we have now. Anyone with a modicum of brains and experience will tell you that’s something we WANT TO AVOID collectively, because unlike Zarimi and Plush Hunter, which are noob-stomping decks, a control version of Imbue OTK hunter could be a menace for everyone, including top 1k.
I for one do not wish to see that happen, so I wanna see that Imbue hit ASAP. As I said, if they want their 0 mana cost beasts to hurt, they better sacrifice removal and draw in favor of a handbuffing package. No need to overload a hero power like that.
Yes, some Imbues do 2 things, but they’re bad even with those two things. Heck, I bet you can add another 1-2 bonus effects on Priest, Pally and Mage Imbues and still have them be lackluster. At the same time, Druid’s Imbue only does one thing, and it’s more than enough (well it’s not a fair comparison because of the legendary every Imbue Druid runs, but you never know who might allow it xD)
Magma Hound, and because it’s not legendary you can put duplicates in the deck for better draw, AND Bulwark isn’t going to be a good defense against it
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Yeah
So might just make that the only beast in your deck, tutor it and start spamming imbue until you rack it up to 30, and use it as a one-shot
Shouldn’t take much longer than 6 turns as those imbues stack up as fast as arythmetic series, with added benefits of running the full control package to stall much longer than that if needed.
As I said, it would be a menace. It pains me to even talk about it as a possibility.
It still works even if it isn’t the only beast in the deck
It’s just funny how people are complaining about the board clear effect with face damage of 6…Plush always had this, and it wasn’t until imbue that these cries to nerf Plush popped up
I also think it’s funny, but not because of the fact it was always there
It’s like, why is that a problem at all? How is it so hard to understand that it’s really the Imbue that’s problematic, and not the card? It’s like it’s so hard to imagine there will STILL be broken decks until the Imbue is nerfed. How are people so short-sighted and unimaginative?
It depresses me sometimes, when it doesn’t piss me off.
People, get real, 9 mana 6 dmg is unplayable even with repackage. Something else is making a non-card like that problematic.
6 dmg with charge for 9…without the imbue his battlecry is laughable. Chemical Spill Grommash can do almost twice that for half the cost, maybe not a good example but the point is the damage+charge isn’t the problem, and the battlecry only became a problem recently…all the pieces are there people, put 2 and 2 together
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