New Core Set: What would you like to see?

Title. What card(s) would you like to see added to the core set come April?

For me, I didn’t play back when this guy was in standard. Nevertheless, I have heard a lot about it and this is what I want to see in the core set.

Epic · Minion · Mean Streets of Gadgetzan · Taunt Battlecry: Your opponent summons a random minion from their hand.

I believe we should have access to more disruption, namely because we cannot interact with our opponents on their turn aside from stuff like secrets.

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I made a post about it so I’ll just copy paste :stuck_out_tongue:

Demon Hunter
What I’d remove - Chaos Strike, Illidari Inquisitor
What I’d change - Warglaives of Azzinoth to 3/4
What I’d add - Blade Dance, Wrathscale Naga, Soul Split.

Druid
What I’d change - Nourish to 5-mana but give empty mana crystals, Ancient of War to choose one - +6 attack and rush; or +6 health and taunt.
What I’d like to see added - Raven Idol, Gnash, Starfall (at 4-mana), Swipe

Hunter
What I’d change - Savannah Highmane to 6/7
What I’d like to see added - Cat Trick, Goblin Prank, Cave Hydra, Hunter’s Pack, Rat Pack, Seeping Oozeling

Mage
What I’d like to see added - Arcane Artificer, Ancient Mysteries, Arcane Flakmage, Duplicate, Pyromaniac, Dragon’s Fury

Paladin
What I’d change - Pursuit of Justice to 1-mana
What I’d like to see added - Competitive Spirit, Hidden Wisdom, Meanstreet Marshal, Lost in the Jungle, Solemn Vigil, Level Up! (at 5 mana)

Priest
What I’d change: Crimson Clergy to +2 attack when healed, Psychic Conjurer to 2/1, Shadowform to “if already in shadowform, deal 3 damage”, Natalie Seline to 6-mana 6/1
What I’d like to see added - Shadow Ascendant, Wretched Reclaimer, Shifting Shade, Tortollan Shellraiser.

Rogue
What I’d remove - Shadowstep
What I’d change - Plague Scientist to 2/4
What I’d like to see added - Doomerang, Blade Flurry, Roll the Bones, Unearthed Raptor, Hench-Clan Burglar, Shadowcaster

Shaman
What I’d like to see added - Voltaic Burst, Ancestral Knowledge, Ice Fishing, Call in the Finishers (at 3-mana), Thunderhead

Warlock
What I’d remove - Drain Soul
What I’d change - Dread Infernal to 6/7
What I’d like to see added - Voidwalker, Darkshire Librarian, Darkshire Councilman, Silverware Golem, Cruel Dinomancer, Soulwarden

Warrior
What I’d remove - Gorehowl
What I’d change - Fiery War Axe to 2-mana, Frothing Berserker to 2/5, Warsong Commander to 2/4
What I’d like to see added - Battle Rage, Bolster, Commanding Shout, Bloodhoof Brave, Death Revenant (at 4-mana).

Neutral
What I’d remove - Elven Archer, Mad Bomber, River Crocolisk, Injured Blademaster, Spider Tank, Chillwind Yeti, Sen’jin Shieldmasta
What I’d change - Young Priestess to 1/2, Crazed Alchemist to 2/3, Kobold Geomancer to 2/3, Redgill Razorjaw to 4/1, Earthen Ring Farseer to 3/4, Flesheating Ghoul to 3/4, Ice Rager to 5/3, Ironbeak Owl to 2/2, Big Game Hunter to 3-mana, Dark Iron Dwarf to 4/5, Grim Necromancer to 2/5, SI:7 Infiltrator to 3-mana 4/3, Stormwatcher to 4/9, Sleepy Dragon to 8-mana.
Some cards I’d like to see added - Ancient Watcher, Baleful Banker, Doomsayer, Lorewalker Cho, Unstable Ghoul, Wild Pyromancer, Living Dragonbreath, Masked Contender, Spiritsinger Umbra, The Voraxx, Whizbang the Wonderful, Cobalt Scalebane, Harrison Jones, Antique Healbot, Spiteful Smith, Stampeding Kodo, Skulking Geist, Unseen Saboteur

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Disruption? Ok, give locks gnomeferatu or whatever she’s called back.

While we at it, bring back say mountain giant or some other thing to replace flesh giant

Now people who thought locks would stop burning their cards or handlocks won’t be janking big stuff will suffer all over again.

Living Dragonbreath for anti freeze tech

A buffed dragoncaller alanna (like 8 mana and dragons have rush for example) for a actual big spell mage win conditiion (the hero card is more of a pingmage card)

buffed Blood queen Lanathel (would be cool if she returned to hand like zavas so she could more reliable be used in a actual discard deck

Some Big demon for Big Dh outside/replacing inquisitor

Unearthed raptor for rogue and something like roll the bones

Ancient of war the attack option has rush and maybe 6 mana or bigger stat buffs (+6 or +7)

Shadowforms second copy not being useless (prefer the 3dmg back) but even just drawing a card would be better.
6 mana 6/1 Natalie Seline so can come when you actully need the single target removal instead of way to late.
Master of disguise as a 2 mana 3/2

Flametonque totem at 0/3 back for shaman and another totem card. Or a buffed Kalimos.

A buffed felguard ( like 2 mana or more stats) as its a iconic wow warlock pet and the card has just never been good, samme for pitlord

In neutral id like to see priestes of elune as a 5 mana 5/5 heal 5 to ANY target instead of just hero. we have had a 2/2 heal 2, 3/3 heal 3 and 4/4 heal 4 so 5/5 heal 5 would fit right in and could be usefull for a heal priest or paladin in future.

I apologize. I didn’t realize you made a topic like this.

Common · Minion · Kobolds and Catacombs · Whenever you cast a spell, gain Armor equal to its Cost.
Epic · Spell · Journey to Un’Goro · Deal 15 damage to a minion and 3 damage to adjacent ones.
Rare · Spell · undefined · Deal 2 damage to all enemy minions and Freeze them.
Epic · Minion · undefined · At the start of your turn, destroy ALL minions.

Control tools i would like to return , its beyond ridiculous that any of those got removed.

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No need to apologize, many topics like this were created in the past year. I always appreciate the debate.

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Just some answers:

  • Mage - oh boi, all those board whipes in addition to the AoE Polymorph might be a bit - overkill? Love the Meteor, though.
  • Rogue without Shadowsteps would lose half his appeal (and Combo potential). But I applaud the DR cards. Crystal Core? No, please.
  • Hunter - Highmane as a 6/7 sounds to good, the Hyenas had to be reduced to 1/1s? I guess that would make the card overall weaker. Hunter‘s pack sounds neat, Goblin Prank less though - though together with the neutral Rush/Lifesteal critter it might be an idea.
  • Priest. - ‚nuff said :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
  • Druid - LESS ramp, please, and Guff to 6 mana

A fruitfull discussion & a good new week to all

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Common · Minion · Descent of Dragons · Battlecry: Destroy your opponent

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There are soooooooooo many changes I’d like to see for the Core Set. Dirty Rat is like #1 on my list. It’s a game changer and completely stops combo/OTK decks from getting too out of control while at the same time, allows for Mid-Range and big minion decks to thrive. (You really don’t play Dirty Rat on 2 for fear of hitting a Giant, etc) unless you’re playing against aggro…and even then, that could hurt you.

For Priest, I’d just like to see Spirit of the Dead rotated to core because it’s such a fun card.

I would also love to see Bad Luck Albatross moved to standard. You want to really hinder Quest Warlock? Put that card in.

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moorabi! It will be broken and they’ll have to nerf it; I will finally get 1600 dust from this abomination

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  • It would be a tough choice to rotate Shadowstep out, but I don’t think a card this good should be in the core set. It’s probably the classic/core set card that best stood the test of time. It could be nerfed, but that would hurt wild players, so I’d rather they printed a new version. But who said anything about Crystal Core? It’s the last card I want to see in standard (maybe after the Demon Seed lol)

  • Savanah Highmane isn’t playable these days, I see no problem giving it a small buff. These days a 6+ costed minion needs to be very good to see play, like Abominable Lieutenant and Varian. I’d love to include that 1/3 rush lifesteal minion too, but lifesteal is a keyword that can be tricky to balance.

  • Yeah, I’m ok with no new ramp cards, but Guff is fine at 5. Maybe he could give empty mana crystals though.

Whizbang and maybe Zayle… but mostly Whizbang. The value is too good and any new player could just craft the one card and play a whole slew of decks with one craft.

I suppose that’s why it’s kept out of Standard… less pack buying lol.

I would love to do a video on going from Bronze 10 to Legend with Whizbang.

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Apparently no one but me. Let‘s call it a preemptive outcry :wink:

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Yessssss!

I’d also like to see platebreaker, kobold stickyfinger, spellward jeweler and robes of protection in the core. The core should always have good tech options, imho. They’d have to do less balancing that way.

Oh, and also cards like Gollaka glutton (destroy a beast, gain x) printed for all minion types. They can all be pirates if you want. Same idea, curb on any archetype getting too strong.

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thats all i want, the rest is fine

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