I won’t pre-order any new expansion, unless the devs actually starts to blance out the cards for wild mode.
It’s been years that the wild mode has been taken as a trash dump by the devs, I’ve had enough that’s all I can say.
My now guess is that some of the nerfs they’ve reversed are just to make the wild mode experience even worse to force player into standard, force you to spend money on new cards.
The weakness of Razakus is that it’s somewhat inconsistent and slow. Albatross and The Darkness can also halt it fairly well, which Cubelock already puts in to (try) counter Mage.
Priest also loses to most combo Quest Mage types, which is the real concern of Wild at the moment. This is why I rate the deck higher T2 than lower T1.
I suspect that Razakus will take a sharp incline if Mage ever gets nerfed. That is really the only thing stopping it. Jade Druid is also a fairly strong deck too, but Skulking Geist in Priest would counter it (Mages can’t use that card cause literally half their spells are 1 or 2 cost).
It favors against aggro and midrange and has plenty of reach for slower decks like Warlock. I suspect it will have a similar feel to Mage, but easier to counter. Priests try to go all in on the combo, which makes it somewhat one dimensional. The class as a whole is also fairly weak outside of Razakus which allows other classes to exploit them in many ways. If Razakus hits top tier, all you really need to focus on is finding classes that can tank up that damage. Warrior and Druid comes to mind.
This isn’t a good deck even with the unnerfed Raza. I play it and enjoy it. It dies easily to anything that can fill the board.
Sure, slow decks don’t fare as well. I took out 3 res priests with it last night. That was extremely satisfying. I also died repeatedly to anything remotely fast. That’s the nature of the deck.
It is entirely dependent on drawing 2 high mana cards and trying not to get ran over in turns 1-5.
I was really sad to hear about the nerf back then, because highlander priest was the only deck archetype which was fun for me. It was great to see it coming and getting improvement through the new set, but I guess it will get nerfs someday.
90% of the wild decks are too much to attrition control and not just razakus.
If you even try to balance around attrition decks not suffering with polarization in wild you gonna have to nerf around 60 cards only for the first try and that gonna almost certain not work.
Sorry to tell you but it’s time to understand that different modes play different and that means that no one should even care for polarization in wild because the overspecialization of decks is what creates it.
And you know what what creates overspecialization?
Exactly. A big card pool.
Basically the main consequence of the existence of wild format is polarization.
If someone not likes polarization that person should play midrange because it’s for real the only archtype that never gonna suffer from it on wild.
That or play standard were it can be in fact controled.
Raza priest has alot of counters : quest mage, bomb warrior, kingsbane rogue, even a well made DK Warlock can kill it with a bit of luck. Raza priest also has huge problems with hyper-aggro.
It’s just that raza priest is much better against other control decks. But whats the problem in that?? Priest was always the king of control, that’s how it works.
So a deck counters you. Build your deck against them or accept that you have a counter.