The worst part about the freeze mage nerfbat session is that they didn’t even have a chance to flex their top tier muscles. The deck was created and killed in the span of a week!
thats what happens when you nerf because of perceived “fun” reasons and not because of strict power level reasons. You don’t let the game actually develop and let people come up with counter strategies.
the thing wasn’t that just freeze mage died, the normal aggro mages which used the freezes for tempo swings lost the ability to do that as well. So basically mage lost it’s only real strength over the other aggresive decks as essentially collateral damage to a deck that hadn’t proved it was actually degenerate.
So now mage is stuck in bad tier, and one of the mechanics that defined it have already been determined to be essentially off limits on a highly playable card unless it is single target.
Kind of nutty and I hope they do a better job in the future, though I think some of the other nerfs have been very knee jerk as well.
Only real change I want right now is Hunter’s Mark to cost 1 as it’s already a better ability than humility but doesn’t cost mana. I would have rather had that change than the UTH change.
Yeah, the freeze mage nerf killed my aggro mage deck, since it relied on that 3 mana Cone of Cold to keep the board stuck while doing its thing. 4 mana CoC and 6 mana Blizzard killed the deck dead.
I’d rather they changed Starving Buzzard to draw on beast death instead of a beast coming into play. It would make more thematic sense (Buzzards eat dead things, after all), and it would tone down the bullshit way how a Hunter can just dig for an answer to a large board, instead of having to deal with it directly from hand.
dig for timber by playing unleash and as many 1-2 drops as you can, much skill
I just lost a game this morning by having some asshole play buzzard into two UtH on my taunted up Molten Giant (only thing on the board), just for this asshole to get a Hunter’s Mark on the second UtH so that his stupid Huffer could hit for lethal. Goddammit.
Woah, not something I expected but cool nevertheless.
5/5 and a forced brewmaster on deathrattle. Hmm.
Brb looking at official forums to see the undeserved whine.
edit
Oh wow, a relatively thoughtful post from official forums.
Good points.
OF COURSE AS I SCROLL DOWN I FIND A THREAD TITLED:
Naxx: New Rogue card Worst than Kidnapper
Worse than Kidnapper? Those are some strong words for scrubs to be throwing around. I’m looking forward to playing Anub’ar into Defender of Argus.
As someone who uses a Rogue discard deck, I like this card.
Guess how this run went:
http://i.imgur.com/UklZMNt.png
Curve, 1 x 4, 2 x 10, 3 x 6, 4 x 2, 5 x 5, 6 x 2, 7 x 1.
4-5 wins, because zomg random druids with taunts, starfalls, swippity swipes and treants ‘n’ shit?
12-0
http://i.imgur.com/DM50pzA.png
12-2 run from this morning(last card was ancestral healing). Triple Azure Drake was silly even with so low spells. Also Cairne was pretty meh. He deathrattled once and the other 4 times I played him he was either silenced, poly’d, or hexed instantly. Though a lot of the time I was throwing him down to bait the removal so I could 2drop/heropower+frostwolf the next turn when I was ahead on board.
I had a very so so run with a paladin deck(2-3) but pulled a leeroy with it, but overall of my last 5 runs, 12,11(which had cairne too oddly),9,4,2, so I’m not too mad.
back up to 2kish gold, Trying to save for Naxx.
My current Pally arena deck is 7-1. Silly shit is 3 Blessing of Kings, 2 Consecrates and a Truesilver and Hammer of Wrath, backed up by two Blessing of Wisdom, a Violet Teacher, and a GET DOWN and Redemption. My only goal is to not die during the early game, and steal the win with all of the quality 4 drops.
Double post, but fuck it:
It’s short notice, but I’m thinking of running a quick double-elimination tournament Monday night, and the winner will get a game or something from the Humble Bundle store. If at least 3 other people besides myself are interested, I’ll gladly run it.
I’m in
Sure.
Oh man I’m working Monday, I wish I can join.
I’ll do it with my level 5 Mage. That game is surely mine.
9 wins