Even though Zotty has served and still serves me well even after he was nerfed to the ground I can't help but praise our Lord and Savior Yogg more than anyone else... Maybe if we all pray hard enough they'll finally ban him from any kind of competitive format and revert the nerf...
Luna's Pocket Galaxy and Extra Arms reverted to their original mana cost means both cards will be in the same spot they were before the buffs and that means no one is ever going to bother using them again...
Conjurer's Calling increase in cost is pointless since it does nothing to prevent those awfully highrolly turn 4 Giants into CC... The only instance I see this change being impactful is when the Mage goes second and has Giant,Arcane Intellect and CC,now Giant into Coin CC is no longer possible but that's it... The Deck certainly takes a blow from the Pocket Galaxy change but it's not like it was unplayable before they buffed the card...
Dr. Boom, Mad Genius's cost increase is once again borderline pointless... Sure,not being able to use the hero power the turn the card is played certainly has a big impact but the oppressive Rush aura and the broken hero powers (Blast Shield and Delivery Drone) are still there... Now the card is not as efficient as it was before against faster Decks but it's still a ridiculous value generator in Standard that will allow Warrior to steamroll any slower Deck out there that can't dish out enough treats to bait out their 5 AOEs and 6 (and that's assuming they don't discover more Devastators) single target removals...
Barnes: This is probably the most useless nerf of the bunch... I've said once but I'll repeat it again,Barnes IS NOT the problem with Big Priest... Sure no one likes to lose to a turn 4 highroll but it's not like losing two turns later because Shadow Essence pulled out Vargoth or Catrina and you don't have a transform effect feels better... All this nerf does is making Big Priest's MU against Aggro borderline unwinnable but no one cares about that because most of the times they lose to Aggro anyway... Even if we set aside the fact that NO ONE likes to kill the same minions 10 times in a single game (and other cards/Decks were nerfed to ground for the same reason),the problem is that Deck is oppressive to anything even remotely slow that doesn't have an OTK as a win condition (and even in that case if they get an early Rag you're screwed) and I'd be fine with if there were any tech cards against it but unfortunately you can't do much other than SMORC them or pray they brick... TL;DR Barnes is not the problem but the whole Rez mechanic is and this nerf is pointless because they'll just remove the card,go full greed and have 80% winrate against anything that isn't Combo or Hyper Aggro...
Corrupt the Waters :You don't have to build your Deck around it and it's good in several Decks also battlecries are always going to a thing even after it rotates so it's definitely a good craft...
Untapped Potential: It's clunky to complete,gets rekt by Aggro and right now it just can't hope to beat Warrior... I'd hold out on this one for now but it could get better in the future...
Bazaar Burglary: It's easy to complete and the reward is nice but I don't think there's much difference in powerlevel between Decks that play it and Decks that don't... After all you're still playing Tempo Rogue you might mitigate a bit of face damage but you still can't deal with Aggro well...
Activate the Obelisk: It's worse than it looks on paper... If your opponent doesn't damage you or your minions you can't complete it and even when you do you're basically playing the same old DS+IF Deck...
Hack the System: Don't craft this... 2 4/3 a turn aren't worth the dust and Dr.Boom is soo much better than this in any scenario...
Zephrys the Great: The card itself is really good but it has restrictions so you wouldn't need to spend dust just on this but also on the other cards required to play Highlander Decks... So if you have a big collection go ahead and craft it if you don't you'd be better off spending your dust somewhere else..
Anka, the Buried: It's been 4 days since the expansion launched and I've yet to see this card played... The effect has potential but I wouldn't craft it right now...
Octosari: Just no please don't waste dust like that...
King Phaoris: The effect is good but I still wouldn't call it a safe craft...
Psychopomp: The card is okay but Priest sucks hard so I'm not sure it's worth the dust right now...
Tortollan Pilgrim: If you play Mage this is a great way to spend your dust... Shadow Visions on a stick will be good until it rotates and probably even after that...
Micro Mummy: If you want to play Quest Paladin it's a good card but it can be replaced... Personally I'd never spend that much dust on a card like this one...
I was playing Whizbang (that gave me Heal Druid) and got matched up against Control Warrior... In theory it should've been a piece of cake in practice it was an utter nightmare... I had to resurrect hordes of Lucentbarks 6 times to barely be able go through all the armor and bullshit (removal and whatnot) that he got from Hero Power and Omega Assembly... He also still ran Youthful Brewmaster for double Elysiana... How can someone be so greedy and get away with it is beyond me...
Losing to Giant+CC on turn 5 might be annoying but I'm glad the Deck is there to keep these horribly greedy Warriors in check... I'd be even more happy if this expansion finally gave us some playable combo Decks so I can make Warriors suffer as much as we poor souls without a busted Hero Card do everytime we get matched up against them...
Unfortunately this way too much fair to hope to see play in Wild...
Against Druid 30 damage will get you nowhere near killing them seeing how much armor they can stack...
Against Mage you'll probably get OTKed yourself way before you can draw this and even if somehow you manage to combo them Ice Block is a thing...
I suppose it could work against Hunter but Hunter is a small percentage of the meta...
Good luck playing Control Warrior against Big Priest... Even if you somehow make it to the late game he'll probably have hordes of Statues and LK to protect him...
Against Odd Paladin you either draw your AOE and they concede or they stomp you before you can play the combo...
Against Rogue you don't need a 30 damage combo to win... You either play against Odd Rogue and they concede as soon as they realize they can't win or get stomped/rekt/annihilated by a slower Deck...
Same as Odd Rogue,Even Shaman either stomps you or concedes before you can pull this off...
Against Warlock good luck going through Mal'Ganis/Voidlords or in alternative getting rekt by Mechathun because they draw faster than you...
And last but not least you're not ever going through Odd Warrior's pile of armor with just 30 damage...
TL;DR If you want to play OTK Warrior you're better off using Mechathun but even in that case I doubt the Deck would work...
Siamat: Just like Zilliax it's a spashable neutral card that fits in the majority of Deck... The fact that it doesn't have Lifesteal and can't be magnetized still puts it below "Unity,Precision,Perfection" in terms of powerlevel but it's still probably the safest craft of the expansion...
Hyena Alpha: Just like the Spellstone did this card will singlehandedly make Secret Hunter a viable Deck...
Ancient Mysteries: This card is so good that could even end up seeing some play in Wild that is full of tutors so I shiver at the thought of how warping for Standard meta it will be... Half of Mage's cards wouldn't even make sense without this...
Bazaar Burglary: This is the closest thing Rogue will ever get to healing and I hope I'm wrong and this card ends up sucking because I don't want to play in a meta where Valeera has a fighting chance against Aggro...
Plague of Murlocs: This card destroys Big Priest,N'zoth and Warlock in Wild and counters pretty hard Conjurer Mage that was one of Shaman's worst MUs...
Top 5 Worst:
Reno the Relicologist: Bomb Warrior is a thing and that already severely hinders the viability of Highlander Decks add to to that the fact that this card's effect is so bad that it wouldn't make the cut even in a normal Deck and you get a wasted Legendary slot...
Unseal the Vault: Hunter can't afford to lose a mulligan card and its first turn to play this and the reward is underwhelming seeing how long it'll take to complete the Quest...
Hooked Scimitar: Why would you ever play this when Deadly Poison/[Hearthstone Card (Wagglepick) Not Found] exist? Not to mention Rogue's 3 mana slot is already way too much clogged with good cards...
Splitting Axe: Who wouldn't want to spend 4 mana for understatted weapon that at best would summon a bunch of 0/2s? I guess it's a bit less crappy in Wild but there's no way something so situational ever makes the cut there...
Dwarven Archaeologist: The effect is so damn specific and has such little upside that I just can't see why anyone would ever want to spend 400 dust to craft this card...
I'd hate to get Warlock's,Paladin's,Hunter's or Warrior's... They're either bad or boring cards so I'd be pretty disappointed if I got one of those cards...
I'm neutral on Priest's,Rogue's and Mage's... Priest's is bland but at least it's a good card and Rogue's and Mage's are good for memes...
I'd be okay with Shaman's to mess with Shudderwock and would be happy to get Druid's...
Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron: I'm crafting this day 1 and once again enjoying the chaos created by our Lord and Savior... Seriously speaking, I like it because I see it as a card I'd play in a Deck I'd use when Ranked pissed me off and I just want to have some fun in Casual...
I'm glad to see Mage is finally getting some cards that don't read "Random something"... On paper both this and the other card look really good but I'm not sure they'll see that much play after all... Wild Decklists are quite tight so I have no idea what you'd cut to play either card and unless we get a really good Secret and/or a tutor running Secrets in Standard is just too slow and clunky...
It's astonishing how well they manage NOT to answer any question they're asked... They just talk and talk and talk but never give an exact answer... Maybe they should consider a change of career and become lawyers instead... I'm almost certain they'd do a better job at that than at balancing this game since it's beyond me how someone can think Big Priest isn't a problem...
I'm left with 4 classes to turn golden (Druid/Hunter/Shaman/Warrior) but I can't find any Deck from those classes that intrigues me so I'd be happy to see some Decklists or even just Deck ideas from you guys.. It doesn't matter whether the Deck is Wild or Standard and the cost isn't a problem either... Just please do not suggest Aggro or Tempo Decks because I can't play those properly and don't find them interesting in the slightest... Combo Decks are what I like the most but I wouldn't mind Control either as long as it's not fatigue based...
I grew up watching "Charmed",to this day it's still one of my favourite Tv Shows and I cry whenever I watch the last the episode so my name comes from my favourite character from the show and my birth year...
I have 5 golden portraits so I guess I can't really call myself "single class player" but I have 3000 wins with Mage and only about 150 each with Hunter and Druid and not even 100 with Shaman and Warrior... I agree with the OP that I'd probably be a better player if I used all the classes equally but I just find Shaman and Warrior horrible to play (they have such useless Hero Powers) and Druid and Hunter are just meh to me...
As someone firmly convinced that no matter what people say you need to do what you enjoy the most in life it warms my heart to see how much Flux seems to love what he does... I doubt this site could've got a better welcoming message... I'll gladly be part of this community and hope to see as many as fellow Hearthpwn users as possible here too (We all know it wouldn't be the same without Kaladin being salty half the time or Sherman making his ironic comments)...
Edit: I just posted this comment and it took like half a second to process while Hearthpwn takes ages to do anything so props for that too guys...
Even though Zotty has served and still serves me well even after he was nerfed to the ground I can't help but praise our Lord and Savior Yogg more than anyone else... Maybe if we all pray hard enough they'll finally ban him from any kind of competitive format and revert the nerf...
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/cvq2uy/what_is_the_full_disenchant_value_period/ey5u6t2/?context=3
Hopefully the patch will be here within minutes...
Edit: My Client is downloading it right now..
I'm thoroughly disappointed with these changes...
Luna's Pocket Galaxy and Extra Arms reverted to their original mana cost means both cards will be in the same spot they were before the buffs and that means no one is ever going to bother using them again...
Conjurer's Calling increase in cost is pointless since it does nothing to prevent those awfully highrolly turn 4 Giants into CC... The only instance I see this change being impactful is when the Mage goes second and has Giant,Arcane Intellect and CC,now Giant into Coin CC is no longer possible but that's it... The Deck certainly takes a blow from the Pocket Galaxy change but it's not like it was unplayable before they buffed the card...
Dr. Boom, Mad Genius's cost increase is once again borderline pointless... Sure,not being able to use the hero power the turn the card is played certainly has a big impact but the oppressive Rush aura and the broken hero powers (Blast Shield and Delivery Drone) are still there... Now the card is not as efficient as it was before against faster Decks but it's still a ridiculous value generator in Standard that will allow Warrior to steamroll any slower Deck out there that can't dish out enough treats to bait out their 5 AOEs and 6 (and that's assuming they don't discover more Devastators) single target removals...
Barnes: This is probably the most useless nerf of the bunch... I've said once but I'll repeat it again,Barnes IS NOT the problem with Big Priest... Sure no one likes to lose to a turn 4 highroll but it's not like losing two turns later because Shadow Essence pulled out Vargoth or Catrina and you don't have a transform effect feels better... All this nerf does is making Big Priest's MU against Aggro borderline unwinnable but no one cares about that because most of the times they lose to Aggro anyway... Even if we set aside the fact that NO ONE likes to kill the same minions 10 times in a single game (and other cards/Decks were nerfed to ground for the same reason),the problem is that Deck is oppressive to anything even remotely slow that doesn't have an OTK as a win condition (and even in that case if they get an early Rag you're screwed) and I'd be fine with if there were any tech cards against it but unfortunately you can't do much other than SMORC them or pray they brick... TL;DR Barnes is not the problem but the whole Rez mechanic is and this nerf is pointless because they'll just remove the card,go full greed and have 80% winrate against anything that isn't Combo or Hyper Aggro...
My 2 cents
Corrupt the Waters :You don't have to build your Deck around it and it's good in several Decks also battlecries are always going to a thing even after it rotates so it's definitely a good craft...
Untapped Potential: It's clunky to complete,gets rekt by Aggro and right now it just can't hope to beat Warrior... I'd hold out on this one for now but it could get better in the future...
Bazaar Burglary: It's easy to complete and the reward is nice but I don't think there's much difference in powerlevel between Decks that play it and Decks that don't... After all you're still playing Tempo Rogue you might mitigate a bit of face damage but you still can't deal with Aggro well...
Activate the Obelisk: It's worse than it looks on paper... If your opponent doesn't damage you or your minions you can't complete it and even when you do you're basically playing the same old DS+IF Deck...
Hack the System: Don't craft this... 2 4/3 a turn aren't worth the dust and Dr.Boom is soo much better than this in any scenario...
Zephrys the Great: The card itself is really good but it has restrictions so you wouldn't need to spend dust just on this but also on the other cards required to play Highlander Decks... So if you have a big collection go ahead and craft it if you don't you'd be better off spending your dust somewhere else..
Anka, the Buried: It's been 4 days since the expansion launched and I've yet to see this card played... The effect has potential but I wouldn't craft it right now...
Octosari: Just no please don't waste dust like that...
King Phaoris: The effect is good but I still wouldn't call it a safe craft...
Psychopomp: The card is okay but Priest sucks hard so I'm not sure it's worth the dust right now...
Plague of Death: Same as above...
Tortollan Pilgrim: If you play Mage this is a great way to spend your dust... Shadow Visions on a stick will be good until it rotates and probably even after that...
Micro Mummy: If you want to play Quest Paladin it's a good card but it can be replaced... Personally I'd never spend that much dust on a card like this one...
I was playing Whizbang (that gave me Heal Druid) and got matched up against Control Warrior... In theory it should've been a piece of cake in practice it was an utter nightmare... I had to resurrect hordes of Lucentbarks 6 times to barely be able go through all the armor and bullshit (removal and whatnot) that he got from Hero Power and Omega Assembly... He also still ran Youthful Brewmaster for double Elysiana... How can someone be so greedy and get away with it is beyond me...
Losing to Giant+CC on turn 5 might be annoying but I'm glad the Deck is there to keep these horribly greedy Warriors in check... I'd be even more happy if this expansion finally gave us some playable combo Decks so I can make Warriors suffer as much as we poor souls without a busted Hero Card do everytime we get matched up against them...
Unfortunately this way too much fair to hope to see play in Wild...
TL;DR If you want to play OTK Warrior you're better off using Mechathun but even in that case I doubt the Deck would work...
Top 5 Best:
Siamat: Just like Zilliax it's a spashable neutral card that fits in the majority of Deck... The fact that it doesn't have Lifesteal and can't be magnetized still puts it below "Unity,Precision,Perfection" in terms of powerlevel but it's still probably the safest craft of the expansion...
Hyena Alpha: Just like the Spellstone did this card will singlehandedly make Secret Hunter a viable Deck...
Ancient Mysteries: This card is so good that could even end up seeing some play in Wild that is full of tutors so I shiver at the thought of how warping for Standard meta it will be... Half of Mage's cards wouldn't even make sense without this...
Bazaar Burglary: This is the closest thing Rogue will ever get to healing and I hope I'm wrong and this card ends up sucking because I don't want to play in a meta where Valeera has a fighting chance against Aggro...
Plague of Murlocs: This card destroys Big Priest,N'zoth and Warlock in Wild and counters pretty hard Conjurer Mage that was one of Shaman's worst MUs...
Top 5 Worst:
Reno the Relicologist: Bomb Warrior is a thing and that already severely hinders the viability of Highlander Decks add to to that the fact that this card's effect is so bad that it wouldn't make the cut even in a normal Deck and you get a wasted Legendary slot...
Unseal the Vault: Hunter can't afford to lose a mulligan card and its first turn to play this and the reward is underwhelming seeing how long it'll take to complete the Quest...
Hooked Scimitar: Why would you ever play this when Deadly Poison/[Hearthstone Card (Wagglepick) Not Found] exist? Not to mention Rogue's 3 mana slot is already way too much clogged with good cards...
Splitting Axe: Who wouldn't want to spend 4 mana for understatted weapon that at best would summon a bunch of 0/2s? I guess it's a bit less crappy in Wild but there's no way something so situational ever makes the cut there...
Dwarven Archaeologist: The effect is so damn specific and has such little upside that I just can't see why anyone would ever want to spend 400 dust to craft this card...
I'd hate to get Warlock's,Paladin's,Hunter's or Warrior's... They're either bad or boring cards so I'd be pretty disappointed if I got one of those cards...
I'm neutral on Priest's,Rogue's and Mage's... Priest's is bland but at least it's a good card and Rogue's and Mage's are good for memes...
I'd be okay with Shaman's to mess with Shudderwock and would be happy to get Druid's...
So basically this a reprint with slightly changed stats and Reborn of Obsidian Destroyer? They really have run out of ideas....
Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron: I'm crafting this day 1 and once again enjoying the chaos created by our Lord and Savior... Seriously speaking, I like it because I see it as a card I'd play in a Deck I'd use when Ranked pissed me off and I just want to have some fun in Casual...
I'm glad to see Mage is finally getting some cards that don't read "Random something"... On paper both this and the other card look really good but I'm not sure they'll see that much play after all... Wild Decklists are quite tight so I have no idea what you'd cut to play either card and unless we get a really good Secret and/or a tutor running Secrets in Standard is just too slow and clunky...
Since no one seems to have posted it yet "Emperor Wraps" creates a 2/2 copy of friendly minion...
It's astonishing how well they manage NOT to answer any question they're asked... They just talk and talk and talk but never give an exact answer... Maybe they should consider a change of career and become lawyers instead... I'm almost certain they'd do a better job at that than at balancing this game since it's beyond me how someone can think Big Priest isn't a problem...
I'm left with 4 classes to turn golden (Druid/Hunter/Shaman/Warrior) but I can't find any Deck from those classes that intrigues me so I'd be happy to see some Decklists or even just Deck ideas from you guys.. It doesn't matter whether the Deck is Wild or Standard and the cost isn't a problem either... Just please do not suggest Aggro or Tempo Decks because I can't play those properly and don't find them interesting in the slightest... Combo Decks are what I like the most but I wouldn't mind Control either as long as it's not fatigue based...
I grew up watching "Charmed",to this day it's still one of my favourite Tv Shows and I cry whenever I watch the last the episode so my name comes from my favourite character from the show and my birth year...
I have 5 golden portraits so I guess I can't really call myself "single class player" but I have 3000 wins with Mage and only about 150 each with Hunter and Druid and not even 100 with Shaman and Warrior... I agree with the OP that I'd probably be a better player if I used all the classes equally but I just find Shaman and Warrior horrible to play (they have such useless Hero Powers) and Druid and Hunter are just meh to me...
Have another look it's on page 16 for me...
As someone firmly convinced that no matter what people say you need to do what you enjoy the most in life it warms my heart to see how much Flux seems to love what he does... I doubt this site could've got a better welcoming message... I'll gladly be part of this community and hope to see as many as fellow Hearthpwn users as possible here too (We all know it wouldn't be the same without Kaladin being salty half the time or Sherman making his ironic comments)...
Edit: I just posted this comment and it took like half a second to process while Hearthpwn takes ages to do anything so props for that too guys...