Peak privilege is when you have over 100k dust in your bank but still get unreasonably upset that you JUST dusted your golden Forsaken Lieutenant because you happened to open the 2nd plain copy and thought "there is no way they'll nerf this before the clearly busted Illusionist"

My crippling need to see numbers go up will be my undoing one day.

Man, this almost feels too good to be true. Like if I log in now and accept it Bobby Kotick is going to sneak into my house to steal all my milk as compensation.

I don't think Shadowstep is that much of a problem. Having Sinstone Graveyard as a 2-mana card when it has the potential to scale infinitely probably is.

As much as I like what Brann has done for several sclasses in the last two expansions, at this point it's very obvious that he just keeps taking cards that aren't problematic by themselves and turns them into low interaction game enders. I think the game as a whole benefits from him rotating out of Core a bit earlier.

That being said, there are a few decks that'll probably just die without Brann. Relic DH would be one of them, although it at least has the replacement of Spell DH to fall back on. Meanwhile Curse-Implock is probably going to drop off hard without Brann. Those lategame curse combos are important for your winrate.

Druid probably also falls off now that Astalor isn't a wincon by himself anymore, but at this point I'm tired of Druid doing the same exact bullshit for 3 expansions straight and not having to innovate once, so good riddance (although I would have liked to see Quest Druid popping off at least once)

Then there's all the Renathal control decks that use School Teacher and other discovery effects. Very curious about how the meta will shape up after this considering Brann is present in about 90% of them.

Why though? Isn't the same loop possible with Defile as well?

So I guess we could have had Denathrius-lock during the Frozen Throne event but nobody bothered to check because I don't think anyone remembered Gruntled Patron even existed.

Shockspitter nerf was necessary and solves the problem elegantly without making the card completely unuseable.

Denathrius nerf does nothing except shut up all the redditors who can't handle losing to a meta deck with their tier 17 homebrew. It also does nothing to address what Druid does. They're just gonna do the same thing with Astalor and probably faster as well.

Either way, this should change things up somewhat...and by that I mean give us some breathing room until the meta devolves into Ramp Druid vs Boar Druid.

Eh, not a huge fan. The desaturated colors just make them look bland.

Some of the alternate artwork is kinda cool, but I'm somewhat confused why they didn't limit this to just Legendaries. Feels kinda weird to have some random common come with this special treatment.

Even worse, they also made a Mal'ganis skin for Warlock. If this continues we might eventually have as many different characters as there are Nemsy skins. What has the world come to?

This must be a mistake, there is no mandatory Nemsy skin on this Tavern Pass.

Blizzard please, there's only like 10 of them, how am I gonna play Warlock like this?

Obviously this isn't just a gimmick for Zoo to rez some trashy 2-drop, but what's the actual ideal target for this?

Basically the Paladin spell but with destruction instead of just neutering which might be more relevant, but I struggle to think of any Undead that would benefit from beefy stats (outside of just being a beatstick)

An okay way to double up on your eggs, but other than that it just doesn't feel that good. There's just not enough good deathrattle available for Warlock

Very underwhelming set for Warlocks. Lots of disjointed stuff with no real gameplan.

We got Egg Zoo back, but I don't see anything that makes it any better or even distinct from Implock.

Then you got Discard but with no real payoff outside of a wacky midrange value plan that's still inconsistent because despite being able to combine Discard with Discover in DH it's apparently too strong for Warlock.

Then there's some weird undead ressurection stuff that probably won't go anywhere.

Guess it's just gonna be Imp-Curselock again...

Gonna be hard to play Face Hunter when only two of your spells can even go face

Probably the best of the Arcane package because of the way it scales. Pretty unreliable against wide boards though.

It sounds kind of exciting, but at the same time it can't go face and you can't pop off before turn 6.

I'm still not quite sure how exactly Arcane Hunter is supposed to win games. You're basically playing a worse Quest Hunter but Quest Hunter is already bad.

Maybe you just mash it together with Wildseeds and that's enough to create a relevant burn/tempo deck.

Alright, so this might be the main payoff for all the Spell damage boosting, but I#m not sure how consistent it is.

Is there a possibility to just run multiple spell damage boosters as well as stuff like Multicaster to just juice this to the point where it functions as a blowout play.

Is mini Mage still in Standard?

Am I wrong to think that this is better than the legendary? If Halduron is in your bottom 10 he's useless, but you can always keep this for a bigger payoff later and also play it twice (and combo with Brann for maximum greed)

Sounds interesting but the pool of Arcane spells in Hunter is just a tad small (and by that I mean that outside of the two revealed ones there's literally just Arcane Shot)

Probably fairly good if you can protect it, but can you?