Hearthstone

[iancudorinmarian]

Undertaker was changed to "Whenever you summon a minion with deathrattle, gain +1 atk"

Pretty big nerf, but it's still better than many other 1 drops. Some people think this nerfed hunters, but hunters use low hp creatures anyway, so my guess is they don't even care.

[RootRanger]

I think it's a small nerf to hunter. About 5-10% of the time, Hunter would practically insta-win by drawing Undertaker and a few deathrattles, while the opponent didn't draw the card they needed to kill it. Usually Hunter could win without getting an Undertaker up to 4-5 health, but the fact that the chance of this has dropped from 5-10% down to 0% hurts their win rate a bit.

However, what's funny about how the metagame works is that this will cause Hunter's counters, such as Warrior, Zombie Chow, and Healbot to lose popularity a bit, and Hunter might bounce right back to the top spot. It's just too early to tell.

[kaempfer13]

Well, I switched to mechhunter (actually already before the nerf was even announced). Between mechwarper, micro machine, metal tooth leaper and fel reaver it stomps any deck that does not seek to gain boardcontrol from turn 2 on, which might be the future meta (mech mage is pretty strong though and the rising paladins and priests are counters). also this deck has taught me serious respect for tracking, which so far I regarded as waste of mana, but getting mechwarper, leaper, fel reaver, hunters mark or Jeeves at the right time has proven to be worth more than 1 mana.

[dragonsdemesne]

Undertaker was the one card most in need of a nerf in the entire game.  I abused the hell out of hunter in December for an easy legend using my own aggro hunter variation. (tried to do it with secrets mage, but couldn't pass rank 2)  And tracking was a HUGE part of that deck; it dug for finishers, traps, whatever you needed at the time was probably in the next three cards.  I don't know how it would fare with mechs, as I didn't have enough mechs at the time, and won't touch hunter with a ten foot pole now because it's so disgusting, but I don't see any mech hunters at high ranks, other than the occasional clockwork gnome, and that only because of undertaker.  I used to see a lot more hunters running fel reavers, but they quit doing that for some reason; I'm seeing a lot more that figured out that enhanceomechano and feign death are stupid good in hunter, though.

[kaempfer13]

In naxx (undertaker) hunter tracking would always discard the precious secrets that mad scientist was supposed to pull from my deck (without having me bother to play them at all unless I draw them) and kill command would be a mandatory pick against many classes, narrowing your options. One of the reasons mech hunter isnt played is because noone can imagine running rush hunter without undertaker and even mad scientist seemed to slow down my deck so I took it out alongside all the secrets which messed with my draws (I might sound like a noob here, but this is my actual experience) and webspinner is another card that doesnt quite fit into mech. After googling mech hunter all decks i found contained these cards however (which are/were blatantly overpowered, so of course it made sense) limiting the effectiveness of mechwarper, leaper and even Jeeves, because you would get stuck with unwieldy cards more often.
Also I am really not too fond of enhanco mechano; when you win hard, you win by turn 5 or 6 anyway and otherwise its potential is likely much weaker, because you're struggling for boardcontrol.
Congrats to reaching legend btw

Also 1 of the 2 remaining over the top overpowered cards is Dr. Boom which is weak to Big game hunter, making fel reaver extremely dangerous to play (even more than it already is)

Edit: As it turns out Rogue (why?) and especially Paladin are the most played classes right now, with Paladin being an actual counter (about 75% lose rate for mech hunter) and rogue having a lot of superefficient but impractical early removal being a 50-50 matchup. Also aggrodecks which realize the threat of mechwarper, turn the mech deck into a deck full of fairly costed minions and none of the competitive decks contain fair cards. So mechhunter will get you to rank 9 with lightning speed (turn 5 wins rather common) and then come to a sudden halt with perfect 50% winrate. Dont use it other than for fun until the meta shifts again.

[dragonsdemesne]

Yeah, Dr. Boom is really strong as well, but at least he isn't out there being a dick and winning in the first couple turns.  There were too many people I saw playing hunter who would make tons of careless mistakes, even at high ranks, but would just be carried on the back of OP cards and synergies they copied off of a netdeck somewhere.  He could maybe stand a slight nerf (+1 cost or -1 health or something) but I don't think he's any more out of line, than, say, ragnaros.

[kaempfer13]

the thing about Dr. Boom is, there is no wrong time to play it. It gives 9/9 stats out of which only 7/7 can be hard removaled and a free flame cannon on top of it (sorta). Ragnaros at least has bad aiming and can get removed in one sweep. I think both cards are worth about 9,5 mana with Dr. Boom being cheaper than ragnaros.

Edit: Hard countered Dr.Boom: arcane explosion+ bgh+ arcane intellect (you had to use one more card): 8 mana to remove a 7 drop,  guaranteed 4/2 traded for an average of 4 damge split amongst your characters. This is a hard counter we are talking about!

[iancudorinmarian]

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Best day of my life in hearthstone, my first 12 win arena run

[foxrain4]

holy 12 wins  ,
i dun think i have even get pass 5 wins.

[iancudorinmarian]

holy 12 wins  ,
i dun think i have even get pass 5 wins.

Don't worry, I've been like that too.

I've played tons of arena though.

[theelkspeaks]

I've been playing mostly constructed and not much arena lately, but congrats!  Need to get back into arena eventually, but I've played like two arenas since February, lol.

[iancudorinmarian]

Took me a long time to do this again, but here I am~

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Rewards were pretty lame though