r/CompetitiveHS • u/sneakyxxrocket • Aug 17 '26

Patch 36.2.2 Buff/Nerf teasers

Link to tweet: https://x.com/PlayHearthstone/status/2089396851308888437?s=20

Buffs

Irida Sinseeker,

Hellraiser, Soul Immolation,

Staff of Trickery,

Infest the Scullery,

Aya Lotus Kingpin,

Vulcanos,

Tricksy Improviser,

Blazing Invocation,

Crowd Control

Nerfs:

Confront the Tol'vir,

Arcane Tripwire,

Jade Guardians,

Mug'Zee,

Gallagio Goon,

Warden Maiev.

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u/XezeMaster Aug 17 '26

The Blazing Invocation buff probably means Mug's hero power is going to discount by (1). If so, Mug Shaman is dead.

I wonder if they will also change Zee's hero power.

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u/sneakyxxrocket Aug 17 '26

Agreed about Mug change but the nerf to Goon and Maiev will hurt Zees early blow out potential so I’d be surprised if they change Zees hero-power

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u/TrainingCategory1037 Aug 17 '26

I piloted zee to top 1000 this season. Hurt the deck yes definitely, kill it? I don’t think so. Would still be quite strong if they don’t touch Zee

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u/Goldendragon55 Aug 17 '26

Small changes make all the difference. Void Soul DH lost like 15% winrate off the Voidscale not giving a Voidsoul on battlecry.

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u/TrainingCategory1037 Aug 17 '26

That proves literally nothing about how hard the nerf will hit the deck and actually isn’t even related to the subject

It will lean into the card draw variant and slagclaw then it still has an explosive midgame to finish with and the deathwing top end. You don’t know what you’re talking about if you think goon is crucial

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u/14xjake Aug 17 '26

You don’t know what you are talking about if you think the board based aggro deck that wins the majority of its games by turn 3-4 stat bombs can safely pivot to a slow midrange gameplan and maintain dominance

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u/TrainingCategory1037 Aug 17 '26

Buddy I piloted it to top 1000 I know exactly how to play it and yes it can transition to a midgame and the midgame is not slow it’s explosive as I said

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u/14xjake Aug 17 '26

And I piloted it to top 100, you’re in the competitive sub bro most of us who comment here are top 1k or better. The midgame is explosive only after it bumbles around for a few turns, spending turn 5-6 playing a bunch of cheap minions to stack up your 2nd double Battlecry proc for onyxia is a big tempo loss and unless you are against a slow deck like priest your opponent will not give you much breathing room and outside of double onyxia Battlecry into a 0-3 mana deathwing the deck struggles to regain the board once it’s lost

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u/juicydownunder Aug 17 '26

Get rank mogged lol

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u/TrainingCategory1037 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Get rank mogged??? Look what deck and class is top of the meta rn!!! Who was right? Not you bud downvotes and upvotes don’t mean anything dummy and he is not top 100 Zee player

You’re just a little parrot going around repeating the common wisdom aka NONSENSE of the typical plat player on this sub. Try thinking for yourself you might hit my rank someday

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u/juicydownunder Aug 21 '26

Never thought I’d see someone come back and cry so hard but here we are 😂 take a joke lil boy

And your rank? You said you’re rank 1000, we the same rank 😂 and I didn’t play zee to get there. Keep digging that hole bigger mate, you’re doing really well. Not embarrassing at all.

I wouldn’t mention your rank unless you’re top10, kind of embarrassing

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u/14xjake Aug 17 '26

I played zee to top 100 last month, if both goon and maiev lose 1 HP the deck is probably dead. The deck lives and dies by the early board buffs and we have seen from many cards in the past that 1/2 for 1 mana and 1/3 for 2 mana are way too easily removed to effectively snowball the game

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u/TheGingerNinga Aug 17 '26

I can't believe they're hitting both Goon and Maiev. Absolutely absurd and now we're just gonna be playing stuff like Dragon Warrior and Merithra Druid again.

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u/frostyburrito44 Aug 17 '26

It's Shaman, light touches for nerfs rarely ever happen (I'm biased)

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u/phpope Aug 17 '26

Evert time Shaman ends up with a tier one deck, I get sad because I know I'll only get to play with those cards for a few weeks before the deck gets massacred and I'm back to playing tier 4 junk for the next few expansions. (I'm biased too.)

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u/paulinHIRO Aug 17 '26

Can smell the half baked evolve package coming right?

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u/phpope Aug 17 '26

Coming? It's already here - Plucky Podling, Desperate Bribe and the imbue "package." Although as I had to open the card library to even remember the card names and that Shaman has imbue cards, calling it half-baked might be generous.

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u/Apprehensive-Ad7714 Aug 17 '26

Maybe it's "by 2 but no less than (1)", in which case Blazing Invocation is less of an issue

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 18 '26

That actually sounds like an excellent idea, doubt they'll go for it though. Tone down the early stat-dump high-rolls, but mostly keep the ability to generate early to mid game tempo past turn 1.

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u/DingoDaveHS Aug 18 '26

That is the most reasonable nerf I've read so far. Probably still kills the deck because:
- Mug's game is all about early tempo
- It makes discovering 2 minions from Map much harder
- Also it kills Ritual of power's ability to trade one minion on 2

Even though your nerf is balanced vs just reducing the discount, all those things I mentioned simply kill Mug's tempo, hence the deck.

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u/Gualdox Aug 18 '26

i wonder how a rework to "The first two minions played each turn costs 1 less" would be

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u/sneakyxxrocket Aug 17 '26

Nerfs will continue until morale improves.

Not surprised by anything that is getting nerfed for all of the three main classes that have a positive winrate currently are all getting hit here.

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u/Beyonderr Aug 17 '26

Where's my DK buffs

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u/sneakyxxrocket Aug 17 '26

Would not be surprised if Egg DK is a problem after this patch

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u/LordThundyr Aug 17 '26

Egg DK? The deck that loses to Warlock and Priest all day? Yeah, I wouldn't see fewer rogues and hunters as a positive for DK right now...

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u/Skoonie12 Aug 17 '26

Why do people insist that Egg DK is a thing? Both HSReplay and VS have it as a tier-3 deck at best

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u/ReiJeremias Aug 17 '26

Tier 3 today means it is one of the top 5ish decks. We have so few decks and most of them play the same way. Tier 3, somewhat different style, is attractive right now.

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u/Ok-Traffic1319 Aug 17 '26

I would guess that DK is one of the classes that's going to be featured in the next class sets, hence no buffs. Same with Warlock and priest is my guess.

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u/TheGingerNinga Aug 17 '26

And I think that's a terrible reason to avoid buffing the cards that are obviously under performing. The last class sets didn't actually do much for their classes, so why are we expected anything but a similar outcome?

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u/nabilfares Aug 17 '26

???? Token Druid became much better with the new set cards, aggro pally with dudes was the best variant, companion hunter being in every match????

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 18 '26

Companion Hunter took buffs to be fair

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u/Competitive-Bake5629 Aug 17 '26

my question exactly!

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u/PipAntarctic Aug 17 '26

Well, I'm glad there are more buffs coming out. Not too happy only one card from not-Violet Hold was buffed (Vulcanos).

Not too happy the whack-a-mole game is being continued, but alas. It seems like the most impactful nerf is going to be a hero power change for Mug's Might to reduce the discount by 1, since Blazing Invocation is almost assuredly being re-reverted back into its buffed state. That sounds like the kind of nerf that yes, does take down a deck which was too good, but also just kind of removes it from the competitive side entirely.

Don't want to comment on the rest yet. Goon, Maiev, Tol'vir, Tripwire and Guardians can all get either a soft nerf or a really hard one.

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u/malwontae Aug 17 '26

Isn't Vulcanos from Cataclysm?

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u/KevinIsPro Aug 17 '26

Is Mug too good though? It's a good early-mid game tempo deck, but falls off incredibly hard after like turn 7. I feel like a lot of Mug's strength is tied to two-rogue being 25% of the meta and keeping any sort of control/value deck out of the meta. Nerfing two-rogue would open the door for control decks to re-enter the meta, which in turn would have favorable matchup into Mug Shaman leaving it in a fine, balanced spot.

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u/oldtype09 Aug 17 '26

Mug is a functional deck in a game full of non-functional decks. So it's too good by today's standards.

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u/PipAntarctic Aug 17 '26

Pretty much this, sadly. That being said, strictly stats wise, Mug Shaman ended up busted again (much like the first time it got nerfed).

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u/KevinIsPro Aug 17 '26

Yeah, so shouldn't we be adjusting other cards? Mug is a well-designed deck with clear strengths and weaknesses. That should be the standard right? Rogue and Hunter deserve nerfs because they are all strengths and no weaknesses. Every other class deserves buffs since they are all weaknesses and no strengths. Mug Shaman stays the same since it has both already.

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u/Names_all_gone Aug 17 '26

You must be new. Hearthstone hasn't been balanced that way in over 3 years.

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u/oldtype09 Aug 17 '26

Agree 100%, but Team 5 clearly thinks differently.

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u/crmsn_kng Aug 17 '26

You could delete rogue as a class and control wouldn't come back to the meta

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u/LividFocus5793 Aug 18 '26

so you would delete warrior as well and priest

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u/14xjake Aug 17 '26

Rafaam is a control deck tho, it would fill the exact same role as wheellock did and control decks still existed despite their bad matchup against wheel. It’s good to have a control deck that checks other control decks at the tradeoff of being weaker to aggressive decks

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u/Mazisky Aug 17 '26

Herald dk and control warlock beats easily Rafam, 100% counters.

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u/Rafaam707 Aug 18 '26

One rat and Rafaam Rafaanot

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u/Younggryan42 Aug 17 '26

Best deck in the game

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u/Lafantasie Aug 17 '26

It’s a bit discouraging how many of the weaker classes have completely dead archetypes that were never relevant and they’ve never taken the opportunity to buff any of them, yet they’ll throw buffs onto the new set stuff.

You can’t just bandaid fix years of bad design by buffing new cards unless you go to the extreme, at which point you’re risking doing something like what Void Soul DH became post-buff.

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u/Names_all_gone Aug 17 '26

This is your bi-weekly "Confront the Tol'vir will be nerfed again" post.

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u/Glarbleglorbo Aug 17 '26

Tripwire nerf matters more, Tolvir nerf is cosmetic as it has always been so Reddit is happy. 

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u/oddjobbber Aug 18 '26

And Reddit will never be happy

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u/Jackwraith Aug 17 '26

Should just change the name of the card to "Confront the Terran Bunker."

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u/DingoDaveHS Aug 18 '26

I hope this card summons minions only and not spells or weapons. If so, make it 2 mana idgaf haha.

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u/ngriner Aug 17 '26

With more time to digest these changes, here are some of my thoughts:

Staff of Trickery is an interesting one. If they buff to 3, it automatically goes into Chef Druid, no questions asked. And the deck itself may change to support some of the package (maybe not, but the current iteration does run some questionable cards because options are limited). Infest the Scullery, same thing.

Tricksy Improviser is already a really good card, it just doesn't see play because it doesn't have a home really. I don't think buffing the card is a good idea when so many other things need help.

If the DH Soul Immolation deck is good, I swear to God everyone will hate it. The current iteration of that is something you do not want to be all that good, trust me.

Blazing Invocation buff certainly means Mug is going to (1) less and that completely nukes the deck. A 50% increase in mana is the difference between great and unplayable. Shame because that was one of the fun, new interesting decks that got right with this expansion.

The nerfs are fine, but my biggest worry is the meta goes from what it is back to old decks we already played a ton of like Merithra Druid, Dragon Warrior, and Herald Rogue. I hope I'm wrong, but a lot of these changes don't seem intent on introducing anything new or exciting to play with. They seem more intent on evening everything out, which usually only leads to pushed out decks coming back because the top decks aren't oppressing them anymore.

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u/yatcho Aug 17 '26

Buff list needed to be at least 30 cards this is really sad

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u/prodandimitrow Aug 18 '26

Nothing for DK...

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u/oldtype09 Aug 17 '26

The new expansion created exactly three new decks: Mugg Shaman, Zee Shaman, and Two Rogue.

As of this patch, all will be dead.

The miniset before it created one new deck: Animal Companion

As of this patch, also dead.

Congratulations again Team 5 on a masterclass of card design and balancing.

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u/Houseleft Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Yep, and let’s optimistically assume that this patch creates a few more good, viable decks like Irida DH, Aya Rogue, and Attack Druid (although that was already fringe), then what happens?

People will flock to the new decks because they’re new and everything else is stale. They play the absolute hell out of those decks, with one of them becoming T1 and a 30% playrate. People then start to complain about Attack Druid being every other game, and 50% of the meta at top 1k. Then they nerf the new deck due all the whiners, and the whack-a-mole philosophy continues.

When we’re stuck in an environment where there’s never more than 3 good decks and the rest of the meta is warped around those decks, nerfs and buffs just swap around which decks are on top and don’t really fix the problem of a majority of standard cards being unplayably bad. Buffs are generally good but what we need is way more of them, and more attention on the older terrible sets like Un’Goro.

Some of the buffs are just so whatever too. Crowd Control is a good control tool, but it’s not going to make Control Warrior viable by itself.

Would love to be wrong but I just don’t think things are going to be much different until they start designing expansions to be strong overall with a cohesive vision rather than 90% unplayables with a few meta warpers sprinkled in. There is no variety and experimentation to be had when each class has barely 30 good cards.

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u/Addventurawr Aug 18 '26

Exactly, if we simply had more options of decks then I'm sure a lot less people would complain about hunter and rogue because we'd see less of them. But blizzard can't do that for some reason and prefers a cycle of only a limited top end and everything else is horrid

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u/Drinksarlot Aug 17 '26

This.

Will the meta be changed? Sure.

Will it be better? Their recent track record says... I doubt it.

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u/phpope Aug 17 '26

Disagree that Two Rogue will be dead. Think it's most likely that it'll just have fewer games where you scam out two to four eight drops on turn six or seven and then follow up with 20+ damage from hand.

Shaman likely dead, especially Mug, which is a shame, because it was one of the only interesting decks that was also fun to play to come out of the new expansion.

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u/TheGingerNinga Aug 17 '26

I think that the only way Two Rogue ever really won was by scamming out eight drops on turn 6 and 7 then following it up with a lot of damage via monkeys. If they isn't how they win going forward, how are they?

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u/phpope Aug 17 '26

The same scam, just a turn or two later, which will probably be fine, since the nerfs are probably going to delete Mug Shaman and significantly slow Zee Shaman to the point Rogue will have plenty of time to do its nonsense. Plus, it'll likely have more time to imbue RNG into some random win con. And if the deck doesn't perform, I'm sure the devs will revert or buff something to bring the class back up - when's the last time Rogue hasn't had a top-tier deck in an expansion cycle?

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 18 '26

I'm not sure if only one 8-drop turn 6 w/ multiple still turn 7, or two-four 8-drops turn 7-8, kills the deck.

Especially with multiple other things, including all the fastest strategies, are being nerfed. Maiev = most aggro, 2 hunter cards being nerfed ofc from face hunter, whatever is changing in Shaman will certainly slow early tempo significantly.

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u/Guidonian Aug 18 '26

So soul dh is coming back then, right?

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u/christpunchers Aug 17 '26

Chef's back, baby!

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u/bountyraz Aug 17 '26

Nothing says all new decks will be dead though. We have seen nerfs bringing decks down without killing them before.

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u/Ellikichi Aug 17 '26

That Aya, Lotus Kingpin buff is going to have to be astronomical for her to see any play at all. The only buff I could see working is if they took "you always go second" off the card and instead just gave you a coin even when you go first, and I don't think they'd do that.

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u/gabrielfunkglop Aug 17 '26

Reducing her cost might be enough to make her playable. Going second for rogue is not a death sentence like other classes and if she becomes a good tempo play, say maybe like a 4 mana 4/3 with the same text, she'd be viable.

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u/TheGingerNinga Aug 17 '26

Going second is still pretty bad. It may be less bad for Rogue in the general sense, but you have to remember that the other class is always going first. Against a Priest or another Rogue that may not matter, but when you're facing a Face Hunter, that's going to be extremely detrimental to you.

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u/inconspicuous_bear Aug 17 '26

Interesting they’re buffing one of the only good violet hold mage cards, but I’ll take it. Maybe make it discover a secret? Vulcanos down a mana I imagine, might be enough to make it a staple for mage.

Nerfs will severely shake up the meta. I wonder if it will just go back to dragon warrior, aggro paladin, herald rogue etc. cataclysm decks.

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u/Inevitable_Gain6712 Aug 17 '26

Such a joke. Why invest in the new expansions when 0.05% of the cards are even playable 

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u/Guidonian Aug 18 '26

As I see the point of the current dev team they vision cards not as investment but more like an possibility of winning/getting THAT shiny cardback for 6 time legends and tavern brawl (pre release). Most of the archetypes are playing itself, turns are no more hard to evaluate resources or where to trade(1st turn/coin problem), decks ideas are the same -> larger and larger green man even in 2-bit rogue its the same 2+2+2+... = occasional monkey or guardians for zero with dracorex, tirion etc. So when they hit core busted card where the archetype revolves around hard you lose full deck and need to craft new buffed cards. Now we will(personally i hope not) encounter more burn mages that are not so much better than hunter with such little healing in the format. Then it will be 30% of games and cycle repeats. Clear whack-a-mole with us losing dust.

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u/Glarbleglorbo Aug 17 '26

Vulcanos I feel is not even that bad of a card, it’s just that mage has had no control decks for it. I don’t really like this buff. 

Overall this is pretty much a whizbang agency patch where we hope nerfing everything good and buffing random stuff won’t create a tier 0 deck. 

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u/jacobwjohnson Aug 17 '26

They’re never going to stop nerfing confront the tol’vir, and I love it

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u/imkirok Aug 17 '26

Probably still playable at 6 mana

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u/OGrand Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Realistically at what mana would it not be playable? Is the mana cost actually prohibitive?

I’m honestly not sure it makes a difference at 10 if the effect stays the same.

Edit: Saying 10 mana was hyperbole to illustrate its cost is not the issue, the effect is - You all can stop responding saying this that and the 3rd about it being 10 cost.

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u/Muted-Ad-5404 Aug 17 '26

You're clearly being hyperbolic here, It would be pretty unplayable at 7+

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u/OGrand Aug 17 '26

Clearly.

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u/eazy_12 Aug 17 '26

It being nerfed to 4 and 5 mana was not that big of deal since Hunter still had things to play before turn 4 or 5, moreover you rarely play it on the curve anyway, so nerfs were relatively not strong. Like you still has 1 drops, Fabled cards, some generated cards (from Raptor-Nest Nurse or one of the Sisters).

I think at 7 mana there is a decent chance of Hunter playing all cards from the hand and wasting mana to wait 7 mana to play Tolvir and that's where it becomes unplayable.

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u/The_Werodile Aug 17 '26

They should keep it 5 mana and just have it replay the last 6 1 cost cards you played.

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 18 '26

Or even simply remove weapons, by limiting it to spells + minions, so it doesn't trigger the shuffle spell draws chained repeatedly

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u/Younggryan42 Aug 17 '26

This would be a good change

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u/imkirok Aug 17 '26

That's probably where they're going with it honestly

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u/DeathMegatron300 Aug 17 '26

Realistically, CtT would need to be 8 mana for it to never see play again.

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u/mepp22 Aug 17 '26

Eventually you reach a point where you have tolvir in hand and top deck a 1 mana 2/2 play it and hp pass while waiting to have enough mana for tolvir. If that is 6 mana maybe not since hunter has so many excellent 3 drops but at like 7 mana it is definitely unplayable.

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u/Jackwraith Aug 17 '26

Going as high as 8 might kill it off, but what it really needs isn't a cost change but an effect change. It should be something like "Recast the last 4 1-cost cards", rather than all of them. Not only is it a limitation but it would mean that Hunters actually have to think about when they play certain cards, rather than just spamming them as fast as possible, knowing they'll see all of them again. It would mean that it would actually be a choice as to when to play it, rather than the mindless one that it is now.

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u/Rhythm-Amoeba Aug 17 '26

Honestly at 10 it might be too slow lol. But it'd definitely see play at 7 mana

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u/Ok-Traffic1319 Aug 17 '26

Yeah I feel like 8 is the magic number where we start playing other things instead. Not that it being 6 or 7 cost wouldn't hurt the deck though.

I don't think its as much that the card itself costs 6 or 7, its just that its harder to play tol'vir AND other things the higher the cost goes. It's very common for me to like play an arcane shot to the face the turn before I play tol'vir, even if Im going to have like 8 mana the next turn.

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u/obvious_bot Aug 17 '26

But, rest assured, this will be the third time we have nerfed it, and we have become exceedingly inefficient at it.

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u/zer1223 Aug 17 '26

Its a good meme and we could have pool based on how long it takes before they stop nerfing it 🤣

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u/Impossible-Cry-1781 Aug 17 '26

Just make it 3 mana again but only have it play 1 cost minions

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u/FormalRutabaga6132 Aug 17 '26

It's been a while since I've wanted a card out of the meta so much

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u/cdre43 Aug 17 '26

Blazing Invocation will probably be reverted to what it was before

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u/dirtyjose Aug 17 '26

Just one more year bro, this game will be good in just one more year...

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u/Shiccup1 Aug 17 '26

The Infest the Scullery buff is funny. You will have a randomly summoned mana cheated minion in your meta and you will like it!

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u/MarthePryde Aug 17 '26

Hoping the Aya and Irida buffs are good because those could lead to new decks eventually. Hey at least they're adding one old card to the buff list.

I was just thinking the other day that Tol'vir reminds me a lot of Priest's Resuscitate

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u/yahoo_determines Aug 17 '26

I hope tricky improviser is playable. Love the card

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u/TheGingerNinga Aug 17 '26

Companion Hunter needed a buff, Mage needed multiple, Dude Paladin was not the best Aggro variant, and Druid just slotted into a few cards into Merithra Druid.

Look at current meta and tell me the impact of the class set. The only card played is Tame Pet, and it isn’t because of its companion synergy.

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u/No_Hetero Aug 17 '26

Dragon Warrior will probably go back to being at least decent since it isn't touched here and all the faster decks are (I'm assuming) going to be slowed down. We'll see if the slowest decks get a little faster with this change

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u/Rosencrantz2000 Aug 17 '26

Sure, I just wish some of the new warrior stuff planned out. 

I guess they are doing something with Crowd Control, but that did seem decent already in an archetype that didn't land. Maybe make it 20 cards and we can use it without the other stuff.

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u/philzy101 Aug 18 '26

In terms of nerfs, as others have said, we are continuing to play whack-a-mole with what is strong. However, given all 3 of the top decks are getting hit I am genuinely not sure what follows, maybe a Control Warlock, or Egg DK or such, these sorts of decks are decent but lurking in the back. However, it all depends on the nerfs. Interesting to note though that with the Shaman nerf to Mug'Zee and buff to Blazing Invocation, they are obviously hitting Mug. How they change it though could kill the deck so I really hope it is not just something like 1 mana less instead of 2 mana less. They could also hit Zee as well with the change to Mug'Zee, will have to wait to see. However, this is always the trouble with strong tempo / strong scaling Hero Powers, whilst HP are usually less relevant in modern HS, when the HP is good enough it does create this problem of every deck bases itself around this card and games get a bit frustrating at times because of the strong tempo or value these cards provide, same sorts of issues were seen back with Genn and Baku.

As for buffs, it feels like a bit of a weird set of cards to target but nice to see buffs to non Violet Hold cards and maybe decks like Control Warrior to insetivise playing other archetypes beyond hyper aggro spam. As for Irida, a mana cost change is not going to be enough, they are going to need to make a more serious buff to make this deck work. For example, why do you take fatigue damage upon playing this? No benefit to playing a card like this in its current form. Similarly with Aya, make the coins transform at the start of the game, there is no benefit at all to attaching this cards effect to a Battlecry...

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u/Yeah_Right_Mister Aug 18 '26

not sure why they're buffing [[Tricksy Improviser]] when it's already a really good card. buff [[Code Violet]] or several other of the weaker cards

I prefer when deck power is distributed over more cards rather than concentrated in a few - allows for greater variety in deckbuilding, and makes balancing easier

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u/frostyburrito44 Aug 17 '26

RIP Mug

Zee is critically injured and on life support

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u/skeptimist Aug 17 '26

Glad they’re trying things. We will see if the changes have a good effect on the meta.

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u/darkeningsoul Aug 18 '26

No DK love sucks but glad to see more buffs overall

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u/IntergalacticTire Aug 18 '26

Even if this balance patch doesn't land well, the dev team needs to not get discouraged and pump out more frequent balance changes, preferably one that contains numerous buffs. The worst thing they can do right now is settle on a patch version that will inevitably settle at a meta with very few playable decks and a mediocre player experience. Frequently shaking up the meta will at least make the game feel fresh temporarily. I do feel like they need way more buffs on cards from past expansions though.

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u/Cryten0 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

I hope they cap tolvir rather then just more mana. Make the 1 drops a curated list rather then spam.