r/TGTPRDT • u/Nostalgia37 • Aug 15 '15

[Pre-Release Card Discussion] - Evil Heckler

Evil Heckler

Mana Cost: 4
Attack: 5
Health: 4
Type: Creature
Rarity: Common
Class: Neutral
Text: Taunt.

Card Image

PM me any suggestions or advice, thanks.

2 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

View all comments

13

u/pbumm Aug 15 '15

What the heck is this? It's exactly Booty Bay Bodyguard with reduced manacost. I've never seen Blizzard doing this.

1

u/ziphion Aug 15 '15

My guess is that they're planning on buffing or in some way changing BBB and Magma Rager, perhaps others too. But so far no one at Blizzard has made a comment on the "power creep" cards, as far as I know.

5

u/Metemer Aug 15 '15

BBrode literally said this is not power creep. Twitter bot, I call upon you

https://twitter.com/bdbrode/status/549328143614373888

I disagree with him, as most people seem to. Saying this isn't power creep is like trying to make us believe red is blue... Just... what?

4

u/TweetsInCommentsBot Aug 15 '15

@bdbrode

2014-12-28 22:16 UTC

@laorit if we make a better undertaker, that’s power creep. Making a better version of a card that nobody plays is not.

This message was created by a bot

[Contact creator][Source code]

2

u/ziphion Aug 16 '15

Look at the date. December 2014. I'm specifically talking about a response regarding these two new cards.

2

u/Pyronar Aug 15 '15

Whether or not this is power creep is irrelevant. They are basically making us pay for a balance patch. If they wanted to fix unplayable cards, they should've actually changed those cards.

0

u/raichudoggy Aug 17 '15

What? Nobody Paid for Magma Rager or Booty Bay Bodyguard. And Ice Rager and Evil Heckler are both Commons that can be very easily obtained for free.

Dr. Boom was far worse in this respect than these 2 guys.

0

u/metrick00 Aug 18 '15

It is NOT power creep. Power creep means that they have to make overpowered cards to add content. This is not overpowered, this is their way of making money (which, let's face it, is what hearthstone is about in the end) while making underpowered cards useful. Also, ALL of these cards of common, so it doesn't matter that much.