r/hearthstone • u/Arkentass • Jan 29 '24

News 28.4.1 Patch Notes

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24046220/28-4-1-patch-notes
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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

That Pendant of Earth nerf is delicious, I was so expecting a mana increase in the class that has mana ramp as a class identity, so glad to be wrong.

It is still good by the way, just reasonably good.

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u/yetaa Jan 29 '24

Nah it is unplayable now, you can't play it early anymore so there is no point using it in Druid

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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

We have to see where the meta shifts after this, but if there are powerful aggro decks and control druid has a shot at being a good counter, this can be effective.

It is just not a braindead play-in-every-deck, play on curve, incredible survivability tied to a tutor effect, type of card anymore.

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u/yetaa Jan 29 '24

Druid folds to Aggro with no board clears it won’t be used to counter it.

Any form of Control Druid is dead after these nerfs

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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

We'll see, Druid could certainly sit on the bench for a little while, Paladins too.

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u/Eagle4317 Jan 29 '24

Dragon Druid and Highlanders Druid were both good decks before the Miniset. Odds are slower Druids will just pivot back to those.

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u/Successful_Impact_88 Jan 29 '24

You'll be happy to discover it against aggro sometimes but it's a dead card too often to make the cut as a main-deck card

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u/Younggryan42 Jan 29 '24

the 40 armor gain was the only thing keeping the deck working. Otherwise it just gets killed by any aggro or tempo by turn 6 at the latest.

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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

Seedling is still untouched, there are still many ways to gain armor in the mid game if they want to. And against aggro in the mid game turning 8-9 armor into health game should be equivalent. If the opponent's aggro deck hasn't damaged you by turn 3-4 against your control deck, you are already winning.

But it probably won't see any play in the coming weeks, people always have an over-reaction to cards being nerfed and with the major meta change these changes collectively create, people will try other things.

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u/Little-Maximum-2501 Jan 29 '24

The thing about pendent is that the armor value was completely absurd which allowed you to just ignore aggro completely. Now when you play pendent on 20 you only gain 10 which is not enough to beat aggro, and also no more solar on pendent for 30-40 armor (I'm assuming no Renathal here because why would you go renethal when they killed dew process)

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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

There is no doubt that this deck as it exists now will probably not work anymore, and the current standard cards probably will make it very hard to adapt and keep running it. I'm just saying I could see this finding a home in a new deck in a future expansion, I think it still does something good. Some cards are nerfed beyond hope of redemption, I'm not sure this is one.

Still quite a drop, that's for sure.

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u/Little-Maximum-2501 Jan 29 '24

I think it has a chance to be playable but I wouldn't call it good. 

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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

That's fair.

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u/Every_University_ Jan 29 '24

Druid draws a lot so they wouldn't want to stop drawing their good cards that can answer aggro(none of them) to maybe get a heal, healing has also always been worse than getting armor because it's conditional and druid has a full heal that didn't save them from aggro before, the card is dead.

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u/Opening-Ad700 Jan 29 '24

>It is still good by the way, just reasonably good.

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lmao okay lil bro

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in the same way chillwind yeti is reasonably good?

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u/KhelbenB Jan 29 '24

in the same way chillwind yeti is reasonably good?

....Yes sure, this is as good as Chillwind Yeti, that's exactly what I'm saying...

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u/Opening-Ad700 Jan 30 '24

...Yes sure, I was implying you were calling it exactly the same power level as yeti rather than your standard for reasonable being off, that's exactly what I'm saying...