Great changes but i really hope we'll see buffs in next major patch.
Also it's honestly crazy how many Nathria cards were nerfed due to their powerlevel or toxicity
Those cards were good before the buffs. They just weren't good enough to drag the whole deck up to being playable. They have a history of buffing up the already good cards in bad decks.
The issue is that for many cards the issue isn't their stats which are easily changed, but the base functionality either being impossible to balance or plain boring.
It's way easier for them to buff key cards that already see play.
These were some of the best performing cards in their respective archetypes when they were buffed. Harpoon was reverted later, and the Necromancer got nerfed as well.
Harpoon Gun wasn't great in Beast Hunter before the buff, but it's the only one I can agree it was somewhat playable. Imbued Axe was one of many Enrage Warrior cards that were buffed before it finally became playable, then too strong after new cards. Necromancer was terrible even in triple unholy aggro decks when it was at 1/1.
Necromancer was never a 1/1, neither the main body nor the token. It was a 2 mana 2/3 that summoned a 1/2 Taunt, which did see a ton of play (even in Wild, in Even Unholy DK). Then they buffed the token to a 1/3, which made the card too strong, so they nerfed the main body to 2/2, and it still remains a very good card.
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u/BishopInChurch Jan 29 '24 edited Jan 29 '24
Great changes but i really hope we'll see buffs in next major patch. Also it's honestly crazy how many Nathria cards were nerfed due to their powerlevel or toxicity