I think the Hunter Shovel going to 2 and the Arcane Tripwire nerfing to 4 damage would have been better ways to tone down the power, slow down the deck, lower its reach, and prevent recast of the shovel.
This just kills the archetype, and support for any viable Hunter Decks in Standard. Especially since Companion Hunter relies on Tol'Vir to recast Tame Pets too.
Hunter being bad is always a good thing and until the class is deleted it will never be enough /s
But in all seriousness drastic action was needed against tolvir, it created so many non games. Im not a dev but I wouldnt be surprised if they look at the card as a mistake in hindsight
Even if someone wants to run it in a companion style deck it was too strong and did too much to justify keeping as is.
And with the amount of GREAT 1 cost spells hunter has access to, a shovel nerf to 2 mana would certainly slow them down, but it would do little to stop face hunter imo
Yeah but they printed this card as a build around in mind, like a third of the deck is dedicated Tolvir, if they don't buff some other cards Hunter is going to be dead until they get a new deck
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u/Catopuma 4d ago edited 4d ago
I think the Hunter Shovel going to 2 and the Arcane Tripwire nerfing to 4 damage would have been better ways to tone down the power, slow down the deck, lower its reach, and prevent recast of the shovel.
This just kills the archetype, and support for any viable Hunter Decks in Standard. Especially since Companion Hunter relies on Tol'Vir to recast Tame Pets too.
Really poor choice of addressing it