Execute >>> shield slam. It is the gold standard single target removal that can be put in any variety of warrior deck. Shield slam can only be effectively run in control variants.

That said, I've always wanted to see shield slam reduce armor by the amount of damage dealt to kill.

oh yeah. COTW + Tirion will be fun.

call nerf is p sizable, it will still be 2x obv but a lot of the time t8 is where hunter either stabilizes/sets up lethal with call or dies without it, now its delayed a turn. I think hunter decks will be going away from hybrid as you can't just fight for the board and then win on t8. Especially combined with the nerf to abusive, might as well go back to the older double doomsayer deck and run 0 1-drops and only eleks/grandmother at 2

Also rag makes more sense in greedy MR decks

rip Yogg
i had quit hearthstone around LoE but Yogg brought me back. was the most fun card ive played in a card game and i'll miss killing time by logging in and seeing how big of a yogg i could make with my terrible druid spells deck.

I'll finally admit yogg was a problem but this nerf without making him at least a 7/7 is ridiculous. Also i think abusive goes to leper gnome status now in anything but zoo

And the reason why abusive was so rampant was to deal with ****ing totem golems

abusive doesnt help with that really, only 2/1 that saw play was fiery bat (afaik?)

abusive existed to deal with 1 mana 1/3s and alex's champ when you combo it with squire

At least yogg promoted spell based strategy rather than the best minion on 1/2/3/4/5 garbage that we've all been subjected to far to many times. It really feels like they kill off any deck that makes you make decisions and can actually make a mistake playing.

Please tell me you didn't just invoke decision making in a post about yogg

Tirion is 8 mana so couldn't come out of the new COTW. King Krush for the 14 face damage COTW is possible though

Really interesting changes I think.

HEY LET'S FIGHT THE RNG BY RANDOMLY DEFINING THE NUMBER OF SPELL CAST WITH YOGG

Ban it from tournament but don't change the funniest card ever printed in the game

The card is anti decision making, but at least the decks it was in had some semblance of skill involvement until the big coinflip.

Now its gone forever rip

i think charge could be..... good? As a 1x in control war maybe? Or patrons(!!!!)?

*shudders*

Rockbiter dead. Not sure if that card was worth worrying about

Tuskarr dead. I have no idea why they didn't just make it a 3/3 so you can play it in Wicked Witchdoctor decks or whatever

Call of the Wild still seems strong but Hunter is gonna take a big hit

Execute is still playable in some decks. I think you'd play a 2 mana execute in the old Control Warrior decks that went to fatigue a lot. Might be too much mana for tempo decks.

I don't like the Charge nerf. The decks using it weren't good and the OTK decks actually required the player to think.

Abusive pretty much dead. I guess it might be an option for a Zoo deck with a very low curve or something. I wanted them to nerf this card last time. It was never going to stop being played because you just can't print many one drops better than this.

abusive still gonna be 2x in zoo imo, the 1 attack rarely ever matters

Think Yogg is dead but thinking about it its now has more variance. Like times where it naturalises itself on the first spell to ones where it doesn't die and you get 20 spells and its as good as it is now. It's probably dead as you might aswell play deathwing now

Oh just read Yogg now gives you overload so its even worse. RIP Yogg, fun was had

Yeah, Yogg is def done as a competitive card. He didn't have that much value to give away before he wasn't good enough to play.

I guess I'm glad that people can still pull the slot machine handle in crappy decks if that makes them happy.

Yep same Yogg, except you roll a dice to determine how many spell you deserve

Really? I had the opposite reaction lol

I mean you're still running x2 in every deck because wtf else are you gonna do for removal?

Hot take, this doesn't hurt Yogg as much as thread thinks it does. Still will be very playable I think.

I agree with this. Honestly I don't recall seeing anyone complain ever about abusive but I don't reddit much