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Famm
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Who's going to play any flavor of mage without mad scientist? And not that I'm sad for paladins but they lose half of their best cards from dropping GvG. But who knows maybe balance changes will fix some of these holes. I mean the one even remotely viable rogue deck is dead when oil is dropped.
Famm
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Well even though I like using my entire collection, Standard is probably for the better. A lot of the "issues" in Hearthstone right now are due to too many tools available and OP shit combined with more OP shit. Now eliminating a lot of OP shit should make the game more fun again.
Will still be really strange never having to face mech mage, shredders, oil rogue, boom, etc, ever again.
Will still be really strange never having to face mech mage, shredders, oil rogue, boom, etc, ever again.
This is what Hearthstone had to do to continue to grow. It was getting unwieldy and expensive for a new player to break into the game with the amount of cards needed to be bought/crafted.
MTG/Wizards came to the same decision in the late 90s.
MTG/Wizards came to the same decision in the late 90s.
Famm
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I mean, it allows them a "do over" on their past fuck ups. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this basically how MTG keeps things going?
Yep, it's changed over the years but basically MTG is broken up into a few formats. The two most used for tournament play are "Standard" - which is the last ~2 years worth of expansions, and "Modern" - which is the last ~6 years. Sets are grouped into "blocks" of expansions, and when a new "block" releases another block rotates out.
Has MTG ever 'rereleased' cards? There really are a lot of powerful cards going away without Naxx and GvG. Wondering if there's a precedence to to that, maybe with a different name or slightly tweaked
Sinzar
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Hmm, Duel of Champions tried this same move, and it completely killed their game (literally, it's been officially cancelled). Invalidating a players time and/or money by banning their collected cards usually leaves a bad taste. The classic format in DoC was a total ghost town when they split the playerbase, so it will be interesting to see how well Hearthstone handles it.