Blood Hunter (3052)

    Cost: 3 ➞ 4

    Traits: None ➞ banner

    Power: 2 ➞ 4

    Health: 4 ➞ 3

Blood Hunter has been a bit of a boogeyman for some time now. While having powerful finishers is healthy, the centralizing nature of Hunter was slightly problematic, and prompted an adjustment to it and its spell. The first part of this tweak is focused on making Blood Hunter itself more valuable. As a rule, we want units with attached spells to present a compelling argument for playing themselves with or without their attached spell. In the case of Hunter, her 2/4 body just didn’t offer enough value to make her a compelling curve play. With Banner, she now carries more tempo value on her own, allowing proactive trades to be taken. Additionally, trading one health for two power lets her push more damage, while making her easier to remove, making her guard negating ability easier to answer past the initial turn she is played.

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Blood Moon (20011)

    Cost: 4 ➞ 3

    Text: Give ally units +2 power. ➞ Give ally units +1 power and stealth.

Alongside the tweak to Hunter is a tweak to Blood Moon, in the form of reducing the power boost it grants, as well as giving it a thematic tweak and element of risk through giving your whole board stealth, meaning that while Hunter allows you to bypass enemy defenses, it also drops guard off your own units, leaving you open to a potential counterattack. Moon does cost 1 less mana now, but the lower damage output and increased cost on Hunter will help mitigate this factor.

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Flock (1030)

    Text: Summon three Songbird with Shroud. ➞ Summon three Songbird.

Dropping Shroud on the birds. Rather than creating interesting back and forth gameplay, the Shroud Flock granted tended to either be near-useless, (as AOE and unit attacks could still easily clear the birds) or extremely frustrating, as it completely shut off certain answers like Its a Trap, making for a very polarizing experience. Without Shroud, players will be able to use Zaps and other targeted spells to shoot down the Songbirds in a pinch, allowing for more interactivity, while maintaining the extra damage the on-spell Banner provides.

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Puppet Master (4092)

    Text: Summon: Draw and summon your lowest cost unit as 2/2. Give it guard and attach Lead. ➞ Summon: Draw and summon your lowest cost unit as 2/2 with guard.

A simple ‘nerf’ to some of the cheat/reanimator style builds in the game. Puppet Master no longer attaches Lead to the unit it summons, encouraging more counterplay via silence and dusting, while allowing for more flexibility through allowing the use of any attachments that the unit it summons may have.

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Wartlock (3076)

    Traits: wither,lifesteal ➞ wither

    Health: 4 ➞ 3

A particularly tricky change here - options such as increasing Wartlock’s cost or changing its effect were considered, but the former would have had little impact since the decks that use it often cheat it into play via cards like Dual Boot and Puppet Master, and the latter would likely kill a creative and interesting deck, so instead, we’ve opted for a more subtle change, by weakening Wartlock’s health and removing Lifesteal from it, meaning that it holds significantly less value on its own, making it easier to clear and removing the important healing factor that it offered, making it a less secure play on its own.

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Trailblazer (1033)

    Text: Glory: Give fire cards in your hand -1 cost. ➞ Glory: Give the left and right-most fire cards in your hand -1 cost.

A final change to a particularly snowbally card in Agility with a very high winrate. Trailblazer could be almost like a 2c cloud sloth in Fire-focused decks, so we’ve reduced the maximum potential cost decrease it offers, making getting a single trigger off it less insane, via capping the number of cards it can reduce to two. However, its worth noting it can double-reduce a card’s cost, assuming it is the left and rightmost fire card in hand. (IE. the only fire card in hand).