The big game hunter from Hearthstone will soon be nerfed, as it restricts the developers’ options.
A small dwarf, very large
With the introduction of the new format “Standard”, some cards will be weakened in Hearthstone. As indicated in an interview with IGN with the developers of the game, there are several reasons for this: Firstly, they want to eliminate some balancing issues, and secondly, they want to give developers more freedom to create new and exciting cards that cannot be directly countered by a “hard counter”.
One of these cards is the big game hunter. This card costs 3 mana, has solid stats of 4/2, and the text “Destroy a minion with 7 or more attack”.
The problem with the big game hunter is obvious: He is the perfect counter against any card with 7 or more attack. This devalues many legendary cards – as these are typically “hard hitters”, mainly used for the late game. Blizzard now feels constrained in design diversity by their own card. Legendary cards lose too much of their “legendary” status when they can be easily countered by a single card. What exact changes will be made to the trigger-happy dwarf has not yet been revealed.
Overall, there are supposed to be revisions to 10-12 cards from the classic set, including the knife juggler and the popular “ramp druid” combo, which takes away the fun from many players.
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