It’s a good day for Hearthstone players, unless you usually play the Patron Warrior deck.
Blizzard announced today that it is nerfing the Warsong Commander card. Previously, it would give all your minions with 3 or less attack Charge (which allows them to attack the same turn they appear, while most minions need to wait a turn). Now, it simply gives minions that already have Charge +1 attack. This will drastically change the game’s current competitive scene, which has a lot players building decks around the card. The nerf will come in a future patch that Blizzard plans to launch next week.
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Above: The old Warsong Commander.
Blizzard rarely changes existing cards, but in this case Warsong Commander simply worked too well with other cards, specifically the Grim Patron, a 3/3 minion that summons another Grim Patron if it survives damage. Warsong Commander could turn one Grim Patron into several under the right circumstances. Now, the two cards won’t work together at all.
Warsong Commander also played strongly with another Warrior card, Frothing Berserker, a 2/4 minion that gained +1 attack any time a minion took damage. This card could become powerful super quickly if played while Warsong Commander is allowing all of those Grim Patrons to take damage, deal damage, and multiply, often resulting in early wins for Warrior players.
“Going forward, we will continue to stand by our stance that we will only make adjustments to cards when we feel it is completely necessary and allow the injection of new cards into the game help our players define what the meta evolves into,” Blizzard noted in a forum post. “In the case of Warsong Commander, we felt this change was necessary to help expand both future design space and to stand by our overarching game philosophy that battles between minions and fighting for board control is what makes Hearthstone fun and compelling.”