Tides, Kibler, Strifecro, Day9, and a couple others were all streaming variations of mech mage which is why it's so big now.
I could see it get a +1 mana cost maybe, it's currently extremely efficient for healing, especially for being neutral and a mech condition activator(not necessarily useful in every deck but still). It's basically Far Seer + Holy Light for one card(slightly less than that but still). Mostly the broken aspect is the neutral, it's like not that good compared to paladin/druid typical heal choices(and warrior armor), but for everyone else who didn't have any heals, it's way good, and it's a lot more usable than Alexstraza(both in cost and in the way it's used to recover health since alex only works when you're a good bit under 15, though obviously it has other uses also). And when you give decks that typically traded health to do stuff like rogue or handlock a very good heal source, well that becomes kinda mandatory. It's also used in mech decks just by nature of being a mech and easily replaces frost armor secret for mages in that regard.
Another way to look at it is a vanilla 3/3 for 2 + a self only healing touch in one card.
I find weird paladins would run it though, unless running some mech deck. Guardian of Kings is a lot better tbh. I guess if you want more heals, it beats Holy Light probably, but that's a lot of healing. In a mech deck I could see it, replace Guardians with some mechs, though 3/3s are pretty shit even if they're mech, but guess you'll take any mech when it comes to activating mech conditional shit.
Same here. Most of my cards were duplicates too. They had to have made it more likely to get the same cards over and over because I watched streamers get repetitive selections.
Antique Healbot is insanely good, I was surprised when so many top players ranked it quite low. It wasn't in Reynad's top 10. Cards that have two effects usually suffer from extra costs tacked on. Like if you consider Antique Healbot as a vanilla 3/3 for (3) and the 8 Healing as a (3) healing touch then you'd have a total of 6 mana (although granted it can't target minions, 95% of the time you'd want it for hero anyways), combine those costs into a single card and if you follow the method for every other card that has two effects, it should cost 7, but it costs 5. So I think they'll probably bump the mana up by one and put it at 6.
Yup. Exactly what I was saying and why I was telling the people that were saying others were crazy to think Hunter meta wouldn't change were wrong.
