Hearthstone

I kinda like Priest's ability, if you're backed in a corner it can buy you a few more turns before you die(unless you're really getting crushed) and early game it has a lot of interesting class synergies with power word shield, divine spirit, lightspawn and northshire cleric as well as taunters and weird sized creatures(stuff like the 2/4 gnome that draws, 2/5 charger stormwind guy etc). Depends on the game obviously but sometimes you will win games against aggro decks purely on your ability to trade efficiently because you can heal up your minions after they trade. While generally a croc would do badly against a 2/2, as a priest you can trade then heal it up to full so it doesn't get druid/rogue/mage killed next turn.

I don't think it's top tier, but I don't think it's lower tier either, I feel it's a bit in the middle. And there's also 2 cards that let you change it, and while I think shadowform is shit because the change is permanent, auchenai is a pretty cool card. Changing your power into a 2dmg targetted nuke makes it into the best hero power in the game(I don't like shadowform because it kills your tempo and is almost unusable if you're behind without sealing your fate).

New Unleash the Hounds looks cool against certain decks, especially with the hunter synergies mentionned, Buzzard and Hyena, you can create a large amount of shit mobs and send them to die to trade efficiently(with a wolf or an orc leader) then reap massive benefits from those other cards. Also interesting pseudo synergy with Leeroy and could also consider it for Sea Giant.

That said, more interested in when they're patching. And if that's all they're doing(new features etc).

Oh didn't notice the cost was 4. Severely dampens my estimation of the card then, still a good card to play if you have a combo setup ready, especially buzzard since you should draw like 3-4cards for it, which alone would make it an alright card and you get a bunch of crappy charges, but meh.

I think Shattered nerf is alright, it trades poorly with 1 and 2 drops now, directly, when before you'd generally need 2 or 3 drop to kill it and 2 or 3 to kill whatever it buffed(still need that). Probably a better nerf would have been hitting the buff though, making it +1/+0 instead, potentially both. Commander is a dumb card, should have buffed it to 4/4 and removed the divine shield. Imp is an ok nerf, warlocks need that health. Would have made Pyroblast 9mana too, so you can't pyro+frostblast or pyro+ping in the same turn. Hell even for 10 I think it'd be good.

What I wonder is what are they buffing, surely that's not all the changes. I mean there's a few OP cards that need to be nerfed sure, but there's like 3times as many cards that are absolute trash or slightly under budget. Could also use a bit more variety for certain roles, like silencing(to counter mages aoe freezing everything).