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Hearthstone Update 10.2 Crushes Corridor Creeper, Patches, Raza

Patches is no longer in charge.

Ozzie Mejia

January 29, 2018 10:40 AM

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Hearthstone Game Director Ben Brode threatened promised some balance changes for Hearthstone, following what proved to be an exciting World Championship. That time is apparently here with Update 10.2 and it wrecks a handful of the cards currently terrorizing the meta. And I mean, it wrecks them!

Here are some of the big changes coming for February's patch, taken from the Battle.net post:

• Bonemare: Now costs 8 mana. (Up from 7)
• Corridor Creeper: Now has 2 Attack. (Down from 5)
• Patches the Pirate: No longer has Charge
• Raza the Chained: Now reads: "Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, your Hero Power costs (1) this game."

On the one hand, the impact to the Standard meta will be minimal, since half of these cards are going to Wild with March's set rotation. However, some of these nerfs are incredibly devastating and actually make these cards completely unviable. But that's a story for later. Stay tuned, as a longer-form analysis is forthcoming.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?