![]() ![]() Quite notably, new Charge minions have been incredibly sparse from Kobolds & Catacombs onward, with the only two added since then as of Ashes of Outland being Legendary. This allowed the team to create minions with fast, spell-like effects and not worry about it being used to SMOrc the opponent. They went so far as to create a "fixed" version of Charge in The Witchwood Rush, which is identical to Charge except it can only hit minions on the turn they're played.Blizzard themselves have admitted that they underestimated the power of Charge, and since launch have done a much better job of balancing the mechanic. The other, more significant problem is that Chargers can be buffed by spells and other minions, allowing for some crazy high-damage combos. There's two key differences: Chargers are minions, meaning that the opponent has to go through the effort of removing them, meaning that aggro decks can use them to reliably go for the face because their opponent will need to use resources to kill it, leaving the aggro player with the advantage. It sounds fine at first, because after all a minion with Charge is no different than a damaging spell, and sometimes they're less efficient as well (compare the 3 mana 3-1 Charge Wolfrider to the 2 mana deal 3 damage Darkbomb for example). Any minion with Charge attached sacrifices a lot of stat points in exchange for the ability to attack immediately. ![]() Life Tap is good enough that for the longest time their exclusive cards were deliberately designed to be middle-of-the-road in terms of use, which makes the rare times where they get powerful stuff hurt much, much more. ![]() Notably, whereas most of the exploitable stuff in Hearthstone gains a counter or ends up nerfed, Life Tap simply got better over time with the release of better healing cards like Antique Healbot and Reno Jackson. Life Tap, the Warlock hero power, allows them to draw a card at a cost of 2 mana and 2 health, meaning that a well-built Warlock deck can eliminate the need for card draw, save their card slots for other card options and offers the Warlock discounts for 8/8 powerhouses like Mountain Giant and Molten Giant. ![]()
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