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azuarc posted...

That's a lot of staple stuff gone. Swipe, Wrath, Starfall, basically all the direct damage spells. In fact, there aren't *any* left in the core set. Also a bunch of chaff and icons of the past have been cut, like Claw, Ironbark, Savagery, Bite, Force, Savage, etc. Adjusting to all of that being out of the cycle is going to be jarring.

Instead, what we still have includes minor mana cheats (Innervate, Nourish, Nordrassil Druid), buffs (improved Mark of the Wild, Power of the Wild, Soul of the Forest, Cenarius), and a very small collection of choose one cards (Power, Druid of the Claw, Nourish, Ancient of War, Cenarius). Maybe 5 isn't that small, but most of those cards haven't seen recent play. There's very little beast support outside of Raven -- is a 1 mana 2/2 that good in 2021? -- and Menagerie Warden. I'm honestly not sure what druid's identity is here. It certainly isn't treants. It's not mana ramp. It's not beasts. It's not...well, much of anything. Druid will be completely dependent on the sets of the current year, because these cards don't even seem like they're likely to augment an existing deck beyond maybe 1 or 2 cherrypicks. Making a core-set-only deck, though? Yeesh.

Worth noting most of the choose one stuff that hasn't seen recent play got a buff.

Druid of the Claw is now a 5/6 taunt (or 5/4 rush, which granted, is arguably a downgrade from 4/4 charge, but that was the weaker mode anyway). Cenarius now costs 8 mana (down from 9)

> "is a 1 mana 2/2 that good in 2021?"

Well, let's take a peek at how many decks are running blazing battlemage. It's...a decent number, although it's not a common include in Token Druid. (Token Druid has access to 1 mana for a 2/2 Treant, though, which they do run, and Treeinforcements is rotating, so maybe they do care about enchanted raven after rotation?)

I guess there's an outside chance of Druid of the Claw being a relevant beast with its stat buff? No, probably not, probably still need to get beasts from expansions.

Anyway, worth noting Druid is keeping almost all the cards they actually use in decks right now. They aren't using Wrath right now; Lunar Eclipse is better. Bogbeam is also better. They aren't using Swipe either. But they are using Power of the Wild. They are using Innervate. They are sometimes using Wild growth.

There is one massive exception that they are losing: Savage Roar is obviously a card they're using right now. But other than that it seems like they're keeping everything else important?

I don't want to declare any of the new cards as being on the power level of savage roar, cause I'm pretty sure they're not. But Druid looks like it should survive the rotation.

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