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Camden posted...

Mogu Fleshshaper kind of got buffed. Weird nerfs.

As someone who plays plenty of Sea Giant, no that's not a buff to Mogu Fleshshapper. It costs nearly as much as Sea Giant Now, and unless your opponent helps you, you can't actually get Sea Giant below 4 mana (that's 6 slots, with one board slot open for the giant itself).

Don't get me wrong, in very specific matchups where both players are on board flood decks it will get down to 0 (I've cast Sea Giant for 0 before) but I think 90% of the time you're going to be paying that two extra mana. This means that you get Fleshshaper down 1-2 turns later on average. This means you might literally never play fleshshaper against control warrior (sea giant is a notoriously bad card in the control warrior matchup cause they keep your board clear and tend to have very few minions of their own).

Also, I think there will be an open question now whether it's better to put mogu fleshshaper or sea giant in your deck now. Yeah, if you fleshshapper and mutate you get to deal 3 damage and probably get something bigger than 8/8, but that's also two cards, and you need to draw both cause either on their own is sub-par.

(For me the biggest surprise nerf was Sludge Slurper. I mean, acceptable nerf, it's still better than EVIL Cable Rat which is never cut from quest shaman so the card will still have a home, it just was obviously wasn't the best 1-drop in Galak shaman when Invocation of Frost is around).

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