metroid composite posted... I honestly predicted other rogues would pick up the Gnoll/Maestra package with zero other thief cards before it happened--Maestra just provides like 80% of all discounts to gnoll, which is stupid, and discourages actually running a high number of thief cards in thief rogue.
Like...think about Gnoll, think about if Maestra didn't exist. Is there ever a world where Gnoll is broken if you need to discount it by playing....five swashburglars? Absolutely not right?.
IMO Just remove the interaction between Wildpaw Gnoll and Maestra.
Change the text to "non-rogue class cards you've added to your hand".
If removing the Maestra interaction is too much of a nerf, you could even buff Gnoll to 4 mana so it's a 4 mana 4/5 rush before any discounts. (Still a card only actual thief rogues will care about).
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TBH, though, gnoll is still genuninely a hearthstone card that is interactive, and encourages both players to play for the board. I don't even think I'd be mad if they didn't nerf gnoll and just nerfed all the uninteractive shit instead. (Vicious Syndicate's suggestions of Incanter's Flow to 4 mana and Cloak of Shadows to 4 mana sounds fine to me. Edwin doesn't need to be a pirate who gains charge from Smite. I would also honestly not complain if they wanted to slightly lower weapon rogue's burn from hand with no weapon. Right now it's 36, which is manageable for armour classes like ramp Druid and control Warrior, but it would be cool if it was like...28 so that maybe a priest who is at 30 health behind a taunt wall can actually beat a weapon rogue. So like...put Garotte down to one bleed or make guild trader only give spell damage +1 would be possible ways to pull that off).
I was actually thinking that trading a Cutlass/SI7 Extortion could just make your Maestra disguise disappear but it also leads to other weird interactions like Secret Passage being a thing.
I feel like the idea behind Gnolls is fine it's just that Gnolls are so overtuned that they make board centric aggro really hard to be effective. I also think maybe Guild Trader could feasibly go to 5 mana and it could affect Rogue's burn a ton