‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble within the wabe:
All mimsy have been the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Shudderwock, my son!
The Battlecries that echo, the animations that drag!
Beware the combo deck, and shun
The frumious Lifedrinker!”
And so Blizzard final evening detailed plans to tweak the Shudderwock, a mighty beast added in Hearthstone‘s new Witchwood expansion which is the main focus of a combo deck capable of win over one lengthy, lengthy, lengthy flip.
The Shudderwock is a 9-cost 6/6 creature which has the Battlecry to “repeat all other Battlecries from cards you played this game (targets chosen randomly).” Less than a day after Witchwood launched, famous Hearthstone YouTuber “Disguised Toast” was using it in a combo deck which may ultimately win the sport in a single single flip that takes a number of minutes as a number of Shudderwocks come into play and squillions of Battlecries pop off.
“We understand that the length of its Battlecry animation and other animations spawned from its Battlecry can be frustrating,” Blizzard said last night.
“In a future update, we will be doubling the animation speed of Shudderwock’s Battlecry so it will lessen the impact on the overall pacing of your current Hearthstone match. In addition, the amount of Battlecries Shudderwock can reproduce will be capped at 20.”
Blizzard additionally plan to hurry up the animation for Lifedrinker, a critter utilized in Shudderwock decks, for a similar motive.
One, two! One, two! And via and thru, the vorpal patch will go snicker-snack in a future replace.
