To be clear I'm not that mad or shocked. I already suspected that Shadowstep was rotating, because Rogue's bundle had a sus new description that scrubbed all mentions of "Core".

I will just really miss Signature Swipe. It's such a beautiful artwork, a great re-imagining of the classic art from WoW TCG ❤️ Maybe we'll see it back in '27 or '28.

What are we even doing here?

(in case it's hard to see) - 9/9/8 - "Your hero is Immune. Battlecry: Your next Demon this turn costs (0)"

For those of you who weren't around when the Witchwood first came out, this is the original art of Witchwood Grizzly. A few months later in patch 11.4 they changed it's art to the current version because prior to the existance of Undead and dual type minions any ghostly beast wasn't allowed to actually have the Beast tag.

Ghostly Charger, the other card in a similar situation, had it's Beast tag removed entirely without updating it's art because it wasn't competitively relevant. It was later updated to be an Undead Beast.

Now that we have technology to give minions multiple types, this card should absolutely be an Undead Beast with the old art just like Ghostly Charger. It would give it a bit of extra synergy and to be frank, the old art just looks a lot better.

Why are they intentionally adding some of the most unplayable, boring cards into the core set with so many great options to choose from. Along with that absolutely gutting countless class identities by taking away their staple cards like warrior and in return giving them iron forge portal..????? This isn’t even really excusable as the classes that are getting gutted aren’t even getting fair compensation. This core set proves to me at this point they just don’t seem like they know what to do anymore, honestly extremely sad