Let’s pour one out for Hearthstone’s Coldlight Oracle

I have a confession. I went down a dark, dark path on my way to earning my Golden Rogue hero portrait in Hearthstone last year. I was having trouble getting victories with any deck under Valeera Sanguinar’s banner, and I was getting desperate. So I turned to … Mill Rogue. Coldlight Oracle and I became best buds for a couple of weeks.

So it was a bit of a shock when I learned Monday that Blizzard Entertainment was moving the beloved-yet-hated Murloc, which has each player drawing two cards as its Battlecry when you play it. It’s a card that factors into Mill-style decks that try to make you lose, or “burn,” cards because you have too many in your hand to draw any more. Some players would shudder every time this minion let out its “Murgle-gurgle-gurgle” cry whenever it plopped down on the board. It also appears a a card-draw engine in some decks that depend on complicated combos, like Quest Mage. You sometimes see it in rarer decks like Mill Warrior as well.