In a post from the Battle.net forum, community manager Aratil has revealed some changes to the expert cards, in particular two which are pretty much a staple in every top-tier deck: [card]Tinkmaster Overspark[/card] and [card]Nat Pagle[/card]. This pair has been the subject of debate amongst the community, given their game-breaking potential and huge RNG element.

The changes will be as follows:

Tinkmaster Overspark is now a 3/3 (up from 2/2) and now reads: Battlecry: Transform another random minion into a 5/5 Devilsaur or a 1/1 Squirrel. 

Nat Pagle now reads: At the start of your turn, you have a 50% chance to draw an extra card. 

On the subject of Ranked Play, after the new patch hits, players will have a "soft" ladder reset instead of going back to Rank 25.

Explained further:


After the next patch, you will receive bonus stars at the start of each season based on your performance from the previous season. This way, players that have progressed far into any given Ranked Play season will not be challenging those potentially new to the game or jumping into Ranked Play for the first time.

For example, if you attained Legend, Innkeeper (Rank 1), or Black Knight (Rank 2) rank in any given season, at the start of next season you will start off at Questing Adventurer (Rank 17) rather than Angry Chicken (Rank 25).


As always, changed expert card will receive a full disenchant cost for a limited time.

Source: Battle.net