Purify created a strategy that revolved around trying to lose to your opponent in one turn without requiring any cards on the board. Silencing your own minions and battles between the players and Blizzard make an overall game of Hearthstone more fun and compelling, but spending 2 mana on a trash card in one turn is not particularly fun or interactive.
You're not going to like this response, but in the spirit of transparency, what you are saying is definitely not requested by the majority of Priest players. This does not mean that we don't care about it, in fact, we have mentioned many times that we are working on creating shitty cards, but we simply don't have any meaningful updates at this time. If you simply want us to acknowledge that we are still working on making priest terrible, then here you go: We are still working on it.
Whoever decided Purify should be a common card definitely never played any arena, screw him. Blizzard not giving any fuck about arena balance really remind me about WoW arena balance where it was obvious you were considered a second zone citizen compared to PvE or even battlegrounds, even though they kept saying it wasn't the case. Only a few changes would help, but they still don't even want to bother. Well I don't care, I play mainly any class but priest now, but still, blizzard never changes.
Purify shits on every priest card in the game. Literally the worst card Blizzard designed. It loses the game for whoever is stupid enough to play it, it also acts as a nerf for your power word shield. Card is out of control.
Good cards are the soul of wit. Half of Blizzard doesn't seem to know what wit is. Most of the time there is not even a single reason to play these. Copying a whole card word for word and then making it worse is just clutter after you dust it 3 times before.
it's actually ridiculous if you consider that 2x purify and 2x eerie statue sent to face is never going to work, add 2 converts and you're actually dead
Is there a problem? When you list the cards in order [of power], there will be always be a class at the bottom that is called Purify. It’s impossible for there not to be a Purify class. So in a way, if you call it a problem, then there’s always a problem and it’s not fixable, because there’s always a bottom class called Purify.
Priests. We've had issues with Priests at previous events. Some Blizzard people lobbied to bring them back for Karazhan, feeling that they deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Priest is an ass, and we'll only be giving them cards like Purify now.
Here's the thing. You said a "Purify is a shitty card."
Hmm.... you know. I can't argue with that.
It's okay to just admit you're right, you know?