Question: What happened to Kingsbane decks?

I dont think it was the prep nerf that killed it. A few months back they nerfed leeching poison really hard. While they decreased the mana cost of the spell, the spell no longer gave your kingsbane permernant lifesteal. Kingsbane was initially a great counter to big priest and almost all control decks, being able to trade into big targets with high attack to negative health before healing back up again. But now it is only able to heal up twice after the nerfs. Maybe it could do well in the control matchups but big priest is one of the most popular decks out there, and without the permernant lifesteal it could not clear all the lich kings, yshaarj's, and what not. So the kimgsbane deck fell out of favour and switched it to be a more aggro deck with pirates and such. Only then did the most recent nerfs to prep and raiding party hit the deck really hard.

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