Dear Ben Brode and HS development center.

I'm asking you(as well as another Hearthstone players) to bring back a classic rogue card "Blade fury" to its pre-nerf state, or to leave it up with a new effect and lower its manacost back to 2.

With the nerf we were expecting some new weapons or weapon buffs for rogue. But this class got non of those. I still can't see the true reason of this nerf. Due to the "Oil" which is rotating out from standart, rogue loses a lot of burst with it. However, if the problem with this card was in its burst potential, you could just change its describtion to the new one without changing its manacost.

Now we can compare this card to a "Consecration". It deals 2 dmg to every enemy, costs 4 and its a basic Paladin card. 
New "Blade fury" deals no dmg on its own. It requires some preparations to be useful. To deal 3 dmg to enemy minions rogue has to use hero power(2 mana) + use "deadly poision"(1 mana) + use "Blade fury"(4 mana) = 7 mana which equals to a weaker "Flamestrike". Yes, the actions can be splitted through some turns, yes, rogue can use "Prep" to lower the total manacost to 4, BUT the amount of preparations rogue has to do is huge. The amount of resourses used to make "Blade fury" viable is to much. 

Of course, rogue has some aoe cards like "fan" or "Skulker", but its effect is too weak and situational.

Rogue isn't a very popular class now. You've added such a nice rogue cards in a new expansion. We rly apretiate that. I think control rogue or C'Thun rogue is gonna be playable in a future. But this nerf strikes one of those cards, which keeps rogue on a stage agains agro and midrange decks.

Some agro decks(like shaman, warlock, paladin) will be playable in standart and it will be hard for rogue to survive against them due to a lack of aoe and healing. Plus, "Blade fury" was fine on a later stages of a game.

A lot of players will agree with it and im asking you to think about this change once more and make a wise decision as you always do.

Best regards, Corilar.