Blizzard recently launched Hearthstone's Forged in the Barrens expansion, and the first balance patch of the new season will take aim at the game's most annoying card, Pen Flinger. The 20.0.2 patch also makes a big change to major Mage and Paladin cards, and makes the new expansion's Outpost cards a little less hearty.

The Pen Flinger card is likely to get the most attention for its sheer trolling. The card was part of the Scholomance Academy set, and it's modeled after the worst kid in your high school class. As the name implies, it flings pens for 1 damage, shouting "Hey, Loser!" as it enters play, and then gets bounced back into your hand as a Spellburst effect with an innocent-sounding "Wasn't me!" With two Pen Flingers in your opponent's hand, you would often hear "Hey, Loser! Hey, Loser! Wasn't me! Wasn't me!" several times in a single turn.

The problem, as Blizzard identifies, is that it was a little too versatile, and low-cost spells like various Rogue cards or the Paladin's Librams made it effective at chipping down health and taking over the entire story of a game. Since it can bounce back into your opponent's hand, they can control if it's left vulnerable on the board, and savvy players would just never give you any opportunity to remove it. So you could have a game where Pen Flinger slowly chips away your life, calling you a loser all the while, and there's very little you could do to answer it. With the change, it will only be able to damage minions, not heroes--making it a very efficient tool but removing its ability to act as a game-finisher. Who's the loser now?