Quote Originally Posted by Zevox View Post

Honestly, I dislike the Hall of Fame in general. If it weren't for Gadgetzan Auctioneer specifically, I could honestly say I didn't want it to even be a thing. That is literally the only card that I think there's a solid case for pulling out of standard despite their original promise not to do that to the Classic set. Frankly, between the Hall of Fame and nerfs like Firey War Axe received, it just feels like Blizzard is slowly trying to make standard more and more reliant on new expansions by eliminating the good cards from Classic, and I don't like that at all.
No, that's definitely the case. They talked about this back during the first set rotation announcements, how they wanted decks to be mostly comprised of expansion cards. It sucks.