Blake Windrunner needs to run like the wind

[theberkin8or]

... I vote a resounding no. Blake is a powerful card this would push him over the top into horrid brokenness. Blake plus aldon is already the dream start of many decks. With haste he would completely trumps any other two drop and with Aldon he kills most 3 drops. He is balanced because while his damage output is huge for a 2 resource creature he is fragile. It also would be wise no to forget that he was actually nerfed a couple updates ago for being too powerful. Bella plus haste would be equally stupid. She would basically read "Kill target 5< defense creature, draw card, your opponents next attack is directed at Bella instead of your hero."

[iClipse]

Blake plus aldon is already the dream start of many decks.

Well, thing is, that that dreamstart would be more easily countered if blake had haste. Or if something had haste at least.

Not saying it's a balanced change, just being advocate of the devil here.

[theberkin8or]

Clipse: Haste is definitely a interesting mechanic and that is a really good point about haste being used to make the ground battle a little more back and forth (as opposed to huge swings like now) but Blake is so incredibly the wrong ally to try it out on. Haste is a very powerful ability and it shouldn't be added to an already under-costed ally. I am all for giving Dirk haste though. :-D

[A1 Otto7]

dirk is a good choice but haste+ambush+2damage=4cc at least
if not then just a new ally.i vote for cheap and weak so as to come quick and kill the first played blakebut viable to withstand 1 backattack from puwen.something like rogue's answer to blake aka nightshade!!

[JZ1MM4]

very true, otto. and berkin, i do not remember what Blake's previous form was before the update...could you remind me?

[qaz92zaq]

Haste doesn't have to be given to a certain amount of allies on each side...Look at it now: humans have stealth, ambush, protector, distract, and cripple. Shadow has: thorns, stoneskin, DD, card draw, and regeneration.

Now, I am a fan of sharing certain abilities...haste and protector are good examples...but I am a staunch believer in keeping certain powers unique. MTG all the way (ironically, haste is a fully red ability in MTG, which is weird I'd suggest it to be shared here...)

If you want to do things "MTG style" one side could have haste the other first strike since both are abilities that are being suggested for the sake of regaining board control. It would not need to be exclusively human has one shadow has the other it could be they each get 2 of one and 1 of the other.
As for giving these abilities to preexisting allies I vote no unless they are planning on rebalancing that ally anyway.

[Padawan Pete]

very true, otto. and berkin, i do not remember what Blake's previous form was before the update...could you remind me?

He had 2 health instead of 1.

[GS]

Yeah, give to dirk. Nobody even uses him!

[Reshiram99]

No. Learn to play Puwen. He's simply a better choice for slower decks.

[Lahiri]

Haste is too powerful in SE because all allies have first strike and can choose their target.
A Blake with haste would be OP even if it costed 3
And yes, Dirk sucks, he should be buffed.
It could become something like this:

Dirk Saber 4cc
Haste, Ambush
Attack 2, Defence 3