I have a strong preference for nerf the stats instead of the gold. Reducing the stats does give you the lowered efficiency you’re looking for, and means that now you’re looking for doing many things a few turns in a row instead of one big combo turn.
And this is both #fair because there’d now be way more good counters (including a large number of maxbanded heroes that’d successfully trade w hyperion) and because present can totally run out of steam once TD runs out of things to fetch.
I think id even rather do -1/-1 and a 0/-1 to hype and tric before nerfing the fun with TD