New Neutral Minion - Talented Arcanist

Effect not worth it in Mage, is it good in neutral? We will see

Solid targeted spell damage

Only good in mage, it's too bad it doesn't linger because it's useless with Ras

Not good enough I think.

Could be good in DH! They don't have any spell damage minions, but quite a lot of differnt clears. Could pair well with the lifesteal guy.

Nice one

eh... for not keeping the Spell Damage, it's really lack luster

Very good in combination with small boardclear spells

Celestial Emissary almost saw 0 play. but, this is neutral so who knows.

Back in the day this was a 2/1. At 1/3 it's way better and as a neutral it has some neat applications for many different classes.

Funnily enough, this would have never been printed before the Core set overhaul (because of Swipe among other things)

I would definitely consider this in Hunter just because of Bola Shot

Could be interesting. Not really sure what to make of this over all. Could be cool in Druid with all their spells, and even as a way to empower new Ysera's board wipe if you really need it. In Mage it of course has a lot of potential as well.

Good tool for classes that don't have access to spell power, Priest could use this for stronger boards clears if it needs it since current card only deal 2/3 I think.

The others are right, only great in mage.

it should be a mage card ...

Celestial Emissary, but it's neutral with more defensive stats. Might see play in Spell-damage decks, but i'm not sure. Celestial Emissary never saw much play, and it still doesn't. HOWEVER it might be good from a Primordial Studies.

Has some OTK potential!

good card

good for combos

Auto-include in Spell Mage

Good in any combo deck!

good addition to the otk dh maybe

Some degenerate combo deck will abuse this. 

Combo, anti-aggro, fun, i like it, but will probably not play it xD

I like doing spell damage like this. Spell damage is hard to use since the more spells you can cast with it, the more damage that card is dealing. So you fall into this trap of hoarding your cards until you can cast a ton of spells in a single turn off of one spell damage minion. But since this gives you a set amount of spell damage, you feel more comfortable using it in more scnarios.

Nice spell damage for burn/mozaki mage. Doubt any other classes will be using this card though. 

Flexible

Nice

Good setup for a finisher

Seems alright, but I think someone needs to find a degenerate combo with this for it to see a lot of play

Meh card, the dormant elemental is much better.

High potential for both tempo decks, combo decks and burn decks. Will definitely be experimented with a bunch.

Very interesting as a neutral. I really like it, big fan of spell damage.

a bit clunky and conditional, might not be worth it

Now that they are removing most of the remaining classes' face burst spells from the core set, making it neutral doesn't seems so appealing but hey, time will tell how this can be weaponized

I can see this in only otk decks and thats it.Don't like it that much

Cram Session, as was mentioned in stream, works very well with this minion. I think this will be more of a "for fun" card that sees play in interesting decks rather than something that makes the cut in the more polished decks. Still, lots of potential for it to see play.

Mage has better options

It seems decent, let's see if it manages to find a spot!

With even cheaper cheap mage spells, you'll burn through your whole deck AND kill the enemy

Rogue can use it. Great for combo setups.

Celestial Emissary saw no play and, aside from competing with Ethereal Augmerchant in Lifesteal OTK DH, i don't see any other use for this card, especially considering Talented Arcanist is more expensive. Sure, Skull of Gul'dan nullifies the mana issue, but still.

Cheap way to end a game if you have the damage in hand.

A great way to get rid of a big board too.

If you said this is only good in Mage, you should probably go ahead and uninstall Hearthstone.

Every damage-based AoE in the game* wants to follow this card, as do most single-target burns -- especially the ones that can hit face. Burn Shaman in particular will absolutely be playing this.

*excluding Warrior shenanigans in some cases

Reprint of Celestial Emissary. Won't see play.

The classes that care about spell damage already have efficient spell damage cards like Imprisoned Phoenix that isn't limited to one spell. I think Talented Arcanist doesn't do enough for any class to run it.

So clunky to make use in a spell damage deck

Versatile and simple to slip in to almost any turn. Gotta get a good payoff, though, since the minion itself is subpar. 

very good boost 

Not strong enough tbh. the +2 spell damage dormant minion in mage and shaman is probably better for a combo deck

Celestial Emissary 2.0. Kinda meh 

I think this will not see play

Can be good with cheap AoE spells, but as Celestial Emissary, won't see play.

Quite a number of reprints we've got in this expansion.

Ok for Mage i guess but everything else ... pretty meh!

I'm looking at you, mage

Good potential

auto include in any mage deck

I think it is too weird and too specific to see realistic play

Looks OK

Very good as a combo piece, could be tried out in Rogue or Mage.

There are better spell damage minions out there if you need them with permanent spell damage.

It can't be discovered from primordial studies, and its effect only last once. In other words, its just bad. If you need a pay off minion, just play Imprisoned Phoenix, which while is slower is at least not restrictive to one spell.

Good spell power, but just using one time bring some restrictions too

Weaker than Spellzerker, and that saw almost no play.

Goes very well with any board clear or lifesteal spell.

good

With Classic Malygos gone, I'm sure this can find a home in some kind of combo deck.

Seems weak for only 1 spell dont think this will see much play

Its a phenix with worse stats and one time effect. I dont think it will see play this year but why not when phenix rotate. The only good use i can see for now is on an aoe spell like counting star.

Meh, +2 just for one spell isn't good enough, would be good for a +2 for the whole turn

Could be good.

Nice for the new litttle aoe spells.

A neutral Celestial Emissary with a better body. We must not underestimate a +2 spell power because with some spell can be a broken addition

Cool 

This is just okay to me, but I might be wrong.

Neutral Celestial Emissary. I cautiously say that it will not be good enough, but who knows

Since it has decent stats for its cost, it'll probably see some play in spell-centric decks

Kinda weak. It should be the next spell you cast gets spell damage 2, not until end of turn.

Not good enough. Just one from average expansion card

mage might play this

Nice balance of good spell damage but not over powered for multiple turns.

Fair, nothing too crazy.

Very useful, wish it was elemental 

just here for quilboar tuskaroons

No arcade missiles, no frostbolt, what's the point of this card.

Seems like a fair and balanced card so it most likely won't see play.

Not terrible, not great.   +2 spell damage might work in some situations...

I think this will find it's way into a handful of combo decks. There are just enough spells that would be VERY good with a +2 boost that I think people will at least one of this one. 

Very very flexible. Hard to see exactly which deck this slots into, but it wll find a place

Mage in particular likely won't use it, and why would it when it has much more reliable sources of Spell Damage. This is a card for combos in other classes, but these cards often don't work out well, saddly.

A cool combo piece, but I'm not too confident this will see much play.

Not bad.

decent combo piece or support for a removal spell.

Troll power Is not a damage thing anymore?

No other cards give you immediate spell damage +2 for that cheap. Only good once though, so good for a little extra burst.

Good for boosting spells.

Wasn't worth it in Mage outside of cheesy combos, but opening it up to other classes might give it a chance to shine.

Nice combo piece. Will find a home for sure.

I'm curious why this was created as a neutral.  It definitely feels like it could have been a class card.  +2 spell damage isn't anything to scoff at, but having it be a temporary effect significantly decreases its utility.