New Shaman Spell - Criminal Lineup

I've neve been so happy that Lightning Bloom got nerfed as when I saw this.  The idea of this firing off super cheap/fast with some of the ways that Shaman has to get fatties on the board is gross.

So....you can easily discount Big Totem and NAga Giant and make a fat board with this...but would that even be enough these days? 8-mana is a lot and SHaman doesn't have mana cheating for spells (outside of Far Sight)

Brings me back to the days of overload shaman.

But the crucial factor back then is that you can grant Snowfury Giant taunt using ancestral healing, which substantially makes the combo stronger and more reliable. This time round, we dont have that.

And plus, in what shape and fashion are we imagining we can get both naga giants or totem giant to 0 mana by turn 8? Because of the high cost of this card that's practically its only worthwhile targets.

Maybe its good enough, but we'll have to see. Even control shaman cant do this without turning full control mode with no murlocs.

A little too pricey to make any jaw-dropping combos, but it does have the potential to cause headaches down the road. I'll give it 2 stars for now.

I don't know off the top of my head what you would want to copy with this, but it could instantly put a metric fuckton of stats on the board, which might be, more often than not, too much for your opponent to deal with.

Remember Lesser Sapphire Spellstone? Well here is the powercrept version. No need to play tons of bad overload cards in order to get this effect! Criminal Lineup seems also good alongside Naga Giants or some other kind of giant. I personally remember how Lesser Sapphire Spellstone (Or actually the upgraded versions) into Snowfury Giant was actually decent back in the day, and we all know how strong flooding the board with big minions can still be good these days. (*ahem druid with giants + Oracle of Elune*)

I think the combo with Gigantotemwill be a very powerful one, just better than the Naga Giant one

Im still on the fence about Gigantotem, as in the best case scenario, by turn 6-7, you could get about 8 mana discount on it, which would be enough to set a powerful turn 8, but oh so conditional. The game might have been lost before you get to that point ... 

Pre-loaded Sapphire Spellstone, but I'm left wondering where this goes. Making multiple Giants is a thing of course, but not always as game winning as one might think it is.

Really strong card to use on big targets, even with the high cost and Overload. Probably worth running at least one copy of it to seal the game.