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Probably a bad card at the beginning of the expansion when everyone wants to try Dredge decks but it's still decent disruption regardless. Putting a card back into the deck doesn't trigger deathrattles and it's a good temporary removal with a body

Given that the two Warlock cards we've seen so far are both Murlocs and the expansion will be based around a sunken city and its surroundings, I dare to say that Murloc Warlock will be pushed seriously - it's too early to say whether it will be meta defining or not, but I am convinced that it's not going to be a one-of package like Seadevil Stinger in the past.

Mmh... not completely sure of it, Caro. While it may appears as the logical conclusion, Sir Finley, Sea Guide doesn't state that you'll draw the bottom cards of your deck: it might be a "replace" effect like Secret Passage.

And yes, Faelin into Finley will be the new Envoy Rustwix source of memes.

Decent card and perhaps we will see Murloc-Lock again!

A colossal Murloc was easy to predict in light of Bloodscent Vilefin, but for some reason I expected it to be neutral. Seeing a whole Murloc theme in Warlock will be interesting.

It'll be great if we get a "sunken" murloc and it's decent with the new Gigafin. Muclock support hasn't been a thing for a while, so definitely welcome it back

This looks good - even if you just use it for re-mulligan !

Good addition for Pirate Warrior! 

Tales of Graces vibes! "Look for the butt!"

Seeing the pirate tag makes me cringe, but guess we'll be getting more pirates anyway seeing as it's a sea based expansion. 

Simple card to showcase the new mechanic, will probably see play in Quest Warrior but that's it

That's very combo-oriented thinking. Not every deck is a combo deck. Sometimes you just want to put a lot of good stuff in one place and pull it all at once.

Sir Finley, Sea Guide will be bonkers in Quest DH, if it's any good next expansion. And good thing they get this as a much cheaper replacement for Glide. Will definitely be paired with Ambassador Faelin and other "Sunken" cards 

As shown in the reveal video, if your opponent removes the main minion, it's not that good. It's a creative design for a board clear but not that exciting for a legendary minion. I did like how the stats are swapped for the appendage. Might see some experimentation if warlock's other board clears don't perform well in the new meta. 

It would summon as soon as it apears, because Colossal is basically “This minion is summoned with X tokens.”

The question as I see it is will all these be in the transformation pool, or will the remove them.  It’s mostly a concern in Wild, where the chance of it happening will be super rare due to the large minion pool.  And past examples of things you couldn’t evolve or get transformed into were really just The Darkness and the big 12/12 who is dormant until some 1/3s die… forget his name.  So likely they will stay. But still, I’m curious to see.

Super cool concept! That's the kind of fresh and original cards I want to see!

I like how you describe it, I was thinking it's more along the line of Gigafin's Maw is actually Gigafin's ass 😅

Sir Finley, Sea Guide?

Why is it so hard to implement the release logic similar to Runeterra? As of day 1 they update all devices at the same time.

imo because they update days before and then enable all devices later on so they dont have to follow the various app store timings. 
way better then small indie blizzard…

Is this the first collectible card that fully clears an enemy board? Pretty crazy, might also see play in Wild because it's such a swingy effect. Even if the main body is cleared, it's essentially a Frost Nova.

Is trading a tradeable card shuffles your deck?

Russian Shell hype

I am impressed by this mechanic. Team 5 still has their creative juices flowing and continues to innovate. Makes me very hopeful for Hearthstone's future.

Really great value card for control decks. Still requires some Dredge cards but I'm sure we'll get more cards with that mechanic and I'm fairly certain we'll get a Dredge card that also draws the Dredged card. 

Lots of Dredging happening with this guy

Warlock has PLENTY of ways to trigger the deathrattle, so no problems with that. It's basically a Twisting Nether on a body, AND it only affects your opponents minions. Also this is nuts with Bloodscent Vilefin. This will 100% see play in any slower warlock deck in standard.

In wild wel.. Renolock might experiment with it. The only problem with Gigafin in most control-ish warlock decks in wild is the fact that Gigafin messes up N'Zoth, the Corruptor ress pools. 

Another thing to note, is that effects like these GENERALLY remove minions without triggering the deathrattles. So that makes Gigafin even better.

There is one really big weakness with Gigafin though. You probably want to play this against a opponent that plays minions, so it's bad against decks that OTK you. Which is a very big thing even today. But after rotation maybe decks like Defend the Dwarven District hunter might slow down due to a lot of spells rotating.

I doubt it removes them from the graveyard. The wording permanently is used because otherwise they'd have to write 'destroy the devoured minions', since the term 'remove' itself is confusing seeing that the minions are already 'removed'. But without testing, this is something no one but a dev can confirm.