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Yeah, the term "power creep" does not really apply to cards from different classes.

There are honorable kill cards that prey upon minions with 1, 2, and 3 health. If you avoid playing them all, you'll have no early game.

Druid's Amber Watcher
A Chillwind Yeti with Soulfire or Holy Light for +1 mana is nice.
Purposely word "to your hero" to synergize with Raid Negotiator

Freljord is my favorite region, and since it's been the weakest region for a while now, I've had big expectations for the new cards. So far, I'm very happy with them! Thematically, Freljord is supposed to have big, scary units, but Freljord's big units like Icy Yeti, Uzgar the Ancient and She Who Wanders are mostly terrible. The new Shaman units succeed at being big and scary, but they balance their huge stats and power with an initial period of vulnerability and requiring to be enabled somehow. In terms of power level, the new units are good but not OP, and in terms of selling you the Freljord fantasy, they're 10/10. I love it.

Okay this is my favorite mini set so far...

is only 1epic in the mini set and was already revealed (whelp bonker)

to be fair, Mage has (or used to have) way more ways to play cards for 0-mana. DH currently does not (unless you're counting post completion Quest, at which point there'S probably still better draw options)

Elwynn Boar support!

Also Sunscale Raptor support!

A year ago this would have been somewhat nuts, but now...Auctioneer isn't good if your actually have to pay mana to draw cards, Field Contact only worked because of Octobot and died without it.

Maybe if the rotation tones down the mana-cheat power creep a bit this has some value but right now your best bet is for this to stick for a turn to actually get a useful payoff and that rarely happens.

Decent turn-1 play but the upgrades kinda suck. Getting only one more token doesn't seem good, not to mention that the tokens don't have any keywords so unless there's gonna be a way to tutor Urzhul Giant and turbo that out to scam games I still don't see Token DH working out.

But then again, DH doesn't really have great turn-1 openers so maybe it's good enough for just that.

No Legendary/ Epic cards?

I love the amount of deathrattle support and the minimal amount of deathrattle cards that rogue have

This just seems bad. I mean sure, you can summon tokens for yourself and then blow them up for a decent attack boost but I feel like there's better ways to do that.  The fact that this costs 2-mana just makes it terrible in my opinion. Can't even abuse it with Expendable Performers.

Could be really good in Quest Hunter. It effectively means that if you get this in your opening hand with a bunch of other smaller spells you can turbo your Quest extremely efficiently while conserving ressources that will allow you to just end the game after Tavish drops.

Quest Hunter needed some support in Standard but I fear this + Howl is too much. It's a deck that thrives on just dumpstering board-based strategies that don't have explosive board swings and it's only slightly more fair than Quest Mage.

This might be complete garbage but I don't care, it'S post rotation Big Beast Hunter support and that deck is my absolute favourite right now. It synergizes with Vanndar and it's basically a faster and less clunky Guardian Animals. I already run just one GA because the 2nd one usually comes out too late and only makes Ichman weaker. I'd gladly replace it with two of these for a solid midgame play as well as the chance to highroll after Vanndar into a turn 5 Bear.

Good changes: I got a Mage to surrender mid-combo on turn-2 with this setup :D I had four minions out on turn-1; was filling my hand and about to play Survival of the Fittest on them when she quit.

Reload is finally real. Weirdly enough I'm not entirely sure if this is even that good in the current Face Hunter builds. Feels like a dead draw that only becomes good once you've gassed out at which point you might already be losing because you didn't steamroll hard enough. I mean...Voracious Reader does the same but it comes with a body and weirdly enough Face Hunter isn't even starved for draw.

Now where I think this will do some MAJOR work is in Quest Hunter. I've played that deck a lot during Stormwind and one of my most useful plays was...Loot Hoarder. Yeah. turns out that any card draw is pretty good when you can realistically close out the game by turn 7. This basically means that you can safely spam spells and don't have to worry about conserving ressources for later. If you topdeck this after dropping Tavish you probably just win. It's Kodobane for 2-mana and also a spell. This isn't a good thing btw, Quest Hunter, even in Standard has very one-sided gameplay, it's basically Quest Mage without Freeze effects in exchange for a much faster win condition. Be afraid (although thankfully the deck probably won't make it through rotation in one piece because Professor Slate carries a lot of matchups that are unwinnable otherwise)