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PRAISE BE UNTO YOGG-SARON DAWNGRASP!!!

Arena: 6 mana draw 2 with a body can be good. With some luck the body doesn't even suck. What would be worse than a terrible body is having your cheaper spells costing 5 mana all of a sudden.

Constructed: Balinda Stonehearth alongside Magister Dawngrasp, Iceblood Tower and Rune of the Archmage is a deck builders galore for Big Spell Mage! Please, let it be viable!

You're absolutely right! I scrolled through the revealed cards and guess I missed this one. "Giantstalker Tavish" or "Tavish, the Giantstalker"?

What about a Hero Power deck where Wildfire is your primary Fire spell? Would the bonus damage carry over? I can't remember if it works with Frost Lich Jaina or not. Hell I don't even know what else you'd run off the top of my head; just brainstormin'. We need more spells that buff your Hero Power in different ways.

And what if those twice Puzzle Box cast another 20 Rune of the Archmages? Will it makes opponent concede on the spot? :p

Arena: It's a trap, even if you have so synergy.

Constructed: Great flavor, but I can't see Frozen Mammoth being anything more than a meme.

We haven't seen Tavish yet either, have we?

Is it a Frost spell though? While there is plenty of snow in the artwork and there is "ice" in the name, the Frost tag doesn't appear in the video nor on playhearthstone.com.

Now, Rune of the Archmage can cast Puzzle Box twice. But Puzzle Box can cast Rune of the Archmage ten times. Puzzle Box superior.

Mage - "And now, for my ultimate attack!"

*Pyroblasts Silver Hand Recruit*

*Pyroblasts another Silver Hand Recruit*

Paladin - "By the holy light!"

*Mage shamefully concedes*

Between this and Supercollider, we could have a new archetype; I dub it: Baseball Warrior!

The Hero Power is even called "Grand Slam" :D

Arena: Freaking insane! Best card ever! Questionmark?

Constructed: Is this better than Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron? It is, right?

Most people here are thinking of the normal three mage schools, but keep in mind Mask of C'Thun is a shadow spell.

But what if I told you that Rune of the Archmage can also cast Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron?

and a worthy addition to the box !!!

Magister Dawngrasp alongside Balinda Stonehearth, Iceblood Tower and Rune of the Archmage is a deck builders galore for Big Spell Mage! Please, let it be viable! The hero power is a nice addition, but you primarily run this for the battlecry of course.

ey, now i can die to 6 arcane inteletcs and a cram session, maybe just 10 cram sessions with some spell damage on board, who knows, fatigue damage always finds a way to get me

So that leaves "Kurtrus, the Demonbane" for the last Hero Card that needs to be revealed.

Skull of the Man'ari this is not, but this is guaranteed (whereas Skull could be removed before doing anything), and there are a ton of incredibly powerful demons in Demon Hunter that have immediate impacts on the board. I'm very excited to see Big Demon Hunter in the coming meta.

Another big spell for Big Spell archetypes. I'm not really a fan of random stuff, but this looks pretty good since the spells are only guaranteed to hit enemies. 

The weapon helps to deal extra burst and will make the opponent hesitate to drop high attack minions. The Hero Power is significant, as it lets you deal damage to the enemy hero, or kill a minion and gain armor. Not the craziest of the new Hero Cards, but very solid and consistent.

Every other hero cards have flashy battlecries. Rokara just bonks people to death.

I was expecting no less for Warrior to stand a chance.
This seems pretty strong

Here the first of the batch of Big Spells.
Hopefully, there are more to come to justify a viable archetype.

The hero power is a surprisingly minor upgrade on the standard Mage hero power, and the battlecry probably only fits some Big Spell type deck where you're sure to recast things like Deep Freeze (Frost), Flamestrike (Fire), Mask of C'Thun (Shadow) and maybe Arcane Overflow (Arcane). The potential value here is pretty high - this effectively serves as a third copy of a lot of big, impactful spells and you only really need to trigger two spells before you're getting a lot of value for the price. But it's really unclear that any Mage deck needs that much value to win games - it would have to be a very slow meta to really care much about having this in your deck.

Ultimately I'm a little shocked at how bad this hero is compared to the rest of the new hero cards. Shocked, but not particularly upset since Questline Mage is already so powerful.