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Mana cheat is strong, but it feels like it comes online too slowly. Only viable combo I see is with Glowfly Swarm, but that deck doesn't want many minions so don't feel like it makes the cut.

I'll call it now, this expansions secret ""???" Achievement will feature the Drek'Thar and these wolves. The flavor text even says "Your deck has 2 frostwolves within it.. "

It's like a mini Savage Roar for tempo DH, but we haven't seen that deck for quite a while. Its viability will very much depend on further card reveals that push aggressive strategies.

Autoinclude on every Rogue deck, strongest Hero card ATM.

Way too situational to be consistently good, but will feel awful when played against you. Hate the design of this card.

Defile was amazing, but this card is just too expensive (and doesn't interact with spell power). Part of Defile's strength was that you could combo it with other cheap stuff like Mortal Coil to set up perfect clears, that's a lot harder to do when it costs 3 mana more.

Too inconsistent and too weak by itself. Decent in arena though.

The RNG might make it a bit too inconsistent, pretty good Siamat like card though.

Might be too hard to consistently activate, but when you do it's strong. Unsure how good it will be, depends on the meta.

sorry but you're conflating "subverting expectations" with good writing. Just because they (seemingly) killed Tamsin off halfway through the story doesn't mean it's a good storyline. The good storyline comes from the build-up of characters, which were done well and whose actions aren't undermined by this recent development.

As it stands we don'T know where the story is going. We don't know how exactly Tamsin comes back as a LIch and how the other characters will react to it. It's entirely possible that they fuck this up and the story goes down the drain and ends up ruining the characters, but for now we don't know that.

Constructed: It's a Savage Roar that costs one less and gives one less attack, but lasts 2 turns longer. Savage Roar was sometimes used as a board clear, but most of the times functioned as a finisher. I feel like Field of Strife should be used as both at the same time. It's a board clear in the first turn(s) of the effect and a finisher in the later turn(s) and should be combined with cards like Expendable Performers and Command the Illidari. I guess that's the idea. I'm doubtful it'll work out.

Arena: Probably worse than Savage Roar. That does not make it unplayable, but should only be drafted in a deck that already has some synergy.

Very very very bad card. Too conditional to act as Frost Nova, too expensive to act as Execute. And it also freezes your own board! Terrible card.

Seems like a solid arena card, but too conditional with too little pay-off for standard.

The first signs for Freeze Shaman don't see very good, and this isn't enough pay-offs. Not quite as trash as Moorabi, but that's like saying you're not quite as bad a person as Bobby Kotick.

This is a worse Petting Zoo, and that already doesn't seem play. Also has anti-synergy with Dun Baldar Bunker because of the clunky curve.

Very strong card, especially if we get more big beast support. Already good if you just resurrect a Trampling Rhino.

It's a fun meme card, but there just aren't any good enough big beasts in Standard right no. No Charged Devilsaur, just King Krush. Feels like a worse Guardian Animals and that was already unplayable in hunter since the nerf.

With cards like Vaadner, new iterations of frost nova, battleground announcer, and that snow giant dude, it seems like big decks are being pushed very hard. Vanish would remove the reduction from Vadneer so if Rogue sees play then I imagine this would too.

I thought for once team5 grew a massive set of balls and actually pulled an unexpected good storyline in the middle of the three expansion, and have it actually mean something. But as it happens, my expectations were too high. 

I would be interested to see how they tie it to the storyline and what will tamsin be doing while everyone else indulge in the horde vs alliance factor. So there's that at least.

I heard the music in my head for the sword when I read this… haha

Arena: Super duper busted! Pick this every chance you get (if draftable).

Constructed: Opposed to Bloodreaver Gul'dan, Dreadlich Tamsin is more suited for midrange or combo decks. I expect/hope any entirely new archetype will be born out of this and Tamsin's Phylactery whether that's in Wild or Standard.

Weak. I've crafted her the moment I decided that Beast Hunter will manifest itself one way or another. Haven't used her since and I'm goddamn proud of it.

oh damn you're right, I completel forgot about that one.

I mean...it was blatantly obvious that they wouldn't just kill off one of the main characters halfway into the story....and further more they DID kill her...she just happens to have a phylactery that turns her into a lich. Sure, it's kind of a cop out but it's not insanely contrived. Hell, I think it would be worse if Tamsin was just gone forever because I kinda wanted to see how the gang handles her betrayal.

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