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  • New Hunter Minion - Wing Commander Ichman

    Its a bizarre 9 mana card when its likely more viable or suitable as an 8 mana card. Kinda reminds me of the Archwitch Willow treatment and that card saw no play on 9 and still sees no play on 8 despite having technically better big demons in standard.

    Its best looked at as a support card for big beast hunter, maybe a good card to follow from Guardian Animals of which this card clearly is trying to best. Without the big beast support though, Kathrena Winterwisp this aint. Hell, its not necessarily even better than guardian animals itself. Its sole promise is that Vanndar works on this instead of GA. Good luck on that, because half the time I'd rather just have King Krush and smorc face.

    But its a sign for better things to come for a big beast hunter.

  • New Demon Hunter Minion - Flag Runner

    Arena... Is gonna say no (so constructed as well). We don't like cards that tend to get us in a bind when synergies don't work and you're stuck with a lousy 1/6 that you're forced to play with no upside. Avoid at all costs.

     

    I mean honestly it just doesn't do anything. At best you're going to get a 3 mana 2/6 or a 3 mana 3/6 most of the time. Nice stats when it's timely, sure. Imagine drawing this in the late game though. 

  • New Demon Hunter Minion - Flag Runner

    Its basically Darkshire Councilman, and having 1 additional health really makes it sticky enough to survive past turn 3.

    But its supporting an archetype that hasn't been the same ever since the last core rotation where they removed Umberwing, Wrathscale Naga, Nethrandamus, and Command the Illidari

    All token dhunter needs right now is a viable finisher, and this card just isn't it, because it basically curves from nothing and curves into Coordinated Strike, which wastes 1 mana. Still, a nice start. Let's hope towards more support to come.

  • Riot Forge Showcases 4 Games - Ruined King Releases, Nunu Gets an Adventure Game

    First impressions after two hours of playing Ruined King: if you've played Battle Chasers: Nightwar, you've played this lol. There is some additional complexities, sure, and yet they're practically the same; expected when they're from the same company, and probably 100% on purpose, but still.

    I thoroughly enjoyed BC:N, though, so that's not an indictment. In this instance I'm good with more of the same with a League of Legends skin.

  • New Neutral Minion - Ivus, the Forest Lord

    Seems like a very good reactionary stall card especially for the paladin questline.  It can also be created by first day of school.  I don't know if it will be enough to improve that quest.

  • Here We Go Again - The Alterac Valley Reveal Season Gets a Rocky Start With Little Communication From the Hearthstone Team

    Staff Pro

    People on our current staff don't understand how to fully do a card reveal and they are already familiar with several of the systems we have on the site, so it wouldn't be something very accessible. As cool as it would be to have the community take care of it, and it is something I've thought about for other titles (allowing some form of community involvement in reveal seasons) but ultimately, its just too complicated and the either there is too much freedom available which ends up being a liability issue or there's no freedom and its impossible to react to differences in reveal periods.

  • New Neutral Minion - Ivus, the Forest Lord

    I wish my girlfriend was this flexible!

     

    Ah, who am I kidding... I play hearthstone afterall..

  • New Neutral Minion - Abominable Lieutenant

    Gonna eat a ton of Moarg forgefiends in Arena. Pretty freaking efficiently too 

     

    This card may even dictate classes if it's pickrate is high enough- if you can't remove it.... Game over man. 

  • Abominable Lieutenant is a New Card Revealed by Lt. Eddy for Fractured in Alterac Valley

    The only other place that uses "eat" as a thing on board (so no mutanus), is BGs and there deathrattles doesn't trigger, sure it is a diferente game mode but after tokis bug we saw minions in bob's tavern can be destroyed and trigger their deathrattles while "eating them" doesn't, i guess is just a matter of waiting and see what actually happens

  • New Neutral Minion - Ivus, the Forest Lord

    Seems like an auto-include in most decks. With a variable mana cost, it's good at any time in a match.

  • New Neutral Minion - Abominable Lieutenant

    This feels like tech card bait. This is not likely to be a combo breaker since it doesn't interact with hands or decks, so it needs to eat a valuable minion in a tempo oriented game. But on turn 8 there are probably better things you could be doing in that kind of match up.

  • Drek’Thar, Tax Collector

    Awesome my friend! Played a bit with this one yesterday to test my shiny Drek'Thar and it feels great disrupting the Tier 1 decks, when it works. Nerub'ar Weblord against Pirate Warrior is hilarious. Against Odd Hunter though, they are so strong against board based decks that even Mindbreaker couldn't stop them (they just kill it with spells). It may slow them down, though.

    I made some changes for testing purposes. Blessing of Kings in place of Authority because cheaper, and speed is everything in this meta. Galloping Savior felt underwhelming. Double Conviction (Rank 1) is a must-have IMO because frequently you just lack burst to win the race against the T1 folks. Good ol' Knife Juggler always an option, to not run out of creatures to tutor. I don't like the Rally or the Gossipers so I'm subbing them out for the moment. 

    Lemme know what u think. Also, if you think this is a real contender or just a meme. Didn't feel strong enough to me, as it's too dependent on the tutor effects and still loses most of the time to the holy trinity.

    GREAT deck name, by the way!

  • New Neutral Minion - Abominable Lieutenant

    This will fit in very nicely in the McDonalds Rogue deck in wild featuring Gral, the Shark and Mutanis.  Now if only I could get the Hamburgler portrait instead of Scabbs...  Oh well, I know what deck I'm playing at bronze 10 in December!  

  • New Neutral Minion - Gnome Private

    Solid card for the cost - goes from being a 1/3 to a 2/2 to a 3/1 in the best case. Probably won't see constructed play without a tribal tag, but in the right circumstances it could see play in an aggro deck., and it could be a cool buff target.

  • New Mage Spell - Siphon Mana

    Cost reduction is solid, and Mage has plenty of spell damage available to it, so this seems like a good card. Hard to say if it's good enough to supplant other cards in the current Questline Mage decks, though.

  • Ivus, the Forest Lord is a Legendary Minion Revealed by PCGamer for Fractured in Alterac Valley

    That’s good to know, thank you 

  • New Druid Hero - Wildheart Guff

    Easily worth the price up front, and the hero power is just dramatically better than the default Druid hero power for any combo or control deck, even before you account for the new max mana cap. Auto-include in any deck that wants to go into late game.

  • New Neutral Minion - Abominable Lieutenant

    Constructed? Awful, even in a meta about playing the biggest minion onto the board (which will never happen.) Depending on how Eating works with deathrattles and the like, it can have a niche application though.

    Arena? 5 Stars, you're picking this every time, and the game is gonna devolve into a game of chicken between who drafted more of them or the removals to get rid of them.

  • New Demon Hunter Minion - Flag Runner

    The comparison this begs is to Darkshire Councilman - same cost, nearly the same stats and scaling, but one triggers off of summons while the other triggers off deaths. Obviously the former is much easier than the latter to get value from, but with Feast of Souls in standard as a payoff for Token DH, I think it's easy to see how it wouldn't take much to make this a powerful payoff. Not an obvious 5-star card today, but I'm hopeful about its chances as the expansion cards are revealed.

  • New Neutral Minion - Ivus, the Forest Lord

    its been confirm you cant roll keywords multiple times, only the +2+2 buff can be roll more then once.

  • Ivus, the Forest Lord is a Legendary Minion Revealed by PCGamer for Fractured in Alterac Valley

    its been confirm you cant roll keywords multiple times, only the +2+2 buff can be roll more then once.

  • New Neutral Minion - Ivus, the Forest Lord

    Seems like a Druid class card in disguise... Can't wait for it to roll Taunt 9 times!*

    *Probably doesn't work like that.

  • Ivus, the Forest Lord is a Legendary Minion Revealed by PCGamer for Fractured in Alterac Valley

    Best part about this card is flexibility. You can just drop this on 3 and get a decent minion out, but likely best results are on 4, where you're nearly guaranteed a 3/3 with divine shield or rush at least.

    Its just a good minion, but does nothing other than being a good minion. Which means its not an auto include, but certainly an option available if you're needing good minions on 3-4. Even at its very worst, you can play this on 1 like an Argent Squire so why not?

  • Ivus, the Forest Lord is a Legendary Minion Revealed by PCGamer for Fractured in Alterac Valley

    This seems great if you reach 20 as guff and play it since you can get an uber body with special keywords

  • Ivus, the Forest Lord is a Legendary Minion Revealed by PCGamer for Fractured in Alterac Valley

    Staff

    That is assuming that it doesn't pick the +2/+2 buff multiple times.

    If you can't get the keyworded effects multiple times, then playing it at 5 mana would get you one of the following:

    • 3/3 with Rush, Divine Shield, and Taunt
    • 5/5 with Rush and Divine Shield
    • 5/5 with Rush and Taunt
    • 5/5 with Divine Shield and Taunt
    • 7/7 with Rush
    • 7/7 with Divine Shield
    • 7/7 with Taunt
    • 9/9 vanilla