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I guess this is what removal for Druid looks like now.

Good analysis, and I think the Questline will be terrible. My issue with printing a card like this is that if it ever becomes consistent, it's completely non-interactive. You can see C'Thun The Shattered coming and try to drop enough minion health to absorb his 30-damage. I dislike OTK combos that can deal more than ~45-60 damage (looking at you Il'Gynoth) OR cards that make the fatigue game irrelevant (Jade Idol). This is both. Mecha'Thun is the most similar card, and that was still way, way more interactive than this design. Again, I'm not actually worried about this card being meta, but I dislike the design.

Great card with good vale for the cost

Reminds me Restless Mummy

I like that you can't go face right after buffing since you give it rush that balances this a bit.

This is cost efficient clear for 5 mana you put this on a 1 mana minion and get a 4/2 rush good clear.

I think this card will see a lot of play

See the thing is Mutanus is inherently RNG. Sure, you can basically guarantee to play him the turn Xyrella enters the hand, but it still ends up being a coin toss.

Tickatus also doesn't work because Priest has 3 (!) spell tutors that they can play alongside Xyrella so you will never get the chance to actually burn the Shard. At best you can hope to burn their quest requirements so they can't actually finish.

broken

The questline is pretty awesome, but the ultimate reward is kinda... eh. Granted Priest is a serious control class, this is a REALLY LONG TERM solution when there are a number of better kill options.  The questline rewards are pretty solid draws. 

Imagine relying on wording in Hearthstone

yeah noticed that... edited before noticed your reply =)

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Wording is the same as Skulking Geist, ie "x-cost card", which implies that you can progress the quest normally even though the cost of your cards has been modified.

its blizzard though, so even if wording is same how its coded may be differen

Wording is the same as Skulking Geist, ie "x-cost card", which implies that you can progress the quest normally even though the cost of your cards has been modified.

This card should be a staple in every midrange hunter deck. Great value

This was supposed to be a super easy one. It's a standard card that still sees play.

I disagree: Rush Warrior is curvestone. Seek Guidance is a better (but still very clunky) Map to the Golden Monkey.

Yes, Primordial Protector exists, but you'll have to invest literally 40 mana (+10 for Purified Shard) before being able to win the game. And you'll have to do it in a specific order.

My early two cents about this Questline: in the last few weeks (or even months) people complained about Priest's card generation - Priest generating too much stuff, games being too long and boring, opponents feeling miserable to the point of conceding on turn 1.

Now Priest has a (slow and clunky, but still) win condition: Xyrella, the Sanctified gives Anduin a "I win card" that forces the class to move away from the value plan and go towards a proactive game style.

Seek Guidance doesn't just ask you to vomit your entire hand, but rather to plan a bit: while cards like Palm Reading can help you, they can also screw you over pretty badly. Moreover, the fact that the cards you have to play are divided into different steps is pretty relevant: "I want to play this card now, but then I won't have a 6-Cost card for the Questline - what should I do?"

The nerf to Renew has now even more reasons behind it: not only Priest was problematic in the current meta -  Team 5 also wants Priest players to move away from card generation and adopt a game style with a win condition (Shadow Priest and Questline Priest).

Finally - still worried about Xyrella, the Sanctified? You cannot play an 8-drops and her in the same turn, and Mutanus the Devourer is a card. And so Tickatus is.

I don't think so. It's x-cost cards not cards that cost (x). Same wording as Skulking Geist and geist doesn't destroy all spells after alignment

And Primordial Protector, which specifically tutors Purified Shard...

If Priest has enough survivability this expansion, I foresee a lot of people complaining about Primordial Protector...

At least Celestial Alignment counters it... (and Mutanus the Devourer can do too)

Celestial Alignment actually counters this quest

I mean, you could always try to kill your opponent before he spends 51 mana on 10 different cards