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Can't wait to get my face roasted by a burn quest mage!

Look out for his brother climbing the nearby fountain.

Certainly playable. Nice armor gain, but if you compare it to Shield Block it kinda feels.. underwelming? considering you need to pay 1 mana to use it's tradable effect. Actually after looking at some other 3 cost armor gain cards, i noticed that Heavy Plate is basicly Ice Barrier that you can trade back into your deck. 

But still, i think Control warrior will still use it, because it's armor gain. Also the Silas Darkmoon OTK deck might enjoy it.

In wild... IT'S ODD COSTED. But i'm still not 100% sure if ODD Warrior will use it. It might help getting to the Silas Darkmoon OTK earlier. (For the ODD Warrior decks that run that combo.) I'm interested to see whether it makes the cut, but i'm guessing it doesn't because Shield Block is honestly superior in a lot of ways.

It’s for Legendary quests which are quests you get once, and usually have bigger rewards.

This is a monthly recurring quest so it’s not in the Legendary Quest category.  It’s more like a guaranteed 1500 xp quest each month, which after completing the rewards track that’s a 50gold quest…

Which is an entirely different issue for me!  Going on a tangent here…  Challenge a Friend used to award 80 gold.  Spectate a Friend Win was a pack (100 gold).  Now they are both 50 gold (when in bonus levels).  Overall the new system is still much better, but when I think of it in those terms it irks me a little…

Too early for me to be hyped. 

Kinda bummed about the Pre-order heroes for the new bundles, it looks like Rogue will never get another established character portrait. 

Third Hogger's in Heroes of the Storm, riding the hearthstone cardback mount 

I think dropping 3 mana 3/3 body with 5 turn dormant effect needs more than just a mere 12 damage split. Maybe make it 4 turn dormant instead because 1 turn dormant already provide a 2/2 body with effects.

Incredible card. 4 mana deal 3 is great for mid game, and in control vs control matchup you can just use it's tradable to spend 1 mana for drawing a new card. Basicly it's Hellfire that doesn't target your/your opponents FACE, and you can spend 1 mana to basicly "refresh" your draw, should you top deck it.

I think that in standard it will 100% see play in Spell mage and maybe hero power mage? 

In wild i dont think it will see play considering Flame Ward is cheaper and does the same damage. Oh and Flame Ward has the benefit of being a secret AND it doesn't damage your own minions. The only real deck that might use it is Reno Mage, because it's a reno deck. And Secret and APM/Mozaki mage obviously doesn't play it.

Always a mage or shaman in preorder skins

Why on a daily quest slot? What is the extra slot supposed to be for?

Yeah I think you're right. I remember that being in one of the AMAs with Iksar or something?  

Finally some shadow priest support. Makes it so you technically don't really need to run Shadowform anymore. However it does need some more support. Shadow priest seems like more of a aggresive deck because of the hero power, but the current shadow spells are a lot more control focused. So i wouldn't be surprised if some kind of control shadow priest shows up that either kills their opponent with the hero power, or uses the hero power as removal. 

In wild i think this might give rise to some shadow priest deck. Such a deck always suffered from the "darn, my Shadowforms are my last 2 cards" syndrome, so with that gone it might make the deck... semi viable? At least it buffs the deck from garbage into meme tier at the very least.

But yet again, we gotta wait for some more support for it, which im 100% sure were going to see this expansion, the HS team has already teased it a while ago AND they wouldn't print Darkbishop Benedictus without support, that would be REALLY weird. Still i'm glad we get another version of Archbishop Benedictus, considering the original Archbishop Benedictus is such a fun card.

It seems like there has been a last minute change ...

The Ragnaros shaman hero was supposed to be the reward for the legendary quest-chain (for free), while the Eternal Flame bundle contained "flamish" skins for 3 classic heroes and a cardback.

I wonder if Blizzard changed their mind knowing that giving away an alternate hero of the importance of Ragnaros for free would make them not earn a large amount of money, since no one would pay a buck for another 3 pathetic skins of the basic heroes of always.

Anyway, they have clear priorities, always thinking about how to squeeze their customers to get as much money as possible...

didn't they promise a new rogue skin like last year and we have yet to get one other than the rewards track ones/book of heroes which don't really count

These skins are amazing! The Malfurion one is insane too. I was underwhelmed by the Lady Prestor pre-order skin, so this must be where they hid the good stuff!  

Ben Brode approves.

Weapon tech without the (complete) downside? Seems like Doomhammer Shaman will take a hit, for one, along with all the Profession tools as they come in. Good stats for the cost in any case.

[Hearthstone Card (Spikeridge Steed) Not Found] came back as a priest spell. Hmm honestly i'm not sure what to think about it. It seems good SOMETIMES when you get it from random generation, but it doesn't seem good enough to run in your deck... Wait the only deck i see this getting play is in N'Zoth, God of the Deep Priest decks, ONLY if the Elekk is a beast minion. (Which i'm like 99% sure it is.) 

In wild i don't see it getting any kind of play, Ress/Big priest prefers big minions with additional effects (Deathrattles, etc.) and Reno priest will never run it, because it just messes things up for them. 

And I was salty :P

I'm not sure Onyxia will play that large a role. Hamuul ended up nothing more than a quest giver (deter-er?) after all. Most likely her role is akin to Kazakus', so being consistent we could still have seen Mathias Shaw here.

That portrait is super underwhelming. I really didn't think it was possible to make a portrait more bland than the basic mage portrait. 

The patch looks great to me. The free minion is a solide control card, Battlegrounds skins and especially the (sometimes) Darkmoon prices for BG sound awesome, and I like that they continue to introduce new skin bundles just like they did earlier this year and this one even includes Ragnaros as a new hero. The fact that malfurion is free is also nice.

But it seems like they removed the "spell locked" part of the 3. phase. My guesses are that it's either because of the mercenaries delay or it was supposed to be the battlegrounds cosmetics (though they didn't highlight them in the phase 2 of the roadmap)

Summer time is always the hardest time on my wallet when it comes to video games. It is funny because when I was younger I wouldn't be in school and would work full time and it would be the best time for my wallet.

So if i get it right, the ram is going to be a 2/2? If so then it's just a solid buff. It buffs ANY minion, which is great. Way better than those spells that only buff minions of a certain tribe, which hunter has plenty off. 

It's also pretty good for trading into a taunt cheat minion, because of the immune effect.

But still, i'm not sure hunter want this kind of effect, it might be too expensive for FACE hunter. Also, it feels like a more control-ish kinda card which Hunter isn't really known for. I'm really interested to see if Ramming Mount makes it into some hunter decks.

That Uther hero skin it's lit!

that pre-order skin is terrible, not just because it's mage but because it's boring looking.