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Look broken until you realise that 90% of the time this is just a 5 mana to remove one minion, which makes it actually worse than Assassinate

So, this card gives you the option to steal a minion off your opponent. Apart from the fact that priest can already steal opponent's cards, there's very few targets of which this card is a definitely advantage in including into your deck. So sometimes you steal a prime target like Deepminer Brann and then most of the other times this is just a brick in hand.

I can definitely see this in priest as a discover option but outside of that this card just doesnt do enough for me to impress.

Illidan Stormrage was even changed to Xavius when Demon Hunter was announced. But now we have so many alternate Heroes, many of which are represented as minions.

The same expansion also introduced the Lady Liadrin legendary, even though the character already existed as a hero skin. The reason why they changed the Illidan minion was because they didn't want to have the base hero portrait character represented as a minion on the board (At least for Constructed. According to an Interview Mercenaries actually started out with only the 10 base heroes). They might have changed their mind about that, but there indicator you gave is not valid here.

It's looking quite likely. There will even be a highlander variant if you include Maruut Stonebinder but ofc it'll have to be Shammy Highlander

Can't believe the reins-of-the-phosphorescent-stone-drake mount has been reduced to this... Stone Drake

Now my hopes of getting a Aeonaxx legendary dragon are quickly dissipating 

Thanks for the info, I am new here.

I have limited experience playing WoW, so I never directly engaged with the Elemental Lords. Other media such as Hearthstone or Heroes of the Storm helped shape my image of Ragnaros, and from those he has always seemed like the most entertaining of the four to engage with. In comparison to THE FIRELORD, the others barely have a personality (and/or don't even show up until recently/now). I'm not upset, because I enjoy Ragnaros, but when you put in effort to make one of the Elemental Lords more likeable than the others, of course you'll want to use him more.

Ragnaros is going to be the face of Warcraft Rumble's Raid mode - whenever they get around to releasing it - so there's another example of Blizzard's bias towards him over the others lol.

My prediction for the 10th anniversary set is that we're going to get the default heroes as game-changing Legendaries - Jaina, Thrall etc. In earlier years, it was considered off-limits for Heroes to also be minions; Illidan Stormrage was even changed to Xavius when Demon Hunter was announced. But now we have so many alternate Heroes, many of which are represented as minions.

Of the elemental lords, Ragnaros is the only one treated as a marketing draw by Hearthstone.

I feel that if they've been waiting for so long, they should have waited a little bit more and introduce her in the 10th anniversary set.

Its 1 mana deal 3 damage to face.

Most of the time its single most utility is indeed to do just that. As to whether it'll see play outside highlander, probably not. Best chance is in dhunter where dealing damage for small mana is almost an identity.

Its a fine card for what it is.

Probably more relevant to rogue that dhunter since rogue needs the draw more urgently than dhunter and a 2 mana draw 2 is handy.

This card is basically here to save a minion from being removed.

So cards like Illidari Inquisitor can be saved for the next turn and lose absolutely nothing in initiative.

But of course, the real power of this card is simply the fact that it more or less guarantees you can never play a titan against this without risking your own. That alone makes this a viable card.

I love this card.

But hearthstone has moved beyond these things. Still, it is a taunt minion that cant be interacted with.

Dont think it'll make much impact but you got to respect the taunt and lifesteal at least.

Its more relevant to rogue, since it allows poison rogue to essentially remove minions without sacrificing weapon swings. Plus, with enough durability you might scupper your opponent's plans to viper it, since they now have to get rid of this minion before being able to do so.

Cant think of much else really. Its viability is determined by how many weapons you typically play and whether you can hold onto a brick until then.

If youre playing an elemental deck this card is a shoo-in.

If youre not, then this card is trash.

So is viability is stuck to elemental decks. Have to respect it, but I dont think I'll be seeing this guy too much.

Its great vs aggro assuming you're playing control, but its really never realistically a good AoE choice.

4 mana to deal 2 damage is bad enough. 2 damage really doesnt kill much nowadays. At most this card is a bane to all aggro decks especially the likes of treant druid but I can think of better AoE cards like Immolation Aura that not only cost less, but sometimes allowing me to swing board whereas this card effectively caps me from doing the same without risking it to die before I get to do anything.

At first I was thinking it might be an epic from a miniset that actually sees play and then I see what team5 did to cap it in its knee (not that it has any)

Being a deathrattle means if you cant immediately kill or trigger it its effectively worthless. Even if you can somehow contrive that to happen the most is that this grants windfury to some minions but that's a far cry from actual enders like Grave Strength

Cant imagine this being anything more than a meme card.

I dont know what this will do but it'll be broken as fuck at some point and team5 would be forced to nerf and hand out apologies.

Only good thing is that this card is difficult to trigger (so even if randomly gained its not guaranteed to immediately turn games) and its a warrior card, just about the only class that rarely relies on battlecries.

But really, you cant print out cards like this and not have it be overpowered. Its just impossible.

It'll see play because its a highlander payoff.

But its not a very good one. There's just tons of elementals to discover so your range can go from Ragnaros the Firelord to Bubbler, and if all three are not good then this card just clogs your hand with bs.

So this is it? The long wait for Therazane only for her to end up like this?

Basically a stat monster, similar to Lor'themar Theron, except this only works with elementals and more crucially, this is a deathrattle. Essentially its worse than lorthemar, unless going full on stat bombs is what you want to do.

Problem? well, the biggest one is the most obvious. What indeed is this card supposed to do? Even lorthemar itself only ever saw play in either highlander decks or decks with clear win cons that involve charge. This card has none of that advantage and comes with an even bigger disadvantage in that it can be silenced or interacted with before it does anything useful. Plus with reno everywhere its hard to actually imagine this card doing much more than eye candy.

Only niche I can see is deathrattle interaction. Its entirely possible to imagine this card being relevant because of it.

Probably not worth clarifying this by now, but I meant that taunts are the only thing that'd stop you from splitting the damage up as you please. Not that the minions ignore taunt. Probably should've made it clearer.