Worst Watch Post. Requires you to have some minions on board, and for your opponent to have spells to cast. This doesn't even approach the point that usually when you have a board of minions the spells your opponent casts are of the removal variety. It might be a nice way to threaten spell-heavy decks that want to cast a lot of spells that don't interact with the board, but there's way too many conditionals standing in its way.
I disagree with everyone saying this is worse than Dreamway Guardians for Token Druid. You’re basically losing Lifesteal but gaining Taunt. There are plenty of time I’ve wished for some more taunt in my token decks. It’s not a common enough need to justify adding a card for it, but it’s a nice-to-have. On the other hand, Lifesteal rarely matters in the archetype. So this is overall an upgrade to a card that had already been worthwhile.
This expansion has no other cards that support Token Druid, so we may have to wait until later in the year, unless the existing token decks keep working after rotation.
Best Watch Post, in my opinion. Seems like it could be a tech card in certain metas and certain decks like how Ogremancer came in as a way to counter Weapon Rogue. It probably isn't going to be very strong, but there's always a chance.
A very weird tech card that doesn't actually solve any problems. The best thing about it is that now you know what your opponent's Secrets are, which makes them easier to play around...but you still have to play around them and now you've paid 3 Mana just to find out what they are. In most cases, I'd rather take a good guess than put this in a deck. If Horde Operative sees more than occasional play, that means the meta needs some serious adjusting.
This is worse than the OG Grim Patron as you can't get two Gruntled Patrons from one of them, so it lacks the scalability. Also, the tools that made Grim Patron good back in the day, namely Warsong Commander, do not exist in the same way today, meaning the Gruntled Patron doesn't really have a payoff.
New Mage Minion - Arcane Luminary
Good with evocation and c'thun, but other than that... not that great
New Mage Spell - Wildfire
With 2 of them = 2 mana deal 3 hero power.... so good
New Neutral Minion - Crossroads Watch Post
Worst Watch Post. Requires you to have some minions on board, and for your opponent to have spells to cast. This doesn't even approach the point that usually when you have a board of minions the spells your opponent casts are of the removal variety. It might be a nice way to threaten spell-heavy decks that want to cast a lot of spells that don't interact with the board, but there's way too many conditionals standing in its way.
New Paladin Minion - Northwatch Commander
Good basic minion that'll be in the secret paladin for sure
New Paladin Weapon - Sword of the Fallen
Basically draw 3 cards and cast them, really good
New Paladin Minion - Knight of Anointment
Will probably be in all paladin decks
New Priest Minion - Soothsayer's Caravan
To random, not good enough for the risk
New Neutral Minion - Spirit Healer
Random buffs that force you to jump through hoops to get them...No, I don't think I'll ever want to put this in a deck. Not good.
New Rogue Spell - Silverleaf Poison
So many card draw....
New Rogue Minion - Efficient Octo-bot
Great, card draw and mana reduction in rogue
New Shaman Minion - Lilypad Lurker
You need to consistently put down elementals to make this work
New Shaman Minion - Tinyfin's Caravan
Would be really good if it was a murloc
New Druid Spell - Thorngrowth Sentries
I disagree with everyone saying this is worse than Dreamway Guardians for Token Druid. You’re basically losing Lifesteal but gaining Taunt. There are plenty of time I’ve wished for some more taunt in my token decks. It’s not a common enough need to justify adding a card for it, but it’s a nice-to-have. On the other hand, Lifesteal rarely matters in the archetype. So this is overall an upgrade to a card that had already been worthwhile.
This expansion has no other cards that support Token Druid, so we may have to wait until later in the year, unless the existing token decks keep working after rotation.
New Neutral Minion - Mor'shan Watch Post
Best Watch Post, in my opinion. Seems like it could be a tech card in certain metas and certain decks like how Ogremancer came in as a way to counter Weapon Rogue. It probably isn't going to be very strong, but there's always a chance.
New Shaman Minion - South Coast Chieftain
Just wow, way to have board control with a murloc deck is a huge deal
New Shaman Minion - Spawnpool Forager
The perfect 1 drop minion!!
New Warlock Minion - Barrens Scavenger
Doesn't seem that great, it'll sit in your hand a lot for just a 5 mana discount
New Warlock Minion - Kabal Outfitter
Perfect in zoo warlock
New Warrior Spell - Rancor
A good old control warrior card
New Warrior Spell - Bulk Up
The dillo is gone sadly, taunt warrior will be hard
Blademaster Samuro and Golden Mankrik to be Disenchantable for Full Value For 1 Week After Pre-Release
There are some different opinions about it, but I've got this.
https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1246508760006135809
So unless you have all the legendaries, you shouldn't get duplicates, golden, diamond or regular.
New Demon Hunter Spell - Vile Call
Doesn't really like it
New Neutral Minion - Horde Operative
A very weird tech card that doesn't actually solve any problems. The best thing about it is that now you know what your opponent's Secrets are, which makes them easier to play around...but you still have to play around them and now you've paid 3 Mana just to find out what they are. In most cases, I'd rather take a good guess than put this in a deck. If Horde Operative sees more than occasional play, that means the meta needs some serious adjusting.
New Neutral Minion - Gruntled Patron
This is worse than the OG Grim Patron as you can't get two Gruntled Patrons from one of them, so it lacks the scalability. Also, the tools that made Grim Patron good back in the day, namely Warsong Commander, do not exist in the same way today, meaning the Gruntled Patron doesn't really have a payoff.
New Neutral Minion - Crossroads Gossiper
A good tech card against paladin actually