So... It's another way to say "mage, you fill your hand with RANDOM, then since we took away Sorcerer's Apprentice, use this to have, kind of, the same effect."
Turn 1 Kindling Elemental into turn 2 Arid Stormer into turn 3 Whack-A-Gnoll Hammer is a really powerful tempo heavy early game plan that can snowball into a win very hard. But elementals are, by design, slower midrange somewhat value oriented decks. Sure tempo is nice early, but without the big end game beatsticks, their gameplay falls flat as they don't have a lot of direct damage burst.
Rogue is already a tempo heavy class with the ability to generate a lot of resources very fast. The way this card works can really amp up that gameplay to another level. Not only that, it allows Rogues to increase the amount of burst from spells they can use in just one turn.
Let's not forget Preparation technically does nothing by itself. Efficient Octo-bot is like a mini Preparation that's not limited to spells but the opponent can interact with it. Expect al least heavy experimentation with this card.
New Neutral Minion - Burning Blade Acolyte
In arena, this is an insane card.
On top of that 5 mana 6/9 in stats is bonkers. And Jandice Barov... Oh god...
New Druid Spell - Pride's Fury
fine, just fine
New Neutral Minion - Lushwater Murcenary
2 mana 4/3 without a real condition.
Murloc classes can vomit the hand and not even realize that this card was a 3/2 with battlecry.
New Druid Spell - Pride's Fury
Amazing value card for Token Druid.
New Warrior Spell - Rancor
Nice board control card.
New Mage Spell - Wildfire
Insane value card.
Let's say this: Turn 2 you upgrade this in a control match, turn 3 you upgrade it again. Now you have a 2 mana deal 3 for the rest of the game.
It's even good against tempo and to some degree against aggro decks.
I love it.
New Warrior Spell - Bulk Up
Taunt Warrior returns!
New Rogue Spell - Wicked Stab (Rank 1)
Replacement for Eviscerate.
New Demon Hunter Spell - Fury (Rank 1)
Only nice when discovered.
New Mage Minion - Arcane Luminary
So... It's another way to say "mage, you fill your hand with RANDOM, then since we took away Sorcerer's Apprentice, use this to have, kind of, the same effect."
Wild Open the Waygate Quest Mage is mildly interested in this.
New Neutral Minion - Death's Head Cultist
Good when discovered, not worth its own deck slot though.
New Shaman Minion - Arid Stormer
Turn 1 Kindling Elemental into turn 2 Arid Stormer into turn 3 Whack-A-Gnoll Hammer is a really powerful tempo heavy early game plan that can snowball into a win very hard. But elementals are, by design, slower midrange somewhat value oriented decks. Sure tempo is nice early, but without the big end game beatsticks, their gameplay falls flat as they don't have a lot of direct damage burst.
New Neutral Minion - Lushwater Murcenary
Good value Murloc card.
New Neutral Minion - Crossroads Gossiper
Base stats are awful, probably does not survive to proc its ability.
New Shaman Minion - Spawnpool Forager
1 mana 2/3 murloc for shaman. It's not really that big of a deal, but a nice little added value.
New Priest Spell - Power Word: Fortitude
Good in Spell Priest.
New Neutral Minion - Oasis Thrasher
Fair card. Not broken, fair stats, an effect that can't be activated right away, and fair costed.
Not gonna see play, or at least not too much, since it's a balanced card.
New Warrior Minion - Stonemaul Anchorman
Decent, but mana cost too high.
New Warrior Minion - Whirling Combatant
Enrage warrior
Frenzy Enabler
New Neutral Minion - Darkspear Berserker
Good for Aggro decks.
New Neutral Minion - Gruntled Patron
Everyone... Get out of here...
Poor Patron, he shinned bright, then Arena Patron appeared... Which was bad but could spawn multiple copies... And now this?
Oh boy... filler card...
New Rogue Minion - Efficient Octo-bot
Rogue is already a tempo heavy class with the ability to generate a lot of resources very fast. The way this card works can really amp up that gameplay to another level. Not only that, it allows Rogues to increase the amount of burst from spells they can use in just one turn.
Let's not forget Preparation technically does nothing by itself. Efficient Octo-bot is like a mini Preparation that's not limited to spells but the opponent can interact with it. Expect al least heavy experimentation with this card.
New Neutral Minion - Burning Blade Acolyte
Good when discovered, not worth its own deck slot though.
New Warrior Minion - Whirling Combatant
This seems pretty good - Double Whirlwind on a stick.
Also works petty well with other frenzy cards.
New Demon Hunter Weapon - Tuskpiercer
Weapon with good tutor effect.