I guess that's good. A really big boy with taunt is just about decent, but Im looking more for something with a good battlecry to go with it, or maybe even rush. There's still plenty of cards down the reveal line, so here's to hoping.
I see you edited your comment. You should of pressed delete.
B/c I provided addt'l context to what he suggested, and made my explanation more brief You would have done better to just delete your reply instead of putting words in his mouth.
There's potential, but ultimately giving up cards from your deck is too much to ask. Especially given that this card can only ever fit into a late game handlock style deck.
Had it cost less it might be good enough for a board swing, but its really just bad most of the time. I can't see why anyone would play this over Cascading Disaster anyway.
Zero mana freeze spell. I thought they wanted to gut Freeze Mage. Mage players will probably love it, all others well let's say we know how popular Freeze Mage was :)
There's some decent synergy here with carnival clown and strongman. Outside of that its still a +2+2 with an upside for 2, which means it can fit into aggro/token druid.
Flexible, but as a druid card, it really needs to be broken to see some form of inclusion. And this card isn't really at that kind of power level.
Hellscape- Grreat card, wonderfull design, doesn’t fit the competition, sorry.
@KANSAS
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Totem Totem- honestly this is weak and somewhat bland. Pay 2 mana for (most likely) a one cost reduction. Any name having a reference to roots would probably fit the effect though!
@ChickyChick
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Fel Summoner- Great visual, looks somewhat akin to Sorcerer’s Apprentice from the effect, but a tiny bit too bland. And heed NerdyMcNerds warnings and change the name.
@Dreams
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Merlin,Master of the Elements – I quite like this card, it would work in most control decks.
Magicless Armorsmith . Interesting design, but mage without spells seems impossible.
@Arkasaur
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Ignite: While I know you already submitted this one, I’ll just praise the card, simple and effective, although you could have changed the targets to minions, to avoid any confusion, what happens if you cast that before firing face.
@Pokeniner
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Searing Summoner: looks strong, but with the quite limited amount of Fire Spells I think it may be fair or even weak if you make this to be a Barren card, since Mage has all of 3 fire spells right now, maybe 4 of Apexis Blast is of the fire school. So while the card is great, I’d maybe change the watermark.
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Lurking Shade and Light and Might only add one spell to your hand, whether that is synergizing is a matter of interpretation. I’d say it’s not, so I would dock a point.
Cycle of Nature looks great, visually pleasing, but hard to judge strength wise. There are 3 zero cost spells for Druid (5 with Ironbark and Bogbeam), and 5 one-cost spells. So there is a lot of cycling possible, especially with the Eclipse Spells, Nature Studies and Lightning Bloom. So with those cheap mana refills, you could find Arbor Up extremely fast, thereby discounting Umbral Owl to 0-Mana, and setting up a Yogg. It’s quite a good card, but in the current meta it could be to dangerous.
Murlocs are not viable right now and this will not put it over the top, especially as Murloc Warleader will go. I would put this in my Wild Murloc decks though
Straight out of my mind is Carnival Clown. With lightning bloom or innervate you'll never run out of a board full of clowns.
Or you can use this with Strongman and make 2 8/8 taunts for 2 mana
The possibility of this card is great, but because it costs 2 and provides a decent buff, its really likely just going to end up in some form of token/aggro druid. Most druid late game are excellent enough that this card is just overkill. Maybe down the line we'll see some mid game taunt minion that druid can really take advantage of.
I am fed up with all this random bullshit... they have turned my favourite fantasy archetype in a mere casino (in case the game itself wasn't casino enough yet)
In other words, they take away Frost Nova and Blizzard to put this? Really? Remove this shit and return Frost Nova!
This lack of imagination is worrying... they just repeat the same thing again and again but in different shapes... How many cheap freezing spells do we already have?
Also worth mentioning is the fact that you can also get a copy of any minion you casted Mark of the Wild, Ironbark and Germination on, which makes this card even more versitile.
Yeah this card is actually really good when you think about it, it will surely see a lot of play. The deck it will 100% see play in is Y'Shaarj, the Defiler druid, because it has too much synergy to not be included. Like seriously another wave of clowns is really good, and worst case scenario you can copy a corrupted Strongman to get a free 6/6 and +2/+2 on the Strongman you had on board.
I think it's better than Ringmaster Whatley. Whatley only slots into menagerie decks, while all(?) hunter decks use cheap spells so it's naturally more versatile. That being said, hunter is definitely notorious for being bad in the non-smorc strategies.
Say what you want, but I'm glad the class is expanding beyond pure aggro, and not just with one broken card.
New Druid Spell - Living Seed (Rank 1)
I think beast druid reached the point where it becomes playable after seeing the core set and this
TrumpSC Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Rogue Card - Yoink!
You didn't provide anything you just made your comment worse with your cringe intentional misspelled words.
HeiGe Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Druid Card - Mark of the Spikeshell
I guess that's good. A really big boy with taunt is just about decent, but Im looking more for something with a good battlecry to go with it, or maybe even rush. There's still plenty of cards down the reveal line, so here's to hoping.
TrumpSC Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Rogue Card - Yoink!
B/c I provided addt'l context to what he suggested, and made my explanation more brief
You would have done better to just delete your reply instead of putting words in his mouth.
New Druid Spell - Mark of the Spikeshell
Value card which looks a little bit greedy to me, but with the right support playable
New Rogue Minion - Oil Rig Ambusher
The wording here is quite interesting. It includes top decked, Secret Passage, bounce and generated by random effects.
New Warlock Spell - Soul Rend
There's potential, but ultimately giving up cards from your deck is too much to ask. Especially given that this card can only ever fit into a late game handlock style deck.
Had it cost less it might be good enough for a board swing, but its really just bad most of the time. I can't see why anyone would play this over Cascading Disaster anyway.
New Mage Spell - Flurry (Rank 1)
Zero mana freeze spell. I thought they wanted to gut Freeze Mage. Mage players will probably love it, all others well let's say we know how popular Freeze Mage was :)
TrumpSC Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Rogue Card - Yoink!
If well known, it'd go w/o saying
I would doubt "highlander paladin" would remind me of Finley considering how rare that deck is.
New Shaman Spell - Nofin Can Stop Us
The buffs on murloc is decent enough to tempt some kind of murloc build from shaman.
But without better murlocs for shaman, it really does feel like sauce without chicken.
New Druid Spell - Mark of the Spikeshell
Will definitely try it in my Clown Fiesta Druid.
New Hunter Minion - Kolkar Pack Runner
Decent two-drop with an upside which also makes it kind of a soft taunt. Like it
HeiGe Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Druid Card - Mark of the Spikeshell
Mid game taunt minion... Did you just say Dreaming Drake?
New Druid Spell - Mark of the Spikeshell
There's some decent synergy here with carnival clown and strongman. Outside of that its still a +2+2 with an upside for 2, which means it can fit into aggro/token druid.
Flexible, but as a druid card, it really needs to be broken to see some form of inclusion. And this card isn't really at that kind of power level.
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Merlin,Master of the Elements – I quite like this card, it would work in most control decks.
Magicless Armorsmith . Interesting design, but mage without spells seems impossible.
@Arkasaur
@Pokeniner
Searing Summoner: looks strong, but with the quite limited amount of Fire Spells I think it may be fair or even weak if you make this to be a Barren card, since Mage has all of 3 fire spells right now, maybe 4 of Apexis Blast is of the fire school. So while the card is great, I’d maybe change the watermark.
@Wailor
Lurking Shade and Light and Might only add one spell to your hand, whether that is synergizing is a matter of interpretation. I’d say it’s not, so I would dock a point.
Cycle of Nature looks great, visually pleasing, but hard to judge strength wise. There are 3 zero cost spells for Druid (5 with Ironbark and Bogbeam), and 5 one-cost spells. So there is a lot of cycling possible, especially with the Eclipse Spells, Nature Studies and Lightning Bloom. So with those cheap mana refills, you could find Arbor Up extremely fast, thereby discounting Umbral Owl to 0-Mana, and setting up a Yogg. It’s quite a good card, but in the current meta it could be to dangerous.
New Shaman Spell - Nofin Can Stop Us
Murlocs are not viable right now and this will not put it over the top, especially as Murloc Warleader will go. I would put this in my Wild Murloc decks though
HeiGe Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Druid Card - Mark of the Spikeshell
Straight out of my mind is Carnival Clown. With lightning bloom or innervate you'll never run out of a board full of clowns.
Or you can use this with Strongman and make 2 8/8 taunts for 2 mana
The possibility of this card is great, but because it costs 2 and provides a decent buff, its really likely just going to end up in some form of token/aggro druid. Most druid late game are excellent enough that this card is just overkill. Maybe down the line we'll see some mid game taunt minion that druid can really take advantage of.
New Druid Spell - Mark of the Spikeshell
finally a reason to play a Greybough druid!
Flurry Reveals a New Forged in the Barrens Mage Card - Flurry (Rank 1)
Oh god .. again this garbage no ...
I am fed up with all this random bullshit... they have turned my favourite fantasy archetype in a mere casino (in case the game itself wasn't casino enough yet)
In other words, they take away Frost Nova and Blizzard to put this? Really? Remove this shit and return Frost Nova!
This lack of imagination is worrying... they just repeat the same thing again and again but in different shapes... How many cheap freezing spells do we already have?
New Druid Spell - Living Seed (Rank 1)
A card for Beast Druid? Is that even a thing? Could be viable with the necessary support but right now I have my doubts
New Druid Spell - Mark of the Spikeshell
Okay best taunt minions to target with this (so far) are: Carnival Clown, so you can potentially get another wave of corrupted clowns in, Strongman, Greybough, Teacher's Pet, Circus Amalgam, Dreaming Drake, Archspore Msshi'fn and Lone Champion.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that you can also get a copy of any minion you casted Mark of the Wild, Ironbark and Germination on, which makes this card even more versitile.
Yeah this card is actually really good when you think about it, it will surely see a lot of play. The deck it will 100% see play in is Y'Shaarj, the Defiler druid, because it has too much synergy to not be included. Like seriously another wave of clowns is really good, and worst case scenario you can copy a corrupted Strongman to get a free 6/6 and +2/+2 on the Strongman you had on board.
New Rogue Minion - Oil Rig Ambusher
4 Mana 4/4 with a potential deal 4 to face? I would run this in Aggro Rogue
New Hunter Minion - Barak Kodobane
I think it's better than Ringmaster Whatley. Whatley only slots into menagerie decks, while all(?) hunter decks use cheap spells so it's naturally more versatile. That being said, hunter is definitely notorious for being bad in the non-smorc strategies.
Say what you want, but I'm glad the class is expanding beyond pure aggro, and not just with one broken card.
New Demon Hunter Spell - Sigil of Flame
Wonder if they'll make a tech for sigils?
New Mage Spell - Flurry (Rank 1)
Decent combo with Glacier Racer. I like!