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Is it bad? Yes. Am I going to be playing for fatigue combos with this? Absolutely.

Oh the memories.  Whether or not he ends up being meta, at least he'll be good for some memes.

10/10 for flavor. No Barrens expansion could exist with out Mankrik and his wife. The card isn't bad either.

Maybe the best Frenzy card yet.

Good card, but did we have to add more RNG to Shaman removal right at the same time we fixed Lightning Storm?

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Auctioneer fodder?:)

Best case scenario..

That was happening with the new Vol'jin too when I was typing on my iPhone.  Turned out that the ' that my phone was putting in was not the right one.

On PC now, let's see if it works.  Shadow Hunter Vol'jin

EDIT: Apparently it did!  To fix it on my phone I tapped and held the ' on the keyboard and made sure to select different options until it worked.

This isn't terrible, but it will played more in arena, other cards that haven't been released might change this.

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Definatly a zoo card, but it's WAY too slow for zoo. BUT i feel like Imp Swarm (Rank 1) has some hidden potential.. in it's Fell tag. My guess is that Warlock will get something similar to Bru'kan, a.k.a. a card that synergises with Fell tag spells. But untill we see that Imp Swarm (Rank 1) will just be a bad card. 

Yeah, rip. My warlock decks this year will be all J-Rax all day

I think they said they would have more cards in the mini set with spell school synergy, and not going too crazy with the mechanic in the expansion itself.  But I'd expect every expansion going forward will have at least some card(s) that synergize with a specific spell school.

I feel like this will be just fine in a tempo style Priest or Paladin, but it would excite me more if Inner Fire was still in Standard.  Of course it could be run in WIld, but is that strategy going to be good enough to overtake Big Priest and Raza Priest in Wild?  Not likely, but could amount to some fringe play of the archetype depending on the Wild meta.

Usefulness with depend on released synergies.

In a vacuum, the effect isn't the worst. 3/2 stats on start, 6/4 by turn 5, and 9/6 by turn 10. All for 2 mana. At turn 10, you have 8 more mana do your other stuff.

Losing things like Lava Burst in standard hurts a little, but overall I love this card!  A 4 mana +3 spell damage to the spell type that Shaman is mostly going to be running anyway?!  I'm excited for this card and the coming year, but this card actually gets me more excited for the reinforcements it gives to my Wild Burn Shaman deck.

On one side, I think this is great because hand disruption can be amazing, but on the other hand it might be too expensive to be really good. At least Dirty Rat was cheap.

Outside of nostalgia, this looks weak.

At 3 health, this card will unlikely to survive any hit even at the early game. 

Mini Maly!

I hope these spell schools get more support since there was literally nothing in the core set

I never played WoW, so to me it seems like a massive oversight that Mankrik summons ...Mankrik

eat sh*t dirty rat

A nice neutral minion geared to priest and paladin. I really like the artwork too, I can't wait to see it in golden.

The strength of the card lies in its versatility: offensively can be used to cheat out big cards by turn 5, or defensively to force a combo piece out of your opponent.

Not a build around card, but can be useful tech card for big decks.

Frenzy seems dramatically better on things with Rush

I hope Frenzy triggers if the minion gets one-shot... 

Potentially scaling AOE with the condition that there isn't a 6/X taunt standing in the way. Any deck that runs any sort buffing will consider running this card.

This plus Apotheosis can give some juicy heals and will likely get a concede from any aggro or face deck.

I think this is a good card in any aggro deck that needs to clear boards with minions, generating a random spell is always good in most classes