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I guess there will be something worth spending 4 mana to get two extra copies of. Could be a pretty helpful card.

Did cards like Energy Shaper or Deck of Lunacy ever work out? If not, why would this?

I suppose we should be thankful Stonetusk Boar isn't in Standard anymore. I'm not sure what you would want to copy. Something with an aura that isn't sticky enough?

I don't know if there are enough copy/thief cards in standard to make this work, but this might be a decent payoff for that.

Your treants.

But we're way past those days when Alleycat actually threatened the game.

The upgrade is meaningless. If you get it early you play it as early as possible and if you dont then two 2/2s for 1 will hardly be scary enough for your opponent, and certainly I dont expect anyone to even bother holding on for the upgrade to happen.

One of the best cards for druids for sure.

Certainly one you want both choices. But the mere fact that it offers a discount opens up a variety of possibilities. For one thing it'll make Timber Tambourine druid a bit faster and that's scary.

As for the nature spells, there's a lot of good stuff there, even Convoke the Spirits. A shame you cant discover them but then it'll just literally be OP.

I'll afford it respect because its still a strong win con, and if youre going treants you'll going to swarm board.

The main problem? Well there's simply not enough treants to keep the swarm going, or indeed to discount this appropriately early enough to win with it. Seems more like a turn 6 play, and even then likely not at zero mana.

I think it'll just never see play because of its atrocious condition. But hey, maybe next rotation core druid would get all their treants back. About 8 months late, but what the hell.

Bad. If druids go full treants most decks would just hard target them to make this card impossible on curve, where it is at its strongest. Past turn 3 this card gets diminished in power until in the late end where it becomes completely worthless.

Besides, where are these treants even supposed to come from. Far as I see, there's no treant card that curves into this, unless you want to go Witchwood Apple on 1 and double 2/2s on 2. Your opponent will likely have no problem clearing those.

It'll see play because you mostly would be playing Chitinous Plating anyway, and this card offers somewhat a better upgrade.

Only downside is perhaps the fact that it takes 3 turns for this to upgrade, and that's a fair bit, like a third of most total game turns.

Play this on 4 and Nourish on 5. That's practically its one and only use this card will ever be considered for. The only other option would be Lifebinder's Gift, but that means youre holding on to that card just for this, which doesn't seem like a good play.

For the nourish interaction alone, this card is viable and will likely see play.

Its just bad. In fact, its actually kinda strangely bad.

Drum Circle summons 4 treants, with an arguably better second choice, whereas this card is not only dependent on the actually having treants to gain value, will very nearly always be forced to choose the former - spawning three treants.

I cant see a world where this card is good. If you have a bunch of treants on board chances are good you'll be winning anyway, just buff them with something like drum circle and go for face. Hell, why bother with this card and just play drum circle, the superior option.

On the face of it it doesn't look impressive. But this is druid we're talking about so any card that doubles their hand value cannot be dismissed and Im fairly certain a degenerate combo will exist in some capacity over the next two years.

In standard what you're looking for is 0 mana cards like giants so you can immediately take tempo after playing this. Or a couple of Innervates to get back 4 mana to do whatever.

The only drawback is that druid tend to have big hands fairly often, and that there's no immediate cancer combo I can think of in standard.

At this point maybe they should make Treant an official minion type - then they can do whatever they want with Ancients and they'll still be classified as Treants. This even has the side-effect of instantly creating another minion type to potentially mess around with for Battlegrounds.

Well, this is probably one of the tamest druid expansions Ive seen in a while. Not a good sign for druid, since the class is currently floundering in the unplayable regions, but after what happened the previous rotation I can hardly expect anyone to feel any sympathy.

Will the treant builds work? In my opinion, no. Most druid builds either go fast or go long, and treants are kinda somewhere in the middle, similar with Timber Tambourine builds, something which might actually be the better of the two. The only way this would have worked is that they bring back Mulchmuncher and Aeroponics, without which there's simply no reason whatsoever to play treants at all.

But at least druid did get something. Lifebinder's Gift will easily prove to be broken, because druid does druid things, while Freya, Keeper of Nature has the potential to be as cancerous as most druid legendaries tend to be (though probably will take some working on)

They've done this Treant -> Ancient conversion before, and each time I think it's destined for failure. If Ancients were classified as Treants too I could understand it, but they aren't. So instead, you lose access to the Treant, meaning your Mulchmunchers, your Aeroponics, etc. don't work anymore because you don't have the Treants anymore. The inherent idea - build up a board, then upgrade it - seems okay, I guess, but it's at odds with the underlying mechanics of the situation.

...that's not even getting into the whole "wide board wants to buff and swing for lethal, you're transforming so you can't attack with the upgraded stats" thing.

I can see you Forging this to make several 0-costs, then cloning them, but what's the point?

The more I see this, the more I really don't like it.  If you get it early in the game, you need to forge it to get it's cost down... but then you're using a turn to forge this that you could be using to set up other parts of your deck.  By the time you get this down to a cost that is effective, it's not as relevant and you're probably in danger. 

Most of the other giants have a way of reducing their costs outside of the card itself. Sea Giant relies on board presence, Molten Giant needs you to be hurt, Arcane Giant and Naga Giant rely on your casting spells, etc...   This one needs you to put in work on IT and only IT.  With that in mind... this sucks. 

This will be amazing... but not in general.  This is going to reward you for emptying your hand.  Miracle Rogue will use the hell out of this.  Pirate/Kingsbane Rogue will use this to help fish through and grab those weapon buffs or other pirates.  I don't know how it will work into using the other mechanics that are coming around with this expansion though

This seriously feels like it was focused more on Wild than anything else... or it was grossly overlooked