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I loved Galakrond's Awakening adding in Shotbot. Kind of a end of the year push to make Making Mummies viable. Wasn't quite enough but seeing Reborn come back and getting that "oh maybe" moment is fun. If this mini-set does push mechanics from the year I'd be very happy. I was already excited for Corrupt to return since I crafted [Hearthstone Card (Y'sharaaj, the Defiler) Not Found].

If they bring back Spellburst I'd be very happy. One of my favorite mechanics. Dormant too was more interesting than I first thought. Another Prime, especially for Demon Hunter, would be welcome too.

Dual-Class being further explored is also a plus. For a smaller set having cards that effect multiple classes is great. If they stick to the same duos I'd be happy. I feel some of them didn't get pushed far enough (Big demons for warlock/dh, or weapons for rogue/warrior). However I love some of your pairings. Attacking for Druid/DH is great. Hero attack druid doesn't get enough love (Gonk, the Raptor). The Impurity Warlock/Paladin made me laugh. That's actually an amazing idea. 

N'Zoth, God of the Deep being least popular makes me a bit sad. I love 'build around me' cards like this. I've had a lot of fun experimenting with this card. Hopefully the mini set pushes him just a bit more in a few other classes. (Fingers crossed for a big neutral Totem! ha).

I hate to be a buzzkill, but I doubt we're getting new multiclasses, for a few reasons.

• We are taking a mechanic from Scholomance. It would make sense if it were a scenario similar to the twinspell cards in Galakrond's Awakening - only the classes that had it before will have the mechanic.
• If you go back to the original Scholomance spoilers, there was stuff talking about a fieldtrip to the Darkmoon Faire. Although odds are Blizzard forgot about it, it's a possibility that we see Scholomance students, and thus Scholomance pairings.

Although that, it would be really neat if we got some new combos though.

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I kind of want to know if Essence is going to be used for Skins as well as Prismatics.

I LIKE the Prismatics, but I'd be more inclined to save my Essence for Skins.

We haven't seen any official yet, but I would say there's definitely merit in being a little cautious and saving any Essence until we hear more

Nice deck!  Would you consider making an egg reno warlock?  I noticed this deck has only 6 duplicates.  I’m not sure if it’s necessarily better but Zephrys for burst lethal is very nice.

Good luck guys and guyesses! I'm worried that two cards with the same art may have lower rates than they deserve tho

Good luck to our finalists :)

You may. I am yet to write the next spotlight article, so things are still possible: I should have a couple Warlock lists laying around, but we'll see.

The next article will go live after the Mini Set's release, so there's the chance I'd want to include some new cards.

I can't really remember Void Ripper every being widely used, but perhaps in some builds of Wall Priest during it's short-lived time in the Rastakhan's meta.  Basically you had to pray your big taunts would stick either naturally or when resurrected, maybe heal them back up with Circle of Healing and/or Divine Hymn on your next turn, then Ripper to flip their stats and get a big burst turn.  Again, not sure how common that was but that's the only thing I can think of where it might have been used.

Although, while typing this I just thought of a Hunter OTK in Wild you could use it for.  If you can survive long enough you can set it up over two turns or get double discounts on three cards with Emperor Thaurissan and Drakkari Enchanter turn 9 for a turn 10 OTK.

But the combo would need an empty board (if you use Ripper).  But the combo is Boommaster Flark (which is what you could set up for a TTK instead of an OTK), followed by either Necromechanic or Baron Rivendare, Feign Death, and either a second Feign or a Ripper to flip your [Hearthstone Card (Goblin Bombs to 2/0, dying and triggering twice again.  This would be 32 damage to the opponent in one or two turns depending on how you pull it off.

Which now I want to try!  :)

May I request a warlock deck spotlight? I have been looking for a good zoo list but haven't found anything that works.

I kind of want to know if Essence is going to be used for Skins as well as Prismatics.

I LIKE the Prismatics, but I'd be more inclined to save my Essence for Skins.

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This isnt Hearthstone tho, maybe we can :)

Bravo.

I'm going to be the 'class identity bore' and hope a possible priest-rogue card would not help with either tempo or AoE. Classes always become a problem when they have no serious weaknesses, so it was good that the pairings in Scholomance focused on the overlap between the classes. Priest-rogue definitely works though, either for value or hard removal.

Fun side-thought: a black and white card border would look pretty sweet, and in Scholomance they played with card art colour palettes to match the border, sometimes to beautiful effect with a left-right colour split (e.g. Commencement and Potion of Illusion). If the mini-set is indeed Darkmoon Races, then a chequered flag or finish line banner provides a convenient black and white object to include.

The idea of shaman-warrior on weapon grounds seems solid, though I'm finding it easier to picture a rogue-shaman card since they both add stuff to weapons (poisons and the elements respectively). Something like "Crackling Poison" perhaps.

Your paladin-warlock logic is actually brilliant, and Yrel might be lonely next year if she doesn't get any more pure support. That said, right now I am bored of pure pally and I'd be lying if I said I wanted it to get more support before April. Like highlander, it is also one of those archetypes that might become concerning in Wild if it gets sustained support for Standard. We're some way off that for now, but the back of my mind still tells me it might be best as a temporary archetype.

I think that blizz will never design a good AoE for Rogue, they reworked Plague of Madness before they release Tombs of Terror set because lack of AoE is one of rogue's trait.

No joke, I definitely meant to write "Tombs", but it appears that my pc must've corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out

Great speculations! Hope we get some Illidan/Malfurion cards, that would be excelent.

And that impurity concept is also great, thanks for sharing the lore behind this character. I actually did not know about him.

Edit: I really hope maneagery gets some more love. Really liked playing Nzoth and Ysharj on maneagery, even if it is not that effective.

Also finally, just want to tell the author I found a little typo (I think it is written like that.) When you mention Elise the Enlightened, you wrote Dooms of Terror, when it is Tombs of Terror.

Do you guys think we can craft the Champion Skins with prismatic shards or is that too much wishful thinking?

Would it be possible to get some way to favourite decks or save them to some kind of list? A lot of times I see cool decks but am missing a few key cards and it'd be cool to be able to save them for later on the site

I am really excited about champion skins. They said there will be a themed event saying "Ruin" "Mist".

The champion skins are coming on May and the first themed event is on May too, so we probably will see those Ruined King skins in the game.

I giggled at this one: well played Sinti.