All Comments

Reminds me a lot of Lightfused Stegodon. I like this one a lot.

Look out! C'thun is in those balloons!

Unimpressive but may find a home in aggro DH.

It is damage and cycle which aggro DH needs, but its a may be a little too slow since you need ~4 mana to gain value from this.

As you mentioned, though, Hammer of the Naaru curves right into Carousel Gryphon, leaving two more mana leftover for whatever 2-cost spell or unit you want to play at that point. Puts 14/14 stats of taunt, plus requiring a ping to get rid of the Divine Shield, and 9 weapon attack value over 3 turns. Not including whatever you do with your 2 leftover mana.

Heck, if your opponent has no taunt minions, this is nearly lethal face damage represented just by these two cards alone.

Not odd cost, im sure thats not very intentional

Decent card, albeit a little slow.

Solid 3 drop with vanilla stats with an upside.

Biggest drawback is see is pairing this with gala or tog since you lose the discount when teddys are drawn.

I only said that because it doesnt have taunt uncorrupted, so its not an automatic consideration when building paladin decks.

Worst case scenario 5/5  Divine.

Excellent.

Seems way too slow for current Pure/Broomvroom Pally. However, it could work for a N’zoth/Corrupt Highlander Pally (which is where I think N’zoth will go to anyway).

Like the real problem here is corrupting this card, if Hammer of the Naaru turns out to be good, this card could also be quite good. But I don’t see slots being sacrificed for either of these cards in the current lists. I look forward to new decks that could come with the card reveals.

Nice insights. I think Riot has done a fantastic job so far.

I don't understand the belly aching about K/DA. I personally don't care for the aesthetic, but it bothers me not at all that it's in the game. There'll be something else next event.

It's not very deceptive. It's just straight up absurdly powerful.

Its a wide buff card which zoo really needs. Unfortunately, since the condition is to discard, it will rarely appear anywhere else other than zoo.

There are a few problems with the card though. Don't start getting ideas of a burst finish as it can and will likely discard the second copy, or discard your other finisher in soulfire, so the shenanigans zoo can bring will almost always be limited.

But Grim Rally was one of the most powerful buffs for zoo in its time, so this card will almost certainly see play.

It draws 3 cards, on turn 5 when its not yet so dangerous, and its a 3/5, not really an insignificant statline. If there any reason why warrior wouldn't play this card in some capacity?

Even if this card does nothing more than draw your Deathwing, Mad Aspect, that's still quite significant.

But obviously with this card we're looking at a more midrange choice for warrior. Which honestly, fits in nicely with cards like yshaarj or nzoth as a finisher. maybe we'll also see another cthun warrior, with the amount of draw we're seeing right now.

The problem here is that its a weapon, and it deals very little damage, and its effect is somewhat conditional.

Best case scenario will likely involve you having a very exact hand, like maybe Sky Raider, Evasive Feywing, and maybe Skybarge. But that's so exact its impractical. I think realistically we're looking at this buffing maybe 2 cards by turn 3, with the end result of one minion with +3/3 by turn 4. Its not really that bad to be honest.

Of course, there's the problem of this card dealing only 1 damage per turn so there's that as well.

It is cool that the Ringmaster as his Baton work so well together

In most cases this will just be played as a 2 mana 1/4, which isn't really easily removed. There's just this little chance it can be core in an aggro warrior deck with Animated Broomstick. If this card can deal somewhat around 4-6 damage, that's already well worth its inclusion.

Its a decent card on its own, but there has got to be other cards that can corrupt it or otherwise there's little point to include it. Some obvious candidates are Hammer of the Naaru, Tirion Fordring, or Lady Liadrin. Can't rely on librams since they get cheapened throughout the game.

It kinda competes somewhat with Fleethoof Pearltusk for that 5 mana slot, and I'm a little biased towards rush minions compared to taunts. But the divine shield here is really not to be ignored.

It's all just speculation. It's the fun part of reveal season honestly.

That also happens to be 2 mana cheaper, which makes a really big difference, as well as drawing much more relevant tribes for the class.