All Comments

Warlock got those spider eggs in Scholomance Academy that can be discarded to activate it's effect. 

and with this spell being 1 mana it's pretty flexible to dump your hand of the smaller minions, play this, and then discard something you don't care about to gain it's effect. Will probably see play, but is it enough to push zoo on the ladder?

Just a reminder, you can play Multi Minion Type decks without also playing New'Zoth. I think this might make for a more tempo oriented deck rather than a "Big" New'Zoth deck.

But Mindflayer keeps the original stats. This one is just a Spellbreaker that also steals the card's text and buffs

We've learned that the 1/4 stat line on early minions is quite strong but this effect is really specific to decks with rush minions that want to push face damage.  With strong support cards this card is probably the nuts.  Without them there is just no reason to play it.  Let's see what they give us.  

There's just never enough rush minions in warrior for this to ever be good. But there might be something close to swarm of locust down the reveal that will instantly push this to god tier. We'll have to see.

Ringmaster Whatley seems very strong, drawing 3 cards for a mere 5 mana with a respectable body is really good. But whether it will ever see more than niche play would depend on the power level of mechs, dragons and pirates in a warrior deck.

At present you have mechs like Omega Devastator, Tomb Warden and Scrap Golem. For dragons there's Evasive Drakonid, Deathwing, Mad Aspect, Alexstrasza. Pirates, well, both Hoard Pillager and Risky Skipper are still good.

Ringmaster's Baton, not that good. The idea of a menagerie build can be an amusing idea, but in practice is simply not good enough. There's just better weapons at present, from Reaper's Scythe to Livewire Lance

Handbuffs are generally not that good, but i think this is a decent handbuff card. Works well with Ringmaster Whatley and with N'Zoth, God of the Deep. I'm actually interested as to what kinds of new cards you can buff with [Hearthstone Card (Ringmasters Baton) Not Found]. Also strong with Tomb Warden.

Standard: Seems like it's going to be in some kind of handbuff control warrior. I don't know if it's going to be any good. Handbuffs never really worked before, so i'm still very skeptical about Ringmaster's Baton. Were probably gonna get some very powerfull cards that synergies with it, otherwise Ringmaster's Baton isn't going to work well. Also there are a bunch of weapon buffing cards in standard, so it's not that hard to get a lot of buffs from Ringmaster's Baton.

Wild: If it aint Paladin, Handbuffing aint working. Unless we are about to get some OP cards that synergies with it, i don't think it will make an impact in wild.

The Curator was a cool build-around draw engine, and this seems to be much the same kind of card. All in all, I'm excited for it.

At the time of release, I say "What?" I guess menagerie warrior is going to be a thing at least for at least one xpac. outside first release I guess being able to tailor 3 cards is nice especially when they are all already part of warrior archtypes

Works as a 30th card for a more controlish deck. It's not a card that's going to shape the meta, though.

Ringmaster's Baton seems pretty bad. You don't want multiple pirates, dragons, and mechs with N'Zoth - you want exactly one good one of each if possible. You want multiple guys to ensure Ringmaster's Baton buffs on curve. It seems a little unsynergetic, but we'll have to see the other Warrior cards.

Probably some support in this expansion still coming.

Great for zoo, and it's the good kind of discord card. (Bad kind= random discard.) Can't really say anything bad about this card, i like it.

Standard: This will 100% see play in zoolock and some kind of tempo Galakrondlock. Galakrondlock always had trouble keeping it's board of 1 health minions alive, and Wicked Whispers helps fix that problem.

Wild: It's a good Zoo card, so it's surely going to see play in some kind of zoo deck. Also it will see play in Discardlock, as Discardlock loves discarding cards and buffing the minions on board.

Huge support for N'zoth Warrior. Which minons do we want to pull and buff with these?

Fantastic synergy with N'Zoth, God of the Deep, and the corrupt is easy to pull of with cards like Hammer of the Naaru. Also it's a corrupt card, so Y'Shaarj, the Defiler fits well into the deck. But i'm still not sure about that deck, like is it going to be good enough to beat Pure Libram paladin in terms of being a control deck? Or will Libram paladin give up the Pure package for the Old god & Corrupt package? Time will tell i guess.

Standard: As i said it's going to be in a control deck, maybe some kind of Libram control deck.

Wild: I'm actually not sure about it's impact on wild. It's a mech, so that's nice. But Handbuff Paladin likes cheap mechs way more. This might be the first card so far where i can't really predict how well it will work in wild... Well time will tell i guess..

I guess you're right. 

I suppose I wanted ETC to play the guitar since that's what you use to MELT FACES.

But I suppose him throwing hammers at the enemy's face is a callback to drummers throwing their sticks to the audience. 

...it's just that the audience can't catch them correctly, ouch! 

ETC is the band, not a person. The tauren in the band is the drum player.

I mean, there's also an anthropomorphic Elite Tauren Chieftain in HotS and Hearthstone that represents the band and plays guitar... but I dunno. It's all pseudo-canon anyway.

okay, I'll take it 

expected cringeful video -> check

never change trump, never change

Quote From Sparkinarius

With this and Hammer of the Naaru, I think it's becoming obvious that Team 5 is pushing a N'Zoth, God of the Deep deck for Paladin. So far, that deck has Carousel Gryphon, Hammer of the Naaru, and Fleethoof Pearltusk of which the weapon can help corrupt the two corrupt cards. Since there are a few corrupt cards in this N'Zoth package, I wouldn't be surprised if Y'Shaarj, the Defiler warrants an inclusion in this package as well. All I'm saying is don't sleep on the potential synergies this and the other aforementioned cards have with these Old Gods.

On a highlander package this can be really interesting, with Dragonqueen Alexstrasza and Sir Finley of the Sands acting as Dragon and Murloc, respectively, even when considering how Zephrys the Great pollutes the elemental pool for N'Zoth, God of the Deep. At least that's the way I see paladins could have an excuse to run so many clunky cards.

Would it work with broom as burst for board-centric (pirate) deck? If it does and you have a board that already can attack, drop this and broom and you have 2-card savage roar in warrior (maybe better since it can act as a finisher because you don't actually need ready minions). 

Edit: just watched the reveal, probably not possible since they haven't used broomed minions in the end. 

E.T.C., God of Metal seems fantastic for a lot of warrior stuff in both Standard and Wild. It's cheap and alongside Batterhead can deal up to 14 damage to the opponents face, and potentially more if E.T.C., God of Metal survives a turn. I bet [Hearthstone Card (E.T.C., God of death) Not Found] isn't going to be the only new rush related card this expansion, after all E.T.C., God of Metal is the ONLY warrior card showed so far. So we don't know how good E.T.C., God of Metal actually is, so imma speculate based on what we have in standard/wild so far. Also this has some amazing synergy with Playmaker.

Also Trump did a fenominal reveal, that was awesome! And that animation, It's AWESOME! :o

Standard: I predict this will see play in some kind of midrange/control kinda warrior deck. It's a pretty good finisher. (Alongside Batterhead & full board is basicly 2x Leeroy Jenkins with +2 atk.) But it can also see it played in Galakrond Warrior, because if you play 2x Scion of Ruin and trade, E.T.C., God of Metal can deal 12 face DMG. And thats a lot in a deck thats already quite aggressive.

Wild: I think [Hearthstone Card (E.T.C., God of Death) Not Found] is going to be more of a... niche card. Wild doesn't actually have that many good rush cards... That die on the same turn. Most Rush related Wild cards are either draw, like [Hearthstone Card (Town Crier[Hearthstone Card (or based on rush minions surviving a turn. (Spirit of the Rhino, Redband Wasp and Darius Crowley. The only big synergy i see is that E.T.C., God of Metal is pretty good alongside Dr. Boom, Mad Genius, because Dr. Boom, Mad Genius gives all mechs rush, and has a hero power that summons 3 1/1 mechs. Thats 6 face dmg for 2 mana.

(Ugh writing all those [Hearthstone Card (E.T.C., God of Death) Not Found]s is tiring… lol.)

Edit: Trump confirmed in the video "New deck defining cards! Darkmoon Faire Review #2 I Hearthstone" that minions that got rush as an enchantment (From Animated Broomstick and Dr. Boom, Mad Genius) DO count as rush minions, and trigger E.T.C., God of Metal. So that's really nice! (He said this in his video at 16:56, in case you want to look it up.)

5 mana 5/5 with taunt is pretty strong. playing a 5 mana 8/8 taunt divine shield in the late game seems PRETTY strong.