Such a good card, will simply see play in a LOT of mage decks for quite some time. After all, spells you play are probably pretty good ones AND because you discover them you also recast them with Grand Magister Rommath.
Seems bad considering you have to discover last, however this does refill your hand a lot alongside Grand Magister Rommath, and of course helps you recast a bunch of spells you discovered.
I feel like this will certainly see play during festival of legends, because of the small spell pool. But it will probably fall off once more sets release.
DJ Manastorm, and next turn 2x Pyroblast + 2 Fireball or Firelands Portal For 30-32 damage. It's quite slow, but i feel like this is a good finisher for some mage decks. But hey, at least OTK mage is back i guess?
Banana's, but they dont clog up your hand? This seems pretty good. Especially with Jungle Jammer or simply to get a few more buffs. Worst case scenario it's 3 mana give a minion +3/+3. Not that bad.
MONKE. Okay this seems really good actually. This works well with midrange hunter decks like Beast hunter, as this doesn't mess with the ress pool and the summon from deck cards.
Rating this a MONKE/5 stars. Glad to see Silverback Patriarch return to standard.. in a playable form.
This simply looks bad to me. Just 1 damage? Meh. Compare this to Deathchiller. Sure Arrow Smith targets lowest health enemy, but i feel like you prefer more damage over that.
Alright, so horrible condition considering Hunter loves putting stuff on board AND the Wild seed package is still in standard. And hunter doesn't really have a secret pay-off deck in standard, and all secret support cards are rotating. Pretty sure Emergency Maneuvers, Explosive Trap, Freezing Trap, ZOMBEEEES!!! and Motion Denied are the only secrets in standard post rotation. Sure that's a smal pool of secrets, but i feel like it's simply not good enough for most hunter decks.
Seems decent in a rampy druid deck? Maybe ramp druid will now go into some kind of Convoke the Spirits package? I'm not that convinced about this card.
5 star card. This seems nuts for only 1 mana. Just with Foul Egg this becomes quite scary, and in Unholy DK you of course have the obvious Cage Head synergy. In Rainbow DK you can also just use this + a good deathrattle like Foul Egg. This is going to see a lot of play.
5 corpses seems like a lot. But Unholy DK can probably afford it. Also Rainbow DK might just use this as well, as long as there is a good enough deathrattle to repeat. (And in Rainbow DK it also upgrades Climactic Necrotic Explosion.) I'm not 100% sure about this card, but it does seem pretty good.
Very slow wincondition, but once you play it it's going to be very scary for your opponent. It HAS to be silenced or even better: Transformed. Otherwise Boneshredder, Mosh Pit and Death Growl will make your life hell. (Especially if they Mosh Pit it the turn they play Cage Head.)
Hmm this seems really nice, as long as you activate the Finale. 3 mana 2/1 that deals 2 damage doesn't seem that good.
Not sure if Frost DK will use this card.
Rainbow DK on the other side, will probably use this card. Why? Decent board clear in a rainbow deck seems pretty good. The only OTHER board clears Rainbow DK has acces to are Remorseless Winter and Howling Blast. So having Hardcore Cultist in the deck might be really helpful with you know, staying alive.
This seems nuts in Triple Blood DK. Vampiric Blood = 2 5/5s, Blood Boil = potentially 6 2/2 minions, Death Strike = 6/6 minion. This seems like a good enough card for triple blood DK just to occupy the board more. Also this can just summon more minions, if your opponent trades minions into it. (Because it has lifesteal as well)
The problem with this card: It NEEDS you to be below Full health i think? Except for Vampiric Blood of course. So that's pretty much the only problem i can see with this card. Also Mosh Pit could make this a lot more sticky.
In Rainbow DK i don't see this being that good. I feel like that deck will prefer other minions.
Triple Blood DK doesn't want this card. It's already doing fine... Unless Blood DK REALLY wants to change their health a bunch for pay-off cards like Arcanite Ripper and Screaming Banshee. That's the only situation in which i can see this seeing play.
I feel like Rainbow and Triple Blood DK might experiment with this card. Using this without any other health changing cards = probably a 3/3 lifesteal minion on the deathrattle. So that seems pretty good.
Seems like a rainbow or Handbuff DK card. Not sure about it, however this is a lot of stats. And it's not conditional as well, like it costs no corpses or anything. This seems decent.
Seems like a interesting pay-off. This is a finisher for sure, considering you can't discover this card. So you can only use this ONCE per game, so it's gotta end the game. This rewards using corpse pay-offs, which might make it a bit slower than what you probably want. However one thing to not about rainbow DK is that it gets better with each new 1 rune card printed. (Like how Pure paladin gets better with each new paladin card)
I think this card will see play at some point, especially once they print more double rune cards like Frost Queen Sindragosa. Is it good enough right now? Not sure, but Rainbow DK is very close to being a decent/good deck and it's losing nothing during the rotation. So maybe keep a eye out on Rainbow DK.
Three corpses can sound like a lot, but isn't actually that bad. Also technically this card uses only 2 corpses, considering you get 1 back.
Most Blood DKs often ends up with like 10+ corpses in the mid-late game even after using their corpse spending cards. (At least, in my experience i often have lots of corpses just sitting there.) So giving ANY minion reborn can be quite nice.
Frost DK might consider it, maybe? Seems good alongside Lady Deathwhisper for more spell copies, and Harbinger of Winter for more draw. But i'm not sold on it, Frost DK might be the worst deck for this location.
Unholy DK will love this. Unholy DK has a bunch of corpse generators, they now got the deathrattle package which synergizes well with this location AND this helps discount Stitched Giant. This seems like a decent inclusion.
Rainbow DK might use this as well, considering each use of this location = more improvements to Climactic Necrotic Explosion. I think Rainbow DK might use it.
New Mage Spell - Rewind
Such a good card, will simply see play in a LOT of mage decks for quite some time. After all, spells you play are probably pretty good ones AND because you discover them you also recast them with Grand Magister Rommath.
New Mage Spell - Infinitize the Maxitude
Seems bad considering you have to discover last, however this does refill your hand a lot alongside Grand Magister Rommath, and of course helps you recast a bunch of spells you discovered.
I feel like this will certainly see play during festival of legends, because of the small spell pool. But it will probably fall off once more sets release.
New Mage Minion - DJ Manastorm
DJ Manastorm, and next turn 2x Pyroblast + 2 Fireball or Firelands Portal For 30-32 damage. It's quite slow, but i feel like this is a good finisher for some mage decks. But hey, at least OTK mage is back i guess?
New Hunter Spell - Bunch of Bananas
Banana's, but they dont clog up your hand? This seems pretty good. Especially with Jungle Jammer or simply to get a few more buffs. Worst case scenario it's 3 mana give a minion +3/+3. Not that bad.
New Hunter Minion - Thornmantle Musician
Good one drop, and these buffs are nice. Seems good to me.
New Hunter Spell - Barrel of Monkeys
MONKE. Okay this seems really good actually. This works well with midrange hunter decks like Beast hunter, as this doesn't mess with the ress pool and the summon from deck cards.
Rating this a MONKE/5 stars. Glad to see Silverback Patriarch return to standard.. in a playable form.
New Hunter Minion - Arrow Smith
This simply looks bad to me. Just 1 damage? Meh. Compare this to Deathchiller. Sure Arrow Smith targets lowest health enemy, but i feel like you prefer more damage over that.
New Hunter Weapon - Jungle Jammer
Good weapon. 4 attack is nice damage for SMOrcing, and hunter likes casting spells. So this will certainly see play.
New Hunter Minion - Harmonica Soloist
Alright, so horrible condition considering Hunter loves putting stuff on board AND the Wild seed package is still in standard. And hunter doesn't really have a secret pay-off deck in standard, and all secret support cards are rotating. Pretty sure Emergency Maneuvers, Explosive Trap, Freezing Trap, ZOMBEEEES!!! and Motion Denied are the only secrets in standard post rotation. Sure that's a smal pool of secrets, but i feel like it's simply not good enough for most hunter decks.
New Druid Minion - Summer Flowerchild
Seems decent in a rampy druid deck? Maybe ramp druid will now go into some kind of Convoke the Spirits package? I'm not that convinced about this card.
New Death Knight Spell - Death Growl
5 star card. This seems nuts for only 1 mana. Just with Foul Egg this becomes quite scary, and in Unholy DK you of course have the obvious Cage Head synergy. In Rainbow DK you can also just use this + a good deathrattle like Foul Egg. This is going to see a lot of play.
New Death Knight Minion - Boneshredder
5 corpses seems like a lot. But Unholy DK can probably afford it. Also Rainbow DK might just use this as well, as long as there is a good enough deathrattle to repeat. (And in Rainbow DK it also upgrades Climactic Necrotic Explosion.) I'm not 100% sure about this card, but it does seem pretty good.
New Death Knight Minion - Cage Head
Very slow wincondition, but once you play it it's going to be very scary for your opponent. It HAS to be silenced or even better: Transformed. Otherwise Boneshredder, Mosh Pit and Death Growl will make your life hell. (Especially if they Mosh Pit it the turn they play Cage Head.)
New Death Knight Minion - Hardcore Cultist
Hmm this seems really nice, as long as you activate the Finale. 3 mana 2/1 that deals 2 damage doesn't seem that good.
Not sure if Frost DK will use this card.
Rainbow DK on the other side, will probably use this card. Why? Decent board clear in a rainbow deck seems pretty good. The only OTHER board clears Rainbow DK has acces to are Remorseless Winter and Howling Blast. So having Hardcore Cultist in the deck might be really helpful with you know, staying alive.
New Death Knight Minion - Screaming Banshee
This seems nuts in Triple Blood DK. Vampiric Blood = 2 5/5s, Blood Boil = potentially 6 2/2 minions, Death Strike = 6/6 minion. This seems like a good enough card for triple blood DK just to occupy the board more. Also this can just summon more minions, if your opponent trades minions into it. (Because it has lifesteal as well)
The problem with this card: It NEEDS you to be below Full health i think? Except for Vampiric Blood of course. So that's pretty much the only problem i can see with this card. Also Mosh Pit could make this a lot more sticky.
In Rainbow DK i don't see this being that good. I feel like that deck will prefer other minions.
New Death Knight Minion - Death Metal Knight
Triple Blood DK doesn't want this card. It's already doing fine... Unless Blood DK REALLY wants to change their health a bunch for pay-off cards like Arcanite Ripper and Screaming Banshee. That's the only situation in which i can see this seeing play.
New Death Knight Weapon - Arcanite Ripper
I feel like Rainbow and Triple Blood DK might experiment with this card. Using this without any other health changing cards = probably a 3/3 lifesteal minion on the deathrattle. So that seems pretty good.
New Death Knight Spell - Harmonic Metal
Seems like a rainbow or Handbuff DK card. Not sure about it, however this is a lot of stats. And it's not conditional as well, like it costs no corpses or anything. This seems decent.
New Death Knight Spell - Climactic Necrotic Explosion
Seems like a interesting pay-off. This is a finisher for sure, considering you can't discover this card. So you can only use this ONCE per game, so it's gotta end the game. This rewards using corpse pay-offs, which might make it a bit slower than what you probably want. However one thing to not about rainbow DK is that it gets better with each new 1 rune card printed. (Like how Pure paladin gets better with each new paladin card)
I think this card will see play at some point, especially once they print more double rune cards like Frost Queen Sindragosa. Is it good enough right now? Not sure, but Rainbow DK is very close to being a decent/good deck and it's losing nothing during the rotation. So maybe keep a eye out on Rainbow DK.
New Death Knight Location - Mosh Pit
Three corpses can sound like a lot, but isn't actually that bad. Also technically this card uses only 2 corpses, considering you get 1 back.
Most Blood DKs often ends up with like 10+ corpses in the mid-late game even after using their corpse spending cards. (At least, in my experience i often have lots of corpses just sitting there.) So giving ANY minion reborn can be quite nice.
Frost DK might consider it, maybe? Seems good alongside Lady Deathwhisper for more spell copies, and Harbinger of Winter for more draw. But i'm not sold on it, Frost DK might be the worst deck for this location.
Unholy DK will love this. Unholy DK has a bunch of corpse generators, they now got the deathrattle package which synergizes well with this location AND this helps discount Stitched Giant. This seems like a decent inclusion.
Rainbow DK might use this as well, considering each use of this location = more improvements to Climactic Necrotic Explosion. I think Rainbow DK might use it.
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Man I absolutely destroy in eternal.
And pretty soon this format is gonna have a legit ladder and then the pro players can complain about the meta all over again.
Well sorry but some people like to play optimized lists that do things instead of aggro jank.
Adapt or fail, because eternal is here to stay and I'm the big dragon baby.
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Agreed. Would've been more engaging if they had a community employee run raffles like how the streamers do giveaways when they get given codes.
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Some are too powerful (like Paradise lost text is, in reality, Win) but I like what you did here