This card disgusts me, but I have hope it will be one of the first things nerfed. It will not feel good to play against, and wonder how exactly this came to be.
This card gets 5 stars from me for the call back to the WoW boss encounter, and it earns that 5 stars for having a unique effect that could be very good if you get the right minions.
A powerful stat bomb on turn 6, but how often will you have spell damage lingering around from the previous turn? I'm leaning towards the answer of not likely as most spell damage minions don't have great stats. Mage has a powerful way of enabling this with Lab Partner and Primordial Studies, but that's a 3 card combo on turn 6 which is not likely to come together. Overall, Sorcerous Substitute is a powerful play which can turn into a win condition for spell damage decks, it's just somewhat difficult to get the battlecry effect.
Secret Passage is deservedly number 1 of all the cards. The fact that this allows you to dig up resources, allows you to keep any extra generated/drawn cards, and is only 1 mana is completely nuts. The only deck that will not be running this would be galakrond rogue.
The main issue with Rattlegore is that it does nothing defensive the turn it enters play, unless you summon it off of Commencement which isn't always going to happen. There is also the issue that it is crushed by silence and transform effects, which are somewhat common in standard and we are getting more of in Scholomance with Devolving Missiles. Maybe this makes sense in a Big Warrior deck, but I think that archetype is too slow for standard.
It's almost like Azure Drake, but I don't think Drake would nearly be as prevalent in recent metas even with all of the standard dragon synergies. Drake is mostly outclassed by Big Ol' Whelp as Whelp has more stats and there isn't as much use for spell damage in standard. Steward of Scrolls is a worse version of Azure Drake as you'd rather have a card from your deck than a random one, and there is barely any elemental synergy in standard going into Scholomance (and the ones that exist aren't competitively viable). There are much cheaper ways to generate faster spells in standard like Wandmaker for Steward to ever be relevant.
New Priest & Warlock Minion - Brittlebone Destroyer
Excellent and cheap hard minion removal
New Neutral Minion - Pen Flinger
I bet someone will make an otk using this card
New Neutral Minion - Wretched Tutor
Very powerful aoe tool, mainly in Paladin thanks to discounted Libram of Justice
New Demon Hunter Spell - Cycle of Hatred
Cycle of Hatred. The name about sums up how I feel towards Demon Hunters. If this token DH comes to pass, this will play a part in it.
New Demon Hunter Spell - Glide
This card disgusts me, but I have hope it will be one of the first things nerfed. It will not feel good to play against, and wonder how exactly this came to be.
New Demon Hunter & Hunter Spell - Demon Companion
More tokens, they are really pushing that demon hunter archetype
New Neutral Minion - Desk Imp
Demon Snowflipper Penguin
New Mage & Rogue Minion - Jandice Barov
This card gets 5 stars from me for the call back to the WoW boss encounter, and it earns that 5 stars for having a unique effect that could be very good if you get the right minions.
New Neutral Minion - Plagued Protodrake
Maybe it will find a place on a recruit warrior. The stats and deathrattle give sustained board presence
New Neutral Minion - Sorcerous Substitute
A powerful stat bomb on turn 6, but how often will you have spell damage lingering around from the previous turn? I'm leaning towards the answer of not likely as most spell damage minions don't have great stats. Mage has a powerful way of enabling this with Lab Partner and Primordial Studies, but that's a 3 card combo on turn 6 which is not likely to come together. Overall, Sorcerous Substitute is a powerful play which can turn into a win condition for spell damage decks, it's just somewhat difficult to get the battlecry effect.
New Mage Spell - Combustion
Nice semi board clear, it gives minion positioning an important place again
New Mage & Shaman Spell - Primordial Studies
I think with the current mage and shaman Primes being spell damage related, this will be played.
New Mage & Rogue Minion - Jandice Barov
Has highroll potential if you manage to get 2 deathrattles, even if one dies with a hit
New Neutral Minion - Steward of Scrolls
Have very good stats for the effects, it can enable some tempo swings on later turns
Our Thoughts on Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Demon Hunter Cards
Lol love the Illidario joke, even read it with Mario's voice in my head
The Best Cards from Scholomance Academy : Hearthstone Compendium. Community vsTrump.
I think Speaker Gidra has been overhyped, Walking Fountain this ain't.
New Demon Hunter Spell - Glide
Prepare for hating DH even more, it now disrupts your entire gameplan
New Demon Hunter Spell - Cycle of Hatred
With a lot of weak tokens, this could develop a good board for you
New Paladin & Warrior Minion - Lord Barov
Very good board clear combo
New Warrior Minion - Rattlegore
The main issue with Rattlegore is that it does nothing defensive the turn it enters play, unless you summon it off of Commencement which isn't always going to happen. There is also the issue that it is crushed by silence and transform effects, which are somewhat common in standard and we are getting more of in Scholomance with Devolving Missiles. Maybe this makes sense in a Big Warrior deck, but I think that archetype is too slow for standard.
New Neutral Minion - Animated Broomstick
This simple 1 mana 1/1 might be a card to tremble before lol.
New Mage & Shaman Spell - Primordial Studies
I hope some kind of elemental shaman with Krag'wa, the Frog and spell power will rise in wild
New Neutral Minion - Steward of Scrolls
I think this card would be a good fit in either of those decks.
New Neutral Minion - Steward of Scrolls
It's almost like Azure Drake, but I don't think Drake would nearly be as prevalent in recent metas even with all of the standard dragon synergies. Drake is mostly outclassed by Big Ol' Whelp as Whelp has more stats and there isn't as much use for spell damage in standard. Steward of Scrolls is a worse version of Azure Drake as you'd rather have a card from your deck than a random one, and there is barely any elemental synergy in standard going into Scholomance (and the ones that exist aren't competitively viable). There are much cheaper ways to generate faster spells in standard like Wandmaker for Steward to ever be relevant.
New Demon Hunter Minion - Magehunter
I think I agree with you, it does too much for very little to be completely ignored.