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I think Tour Guide is a very good tempo card (you never lose tempo by playing it unless you save your hero power for a later turn) and this has direct synergy with it. Will that make it good in something that isn't Demon Hunter? Probably not, because you'll still be using two cards to draw one and that's just really inefficient.

Obvious comparison to Twilight Guardian as others have pointed out, but probably better?

I'm not sure if it is actually better, but it seems like it should be just because the stats are better and the conditional is easier to meet.

Regardless, experimentation will be the only way we can tell.

This will single handadly fling Sorcerer's Apprentice into HoF. Huge mistake IMHO.

Even decks love him; odd decks wish they could have him; and Demon Hunter is going to abuse him.

I think this is a strong card, but I don't know that it will see play in standard outside of aggro beast decks.

Aggro even decks will love this card to death, and I look forward to trying him out.

This card is solid, but probably one of the weaker studies cards (at least for standard). Perhaps this enables some combo shenanigans, but I don't know of any obvious ones off the top of my head.

The deathrattle pool is a little too large for this to be used for the discover part of the spell, so I suspect it will be used mostly to enable earlier plays of deathrattle minions already run in a deck.

I am super excited to play with this card! I love spell damage synergies, and I love that this enables both Shaman and Mage spell damage decks.

This card also seems solid since it damages all enemies and can scale. Despicable Dreadlord is a solid card, and Ras is even better.

Looking forward to trying him out in Odd Shaman and some kind of spell damage Mage in Standard.

This is such an awesome and terrible effect. I'm excited to use this effect, but I know it is going to be tilting to have my minions Rapid Fire'd down.

I'm excited to experiment with this in some kind of hunter deck, but I'm not sure it will be consistent enough to be any good.

Yikes!

Can't wait to take 2 damage to face turn 1.

Animal Companion is still a card run in Hunter because it provides over-statted minions for the cost; this does the same, but a little better, so I expect to see this played everywhere.

This card feels a lot like Imprisoned Antaen and Priestess of Fury to me: obviously strong and weird that it was printed in its current state. Maybe I'm off, but the fact that this can kill minions by sucking away health, prevent lethal by taking away 7 damage, be cheated out by multiple different cards, AND has great stats for the cost with an upside seems like an obviously overpowered card to me.

The fact that it is 9 mana is holding it back from being busted, but it seems like it is good enough that it's mana cost is irrelevant.

I don't think this is going to be desirable in either class because of the forced minion attacks. Both classes have weapons that are much more desirable for the current play-styles of each class, and this weapon's effect doesn't seem good enough to create its own archetype (unlike Stormhammer).

Obviously, this is very strong with Ace Hunter Kreen, but that combo isn't going to happen every time you attack with this weapon (and it might kill Kreen).

Quote From CursedParrot

Yeah, the champions have been leaked for a while. However, it is possible that they might make this expansion smaller to add cards to the two mini-expansions, so they might not release a champion for each region (or maybe they’ll release fewer champions for Targon). It would also make sense if the mini-expansions just gave us more support cards for the new champions without introducing any new champions.

The video says "New Region" in August and "New Cards" in October and December.  I could see it being something like Targon, 5 Targon champs, 60 Targon non-champ cards in August (in other words, few/0 cards for other regions); then Tahm Kench + Bilgewater support in October and Lulu + Ionia support in December (or vice-versa).  I don't think they would release a champion without any corresponding support cards; that's just going to give the community a sour impression of said champion.

Seems very strong to me combining Equality, Whirlwind, and a 3/2 into a single card.

I expect this will see play in standard and wild for quite some time unless it gets nerfed.

This is ok, but I'm not sure it's good enough to enable an entire archetype in 2020. Maybe it is viable with Guardian Animals, but I'm not sure...

The card has great flavor, but I don't know if it will make the cut in today's meta.

The comparison to Azure Drake is obvious, but I think this is probably worse than Drake because card draw is generally better than card generation in Hearthstone.

Looking forward to testing this one out in various spell damage decks since the archetype is seeing a lot of support this expansion.

I played against only one of them when playing Even Totem Shaman to legend but I can say my 79% winrate Shaman got obliterated by DMH Warrior!  That's just one match up, and really just one match, but Zeddy in particular has been playing it a lot lately I think.  Check out some of his videos on YouTube.  Probably has at least one on DMH Warrior.

https://reddit.com/r/CompetitiveHS/comments/hzp2dv/dead_mans_hand_warrior_a_golden_age_guide_wild/

With the dearth of silence effects in standard, I think this card is going to be help bring together the Big Warrior archetype.

I'm not excited for that archetype to thrive, but I think it will be a competitive deck in this meta.

Thanks for the highlight!  That Shaman deck seems to be a pretty strong choice for the Wild meta right now.  Anyone interested in playing it better hurry before new cards drop!  Or play it WHEN the new cards drop to mow down players experimenting with new stuff... whatever!  I won't try and tell you what to do.  I'm not your dad!

I initially think I overreacted to this card, and after seeing the rest of the expansion, I suspect this will be swept under the rug.

This should be great at enabling fun and wild combos, but I'm not sure it will be a staple anywhere in the meta.

Just like Magic Carpet, the card is good, but probably only fits a niche here and there in the meta.

Everyone is losing their mind over this, but I think we are going to have to see it in action before we know for sure.

I initially thought this was going to be super strong (and I'm excited to try out some ideas with it), but, after learning about the "shuffling after the ordering ruins the ordering" part of the card, I less confident in its strenght.

I'm think this will be a really strong card in Even Warlock (which I'm totally going to be trying out), and I'm excited to see what ideas the community comes up with to push the limits of this card.

I'm most excited with the fact that Team 5 is pushing new and never-before-seen ideas into Hearthstone.

I want this card to be good, and I want some kind of Rapid Fire Hunter to make this strong, but I don't think it's actually going to be good.

It's a cool idea with a cool flavor, but I suspect a weak card overall.

I suspect this will be run in most Hunter lists; it feels reminiscent of Spider Bomb which was also very strong for Hunter.

It will probably make the cut in Highlander, and it might even enable some kind of spell-oriented Hunter thanks to Rapid Fire and Professor Slate.