I'm not sold on this card. The minions are significantly less impactful as their Animal Companion counterparts. The 2/1 charge can be pinged down unlike Huffer, who often forces the opponent to use some form of removal/trade in a creature to deal with, the 2/2 taunt gets contested by almost every one drop that sees play, as well as running horribly into Bonechewer Brawler, and the 1/2 attack buffer isn't a good one drop as a 1/2 trades horribly with almost every single one drop that sees play. The bset one is probably the 2/2 taunt but at that point I don't see why you wouldn't just run Blazing Battlemage over it for the consistency of having good one drop.
5/7 taunt for 6 mana is pretty good, other taunts around this mana level are somewhere between 3/4 (khartut defender) and 4/8 (emerald Explorer).
What sets this minion apart from other deathrattle taunts is that instead of leaving another body behind it adds the minion to your hand.
This can be a downside and an upside -
The downside is you'll have to spend the 6 mana again to play this minion a second time.
The Upside is you'll have another taunt minion to play if your opponent had to use minions or a weapon to attack it. Another upside is the taunt package Warriors received in Saviors of Ulduum, Into the Fray and Armegadillo make this already good statted minion into an impressive 7/9 for 6 mana, which is difficult for aggressive boards to push through without trading their board into it.
Stats make it a good choice for Arena, also. I feel this minion will find a home in the ladder once scholomance officially launches
If you think rogue would use this, Cursed Vagrant exists already. If you think it's better in duel paladin, thecolossi are already here. It's nice when cheated, but there's just better stuff to be cheated right now. Maybe the dragon tag will make a difference at some point.
New Druid/Shaman Spell - Lightning Bloom
Well this might end up being the most broken broken broken card in the set. Some really awful combos are now viable.
New Mage Minion - Firebrand
Nice stats and nice effect, not too reliable but it doesn't hurt you
New Mage & Rogue Spell - Brain Freeze
The freeze effect is already nice but the combo just adds to it, being 1 mana makes it easy to combo with almost anything
New Mage Spell - Cram Session
With enough spell dmg you got a nice 2 mana draw card
New Neutral Minion - Voracious Reader
Yeah, this is broken. 2 mana draw 3 with a 1/3 body, seems legit.
New Mage & Shaman Minion - Trick Totem
Just a totem that can either help you, do nothing or actually be amazing... too much flip
New Mage Minion - Wyrm Weaver
Good health bad attack and too high cost, at least the effect is really nice
New Demon Hunter & Hunter Spell - Demon Companion
I'm not sold on this card. The minions are significantly less impactful as their Animal Companion counterparts. The 2/1 charge can be pinged down unlike Huffer, who often forces the opponent to use some form of removal/trade in a creature to deal with, the 2/2 taunt gets contested by almost every one drop that sees play, as well as running horribly into Bonechewer Brawler, and the 1/2 attack buffer isn't a good one drop as a 1/2 trades horribly with almost every single one drop that sees play. The bset one is probably the 2/2 taunt but at that point I don't see why you wouldn't just run Blazing Battlemage over it for the consistency of having good one drop.
New Shaman/Mage Spell - Devolving Missiles
Even more random devolve.... at least it only costs 1 mana
New Neutral Minion - Plagued Protodrake
Really good arena card. Dust for standard. Wild can make good use of this maybe but I don't think so.
New Mage Spell - Combustion
3 cost 4 dmg on a minion is already nice, the excess dmg going to another minion is nice but i don't see the excess being used too much
New Rogue Spell - Secret Passage
This seems so fun, a good refill for rogue which can get you somesome interesting cards if you run out of gas.
New Neutral Minion - Smug Senior
5/7 taunt for 6 mana is pretty good, other taunts around this mana level are somewhere between 3/4 (khartut defender) and 4/8 (emerald Explorer).
What sets this minion apart from other deathrattle taunts is that instead of leaving another body behind it adds the minion to your hand.
This can be a downside and an upside -
The downside is you'll have to spend the 6 mana again to play this minion a second time.
The Upside is you'll have another taunt minion to play if your opponent had to use minions or a weapon to attack it. Another upside is the taunt package Warriors received in Saviors of Ulduum, Into the Fray and Armegadillo make this already good statted minion into an impressive 7/9 for 6 mana, which is difficult for aggressive boards to push through without trading their board into it.
Stats make it a good choice for Arena, also. I feel this minion will find a home in the ladder once scholomance officially launches
New Mage & Rogue Spell - Potion of Illusion
Looks amazing for combos or effect cards but you will need to have them in play beforehand
New Hunter Minion - Professor Slate
OMG this card is a monster!
New Mage & Rogue Minion - Jandice Barov
Free 5 cost units, it probably won't be hard to guess which one dies from any dmg but if you can pull rush/charge minions from it then you are set
New Hunter Minion - Wolpertinger
Really good Standard card. Awesome buff for [Hearthstone Card (Deathstalker Rexxar) Not Found].
New Hunter Minion - Professor Slate
Darn, Rapid Fire just got a lot scarier. Might not be enough to ensure a slot in some decks but I might fly around with it in Highlander.
New Neutral Minion - Plagued Protodrake
If you think rogue would use this, Cursed Vagrant exists already. If you think it's better in duel paladin, the colossi are already here. It's nice when cheated, but there's just better stuff to be cheated right now. Maybe the dragon tag will make a difference at some point.
New Mage Minion - Mozaki, Master Duelist
The health makes it able to survive for at least 1 turn and mage being able to use so many 1 cost spells makes it easy to stack for amazing combos
New Mage & Shaman Minion - Ras Frostwhisper
Nice card, if you can play spell dmg cards it becomes a reliable aoe
Hearthstone Hotfixes - Game Disconnects, Transfer Student, and Mr. Bigglesworth Battlegrounds Bugs
LOL, that must have felt preeeeetty good when that happened :D
New Hunter Spell - Carrion Studies
Counter part to the druid spell one, basically free and it can be used reactively
New Hunter Minion - Krolusk Barkstripper
Just a better deadly shot, I intend to toy around with this and see how it fits into Hunter.
New Neutral Minion - Ogremancer
A powerful deck filler. Adds nice flavor to packs. Yummy.