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There are already some hound-shaped demons that are marked "demons" so it checks out. 

Guess the origin (demonic) is more prominent than the shape (beastly)

Blizzard is desperately trying to give Jungle Giants some support. This just screams to me that this card wants to be in that deck, because it will pull you out some pretty cheap, 5-Attack Beasts to progress your Quest fast, and then to summon larger ones post-Barnabus the Stomper. In Standard, though? It's gonna be painful to make this work. Maybe with Survival of the Fittest?

Wild can make better use of this. Standard will leave this in dust.

2/5 in Standard, 3/5 in Wild

Does look  interesting - but i would wait for the whole Card Reveal, cause maybe there will be some other cards that will be better :)

But nice looking list!

Rush again. and that as a 7 mana card. The deck probably needs to be filled with 4+ mana cost beasts for it to work decently.

I like it - because i think my Buff Priest will finaly be a thing this expansion :)

Very Nice stats for 4 Mana and the ability could work realy good - Paladin has lots of Buffs so i guess it will be good there too. 

The new Druid legendary (Forest Guardian) + Coin + this could be a dream T6 for Druids. We just need some nice Beasts.

What are the significant beasts that cost 5 or less? The only ones that come to mind are Tundra Rhino, Augmented Porcupine and Zixor, Apex Predator or Hunter and the only Druid beast is Crystal Stag. Outside of the two classes, there is only King Mukla or Escaped Manasaber that's worth pulling. Safe to say, doesn't look that great, but I'll keep my hopes up for some spicy beasts in the reveal stream.

RIP Recruit

Well i think this is a good card - most of the time this will be a 5/4 for free because you can easily play it with a spell (lots of 0 Mana spell in druid) so i would say this is pretty darn good!

Shenanigans in Wild on turn 7 (yeah I know, dead by turn 6 ha ha) will include:

2 x Witchwood Grizzly

2 x Corpse Widow, and then dump your Deathrattles out.

and if you like to live dangerously

2 x Bittertide Hydra

Are you talking about Sap? While annoying to see 9 mana undone, the opponent is using 2 mana and the most versatile card in their deck, so it's not a total loss. Specifically against control, the tempo loss may not be fatal. For Rattlegore, there is always the option to shuffle bombs to turn off their Zephrys off. In theory Bad Luck Albatross allows Demon Hunter to do that too, but since its nerf that's no longer a good card to play on curve.

I can't see this working..

I don't think Hunter can build a midrange deck without including some smaller beasts

Druid could, but it would have to be something like Embiggen, which ruins the synergy with this.

I could see this work in almost every Warrior Deck right now. Good Card - for Paladin i guess it could work to, but i think it will be way better in Warrior!

Not bad of it pulls Tundra Rhino.

hopefully more Beast cards to be announced

just had to ruin it with (5) or ess clause, didn't you?

I'm assuming there's going to be some beasts for this in the yet to be revealed cards, but I'm not particularly hopeful at this point.

Interesting Card - defenitely like the Big Demon Hunter Archetype. And because there are some cards that can cheat out minions (like the demon hunter card that summons a demon from hand - i think it was 5 or 6 mana) like this, i think Big Demon Hunter will be a thing - and therefor this card will see play.

The Ability is also very nice.

Meh ... i think this is not only to slow but also to inconsistent. Most beasts you run in hunter right now have rush already - some beasts like the Prime after Deathrattle you do not want to pull out of the deck because of it's battlecry.

Could work if there will be some sort of new beast Hunter but i guess it is still to slow!

For Druid ... could work because of the Ramp but only if some sort of Beast Druid will emerge in the meta!

So far not a good card.

Very strong if you can build around it, but I'm not sure how possible that is.

There are not a great many 5 mana beasts that this will be a great target for, especially when you cannot run other beasts.

Seems neat but sorta weak with the beast pool in standard right now. I'm hoping they give us some solid beasts but for now I'm not sure this will do much.

This time, stealing means buffing this minions +1/+1 for every other minions onboard and reduce other minions by -1/-1. (and kill those with 1 health i suppose)

probably not for tempo deck. But why does a void hound not called a "beast"?

Instructor Fireheart is more impactful than Vulpera Scoundrel on turn 3 and on any turn after. I imagine that any Shaman deck that isn't totems would love to run her as she can usually act as both efficient tempo and efficient removal. Consider the fact that Shaman is limited in card draw and resource generation options and Instructor Fireheart is a home run.

So Ancient Void Hound and Rattlegore would typically fit in control style decks, which means you can always try bait out Zephrys first with your other big minions or force your opponent to play him proactively coz you keep clearing the board. (As a control warrior can do). Seeing as Zephrys has been in the game for so long, it's easier to identify highlander decks and only play the mentioned cards when your opponent runs out of resources. But this is all theoretical ofc :D  both these cards won't see play if there's an aggro/tempo meta, we know that much.

Nature Studies is a solid inclusion in Spell Druid. Helps you get your tempo swing with Glowfly Swarm out a turn earlier and can even find you another Glowfly Swarm. You'll usually find something that helps your game plan off of Nature Studies and it helps you chain spells for Exotic Mountseller.