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I'll be honest here, the fact that Flag Runner never saw any play makes me very doubtful this can. Cards that only get better when you lose board is technically never a good thing, as we have found out later in alterac.

But I'll give this one a chance, because even as a 4/4 rush minion that followed up from SECURITY!! on 4, that's still decent enough result. Probably wont see play, but definitely a maybe.

Very underwhelming roadmap.   It seems Blizzard is officially moving hearthstone to the backburner to focus on other projects.   

Assuming you can proct it, this card isn't all that bad. Basically its Coordinated Strike at 1 less mana.

But we've seen it time and again. Outcast cards aren't particularly easy to proct unless youre playing an aggro deck, and this is not an aggro card.

Honest, if it weren't for cards like Halveria Darkraven and Sinful Brand, this card would be completely crap. As it stands, its only in hands-on can we determine this to be better than coordinated strike, because man it would suck hard for this to be cock-blocked by another card.

Looks like dhunter's going rush and hero attacks this time round...and both look spectacularly subpar.

Halveria Darkraven looks poor, but given how easily dhunter spams rush tokens its actually a pretty good card, especially for a finish. The problem is actually having minions on board, and then having the rush minions to do this, as well as playing darkraven herself. Too convoluted. Imagine if Bloodlust requiring two cards + board to work it'll never see play ever again even if it was 3 mana. But I remain cautiously optimistic that in practice it works a hell lot better.

I have to say, Im beginning to hate outcast as a keyword, because it seems like team5 really really dont want to push the power levels up while at the same time making no attempt to make playing outcast any easier. SECURITY!! for example, could've summon two tokens for outcast and I would still think its decently balanced.

And finally, nothing to synergize with Going Down Swinging, making it one of the worst legendary spells Ive seen so far...

...if it werent for Infinitize the Maxitude. 2 mana discover a spell. Finale to do it again. Vast Wisdom gives out two spells for the same mana and you need not bother about the finale.

Pretty simple super cheap but comes at a big cost, though Paladin has good ways of healing and mitigating damage.

Poor card to be honest. In fact, bafflingly poor.

A legendary spell that should theorectically be a build around, ends up in a situation far worse than 2 mana Evocation.

Here's the thing. If I want to discover a spell every turn (assuming that's what I want to do at all) I'd rather do that with mana to spend, because chances are good I'd want to plan my turn according to what I get. Instead this card will only give value only if I have 2 mana left over with nothing else better to do.

At very best you'd play this on 2, skip the hp, and feel slightly good about yourself. You know what else you can do? Just play Vast Wisdom, which will at very least net you two cards, no frills whatsoever.

Looking over the mage decks in the current meta, and making assumptions on the next, I cannot see any situation where paying 2 mana to discover a spell actually does anything useful, less so because of finale. Is it really that difficult for team5 just to give the spell a 1 mana discount? If nothing else, at least I'd feel it's objectively better than vast wisdom, which at the moment it is not.

Infinitize the Maxitude - is a neat value generator for mage, it’s kind of like Headcrack except instead of doing almost nothing for its cost it generates “infinite”card advantage if you can finale it several times over several turns. In wild this could be another tool for ungoro quest mage (Especially if the returned copy counts for the quest). In standard it could be splashed somewhere but I have no clue what mage is doing yet. Why on earth are they holding back so hard on mage reveals? They’re both cool cards, yes but why only two cards one at a time, so far

Can Surfer Still Succeed?

How to Play:
1. No one drops in this deck so nothing to do in most games on turn 1.
2. Turn 2 is almost always Zabu; if you don't have Zabu, then Lizard.
3. Often Polaris is your best turn 3 ton cause disruption; Jugg and Kill Monger also offer this.
4 On 4, were either setting up Wong Lane or setting up Brood Lane, it's also possible to Brood on 3 and then Absorbing Man on 4 (this deck is quite versatile on turns 3 and 4).
5. Sera is the play 90% of the time. If you don't have Sera you'll be dropping a 3 and 2 and hoping your Aero is good enough to win on 6, or that your Wong remains untouched and you can win with Surfer and Absrobing Man.
6. This Deck has a few potential game enders, like Wong/Surfer Combo, Aero/Absorbing Man on 5/6, or Shang + Absorbing Man on 6 with Zabu. Lots of ways to complete the game.

Additional Info:
This deck, while feeling underpowered, has all the capabiliies of having a straightforward plan that leads to lots of big cube wins. In addition, it allows knowing exactly when you've lost and making it easy to retreat, so we're not losing big.

Meshing the Sera Control with the Silver Surfer to form a Modified Sera Surfer has lead to a very fun deck to play and a great way to counter your opponents plans.

No Secrets for Paladin this year.

Afaik these "TBD" reveals are community reveals made through mass emails.

Update: Seems they updated the time to be at 2pm now.

I just think it is a shocking example of power creep because Dr Boom was included in nearly every deck and many people wanted it nerfed. Now I am not sure it is good enough to be played at all.

I don't understand why they chose Kiri as the druid class legendary when they already have Lunar and Solar Eclipse as cards.

Agreed completely.

Bluegill Warrior got protected from modification because Wild players spoke out. There is no one to speak out for Holy Champion.

This sort of thing is slovenly. It reminds me of the rather clumsy changes that the game went through in its earliest staffing change where all the old cards that the new staff didn't have any attachment to could be tossed with abandon. And it's confusing as fuck because it's so easy to be mislead because of the art.

The treatment feels slipshod, a bit like Overheal itself, which I predict will get a massively overpowered lynchpin card in a future set that will be in every deck once it hits like a wet noodle.

So let's get this out of the way, yes this can be seen as a 3 deck meta:

Aggro: Annie jhin

Midrange: elites

Control: heimer jayce

all 3 decks are tier 1 in there respective categories.

But as soon as you start to move away from the obvious choices the rest of the deck selection is incredible even.

To the point that you can basically play whatever you want. 

Me personally I run brews from all across the deck spectrum and go on incredible winstreaks.

Just today I burned out 10 players with shromes, the meta can be adapted to and re-adapted once players make adjustments.

Are they value hungry kill them outside of board presence by loading their deck with lethal.

Is there deck nothing but burst spells?

Just ramp over there head there's nothing they can do about it.

Are they too spell heavy, well ephemerals and hallowed always exist.

My point is that as soon as you move away from the I kill you with Annie, create a big board with elites, or destroy all your stuff with jayce, outside of that the game is beautiful right now.

Me personally when the new set arrives I'm still going to play classic Runeterra I don't think rotation is something I'm going to enjoy when the game has only gotten better with time.

Yeah 3 deck meta yatta yatta thats not enough to prevent me from enjoying the game, like if I didn't have 20 life and Jhin Annie wasn't easy mode then I would be unstoppable so gotta give players something to hold on to.

Although I do imagine playing the same deck over and over again would probably get boring for most players not to mention the fact that they googled it so they don't even have anything to be proud of?

Hahhahaha caught ya you're even playing my decks you'll never live it down!!!

You guys keep using my decks that's soooo cool like I've become the defacto runeterra meme king. Thanks for the crown.

Noticable cards:

Overdraft - obvious choice for overload shaman

Mal'Ganis - The Jailer combo available in standard now!

Dirty Rat - moar hand disruption

A look at the best decks in the game after this weeks Balance Patch! Agree or disagree? let us know in the comments!

This is pretty nice if it works like I think it does (I never look at the actual reveal stuff). More the three cards in one than the simple +1/+1 buff.

This looks alright. Wouldn't want to play this on curve, otherwise you probably wouldn't trigger it more than two, maybe three times before it dies.