All Comments

I find this one kind of boring to be honest ... Evolve shammy rehash

I love the vibe and the artwork for this one - that alone makes me love this card already : '' Brave leader of the Sporeggar. Guided by the philosophy that one should not mssh with matters that are not one's msshiness. ''

I imagine a lot of DH Decks will run this as a Finisher, the Class already looks pretty aggro. And since Leeroy Jenkins is rotating, this will surely see play. 

Mountain Giant had to rotate for this?

Not familiar with his lores ?
Could anyone give me a brief summary

... to your face as well

Quote From DrGoodie

thus making the epic duplicate protection they just introduced less relevant, but only for big spenders

Have to disagree here. Less epics means you dont get useless cards like Blowtorch Saboteur as part of your epic collection. If anything its actually better for FTP since they have a better chance at quality epics not bs ones.

Also, simply by getting rid of the possibility of frankly ridiculous 4 copies of bs epics like Chromatic Egg or Ramming Speed, that's a massive boost for that minute little pouch of mine called wallet.

The main reason it's gotten more expensive is that they release more cards per year: they went from expansions and adventures as separate seasons to every season an expansion and now an expansion plus adventure each season. While it costs more time/money per year to keep up, you do get more game in return.

The switch from one to two class legendaries per expansion is one change that does make things more expensive while not delivering a lot in terms of content. I mean, it's nice that there can be two archetypes per set supported by a legendary, but they could also support the second archetype without including a legendary for it.

On the plus side, they added more events where you can get free packs, have frequent sales (bundles) and the announced duplicate protection for all rarities is very welcome.

A quasi-hard removal at a discounted cost? 
Where do I sign

... seriously tho, this condition is laughable 

Gul'Dan - even if just a skull at this point - is still very powerful ^^
''A fellow of evil possessed, of most devious shadow. He hath turned on his kin a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in all imagination he is!''

Not going to lie, the first half of the card's text got me worried.

I find it hard to rate cards from a class that I have yet to see play, but can say that this looks powerful, even if it only impacts the game at turn 7. Removal on a stick is always welcomed - unless ... you know, it clears out your board

Oh hey, look its Recruit „SUMMON A MINION FROM YOUR DECK". 

... At least it sounds better than „Repeatable this Turn". 

The 5 mana is the only balancing/saving grace ... 
Also, I would NOT want to put my hand in there. It's... SQUISHY.

So glad to finally see him being printed, and with a pretty cool effect too.
His early introduction to the meta made for a soft refresher of the meta, nothing too big, but some variations.
Enjoyable!

Indeed, the snowball potential is real ; that's a must kill
can't wait to try it out!

3 Mana deal 5 Damage and sometimes summon a Minion is quite good.

And maybe there's a Possibility for Murloc DH later on? I mean, the Class already seems pretty aggressive. 

There's too many useless neutrals anyway. Takes more than a second to recall the card's name at times.

Similar to the card that won last week's Card Design Competition!

The card might be too slow to be viable, however it can produce massive swing turns in the late game with mid-cost minions.

More legendaries mean a more expensive game. Buuut, the rarity drop protection was so good that I don't really care that much about this.

It doesn't work.

The effect requires an attack to activate. Sweeping strikes doesn't attack nearby enemies, it simply damages them. Tested with Darius.

Okay, so its a beefed up Shadow Ascendant. That card saw some play so this one will as well, right?

Not necessarily. At this point, most decks would have some form of removal to deal with minions like this, and likewise to deal with 2 drops. That Shadow Ascendant saw play was because a) Northshire Cleric (the best 1 drop for priest) is an actual threat even without the buff, b) most players ignores/cant deal with 1 drops.

Also, we have yet to see any real 2 drop for priest worth playing. I can imagine maybe in dragon priest (since Faerie Dragon is an actual threat thats hard to remove on 2) but otherwise there needs to be some 4 health 2 drop for priest to make this worth playing. But overall, I still think its too slow to do anything substantial.

It’s not that I feel Runeterra’s system is not generous enough, it’s just that it feels unnecessary to give people the bad experience of opening multiple duplicates just because they got unlucky. Duplicate protection also encourages card crafting, since you no longer have to worry about crafting a card and then getting a ton of copies of it the day afte

I thought of this mostly because Hearthstone just announced that they would extend duplicate protection to all rarities, and it made me wonder why Runeterra doesn’t do this as well. The only upside of duplicates that I can see is that it provides diminishing marginal value from packs, which helps players who buy fewer packs be closer in terms of set completion to ones who bought a lot of cards. However, since in Runeterra you can’t buy packs, it seems like they could easily just have duplicate protection for all rarities and then maybe reduce trewards to compensate

@CursedParrot 

That is interesting.  Thanks for the info.