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Nope, you'll Discover Priest Shadow spells. There is a tweet somewhere confirming it, but I cannot find it at the moment.

However, I am 1000% confident in the answer I gave you.

Good in control, fairly useless in all others.

The main problem is that its baseline stats aren't anything spectacular, and the fact is that in aggro matchups youre highly unlikely to ever hold cards in your hand just so this one card can gain value. Especially if that card doesn't win you the game, which this doesn't.

But in control this is just 4 damage whenever you like. With the many fire spells being introduced this card will nearly always revive at least once, if not twice per game consistently. And control really needs cards like these, that take out middling minions while they do other stuff.

Its really 50-50 to me because there's really only very few minions that actually synergizes with the additional stats like Mor'shan Elite, and that card hasn't seen any play at all.

But the best part of the card is the weapon you receive. On one hand you'd much rather have Imbued Axe in aggro-midrange decks any day, and on the other this card just deals 8 damage over 2 turns. Depends on the build I guess, because ordinary enrage warrior have no need of this card, but you can never write out 8 damage to the face.

Its the sort of card that looks good in theory but in practice you might as well just rely on Imbued Axe to do the job. Because in many cases if you actually have a board of damaged minions with axe you just win. This card is just a win more, much weaker rendition of that card.

Redundant at best in enrage warrior and unplayable in all other archetypes.

Straight up busted card, essentially an Arcane Intellect that can reach 0 mana.

Going to be seen everywhere where there's a warrior. Mostly because warrior has little to no draw, but also because this is just a really solid card.

Its Risky Skipper but triggers with fire spells instead of pirates.

Probably going to see this everywhere because of Light of the Phoenix. Also useful to clear smaller boards, something which control warrior currently suffers somewhat from.

Certainly not bad. Cheaper outcasts means more chance to play them the turn you get them, and therefore get the outcast bonus without having to wait until you can play every card to one side of it. This will be especially nice with the random outcast generation being printed.

Please tell me if this draws Encumbered Pack Mule you get two 4/6s. Other than that, I'm not sure there are many great taunt minions in Standard right now, so I'm not expecting this to be great.

Too bad cards are always added to the right side of your hand, so even if you play one or two of the cards this gives you on the same turn, eventually you'll be forced to end your turn and draw a card next turn, blocking you from activating the outcast effect until you get rid of all cards to one side of it, and who plays outcast cards without the outcast? Though the wording of this doesn't require the outcast to be active, and maybe getting another card will be worth just playing it without the bonus.

Interesting that Warrior is getting cards like this and Asvedon, the Grandshield. Anybody with a deck that focuses on spells is going to need to either kill this quick, or concede. Hell, the mere existence of this might prevent such decks from being prevalent.

I'm going to assume the targeting is random, which means this won't likely be that useful, but since the last spell would be known, it should be feasible to make the battlecry targetable if the last spell was targetable and set what can be targeted based on the rules of the spell. Unfortunately, this is likely to end up damaging one of your own minions or buffing an enemy.

Is there any shadow spells in warrior anyway? even if you get it via asvedon its just a dead card in hand.

I can't see that any of the outcast cards are that bad, especially with a 2 mana discount. Well, Vengeful Spirit is useless if you don't have deathrattle minions.

10 mana seems a bit too slow to be good. On top of that, there aren’t many good deathrattles in the set right now, mostly Owl and Stoneborn Guardian and the new 8 drop. Maybe forcing your opponent to deal with 2 massive board waves is more than enough to kill them, but we’ll have to see

Ouch. I hope you got them out of there.

Probably crap if Im honest.

Because we have to ask whether including a river croc to the deck is actually a plus. And there being so many other 2 drops that are better, I just dont see why anyone would include this in. Even if you can play a turn 1 undead minion, this would need to die or you get no value out of this card.

This looks at least okay. Given all the undead minions this expansion, I doubt there will be any problems triggering the battlecry.

If this cant be cheated out then its absolutely trash, even if for some reason your hand if filled with completely OP minions.

Because at the 10 mana range most decks are in prime condition to end it, usually within 1-2 turns, and if your riposte is to clear board for 10 mana then Im afraid the game has been decided. There are minions that are more useful dead than alive, like Blightblood Berserker, or Mo'arg Forgefiend but then the idea that youve kept it in hand just so this can be juiced isn't exactly a winning play to me.

But obviously this card is made to be cheated out. The main question would be to ask how. Barbaric Sorceress would be the most obvious pick, but Im doubtful because it doesn't seem like its easy to build a deck in such a way, and very likely you need at least 1 other big spell to go with this.

If both players fill it in the same turn, is it given to the player with priority, or do both players get a card?