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For me, one of the major drives is how long the cards will be in standard. I feel like I'm getting more value if i open more packs of the first 2 expansions in a cycle (therefore more cards)

For the final expac i usually just hoard gold and craft any meta-defining cards. 

It might sound strange since I mostly play wild, however most new cards have minimal effect on the wild metagame. For wild it seems better to craft what's good/what you want to play with.

The reveal video looks amazing as always. Siamat looks similar to Ziliax so it might see play because of that and Flame Ward seems like a solid secret although you could easily play around it.

Trust me, not as much as Warrior

Mage sure is getting all the boardclears this expansion. Aggro is going to hate Mage.

I think the reveal season hype is making me overestimate these cards' potential, but anyways...

Siamat seems bonkers to me: Zilliax has taught us how a bunch of keywords on a stick can be very versatile. In this case, you even get to choose what your minion can do: need to go through some sticky minions? Rush and Windfury. Need to kill a single target (maybe with Poisonous)? Rush and Divine Shield. Need to stabilize the board? Divine Shield and Taunt.

The uses of this card are high and, worth to be noted, it comes in play a little later than Zilliax, in order not to break the mid game so much as our Mech boy. In the end, really cool card: it should fit in many decks. 4 stars out of 5 just because I think it will be a nice addition but won't create new archetypes by itself.

With Flame Ward Mage gets another good secret: now that the Secret archetype has received some love, we may see it in the meta, even thought I don't see a huge payoff for running this archetype. More probably, there will be a Control Mage (Highlander?) that will run the secret package in order to stabilize the game (stuff like Flame Ward, Arcane Flakmage and, minimally, Cloud Prince are really solid removals against swarm decks).

So far so good.

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I'm quite worried about skipping this expansion, I skipped the Lichking Expansion and found myself really wanting to try he different quest decks. I seem them as basically a legemdary card from each class worth having when in other expansions theres usually only 4 or 5 legemdaries i want to have. 

This has got me thinking, should I pre order the cheaper bundle before I regret it?

Lich King expansion was the single most powerful expansion in HS history.  There were tons of cards with absurd power level, lasting throughout their standard life cycle (and still defining the wild meta today).  Many top decks were unplayable without a large amount of cards from this expansion.  Frozen throne was so meta defining, that all the expansions during year of the raven were overshadowed by it and had their cards suppressed by the sheer power level

Of course skipping that specific expansion was a huge mistake.  Uldam on the other hand, looks pretty weak in both the quantity of irreplaceable effects and power level

I usually buy myself one pre order, if not both, but this time I'm on the fence thinking if I want to order at all.  None of the cards look particularly exciting nor vital for the meta

can they do the live streams as well, and everything. less blizzard cringe more of these guys making good productions?

Admittedly, i have been tempted by banana buffoon, and i can definitely see it in a Reno version, both for buffs, and thanks to the survival provided by the Highlander cards, so you can try and play more slowly.

In my non-Reno list tho, they still appear decent on paper, and are indeed excellent sometimes in practice. Yet generally too slow. At least that was my experience with them in Miracle Mage, so i assume it's the same here.

Oh my God that video  was awesome production value must have been huge

Yeah that seems like a great solution indeed.

What I do for now is press and hold the card name until a window pops up asking me to open it in a new tab and then tap anywhere outside that window once to close it. This seems like the fastest way to currently "hover" over the card on mobile.

Oh, thanks for bringing this up. I rarely watch anime, so I did't notice the reference.

He's good, but not zilliax good.  The best thing about zilly is that he's like an Antique Healbot that clears a thing.  Neutral healing options are at an all time low right now so the only good neutral healing card is seeing a lot of play

This card doesn't have lifesteal.  It's still good, but not as good as you guys are all making it out to be

Ok yea I  remember  toasts ban but how is that still coming up now?

I am pretty sure Blizzard paid them to do it :D I mean they needed animation budget, shot the whole thing in a desert, Reno actor was needed... No way something like that would be profitable for them just from ad revenue.

Siamat is my fav card becos of how flexible it is :D

Armagedillo is my favourite card so far. I loved taunt warrior since the previous warrior quest came out and this card fits the theme of the deck being a taunt warrior.

There is attack on titan as well (when she spins around the arm). Extremly good card reveal.

I knew of the druid beast package before.  It's in most of the "successful" non-token druids out there right now, which is why I was avoiding it when building stuff myself.  It's been tried and proven itself to be around T4 so I was thinking perhaps there is something better.  Maybe it's my own fault for limiting myself so much

As for the 3 new decks, I can't really try them out myself because I'm missing a whole load of legendaries or epics

That hunter list looks super well built already and I don't think it needs much help

• It has the right techs against mage and a good finisher that isn't too insane to pull off
• It could use a Zilliax, maybe a sn1p-sn4p though
• You could also experiment with a lynx/wingblast package especially with carrion drakes already in the deck
• Maybe sub the twilight drakes with other dragons because hunter doesn't use them super well.  I'm thinking a 2nd amalgam for sure because it's a mech (for magnitize and plays around dynomatic) and a beast (you're discovering a lot of spells and hunter spells synergize with beasts)