It's fine, but you have to put smaller imps in your deck to infuse this consistently, and that will make Rafaam less consistent. So while I think this is a decent card on its own, I'm only giving it 3 stars because the imp archetype seems sketchy.
Because it's a location and takes up a minion slot on the board, it has anti-synergy with itself. What a wretched design flaw!
Still, the ability to buff your guy for no additional mana after you've summoned a bunch of imps ... well, that's pretty potent. About 4 stars potent, but I'm deducting a star for the weird design (also because imps don't seem that strong to me), so 3 stars with the potential to be 4 stars with more fel support later on.
Comparisons to Demonic Assault (a Fel spell) are way off target. Voidwalkers require nothing more than a stiff breeze to remove, while these take a bit of effort. This gets discounted by Shadowborn, copied by Tamsin, and copied by Lady Darkvein (hey, maybe you need it). You are simply never going to put Demonic Assault in a deck that wants Shadow synergy.
All that, plus the fact that it provides two bodies for infuse, means I give it 3 stars. (It's not as bad as people are saying, but I'm not super in love with it either.)
I am seeing only pros with this. Will there be times that you play this and it will make your Mortal Coil reduce? Sure. But there are dozens of other cards that it can hit that will make people cringe. Having someone drop a Twisting Nether that's been discounted by this and that damn weapon is enough to validate using this for me.
I cannot wait to try this in my lock decks. The ability to copy more and more spells with Warlock is amazing. The curses and buffs alone will be super fun to play with.
First there was Suspicious Usher, now there's this. How many of these suspicious cards are we getting? One for each class? I'm not sure it would be that hard for your opponent to guess what you picked, so this might not be that great.
Well, if you can play this on curve, there probably isn't a whole lot that would survive this. I'm actually not sure how much you'd want to play this on curve, but a second free 2-drop would most likely be pretty damn good.
Hard to evaluate this card without understanding exactly what it does. This should remove debuffs such as Vulnerable and Stun. What about Can't Block / Immobile? Frostbite? Kindred's Mark? Mark of the Storm? Ephemeral? Disintegrate? Silence? Transformation effects like Minimorph? Stress Defense? The card draw debuff from Ye Been Warned?
The list of positive keywords that units Pantheon, Viktor and The Arsenal can get is already a pain to keep track of, now we need to memorize a whole new list of effects that this card can remove. Can't give this card a score without knowing what it does.
Depends on your deck of course, but I don't think it would be too much of a loss if you sent an 8-cost card (or maybe even a 5-cost) you had in your hand back to you deck in order to play this on curve. You do lose on hand advantage, though.
All that does is get you two draws. You still have the terrible consistency where you could get Onyxia and Kazakus, or you could get a Peasant and Renathal. A 10 mana 8/8 draw 2/save 5 mana is not worth it. It's too slow. The highrolls don't make up for the loss of tempo if you lowroll.
The wildseeds look pretty good, except for when you get the fox and your opponent doesn't even have anything to attack when it awakens. So yeah, looks like a strong card.
Might not be that great since it doesn't even have taunt, but the attack is probably too high to just ignore it. Convincing Infiltrator only has 2 attack for example.
The effect is strong, but the danger of putting all your eggs in one basket... is that you lose all of them if the buffed unit gets killed. This risk is made even worse by the fact that this doesn't buff the unit's stats in any way.
For 4 mana, Rainbowfish grants a unit Elusive and +2|+1, plus if the unit dies you get your Rainbowfish back which is the equivalent of drawing a card. I think Rainbowfish is better than this, and Rainbowfish only sees play in like one deck.
Sumpworks Map sees zero play at 2 mana, and my guess is that this will see zero play at 3 mana. 1/5
New Warlock Spell - Impending Catastrophe
If this were a fel spell, I'd give it 4 stars. As a shadow spell, I hate it -- 1 star, even though I fully admit it's probably better than that.
Also why is Rafaam's right nipple spewing red smoke?
New Warlock Minion - Mischievous Imp
It's fine, but you have to put smaller imps in your deck to infuse this consistently, and that will make Rafaam less consistent. So while I think this is a decent card on its own, I'm only giving it 3 stars because the imp archetype seems sketchy.
New Targon Spell - Mikhael's Blessing
Negative keywords so far are: Ephemeral, Silence and Vulnerable, can't block, immobile
The rest are debuffs that aren't keywords
I am also quite sure that Minimorphed units won't be morphed back but get their previous buffs reapplied to them
New Warlock Location - Vile Library
Because it's a location and takes up a minion slot on the board, it has anti-synergy with itself. What a wretched design flaw!
Still, the ability to buff your guy for no additional mana after you've summoned a bunch of imps ... well, that's pretty potent. About 4 stars potent, but I'm deducting a star for the weird design (also because imps don't seem that strong to me), so 3 stars with the potential to be 4 stars with more fel support later on.
New Ionia Card - Kinkou Student
You have to consider that this dude can get barrier multiple times as a 2 mana 3/1... this is way better than 3 stars imo
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Mikhael's Blessing sounds very potent in Ephemeral decks.
Sure it deathmark is fullfilling a comparable role but this Mikhael's can't be interrupted and therefore is better imo.
Scavenged Camocloaker ... I thought Supercharge is busted... now this is proably even worse if you use it on someone like Taric
Kinkou Student sounds also VERY strong given he can repeatedly get barrier as a 2 drop
Moral Support a 2 mana barrier is very solid. Is it op? I don't think so but it certainly is a good Shen support card
Royal Decree hmm doesn't sound that good to me.
New Warlock Spell - Shadow Waltz
Comparisons to Demonic Assault (a Fel spell) are way off target. Voidwalkers require nothing more than a stiff breeze to remove, while these take a bit of effort. This gets discounted by Shadowborn, copied by Tamsin, and copied by Lady Darkvein (hey, maybe you need it). You are simply never going to put Demonic Assault in a deck that wants Shadow synergy.
All that, plus the fact that it provides two bodies for infuse, means I give it 3 stars. (It's not as bad as people are saying, but I'm not super in love with it either.)
New Warlock Minion - Shadowborn
Useful in nearly every Warlock deck because mana cheat always breaks everything, so 4 stars.
New Warlock Minion - Flustered Librarian
The base stats are good, but don't expect it to live very long. I give it 3 stars.
New Warlock Minion - Shadowborn
I am seeing only pros with this. Will there be times that you play this and it will make your Mortal Coil reduce? Sure. But there are dozens of other cards that it can hit that will make people cringe. Having someone drop a Twisting Nether that's been discounted by this and that damn weapon is enough to validate using this for me.
New Warlock Spell - Shadow Waltz
I am really liking these token warlock cards. It isn't something that has really existed for warlock much, so I am hopeful that these will continue.
New Warlock Minion - Lady Darkvein
I cannot wait to try this in my lock decks. The ability to copy more and more spells with Warlock is amazing. The curses and buffs alone will be super fun to play with.
New Mage Minion - Suspicious Alchemist
First there was Suspicious Usher, now there's this. How many of these suspicious cards are we getting? One for each class? I'm not sure it would be that hard for your opponent to guess what you picked, so this might not be that great.
New Rogue Spell - Serrated Bone Spike
Well, if you can play this on curve, there probably isn't a whole lot that would survive this. I'm actually not sure how much you'd want to play this on curve, but a second free 2-drop would most likely be pretty damn good.
New Targon Spell - Mikhael's Blessing
Hard to evaluate this card without understanding exactly what it does. This should remove debuffs such as Vulnerable and Stun. What about Can't Block / Immobile? Frostbite? Kindred's Mark? Mark of the Storm? Ephemeral? Disintegrate? Silence? Transformation effects like Minimorph? Stress Defense? The card draw debuff from Ye Been Warned?
The list of positive keywords that units Pantheon, Viktor and The Arsenal can get is already a pain to keep track of, now we need to memorize a whole new list of effects that this card can remove. Can't give this card a score without knowing what it does.
New Demon Hunter Minion - Bibliomite
Depends on your deck of course, but I don't think it would be too much of a loss if you sent an 8-cost card (or maybe even a 5-cost) you had in your hand back to you deck in order to play this on curve. You do lose on hand advantage, though.
New Neutral Minion - Famished Fool
Maybe this is best compared with Nourish or Need for Greed, in which case, draw 3 plus a 3/5 body is not that bad.
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All that does is get you two draws. You still have the terrible consistency where you could get Onyxia and Kazakus, or you could get a Peasant and Renathal. A 10 mana 8/8 draw 2/save 5 mana is not worth it. It's too slow. The highrolls don't make up for the loss of tempo if you lowroll.
New Hunter Minion - Spirit Poacher
The wildseeds look pretty good, except for when you get the fox and your opponent doesn't even have anything to attack when it awakens. So yeah, looks like a strong card.
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If by broken you mean so bad it won't see play... yeah, an 8 mana that draws me a free Peasant and Renathal is just amazing. Very broken.
New Neutral Minion - Sinrunner
Might not be that great since it doesn't even have taunt, but the attack is probably too high to just ignore it. Convincing Infiltrator only has 2 attack for example.
New Neutral Minion - Sketchy Stranger
Was there another card not long ago that allowed classes to do things they normally couldn't? I feel like there was.
New Piltover & Zaun Spell - Scavenged Camocloaker
The effect is strong, but the danger of putting all your eggs in one basket... is that you lose all of them if the buffed unit gets killed. This risk is made even worse by the fact that this doesn't buff the unit's stats in any way.
For 4 mana, Rainbowfish grants a unit Elusive and +2|+1, plus if the unit dies you get your Rainbowfish back which is the equivalent of drawing a card. I think Rainbowfish is better than this, and Rainbowfish only sees play in like one deck.
Sumpworks Map sees zero play at 2 mana, and my guess is that this will see zero play at 3 mana. 1/5
New Neutral Minion - Forensic Duster
Cult Neophyte for minions. I recall that one being pretty common, so this one might be too.