Yep. One of my favourite decks currently is reno hand mage and meteorologist has almost single handedly won games against other control decks by giving me a ton of burst they weren't expecting. I certainly wouldn't replace meteorologist for new reno, I'm honestly not sure what (if anything) would be worth dropping to add him to that deck and that's a deck that already deals with the big downside of this card
Reno is terrible in standard though. Why wouldn't you just build a normal deck and run extra copies of the better removal mage already has? Your deck would likely be stronger including him as a vanilla 4/6 and not worrying restrictions than by utterly gimping it for that battlecry.
If they'd put lifesteal on him or had the battlecry trigger twice in a row (to counter deathrattle/ reborn minions) then it would be worth considering. As it stands they'd have to reveal some absurdly good highlander support this xpac for mage to make it worth even considering running this.
I think there's reasonable tools for standard pally as it is to make Finley viable (particularly midrange but I could see control or aggro running this as well) but the key thing to remember here is that he will only get stronger as more cards come out. I wouldn't be surprised to see Finley having the same sort of game swinging impact in your opening hand that Keleseth has after the third expansion each year, even as part of this expansion he might just prove to be incredibly powerful.
At the very least he's the only one of these 4 I would even consider running in standard based on the current card pool. Hunter has always been a class with strong cards that keep it viable, only being able to run one copy of each of those would be a massive drawback. Aggro highlander has never been a thing, even in wild, for a reason plus by turn 7 bomb warrior will likely have multiple bombs in your deck anyway nullifying him whereas Finley can land turn 2 (or 1 with the coin) before your opponent has had any chance to mess with your deck.
Could be made playable by adding a single word: "Lifesteal" (even if it cost him some stats).
Hot trash for standard based on the current known card pool though.
Yep. One of my favourite decks currently is reno hand mage and meteorologist has almost single handedly won games against other control decks by giving me a ton of burst they weren't expecting. I certainly wouldn't replace meteorologist for new reno, I'm honestly not sure what (if anything) would be worth dropping to add him to that deck and that's a deck that already deals with the big downside of this card
Reno is terrible in standard though. Why wouldn't you just build a normal deck and run extra copies of the better removal mage already has? Your deck would likely be stronger including him as a vanilla 4/6 and not worrying restrictions than by utterly gimping it for that battlecry.
If they'd put lifesteal on him or had the battlecry trigger twice in a row (to counter deathrattle/ reborn minions) then it would be worth considering. As it stands they'd have to reveal some absurdly good highlander support this xpac for mage to make it worth even considering running this.
I think there's reasonable tools for standard pally as it is to make Finley viable (particularly midrange but I could see control or aggro running this as well) but the key thing to remember here is that he will only get stronger as more cards come out. I wouldn't be surprised to see Finley having the same sort of game swinging impact in your opening hand that Keleseth has after the third expansion each year, even as part of this expansion he might just prove to be incredibly powerful.
At the very least he's the only one of these 4 I would even consider running in standard based on the current card pool. Hunter has always been a class with strong cards that keep it viable, only being able to run one copy of each of those would be a massive drawback. Aggro highlander has never been a thing, even in wild, for a reason plus by turn 7 bomb warrior will likely have multiple bombs in your deck anyway nullifying him whereas Finley can land turn 2 (or 1 with the coin) before your opponent has had any chance to mess with your deck.
Surely there's a major issue with that as Elise is a minion too so there's no consistent way to have dreampetal land on Maly instead of her?