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    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Remember Mana Wyrm? Well here it is, but as a priest card that loves healing instead of spells! Crimson Clergy has some premium 1 drop stats that can really help tempo priests. However Tempo priest has always been meh, so i'm still not sure if it will actually be enough to ACTUALLY make tempo priest good.

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    WOW, that will make Dude paladin in standard meta AF. This seems too good to not see any play!

    Also THANK YOGG it's EVEN costed and not ODD Costed! We dodged a bullet there!

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Seems good 2 mana destroy a minion is solid. But it's a paladin secret, so i think it might not see that much play. (unless Paladin gets a big pay-off card for secrets like Mysterious Challenger.)

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Okay so it's universall spell damage (works with any spell tribe/tag) from what i can tell, and it goes infinte.. well untill you run out of minions or it gets silenced. This seems like a REALLY strong effect that both spell-damage mage and control mage can make use of. I'm kinda looking forward to experimenting with this card, it seems solid!

    Also i like that we finally got Aegwynn, the Guardian in HS, i'm don't know much about WoW lore but isn't she like Medivh's mom? (If i got that right, i hope she has some unique dialogue/voicelines when played by someone who has a Medivh skin. Would be cool for the people that have that skin!) Oh and is that Aluneth in her hands?

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I think this will be a very good card actually. it's Stitched Tracker, with -1/-1 but with way better tutorring. Selective Breeder might also make a Beastmaster Leoroxx deck viable (If the meta slows down enough), because that deck really needed ways to copy certain beasts. Don't underestimate this little guy, because it has a lot of potential. (Like if they print ANY big/OP beast it will become really strong.)

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Seems like a really solid minion. Strong on like turn 5 alongside Overgrowth and it's basicly free with alongside any 3 cost spell. I think Nordrassil Druid will see play in a lot of druid decks. Also it would actually fit in Clown/spell Druid very well considering Anubisath Defender is going to rotate soon, and Nordrassil Druid seems like a good replacement.

    The downside of this card is that it's slow because it doesn't have rush or taunt, but it's still ramp and most importantly mana cheat. NEVER underestimate ANY kind of mana cheating.

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    VERY strong minion for Control DH (Oh My Yogg! :0 )  and probably Soul DH. Illidari Inquisitor might not be able to be discounted unlike Bladed Lady but the upside for running Illidari Inquisitor is that for 8 mana you can kill a minion AND go FACE with it. (Because Illidari Inquisitor specifically says "after your hero attacks AN enemy")

    I think Illidari Inquisitor will see at the very least some experimentation, but i think that it will see more than just experimentation.

    Edit: It's a Demon, so you can cheat it out on turn 6 if you played Raging Felscreamer before then. That's still scary. OH and they can copy it with Soul Split if it lives a turn... Hmm maybe there is some kind of memey OTK potential in wild with this card? In standard you might be able to do that combo i just said on turn 10 + Tour Guide the turn before in order to deal 18 damage burst to FACE. Probably won't be that good but will be fun to try out.

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Seems decent. Not the best stats, but it has a strong outcast effect. Also outcast is pretty easy for DH to trigger, so that's not bad. I think Gan'arg Glaivesmith might see some play, but i feel like aggro DH still prefers Stiltstepper.

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    wait.. WHAT THE **** BLIZZARD. This is an Legendary Charge version of "HEY LOSER" with LIFESTEAL. This can/will be soo obnoxious to keep playing against, and its downside of needing an outcast card isn't that bad considering it's easy to outcast cards in DH. Kor'vas Bloodthorn seems like a super strong minion that will see a lot of play in any DH deck with a bunch of outcast cards.

    Edit: Considering it says "after you play a card with outcast", does that mean you need to play ANY card with outcast on it? IF SO then you don't even need to outcast the outcast card in order to bounce Kor'vas Bloodthorn! And if that's actually how it works, then it's even better then i thought! :(

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    WOW, their selling a skin for gold? Thats AMAZING! Congrats to all who didn't have Thunder King yet! 

    Also it kinda makes sense that Thunder King would be the first skin purchasable with gold, considering that the emotes from Thunder King aren't that good compared to most of the other hero skins. And Thunder king was made to raise money for Hearthstone Masters Tour Events in 2019, so that's probably also something that could have been a factor in this decision. I hope they will give other skins in the future this treatment as well! This would also really help the F2P players get acces to some more hero skins!

    (And i wouldn't mind it if future BoH skins were also purchasable with gold, because let's be honest. Those things probably don't sell THAT well either way.)

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    RIP ODD Shaman, it was decent but now it's murdered. (Just when it got more and more support.)

    I wished they removed Searing Totem instead of Wrath of Air Totem, would have been better i.m.o. (And would make it so all shaman HP totems have 0 atk and each with a unique effect. Searing Totem has always been the boring odd one.)

    Sure it COULD restrict disign space to keep Wrath of Air Totem, but it is one of the only reliable ways for shaman to get spell damage. My actuall guess as to why they removed it is because they didn't want shaman to have a totem that gives spell damage for all spell types. (Or they want to reprint Wrath of Air Totem as a new card in an upcoming expansion..)

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    As someone who uses Sylvanas as their main Hunter hero, i'm glad that people can now get her again. She has some really pretty animations and some great voicelines. Sylvanas is one of the few rare good hunter skins. Seeing thunder king return is nice for those we don't have him, but as someone who also has thunder king, his voicelines are a bit lackluster so beware of that.  

    Glad to see them return to the shop though, let's hope this continues and we will see more older skins return in the shop!

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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    In wild it won't see play, because Shadow Visions is better in almost every way, shape and form. 

     

    Actually it could with Highlander/Reno decks. This effect is one you would want multiple of in a deck. So having both Visions and Thrive in the deck to make sure you can pull your removals when needed actually makes this a strong inclusion in a Reno deck despite being effective weaker.

    Sometimes reprinting a card, even a weaker version, can still find a use.

    That's true. Completely forgot about reno decks for a second, really weird that i forgot about Raza Priest. Yeah it certainly can see play. Nice catch!

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    Very strong handbuff card and it has an immediat effect. Seems really solid. Also it's 6 health MIGHT let it live another turn... but despite that your opponent will always immedialty take it down, as it's a BIG threath.

    Also this synergises well with Blademaster Samuro. I think this will see at the very least experimentation.

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    The old Ysera was way too slow and Ysera the Dreamer fixes that. Also funny that they had to nerf Dream to cost 1 mana and can only target enemy minions because it would be broken if it costed 0 mana lol. However most of the Dream cards aren't THAT strong these days, there are a lot of ways to deal with the dream cards, and hand space might be a problem if you want to play her.

    But despite all that i'm looking forward to seeing how Ysera the Dreamer will perform in standard!

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    Hmm it seems realy good, mostly alongside C'Thun, the Shattered to draw the pieces, but it often also makes it so you will mill a card. But hey if you play this before lets say a opponent plays Tickatus then that might sometimes be beneficial. Oh and spell damage decks might like this because it's a reload on spells. Malygos the Spellweaver has a lot of potential.

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    Way better than the original, but still not convinced that this will see play. Like the only reason this would see play is if there would be a very control heavy meta, and even then you only want it when your behind and you dont have cards you dont mind discarding.

    Oh and about discarding, you would think discardlock in wild would like it... well NO because it comes out way too late.

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    Kinda similar to Dirty Rat, but it can give the minion back. But despite that i think it might see some play, purely because of it's.. decent stats? oh and obviously because it gives you information about the type of deck your opponent plays. (Which you most often already know.) The only way that this would see a lot of play, would be if there will be some decent silence cards in the core set, but that's it.

    Oh and in wild it will see 0 play because you don't want to ress it with Bloodreaver Gul'dan and Dirty Rat is better.

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    Really good 1 drop, like those stats are above premium 1 drop stats. Spell damage shaman will love this card! Also it's ODD Costed so ODD Shaman can use it! Novice Zapper seems really good, and this zappy boy will surely see a lot of play. (Is it actually THE Zappy Boy from that BFA WoW trailer?)

    Standard: Spell damage shaman and Overload Shaman probably want Zappy Boy.

    Wild: ODD Shaman would probably love it.

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    Posted 3 years, 10 months ago

    I really like her effect, it's a nice spin on Burgle Rogue and she has premium 2 drop stats. Glad to see that Vanessa VanCleef replaces her dad Edwin VanCleef in standard, but i also still hope they bring back Tess Greymane in the core set. :)

    Vanessa VanCleef will probably see play in combo/burgle rogue decks and maybe midrange/control or combo rogue decks that would love to copy an opponents board clear. Vanessa VanCleef seems really flexible and i like it.