So it's a reprint of Cleric of Scales without the dragon requirement. Seems pretty good, as it helps tutor a spell that you need AND it is now a lot more flexible now that you don't need a dragon to get this effect.

In standard this will surely see play in control priest decks, and in C'Thun, the Shattered priest decks to tutor the C'thun pieces.

In wild it won't see play, because Shadow Visions is better in almost every way, shape and form. 

Okay i love this kinda card. It generates something random, but you gotta work for it instead of getting it immediatly. Also it gives a random spell from your class, so it's ACTUALLY random. As someone who loves GENUINE random i love this kinda card, because it can actually give bad cards instead of the "fixed random" we saw last few HS years where "random" is almost always good.

Seems like a worse/neutral [Hearthstone Card (Imprisoned Fellmaw) Not Found]. Oh and in this case it's a worse version of Rush. Seems only good for arena, and that's it i think. Unless they print some insane Frenzy synergy card.

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Battlegrounds minion in constructed? 😱This will technically keep attacking till it's dead or until no more enemy minions on board, much like Deathwing, Mad Aspect

Actually Frenzy only triggers the first time it takes damage and survives, so its luckely not so bad

Hmm, not sold on this card but on the otherside it has premium 4 drop stats and an effect on top of that. Guess we will need to wait and see what other Holy tag cards get printed. Also it already fits.. decently? in  some kind of Inner Fire priest.

My guess is that most holy tag spells will be in Priest and Paladin though... WAIT A SECOND... IF Libram of Wisdom becomes a Holy tag card, then that's some free stats, seems kinda decent.

Interesting card and effect. Never played a lot of WoW (Only the free stuff, and mostly alliance races.) but from what i heard its a meme so seeing it make it into HS is pretty fun. Mankrik has some premium 3 drop stats, and for those wondering what the battlecry does: It shuffles Mankriks wife into your deck which is a Cast when drawn spell, which summons a 3/10 Mankrik that immedialty charges the opponents FACE. So that's a pretty good effect when you find his wife. Also a 10 health minion is quite scary in priest if Inner Fire is a core set card.

Mankrik seems like a good card, BUT it there are several things that are quite bad about him... First of all he has little to no impact when played, which is bad considering immediate impact on the board is something that's important these days (like Rush). And second of all drawing/finding Mankriks wife can take a LONG time depending on your draw. (Same reason Bomb warrior in RoS/Uldum was quite.. unreliable because of the Bomb drawing RNG of your opponent)

However i feel like there will be some meme decks with Mankrik, specificly in wild with shaman. Mankrik alongside double battlecries, bounsing him back into your hand and playing him again might be a fun combo, and add Shudderwock alongside that. That sounds really fun to find a lot of Mankriks wifes. lol. Oh and also i think that some Highlander decks might include him in wild.

Edit: Inner Fire is not in the core set, so that makes Mankrik worse in priest, but there still pushing tempo priest is might still see play in priest.

REALLY interesting and good card. Might as well see play in nearly every class. Blademaster Samuro is really good alongside handbuffs and it's 6 health makes it really easy to survive a trade and get the Frenzy off. Rogue can definatly use this very well to actually get an good AOE card, Libram Paladin can also use it well, and obviously Warrior, Druid and hunter. Hunter now get's a board clear thats not a secret, and it might enable some midrange/combo hunter deck with Beastmaster Leoroxx to finally shine. Also Rogue can REALLY use Blademaster Samuro because rogues only have like 2 other Board clears, those being Fan of Knives and Blade Flurry. I'm really hyped for the amount of stuff Blademaster Samuro could enable, and i'm so happy to see some an amazing neutral anti aggro card. OH and priest can cast Apotheosis on Blademaster Samuro in order to heal a LOT. 

I know this is way too early to say this, but Blademaster Samuro might become a must craft, and i wouldn't be surprised if Blademaster Samuro would either become really OP and nerfed quickly, or become Zilliax level loved/balanced. Time will tell!

Strong tech card, kinda like a more expansive Dirty Rat. Also seems good for Big decks like Big Warrior and Duel! Paladin right now, before they rotate. (BUT obviously you never want to pull Shadow Hunter Vol'jin with Dimensional Ripper or any other "recruit" card. so that's a big downside.)

Definatly a zoo card, but it's WAY too slow for zoo. BUT i feel like Imp Swarm (Rank 1) has some hidden potential.. in it's Fell tag. My guess is that Warlock will get something similar to Bru'kan, a.k.a. a card that synergises with Fell tag spells. But untill we see that Imp Swarm (Rank 1) will just be a bad card. 

Chain Lightning (Rank 1) seems solid. Another great 2 cost removal card for shaman. Shaman really loves their amazing 2 mana removal spells! Chain Lightning (Rank 1) is a alternative to Landslide if your not overloaded before turn 5 (Pretty hard, not gonna lie.), and after turn 5 it can help remove some minions so that's good. But it feels bad to compare it to other spells like Landslide and Lightning Storm because Chain Lightning (Rank 1) only removes 2 minions instead of potentially an entire board, and that's it's weakness. As long as the meta is pretty aggro-y with lots of tokens Chain Lightning (Rank 1) will be a lot worse, and in meta's where it's a bit more midrangey/control focussed Chain Lightning (Rank 1) will shine.

Really hard card to judge right now. But it will probably see play in spell damage shaman? turn 4 Bru'kan into turn 5 Ras Frostwhisper seems realy good, as long as Ras Frostwhisper and Bru'kan actually synergise together. Now that i think about it, how will Ras Frostwhisper work after those tribes are introduced? Seems pretty hard to make him good for both shaman and mage. Let's hope they make Ras Frostwhisper work with ANY spell damage, tribal or not. IF they do that then that turn 4 Bru'kan into turn 5 Ras Frostwhisper seems really good.

Standard: Probably spell damage shaman.

Wild: EVEN costed, and EVEN shaman likes totems. So it probably won't see that much play. If only it were ODD Costed, because ODD Shaman would have LOVED it. (ODD Shaman is more of a burn deck with lots of spell damage stuff, for anyone that's wondering.)

Interesting card, and synergises well with Nazmani Bloodweaver for mana cheating and IF Gadgetzan Auctioneer is still in the core set Desperate Prayer might make that mana cheat C'Thun, the Shattered deck viable. (Lets hope not, it feels really bad to play against.) I hope that it doesn't synergise with Auchenai Soulpriest and stuff, because that would be a lame way to re-introduce shadow priest.

Standard: Depending on if Gadgetzan Auctioneer is in the core set, it will be in mana cheat C'Thun, the Shattered priest. Or otherwise it will be in some different mana cheat priest deck with Nazmani Bloodweaver.

Wild: If Gadgetzan Auctioneer isn't in core, but in the legacy set. Then that deck will be played by a few people in wild. Majority probably keeps playing Raza Priest though... :P

I think this will be an amazing card for hunter, because it's effect is easy to trigger and it has premium 1 drop stats. The only bad thing about Sunscale Raptor is that it needs a lot of draw, which hunters often lack.

Standard: Will see play in Aggro/FACE Hunter because it's a good 1 drop, and it MIGHT see play in some kind of memey Sunscale Raptor deck which would function kinda like Pogo Rogue.

Wild: Even though Hunters in Wild are very rare, i think this will certainly fit in The Marsh Queen hunter, and maybe replace Raptor Hatchling in that deck. (But honestly both might be core cards.) Luckely Sunscale Raptor only shuffles another Sunscale Raptor into your deck, imagine if it shuffled a buffed version of a Zombeast from Deathstalker Rexxar into their deck.. (Thank yogg they thought about that.)

Great card. Druid needed some HARD removal, even though hard removal is something that supposed to be druids weakness. It's also a beast, so it can get ressurected by N'Zoth, God of the Deep. Druid of the Plains kinda reminds me of Siamat, it's great removal and pretty flexible. (For multiple druid decks.)

Standard: I think Druid of the Plains will see play in N'Zoth, God of the Deep druid deck, or Clown Druid.

Wild: Not sure if it will see any play. The most popular druid decks in wild are Token Druid and Malygos OTK Druid, and Malygos OTK Druid doesn't want Druid of the Plains because it messes up Juicy Psychmelon pulls? (Not familiar with the deck, so i'm not 100% sure about that.)

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Maybe they'll bring back Tar Creeper? That's not removal, but it does help defend against aggro.

Tar Creeper back in standard would be amazing!

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I'm just happy he confirmed we'll get a new Rogue portrait

now I just wanna now is...when?

 

Lets hope that new rogue portrait is NOT going to be the Book of Heroes Valeera skin, but an actual alternative hero! (like Maiev)

Interesting that were gonna get a new rogue skin this year, let's hope its not the BoH valeera skin but an actual alternative hero.

There is going to be less generation? Good! Glad to hear that, the random was getting out of hand! (And thats coming from a Casino mage/Burgle Rogue fan.) The current "random" is almost always good, and I really wish random is going to be actually random again, by give me bad cards sometimes instead of almost always good/game winning cards. All this BROKEN generation/infinte value has completely killed off control decks since Rise of Shadows.

"less removal and Lifegain" oh oh.. oh no... Let's hope the removal that does get printed is good, otherwise its yet again aggrostone and RIP Control. Less lifegain is kinda worrying but also good. Most lifesteal cards right now are in DH, so seeing less support for Il'gynoth is fine by me. 

However this could also hint towards the fact that there will be plenty of removal & lifegain in the new core set, meaning that they won't need to print that much more of it! That would be interesting, looking forward to hearing more about the core set! 

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I wouldn't be surprised if they unnerf Archivist Elysiana, considering she doesn't see any play. Also wouldn't be surprised if they unnerf Dinotamer Brann and the Galakrond, the Tempest stuff. Also i hope Dragonqueen Alexstrasza will be unnerfed to have 0 mana dragons (But still have the "can't go infinite" nerf). That wouldn't even be problematic really, as most (popular) highlander decks in wild don't even run her lol. 

I just hope they wont revert the Mogu Fleshshaper and Conjurer's Calling nerfs.

If they change archevist i hoep buff her to 7 instead of 8. So odd warrior can still play it.

And mogu i egt. But conjurers? why not?

Oh yeah true, ODD Warrior plays it. I hope they will either buff her to 7 mana, or let Archivist Elysiana stay at 9 mana. If Archivist Elysiana is EVEN costed she will actually see 0 play.

My reasoning behind Conjurer's Calling is that the card was very unfun to play against at 3 mana and i feared that it could become problematic in the future, that's mainly why i didn't want to see the nerf referted. But after thinking about it again, most games are over before you can stick a giant and go to town with Conjurer's Calling, so i think seeing that nerf reverted might not be that bad after all. 

I wouldn't be surprised if they unnerf Archivist Elysiana, considering she doesn't see any play. Also wouldn't be surprised if they unnerf Dinotamer Brann and the Galakrond, the Tempest stuff. Also i hope Dragonqueen Alexstrasza will be unnerfed to have 0 mana dragons (But still have the "can't go infinite" nerf). That wouldn't even be problematic really, as most (popular) highlander decks in wild don't even run her lol. 

I just hope they wont revert the Mogu Fleshshaper and Conjurer's Calling nerfs.

I don't know much about WoW lore, but i do really like League of Explorer related things! Seems like there will be some kind of mixed theme between exploration and maybe wild west? Despite seeing them in League of Explorers attires i don't think we will see all League of Explorers this expansion, because somewhere they stated that Highlander cards are very design limiting and that they can now print some stronger cards without worrying about breaking certain Highlander decks..? (I think it was in a AMA with Iksar?) My guess is that we will either see 1 explorer, just like Ungoro with Elise the Trailblazer, OR we will see them all but MOSTLY without Highlander effects. (The odd one out probably being Reno, because it's Reno.)

What i'm personally more hyped for is the facts that every League of Explorers related expansion since LoE involved Quest cards, and i wouldn't be surprised if we will probably get some new Quests! (Ungoro & SoU had quests, and DoD had Sidequests.) Looking forward to seeing what they are going to present during blizzconline 2021!