Quite the interesting effect that I'm sure will see lots of experimentation, especially the possibilities with Potion of Illusion. Obviously meant for a big spell mage where you want to reduce the spells to 5 and increase the minion stats to 6+. Least we know the maximum this legendary's stats can be are 10/10.
Only down side is running a bunch of 5 cost spells, which big mage would need to do, so this would effectively just draw 2 spells, which isn't terrible either.
3 cards that alone push big spell mage and control warrior back into possibility!
Some interesting lore about the 2 legendary minions: Balinda Stonehearth is a rival of Captain Galvangar, although unlike her counterpart, she is a caster boss.
Nice combo with Snowball Fight! and Popsicooler but there's easier ways to clear the board. I'm sure we'll get more frost and freeze effects for shaman though
Wow this is really good, even without triggering the honorable kill mechanic. It's Holy Smite plus tutor from your deck, so the cost is fair and with the honorable kill mechanic, it's basically work 6 mana. Lets hope we get 1 more hunter secret which I'm sure we will.
Definitely looking forward to secret hunter so far
Well, if there was a card that incentivizes you to play a lot of deathrattles, here we have it. I'd imagine Xyrella, the Devout would spawn a control deathrattle archetype, similar to big priest in wild, which is annoying as hell. Regardless, this card gives the priest class hope for control again...
Eish, another bad legendary, straight after Cera'thine Fleetrunner :( it's a sad fact this legendary will only see play in fringe control decks and meme decks, other than that, there's better things to do.
Lol another meme legendary for rogue and this one will see much less play than the new Scabbs Hero. One of those eternally inconsistent cards that will never be as good as Deck of Lunacy due to neutral minions and there's so many bad minions out there...
Least every game will feel entirely different from the last
Bit of a weird effect that is causing confusion and being in warlock makes it more clunky, compared to if it were a paladin card. I'm sure there will be some cool combos made where this abomination will get 30+ attack and go face, but it's probably just a meme and a decent arena card.
Might be good in duels against certain decks like token DH
The only really great deathrattles in standard right now are value ones like Envoy Rustwix and Kanrethad Ebonlocke unless you want to risk death via Hullbreaker and drawing a lot of spells. I do sound like a broken record, but we need to see more decent deathrattles before this new legendary spell can be good.
Well, it's one of those usual tech cards, but damn, poor Rend Blackhand got power creeped for days. The majority of decks run a few legendries so Grimtotem Bounty Hunter will generally have a target. Only problem is waiting for said target, so most likely this will be a dead card in your hand and could've been replaced with another card that would help your win condition.
So both Vanndar and Drek'Thar have heavy deckbuilding restrictions, and you need to be worried about shuffle effects like with Envoy Rustwix. That being said, it's kinda cool inventing decks like this, coz you can get creative, for eg: Try make a big spell mage with Drek'Thar or a zoolock. Quest Paladin with Drek'Thar would probably be bad right but still fun to try all these archetypes with these 2 different legendries.
Well, after looking at all the awesome big minion decks being invented, I'm kinda wanting to play with vanndar now. Think if I remember correctly, we get both vanndar and Drek'thar at the end of the faction questlines once the expansion launches, but could be wrong.
Regardless, pretty cool thematic flavor for both legendries.
Well this card will be great to push control archetypes since any class can use it to ruin aggro boards. Only thing is it's 5 mana so you have less mana in general to spend on setting up the perfect board clear.
Well... it's more deathrattle support for all the deathrattle synergies blizzard is pushing this expansion. It's not a great deathrattle though that you'd want to trigger multiple times. Might be seen off of discover effects when there's nothing better, but right now, I'd feel bummed if I got this epic out of my packs. Why is it epic???
So this is a stall effect similar to Conjured Mirage which never saw play, coz even aggro decks can wait one turn and with Frozen Buckler, the opponent card still hit face and not loose any minions, compared to Conjured Mirage. What Frozen Buckler would be good with is another card that synergizes with lots of armor like Shield Slam and Reckless Flurry
Well, this is our first 13 mana card, so shamans can now evolve Mountain Giants into Ur'zul Giants. This Giant will be insane in Duels though so wouldn't be surprised if it's banned. Very nice support for token DH, but we need more tokens
Well, it's deathrattle support for priest and the effect is neat. Priest has access to lots of buff spells so this card can see some potential in a new deathrattle priest. Still to early to tell, but this is still insane against aggro
Pretty great hero card but I do think Dr. Boom, Mad Genius is better due to giving mechs rush. Bru'kan of the Elements is still pretty nuts and imagine the diamond version of this card 😱
Definitely incentivizes control playstyle, coz that's a lot of value in one card.
Quite the interesting effect that I'm sure will see lots of experimentation, especially the possibilities with Potion of Illusion. Obviously meant for a big spell mage where you want to reduce the spells to 5 and increase the minion stats to 6+. Least we know the maximum this legendary's stats can be are 10/10.
Only down side is running a bunch of 5 cost spells, which big mage would need to do, so this would effectively just draw 2 spells, which isn't terrible either.
3 cards that alone push big spell mage and control warrior back into possibility!
Some interesting lore about the 2 legendary minions: Balinda Stonehearth is a rival of Captain Galvangar, although unlike her counterpart, she is a caster boss.
Nice combo with Snowball Fight! and Popsicooler but there's easier ways to clear the board. I'm sure we'll get more frost and freeze effects for shaman though
Wow this is really good, even without triggering the honorable kill mechanic. It's Holy Smite plus tutor from your deck, so the cost is fair and with the honorable kill mechanic, it's basically work 6 mana. Lets hope we get 1 more hunter secret which I'm sure we will.
Definitely looking forward to secret hunter so far
Well, if there was a card that incentivizes you to play a lot of deathrattles, here we have it. I'd imagine Xyrella, the Devout would spawn a control deathrattle archetype, similar to big priest in wild, which is annoying as hell. Regardless, this card gives the priest class hope for control again...
Eish, another bad legendary, straight after Cera'thine Fleetrunner :( it's a sad fact this legendary will only see play in fringe control decks and meme decks, other than that, there's better things to do.
Lol another meme legendary for rogue and this one will see much less play than the new Scabbs Hero. One of those eternally inconsistent cards that will never be as good as Deck of Lunacy due to neutral minions and there's so many bad minions out there...
Least every game will feel entirely different from the last
Bit of a weird effect that is causing confusion and being in warlock makes it more clunky, compared to if it were a paladin card. I'm sure there will be some cool combos made where this abomination will get 30+ attack and go face, but it's probably just a meme and a decent arena card.
Might be good in duels against certain decks like token DH
The only really great deathrattles in standard right now are value ones like Envoy Rustwix and Kanrethad Ebonlocke unless you want to risk death via Hullbreaker and drawing a lot of spells. I do sound like a broken record, but we need to see more decent deathrattles before this new legendary spell can be good.
Nice arena card with new expansion mechanic. Nuff said.
Well, it's one of those usual tech cards, but damn, poor Rend Blackhand got power creeped for days. The majority of decks run a few legendries so Grimtotem Bounty Hunter will generally have a target. Only problem is waiting for said target, so most likely this will be a dead card in your hand and could've been replaced with another card that would help your win condition.
So both Vanndar and Drek'Thar have heavy deckbuilding restrictions, and you need to be worried about shuffle effects like with Envoy Rustwix. That being said, it's kinda cool inventing decks like this, coz you can get creative, for eg: Try make a big spell mage with Drek'Thar or a zoolock. Quest Paladin with Drek'Thar would probably be bad right but still fun to try all these archetypes with these 2 different legendries.
Well, after looking at all the awesome big minion decks being invented, I'm kinda wanting to play with vanndar now. Think if I remember correctly, we get both vanndar and Drek'thar at the end of the faction questlines once the expansion launches, but could be wrong.
Regardless, pretty cool thematic flavor for both legendries.
Well this card will be great to push control archetypes since any class can use it to ruin aggro boards. Only thing is it's 5 mana so you have less mana in general to spend on setting up the perfect board clear.
Also watch out with Shaman, being a battlecry, you can always pair Spammy Arcanist with Brilliant Macaw
Will there be a tavern crawl for this expansion? Keep forgetting if I've commented on all the cards and if there will be site rewards for doing so.
Well... it's more deathrattle support for all the deathrattle synergies blizzard is pushing this expansion. It's not a great deathrattle though that you'd want to trigger multiple times. Might be seen off of discover effects when there's nothing better, but right now, I'd feel bummed if I got this epic out of my packs. Why is it epic???
So this is a stall effect similar to Conjured Mirage which never saw play, coz even aggro decks can wait one turn and with Frozen Buckler, the opponent card still hit face and not loose any minions, compared to Conjured Mirage. What Frozen Buckler would be good with is another card that synergizes with lots of armor like Shield Slam and Reckless Flurry
Well, this is our first 13 mana card, so shamans can now evolve Mountain Giants into Ur'zul Giants. This Giant will be insane in Duels though so wouldn't be surprised if it's banned. Very nice support for token DH, but we need more tokens
Well, it's deathrattle support for priest and the effect is neat. Priest has access to lots of buff spells so this card can see some potential in a new deathrattle priest. Still to early to tell, but this is still insane against aggro
Pretty great hero card but I do think Dr. Boom, Mad Genius is better due to giving mechs rush. Bru'kan of the Elements is still pretty nuts and imagine the diamond version of this card 😱
Definitely incentivizes control playstyle, coz that's a lot of value in one card.