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Ancient Raptor - Just a casual 5/1 with divine shield on 2. If you happen to be a deck or class that cannot counter this, this card may just do 15 damage to your face before you mount up any sort of defensive maneuver. Small nerf to harbinger of the blighted, something that shouldve been printed in the small expansion.

Yeah, you might be right. You dont get any advantage starting first or second, so theres no actual use for this card in general.

But on the other hand its just a way to take druid off the menu in case they ever get too rampant. That alone does make the card useful.

Loh, the living legend - Probably trash but we havent seen the quest yet. Too slow, and even if you did get it up youre still just playing one or two minions a turn. The definition of broken is being able to play multiple high value cards in one turn, and this card kinda only slightly tilts it in your …

Platysaur - Will see play and might be abused further by rogues to draw their whole deck, not that they're facing much trouble doing it already, though I think a 1 mana draw 1 isnt going to help with the toxicity that is cycle rogue.

Steamfin Thief - When you consider that mother duck exist with no conditions, and …

So new expansion...bit early this time round. Like around a month too early. Not sure why, but can only hope its not a slow pivot towards 4 expansions per year.

My comments on the cards and expansion:

• Shaman looks like its gonna go through another rough patch. The quest is interesting but impractical because it forces you …

Its the new hearthstone design philosophy now. Trying to design lower power level cards seemingly so they dont keep breaking wild and keep standard interesting. Because let's be honest, its designed entirely with the quest in mind. On its own, its unplayable shit.

I like yours because the condition of spending 5 corpses is entirely the reason why its …

Comments on the new cards;

Amirdrassil - If this didnt have refresh mana crystals, it'll be completely unplayable. But it does, so it'll see play in some capacity, and probably at some point of time require every deck to tech in demolition renovator.

Frostburn Matriach - Its amazing that a card like this at turn 5 isnt even …

Just a few comments;

• The raza rework is brutal, practically deleting the card.
• Removing bob's ability to steal minions makes the card all but useless to most decks. The only good thing now is the freeze effect, just ask how many times youve even used that.
• Terran card nerfs are near inconsequential. But zerg got fucked …

Tyrande - Its pretty much broken because you can easily just play her turn 7, then turn 8 you just blow your opponent away with stuff like acupuncture and moonwell. As long as youre not dead yourself, that's 24 damage which will for the most part be enough. Might even do more with spell damage.

Outside of that, …

Nythendra - Its an alright card. The main issue is that you need two unholy runes and so this card can never feature in a control or rainbow deck, something which in all fairness would have been a consideration, especially in rainbow decks.

What this card is is just a big dude on board thats sufficiently sticky enough to …

Spark of life - Its a one mana discover a spell and therefore will be playable. Not much else to say. Druid spells can be good if you hit ramp early but its always a gamble at the end

Stellar Balance - The only point here is that youre spending 2 mana to deal damage to face. Its kinda …

Fractured Power - I just find this funny because its practically 2 mana wild growth for warlock, with the only difference being that its one turn late. Likely going to see play in all slow warlock decks because its ramp. You dont ignore ramp

Archdruid of Thorns - This is devourer of souls made into a battlecry. Dont bother …

Mark of Usol - Basically just the same rethread of cards like subdue. It'll likely see play simply because paladin sometimes needs removal options and such things are about as good as it gets.

Ursine Maul - Seriously, one of the best weapons. Draw two cards, deal 8 damage in two turns. And all that for 4 mana. And …

How long has it been? 10 years?

Lol never thought this game would even see the light of day. Wonder if reynad is even still here.

If theres no neutral card that is practically tour guide then these imbue hp archetypes that team5 are pushing hard will never work.

The one for paladin has got to be the most egregious of all. If you dont play aegis of light on turn 1, the entire deck fails, whereas if you did then you get to play …

Shadowcloaked Assailant - Its bad. Ghastly gravedigger is the better version of a disruptor that saw very little play when it was in standard, and thats largely because you still have to win the game instead of merely preventing your opponent from doing so. This card is way too expensive to begin with and I cant help but feel that …

Three cards I missed out;

Exotic houndmaster - Now that we've seen theres not that many hp support for hunter, well this card is just trash. The new hp is give a beast in your hand +1 attack and cost 1 less but in the absence of cards like tundra rhino there's simply no payoff to doing it. Better …

Broll bearmantle - It'll see play but I highly doubt it'll be any good. Its too contrived, and only huffer is good out of the three companions. So its a 1/3 chance of getting actual value, and 1/3 to get a brick. Not to mention that realistically you only ever get 6 shots max, so it'll never be an OTK …

Omen - Its not bad legendary, but stuck in a side that commonly plays aggro and have no business lasting until turn 10, youve got to wonder if the only way omen sees actual inclusion into decks and played is via something like cliff dive, and even then ironically youd prefer omen to actually die instead of staying alive and …

Ohn'ahra - More like on its way to be the worse wild god this expansion, and its not that the card is terrible but not only is it unreliable, it also forces you to build your deck way too rigidly. So in effect it can only ever be played in a very, very specific deck, namely big shaman with zero …