The nerf to Ahri  don't matter much, because your still not gonna able to kill her with all the cheap recall and protective spells that Ionia has, Wayfinder on the other hand got the axe I don't think that card is worth using now.

I will admit that I never a fan of poro elusive but I do think that Iceborn legacy was over-nerfed, none of the decks using that card were top tier.

Glad to see that they nerfed whitflame the thing just wouldn't die if you didn't run vengeance or minimorph.

I don't hate the mode but I do find it frustrating when you lose because the game keeps giving you cards that have no synergy with your initial deck. 

This is probably my favorite design among the Yordles. 

These new Pokemons looks great.

Stances are just slow buff spells (expect for Ram who is an AOE ping), no different than Infernum, Severum and Blade of the Exile so I wouldn't considers them a new mechanic.

No new pointless mechanic,  a flexible design that can support multiple archetypes.  Now this is kind champion that I like.

I think it's going to be Udyr instead, we have a bunch of shaman that channel the power of different animals, that's exactly what Udyr does.

Vladimir/Galio doesn't look like a good pair, Noxus lacks protective spells and you don't want to self damage your formidable units because that would also lower their attack. He will probably work better with either Soraka, Braum or Poppy.

This entire archetype is a fearsome player wet dream. 

Sorry to be the buzzkill here but for a 9 drop he is pretty lackluster. Unless you are playing a control deck games don't reach turn 9 and even then he is so easy to counter, Vengeance, Minimorph, Culling Strike, Will of Ionia and any stun card would do the trick.

He needs a spell shield not tough.

Time to main deck Minimorph I guess.

Edit : Silence and transform doesn't affect her either according to riot.

Man she look just as obnoxious as her league counterpart 10/10.

On more serious note Wounded Whiteflame definitely need some adjustment now, that thing was already nigh-impossible to kill without hard removal.

Something tells me that this used to give +1/1 but they nerfed it after the whole Yordle Explorer fiasco.

Man I really like this card but it need to attack multiple times to be useful and the 2 health just means is dies to to most 1 and 2 drops, and that without even counting removal.

This has the potential to be better than We Stand Together 2/1 is a better buff than 1/2 since it allows to get better trades and push for more damage. Bandle City is also a better region for multi buff cards due to region ability to quickly swarm the board, contrary to Targon Fated decks who usually just have one unit on board.

Ivern is affiliated with Ionia and that region already got it's champion in Ahri. So I don't see that happening unless they decide to make Ivern the Freljordian champion, which isn't that crazy because in lore, Ivern was a Freljordian warlord before his transformation into a magical tree.

That only work in theory, in practice you don't wan't play recall cards proactively especially expensive one, that only mean you give your opponent the opportunity to counter you with removal of their own. There is a good reason as to why Go Get don't see any competitive play, not even in recall centric decks like Ahri/Kennen.

The effect is good, but 4 mana and a discard looks too expansive to me, especially since you can't use it reactively.

Looks like a better Go Get It to me. The card is cheaper and more versatile. The only thing this card lack is ephemeral copy who tend to be useless most of the time because you usually use recall defensively to protect your unit from removal.

First impressions :

- Yuumi is going to be Fae. From what I've seen so far it looks like the Fae tribe will be focused on hand buffs.

- More multi region and discard cards for Bandle City hopefully Tristana and Rumble are going to be in a better spot after expansion.