Is this Buffception? Put this in paladin that typically buffs with its spells anyway and you get extra buffing power. Throw down a divine shield minion, buff it with this in play and buff your hand. Then trigger the weapon by losing the divine shield and buff the hand some more. That adds up to quite a few stats.
This has got to go in aggro decks. Just flooding the board with chip damage here and there is what it is about. Of course this does open up counter plays from some of those 1 health honorable kill requirements we have seen on other cards.
Nice that this is a neutral card and gives any class a little bit of minion buffing power. Token spells are also useful for testing against various secrets these days. I think this will see some nice utility in many classes,
I think this is merely average. I don't know how often I have two minions still on board on turn 4. I guess he might still be ok as a vanilla 4/4, but merely ok cards don't cut it in this game these days.
Interestingly enough, this may help out in wild against questline Hunter. Going first really puts them in a bad spot of having to use removal prior to the quest coming out. Even going second forces them to have at least two damage in one spell. If they don't have those things to deal with it immediately, almost any buff (mount spells are ideal) starts to put it out of range and just lets it snowball away,
Another interesting one in freeze shaman. Casting the frost spell will usually freeze something to buy you a turn to let him utilize the buffs. Should be interesting to see if it works that well in practice.
Put him in freeze Shaman and all of the sudden you are a very consistent deck. He compares well with Primal Dungeoneer. While this one only can draw one card, it is always the correct spell school for you.
Reduce his cost with Vandar and you might have a playable minion. As others have said, outside of Warlock, you are too close to dead when the conditional cost reduction is met for this to really save you. In most of those situations you have more than two minions to remove.
It is nice that they made it so you can't reroll the nonstacking buffs. That means you can at least count on a minimum level of minion once you hit the 4 mana break point. Although, I guess you could technically roll the +2/+2 multiple times and not get any of the other immediate impact buffs.
We now know it is supposed to combo with Shield Shatter. Is it good enough by itself that you can run it and be happy playing without drawing that card? Since you won't go negative on the armor, it can be a good boost of armor that you were counting on losing anyway.
Obviously intended as an immediate combo with Frozen Buckler. Without that, this is a tough card to use. While warrior often has some armor, it isn't always up in the range that makes this an easy card to play.
We got several cards for taunt warrior, but I don't know if taunt warrior was an 'almost deck' that just needed a few extra cards to make it work. It is card draw though and that is always a good thing.
So, everyone is using the specific examples of eggs as the target, but what are you putting in there that you hope to summon after the egg. You would need enough 3 drops that lose nothing from being summoned instead of played to make it consistent. How many of those do you want to still have to play since you only have two of these guys to use?
I did not see anyone playing this card today. There seems to be a lack of Fel spells that are worth trying to build a deck around. Maybe a deck emerges that can use one as a linchpin, but right now it is a solution without a real problem.
Spell tutor and minor board clear in one. Not a bad card. Also, it targets a specific spell school, so you can more reliably get that spell you need. I think this will see some play.
A very nice finisher for control warrior. They will absolutely be hitting the armor gain requirement and this will do nicely to give some burst damage to end games.
A nice neutral card to use in freeze shaman. It will also see play in control decks looking to slow down big minions. I don't think it is for everyone, but it will have it's uses.
Warlock, Priest, and Rogue all got good deathrattle synergy in this expansion. I have a feeling this may become one of the more important build around cards for decks that aim to take advantage of it. This might make for some sick game ending plays.
Is this Buffception? Put this in paladin that typically buffs with its spells anyway and you get extra buffing power. Throw down a divine shield minion, buff it with this in play and buff your hand. Then trigger the weapon by losing the divine shield and buff the hand some more. That adds up to quite a few stats.
This has got to go in aggro decks. Just flooding the board with chip damage here and there is what it is about. Of course this does open up counter plays from some of those 1 health honorable kill requirements we have seen on other cards.
Nice that this is a neutral card and gives any class a little bit of minion buffing power. Token spells are also useful for testing against various secrets these days. I think this will see some nice utility in many classes,
I think this is merely average. I don't know how often I have two minions still on board on turn 4. I guess he might still be ok as a vanilla 4/4, but merely ok cards don't cut it in this game these days.
Interestingly enough, this may help out in wild against questline Hunter. Going first really puts them in a bad spot of having to use removal prior to the quest coming out. Even going second forces them to have at least two damage in one spell. If they don't have those things to deal with it immediately, almost any buff (mount spells are ideal) starts to put it out of range and just lets it snowball away,
Another interesting one in freeze shaman. Casting the frost spell will usually freeze something to buy you a turn to let him utilize the buffs. Should be interesting to see if it works that well in practice.
Put him in freeze Shaman and all of the sudden you are a very consistent deck. He compares well with Primal Dungeoneer. While this one only can draw one card, it is always the correct spell school for you.
Reduce his cost with Vandar and you might have a playable minion. As others have said, outside of Warlock, you are too close to dead when the conditional cost reduction is met for this to really save you. In most of those situations you have more than two minions to remove.
It is nice that they made it so you can't reroll the nonstacking buffs. That means you can at least count on a minimum level of minion once you hit the 4 mana break point. Although, I guess you could technically roll the +2/+2 multiple times and not get any of the other immediate impact buffs.
We now know it is supposed to combo with Shield Shatter. Is it good enough by itself that you can run it and be happy playing without drawing that card? Since you won't go negative on the armor, it can be a good boost of armor that you were counting on losing anyway.
Obviously intended as an immediate combo with Frozen Buckler. Without that, this is a tough card to use. While warrior often has some armor, it isn't always up in the range that makes this an easy card to play.
I like this in Druid/Hunter with Adorable Infestation. I'm not sure what I'm dropping to put it in, but it looks good on paper.
We got several cards for taunt warrior, but I don't know if taunt warrior was an 'almost deck' that just needed a few extra cards to make it work. It is card draw though and that is always a good thing.
So, everyone is using the specific examples of eggs as the target, but what are you putting in there that you hope to summon after the egg. You would need enough 3 drops that lose nothing from being summoned instead of played to make it consistent. How many of those do you want to still have to play since you only have two of these guys to use?
I did not see anyone playing this card today. There seems to be a lack of Fel spells that are worth trying to build a deck around. Maybe a deck emerges that can use one as a linchpin, but right now it is a solution without a real problem.
Spell tutor and minor board clear in one. Not a bad card. Also, it targets a specific spell school, so you can more reliably get that spell you need. I think this will see some play.
A very nice finisher for control warrior. They will absolutely be hitting the armor gain requirement and this will do nicely to give some burst damage to end games.
Handbuff for big decks? I mean, sure, why not. Who doesn't want already discounted big minions to also come out of hand nicely buffed?
A nice neutral card to use in freeze shaman. It will also see play in control decks looking to slow down big minions. I don't think it is for everyone, but it will have it's uses.
Warlock, Priest, and Rogue all got good deathrattle synergy in this expansion. I have a feeling this may become one of the more important build around cards for decks that aim to take advantage of it. This might make for some sick game ending plays.