Nami likes to summon units using spell mana, but Nami doesn't necessarily want to pair up with Bandle City and she already has access to Double Trouble. Summoning units at burst speed is good both on offense and on defense, but I don't think that surprise factor is enough for this to be good. 1/5
A Focus-speed Bannerman, minus the Bannerman's body and the allegiance requirement. Not terrible, but probably not good enough to see competitive play. 2/5
This looks decent, you get a 1/2 and a 3/1 for 3 mana, it's like a middle point between House Spider and Tenor of Terror. If having lots of Fae is important then this guy could be good, he's a 2-mana Fae who generates a 1-mana Fae. 3/5
Its stats and ability are unimpressive for its cost. Fae synergies don't look strong enough for this to be good right now. You'd think this is a speedbump to enable a champion who requires you to summon X number of Fae to level up, but it's a Bandle-Ionia unit, and we've already seen all of this set's Ionia champions. This guy will need massive support form his Fae tribe to be playable. 2/5
For its ability to do anything, this needs to live for one turn. Its statline is slightly weak for a 3-drop; Barkbeast, Chip and Jagged Butcher can get this statline as 1-drops. If it does survive, it gives you a phenomenal tempo advantage. This is a staple in Fae decks for sure. 4/5
Aggressive statline, weak body with no abilities means it will trade unfavorably with 1-drops and 2-drops, and it has to attack to make use of its ability. The ability is a very weak form of deck buffing, it only buffs one card with a random effect and it can take many turns before you even draw the buffed card. Does not seem remotely playable. 1/5.
Poppy is good, but the elephant in the room here is Stress Defense. That card is bananas. The first, obvious use is to protect your own units from damage-based removal spells, and possibly heal them up as well. The other use is as a Bandle City Flash Freeze. Depending on the unit you're casting it on, setting its health to 6 can be a buff or a debuff- but the fact that you can debuff the health of massive, game-ending threats like Nasus, Viego, They Who Endure, Nautilus, etc. into a range where you can kill them, is pretty crazy.
Even if you couldn't target your own units, this card would be of comparable power with Flash Freeze, so being able to use this to save your own units from removal as well is downright humiliating for Freljord and the Frostbite package. Being able to find more copies of this with Trinket Trade and Conchologist just adds salt to the wound.
5/5. Phenomenal card which can protect your own units from combat and removal, as well as turn a mammoth-sized Nasus, Nautilus, They Who Endure, Viego, giant Elusive attacker, etc. into a much more manageable problem. Instant staple card for Bandle City, and you can even find more copies of this with the region's other instant staple card, Conchologist.
Ashe and the Frostbite package turn in their grave.
2/5. Quick Attack is at its best when paired with high-attack units. The fact that this guy only buffs low-attack units with Quick Attack seriously undermines his utility.
2/5. As a unit with very poor stats and a very powerful ability, this looks like a card that could be a great recipient for buffs. The problem is, there's a much better recipient for buffs, and its name is Sparklefly. You can cast Battle Fury on Pompous Cavalier, and it'll still get chump blocked by a 1/1, not to mention that on defense, this guy is a chump blocker himself, nearly worthless vs. aggro decks.
The obvious source of buffs for this guy is Poppy, but even if you pull off that combo, a 2/2 with Double Attack is still not very impressive.
3/5. For Scout decks, Genevieve is superior to this card; it buffs units right away, including their attack, and she has Challenger on top of Scout to pick apart the enemy blockers and end the game. That doesn't mean Yordle Ranger is bad; if left unanswered, it can build an extremely resilient board very quickly. This looks like a solid enough card that's looking for a deck that she's a good fit for.
2/5. Effects that shuffle an enemy unit into its deck, such as Nautilus' Riptide and Sunk Cost, are best compared to Obliterate effects such as Falling Comet. Ejecting an enemy unit onto the top of the enemy deck is different, and worse; typically you would want to eject the biggest, most dangerous enemy unit... which your opponent can just play again next turn. That makes this spell closer to Will of Ionia than to Falling Comet, and Will of Ionia's value is as a Fast-speed tempo spell... whereas this is not Fast speed, and it's much less likely that you'll come out ahead on tempo.
4/5 stars. If you get to attack even once, she's a 4 mana 5/4, which are solid solo stats for someone who's also buffing all your other units. Poppy is good right out of the gate- which is good, because her level 2 form is underwhelming for how hard she is to level up.
2/5. 7-mana followers need to represent a game-ending threat or phenomenal value to justify their inclusion in a deck, and this guy falls a little short of that
3/5. 1 mana is a fair asking price to manifest a spell at burst speed, especially if you have Fizz in your deck. The fact that you are guaranteed a good choice in Otterpus makes this reliable. I don't give this a higher rating because it can only offer cheap cards, and you will essentially play a cheap card that costs 1 more.
2/5. A spell that costs 5 mana but then refills 3 sounds like it has good synergy with the likes of Lux and Heimerdinger. For the 2 mana you spend for real, you get an effect that is comparable to Sharpsight, and to Ghost. Overall, I think this will suffer from the fact that its effect looks more useful when used reactively (to block Elusives), but you need to have 5 mana open to cast this reactively which is too steep an asking cost.
2/5. While having your hand messed with will always be annoying, I don't see a clear use case for this. Discarding your opponent's cheapest card sounds like something an aggro deck would like to do to get rid of an opponent's early game plays like Eye of the Dragon, except aggro decks don't want to spend a card and 2 mana on a spell that doesn't directly advance their win condition.
It can be good in specific circumstances, like discarding your opponent's last card in hand, but that's something to keep in mind when this card is offered in a Manifest effect, not a reason to put this in your main deck.
If spamming spells is important for your deck (Lee Sin, Nami), then maybe you want to put this card in your deck; otherwise, you don't. 2/5
Nami likes to summon units using spell mana, but Nami doesn't necessarily want to pair up with Bandle City and she already has access to Double Trouble. Summoning units at burst speed is good both on offense and on defense, but I don't think that surprise factor is enough for this to be good. 1/5
A Focus-speed Bannerman, minus the Bannerman's body and the allegiance requirement. Not terrible, but probably not good enough to see competitive play. 2/5
This looks similar to Stand Together, except it's not in Pantheon's region. It does not look playable. 1/5
Compared to Go Get It, this card looks generally inferior, except for a combo synergy with Trundle's Ice Pillar. 2/5
This looks decent, you get a 1/2 and a 3/1 for 3 mana, it's like a middle point between House Spider and Tenor of Terror. If having lots of Fae is important then this guy could be good, he's a 2-mana Fae who generates a 1-mana Fae. 3/5
Its stats and ability are unimpressive for its cost. Fae synergies don't look strong enough for this to be good right now. You'd think this is a speedbump to enable a champion who requires you to summon X number of Fae to level up, but it's a Bandle-Ionia unit, and we've already seen all of this set's Ionia champions. This guy will need massive support form his Fae tribe to be playable. 2/5
For its ability to do anything, this needs to live for one turn. Its statline is slightly weak for a 3-drop; Barkbeast, Chip and Jagged Butcher can get this statline as 1-drops. If it does survive, it gives you a phenomenal tempo advantage. This is a staple in Fae decks for sure. 4/5
Aggressive statline, weak body with no abilities means it will trade unfavorably with 1-drops and 2-drops, and it has to attack to make use of its ability. The ability is a very weak form of deck buffing, it only buffs one card with a random effect and it can take many turns before you even draw the buffed card. Does not seem remotely playable. 1/5.
Poppy is good, but the elephant in the room here is Stress Defense. That card is bananas. The first, obvious use is to protect your own units from damage-based removal spells, and possibly heal them up as well. The other use is as a Bandle City Flash Freeze. Depending on the unit you're casting it on, setting its health to 6 can be a buff or a debuff- but the fact that you can debuff the health of massive, game-ending threats like Nasus, Viego, They Who Endure, Nautilus, etc. into a range where you can kill them, is pretty crazy.
Even if you couldn't target your own units, this card would be of comparable power with Flash Freeze, so being able to use this to save your own units from removal as well is downright humiliating for Freljord and the Frostbite package. Being able to find more copies of this with Trinket Trade and Conchologist just adds salt to the wound.
5/5. Phenomenal card which can protect your own units from combat and removal, as well as turn a mammoth-sized Nasus, Nautilus, They Who Endure, Viego, giant Elusive attacker, etc. into a much more manageable problem. Instant staple card for Bandle City, and you can even find more copies of this with the region's other instant staple card, Conchologist.
Ashe and the Frostbite package turn in their grave.
2/5. Quick Attack is at its best when paired with high-attack units. The fact that this guy only buffs low-attack units with Quick Attack seriously undermines his utility.
2/5. As a unit with very poor stats and a very powerful ability, this looks like a card that could be a great recipient for buffs. The problem is, there's a much better recipient for buffs, and its name is Sparklefly. You can cast Battle Fury on Pompous Cavalier, and it'll still get chump blocked by a 1/1, not to mention that on defense, this guy is a chump blocker himself, nearly worthless vs. aggro decks.
The obvious source of buffs for this guy is Poppy, but even if you pull off that combo, a 2/2 with Double Attack is still not very impressive.
3/5. For Scout decks, Genevieve is superior to this card; it buffs units right away, including their attack, and she has Challenger on top of Scout to pick apart the enemy blockers and end the game. That doesn't mean Yordle Ranger is bad; if left unanswered, it can build an extremely resilient board very quickly. This looks like a solid enough card that's looking for a deck that she's a good fit for.
2/5. Effects that shuffle an enemy unit into its deck, such as Nautilus' Riptide and Sunk Cost, are best compared to Obliterate effects such as Falling Comet. Ejecting an enemy unit onto the top of the enemy deck is different, and worse; typically you would want to eject the biggest, most dangerous enemy unit... which your opponent can just play again next turn. That makes this spell closer to Will of Ionia than to Falling Comet, and Will of Ionia's value is as a Fast-speed tempo spell... whereas this is not Fast speed, and it's much less likely that you'll come out ahead on tempo.
4/5 stars. If you get to attack even once, she's a 4 mana 5/4, which are solid solo stats for someone who's also buffing all your other units. Poppy is good right out of the gate- which is good, because her level 2 form is underwhelming for how hard she is to level up.
2/5. 7-mana followers need to represent a game-ending threat or phenomenal value to justify their inclusion in a deck, and this guy falls a little short of that
3/5. 1 mana is a fair asking price to manifest a spell at burst speed, especially if you have Fizz in your deck. The fact that you are guaranteed a good choice in Otterpus makes this reliable. I don't give this a higher rating because it can only offer cheap cards, and you will essentially play a cheap card that costs 1 more.
2/5. A spell that costs 5 mana but then refills 3 sounds like it has good synergy with the likes of Lux and Heimerdinger. For the 2 mana you spend for real, you get an effect that is comparable to Sharpsight, and to Ghost. Overall, I think this will suffer from the fact that its effect looks more useful when used reactively (to block Elusives), but you need to have 5 mana open to cast this reactively which is too steep an asking cost.
2/5. While having your hand messed with will always be annoying, I don't see a clear use case for this. Discarding your opponent's cheapest card sounds like something an aggro deck would like to do to get rid of an opponent's early game plays like Eye of the Dragon, except aggro decks don't want to spend a card and 2 mana on a spell that doesn't directly advance their win condition.
It can be good in specific circumstances, like discarding your opponent's last card in hand, but that's something to keep in mind when this card is offered in a Manifest effect, not a reason to put this in your main deck.