Meta-Defining
Great
- Chaos Strike - best comparison is an improved Shiv
- Sightless Watcher
- Glaivebound Adept
- Twin Slice
- Blade Dance
- Priestess of Fury
- Skull of Gul'dan
- Furious Felfin
- Crimson Sigil Runner
- Fungal Fortunes - if Book of Specters could find a deck, this can too
- Zixor, Apex Predator - only in a deck dedicated to buffing him, naturally, but I think that could become meta
- Mok'Nathal Lion
- Pack Tactics
- Scavenger's Ingenuity
- Astromancer Solarian
- Evocation
- Incanter's Flow
- Murgur Murgurgle
- Kul Tiran Chaplain - remember Kabal Talonpriest?
- Soul Mirror - it's like Lightbomb that doesn't hurt your own board and leaves behind compensation minions for every enemy minion that doesn't die, for just 1 more mana
- Shadowjeweler Hanar
- Serpentshrine Portal
- Kanrethad Ebonlocke - solid addition to solid Zoo builds
- Darkglare - will be the key combo piece of some meme deck, but will also just be in other decks
- Kargath Bladefist
- Bladestorm
- Imprisoned Gan'arg
- Maiev Shadowsong - overrated, not going to be as ubiquitous as Zilliax
- Burrowing Scorpid
- Guardian Augmerchant - will be at least as ubiquitous as Fire Fly
Good
- Shadowhoof Slayer
- Aldrachi Warblades
- Satyr Overseer
- Chaos Nova - very strong card, but for now I think the control DH deck's weakness will pull it down
- Consume Magic
- Ur'zul Horror - may not have room to be played because of an abundance of strong 1-drops in the competition
- Feast of Souls
- Altruis the Outcast
- Illidari Felblade
- Raging Felscreamer
- Command the Illidari
- Metamorphosis - overrated
- Warglaives of Azzinoth - overrated
- Imprisoned Antaen
- Fel Summoner
- Immolation Aura - not sure about the deck it goes in, though
- Spectral Sight
- Glowfly Swarm
- Augmented Porcupine - a personal favorite of mine, so I may be overrating it, but I don't think so
- Deep Freeze
- Libram of Hope
- Underlight Angling Rod
- Aldor Truthseeker
- Libram of Wisdom
- Imprisoned Sungill
- Libram of Justice
- Aldor Attendant
- Scarlet Subjugator - deceptively powerful in a trading-heavy deck
- Natalie Seline - it's a sad statement on power creep that I can "only" rate this Good
- Reliquary of Souls
- Skeletal Dragon
- Sethekk Veilweaver
- Dragonmaw Sentinel
- Imprisoned Homunculus
- Akama
- Bamboozle
- Ambush
- Ashtongue Slayer
- Spymistress
- Shattered Rumbler - might be wishful thinking on my part, but it looks decent on paper
- Marshspawn
- Keli'dan the Breaker
- Shadow Council - Warlock can afford to run Sacrificial Pact and other tech cards with this as a backup way to use them
- Imprisoned Scrap Imp - I thought this card was seriously overrated, but now I'm seeing that's because I was thinking of it as a Zoo card, when it's a Handlock card
- Nightshade Matron - combo with Hand of Gul'dan is amazing but unreliable
- Kael'thas Sunstrider - centerpiece of mid-tier decks
- Teron Gorefiend
Niche
- Coordinated Strike - just doesn't have the oomph of Unleash the Hounds
- Soul Cleave - only in dedicated lifesteal decks
- Inner Demon
- Blur - I think it's being underrated, but that's not saying too much
- Wrathscale Naga
- Wrathspike Brute
- Flamereaper - overrated and slow
- Hulking Overfiend
- Pit Commander
- Coilfang Warlord
- Ashtongue Battlelord
- Archspore Msshi'fn
- Ironbark
- Overgrowth - seriously overrated; Wild Growth is dead at 3 mana and this will be similar
- Imprisoned Satyr
- Bogbeam
- Nagrand Slam - probably with Kael'thas Sunstrider
- Helboar
- Apexis Smuggler
- Imprisoned Observer
- Netherwind Portal
- Lady Liadrin
- Power Infusion - maybe not in the immediate meta, but eventually will find a deck that uses it as much as paladins use Blessing of Kings
- Dragonmaw Overseer
- Apotheosis
- Renew
- Dirty Tricks
- Lady Vashj
- Boggspine Knuckles
- Torrent
- Vivid Spores
- Bogstrok Clacker
- Hand of Gul'dan
- Bloodboil Brute
- Bonechewer Raider
- Magtheridon - very good but only in very specific decks
- Mo'arg Artificer
- Dragonmaw Sky Stalker
- Rustsworn Cultist - maybe in DH token decks
- Terrorguard Escapee - good for setting up Sea Giant or similar
- Frozen Shadoweaver
- Bonechewer Brawler
- Rocket Augmerchant
Abstain (i.e. I have no idea; could be good or could be garbage)
Meme
- Mana Burn - in the long run people will realize they're paying 2.5 mana to deny their opponents 2
- Nethrandamus
- Netherwalker
- Ysiel Windsinger
- Marsh Hydra - the kind of solid, slow card that's broken in Arena but never sees competitive Constructed play
- Beastmaster Leoroxx
- Imprisoned Felmaw
- Apexis Blast
- Font of Power
- Psychic Conjurer - only in dedicated thief priest decks
- Shadow Word: Ruin - nobody plans to let their opponent build up that big a board
- Cursed Vagrant
- The Lurker Below
- Totemic Reflection
- Enhanced Dreadlord
- Unstable Felbolt
- Warmaul Challenger
- Waste Warden - too specific a tech
- Replicat-o-tron
- Blistering Rot
- Bonechewer Vanguard
- Ruststeed Raider
- Felfin Navigator
- Overconfident Orc - it's no Tar Creeper, just hit it with a 1/1 and then value-trade it away
- Imprisoned Vilefiend
- Ethereal Augmerchant
- Soulbound Ashtongue - only for Warlock combo decks
Garbage
- Germination
- Psyche Split
- Bulwark of Azzinoth
- Scrap Golem
- Sword and Board
- Al'ar - too easy to just kill the egg
- Scrapyard Colossus - ok off of evolve effects or in Arena, though
- Infectious Sporeling
- Supreme Abyssal
- Scavenging Shivarra
- Disguised Wanderer
- Rustsworn Initiate
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