Nice vs Agro as they may have already flooded board and this will not summon all 3 minions. Good vs resurrect Priest to screw up his res pool. Also if you summon him directly from deck it's pure stats.
In Quest Hunter Highlander Shuma is actually look quite nice. 7 minions for one card speed up your quest. And if you have quest activated its 21/13 stats for one card and 9 mana. Yes you receive minions at end not as Battlecry but for sure I will try Shuma in this deck.
Warlock and Warrior are best for me. Sadly only class that I have over 500 wins (and still long road to 1000) is mage. All classes beside Mage I have around 300-400 wins. I will have to wait for this portraits.
Its quite obvious - yes. You will get bong cards as everyone, do not matter if you have them or not. So if you disenchant them you will get them but they will stay and you will end without them as event ends.
I like the idea but some cards (notably Warriors) are absurd powerful.
Rampaging Doomguard (5 mana 5/7 Rush, discard card on attack) - this totally should be Warlock card. Warrior never had interactions with card discard and it should not have.
Fel Orc Raider (4 mana 6/3, hit opp face = random discard from opp hand!) - This card is not that powerful (because its easy to kill) but there should not be cards that Discard cards from opponent hand. This could burn cards from opponent deck after hitting face (like Gnomeferatu battlecry) and still this is much suited as Warlock minion.
Mannoroth - absurdly OP. Its just "Battecry: deal 8 to all minions" reworded. And yes its absurd board clear with 8/10 Minion attached to it.
God of War (10 mana, draw 10, gain 10 armor, gain 10 attack) - damn, that is beyond absurd. This deal 10 damage ( the same as Pyroblast) AND give you 10 Armor AND draws you full hand. Really? [Hearthstone Card (Ultimate Infestation) Not Found] was not OP enough?
Pulverise (6 mana destroy minion + 3 damage to other minions) - Another OP card. Assasinate + hellfire in Warrior in one card... Warrior does not have "kill cards" without downside or prerequisition - like them being injured or you having tons of armor. This is another card looking like Warlock card (and still OP).
Inferno Prince (6 mana 6/6 deal 6 damage to minion) - this is to strong as neutral rare card, this is like Siamat who took Rush and Divine Shield to deal 6 damage. Only 1 mana cheaper and rare not legendary. If this dealt something like 3 damage still would be powerful but not such OP.
I love what Kibler proposed for [Hearthstone Card (Dr. Boom, Mad Genius) Not Found] - Change Battlecry to: "Battlecry: Mechs in your hand and deck gain Rush" and remove +7 Armor Hero power.
That way he still will be 7 mana 7/7. But changing into it will makes you more vulnerable (no more armour gain) and only Mechs you actually have in deck will have rush. That way all those discovered ones will not have Rush and would be much less problem. To benefit from this Battlecry you would have to actually put Mechs into deck.
Luna played on 4 with coin is absurd. And 4 Mana Conjurer's Calling is much less oppressive (harder to play twinspell, no chance to be generated from Magic Trick.
You could change Warsong Commander to useful minion. I would not go back to any previous iteration of it. Giving all minions charge is damn OP. Giving small minions is less OP but as mentioned above it would be quite OK if just worked on small attack minions and stop when they gain higher attack.
But generally Charge is much more oppressive and prone to being problematic than Rush.
That's why I would like to see Warsong going in this way.
It could be something like: "Your minions with 3 or less attack have Rush" or if this could be problematic than maybe something like "Your minions with Rush have +1 (or +2) attack."
If Warsong interact in some way with Rush instead of Charge he will be much more useful as there will be more and more Rush minions.
I totally understand why they changed oversexualised cards. Both Harpy Secretkeeper had ridiculous pose that was suxualised. Its not about being in bikini or revealing outfit. But both those arts were done to hit to horny 15 year olds. Both have pose that is unnatural and only made that way to show off to and bottom. On new art they are still not covered from head to toe (I would say that SC have more revealing outfit now). They just now in normal pose standing / flying like normal life being not pinup girl bending in teenage dream fantasy style.
About removing blood. I do not care at all. I am only surprised that they didn't changed some warrior cards that have quite a lot blood on illustration.
I have all card backsthat are given each month. And I am totally OK with them giving chance for newer players gain older card backs. It's not that this will take away mine or something. Still I had this card back for 4 years. How selfish you had to be to whine about giving to others non real (in damn pc game) card back. "oh no, no longer I will be this speshul snowflake". This card back already was owned by several milion people. Couple more will not change anything. Awesome idea Blizzard. Really.
Right now (Rise of Shadows release) there are 64 beasts in standard.
Average cost of Beast minion is 4. Average attack and health of Beast minion is 3/3. This means in average this is something like 7 mana 7/7 in two bodies. Looking that way is quite meh. In arena is quite ok. But average is not telling us that much
31/64 Beasts have attack lower than 3. (0-2). So half of the time you will have no more than 2 attack. 44/64 Beasts have attack 3 or lower. So almost 70% of time you will have meh or worse result. 37/64 Beasts have health 3 or lower. Again more than half of the time (58%) you will have mediocre or worse result.
Ok so maybe not stats but some utility.
Taunt Only 6/64 of Beasts have Taunt. So that's lousy 9%. And from those Taunts only Witchwood Grizzly and Amani War Bear are good.
Charge Only 3 of all 64 Beasts (3/64 5%) have Charge. One of those is awesome (King Krush), one good but only if you have other Beasts, alone is just ok (Tundra Rhino) and one is joke (Stonetusk Boar).
Deathrattle Its not affecting board right away but at least it's some value. But only 5/64 of Beasts have Deathrattle. And even worse those are not good deathrattles. While Savannah Highmane is good one and Shimmerfly is ok (but low stats) rest are not doing much or even worse are good for your opponent (The Beast, but at least it have big stats)
Overall. Chance to roll something at least 5/5 (or higher) is low 12/64 (19%). Chance to have something decent being 1/5 is bad. And chance to high-roll into powerful 4 (Savannah Highmane, King Krush, Shirvallah, the Tiger, Oondasta) is even worse (4/64, 6%).
Right now sadly this minion is damn bad. In Arena it becomes quite ok something like 7 mana 6/6 in two bodies with low chance of high-roll and then being outstanding.
Nice vs Agro as they may have already flooded board and this will not summon all 3 minions. Good vs resurrect Priest to screw up his res pool. Also if you summon him directly from deck it's pure stats.
In Quest Hunter Highlander Shuma is actually look quite nice. 7 minions for one card speed up your quest. And if you have quest activated its 21/13 stats for one card and 9 mana. Yes you receive minions at end not as Battlecry but for sure I will try Shuma in this deck.
Rank 10 and climbing mostly with Highlander Quest Hunter that I find very enjoyable to play.
Cable Rat is 1/1 for two mana[Hearthstone Card (CardID or Name) Not Found]. For two more mana you gain +1/+1 and Rush.
Could be worse.
Warlock and Warrior are best for me. Sadly only class that I have over 500 wins (and still long road to 1000) is mage. All classes beside Mage I have around 300-400 wins. I will have to wait for this portraits.
Best cardback ever. Sadly I never had it in game :D
One of my favourite card backs.
Its quite obvious - yes. You will get bong cards as everyone, do not matter if you have them or not. So if you disenchant them you will get them but they will stay and you will end without them as event ends.
I like the idea but some cards (notably Warriors) are absurd powerful.
Rampaging Doomguard (5 mana 5/7 Rush, discard card on attack) - this totally should be Warlock card. Warrior never had interactions with card discard and it should not have.
Fel Orc Raider (4 mana 6/3, hit opp face = random discard from opp hand!) - This card is not that powerful (because its easy to kill) but there should not be cards that Discard cards from opponent hand. This could burn cards from opponent deck after hitting face (like Gnomeferatu battlecry) and still this is much suited as Warlock minion.
Mannoroth - absurdly OP. Its just "Battecry: deal 8 to all minions" reworded. And yes its absurd board clear with 8/10 Minion attached to it.
God of War (10 mana, draw 10, gain 10 armor, gain 10 attack) - damn, that is beyond absurd. This deal 10 damage ( the same as Pyroblast) AND give you 10 Armor AND draws you full hand. Really? [Hearthstone Card (Ultimate Infestation) Not Found] was not OP enough?
Pulverise (6 mana destroy minion + 3 damage to other minions) - Another OP card. Assasinate + hellfire in Warrior in one card... Warrior does not have "kill cards" without downside or prerequisition - like them being injured or you having tons of armor. This is another card looking like Warlock card (and still OP).
Inferno Prince (6 mana 6/6 deal 6 damage to minion) - this is to strong as neutral rare card, this is like Siamat who took Rush and Divine Shield to deal 6 damage. Only 1 mana cheaper and rare not legendary. If this dealt something like 3 damage still would be powerful but not such OP.
You can easy change Micro-Squad to summon 3 Rush 1/1 mechs.
I love what Kibler proposed for [Hearthstone Card (Dr. Boom, Mad Genius) Not Found] - Change Battlecry to: "Battlecry: Mechs in your hand and deck gain Rush" and remove +7 Armor Hero power.
That way he still will be 7 mana 7/7. But changing into it will makes you more vulnerable (no more armour gain) and only Mechs you actually have in deck will have rush. That way all those discovered ones will not have Rush and would be much less problem. To benefit from this Battlecry you would have to actually put Mechs into deck.
Also [Hearthstone Card (Luna's Pocket Galaxy) Not Found] and [Hearthstone Card (Conjurer's Calling) Not Found] could be nerfed by one mana.
Luna played on 4 with coin is absurd. And 4 Mana Conjurer's Calling is much less oppressive (harder to play twinspell, no chance to be generated from Magic Trick.
But you realise that Netflix series its not game adaptation but book adaptation? And game was adaptation of book?
Its awesome.
Turns opponent big minions into random Murlocks cancelling all deathrattles and polluting res pool.
Also turn all your 1/1 Murlocks and totems into something probably better or at worse the same.
Love it! Will use it one in deck.
Also you have chance to get this at random from discover effects or from Haghata.
You could change Warsong Commander to useful minion. I would not go back to any previous iteration of it. Giving all minions charge is damn OP. Giving small minions is less OP but as mentioned above it would be quite OK if just worked on small attack minions and stop when they gain higher attack.
But generally Charge is much more oppressive and prone to being problematic than Rush.
That's why I would like to see Warsong going in this way.
It could be something like: "Your minions with 3 or less attack have Rush" or if this could be problematic than maybe something like "Your minions with Rush have +1 (or +2) attack."
If Warsong interact in some way with Rush instead of Charge he will be much more useful as there will be more and more Rush minions.
I totally understand why they changed oversexualised cards. Both Harpy Secretkeeper had ridiculous pose that was suxualised. Its not about being in bikini or revealing outfit. But both those arts were done to hit to horny 15 year olds. Both have pose that is unnatural and only made that way to show off to and bottom. On new art they are still not covered from head to toe (I would say that SC have more revealing outfit now). They just now in normal pose standing / flying like normal life being not pinup girl bending in teenage dream fantasy style.
About removing blood. I do not care at all. I am only surprised that they didn't changed some warrior cards that have quite a lot blood on illustration.
Who say Mage cant be muscular? :)
I have all card backsthat are given each month. And I am totally OK with them giving chance for newer players gain older card backs. It's not that this will take away mine or something. Still I had this card back for 4 years. How selfish you had to be to whine about giving to others non real (in damn pc game) card back. "oh no, no longer I will be this speshul snowflake". This card back already was owned by several milion people. Couple more will not change anything. Awesome idea Blizzard. Really.
That song is addicting.
I like how they combined Quests with new Hero powers, that way we can have new hero powers without Hero cards :)
Best expansion is back. Oh yes please!
Right now (Rise of Shadows release) there are 64 beasts in standard.
Average cost of Beast minion is 4.
Average attack and health of Beast minion is 3/3.
This means in average this is something like 7 mana 7/7 in two bodies. Looking that way is quite meh. In arena is quite ok.
But average is not telling us that much
31/64 Beasts have attack lower than 3. (0-2). So half of the time you will have no more than 2 attack.
44/64 Beasts have attack 3 or lower. So almost 70% of time you will have meh or worse result.
37/64 Beasts have health 3 or lower. Again more than half of the time (58%) you will have mediocre or worse result.
Ok so maybe not stats but some utility.
Taunt
Only 6/64 of Beasts have Taunt. So that's lousy 9%.
And from those Taunts only Witchwood Grizzly and Amani War Bear are good.
Rush
Its little better, as 11/64 (17%) of Beasts have Rush.
But again most of them are have lousy stats, only 4 are Good (Shirvallah, the Tiger, Oondasta, Akali, the Rhino, Amani War Bear) and Vilebrood Skitterer can be counted as ok one.
Charge
Only 3 of all 64 Beasts (3/64 5%) have Charge. One of those is awesome (King Krush), one good but only if you have other Beasts, alone is just ok (Tundra Rhino) and one is joke (Stonetusk Boar).
Deathrattle
Its not affecting board right away but at least it's some value. But only 5/64 of Beasts have Deathrattle. And even worse those are not good deathrattles. While Savannah Highmane is good one and Shimmerfly is ok (but low stats) rest are not doing much or even worse are good for your opponent (The Beast, but at least it have big stats)
Overall.
Chance to roll something at least 5/5 (or higher) is low 12/64 (19%). Chance to have something decent being 1/5 is bad. And chance to high-roll into powerful 4 (Savannah Highmane, King Krush, Shirvallah, the Tiger, Oondasta) is even worse (4/64, 6%).
Right now sadly this minion is damn bad. In Arena it becomes quite ok something like 7 mana 6/6 in two bodies with low chance of high-roll and then being outstanding.