This really makes any minion a meaningful threat and a great tool for healing. Fits into a lot of different archetypes, so it seems like a great design.
Definitely a strange card. If you think of drawing a card as being worth 1 mana, and a 3/1 body being worth 1 mana, then you really need to be drawing a 2 mana card to be getting any meaningful mana cheating from this. So, you want to run it with only high impact cheap spells in the deck (i.e. no secrets, probably only cards like Hand of A'dal and Hold the Bridge). It's a little hard to judge whether a deck will exist that has enough of those cards to merit running this (because it's a pretty weak body), but if it does this will be very powerful.
I think this would feel more like bait to me if it weren't for Celestial Ink Set. The spells mage has access to right now in the 7, 8, 9, and 10 slots are no joke, and this goes a long way to procing the 5 mana discount on one of these spells. Given how impactful they can all be, I don't think you'd need to discount more than one before this was well worth the extra copies in the midgame.
Obviously great in Big Spell Mage, but this could also see play in an Aggro mage that wanted a solid 1-drop that discounted their burn spells. Honestly kind of a scary minion in the right deck.
Because it's deathrattle effect spans turns, this is a really solid card. In theory it curves into Mountain Bear (though I doubt that sees play). More likely you'll play this to cheat out some cheap beasts in a Midrange Beast Hunter deck that leverages the various deathrattle synergies the class has right now..
Compare this to Nofin Can Stop Us and it's just embarrassing. Yes, Beast Token Druid has been heavily pushed this expansion, and it could be a serious archetype, but most of the time this is only marginally better than Mark of the Lotus and Power of the Wild, making it way overpriced. The potential saving grace here is that if you target a beast with this, it will get +3/+3 (the initial +2/+2 and then another +1/+1), and that could be a big deal if you're looking to trade on board while getting solid chip damage in on their face.
The text implies this spans turns, so this curves perfectly into Nourish or Runic Carvings (which I know has really not seen a ton of play since Treant synergies rotated), or could just be a solid discount on some Choose One card. Heck, even cheating out Cenarius or Ancient of War could be pretty sweet.
Brasswing is easy to dismiss as an expensive Consecration that won't net you much value, but I wouldn't count it out. Libram of Wisdom can be a very effective tool for lining up Honorable Kills for Brasswing, and an AOE that heals can end games in a single turn.
I agree that it's being dismissed too easily. But I don't see how Librams will help line up HK's? I think the only HK's it's going to get are from it's consecration-like ability, and because it's part of the card, it can't scale with spell damage. I think the card is fun and decent, but I think getting HK's are largely going to come from setting up your other minions to feed it HK's with it's passive ability, while you smack enemy face with the main body.
What I'm imagining is that you've got a board of slightly too small minions to trade in order to line up the enemy minions at 2 health, but having several 0-cost +1/+1 buffs that come back when you trade makes it much easier to account for that. Basically any minion you have could be as much as +2/+2 bigger before trading if it needs to be.
The fact that this specifically discovers class deathrattle is a big deal - this can give you access to every Prime minion (other than Akama, of course) as well as some very high impact cards like Rattlegore and The Rat King and Coilfang Warlord (and maybe Aegwynn, the Guardian if you've got a decent number of damage spells in your deck). There are plenty of bad targets, of course (some generically weak ones, some that require too much synergy), but I think at least 50% of the class deathrattles you could find in Standard range from playable to strong even without additional synergy or support, so you should be able to pick up something good most of the time you play this.
Probably not good enough for constructed, even though you can easily imagine the kind of crazy swing turns you could have with this and Scabbs Cutterbutter.
I'll be glad to generate this during a game from one of Priest's many discovers/spell generators, but whether or not it actually goes in the deck will depend a lot on the metagame. Against an aggro deck this could be very valuable as a way to fight back against their board, but in a slower metagame I don't think it's good enough.
Truly excellent card - solid stats for a taunt, and the deathrattle is a lot of card draw for a class that has very little card draw. The synergy with Xyrella, the Devout is great, and is particularly nice because it can't draw you into fatigue like a generic "draw a card" deathrattle might.
It's also potentially a tutor effect for Questline Priest, as the Purified Shard is a holy spell. That's certainly not going to be the best deck for this card, but it might be fun to toy around with. Kibler's Questline Priest ran almost no spells and tried to use High Abbess Alura to cheat out the shard. This could provide some redundancy on actually getting your win condition without polluting the deck and ruining that cheat.
Brasswing is easy to dismiss as an expensive Consecration that won't net you much value, but I wouldn't count it out. Libram of Wisdom can be a very effective tool for lining up Honorable Kills for Brasswing, and an AOE that heals can end games in a single turn.
There are a lot of boards this won't do enough on (because 1/1's can still go face), but is a big Arcane spell for Magister Dawngrasp, and that matters, particularly considering the Honorable Kill effect of their hero power. Could be viable in that kind of deck.
Since you have to have a decent board to make this work, Wing Commander Mulverick is a little bit of a win more card. That said, it does seem like it could be highly impactful in Token/Aggro mirrors as a way to overtake your opponent in a close match. You'd only really need to make one or two "real" trades before you can start just trading Wyverns to generate more Wyverns and clear off the enemy board for pretty cheap.
Consecration with card draw tacked on for one mana and a potential damage boost. Seems like a solid card, but what are you hoping to draw with this? The best Warlock spells are typically Shadow, and they still have access to Hellfire if they want a 3 damage board clear (and slightly faster, at that). The card draw is nice, but Warlock doesn't need more draw. It just doesn't seem like a card with a home.
It's fine. Maybe you're playing a deck that cares about using your hero power a lot? I'm not sure that deck exists, but I guess this would be a nice way to get some extra value there.
This really makes any minion a meaningful threat and a great tool for healing. Fits into a lot of different archetypes, so it seems like a great design.
Definitely a strange card. If you think of drawing a card as being worth 1 mana, and a 3/1 body being worth 1 mana, then you really need to be drawing a 2 mana card to be getting any meaningful mana cheating from this. So, you want to run it with only high impact cheap spells in the deck (i.e. no secrets, probably only cards like Hand of A'dal and Hold the Bridge). It's a little hard to judge whether a deck will exist that has enough of those cards to merit running this (because it's a pretty weak body), but if it does this will be very powerful.
I think this would feel more like bait to me if it weren't for Celestial Ink Set. The spells mage has access to right now in the 7, 8, 9, and 10 slots are no joke, and this goes a long way to procing the 5 mana discount on one of these spells. Given how impactful they can all be, I don't think you'd need to discount more than one before this was well worth the extra copies in the midgame.
Obviously great in Big Spell Mage, but this could also see play in an Aggro mage that wanted a solid 1-drop that discounted their burn spells. Honestly kind of a scary minion in the right deck.
Because it's deathrattle effect spans turns, this is a really solid card. In theory it curves into Mountain Bear (though I doubt that sees play). More likely you'll play this to cheat out some cheap beasts in a Midrange Beast Hunter deck that leverages the various deathrattle synergies the class has right now..
Compare this to Nofin Can Stop Us and it's just embarrassing. Yes, Beast Token Druid has been heavily pushed this expansion, and it could be a serious archetype, but most of the time this is only marginally better than Mark of the Lotus and Power of the Wild, making it way overpriced. The potential saving grace here is that if you target a beast with this, it will get +3/+3 (the initial +2/+2 and then another +1/+1), and that could be a big deal if you're looking to trade on board while getting solid chip damage in on their face.
The text implies this spans turns, so this curves perfectly into Nourish or Runic Carvings (which I know has really not seen a ton of play since Treant synergies rotated), or could just be a solid discount on some Choose One card. Heck, even cheating out Cenarius or Ancient of War could be pretty sweet.
What I'm imagining is that you've got a board of slightly too small minions to trade in order to line up the enemy minions at 2 health, but having several 0-cost +1/+1 buffs that come back when you trade makes it much easier to account for that. Basically any minion you have could be as much as +2/+2 bigger before trading if it needs to be.
The fact that this specifically discovers class deathrattle is a big deal - this can give you access to every Prime minion (other than Akama, of course) as well as some very high impact cards like Rattlegore and The Rat King and Coilfang Warlord (and maybe Aegwynn, the Guardian if you've got a decent number of damage spells in your deck). There are plenty of bad targets, of course (some generically weak ones, some that require too much synergy), but I think at least 50% of the class deathrattles you could find in Standard range from playable to strong even without additional synergy or support, so you should be able to pick up something good most of the time you play this.
Probably not good enough for constructed, even though you can easily imagine the kind of crazy swing turns you could have with this and Scabbs Cutterbutter.
I'll be glad to generate this during a game from one of Priest's many discovers/spell generators, but whether or not it actually goes in the deck will depend a lot on the metagame. Against an aggro deck this could be very valuable as a way to fight back against their board, but in a slower metagame I don't think it's good enough.
Truly excellent card - solid stats for a taunt, and the deathrattle is a lot of card draw for a class that has very little card draw. The synergy with Xyrella, the Devout is great, and is particularly nice because it can't draw you into fatigue like a generic "draw a card" deathrattle might.
It's also potentially a tutor effect for Questline Priest, as the Purified Shard is a holy spell. That's certainly not going to be the best deck for this card, but it might be fun to toy around with. Kibler's Questline Priest ran almost no spells and tried to use High Abbess Alura to cheat out the shard. This could provide some redundancy on actually getting your win condition without polluting the deck and ruining that cheat.
Brasswing is easy to dismiss as an expensive Consecration that won't net you much value, but I wouldn't count it out. Libram of Wisdom can be a very effective tool for lining up Honorable Kills for Brasswing, and an AOE that heals can end games in a single turn.
A dramatically better Tour Guide for Mage. I wonder how it interacts with Reckless Apprentice.
There are a lot of boards this won't do enough on (because 1/1's can still go face), but is a big Arcane spell for Magister Dawngrasp, and that matters, particularly considering the Honorable Kill effect of their hero power. Could be viable in that kind of deck.
Since you have to have a decent board to make this work, Wing Commander Mulverick is a little bit of a win more card. That said, it does seem like it could be highly impactful in Token/Aggro mirrors as a way to overtake your opponent in a close match. You'd only really need to make one or two "real" trades before you can start just trading Wyverns to generate more Wyverns and clear off the enemy board for pretty cheap.
Consecration with card draw tacked on for one mana and a potential damage boost. Seems like a solid card, but what are you hoping to draw with this? The best Warlock spells are typically Shadow, and they still have access to Hellfire if they want a 3 damage board clear (and slightly faster, at that). The card draw is nice, but Warlock doesn't need more draw. It just doesn't seem like a card with a home.
It's fine. Maybe you're playing a deck that cares about using your hero power a lot? I'm not sure that deck exists, but I guess this would be a nice way to get some extra value there.
Maybe a tech card for some decks in an aggro or midrange mirror?
Phantom Militia but you don't need to play it all in one turn. Seems fine, maybe even good in Wild if you're playing Taunt Warrior