Some much-needed love and support for Control/Questline Priest. The deck has been sorely lacking early removal since Hysteria rotated. It's also thankfully a Shadow spell and not a Nature spell, so Spirit Guide can pull it unlike stupid Whirlpool.

It's definitely comical how hard this creeps Entomb, but that's fine. People don't often play one big threat and leave it there like they did frequently back in the day. You need something a bit more reactive to compete.

Igneous Lavagorger is heavily outclassed by Onyxian Drake, just because it's not a Dragon. I don't think there's room for both in one deck, and Kazakusan is a much better payoff than Dredge synergies. It also has some anti-synergy with From the Depths. I don't see this card working out.

Tidal Revenant is a buff to Warrior in Arena, but it's way too low-impact to make it into Constructed.

Clash of the Colossals has some minor potential. It really requires you to have the card on turn three so you can actually make use of that discount to cheat something out. It's fun, but I don't see it making the cut.

Overall, this is a pretty disappointing set of cards. Which is fine, given that Warrior has a top tier deck right now. I'm glad they used the opportunity to shore up their Arena lineup rather than give a balanced class some new, broken tools.

That would have been a buff, since that would let you run and pull 4-mana minions.

Nobody was playing Sira'kess Cultist for the stats and Dragged Below was just an overall shit card. If they were going to buff the mechanic, I'm glad they went with the two worst pieces. Realistically, those buffs will help it against Aggro decks and not really change the matchup vs. Control.

I still do not understand the person in charge of picking the upcoming brawls. I understand it was an emergency replacement. But why a brawl we had just a few months ago? There are so many good brawls that never get used.

It only works on itself. "The first Spellcraft spell cast on this each turn".

I haven't seen anyone mention the new hero portraits. There's a murloc Illidan, murloc Jaina, and Sir Finley Mrrgglton paladin hero in the shop.

I hope they nerf Drek'Thar to a 0 mana 1/1, and replace his Diamond with a big ol' middle finger.

Rest in peace, my question mark friend. May we never forget your sacrifice that pathed the way to a new cardback system.

It doesn't always exist. If your deck can outheal and board clear an Aggro DH, then suddenly half your cards are worthless against Control Warrior. Likewise, if your deck has a lategame win condition against Warrior, then you won't draw your survivability against DH as consistently. Hearthstone doesn't have a sideboard system, so you can't really fine-tune your deck for specific matchups. The best you can do is play to your deck's primary strengths.

Fingers crossed for a Ny'alotha miniset. N'Zoth Fish showed up in the Sunken City cinematic and is otherwise unaccounted for, so that seems like a natural fit.

This brawl would be 100x more fun if it was 30 Hallucinates. I swear, half of my losses are because I topdeck nothing but completely useless spells all game.

I have yet to find a single other person who's playing Noz even once. Sigh.

Sure, there are answers to it. But that doesn't make it okay or healthy. You need to be running some very specific cards that not every deck can afford to use. Do you really want to run trash like Plague Scientist or Noble Sacrifice in a non-Secret deck just to counter one deck with a 50% winrate? That's just gonna tank your winrate against everything else. You also need to have drawn that specific card by turn 2 -- they're playing a deck designed to tutor, you presumably are not, so that's much less consistent on your end.

The problem with Switcheroo isn't that it's overpowered. It's sitting at a less than positive winrate. The problem is that doing a coinflip isn't very engaging gameplay, and needs to be changed for that reason.

Just make it 5 mana. Switcheroo has a degenerate effect and degenerate effects should come with a heavy tax so they don't get too broken.

Out the gate, Spitelash Siren feels very overtuned (overtuna'd?). Mixed with all the cheap spell generation and Naga tutoring, it's disgustingly easy to get 10+ mana turns as early as turn 5. But it's too early to say if it's actually overpowered or just a standout great card in a solid deck.

I had one of the most epic games in years yesterday. It was me, Reno Paladin, vs. a Mech Paladin. We traded threat for board clear over and over. I Reno'd from one health and Zola'd him. Thanks to Lightforged Cariel and an Alliance Bannerman, the second Reno was a 21/23 that healed me up from 5. It gave me those old Hearthstone giddy vibes, where my only win condition was running the opponent out of resources.

I'm sure that will fade away as people switch back to Combo and scumbag Quest decks, but so far I'm really enjoying myself.

Surprised this made it back into the Core set when Rainbow Glowscale was just revealed.

Welcome back, old friend. The effect is pretty much strictly worse than Armor Vendor, at least as far as the decks that would run this card are concerned, but the body does a much better job at contesting those pesky Irondeep Troggs.

This card was good in one very specific, very weird meta that was full of 1-Attack minions and board clears were scarce. This wasn't even good enough when Lackeys were everywhere. I don't have high hopes for this card succeeding today.

EDIT: thinking about it, it's actually insane how perfect this card was back in The Witchwood. It hit Odd and Even Paladin, Even Shaman, Spreading Plague, Voidlord's Deathrattle, and a non-zero number of Odd Rogue minions. What a perfect storm of potential board swings.