Paladin is consistently one of the best classes but it always seems to dodge nerfs, including fam suggestions for nerfs. 4-mana goody two shields and a 1-mana increase to libram of hope and libram of wisdom would be very welcome right now
Mirror Entity prevents your opponent from playing minions at all, this just prevents them from going face until they have something weak to test with. Unless you can clear every weak or damaged minion off of your opponent's board before playing this, this secret will just give you a small body. I don't think the two are comparable.
Compared to Tirion, it comes out two turns sooner and gives you immediate access to your weapon, at the cost of divine shield and slightly worse weap9n stats. Great card in pure/control/big decks
Grows way too slowly. Even if you have perfect luck and finesse your first 6 turns to optimize corruptions, that's still only a 2-mana 6/6. It's worse than most Giants.
I can see a Big Druid deck that ramps into big threats and then revives them with this. Winged Guardian, Scrapyard Colossus, Plagued Protodrake, etc. The pieces might not all be there in Standard, but this could be a killer in Wild
Doesn't seem great tbh. Best case scenario, he's "mind control a Rattlegore and give the opponent a Wisp," but in reality, you'll often have trouble giving the opponent something much worse than what you take from them, which isn't really worth it on a 7-mana 4/4.
People are sleeping on the Lich Kimg buff. That essentially gives you an extra minion for free, which can be very impactful for the first 3 turns or so. Getting an early T1 Scallywag or T2 Boom Bot and putting Reborn on it can give you an insane early power boost, allowing you to powrr level. It also gives you an extra Macaw in a beast build, an stickier Dread Pirate in pirate builds, etc.
Frequent small batches of cards are a great idea, HS tried that out at the end of last year and it was great.
A new region every 6 months seems completely unsustainable. Introducing one new region/class/color/etc has proven notoriously difficult for other games, both in introduction and in upkeep. By the time LoR is as old as HS is now, it will have 15+ regions, each of which needs to be balanced in tandem with every other region. Good luck, Riot
This is a great idea! It lets people play BG without having to play standard, and it provides perks that are fun and interesting.
That said, $20 per expansion is just ridiculous. That's the most pathetic cash grab I've ever seen from Blizx, and that's saying a lot. If you don't have the pass, you'll find it impossible to ladder since you have lower quitu heroes on average.
I'm not sure how much they can do about Galakrond itself, since symmetry with other classes is so integral to it's design. Your other predictions are spot on, though
I have fond menories of dropping Spikeridged Steed onto a hexed Frog, and when the shaman tried to devolve away the buff, they realized their mistake and conceded. RIP
Assuming it attacks in a random order and stops if it dies, this doesn't seem too crazy. Against a small board, it's Twisting Nether that leaves a threat, but against a big board, it honestly might not do much
Did they flop? Yogg sees pretty consistent play in control decks, and the rest have niche but powerful uses.
Paladin is consistently one of the best classes but it always seems to dodge nerfs, including fam suggestions for nerfs. 4-mana goody two shields and a 1-mana increase to libram of hope and libram of wisdom would be very welcome right now
Mirror Entity prevents your opponent from playing minions at all, this just prevents them from going face until they have something weak to test with. Unless you can clear every weak or damaged minion off of your opponent's board before playing this, this secret will just give you a small body. I don't think the two are comparable.
This phrasing has always meant "on the board"
Compared to Tirion, it comes out two turns sooner and gives you immediate access to your weapon, at the cost of divine shield and slightly worse weap9n stats. Great card in pure/control/big decks
Grows way too slowly. Even if you have perfect luck and finesse your first 6 turns to optimize corruptions, that's still only a 2-mana 6/6. It's worse than most Giants.
I can see a Big Druid deck that ramps into big threats and then revives them with this. Winged Guardian, Scrapyard Colossus, Plagued Protodrake, etc. The pieces might not all be there in Standard, but this could be a killer in Wild
The 80-pack preorder has a super dope Warlock skin
Doesn't seem great tbh. Best case scenario, he's "mind control a Rattlegore and give the opponent a Wisp," but in reality, you'll often have trouble giving the opponent something much worse than what you take from them, which isn't really worth it on a 7-mana 4/4.
"Darkglare is a buff, Totem Goliath isn't" is quite a hot take
People are sleeping on the Lich Kimg buff. That essentially gives you an extra minion for free, which can be very impactful for the first 3 turns or so. Getting an early T1 Scallywag or T2 Boom Bot and putting Reborn on it can give you an insane early power boost, allowing you to powrr level. It also gives you an extra Macaw in a beast build, an stickier Dread Pirate in pirate builds, etc.
Frequent small batches of cards are a great idea, HS tried that out at the end of last year and it was great.
A new region every 6 months seems completely unsustainable. Introducing one new region/class/color/etc has proven notoriously difficult for other games, both in introduction and in upkeep. By the time LoR is as old as HS is now, it will have 15+ regions, each of which needs to be balanced in tandem with every other region. Good luck, Riot
But it's not, uh
Odd
This is a great idea! It lets people play BG without having to play standard, and it provides perks that are fun and interesting.
That said, $20 per expansion is just ridiculous. That's the most pathetic cash grab I've ever seen from Blizx, and that's saying a lot. If you don't have the pass, you'll find it impossible to ladder since you have lower quitu heroes on average.
I'm not sure how much they can do about Galakrond itself, since symmetry with other classes is so integral to it's design. Your other predictions are spot on, though
I have fond menories of dropping Spikeridged Steed onto a hexed Frog, and when the shaman tried to devolve away the buff, they realized their mistake and conceded. RIP
This would seem bonkers strong in any other expansion, it only seems average next to the insane power of the set
My MAN. This is kinda bonkers
Holy CRAP, this is undercosted by 2 mana
Assuming it attacks in a random order and stops if it dies, this doesn't seem too crazy. Against a small board, it's Twisting Nether that leaves a threat, but against a big board, it honestly might not do much