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    Face Collector 560 209 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I think this is just going to be a meme card, should be pretty great in Arena though.

    So difficult to accurately rate the card, because combined with Plot Twist you essentially have a DIY Arch-Villain Rafaam. This card likely won't be competitive, but it could enable some very fun decks, but as far as competitive play goes its going to be hard to see why you would play this.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Nice it has low health so its easier to kill off, but I think at 5 mana this thing is simply too slow.

    Mechano-Egg only saw play due to magnetic synergy and also Kangor's Endless Army. This will not find a place in Quest Paladin, just too expensive with little synergy. The card also has lots of bad hits, the variation on dragons is pretty high and many of them are powerful battlecries and are not suited well for a card like this. Don't think this will see play.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Well this guy just pushes the potential of every Galakrond deck over the edge.

    Absolutely insane that you get to choose the effect, makes sense I guess but oh boy are they all extremely powerful. So much versatility with this card, and I also really like how he is designed in a way in which he isn't ever a dead card. All to often these "draw X" cards end up useless, although with Kronx, I can see you wanting to use him after becoming Galakrond rather than wanting to draw him - this will obviously depend on a game by game basis, but I think it will be the preferred way of playing Kronx.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I feel Shu'ma is deceptively quite powerful. However for standard, at its price cost I don't think it will see play unless we see some pretty large support for token based decks. Cool card though!

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Expensive but a very nice tempo swing.

    Could be quite a lot of variance from this card, but the average roll is likely going to be very powerful. Once the new set launches highlander decks also have the highest number of cards available, so the restriction is less of an issue.

    I think all highlander decks will play it just for that big late game push, she should help quite a lot.

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    Face Collector 560 209 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    As we have already seen so far Sathrovarr excels when used on cards which can cheat mana such as Kun the Forgotten King and Shirvallah, the Tiger.

    I feel that there will always be a meta where Sathrovarr can shine, it is all dependent on these cards being printed however.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    More fuel for Chenvaala and Mana Cyclone.

    Luckily this can only target minions, but as we all know Mage loves these 1 mana discover spell effects so I would be very surprised if this doesn't see play. Seems like another very powerful card, even without the discover its still 'fine' just to act as a cheap spell activator for your other cards such as the ones mentioned above.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    A cheaper version of Inkmaster Solia.

    Should see play at least in higher mana curve highlander decks and midrange dragon decks with a couple expensive spells. Could also just use then when your cheap discover spells give expensive options like Power of Creation. Should be a decent card, Solia never saw huge amounts of play so its hard to say whether this one will.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    This card is not awful, but with warriors access to armor gain and removal I just don't see this conditional card being played. Devastate just seems better, and that only saw fringe play also.

    Clearly a control tool, but whilst Dr. Boom, Mad Genius is in standard, I don't see a control deck which decides to run dragons over mechs.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Seems pretty damn powerful in the mid to late game, likely won't be possible to have invoked twice before turn 3.

    Just imagine drawing this card from Galakrond, the Unbreakable, you get three 7/6 rush minions for 3 mana...seems pretty good! Can see this for sure being played in the tempo Galakrond Warrior deck. You might even want to run Akali, the Rhino as well to get another chance at buffing this guy, super powerful if you do.

    Even without getting the double invoke off, it is at worst essentially a Rabid Worgen with dragon tribal. Really seems like quite a powerful card for a tempo Warrior deck.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Nice big minion based removal for Warrior. If this thing survives with even 1 health point, it could force many decks to over commit in order to remove it.

    Obviously will see home in a Dragon based deck, could also possibly be played in a Control deck also but there are currently lots of more efficient methods of AoE for Warrior.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    This has got to see some play surely.

    Similar to Weasel Tunneler in that it screws with the opponents draws. Should be very powerful against highlander decks, the more times you can trigger the deathrattle the better.

    Could be too difficult to pull off to warrant a deck slot, but I like this cards design.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    3 mana summon two 2/1's and give your other minions +1 attack - seems pretty good to me.

    This is almost a strictly better Doubling Imp if only because warlock handbuff basically got not support outside of it. I think this card will really propel the Galakrond Zoo deck, it seems very powerful early board pressure and also enable some nice trades and burst damage.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Obviously for use in hand lock alongside Valdris Felgorge, but I just don't think this card is really good enough, unless there is more support.

    Mountain Giant seems to be preferable, but with more support this could be a strong power play.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Clearly a very powerful card that goes in a Dragon Warlock deck alongside Crazed Netherwing.

    Best comparison card I can think of is Lesser Amethyst Spellstone. Doesn't get as high in damage but is much cheaper and is on average better when topdecked, assuming a Dragon is in hand. Hard to see how the whole Dragon Warlock deck will look with so few cards revealed, but the two shown so far for Warlock seem very powerful for a mid to late game control deck.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    At the bare minimum this is a better Microtech Controller that also gives Invoke.

    This could be a very nasty card against decks unable to easily remove it. A board flood Zoo deck with Galakrond, the Wretched as a big finisher could certainly work.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Very hard to rate this right now, same as with Nether Breath.

    This card would be perfect for any mid-late game Dragon based Warlock, with the current revealed cards it's hard to see this deck work but I would hope that more support is released. Obvious comparison is Abyssal Enforcer, which did see a decent amount of play.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Yep, very powerful card that will be the defining factor as to whether or not a board flood Zoo deck using Galakrond, the Wretched will work.

    But as with all of these cards, it relies entirely on there being playable Invoke cards to make it work. I do think Warlock's Invoke of summoning two Imps currently makes the activators easier to play, as you are always getting minions in play to help with the board flood.

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    Face Collector 560 209 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    So Sprint with a body and also increases hand size for huge synergy with stuff like Mountain Giant, seems pretty insane.

    Ancient of Lore pre-nerf was huge, this is similar in a sense but with so much more potential. Also works quite nicely with Quest warlock shenanigans. I think this will be used in most decks just for the card draw, the secondary effect is just icing on the top.

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Well we know how good Diseased Vulture is, the effect is strong but is it possible to fully utilise on a minion which costs twice as much at 8 mana?

    Hard to really tell honestly, it will be a must remove minion when played due to how easily it can snowball out of control. This should see some amount of play, but my gut feeling is that it will be too slow.

    EDIT: Just had to double-take, if the card text is correct then this activates any time you take damage, including on your opponent's turn? Well that just seems kinda broken then, it can basically prevent your opponent from hitting face unless they have lethal.

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