I think this card was printed to make baku lock a thing. The only thing i get in mind is malchazar baku deck with elise and cards that add cards to your deck. But beleull banker is 2 drop so its basicly a meme deck :D.
I can see value in getting random legendaries with a free card draw. The problem is making aggro deck make you survive until than :D. The fact that his stats are better than the standart 7 drop is admirable and must show you that he is the MEME of the expansion. So many random cards is bad. And to make the MEME even better you can play void contract with him in standart, now that bloodreaver ghoul Dan is gone, lock are allowed to have some fun not being the top tier deck in each meta.
However as most of the community noticed Rafam despite stealing artefact did bring a unique mechanic in this game in the for of the curse of rafaam. It was unique card that would play around ice block by doing 2 dmg to your oponents face unless he pays mana this thing would go on. The card had some bonus effect with loatheb if you get them on curve. And in this card Raffam had 6 fingers :D.
So all in all each villian would bring exept the lackeys and the schemes cards from the old expansions and the CURSE cards were really good design and something really new to the game. As we saw with the chromagus boss it was un interesting mechanic that could bring new gameplays and really disrupt aggro and hunter by denying them the curve plays that make them very powerfull. It would have been great warlock to get curses, Just like hunters and mages have secrets. Priests could benefit from those things as well since they did not get anything interesting in their gameplay. And addin 2-3 curses to the game or making raffam add 3 curses to your oponents hand Would have made warlock the OP monster they really are. Its could have been great for milling great cards as well as disrupting aggro decks. They could be something not that harmfull as your oponents spells cost less. Or the irst card your oponent plays each turn to be free like aviana :D. In wild with the curses and mukla and coldlights and gnomefatus and glinda you got yourself a mill lock deck. For the simple fact of looking out for some simple stuff that already exist in the game. Instead of trolling the people who played tier one decks every single expansion with a meme deck.
Don’t get me wrong as a priest fan i like the priest competition to get crap. Rogues and Locks have always been a pain in the butt for priests. Rogues with their 4 attack minions and instant win againts control cards like kingsbane, mill and quest. And warlocks with simply having everything priest does not have, like better cards, better unconditional removal, tons of card draw and simply better cards. Not to mention shadow priest were supposed to obtain mind tricks like burning cards but instead that mechanic was turned into generating random cards from another class for the price of actual card draw. So i am happy for the meme. If i get this next expansion, since meme cards like to drop in packs for me i am playing baku malza elize tempo? wild deck :D. Although I was hoping for a playable hireek the bat deck. I tryed it in wild. With forbidden tentacles, implosions spirits and shit and it was terrible, Than i saw the grim patreon combo but its basicly useless combo that dies to twisting nether light bombs, screams, frost doomsayer, and many many more card comboes that can clear the board. Did i mentioned how annoying OTk paly became in wild or am i the only on eannoyed by turn 9 death from just drawing double call to arms. It basicly pulls you the 2 scrap bots you need for the spare parts and the thalnost loot hoarders arcane eggs give you + 5 card draw that you basicly need to draw is beardo and the hero. So much skill.

becouse control archetypes had FILLER CARDS that gave them card draw in order to get the answers needed to outlast aggro. While in a control matchup cards like acolyte of pain, northshire cleric battle rages loot hoarders, annoying 3 drops that you got just for the taunt that have no value in lategame turn into usefull cards. And by usefull i mean they don’t kill you.
BUT warlock had his hero power and the only card he could want to replace is coil? ( who uses that anyway )

I like this. I think treat druid is on the rise with this card. The only bad thing i see in the treat archetype is that some cards that are Obviously treats, Like the ancient defenders, Ancients of lore/war. Splintergraft, The sappling, ironwood golems. And the biggest fail of them all is the splitting fester roth, for an epic card it was going to bring the treats into life if it were a treant. And with the option to make your treants into 5/5 i don;t think there are that many board clears to clean twice board full of 5/5sand 4 times foards full of 2/2s and landscaping gives you 4/4 worth of stats on turn 3 and the 0 mana golems are preety niceAnd splitting fersterrots are verry good with savage roar. So you have a preety descent midrang edeck with good early game. I am not shure if the nightmare amalgam counts as treants too. Since the wording says ALL. but its not a silver hand recruit?.
In my opinion i think that nightmare amalgam with the ALL tag should benefit from all things not be made to jsut suffer from the tech cards. I think it sould count as treant and as a silver hand recruit. And not only that but every card that looks for a spessific type of other card should work on amalgam as well ( like treespeaker ).

ok forbidden words is not a godo card. Priest are not going to use it :D. And mages have twinspells so you can find good things. Its even good to play control mage with double pyroblasts. Thats 20 dmg that if your oponents does not have the tools to clear is bascly on turn 11 if played on curve. And you can get a third piroblast. So you basicly get a free win condition from his effect. Considering Twinspells will make this guys better. You may not want to put that guy in your jan alai decks, But they are goners anyway. But tempo dragon mage with double pyro is an option for me.
Blast wave gives you plenty of random mage cards in any case so at turn 10 you get insta tempo burst and you get to dump an extra card even if you don;t get anything good from the battlecry.

Most people like it becouse they miss the tempo mage decks. Those great midrange high aggro decks that have places for firelands portals into leeroy jenkins to seal the deal. It is good cards For wild control mages. I think that Control mage can become the only viable control deck becouse iceblock deals with OTK decks, There are sheeps, thinkmasters, kazakus sheeps, meteors to actually control all the other decks out there.
We may see reno mage as tier one deck for wild players. They really needed verry little. Verry bad boddy though. Big mage is retireing from standart with dragon breath and meteor gone. I really wish this card was printed instead of dragon caller allana. Dragon caller allana gave me less value than medhiv in wild. board full of 5/5 is very easy to be cleared. And is an exellent card if mage gets a high mana cost twinspell.
Its really cool design for a much loved character. We were expecting Rhoni. For the people that read the books. Its a very old character that died very fast in WoW but is essential part of the old gods scheme and the events of the shattering of azeroth. Heartstone was the place for him to shine since he was killed anyway. He even got a cool girlfriend.

I think this is some lame desing so they can say to the community that they listened to us and gave us anti combo card. Despite the fact that mally is not the only combo deck in the pool.
Just like snufflestrout knight its not a counter to big priest. I made my shaman deck illed with devolves froggs saronite chain gangx1 and priest on turn 4 had barnes cristaline oracle and lich king. He even shadow visioned for a revive and his 3 revives all gave him lich king.
Good stats but 3 mana cost minions are the minions that have the effects like flappy bird, tahn kentch clan thug, questing adventurer ( a card from the distant past ) . But my point is that those minions win your games if you donlt kill them and they are good aggro plays like darshire councillman etc. its good basic stats. Some sort of effect. Its mainly arena filler card. It does not help againts combo at all. Most wild combost don’t even use target spells.
Preeety bad, do better blizzvission.

This is OP. Pure OP. Gang up was 2 mana, and it was insta win againts control decks cards. This costs one mana and its effect is much more powerfull than that of gang up. I have seen rogues in wild wait for me to complete the quest and get 3x amaras or carnasas without having t osacrifice their entire deck to commit into a card that destroys their turn 1 and their card draw.And if patches had charge we would have finally seen patches OTK :D. Maybe nomi myra is a thing after all. You can mira on turn 6 into nomi than put 2 nomi into your deck with the scheme that myra drew you the previous turn for a constant board of 6/6.
We are going to see the return of the Poggo hoppers. And some mechs are going to come back.
Holy cow Dr 7 could returning for third time into heartstone :D. Maybe they can reprint him 7 times just to be true to his name.
Going back to the card just OP. We are awaiting the ragnaros replacement fot 8 mana win the game card if you can;t remove it. But you get the point you can get many copyes of a really good minion regardless yours or if your oponent played it.
Mill rogue can find a return into standart with a minionion that draws your oponents cards. Just battlecry your oponent draws a card is enough :D.

Flexible- YES. However its one of those cards that were designed to fit the gen/baku archetype that is going into wild. 0 mana cards can be used by both, so if gen and baku were left into the standart this would have been good. But they are not and i am not replacing my potion of madness for low power removal. The main reason priest was bad at removing 4 powered cards is that considering your hero power those minions will only do 2 dmg to your face, making them not that big of a deal to remove.
Silence is much better option since it does not waste all your mana after use and now that radiant is going into wild this is not a good card.
Compared to the Forbidden spells from the previous expansion they were complete and utter failure. I have no idea why are they going back. They were epic cards in most cases and were rarely used. Usefull card but not worth the epic value at most. So priest is not the only class with 2 forbidden word cards. This is not better than shadow word pain nor shadow word death. And both are rarely used. This is supposed to be a weaker than common card but with rare quantity so priest lost one of th eslots for a descent spell. And there is barely any goof 4 attack minions you would like to remove exept ysera.
On the flip side, as i have mentoned it before priest is becoming more and more of a dust donor class. All you need to play priest is barns and y’sharaj + the revival spells and you are good. All other cards to craft cards or the other classes. And as the devs have sayed each villian will bring a mechanic from the past and a scheme ( so jelaous that rogues got a one mana gang up that is also a scheme) But this expansion we have 2 factions one will get schemes and lackeys and the other will get twinspells. That means that priest will get a OP scheme card. Despite the fact that twinspells are amazingly good in priest, Since they are basicly for control decks. Whitch means that wild priest control decks are going to get even weaker than the other control classes, The good thing is that control decks are dead so no biggie there too.
The thing i like about the new troll character is that her face is not the same every time they show her. I find that hillarious, not shure about you folks.
The old god lackey is the weakest one of thm all so we see priest getting pery poor start for the year. Cloning gallery priest is going to retire since radiants and lyra are not there to fill in the value when your OTK fails. Baku priest was supposed to be a thing whitch is now a wild thing and lets be fair its not better than barns y’sharaj.
Overal not very impressive. I do not want to say bad becouse you get free dust :). No hero cards meant priest just lost their chance to get OP legendary that will bring justice to the fact that raza shadow reaper anduin is dead for all times becouse of the nurf to raza. Shadow reaper anduin is the only knoght of the frozen throne DK card that is not usefull or usable.
I know good things are going in priest becosue of the scheme card. And the legendary card can be a powerhouse. So i am still exited about what the new expansion will bring. Maybe priest will be interesting class to play after all those years.