MrAranak's Comments
Griftah, Trusted Vendor
3 random legos for 5 mana stick could be terrible. However 5 mana draw 3 on a stick puts cards you actually want in your hand unless you summon from deck or want Jotun procs. Stides and Warding are both good for combos/finishing the game. Energy and critters are the most questionable because they less proactive and there are some very badly statted 4 drops.
The Azerite Hawk (Legendary Excavate Treasure)
Azerite is titan blood, it makes booms bigger, spells stronger, gear greater, and apparently now makes other titans. At least they are the same rotation so that mage cannot make titans after other classes lose them. Priest can and does steal good titans and so does any class that runs the Yogg or the rush dude that steals stuff.
Reska, the Pit Boss
It looks like they want to make rainbow death knight playable through a bunch of risen/ Maw and Paw synergy. Rainbow had the issue of fighting to get enough corpses spent. Maw and Paw can generate and spend but this incentivizes boneguard commander / blightfang to be added for a stall/taunt. Crop rotation and corpse farm would support such a playstyle but I don’t know if it will be enough. Rainbow misses out on a lot of the good blood control/healing.
Runeforging
and now Frostmourne becomes a little more playable at 6 mana, I think even at 6 Frostmourne is gonna be a bit costly if there isn’t enough blood/frost(health/healing or armor/freezing) support. Now other weapons are another matter, If there is no death rattle but instead a battle cry or on swing effect Runeforging will make a bigger difference.
Malignant Horror
This is gonna deplete corpses way too fast, players will have to buff the crap out of it immediately to get good use out of it because a 2/1 sucking your corpse stockpile is a waste of resources.
Lady Darkvein
Yeah playing phylactery with only hostile deathrattles then playing multiple rounds of nasty repeats can be scary. Shellfish alone could get super icky when you have 4 phylactery casting shadows. Brann>Darkvein> Mortal coil can set you up with 4 of the 6 cost aoe.
Lady Darkvein
Phylactery, agony, curses are all decent, what it comes down to is how the deathrattle is determined, is it locked in creation or does casting a shadow spell change the deathrattle post summon? If it is locked @ summon phylactery will be even more broken, if it changes with each cast curses will benefit more.
Nightshade Bud
Celestial druid could use it, use it for the sake of combos using Anacondra, Sesselie of the Fae Court, and the new druid dragon. Cheat Sessalie out, draw either a 0 cost anacondra or the topiary drake and just keep applying pressure. I don’t believe it is amazing but there are other options but I think it is more a nature/anacondra/topiary drake deck.
Seaweed Strike
They are replacing quest cards from the rotating set. Spell Naga Quest druid is gonna be clunky looking.
Selfish Shellfish
I feel rez priest in standard could use this with Xy’Rella. In wild it’s a bit sketchier to use. Deathrattle Rogue might use it for kicks and giggles but beyond that its not a bad 7/7. Provodes alternative to OwlTK in terms of mill 14-28 which isn’t bad and provides a nasty lethal if locks get a decent low cost aoe.
The Leviathan
Controlled draw on a stick isn’t bad though, lets you fish for Cariel the Hero Card which does okay in some match ups. 2 divine shields with rush certainly doesn’t hurt either.
Lady S'theno
I understand what you are saying however many core cards were old cards and demon hunter doesn’t have any of those, Blizz being greedy and oft lazy could easily overwork their staff resulting in many ‘reprints’ as it is eyebeam is a core piece of a Demon hunter’s toolkit lore wise. I certainly won’t hold the hearthstone crew in contempt for not making a ton of new DH cards.
Lady S'theno
Where was it stated that it is leaving the core set? I haven’t seen any core 22 announcements.
Trenchstalker
Don’t we still have those crappy Barrens handbuff cards? Stats won’t be hard to increase , Its going face which can only happen once,
Bioluminescence
Molten blast does 2 damage for three and summons minions equal to damage dealt but we got a 1 cost with dredge that does 2 damage. Quest will break this, summon a board with tiny toys bio buff them and then use the 1 cost burn spell 32 damage for 10 mana and no coin.
Raj Naz'jan
Kazakusan, remember the dude with 20 treasures and 15 chances to see it? The consistency will not be huge but reflections is common enough unlike trying to get the entire 2 part sword. I didn’t say it was good, but Iksar recently said they weren’t planning on making more OTKs and we already have another.
LEGENDARY! Its rarity is the yellow gem on the card.