MrAranak's Comments
Abyssal Summoner
11 cards is a 11/11 demon, ridiculous but possible especially now that lock hand cap can be 12.
Veranus
And people say hunters dont get good dragons, this alone isnt bad, a 6/6 for 6 is the least I ask for at this cost, combine it with that battlecry and you have a dozen ways to clear, dogs, whirlwind dragon, explosive trap. This guy has tribal synergy which also helps make him better. He feals like an inverted Eadric, which wasnt bad but did leave you vulnerable the Bloodlust and similar effects. The cost also leaves quite a few other combos open too.
Galakrond, the Unbreakable
Haven’t seen shaman yet buy Warrior/Rogue have similar value. Sprint+Buff and Sprint/wand of wonder. Both invokes are decent, but warrior is more aggressive/oppressive while Rogue is keyed toward combos/multi-casting. I have to agree warlock will be inconsistent on activation but it has demon/token synergy (which doesn’t really synergize with current token/zoo) that makes jumbo imp easier to play for free. Priest gets value generation, but until April there are a lot of counter productive cards that hurt rez priest and don’t really work for combo priest.
As far as who is best we need to see Shaman Galakrond, which still has unknown battlecry and hero power. Also if Shudder goes into play with Galakrond will the bonus battle invokes be beneficial. For example if you get a whirlwind/draw/summon X/evolve will the effect ruin your board/hand/combo? Last expac pushed battlecry shaman, but we could very well get a Hagatha 3.0 giving mixed results.
Dragonrider Talritha
If you could combine with quest paladin these buffs could perma chain to some scary dragons minions, but that is a very big IF. Thank goodness warrior didn’t get this for their dragons. Warriors don’t need a 24/24 Deathwing which is entirely possible if they can get an Emeriss in hand, and bigger if they double dragons in hand Dr B nonsense was bad enough.
Waxadred
Necrium Vial, Necrium Blade, add togwaggle I guess. Still going to see Plague of Murlocs/Death despite how awful it is, but other than Plagues it isn’t imposible to cheat fatigue without Elysiana. I would still try not to fatigue as rogue. Comboing hard and fast tends to run better.
Candle Breath
Remember the new lackey that gives us discover a dragon? Lackey rogue may be able to run this, otherwise some awkward death rattle/lackey/Galakrond deck might be in the works. It is a bit early, but we have seen 6/10 of the rogue cards and all those invoke cards give us a lackey when played so it won’t be impossible to generate a dragon, just has to be generated instead of the other 4 or 5.
Deathwing, Mad Aspect
I don’t know about that, combine it with commanding shout on turn 10 he doesnt die and you get all those damaged procs for stuff like berserker in addition to wiping most enemy boards.
Galakrond, the Wretched
Okay they gave him 4 demons and a knife, but it is still swingy on demon stats.
Maybe the Blood Troll Sapper will get more use with those swarmy imps.
Galakrond, the Wretched
I hope we get some good demons to add to the random pool, got a lot of bad filler right now. 2/2 Lifesteal, or the portal demons aren’t terrible but they need their battlecries or a wall to keep them from dying. 27 Demons in Standard Pool counting the new dread lord. 14 of them have more than 3 attack AND health. 9 of the 27 have 2 or less attack and only 3 of those have more than 2 health. So we have a 50% chance of getting a 4/4 or better, but a 22% chance of a 2/2 or worse and a 28% chance of a 3/3 or lopsided stat(1/3, 1/6, 4/2. 1/5, 5/2). Right now those aren’t bad numbers but they don’t compete with Gul’Daddy consistency so at rank 3 there needs to be at least a couple 4/4s to compete with the bonkers rogue and priest monsters which are draw 3 set cost to 0, and destroy 4 random enemies and whip out a 5/2 shiv(because priest needed a big knife.)
Dragonbane
Hunters are getting a lot of Hero power cards, targeting free secrets from deck and random kill commands, just pray for no double/reduced hero power wombo combo like coldarra drake/1 cost hero power.
Choose Wisely… - Upcoming Expansion Teaser
It was Galakrond… but hes a hero card even though we were told not to expect one this year.
Choose Wisely… - Upcoming Expansion Teaser
Dragonblight has the dragonshrines, places of power imbued with the power of the aspects before they lost their power, WoW lore has half of them dead and all of them diminished. Reborn is more necromancy than healing magic, combining the focusing lens of dalaran, ancient resurrection/reanimation magic, the power of the dragonshrines and all the big bads that died there could give you literally whatever degree of uber monster you want. Tyr, Galakrond, Deathwing, lots of magnataurs, and on top of that a butt load of Scarlet Crusade idiots.
Tyr was one of the mightiest titan watchers he fell defending against the forces of the old gods. Depending on the retcon Tyr retreated to what would later be Tirisfal I beleive that happened before the war of the ancients, but my WoW lore is jumbled after Legion.
Galakrond was the biggest meanest dragon/protodrake bigger than the aspects but with less magical power.
Magnataurs were hulking centaurs that were mammoths waist down with giant arms, torsos and tusks.
On top of that we had Nerubian ruins on the edges of the area deep beneath the ice.
Naga Sand Witch
No, but do you not have the ability to keep a Malygos up for 2 Turns. You Can be mostly set up by turn 5 using Malygos on 9 and twin pyro on ten just need to play aggressively enough to not have an entire board on enemy side to wipe you out.
Naga Sand Witch
Drop Malygos next turn after playing, follow up turn 2 Pyroblasts to do 30
Bazaar Burglary
Pilfer,pilfer, blinkfox, kobold pirate. That is basically the fastest it could get out but prep or a couple other cards could help get it sooner.
Bazaar Burglary
Spectral Cutlass isn’t spammable and hero power is. Removal seems kind of common in multiple decks. Cutlass also has the benefit of negating damage when you use your face to hit stuff whereas cutlass needs buffing to out heal incoming damage. We also have 1 cost crappy vanish and shadow step and shark if we really need them I don’t think espionage counts as adding to hand unless you use Taz.
Bazaar Burglary
Name: Bazaar Burglary
Text: Quest: Add 4 cards from other classes to your hand. Reward: Ancient Blades.
Activate the Obelisk
Yes but the quests haven’t had synergy with their legendary minion counterpart until now the 4 mana 2/7 that creates big but minions is the only thing you need to heal while you are pumping out minions everything else gets whatever his health is when it enters the battlefield. So by healing and buffing him all your other critters are just massive bodies imagine a 3/7 Zilliax for 5. His keywords plus those stats are too large to ignore. If he isn’t dead then you give Zilliax reborn and he will revive as a 3/7 taunt, rush, divine shield if the priest lego is still alive. Therefore you buff the lego with the new hero power to buff all inbound minions.
And we get dragon breeder too 2 mana each so for 10 mana yo get 4 copies in hand + another dragon breeder that will give another in hand so a hypothetical board fill for the next 2 turns, Akali makes him really scary though, given stat triplication. Thank goodness they don’t have taunt.