Read the first paragraph of this article.

This seems crazy strong. A one sided board clear that limits opponents next play. No wonder other highlander cards lacked in power.
I guess Renostone is coming.

The advantage is, this can also turn into legendaries, which you can’t play more than 1 anyhow.
When it comes to highlander decks, I feel like it all comes down to how good the neutral support card will be.

I don’t like designs like this at all. Incredibly polarazing and potentially toxic card.
Now every class has access to Brann + Sire combo. Not to mention potential finishers like Malygos and Mecha’thun in wild. It’s only a question when this effect will break the game.

At least it seems to beat the imps.
On the other deck topic. What is the opinion on shadow priest with Cathedral and Pelagos? Seems decent as well

The more I think about it, the more this cards seems overrated.
Mutanus costs more and is random, but at least the card gets eaten. This on the other hand is targeted, but is it really a disruption? The opponent can easily play around it in either of 2 ways:
1. Play the Mad Duke before you play it and snatch your own Mad Duke or
2. Play the Mad Duke afterwards to switch the stolen card back.
This basically forces you to spend the card in the same turn, which for some big payoff cards is near impossible. Sure it can be argued that if you are forced to run Theotar just to counter it, the card is forcing a meta around it. I am still not convinced though. We will have to see.

Ironically, it seems better suited as a stall tool to grab a removal in a similar way to how Illucia was used in aggro shadow priest. However 4 mana for aggro deck is a lot and by that point, you want to be ending the game. What is left is a midrange deck where Blademaster Okani seems like a better, more versatile card, serving similar purpose.

Love this card! It’s art and design are just up to my taste.
Definitely much better than the viper card we all forgot about and had to stay on the board.
I suspect this to be quite good. It can be tutored with the Coldtooth mine or used as supplementary piece to fuel Sire Danathrius deck, while also providing some reactivity.

So with the new DH legendary that discards your hand anyway and the weapon to redraw cards, this can be quite scary in the hyper aggro deck.

Between this and Bru’kan for grinding purposes, there is no choice really.
It seems way too situational, so only deck it could fit in is some kind of aggro/midrange totem related one, which frankly speaking needs a looot of support

The sinergy between this and Shadow word: devour is just busted

Well, new Rafaam imp warrlock (with Sire Danathrius?) looks promising

This is looking scary good in druid. They can use Coldtooth mine for tutoring and have cards like Scale of onyxia, Onyxia herself and Flipper friends to feed him. On top of it, they can use Guff to get to 13 mana easily for Brann OTK shenanigans.

Yes it is. Check the description which clearly says druid.
For some reason, the upper frame of location cards seems to be the same for all classes and only bottom part is different which makes them garder to separate.
That said, it still has the potential. It has direct synergy with eggs if nothing else amd we’ll see what else gets released.

Based on hsreplay stats, Caria is one of the highest winrate cards in the deck and definitely an outlier when it comes to highroll. Winrate difference between Xhylag being played on 6 vs on 7 was 8%. That is huge.

Main combo is Brann + 0 or 1 mana spell + Valishj + Xyrella. It is a must, especially against slower, armor gaining decks like druid.
However the deck is way more complex and is capable of winning via tempo alone.

Could be used in druid that traditionally struggle with removal and have ramp to get to 7 mana faster. But that’s about it and meta depending.

Likewise. It is quite sad actually…

Well said.
Ramp druid was my old time favourite and seeing it resurface recently brings me joy.
It is very fun to play, quite versatile and rewarding. Not to mention Guff is by far my favourite character from this year’s storyline and he has the best entrance ever: “Hello, my name is Guff”!

Always love those kind of lore related articles.
I have to applaud the hearthstone team for what they did with the year long story and how it all falls into place – connecting WoW background with new untold adventures of our mercenaries. The storytelling this year has been stellar. I am looking forward to how the story will unveil.

Second to last paragraph sums up my thoughts as well. Depending on the shaped meta (hopefully it indeed slows down), FiAV has the potential to become one of the best hearthstone expansions.

I am super excited for the expansion for the hero cards and honor system alone.
For the Alliance!