Interesting. That’s a very unique tech, there are no Control Priest decks with Shadow Madness in them on HSReplay, for example. Can indeed do work as an anti-aggro tech if that’s the meta you’re facing.

I’m not completely sure about it though, as those are the traditional good matchups anyway, and it does not give you reach against the armor-heavy opponents who are usually the bad matchups.

Triggering the Deathrattle while you still have a minion on the board does not work. Mecha’thun must die.

It’s an on-curve counter to Giggling Inventor and also counters Spreading Plague.

Yes, there are multiple ways. None of them seem good enough to warrant serious discussion of Mecha’thun Paladin, though.

Not much token support for you. You can still play Murloc Priest, maybe? Don’t worry, though, Priest has other interesting cards coming.

You’re right, a list of new Shaman spells for Runespear would be convenient. I added it to the article. I do not have high expectations for The Runespear in general, but as the pool becomes better for it, perhaps it can improve to a playable status after all.

Yes, exactly. In the announcement video, Blizzard told that Hunter, Warrior, and Paladin would be the mech classes in this expansion, so I expect them to get enough cards for such a shell.

Someone will of course try to build something for other classes too, but we’ll see whether there are enough cards to support that.

Magnetic buff is completely removed by silence. Source: https://twitter.com/LegendaryFerret/status/1016768058973548544

Many mechanics in Hearthstone have not been very powerful at the start though. Inspire is the obvious one, but even Adapt from Journey to Un’Goro was by no means too strong even upon release. Sure, we have Vicious Fledgling still hanging around, and it is powerful, but not overpowered.

I was initially more concerned that Magnetic would turn out to be useless, but it looks to be the kind of mechanic that can prosper in Hearthstone.

That is the dream! I don’t think it will work very well, but it has to be done!

I love Big Game Hunter too! Both Big Game Hunter and The Black Knight are borderline viable, and if the meta becomes just a bit less diverse, they can become great.

Even with two of them in the deck, you only get one less than half of the time for the early game. It has some potential, but the diversity of the current meta makes it a tough choice to include.

Most of the time, disabling your opponent’s hero power is not worth losing your own. Taunt Warrior’s Hero Power is just about the only one worth taking away, and Taunt Warrior has plenty of ways to kill a minion at that point of the game.

It gets destroyed, but that hardly matters, unlike the other cards that you may actually want to target.

Combo decks (Quest Druid, Shudderwock Shaman) and all varieties of Rogue.

Luckily, Quest Priest is quite rare. It’s been hovering at around 3% of the meta since the nerfs and has slowly headed downwards from that over the past couple of days. But yeah, games take forever.

Because of all the card draw, the deck has around 85% chance to draw at least one of its four main threats by turn four against control decks.

No. The deck tries to deal damage, it never attempts to go anywhere near fatigue.

This new meta variant is more aggressive than my list was. It does not care as much about defense, and Spikeridged Steed is also vulnerable to silence effects. Avenging Wrath supports the offensive strategy.

I love the Scalehides too, great for stabilizing and in the early game against other Paladins.