Thraben's Comments
Whirlkick Master
This is kinda like Lyra of combo cards, you’re going to want to spam combo cards this generates for incredible value! Sounds awesome on paper but…
Unlike with Lyra there is no real way to reduce the costs of the combo cards and combo cards generally are way too costy to spam even 2-3 of them this way. The minion won’t stick in board with those stats so you kinda wanna cast it as a combo enabler and then use a few combo cards… And then get a Kidnapper or Crazed chemist and cry because there is no chain. It’s such a waste and this a shame cause Rogue just got nerfed to ground and has identity problems but Blizzard isn’t making up to it one bit… sigh.
This care can give you Edwin, evil miscreant and evicerate so that’s a plus. Maybe it should be used to just gain some extra value? The RNG just isn’t consistent enough to put this in your deck.. ugh. 1.5/5.
Splitting Axe
Honestly I feel like they should just drop the whole totem crap stuff.. I know it’s thematically very imoortant to Shaman but c’mon.. has this ever worked? This is another one of those cards that has a pretty powerful effect but ends up taking room from shaman cards cause there isn’t enough support for them.
Heh.. play this and two serpent wards and that’s 11 damage to face like wow! Will this ever work though? No.
I’d actually love if the new obelisk was a totem lol, would make for a great meme deck I guess
Arcane Flakmage
R.I.P Murlocks and tokens if they don’t have an answer for this right away. I don’t think this card is good enough though, it’s really hard to keep it on board with 2 health and playing it for 5 with a secret isn’t worth it at all.
Cloud Prince
If you control a secret, cast fireball?! Even if you remove a minion this is great value.
You can easily have a secret up by playing something like splitting image, this card is pretty nuts. If Ice Block was still a thing this card would be so busted
Anka, the Buried
This card is only good if the deathrattles are good, for now it’s not good enough. Hoping for some sick Deathrattle rogue quest (though it doesn’t really fit Togwaggle that well…)
Also this card gets obliterated by Plague of death. You’re gonna want to guarantee those deathrattles or you basically wasted your whole hand. Spiritsinger is gonna love this in wild.
Bloodsworn Mercenary
Really good card but I think people are overestimating it a liiiiiittle bit. “Damaged” minions means that the copy is also damaged with same health, it’s not going to be worth using this on anything with less than 4 health unless it can attack right away somehow in which case you’ll have to use alot more mana than 3. If you’re playing aggro, most decks would rather have a solid 3/3 minion with an upside than wait for this to combo out with relevance. The combos also need at least 3 cards.. can you really get your opponent down to lethals while saving that many resourced?
Unless we get something like bloodrazor or something this goes together extremely well, I don’t think this card will be a success, not as of now.
Hunter's Pack
By the way if I remember correctly this was a custom hearthstone card a while back though it worked slightly differently, glad to see them implement it
Hunter's Pack
Wtf 3 mana card that doesn’t draw but ADDS cards in your hand, while it’s random it will most likely give you at least a decent “care package”
Even if you get something like springpaw it’s simply tons of value. There’s very few hunter weapons, most of which are at least decent and stuff like hunter’s machete synergizes with the beast you get. Secret is basically lottery but most are beneficial. It’s quite unlikely that you don’t get anything good from this.
And even if it’s not good enough to make it to constructed (replacing hunter’s call) this card is bonkers in arena. 5/5
Riftcleaver
All around a good card, very good for killing things like Zilliax. Is it worth taking the damage for the body? Totally depends on how aggressive the meta is.
Desert Obelisk
Oh wow… Hmmm… This one’s an interesting one for sure. If you actually manage to pull this off it deals 15 damage to the opponent/their minions
While I think this is mostly a meme cards like Star Aligner this one isn’t nearly as hard to pull of, why? Resurrection and cloning. In other words, priest. If there’s actually some support for this, it might just be crazy enough to work.
Bazaar Mugger
5 mana is way too much for mediocre starts like that and the ability simply isn’t good enough to justify this. I doubt this card sees much if at all play. 2/5
Scarlet Webweaver
Good point..! Yikes. That sounds scary good, but will hunter make it that far? We’ll see.. I’m mostly curious about the quest now, it’s probably tied to bigger minions which is very refreshing for hunter
Wild Bloodstinger
Looks like Hunter will get some BIG things this expansion tied to the quest. I think this is great and refreshing. I don’t even care how good these are in constructed, these (the spider too) are awesome cards.
Making Mummies
The way Hearthstone words its effects suggest that you can target what you want, DK Thrall was also worded “Transform a friendly minion into a random one that costs 1 more” which also didn’t suggest you can target it but you can.
Most card games always use the word “target” but Hearthstone a little less if at all.
Making Mummies
My problem with this card is that you’ll play 5 reborn cards to obtain this and you probably want to use it on reborn cards (as well as deathrattle and other value cards). So the question is how many reborn cards there are in general.. you most likely need to spend good chunk of them just to get the reward.
So it’s probably a deck with mix of reborn and deathrattle cards.. Why is this a paladin card? It does synergize pretty well but thematically it’s a priest thing, priest also seems to be getting lots of reborn cards so ??? Oh well, not too bad regardless. 4/5
Expired Merchant
This might be meta defining to a point that it forces many decks to run silences. That being said the risk is actually bigger than one might expect, the best way to use this card is to coin it on turn 3 or use it on turn 4 with Evil Genius or something similar. Otherwise if you discard your giant or other win condition it will just get lost in the silence. 4/5
Armagedillo
This card may or may not be bad considering what cards are to be revealed not to mention what the Warrior quest is. However I’d be fine if Warrior didn’t get that good a legendary considering how strong warrior is right now.
However! A 6 mana 4/7 taunt isn’t that bad even by itself, not for warrior at least.
Boring. Rogue should be more exciting than just “here take this card and hit face” especially with its combos.. Rogue has issues and these cards don’t really fix any of them. 2/5 not worth over Waggle pick