Thraben's Comments
Rigged Faire Game
Yikes… This is really damn good. If you stay in control of the board it might be hard for your opponent to deal damage to you at least one turn. Also ice barrier protects your life total so this goes really well with that. If you discover this and ice barrier from Ring toss it guarantees the trigger unless opponent pings you or something. It also works well with freeze effects.
I am hoping for some kind of control mage deck that doesn’t rely on RNG as I think we’re all pretty bored of all that at this point. Hopefully Blizzars delivers. Hopefully aggro meta won’t be too strong…
High Exarch Yrel
I mean you’re using bombs and albatross as well as pure paladin rotating without realizing that bombs and albatross is also rotating out lol.
Also… Pure Paladin is in no way reliant to specific cards, it works with any cards though ofc the cards that have the requirement makes it even better. What I’m saying is that it’s not technically rotating out and in general it’s an archetype that is very easy to push. Most likely we’ll already get one or two more pure paladin cards.
Balloon Merchant
I genuinely despise silver hands as a mechanic, this card will be super annoying cause some decks just straight up can’t deal with it. Gotta hope Paladin doesn’t have same access to them like it did when Baku was around
High Exarch Yrel
Strictly better Shirvallah and basically big Zilliax. I don’t really like how it has only 5 health cause it costs 8.. But cards like these make comebacks. 4 stars
Ringmaster Whatley
Menagerie huh? That might actually be oddly refreshing.
Card draw is always good. If the deck is good enough then this card will be an essential part of it, gotta see. Menagerie and handbuffing hasn’t really worked well before so I don’t have high hopes though. 3 stars
E.T.C., God of Metal
This is literally the ONLY Warrior card shown so far and people are rating it badly before we even see if there’s some great rush cards to go with this. It’s a very good aggro card. If your opponent can’t remove this you can just keep trading in rush minions to protect it while dealing damage to opponents.
Restless mummy goes really well with this. Athletic studies also lets you discover rush cards on warrior and what not. You cannot rate this before you see the other game pieces it goes with.
Carousel Gryphon
What? Even as a 5 mana 5/5 divine shield it’s not that bad but a 5 mana 8/8 divine shield taunt is just insane.. You can fairly easily get something like Libram of Justice down to 6-7 mana and play it to corrupt this.
Wicked Whispers
I guess Zoolock is back.. This card is actually really good so long as Warlock has easy access to card draw. A positive 3 stars, maybe it’ll work
Il'gynoth
In a perfect world this + Aldrachi weapon + twin slash = 12 damage in face. Sheesh.
4 stars, if there’s some insane lifesteal cards that break this card it’ll be even better. I think it’s a mistake to print this with only 4 mana cost as it makes it too easy to combo with twin slash.. If it was 5 mana I think it’d be alot more fair.
Ring Toss
Not really worse.. All you miss is a 2/2 body and this can get you two secrets. Arcane keysmith was never played for the body so this card is strictly better.
Expendable Performers
I’ll be happy if they push a more control/mid range type of DH deck. The aggro ones are just so boring and monotonous. That being said this is a really nice card, 3 stars
Maxima Blastenheimer
Quite disappointing.. I guess they’re pushing big hunter but it’s gonna need massive amount of support to make it work and be worth the bother since face hunter is cheaper, more efficient and more consistent. Overall pretty disappointed.
2/5, might see play in some weird mid range deck but I doubt it.
Y'Shaarj, The Defiler
Corrupt control shaman has me quite excited, the rating of this card obviously depends on how good the corrupt cards but I’ll be positive and feel this will find a place in at least one good deck over time. 5 stars, very powerful.
Dunk Tank
Corrupted control shaman? Sign me in. Solid 4 stars unless the meta is really fast
Solar Eclipse
A double spell for only 2 mana.. Can’t really go wrong with a card like this, 5 stars
Kiri, Chosen of Elune
Kinda boring.. And I really don’t get why a 4 drop with an effect like this can’t be bigger than a 2/2. But maybe there’s some fairly busted spell to go with solar eclipse, who knows, solid 3 stars for now
Guess the Weight
2 mana draw 2 is very good. I don’t think the condition is that hard to pull off. 4 stars IF Druid needs card draw.
Oof you’re right, nevermind then. I wish it worked that way..