WingedCastaway's Comments
Claw Machine
It honestly doesn’t look so bad. Handbuff is a slow mechanic, but 6 mana 6 attack and rush + draw is okay-ish. Not a great card, but okay. WIth the +3/+3 buff this actually seems quite good, for a neutral card anyway!
Cenarion Ward
It’s not an excellent spell. It’s not a terrible spell. It’s somewhere in between. If we imagine an average 8 mana pick such as Ironbark Protector, it’s fine, but not broken since you wouldn’t want to run Ironbark Protector in your deck and there are also bad options that have Battlecry as their major upside in the 8-mana pool. 8 armor is good, but will it make the difference? We will see. 3/5
Deathmatch Pavilion
This is a Shaman card?!? If anything it fits Warrior’s class identity so much more. Even Paladin’s. Odd choice, I would have loved this in Warrior… 2/5 in Shaman, would have been at least 3 stars in Warrior if not 4.
Shadow Clone
I love it. Can be useful in a variety of situations, and at 2 mana even in situations where it’s a subpar play it’s okay ish. 5/5
Grand Totem Eys'or
The problem with your suggestion, though I came to the same conclusion is that the totem as it is is rather good, but not great. Whereas making it like you suggest would make it broken. A potential solution would be to have it be instead : Deathrattle : your totems have +1/+1 this game.
Tenwu of the Red Smoke
Definitely, but ideally you want to play it on a minion that makes it BETTER than Shadowstep. The problem with all the candidates you’re mentioned is that they’re low cost, so Shadowstep is essentially better than Tenwu here. This is why I brought up bigger targets like Togwaggle and Kronx – this is where Tenwu will really shine, and we need more of these “big” battlecries for this to be truly worth it. It’s still a good card of course but it becomes excellent in these situations.
Tenwu of the Red Smoke
This is like. Very good, isn’t it?
This card has crazy possibilities. While it doesn’t necessarily have broken targets right now in Standard – besides Memebaron Togwaggle and Kronx, I don’t really see what minion you would want to use that with -, in the two years that it will be in the meta we will surely one or two minions that are broken with this.
Regardless of the meta it’s in, I like the card, because it’s just good, unexpensive, and has lots of potential. Even without making the biggest play the word has seen with it, it’s undeniably a great card. I think it easily deserves 5 stars.
Zai, the Incredible
What are the odds? More likely is 8 damage from two Twin Slices. Four will happen in like 0.5% of cases. You can’t realistically expect Demon Hunters to hold onto this until they managed to draw or generate two Twin Slices and put them at the sides of their hand
Zai, the Incredible
Not a bad card, but what would you want to use this for? Is value really what Demon Hunter needs? My first take would be 3/5, at least right now.
Bladed Lady
I would be tempted to agree with you. Despite all the shenanigans that Demon Hunters can pull off, you can’t realistically expect, at any given point of the game, to be able to give yourself +5 Attack. There are still a number of ways to do it : the Soul Shard weapon with HP, both Twin Slice spells with HP, and the Soul Shard synergy card that gives your Hero +5 Attack. The real problem being that in order for this to be worth it you realistically want to play other things during that turn, so unless you have a weapon equipped from the turn before you will have to spend at least 3 to 5 mana to get the +5 Attack, which means you need something to make good use of your remaining mana otherwise this card just allows you to play a big Rush minion and some face damage in the same turn, which is not bad at all, but not meta defining either.
I’d say this card has a pretty powerful effect, but one that is relatively impractical to use, despite the huge discount. Remains a good card though, but people seem to overestimate the practicality of this card – it’s somewhat situational (you need both Hero Attack cards, or a weapon, and an enemy minion in order not to waste Rush). I agree with your 4 star rating however, because a 1 mana 6/6 with Rush is just that good.
Fire Breather
Excellent Demon support, I mean 2 dmg aoe on a 4 mana 4/3 body seems great to me.
Tent Trasher
Why is it trash? The base statline is okay. Reducing it down to 4 mana makes it decent, and 3 mana makes it quite good. You need to remember that warrior has other synergy for multiple types, such as N’Zoth, the Ringmaster and the Ringmaster’s Baton. Explain your hot take please
Rigged Faire Game
Ah right, that exists xD
But it’s mainly run in Libram Paladin. You can still use it outside of these decks but it hasn’t seen widespread use either, so I think that remains a rather specific threat to this Secret that you won’t meet on a typical match
Simple, strong, pretty good