Noobsmog

Some interesting cards, doesn't look like anything really game changing though.

edit: saw someone say you can use the darkness against highlander decks, and possibly druids since they draw so much. It's pretty interesting, but I don't think you can tech in a card that's just dead against aggro.

Damn Drew is a baller in this, did better than I would have.

Also yeah I think he hired joey right before he went to Brazil.

Void ripper is an extremely versatile card. Instant kill on doomsayers, turns spreading plague into 1 health minions, even silence priest can use it instead of inner fire. I will be surprised if that doesn't see play somewhere. Who's ready for mumuring elemental bonemare! woooo.... Actually that card works really well with jades too. Mini brann.

Came here from the hearthstone forums so see if someone posted this card. Wow that card is getting a lot of hate, and for good reason. I don't understand the point of making that card.

Yeah but then you can't look back at your predictions and face palm, haha. Honestly it's hard, really hard to evaluate the cards and all their interaction with other cards coming out. Even the top level tournament players get a lot of stuff wrong. I find it pretty fun trying to guess what's going to be good or not knowing that I'm definitely going to get some things wrong.

edit: opps misread that a little, thought you meant wait instead of guessing, but yeah anyone could be wrong at this point.

@mike I think it makes a good finisher in a fast hunter deck. I would keep it in my hand in a hunter deck that didn't run anything past 5 mana. How do most classes deal with 4 3/3s on turn 5. Control warrior can, but I don't quite see that being a thing. I also don't see dragon priest being a thing, but yes duskbreaker 3 damage to all would make this card terrible. The one counter you could likely run into often would be spreading plague which is definitely bad. So that's 12 damage on board + beast synergy that most classes would have a hard time removing.

I think I actually like that hunter spellstone more than the other cards there. You can easily get that to greater before turn 5. Even if you topdeck it, I've done worse than top deck 2 3/3s as a hunter. Hunter right now pretty much loses if they lose board against other fast decks, but this can change that (as long as you're not *too* far behind).

Ixlid is interesting but doesn't fit in any decks. Val'anyr too slow, not what paladins need right now. Lacky minion bane of doom....why? Priest spellstone is terrible. Deathrattle rogue what. Even if that could be a thing, 3 to upgrade? whyyyyyyyy

Ugh, I just thought of something gross you can do with ixlid. Ixlid druid of the claw charge, break twig of the world tree druid of the claw savage roar. 26 damage with 5 mana left over. I really hope this doesn't spawn another otk deck. Hmmm I guess you could do something similar with malygos and twig though.

edit: nope now that I think about it malygos is way worse, haha. I don't like the twig card being printed.

I kind of, sort of, really hate brawl. It tends to leave a still useful minion up, and "only" leaving up one minion isn't good enough in a world of bonemares.

All three of those cards are pretty solid. With control mage I have a positive win rate against jade druid. If you geist them, their jades only go up to 8/8-ish and they fatigue fast with ultimate infestation (keleseth rogue on the other hand...bleh). The problem warrior seems to have is having to use multiple cards for removal. I always seem to run out of removal before they run out of threats. Reckless flurry is a very good potential 1 card aoe clear. I could definitely see control warrior being a thing if it just gets a little bit more of a push. What they have shown so far probably isn't enough. I do also like that other card that summons a minion for how much armor you have vs non aggro.

@mike I'm going to be honest here, I havn't played control warlock in a long time, haha. I've played against it plenty, but I almost never play strait up aggro so I don't know how that matchup goes. Been working on gold heroes, and really need to get some warlock/warrior wins in so I hope its a good class next expansion. (The first time I hit legend was with zoo and I had to play wayyyyy too many matches at the time and really burned out on it so I definitely want to finish up the 500 wins with some control/handlock.)