Hearthpwn

The Darkmoon Faire is cool.  It shows up once a month, has games like whack-a-mole, it's where ETC plays in game, and it rewards players with toys and other cosmetic prizes.  There's a fortune teller and an NPC named Griftah that sells fake talismans.  There's also a book that lets you collect random items from any dungeon and turn them in for Faire prizes.  It's got its own small zone.  There's definitely enough material there for an expansion. 

I bet it happens some day, but not right after Kobolds.  It would fill kind of a similar niche.  They're going to go for serious next, I would guess Illidan and Outlands, or else something to celebrate Battle of Azeroth.

They don't announce big things without first saying they're going to.  So most likely we'll begin to see teasers this week and a full announcement next week.

Not exactly a copy, I mean, they actually designed it to pitch as a Warhammer Fantasy game.

I'd like to see more emotes . . . and also a rule that limits each emote to once per game. Spamming one emote is the worst in bad manners, but forcing players to time their emotes for the right moment creates an art form.

It would be interesting if the condition were "No minions in your hand."

Has it been confirmed that these scrolls don't trigger quests and spell triggers, or are we presuming it based on cards like Ambush?  The scrolls specifically say "cast" which others don't, and that's confusing me.

RNG is great, but a random spell plus a random target is too much, especially if it's true that they don't trigger the quest or on-spell-cast effects.

It also doesn't work with Kazakus and Reno in wild.

So deathrattle, replenish ten mana.  And if someone uses Harrison on this on t-5, Druid ramps to 10 mana crystals. Sounds like a good deal.

"Just when you think you've got it figured out, your dragon gets vaporized."

Edit:  Changed the art. Updated the wording to help clarify that you end up with one secret in play and one in your hand.

If you play wild Kazakus (and Reno) are just about must-haves. In standard you don't have Reno or as many card substitutes so Kazakus is kind of iffy.  The card is a powerhouse though.

An 8/8 Taunt for 8 is solid value and useful in any deck.  But I play a lot of Quest mage in wild and shook my head at the DK cards.  They're powerful, but a lot of times you can get two of them and not end up playing either one.

So I think Lich King is a solid value big-taunt card, with DK as a bonus.  But you can't count on the DK cards for any kind of synergies or even as a card draw.  They're just a sometimes-maybe bonus.

I like Frost Lich Jaina for control decks. It's not a win condition, but unless you're already beat when you play her, that one card can make mage just about impossible to kill before fatigue.

I wonder how lifesteal would work with Anomalus?

At 6 or 7 mana the lifesteal would be great because Mage needs the heal.  But at 9 mana there just aren't enough elementals left in your deck to be worth it.

I think I would've preferred it if it was balanced around the same mechanism as Forgotten Torch, going back into your deck and coming out more powerful for the same price.

Otherwise, you can play a 2/2 for a new minion in the hand, but you don't want to play behind curve on turn 6, and the 10/10 is especially useless.  If it was 1/1, 3/3 and 5/5 for instance, I think it would see play because the mana cost would be low enough to play around the rest of your hand.  T9:  Play a 5/5 and a fireball, that's not a bad turn.  But that's hard to do with the 6/6, let alone the 10/10.

It's not a bad card, but there's too many low-cost spells to make it playable.  Most of the time you're paying 3 mana to catch a random spell that's not worth 3 mana.  If we ever get a card that says "Discover a secret and put it in play," I wouldn't mind having this come up as a choice against the right opponent.  But it's not worth a card slot.