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I think this is not quite a cancerous as Thing from Below because you actually need to play cards to get the effect, and not just spam hero power. That being said, a nut draw that puts this on board at Turn 2 with two secrets out (especially Counterspell to make killing this much harder) probably means a straight up loss for a lot of decks.

I'm happy to see all this AOE, but it makes me think it'll drive an increase in pure face decks - they don't honestly care that much if you kill their stuff, the damage is already in. This especially is a face deck's dream version of AOE. You kill my guys but Kill Command your own face? OK!

Quote from LefticusRighteous >>

I think it was overal dumb of Blizzard to do this brawl so close to the new expansion. People are hoarding their gold for that. It's a waste of money imo.

This card is great; if Cho'gall had been a mage legendary he would have gone straight into many control mage decks. You sacrifice some stats to compensate for the loss of life, and that's worth it. 5/5 is still a decent midrange body.

Quote from ScaryFishman >>

What secret is useful turn 1?

To the comparisons to The Black Knight - it is nice that there's a anti-taunt tech card now that is NOT a legendary. I don't have TBK, and don't really want to craft him. Taunt Warrior gets too common? I have a cheap tech option, and I'm happy for that. 

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Quote from RFeynman >>

Holy crap does Renolock like that! Another Hellfire attached to a big body? I wonder if this would possibly sub in for Twisting Nether?

 My thoughts exactly.  I think Twisting Nether should stay in though.

So does Renolock run all 5 board clears still? I think you can't cut the cheap ones for when you're getting run over early. An obvious change for some current lists is this for Baron Geddon - Abyssal Enforcer is better in many ways, because 3 damage kills many things that 2 does not.

Holy crap does Renolock like that! Another Hellfire attached to a big body? I wonder if this would possibly sub in for Twisting Nether?

Quote from Nimehte >>

What the hell is this lazy creation I expected something more interesting from them but atleast this is a playable legendary for hunter but you need atleast 4 attack to play this against priest.

Imagine the buff hitting Grommash Hellscream - kill a 6 health minion and leave behind a 12 / x where x > 5 in most cases.

Quote from FergardStratoavis >>

I don't know what to say other than this is superbroken. A single Hand Buff makes it a 5 mana 9/9 (Fel Reaver was 8/8, and with a crippling downside). 

Two buffs make it a 5 mana 12/12. If you're not running some hard AoE or your own Doppelgangster, this might as well be curtains. 

Evolve Shaman also got terrifying. 

The card is nowhere near epic enough for the art - an orc with 5 rock throwing cannons? Yes please!

Quote from FireNStone >>

Hmmm, the change the it this time so all minions end up as 1/1 no matter how they were added to the board. I guess druids not a auto win.

Quote from FortyDust >>

The card is fine mechanically, but I really don't see much of a connection between the name/image and the deathrattle.

I feel like they could have tried a little harder to come up with a thematic creature instead of just putting some random gnoll's face on the ability they were obviously quite keen to include with the other Goon stuff.

Is this possibly somewhat better now that we've seen all the Grimy Goons buff cards? If you got off two buffs, and you had new Charge you could kill two 5 health minions with it. Or you could just drop it and hope they did not have hard removal - a 5 / 7 is not easy to kill.