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How insane would VanCleef be if he had Stealth?

If you've seen this dude in an Aggro or Zoo list and are iffy on crafting him, don't be. As we all know, in aggro games every point of damage matters, and Leeroy is simply the best at burst damage and damage/mana. Many times I wouldn't have had Lethal if I were using, say, Argent Commander. You don't realize how good this card until you play it. And it's one of the most fun cards to play too! Everytime you hear 'LEEROOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIIIIINSS"  You will breath a sigh of relief as you  destroy your opponents face and win the game on a bang! Definetly up there with stuff like Lord Jaraxxus in terms of just putting a smile on your face. Plus, you get to tilt your opponent after ripping Leeroy straight off the top, the only card that would give you lethal that turn! Don't forget the combo with Unleash the Hounds if you're playing Hunter!

Ah, so good.

Thoughts on replacing Horserider for Unleash? Same mana cost, usually has atleast the same amount of damage, but Unleash is so much better against mid-shaman than horserider.

Anyone notice he has a lisp? "my shield for arguth"

This is too true. The thing with rockbiter is that it was versatile both as 1 mana deal 3 dmg, allowing early board control, while also serving as a late game finisher when combo'd with Big Al. With this nerf, midrange shaman (the only archetype who uses Al'Akir) will just start using lightning bolt instead of rockbiters (some already are) and thus will cut Al' Akir with it because there will barely be anything to combo him with. the issue of overload is also to be taken in consideration, like you said.

I honestly can't see the reasoning behind this, rockbiter is fine as it is, sure, the combo with Doomhammer is pretty devastating, but it's a combo. in a game like HS where every point of mana counts, any combo has to be devastating in order to be put into a deck. My hope is that they will reverse this change later on, but it's blizzard we're talking about here. They butchered Warsong and still don't give 2 shits about it. I doubt this will be any different, especially since most people see the nerf as "adequate".

For anyone who doesn't have some of these cards and is wondering if they should craft them; I'd say do it. Warrior is and always will be a strong class, and all of these cards (except eater of secrets) are staples in various Warrior decks. They will all beef up your decks and allow your Warrior quests to be done more easily. Perhaps some of you will even start using Warrior for ranked, which is a very good idea, as almost all Warrior decks are Tier 2 or Tier 1. Think of the crafting not as an expense; but as an investment.

My farts are more creative than this card.

We can even call it Dr. Broom amirite guis

Well, hello there! Sorry for the delay, im still busy as duck. Another factor that slowed reviews down is that i've already reviewed mos good cards of the Expert set, so now there arent much leftovers to observe. Maybe i will not spend my time on trash tier cards, but Onyxia will be observed.

Firstly, her stats. The stats distribution mostly evaluates in how many Whelp she spawns. If you drop her on empty board, she spawns 6x 1/1s, being 8/8 herself. So, doing math, guys, it's 14/14 for 9 mana, in 7 bodies. If we count her battlecry as an alternative spells, let's remember Wisps of the Old Gods(Many Whisps) and Dark Wispers. They do particularly the same. so 7 Wisps are 7 mana, then 6x - 6 mana. Onyxia's effect is 1.5 mana(9 mana 9/10 as top tier stats -1/-2). So I state it's worthy enough for a legendary card.

So, how do I use her? Well, she is that kind of a legendary that can be used both by newcommers that got her from a pack and old players that just want to try different from meta things. For the first type she is just a sta-per-mana-efficent minion. Older players can use her in specially built decks to empower it. So, if we look on exact purpose that you can play this card for is some kind of zoo-midrange decks. One of great examples is Token Druid. They tended to run her in several variations. Druid has a lot of board-buffing cards like Power of the Wild, Big Wisps, Soul of the Forest, even Cenarius(pretty cool, if you somehow got both of them. pretty nice synergy, if any Whelps survive). Savage Roar, Direwolf alpha are also a thing.

A lot of people say she is non-meta, because everybody runs mass removals. Yep, it's true, and let's thank to you, guys, who played zoolocks, shamans, hunters, token druids, who just wnated to play on curve and win with board clears. You forced the meta to carry a lot of those. Even shamans, who mostly run only Lightning Storm, now bring Maelstrom Portal to have better chances against such decks. If meta was about removing big or single creatures, Nixy would be a very cool and popular card, as it is "one card army" for every class. What is more, if you use her in zoo or token decks, you will have a lot more measures to spam your board. Right, there are plenty of boardclears, but you might have even more ways to get your board back. And you may use Onyxia as another setup. She might burn another mass removal from your opponent, which means he will have one less way to deal with your board, and once he will come to the stange when none remained. And there you have a very big chance to win. Just remember not to vomit your entire hand on the board just to get greatlu punished by, let's say, Brawl.

So, in which deck would I recommend to try her? Warlock. Maybe more controllish-lategame zoo. Great thing if Knife Juggler or Darkshire Councilman survives. Shaman. Bloodlust, Flametongue Totem are a great thing for boardspam-shaman. Just a different deck, if you tired of midrange shamans(which you dont, as you only wan to win-win-win and get legend. Very fun and interactive, huh? You might ask, why would i try new decks that are not OP. You've got a point, but others may just be bored to play only onesided decks). Druid. Already told you that he can do. Whatever, any deck that you choose her to be included just gives you more board presence. It's up to you if your deck is generally oriented on it, or jsut plays different playstyles at one, like some midrange ones.

What is pore, she can find herself useful in dragon decks. They play mostly single minions, and this lady gives you a bit of zoo flavour. As a mindtrick, your opponent could may start clearing lil' dragons with his minions, as he can think that if you run this card, you do so for a purpose. Buffing, empowerinf attack, etc. So it may consume some of his damage, if he has no mass removals in hand.  She also activates other dragon-requiring cards. But i would recommend you to run Netherspite Historian to pull her out them. Not always, but it might be another dragon that would be more useful in the exact situation than Nixy. Maybe Chillmaw, Ysera, Alexstrasza, Deathwing.

So, taking everything into account, answering two general questions, that most people ask: "Do I dust?" and "Do I craft?". The answer for first is simple: If you need dust for top-tier decks to be a bad boy and win every game with a meta deck - you may dust her to get precious dust. If you want to try zoowish-spamming decks, or own buffing cards i mentioned before, you may remain her. If you want to collect all the cards from exper set to always have cards for whatever decks,as I do, i would strongly recommend you to keep her. She has potential that one day might be used with great results. Now, about crafting. If you on your late stange, when you have spare dust, dont know what to craft, or want to complete expert, crafting her may be an option, if you own other top-tier and just very good legendaries. If you are a newcomer, i wouldnt recommend to craft her, as she requires some other cards to be used efficiently, and her primary effect is very eak against current meta board clears.

Hey there. I was asked about Baron Geddon several times, so i decided to make the review. I got him from a pack, wanted to dust but then kept just for "in case of...", so I know what I'm talking about.

His stats are very poor. For 7 mana you drop 5 health minion. Nowadays it's very easy to deal 5 damage from hand or just finish it off if a minion survives after his nuclear sneeze. It would be insanely good if he had 5/7 stats, because, in fact, he would be able to purge spammed board, then kill a 5 or less health minion next turn, then clear leftovers or finishin 6-7 health minions(but they would most likely kill this dude). That would be an exelent buff that would bring Geddy to life. But now it's not. As i said, getting rid of 5 health is simple. If he somehow survives, though, he can kill a large minion, or smack face for 11 damage(2+7+2). 

About his effect: He basicaly casts Consecration on both boards every end of your turn. Consider his manacost. At 7 mana dealing 2 damage to the board is not that impressive most of the time. His effect is demanded on 4-5 mana, when most aggro decks drop their small minions in unreal quantities, smacking your face with them. If you drop something earlier, they might trade with their toddlers and drop something more threatning and more healthy than 2 health. Yeah, you can prepare the introduction of Baron Geddon with other mass-damage cards like Ravaging Ghoul, Whirlwind, Consecration and so on, but it still might me slow. There are very few situations when Geddy just carries the entire position into your favor. There are, however.  Mostly you will use him to finish off single or several minions, or to deal some face damage. At least try. SO mostly you may treat it like 7 mana mini-Hellfire. By the way, it may be a good measure to clear shamans' totems(basic ones) to somewhat pla around Bloodlust, Zoolocks's little buddies that come after the first wave, or paladins' 1/1 dummies. If Donny on the board, and your opponent cant kill him, he will be basically locked from playing 1-2 health minion stuff, because ou just evaporate it for free, so he will try to sacrifice his bigger creatures. His efffect would be so gorgeous if it was 3 damage. Hellfire every turn, for the cost of a lot of HP losing. For warrior it would be so acceptable, he he would lose 6 hp, but opponent would miss 13, if Geddy attacked at least once.

He is mostly(Only) used in Warrior just because it doesnt have good low-health-minions removals, like other classes. Priests have a lot of more powerful and cheaper clearings, Paladins have Equality + Consecration/Wild Pyromancer. Shamans have Lightning Storm and Elemental Destruction. Druids run Swipe and somtimes Starfall, with Azure Drake, so they hve means of clearing. Mage has Blizzard and Flamestrike, which does the clearing job a lot better. Warriors only have 1 damage AOEs, so 2 dmg AOE is at least something to work with. You can use your other spells or weapons to weaken other minions before dropping Baron Geddon, as i said, but it would be a lategame combo. Lately it was discovered that Wild Pyromancer + Commanding Shout is actually a very good clearing tool, but requires spells as fuel.

Some of people thought about using it in Rogue, as it has only Fan of Knives(RIP, Blade Flurry). It might me a good thing, on the one hand, but rogues carry Preparation, Bloodmage Thalnos, Azure Drakes, so they may just spellpower their AOE to deal the same amount of damage and not to lose health, what is really important. Rouges have no good ways of healing, so every additional damage to face is crucious.

Another thing is using this card in Reno-decks. Here it might me somewhat convincing to put it in here, because you will have early game AOE, then late game one. I tried this guy in reno-shaman, turned out to be pretty interesting. It had its moments. 

So, to sum up with, i would say that this guy is very situational. If you get it from a pack, you may just consider keeping it. If you play warrior - keep it, may be useful one day. If you dont - well, check your needs. If you need dust for something useful  - dust it. If not - keep. I wouldnt recommend you to craft it. If you feel that you really need 2 damage across the board, you may use Corrupted Seer, as it will be the same 2 damage to board, but cheaper and with a lot weaker body, but it's a rare card, not legendary. Also Wild Pyromancer may be your choice, if you have bunch of spells. So crafting Donny, on my sight, is not a good idea. Unlesss it's the only legendary you're missing from the entire Expert set.

UPDATE: Actually, pretty good card in wild. weak aggro decks, zoo-types. Not as bad as i remember it used to be.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

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Time's up, let's do this. Deathwing observation time.

Backstory: When I started playing Hearthstone, I really liked that card. It was top 2 craft legendary for me(No, i didnt craft it, because i had very low dust amount. Thankfully...) This card seemed like badass Dragon Boss, and it does so even now.

About his stats: 12/12 for 10 mana used to be marvelous back in pre-WOG days. Only Deathwing itself could previllege on being so strong. Now it's not the case, ehh. Deathwing's Battlecry is devastating for both players, ou lose cards, enemy loses board. It use to be ultimate comeback card that won even few tournaments. Like, you opponent goes "ALL IN", you drop that Badass, he loses board, has very low cards, and often not much health. If he cant find answer for Deathwing or a way to kill you in 1-2 turns, this is "HABELLA"(Mr. Tomatoes reference) for him. His stats allow him to kill every minion and stay alive, except very few ones.

As for me, this card is insane. I still like, thus i know it has a lot of drawbacks, which will be discussed later here. This is your chance not to lose, if you're losing already, your last chance for a comeback from the abyss. It is like Astral Communion with no draw Twisting Nether + 12/12 on board. Whenever Deathwing is played, your opponent instantl ygoes into losing position, as he has no board and a giant threat on your side.

 Another advantage is him being a dragon, so dragon synergy activation is applied, it won't be a completely useless card till turn 10 at least, if you play Drake Decks(which soon ill rotate out, sadly). He also was used in some control warriors, especially by Fibonacci. Deathwing, Dragonlord synergies well with usual Deathwing, as he pulls him on board after his death.(Note: If Deathwing, Dragonlord is in play, then classic Deathwing is played, you will discard your hand before the deathrattle, so ou won't drop your dragns on board. There were questions about it) He's like late game answer to losing control. lately was funfully used in discard warlock by Firebat. A lot of Astral Communion druids run him as a removal + instant fat drop after being overcloacked to 10 mana. he sometimes is played in Tavrn Brawls. In other control decks he may be used as "Into-fatigue-maneur", whn you dont have myuch cards left, or they are useless early game stuff.

He can be used as lategame Anti-C'Thun movement, to kill The God itself and his board he had. 

Now, his disadvantages. He is usually off-meta. This card is really slow. Aggro or midrange decks re most likely to eat you before turn 10, or at the exact 12 turn, as always happens to me, at least. Even when you reach trun 10, you dont want to play him immediatley due to hand evaporation, unless you are horribly losing already. There will be a lot of times when you have very useful and cool cards in your hand that you dont anna discard them without sorrow. But countering that statement, i may say that this is better to have an option to lose your hand but not game, rather that missing that opportunity. If you have, let's say, 6 cool useful splls/legendaries, but you are gonna lose in 1-2 truns, they won't help you at all, if it's not helaing or protection. But Deathwing can at least try.

Another drawback is deathrattle carnival we see now. There are a lot of deathrattle minions that may not give your deathwing so many value, like Cairne Bloddhoof, Sylvanas Windrunner(Which counters the Drake badly, as she steals him if you play this card while she is on board) and so on, so enemy board won't be completely destroyed. Also mages carry Mirror Entity, so you may accidently give him yur precious Dragon. Other contrlol decks carry a lot of removals, like Hex, Polymorph, Execute, Shield Slam, Entomb, Shadow Word:Death, Siphon Soul,Big Game Hunter, etc. So your "last chance" may be countered. At least, you would have tried...

Sometimes you may drop him with powerful board of your if you cant trade all the dangerous opponent's minions to prevent lethal, so here you lose cards in hand and on board, what in total burns a lot of your deck, but buys you some time to interrupt your opponent in finishing you off.

Deathwing can be temporally counted by taunts or freeze effects, Sap. Your opponent will have little more time to get out of this sticky position, if wasn't countered right away. You may use this time to start building board with your draws.

Nowayads Deathwing is very rare, so people dont play around it. If yo uhave it, it may be a very huge "clown in a box" for our enemy. He can only theoretically expect it, or can joke about it(Ow, Deathing would screw me over here. Damn, I called it!).

Taking everything into account, i may say that this card is funky and evastating in some cases. It has won a lot of games for people, and lost for other who faced him. I would personally never dust it, but this is my preference. Other craft-guiders would say that you have to dust it as it is unplayable. Maybe they are right in some way, but i still love this card. About crafting it... Well, it may be the case if you want that card for your deck or Brawl, but it won't be used in popular top-meta decks for a long time, i suppose. Other Legendaries may be more demandful to craft, rather than this Big Boy. And he is in Expert set, never cycling out, but never being widely used, sadly.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

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Hello there. There were a lot of review requests for Bloodmage Thalnos and numerous questions like "should i give 1600 dust for 1/1 minion?" We'll try to find out.

Backstory: I disliked that card, like every other new player. Why would i want a legendary that is just Loot Hoarder + Kobold Geomancer? I i need Spell Damage, i will use one, if draw - another. His stats are poor for 2 mana creature, as there are like 2/3 or 3/2 or whatever stats they have. That was the disattractive factor. Then i got it from a pack and wanted to dust, because couldnt find a place in my decks. Then i realised his purpose and found some usage.

That time i didnt realise the particular power of spell damage and draw. Each of this is important(draw is more, though), but in particular classes Spell damage is a big deal. This card is very powerful in most damage spell containing decks. It has very common use in Mage and Rogue mostly, but druid and shaman can efficiently use it as well. Any class that has damaging spells can, but Rogue and Mage benefit from Bloodmage Thalnos the most. Basically, he is not played for tempo or stickness, he helps you to deal with enemy stuff with spells or to push for lethal. You dont care if he dies next turn, you will still beefit from card replenishment to support your card amount to buld midgame card advantage. You dont drop him for good trading value, you use him for control or burst. Let's see the each class usage of it. Not all, of course.

In rogue it is very good, becuase it is a combo starter, so Eviscerate and other combo cards become activated. With +1 spell damage you deal 3 damage with Backstab, 5 with Eviscerate(kills a lot of dangerous minions like Emperor Thaurissan, Fandral Staghelm, Thing From bellow,etc), 6 with Shadow Strike(Enough to take down popular taunts like Twin Emperor Vek'lor, Druid of the Fang; Ancient Shieldbearer and others), also you can perform 5 mana 2 damage across the board +2 card draw for 5 mana, if you play Bloodmage Thalnos + Fan of Knives. These are the most common uses in rogue. It has other combos, but try to figure it out by just looking on rogue spells.

In mage it is very dangerous card, because mage has high-efficient low-mana cost combos like Frost bolt + Ice Lance. It would deal not 7, but 9 damage. Combine it with other burst spell, and you get very high damage output, which is possible just with 2 additional mana spent. The more spells you cast, the higher value of spell damage you get. So the most threatning use of Bloodmage Thalnos in mage is playing it in Freeze archtype. It is win condition enchancer there. You burst your opponent down faster with him, obviously. In Tempo mage he is replaced wth Cult Sorcerer, but Tempo means somewhat aggressive archtype, not high-controlling or combo. Bloodmage Thalnos is combo card and control-oriented. If sevaral damage spells and Bloodmage were discounted with Emperor Thaurissan, mage can deal insane burst. let's try to count. Thalnos (1M) + 2xFrost Bolt(2M 8 dmg)  + 2xIce Lance(0 m 10 dmg) + Fireball(3m 7 dmg) + 2x Roaring Torch(4m 14 dmg). So,  get 39 damage for 10 mana. Amazing, huh? This is enough to take most classes down. Sure, you can use only few of these cards if nessessary.

Shaman has [cardLightning Storm[/card], Elemental Destruction, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst and a lot of others, so if you spend 2 mana on Bloodmage Thalnos, you guarantee spell damamge like from [card][Air Wrath Totem/card] and also get 1 card back after it dies.

Druid's Swipe with spell damage s devastating. Enough to wipe zoo or aggro decks for 6 mana.

Now, about comparing of cards a lot of people compare him with Azure Drake, Kobold Geomancer, Loot Hoarder, as i said. Yes, they are simillar, but low manacost allowws to do more possible synergies with Bloodmage Thalnos compared with Azure Drake, and combining 2 cards in one saves your card space in deck and gives both effects.

So, to conclude. I want to say that Bloodmage Thalnos is a versalite card in spell-oriented decks, so people who play mage, rogue, druid druid or shaman may consider crafting him. It is Expert set card, so he won't cycle out. This card seems weak in the first sight, but he is used for other purposes than other legendaries. Sure you can use above written cards to substitute him, but you will have to sacrifice card draw / spell damage / mana pool, depending what you choose to swap him for.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |

My forum thread(Link)

Hey. I feel like I should tell you about Leeroy Jenkins, because I was asked few times about him. I even got a eustion like "Why is it even a legedary?" Well, I will try to explain.

Firt of all, his manaconst and stats. Most of Charge minions follow the rule "attack = mana cost", proved by Wolfrider, Huffer, old Arcane Golem, etc. Leeroy Jenkins has 6 attack for 5 mana, and it makes a bif gifference due to his manacost and atttack. He is used in aggro and midrange decks, which compare high efficiency with low mana cost, so their curve and damage dealt should be great. That's why 6 attack for 5 mana is great, but 5 attack for 6 is terrible(Hello, Reckless Rocketeer). This is why other chargers also not in particular use. You may have lost numerous time to opponent's Leeroy Jenkins topdeck whn you are at <6 Hp, huh? Even tournaments are win with that. Skillstone always punishes those who doesnt like RNG.

Another thing are combos with Leeroy Jenkins. The kings of the comboes are Warlock and Rogue. Nowadays combo-renolocks run cards such as Leeroy Jenkins, Power Overwhelming, Faceless Manipulator. They find 1-2 Powers, use Emperor Thaurissan on thse cards and inflict like (6+4(+4))*2 damage, what is equals 20-28 damage from empty board with only 1-2 cards discounted. That is their main or additional win condition. Reckless Rocketeer or Wolfrider wouldn't make that combo neaither possible nor efficient.

Rogue is the ultimate rival of Leeroy Kenkins. Especially miracle rogue. One of their win conditions, along with usual burst and Edwin VanCleef. They just go for Leeroy, Cold Blood, Cold Blood, Conceal as their most common combo. But with a little help of Xaril, Poisoned Mind and his Briarthorn Toxin or Fadeleaf Toxin may enchance such combo. So here you have 7 mana combo for 28+ damage in 2 turns, If Leeroy survives. On the same turn they may find another burst for remained 3 mana. Considering stuff like Preparation and overall low manacost of rogue stuff, it is kinda a thing. They might use additional Eviscerate and Deadly Posion for pushing more damage, or Sap to remove our taunt.

 What is more, Leeroy can be bounced back to hand for one more play. Shadowstep, Bloodthistle Toxin, Youngful Brewmaster and so on. keep in mind the classic combo of Leeroy Jenkins + Faceless Manipulator, as a 10 mana 12 damage. With other buffs/spells it may go higher with help of Emperor Thaurissan, as i said before. There are even series of One Turn Kill challenge with all classes. So you may find a deck that is able to do so. Just as an option to your other decks. So you may find an interesting finishing move for him in your decks.

SOmetimes Leeroy Jenkins is just used as emergency 5 mana Fireball to get rid of poweerful enemy minion. A little watse, but is more important to lose a part of win condition rather than lose a game. Keep in mind his spawned Whelps, as they will kill Leeroy Jenkins next turn. If your opponent has Knife Juggler or Darkshire Councilman, this drawback may backfire you. But on the other hand, some hunters use Leeroy Jenkins + Unleash the Hounds combo, so its 8 mana 8+ damage. Just for note.

So, to sum up, I would say that Leeroy Jenkins is not a useless card, so if you play hunter/warlock/rogue or midrange/aggro/combo archtypes,  you may consider crafting him. He persists in Expert set and now being widely used. He was kinda reincarnated after Miracle rogue return, and has been used in Renolocks since the appearance of this archtype.

P.S. If i missed some useful information, feel free to write down here, I will include it into review if it's important. You'll be a great contributor.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |

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Well met. This is time for next review, and today we are getting closer look on Harrison Jones. There will be no backstories, because I dont personally have that card, but I've still got stuff to say about him. So, in this observation I will often compareHarrison Jones with Acidic Swamp Ooze, because these two cards have the same purpose, but different ways to deal so. 

Let's talk about his positive sides first. It's a 5/4 for 5 mana with weapon removing + drawing abiity. Basically, for 2 pionts of stats you vaporise your opponent's scissors and draw 1-8 cards. Usualy it's 1-2, as most weapons(Truesilver Champion, Fiery War Axe, Rallying Blade, etc) have 2-3 durabiity, and when opponent plays it he instantly attacks. Sometimes it's not the case, though, so you get an extra card. In mid game it is useful, because you get rid of weapon, drop a medium treat and draw cards. So most of the time he will be handy, but not always. In current meta we have a ot of weaponry in matches, because of warriors, paladins, rogues, SHAMANS, damn them. So you are most likely to find a targt for Harrison Jones' battlecry during these matchups. In late game, when you are out of cards in hand, and go toe-to-toe with your enemy,  removing a weapon with card draw puts you in good favour, unless you're loosing the game horribly.

Now, it's time to cover his dark sides. And compare him with Accidic Swamp Ooze, So, they have the same purpose, but different mana cost, so this is a really big deal. In early game, if your opponent play, lets say, Truesilver Champion on turn 3-4, your Harrison Jones is 5 mana, so it means you won't wait untill weapon is still in play. At this point, Acidic Swamp Ooze allows you to get rid of weapon, and then use remained mana for, lets say, 1-3 mana minion/spell or hero power. So summary tempo may be higher with 2 cards played. 

Anoher issue is playing against shamans. If he gets his Doomhammer at 5-7 mana, you will draw 6 cars out of HJ's battlcery. If you are midrange or contro deck, by turn 5-7 you will have around 5 cards. If your start was horrible, you will have around 7 cards, so draing 6 more means you wil mill yourself 4 cards. But yeah, you remove your opponent's OP weapon. But he will have board to deal with Harrison Jones. and hey you are most likely to lose, unless you have very powerful 6-7 mana mass-removal/combo to remove his board. In that cas you have a chance of winning.

So, that was early-mid game. Now lets talk about late game. His manacost makes it impossible to play him and something big. Like, if you had Ooze, you would kill a weapon, then drop Ragnaros the Firelord / Sylvanas Windrunner / Black Knight / Ancient of War or any other 6-8 mana minons/spells. Harrison Jones would restrict you to 5 mana pool, and you most likely to hero power or something like 1-5 mana stuff. Also, in late game, drawing a lot of card puts you closer to fatigue, so you should mention that if you removing Doomhammer or [cardBlood Fury][/card], if you meet heavy warlocks/shamans. 

Athough, you can wait utill weapons drops its durabiity to your lacking-card amount, but it means your board/face will suffer X amount of damage thet could have been prevented with 2 mana basic card.

Time to make a conclusion. This card is good in current weapon meta, but not must-to-have, since Acidic Swamp Ooze is a basic card, accessable to anybody. If you have a midrange-control deck, you have choice to use one of those cards, consdering what you prefer more - better tempo or better card draw. Removing Doomhammer, Gorehowl or other strong weapons is good, but you shoud choose, wether to put a 2 mana tech, or 5 mana with sometimes negative value card draw. If you get Harrison Jones from a pack, you have the real choice of dusting it. If you really need 400/1600 dust for something useful - dust him. If not - you can remain him in your collection. I woud not recommend you to craft him ,as Accidic Swamp Ooze is a good replacement. You better choose from other staple neutral/class legendaries.  Nowadays Indiana Ford  is not widely played, he persists in 4-6% of all decks.

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Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

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Hello there! I've finally got time and desire for another Legendary review, so now it's time for Sylvanas Windrunner observation.

Usual Backstory: When I started playing HS, and when i had enough dust to craft a legendary(honestly, it was pretty soon, as I got Golden Skycap'n Kragg), i was looking for what should i make. Whoever I asked told me that i should craft Dr. Boom with no doubt, but i felt that something was unclear. So i decided to craft Sylvanas Windrunner instead, because her effect was really unique and tide-turning. She seemed such a pain in butt for me.  So this was my first crafted legendary. After WOG was announced and Dr. Boom left his Throne-Of-Being-The-Coolest-Top-Tier-Legendary, she took his place. Currently it's a top-1 legendary, and i guess, Sylvy is gonna hold this point for very long, if not eternal, time.

Her effect and role make Sylvanas Windrunner a very unpleasant minion to face. Because  you either bump every minion into her in correct order to prevent stealing, or you should spend silence/enroot-typed effect(like Polymorph or Entomb). Otherwise she may steal something really big and it will be your headache. As somebody here's said, she's not a game winner, she's a game changer.

Let's take a look on her advantages:

First of all, It's a 5/5 for 6 mana. Pretty solid body, and her "lack of stats" usually comes really handy. If your opponent has very huge creature on his board and you drop Sylvanas Windrunner, the minion is gonna survive and be stolen. You may somehow reduce the damage done to the minion to prevent deep scratches.

Second, she has a lot of roles in matches. One of them is dropping her when your opponent has several minions. Even if he runs all his creatures into her, that's fine. Because, you basically cleared his current board for 6 mana. If she steals anything, that's good. Even a small minion becomes a thorn in your opponent's finger, not in yours.

If your opponent has several huge minions, Sylvanas Windrunner has a great chance of stealing something worthy.

Another role is being a combo-tech in control decks. You can use her in combo with stuff like Naturalize, Power Overwhelming, Fireball, Mulch, Shadowflame and so on to execute 7-10 mana random Mind Control. If your opponent played 1 giant or powerful minion, you gonna take him. Or clear what you can and just pray for RNGeezus. I personally had numerous times when i stole Ysera, Archmage Antonidas, Tirion Fordring and a bunch of other cool minions just with such comboes. What is more, you can taunt her with stuff like Defender of Argus and it's gonna save you from monstrosities like Deathwing, The Ancient One(if you meet one, heh), boarded C'Thun and so on.

If you drop Sylvanas Windrunner on the empty enemy board, you just lock your opponent down from playing powerful stuff, untill he finds a removal for her. I was in such situations, and belive me, its terrible. If you dont play your stuff - it's bad. if you do - it's even worse. Not always you have a removal for her, so you have to sacrifice something to get rid of that nightmare.

I have to add that she is a great Anti-C'Thun tech. If you expect your opponent to play THe Old god, drop her in advance. If C'Thun kills her with battlcery, you are fine. Unless he kills you as well. Or if you survive him ,you can  above written combos to take him under your wing. 

Keep in mind that she screws Yogg Saron, hope's end's entrance, because after he kills her somehow and gets stolen, you get all the upcoming effects, like, if Yogg plays Sprint after he comes into your board, you draw  cards. SOmetimes it can even kill you with overdraw, but this is regular Saron's stuff.Just keep it in mind.

What is more, you must know that if a minion kills her with his battlecry, she will steal it. Order "Battlecry-comes-before-minion-enters-play" doesn't work in that case. Be very careful with stuff like Deathwing, Rend Blackhand and already announced old gods.

Sylvanas Windrunner counters Ragnaros the Firelord badly. Because if you see them on the opposite sides of board, you can be 85% sure that Rag will move on the opposite side. He loves Sylvy. His effect will most likely to hit her no matter what, and she will steal him no matter what. This is just one-sided RNG scenario. If he doest kill her with ability, she will just kiss him and steal.

Mainly Sylvanas Windrunner is used in  a lot of decks, but nowadays mostly benefits from N'Zoth, the Corruptor or other deathrattle-oriented decks. So you have to deal with her twice. Very unpleasant, because if you start building board, and enemy resurrects her, you should either clear your own board and her, or add another minion to your opponent's already mighty board.

Another important thing is Sylvanas Windrunner versus enemy enemy's Windrunner. Keep in mind, that the second sylvanas played counters the first one. IF you have a minion of the board, then you play your Sylvanas first, and then your opponent does so, and you run your Banshee Queen into hostile's, your deathrattle triggers first, steals nothing, and then enemy's deathrattle steals your creature. Even if your enemy has that  creature (i mean, before contacting 2 sylvanas) instead of you, it will work a bit different, but with the same outcome. Becuse if Sylvas hit each other, your one steals the creature, and then his Sylvanas steals the stolen minion back. Im reminding, SECOND Sylavans Windrunner counters the first one. Dont forget. Even tournament players sometimes do such mistake.

To tie things together, i would like to say that I give Sylvanas Windrunner the first place of Neutral Legendaries. She is very flexible and useful, and fits like 90% of decks, except zoo and aggro. And still can be used there for screwing your opponent up. If you want to craft a legendary, and you choose from several, take a look wether you have Her or not. If you dont - craft her with no doubt. Sylvanas Windrunner is from Expert Set, so she will never cycle out of Standart and will always be like in Top 1-5  list. Never dust her for any reason.

P.S. This is very unique card, so if i miss some stuf in my review, dont be scared of writting about that bellow, i will include this into my "essay". It's hard to keep in mind all the aspects of that card.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

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Greetings. Im in mood for another informative legendary review, and now it's time to observe Ysera. I've crafted her lately and now can fully describe it from user's hands. 

First of all, her stats are amazing. 4/12 body would take a lot of damage spells or medium minions' hits to get rid of . It dodges both Shadow Word: Death and Shadow Word: Pain. Unfortunately, nowadays most decks run a lot of removals such as Entomb, Polymorph, Hex, Equality, so leaving Ysera live longer than 1-2 turns is your little victory in that. If she manages to do so - you've got huge tempo advantage. The longer she stays, the more dangerous situation becomes for you opponent. You can get situational cards that can turn the game into your favour if nessessary ones come in time.

Now, let's revise her Dream Cards. I've done it already, so i´m just quoting:

Just for note for the new players. Dream cards:

Dream: Get enemy minions(taunt, dangerous, unpleasant) out of play or use your battlecry minions again.

Nightmare: buff that helps with trading or lethal damage

Laughing Sister: minion that trades with enemy stuff, just another creature to play.

Ysera Awakens: Mass removal, sometimes lethal option

Emerald Drake: High mana-valuable threat

So her cards are really mana-worthy and powerful, compared to analogues. You basically draw 2 cards, 1 of which is superior and doesnt fatigue you out. That's one of reasons why she is really good in late game shenanigans. When you are running out of minions to play, she saves you(not always, tho. Enjoy 3x Dreams. One is good, but not at three).

Another good thing is that she is a Dragon, so if you use her in Dragon Decks, she won't be a completely dead card in hand because of Synergy activation. Another aspect that i notcied lately is that she has a chance to give you a dragon back for further synergy activations, if there remained any. Her Dream can allow you to use, for example, Blackwing Corruptor several times.

So, the right time to play Ysera is when your opponent is running out of stream, in situations like that:

Your opponent is on 1 card which is most likely not to be a removal, bacause he's already spent it earlier.

Your opponent has a lot of cards, but your previous high-threat wasnt answered.

(That was a test run for my heavy decks). 

People say that she is too slow, and i agree. She is a redundancy card, not a "win me the game right now". She's an option to keep fighting when anything else is gone. Treat her like that. Also, Ysera sometimes gets handy in Taver Brawls, what is another advanatage.

As meta slows down in WOG expansion, she may actually be not so slow, because you get answers from her to unpleasant enemy minions, and keep in mind her insane Deathwing, Dragonlord synergy. Ysera is one of those dragons which has no battlecry and you would be happy if she comes into play earlier (Dragon Consort, Innervate) or by other means rather than playing her manually. Hello, Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound and Varian Wrynn!

But, to be honest, for long time I've been substitutting Ysera with other cards like Alexstrasza, Arch-Thief Rafaam, even Nefarian. These cards are different, but they give you lategame advantage as well. By the way, Rafaam is a great replacement for this card, and can trade perfectly into Ysera being self-buffed. If you have him, you may consider crafting other legendaries instead.

To sum up, I would give Ysera 4th place of "must-to-have" neutral legendaries out of Expert set. She may be a staple in lots of control and dragon decks, so if you consider playing them, think about getting the Emerald Queen.

UPDATE: Try to live to the moment you played and it she attacked. Will never see it once. Aggro and zoo decks ill just laught at your dragon. Unless you taunt her.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

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Hello there. I think it's time for me to write another review of a legendary. 

To begin with, when i started to play HS i was a true fan of Ragnaros the Firelord, but some time later i reduced my evaluation of this card due to its "misses". Then I got it from a pack(some of you may know this story if you read my Alexstrasza comments). I tried him in a few decks. It turned out to be a lot different from what I expected. So, let's break him down.

It's a 8/8 for 8 legendary, that throws Flame Lance into something hostile to you. One huge advantage of him over any other minion is that he doesnt consume his health while shooting. He can easly kill 95% of minions in the game just for free (well, not exactly, he consumes your luck. After few crucious shots he will miss everytime you need him to kill a thing), you only played 8/8 for 8 and got a free kill OR took down 25% of enemy's health (dont mention armour). This is insane advantage. He's just a sentry that purges with fire something out of board. Even if it gets removed right away, he's already released his shot and sometimes this 1 shot is enough to start winning back by rising tempo. Also, remember all these "YOLORAG" situation when you have like 7 hp and out of 5 targets he chooses your face. Also, Ragnaros the Firelord hard counters Lord Jaraxxus, because it either kills his Infernal or consumes 50% of Lord's health. Both are acceptable options, in my sight.

Now let's talk about his "misses". Yes, playing Ragnaros against aggro is useless, unless you taunt him with something, but in control or midrange matchaps he can help you a lot, even turn the tides into your favour. If you have a board, you just clear what you can and leave medium-high threat on the board to let Ragnaros the Firelord decide wether it's affrodable for it to live or not. Even killing a 2/3 or 4/4 gives you an advantage, because you dont need to spend a weapon hit/spell/other minions' health to get rid of it. Also, when it misses and becomes a Faceros, it gives you a lot of opportunities to push for lethal, because in late game every point of health matters, and he burns the 1/4 of enemy hero. Yes, there are moments when he kills a 1/1 out of 8/8 and 7/7, but if he always killed the right target, that would be the most imbalanced legendary out of them all. By the way, if you are a lucky-ducky, Rag will always hit what you want.

When Ragnaros the Firelord loses the high-threat or desirable target, even that is acceptable. because your enemy would really like to get rid of your sentry. He would run his minions into it in most cases, because ignoring it would be not a wise decision. He may just spam his board in hope that Rag will lose his damage into something, but in a control deck you should have measure to deal with minions right away. It's drawback of being "BGH-able" is also kind of a good thing, because if you run several huge minions, getting Rag killed means that your enemy would have 1 less removal for your remained stuff.

What is more, that legendary has one more unique advantage. It doesnt trigger attack-required spells like Bear Trap, Blessing of Wisdom(I wonder who would cast it on Rag), Ice Barrier and so on. Also Ragnaros the Firelord is kinda not that afarid of Humility-styled effects, unless your opponent is trading with it.

In the WOTOG Expansion that guy should be more demandable. Because overall meta will slow down in some degree, and the new packs have brought us some heavy minions like C'Thun's servants or other medium-high creatures. So Ragnaros the Firelord will be happy to purge new targets.

Keep in mind that Ragnaros is one of those legendaries which arent afraid of silence. Sometimes you would even silence it by yourself to make sure it hits the right target. I would advice you to put a silence source in your deck if you gonna use Rag. Not complementary, though. 

Little Note: Stealthing Ragnaros the Firelord is pointless, because whe he shoots, he deals damage and it breaks stealth. 

So, to sum up, I would like to say that this legendary definitely worths to be in your collection. I would give it a 3rd place out of all neutral Classic Legendary(oh, yeah, Ragnaros will always be Standart-friendly). 

P.S. PLEASE, dont make this review be flooded out with "SOO TOON" commentraries. Respect the other's job done.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

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