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I wonder if the dev's of this expansion ever played hearthstone. Clearly this card is underpower for it cost (should cost 7-8), or it should not be able to be targeted by minions. As it stands I can only see a pile o dust!

The best spell that druids got in all expansions ever, was Living Roots. Just wow, no love for druids.

Thx blizz, I am saving coins for next expansion, this expansion is probably worst than TGT.

No standard for me, only wild!

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This card is just another reason you shouldn't preorder!

I hope they put Nerub'ar Weblord in classic, because she would be bonkers against C'thun decks

I think you are a new player, correct if I'm wrong, and you live in the Christmas' Land ( aka best case scenario ). But you have to think about the worst case scenario for the card and, if the card doesn't suck  at that point it may be a good card, the exceptions are the synergy cards which is hard to evaluate. i.e Ethereal Conjurer can be answer by any class for 2 mana or by a 2 drop, leading into a 3 mana tempo loss. In the other hand we have Azure Drake that is a lot more threatening and is a little bit harder to remove. Conclusion no one in the wold ever play the Ethereal Conjurer over the Azure Drake.

I don't think the set has too much more than 5 cards, So my top 5 is:

1 Tunnel Trogg Best 1 drop for Shaman.

2 Fierce Monkey It may replace Acolyte of Pain on Control Warrior, or push bolster warrior to tier 2

3 Forgotten Torch Maybe Freeze and Tempo Mage are able to afford this slight tempo lost, if not this card won't see play at all.

4 Brann Bronzebeard Probably can spawn a battlecry deck!

5 Mounted Raptor Has potential to be better than Shade of Naxxramas, or could help out the beast druid.

@ Mautrin - I'm sorry, but I don't buy the (MTG) MAGIC speech (which is their only excuse to keep printing bad card in low rarities) that to have good cards you have to have bad ones. What they are doing is just lazy design (only need to make 31 cards and had a lot time to test), they know druid got some good class cards. So they don't wanna deal with it, and rather keep making crap for 3 expansions now. What worries me is the fact that in the stream they only played the exciting cards and decks, did we se druid being played, nope.

Does his effect stack every turn??

I don't buy the argument that the druid is great let's not give players any new estrategies, or push the current strategy. Why? Look at hunter new card "Quick Shot", if that doesn't push face hunter even further ahead, you clearly never played hunter.

Ok, let say they care about the class, but wants to push cards to a new strategy. What we should see in this expansion:

a) 1 mana creature. Why? druid has none, and we wouldn't necessary play innervate/wild growth as gap fillers.

b) 3 mana removal. Why? in case people wants to play control druid or make savagery more playable

c) Fun card/mill card. Why? they started support this strategy last expansion, mill need more cards to even make to casual.

d) 8 mana drop choose one. Why? 8 mana slot in hearthstone in general are vacant so, why not!

Instead, what we get:

1 - A tree that will make you loose tempo, because it dies to all the hate cards: BK, BGH, you know the drill. This card is so bad that the best case scenario is trading 5 minions across the board, at that point you should be already be winning or considering play a better card called sea giant. I don't thing this guy is playable even if its starter cost was 7 or even 6! 9 is definitely NO, NO.

2 - A really generic 2/5 for 3 mana, not bad stats, the problem is that it seems so vanilla when compared with some other classes that have 4/3 for 3 mana + upsides. This feels lack luster and not well designe,. but it can be a 5/2, you may say! yea it will be a 5/2 on the first game you tried. After that, you'll never play as a 5/2 ever, why? even against x/5 creature in the board or when you are ahead, 2 hp  is really easy to kill, so that you only gonna loose tempo. I know what you are thinking! But, no, even being a beast will not matter. why? do you really think with the lack of good beast synergy in druid this card is the missing piece, no. For god sake, hunter has more support for the beast synergy, and we don't see beast hunter even in casual. So the idea of make a beast druid was a bad joke, and now it is just shamefull.

Since this card sucks (and Blizzard don't give a damn about druid), I was thinking about the thought process behing this card.

Here we go:

Art director says: We still have 2 undesigned cards, and the stream (the one that will reveal all cards in BRM) is about to start!

Card Designer says: Shit! Let me see the art ... Ah ... Ok a generic tree. - Long Pause - . I know what to do! (brilliant idea's face). Say 3 number from 0 to 10.

Art director says: Sure! (Bored face) ... 7,8 and 9.

Card Designer says: Great call! So we gonna make 7 attak, 8 health, 9 mana minion, DONE! 

Art director says: Wait!!! This is a really bad card.

Card Designer says: That is ok, we gonna put a questionable set mechanic, and Oh boy! That should push this card through the MF roof! (Smile face) Thanks for the help! ...

- Art director is leaving the room -

Card Designer says:  ...One more thing before you go. Ask the guys to delay the stream for 5 min, I almost finishing this card! Thanks again!