Hearthpwn

Has some real possibilities in shaman, priest and warrior.  It's at least a playable card and not just a dead weight filler in the set IMO.

Incoming Purify meta. Kappa

Hell, without silence, it's still pretty good. Early minions have this tendency to die really fast. Something that can tank a few hits is already good.

I actually can't decide.

Purify was already not the worst card ever (despite all the jeering), and Silence was never bad. The silence archetype has been lurking and building steam long enough that this might just push it into the limelight.

Or it might fail miserably because of too many moving parts. I think we'll need to see it in action before we can know for sure.

I can see this being good in other classes than priest because resurrect priest is typicallone of the few decks to try and run injured blade masters because they can keep bringing them back as a 4/7. This does not help Priest though because even if it is back at full health, it will eventually g down and start eating at the two mana hero power to offset its effect or on other healing buffs to keep it in the game. I think warrior could potentially do something with this, but that would mean running cards like Crush to get value out of this. It's an okay card and I'm kind of glad it's an epic because I don't think it's good enough to see a lot of arena play. But who knows at this point honestly.

My only problem with this card is.....well, read that name again.

Fel Orc Soulfiend

Something like that sounds precisely like a Warlock card, but I can't think of a single reason to use it in a Warlock deck. Nothing serious, just a flavor issue. But hey, I care about flavor.

Why isn't it a demon? :(

There's also synergy with Frothing Berserker, but it's kinda awkward because it loses health at the start of the turn. It's a nice target for Void Terror though. 

For any class other than priest, I agree that this is almost always equivalent to a 3/3 for 3 - as if it takes 3 damage from other sources, then it only gets to attack once.

In priest, you have more options to buff and heal it.  In this case, it functions a bit more like a 3/5 as your opponent will not want you to start your turn with it in play, and so will try harder to kill it on sight - making it more like a blackwing tech that doesn't need to go into a dragon shell.

It is pretty cool if you drop this, then on t4 kill a small creature with it, drop cleric, blademaster and use CoH - decks running blackwing tech don't usually have room for all that.

I would not waste silence on this card. By the way card have more synergy with warrior. Upcoming cards may bring more synergy for this card early to tell what is the value of this card.

Quote from Nimehte >>

I would not waste silence on this card. By the way card have more synergy with warrior. Upcoming cards may bring more synergy for this card early to tell what is the value of this card.

The dream.  (a very small but highly likely dream)

Turn 2 coin this out.  Turn 3 kill your opponent's 2 drop.  Play Northshire, heal this. 

Ok, not as good as teh turn 4 Injured blademaster, cleric, circle of healing.  But...   YOu can definitely see a lot of synergy with the card and what Priest wants to do.  I don't even think you need to silence this bad boy.  You can simply choose to spend mana or not spend mana keeping him on the board depending on what you are facing and your hand.

this card will be fun, i think it will see some play...

The synergies are numerous and powerful, but I'm concerned that they may be too costly in terms of mana or cards.

I'll reserve judgment until I've seen more of the set.

Good even in aggro strategies

Quote from Rhyolth >>

 Could also have some potential in some Shaman decks : healing totem can partially negates its drawback,. More importantly, it is the perfect target for Master of Evolution : the Fel Orc is very likely to stay on the board, get a value trade AND survive the whole process.
There is also a potential synergy with Ancestral Healing (yeah, i know, it's probably bad, but i still haven't lost hope on making that card playable).

Quote from AluisioCSantos >>

Good even in aggro strategies

 Fail to see how (unless you're talking about an aggro Priest) : without healing, this guy is more or less equivalent to a 3/3 Stealth (gets one "guaranteed" attack, but will suffer 4 dmg before the second one). That's decent, but not exactly incredible either.

Definitely a nice option for Priest.

Quote from Waterbuf >>

Definitely a nice option for Priest.