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nobody said it was a viable combo though, haha :) just pointing it out
As much as I love Druid, I think the quest is severely overhyped
I think I can safely say I'm at least as good as him at playing exactly that archetype, he may be insanely lucky when playing Astral Druid, but that has nothing to do with skill :P
The 1 Celestial Dreamer is a card I'm a bit skeptical about since I will pretty much never play it T3 unless I happen to coin out an Elder Longneck and give it stealth on T2, but it does open up possibilities to play two things on like T5 or T6 while still working on completing your quest and I feel that may make it worth including as a 1-off.
Elise the Trailblazer is a way to add card draw which still helps complete your quest, a 5 mana 5/5 is not horrible to play and by the time you draw the pack you should have completed the quest already and thus have a lot of spare mana to spend, the only reason I may not want to run it is because Hemet, Jungle Hunter will delete the pack, but I'll just try to play Hemet first or after I draw the pack...that's something I need to see first, I might remove Hemet instead since it becomes unplayable after I complete the quest (since it would delete all my minions).
Ancient of Lore is hard to include, as a card draw it's so expensive, but the option to heal is not completely useless, I'm not sure it's worth running this card due to that flexibility, of course if it still drew 2 cards it would be a guarantee include, but just drawing 1 card really is a whole lot worse and the 5/5 vanilla body isn't worth a lot at 7 mana.
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this makes no sense, why would blizz do that, considering if you adapt a Wild Pyromancer with poison, it will indeed kill every minion on the board. With blade flurry you're *literally* destroying your weapon and sending its shards to all of the enemies ?!
When you use Blade Flurry the fact you are destroying your weapon is just a part of the casting cost and it's only the attack of your weapon that has any impact on what the spell does, same as you having more duration on your weapon wont make a difference, having it be Poisonous wont either.
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@Stommped; I agree with most of your picks, though I think the Rogue Quest is actually going to be pretty good. The Paladin Quest seems... okay, but I don't blame anyone for thinking it's not very good since single target buffs tend to be so clunky. I'll be rolling Paladin because it looks fun and expect it to be tier 3ish.
Dinomancy is probably a fun card, since it's built for slow/Control Hunters. It's an insane amount of value, but kind of like Shadowform I'm not sure it's ever really viable to give up that much tempo. Awaken the Makers is probably kind of okay at best and I don't know that it's going to be great.
The one I think I'll have to strongly disagree with is Open the Waygate, since that extra turn is a pretty big deal and for that reason alone I think people are right in thinking it's going to be insane. Maybe this expansion it isn't nuts, but I think it's an effect that certainly will be broken at some point.
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I just think way too many things have to come together in order OTK your opponent with Time Warp, whether you use Giants + Alex or Toni + Apprentices, you will need to draw a bunch of cards, while casting your random spells to complete the quest, all while not dying and doing something on the board. If it does end up being good, I think it will be far less used as OTK, and more as just getting an extra turn to push your lead on the board, i.e. Fireball something, Extra turn, 10 mana Kazakus potion. The thing that makes it super awkward is that the Extra Turn card itself costs 5 mana, so you really only get a half of a turn before you get your full extra turn.
I think Vicious Fledgling may have more potential than people are giving it credit.
Tundra Rhino is looking like it will be a staple in the Hunter Quest decks and I shudder to think of what vicious fledgling could do with a little help from the rhino.
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Lots of people seem to think that Bittertide Hydra is being under-valued. It's worth remembering that Fel Reaver saw very limited play during GvG, despite being an aggro-dominated meta-game. Bittertide Hydra's downside also seems much worse - while aggro decks don't care about getting closer to fatigue, they do care about buffing their opponent in the mirror match. Allowing 1-Attack Pirates, Beasts and Murlocs to hit for three can't be a good idea. In any event, most aggro decks want to be more pro-active than spending 5-mana to deal 8 damage a turn later - it allows the opponent a full turn to find removal, play a Taunt, or otherwise delay the damage. Every card will be tested over the course of the next month, and I imagine that Hydra will see considerable play - but I'm guessing it will see much less play by the end of the month.
There are a lot of cards that seems slightly over or underhyped, but nothing too drastic sticks out to me. Tortollan forager is an example of this to me. No one is saying he isn't good, but I think he is just auto include in every druid list. Super strong card that we will be seeing a lot of.
I think priest class in general seems way underhyped though. Seen a lot of people say they got shafted this expansion, and no idea what they are talking about. Seems like every card they got is either good or great.
I'm more interested in evaluating the underhyped cards then the so called overhyped. So what I think are the underhyped cards are
Fire Fly. Do not underestimate how useful this 1 drop can be. It helps to complete the hunter quest because it is a 1 cost minion and it also gives you an additional 1 cost minion, it is a cheap elemental which gives you another cheap elemental giving you the fuel to trigger the effects of cards which have powerful effects that only trigger if you played an elemental the turn before. Also this can also help you to complete the rogue quest easier because this card and igneous elemental give you flame elementals, and igneous elemental can give you two flame elementals. This is such a cheap useful little minion.
Glacial Shard. This little guy is not only another cheap elemental for activating cards with effects that only trigger if you played an elemental the turn before, but freezing an enemy can be absolutely invaluable because it can stop a powerful minion potentially attacking your face or another valuable minion it can be especially invaluable against players who are only interested in smashing your face in with weapons.
Stonehill defender. This guy is a silverback patriarch that has I know a guy slapped on to it which is very useful for the warrior quest because it give you a taunt as well as being a taunt itself.
Devilsaur egg. Very underrated in my opinion, if warlocks ravenous devilsaur eats this, you could end up staring at a 5/5 and a potential 4 mana 7/7, also with umbra it becomes a 3 mana 5/5 with an additional egg with it.
Hallucination. Much more consistent than swashburglar because as well as almost guaranteeing to get a good card as we know from Drakonid operative's effect, it gives you information on what type of deck your opponent is playing, and it is only 1 mana.
I actually think there are a lot of just generally useful cards in this expansion. What has annoyed me about watching streamer reviews is that unless a card is obviously super powerful, than it is considered trash or "won't see play" which is just not true. I think this is the first expansion in a long time that actually has quite a lot of useful cards, not super powerfully amazing but not terrible either and can be incredibly helpful in certain decks. I really look forward to this expansion.
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