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I don't think people understand the concepts of over- and under-hyped, since people keep saying cards that everyone agrees are awful are over-hyped and that everyone agrees are amazing as under-hyped.

Anyhow, one card I have not really seen mentioned at all before this thread is Emerald Hive Queen, but I'd like to put a different twist on her, which is that she is might be AMAZING for the Paladin buff quest.  I've tried out a pre-ungoro version with current Pally spells and found that very often I'm spending turns 2-4 playing only buff cards.  Playing Emerald Hive Queen on turn 1 followed by quest and buff and turn 2 seems like a pretty solid opener.  And if you can hero power and buff on 3 or play a couple more buffs, you still have not been hurt by the negative effect.

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People have to see this little one make his turns to finally give the deserved respect: [card]Tortollan Primalist[/card

For this card to be worth playing you have to be able to pick a good enough spell to make up for an 8 mana 5/4   and not have the random targeting screw you. How many spells for one class even fit in that category? 

Bright-Eyed Scout is a huge underdog imo. I just feel like it has some potential. Just watch 

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The only card worth comboing from your list would be Pyros, but even then you would rather just play him as early as possible then wait and combo it with an otherwise useless card in your hand. If you use Spiritsinger Umbra to draw an additional card from Loot Hoarder or similar cards, then why not just play Gnomish Inventor instead? Cards like White Eyes and Savannah Highmane just become worse the longer you hold them back and Moat Lurker combos are way too slow.

I'm not saying that this card is bad, but its onlly going to see play in niche decks as a buildaround instead of being an autoinclude in all decks.

u thinking realy wrong bruh

Dinosize is being way underrated. Its very easy to make this card work in an aggro paladin with plenty of low cost minions with charge, i predict it will be the new cancer if Jade Druid remains on top.

Hemet, Jungle Hunter is underrated as an aggro card. Think about putting this in a deck with a bunch of cheap, aggressive minions, and then all the higher cost cards are just reach cards. Then when you play him you can guarantee burst damage to finish them off. For example, leaving only Doomguard in zoo.

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People have been knocking Hemet, Jungle Hunter as pointless.

I argue it will be in every Mage Giants Time Warp deck. Hemet guarantees you draw giants/Alex/Antonidas when you need it.

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I don't think people understand the concepts of over- and under-hyped, since people keep saying cards that everyone agrees are awful are over-hyped and that everyone agrees are amazing as under-hyped.

Anyhow, one card I have not really seen mentioned at all before this thread is Emerald Hive Queen, but I'd like to put a different twist on her, which is that she is might be AMAZING for the Paladin buff quest.  I've tried out a pre-ungoro version with current Pally spells and found that very often I'm spending turns 2-4 playing only buff cards.  Playing Emerald Hive Queen on turn 1 followed by quest and buff and turn 2 seems like a pretty solid opener.  And if you can hero power and buff on 3 or play a couple more buffs, you still have not been hurt by the negative effect.

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Bright-Eyed Scout is a huge underdog imo. I just feel like it has some potential. Just watch 

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Hemet, Jungle Hunter is underrated as an aggro card. Think about putting this in a deck with a bunch of cheap, aggressive minions, and then all the higher cost cards are just reach cards. Then when you play him you can guarantee burst damage to finish them off. For example, leaving only Doomguard in zoo. 

I thought of this as well, though it seems like it could be severely punished by Taunt.

Overhyped: Spiritsinger Umbra, no good deathrattle effects to combo with, impossible to survive turn 4

Underhyped: Bittertide Hydra insane in Hunter and aggro decks, may even destroy the meta

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People never really mention Emerald Hive Queen but it can destroy pirate warrior by messing up their precious early game curve. If you are a more late game oriented class this most likely does not affect you, and after its death you can probably start safely playing some taunts.

 How exactly? It's only your minions that cost 2 more.

 Oh, i thought it was all minions. Well it looks like that card is just terrible 100%

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Dinosize is being way underrated. Its very easy to make this card work in an aggro paladin with plenty of low cost minions with charge, i predict it will be the new cancer if Jade Druid remains on top.

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Overhyped: 

Most Quests; Mainly because losing a card and tempo in the early game is a big deal, seems to be too overlooked by most people.

For the Mage Quest, the OTK people are talking about is too complex to pull off/too slow.

Hunter Quest will be decent, but not has gamebreaker OP has lifecoach suggest. The deck has weakness; offer no comeback mechanism/no hard removal and its an aggressive deck that will always start behind on tempo (have to play T1 quest)

Druid Quest is bad. This type of deck will be greatly unfavored vs agro, vs control its not as great as people think, it has no great big board clear, no hard removal, will have clunky opening hands often and sometimes never be able to get the tempo back.

Rogue Quest and Warlock quest won't be viable. No quest will be metadefining.

Dinomancy will be too slow for what Hunter decks are trying to accomplish. 

Envenom Weapon force you to take too much damage as Rogue, won't be viable.

Otherwise, many high cost card like the Hunter legendary because they are too slow.

  

Underdogs:

Bittertide Hydra will be oppressive reminiscent of Fel Reaver. Might be wong on this one though, depends if there is a lot of Zooish decks on ladder.

Sherazin, Corpse Flower will see play in all Miracleish Rogue decks.

I predict that the sleeper card of this set (that people only right off has an arena card) will be Vicious Fledgling. This card must be remove immediately otherwise it will snowball out of control (moreover if you can pick windfury) . Might see play in Beast Druid and Hunter.

The 2 new neutral murloc are very strong.

Going back to the Spiritsinger Umbra discussion, there could be some interesting synergy there with Devilsaur Egg. Not sure how practical it is on turn 7, but that combo gets a 3/4 and a 5/5 on the board immediately with the threat of another 5/5. And for an extra awesome and rare play, if they don't pop it try a turn 8 Princess Huhuran + Terrorscale Stalker! For 15 mana, that's a 3/4, 6/5, and three 5/5s (plus another when the egg actually dies).

You're rarely going to have that hand, but it'd be preeeetty sweet.

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People have been knocking Hemet, Jungle Hunter as pointless.

I argue it will be in every Mage Giants Time Warp deck. Hemet guarantees you draw giants/Alex/Antonidas when you need it.

 He also seems great in combination with Elise to help continue to give the deck fuel if you are close to completing the quest, but not quite there. Maybe they're dating. 

 

I don't see as much hype around Gentle Megasaur as I would have expected.  I don't know if people are underrating it necessarily, but the card is nuts and receiving very little talk compared to quests.  

Overhyped, probably the priest quest. If it becomes a meta deck, you can expect to see Alextraza as tech in a lot of decks.

Underdog: Molten Reflection, Mirage Caller, Bloodbloom, Primordial Glyph, I want to say Primalfin Champion because it's my favourite card from the set, Stubborn Gastropod honestly in a late game control vs control matchup where all of the players' removal has been exhausted looks so troll, Molten Blade for the Doomhammer + 2X Heroic Strike combo that will happen 100% of the time [Kappa], Stampede for infinte angry chicken army

I think the biggest underdog (has been hyped, but a lot of people are still saying it will be trash) is the rogue quest. Violet teacher will make a huge comeback, it used to be considered good just because of the 1/1s, now it will have late game 5/5s when your deck is running out of steam.