Hearthpwn

* Gameplay: 3/3
* Innovation: 3/3
* Flavor: 2/2
* Balance: 1/2

9/10 Excellent!

A very good card to open this season. It has great flavor and put Aggro Priest closer to viability. It's also a perfect translation of the WoW spell into HS.

My only concerns are that, as a fatigue synergy card, it might suppress other control archetypes just like Jade Idol did before Skulking Geist. It can also snowball too easily against decks with no hard removal when put on a high-health minion.

* Gameplay: 2/3
* Innovation: 2/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 0/2

-1 for the art ugly as fuck

4/10 Mediocre.

I suppose this is destined to Ramp Druid. The problem is that 1) It has waay too much variance (but it's still Arcane Intellect at worst?) and 2) When you have a high roll (e.g. swap Innervate with Y'Shaarj) it's OP as fuck. The flavor is also weird and the art is ugly.

On the plus side, it's an original card that would allow lots of Trolden/Rage Orc moments.

* Gameplay: 3/3
* Innovation: 1/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 2/2

7/10 Good.

These are interesting (albeit not very original) and can certainly can allow new playstyles and archetypes to flourish. I can see each of them being played, and those arts.

I'll do as if I didn't see the typo on Chilled Frog :D

Screwed by Blizzard LOL. Obviously Leeching Poison is now a thing so I don't think I can rate this properly. Too bad!

* Gameplay: 2/3
* Innovation: 3/3
* Flavor: 2/2
* Balance: 1/2

8/10 Great!

What were the odds of two Hunter Secrets being tied? Tourist Trap had the honor to have a tie with my card and clearly deserves it. Awesome flavor, original effect, and discover is common enough for this to be useful and compensate for Hunter's weakness: hand refilling.

The only bad side is that it's leaning not only on OPness but also on serious cancerousness. Being denied a Discover is frustrating enough, but seeing your opponent gain it instead might trigger WW3. I'm not sure I want to see this in the game.

* Gameplay: 1.5/3
* Innovation: 1/3
* Flavor: 2/2
* Balance: 2/2

6.5/10 Nice.

This card is mostly good because of the awesome flavor and because it fits the Priest class very well. Nevertheless it's too simple and not particularily impressive.

* Gameplay: 1.5/3
* Innovation: 0/3
* Flavor: 0/2
* Balance: 1.5/2

3/10 Bad.

That was my theme, so I'm partially to blame here. Still, this card is worse than a vanilla C'Thun buff minion because most 3-Cost bodies aren't worth 3 mana. Also this is the Dark Portal. Nothing to do with C'Thun! I would have liked to see the gates of Ahn'Qiraj!

* Gameplay: 1/3
* Innovation: 3/3
* Flavor: 2/2
* Balance: 1/2

7/10 Good.

An original concept with a flavor that fit them nicely. Sadly, it's a Hunter card. And it costs 6 mana on top of that. Needless to say it would never see play. Hunter is simply not a control class.

* Gameplay: 1/3
* Innovation: 1/3
* Flavor: 1.5/2
* Balance: 2/2

5.5/10 Average.

HAHAHAHA DISCARD WARLOCK! More seriously, although the flavor is good, Discard Warlock is THE archetype Blizzard can't make viable no matter how much they try. This card is unlikely to fix this.

* Gameplay: 1/3
* Innovation: 0/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 1/2

-1 for being a buff to Freeze/Exodia Mage.

2/10 Terrible.

Yay! A counter for Cancer Mage... which is a fucking mage card itself! Apart from that, it's just Dirty Rat for spells. This exact idea pops up regularily and adds nothing but frustration gameplay-wise. Something mage clearly does NOT need.
The card is nice to look at. It has that at least.

* Gameplay: 1/3
* Innovation: 1.5/3
* Flavor: -
* Balance: 2/2

4.5/8 =~ 5.62/10 Average.

I didn't rate this card on flavor because it's a MTG (?) card and I'm not familiar with MTG so maybe it makes sense there.

Gameplay-wise it seems very frustrating and the idea isn't original (as a proof, even I did it once!) however it will sure force some decision-making from your opponent and is particularily effective against token decks. Would def see play if it were in game.

I legit never saw that it looks like "titties" even though I have a dirty mind.

* Gameplay: 3/3
* Innovation: 1/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 0/2

5/10 Average.

I get the idea behind the card: an attack/health swap makes the card hyper-resistant. However it's OP as fuck! First, it's a huge powercreep on Lord of the Arena. Then, it would make both Warrior (because of self-damage) and above all Priest (Inner Fire+Divine Spirit).

The effect isn't very original either, but the restricting theme is mostly responsible for this.

* Gameplay: 0/3
* Innovation: 0/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 1/2

2/20 Terrible.

10 is likely a hard-coded value for both hand size AND mana crystals. Coding an effect like this would be a nightmare (and I'm not even speaking of UI issues on mobile devices!) but that's not the main issue.

The main issue is that these effects are useless most of the time. In the late game, it doesn't make a difference if you have 10 or 11 mana and having 11 cards in your hand won't either. It doesn't do anything!

Also I've seen this effect a thousand times elsewhere.

* Gameplay: 1.5/3
* Innovation: 1.5/3
* Flavor: 2/2
* Balance: 1/2

6/10 Nice.

The card's appeal is obviously due to its flavor. It's one of the few cards with perfect alignment between its punny nature and its actual effect.

With that said, from a purely functional point of view this has issues. First, it would be super broken in arena and would make Paladin even more cancerous than it is right now. It would also be a F2P killer in ladder.

* Gameplay: 3/3
* Innovation: 2/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 2/2

8/10 Great !

Finally a playable Ironbark Protector! Obviously reaching 8 mana gives you plenty of time to draw it and make it just a regular Ironbark, but the ability to choose whether to summon it from your deck when you didn't draw it adds depth and (more) viability to Big Druid.

The only major issue is the condensed card text, but you probably couldn't do otherwise.

* Gameplay: 3/3
* Innovation: 3/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 1/2

8/10 Great !

Again, a card that adds a strategic depth to Druid decks. It's also a very nice twist on the very restrictive "cast this again" theme this card won. Why doesn't it simply cost 2 without the discount though ?

* Gameplay: 1.5/3
* Innovation: -
* Flavor: 0/2
* Balance: 1.5/2

3/7 =~ 4.29/10 Mediocre.

I didn't rate this card on Innovation because the theme (big common minions) didn't really allow innovation.

No, I didn't give this card a mediocre rating just because it beat Megagma Rager but for a combination of factors. Leech Archer leans on the weak side, which might be fair given that it's a common and would be decent in arena. I also don't get the flavor. Is this mob from Legion ?

* Gameplay: 1/3
* Innovation: 0/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 0/2

2/10 Terrible.

Not gonna lie, I really don't like this card. Almost everything is an issue.

1. First, I don't like the idea of giving Rogue effective and unconditional AOEs. Rogue is supposed to be a class with effective single-target removal but with small AOEs.
2. Second, the card could perfectly have been worded "Each enemy minion deals its damage to the minions next to it" or something similar. The wording was all but artificial to fit that week's theme.
3. It's OP as fuck. Especially in arena.
4. The art is from Defias Bandit's art.

I vaguely understood that it's a Star Wars reference, but in terms of in-game flavor there's non.

* Gameplay: 0.5/3
* Innovation: 0/3
* Flavor: 2/2
* Balance: 1/2

3.5/10 Mediocre.

This card has a nice flavor which fits that week's Halloween theme perfectly. But this card has no quality beyond that. When I look at this I see a worse Stubborn Gastropod. And Stubborn Gastropod is bad. It's not even useful for arena since it's an epic.

* Gameplay: 2/3
* Innovation: 1/3
* Flavor: 1/2
* Balance: 2/2

-1 for the shit ton of tokens with ugly art.

5/10 Average.

To be honest if I were to follow only my guts, I would give this a much lower rating. There's just TOO MANY tokens and I don't like the art. But I still considered each aspect independently and was forced to come to the conclusion that it isn't so bad. It's a decent albeit unoriginal card that would certainly be played in Wild Renolock. Mutanus for such an effect seems somethat pertinent.