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Quote from Fakerino >>

 So how is this better than Barnes? It costs 2 more and does pretty much the same thing. 

Even stats wise barnes is 3/4+1/1 = 4/5. So you pay 2 mana for +1 attack. Wow.

Yes. The Rotface card is packaged in with the Breath of Sindragosa card on the front page. It was in a silly video the team made where Arthas got a job at Blizzard and he was criticizing a few cards. 

Quote from Lordinaryus >>

According to Trump's accidental warrior DK leak, your passive will be dual weapon wielding so this card is really good.

I mean... why is a Snowfury Elemental getting cost reduction based on Overlord and not freeze effects? Especially when one of the new theme for Shaman has been to push for freezing effects this expansion. I guess there weren't enough to make it viable? But still, this should have been a Storm Giant in that case (which definitely exist in Northrend).

Quote from hillandder >>

The battlecry is great, equip a 5/3 wepon + 5 life from lifesteal + 5 armor.

The hero power is bad, if you summon 4 2/2 minions and opponent cannot do anything you win anyway.

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Quote from Hctaz >>

The lifesteal board clear is pretty good against aggro and with Thalnos which is a deathrattle. Maybe the quest makes a revival somehow. Also let's not forget how mega fucking OP N'zoth will be if you have multiple copies of that 4/8 priest card die. 

 

Don't discredit the new dragons as well. Might benefit Dragon Priest even. There are a couple of different things going for it. The new jade idol counter card as well. You can afford to play a deck that punishes aggro and all but nearly guarantees you make it into the late game now because you don't have to worry about Jade druid infinitely jading you in the face. 

 

I actually play a lot of Reno Quest Priest and Dragon Priest in Wild, so the new deathrattles and dragons do intrigue me and I think they may find their place. Funnily enough, they aren't Priest cards!

But my hopes are lying on Shadowreaper Anduin in a Reno deck with Raza the Chained, it's all just theory at this point but it seems like it could be very fun to play. Forgotten cards like Spawn of Shadows and Nexus-Champion Saraad may have found their purpose.

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Quote from Castigation >>

Yeah, it's underwhelming and quite frankly pretty dull. Least hype expansion ever for me. Not to mention all the fucking RNG, I had some hopes we where getting beyond that shit. But nope, Blizzards idea of fun is still a clown fiesta. 

 just pulling up ungoro, every class has something good honestly. or at least something to build decks around. I feel like this set really doesn't have that. I like cards to build interesting types of decks with that are new, not just insert a few cards into the current meta which feels like this is whats happening.

Quote from Tykaine >>

As a Priest main, feeling rather bittersweet with these cards. Shadowreaper Anduin the potential is there, but the reality remains to be seen. Obsidian Statue seems decent, but I have a personal phobia of cards costing 9 mana, it's the no-man's land between 8-10.

Everything else seems somewhat unimpressive. 

But I felt the same with Un'goro, and it actually turned out to be a fairly decent period for Priests. I can admit when I am wrong.

Quote from SHWC >>

I am not sure whether this kind of stuff is healthy to the game or not.

If control mage and/or secret mage dominates the game, people will tech Eater of Secrets

If pirate warrior goes crazy, people will tech Golakka Crawler and the same case goes for murloc paladin as Hungry Crab

But the cards above are just once off, I mean you only eat a pirate, a murloc and the secrets that are on the battlefield, while this new card from KRT has whole-game impact that destroy all 1 cost spells in hands and both in decks once after it is played

This card could be good especially for tackling down jade druid for example, but it appears to me that it is slightly unhealthy as a way to balance the game

Quote from Rimousqui >>

I think Evolve Shaman will suffer more than Jade Druid from it. Even if played on curve, Jade Druid will be able to get some 6/6 and 7/7 Golems in a few turns, but turn 6 is the first turn where the Shaman can do the Doublegangster combo, and if it is not already played, he his ruined.

Quote from Zebrahead12 >>

Skulking Geist

they just revealed the counter^^

Quote from s3dralius >>

So maybe you pay 4 mana for another mana wyrm?5 mana for another sorcerer's apprentice..?Maybe in some deck archetypes will be useful but doubt it..Let's see!I can't see this card's value right now...

This card is iffy. It would need to be something like "Freeze an enemy minion. At the start of your next turn, take control of it" to be playable I think. Cool concept but as is it probably won't be very good.

I like how it can act as removal for big 4 attack minions but there's a pretty heavy flaw. The reason mind control is not really played is because you have to commit your whole turn to it. With this card, you have 4 mana leftover on turn 10 to do whatever you want with it... but what would you even want to do with 4 mana? Heal yourself? You obviously wouldn't play any minions because your opponent would just trade off his big guy so you can't take it or would use it to kill your minion and weaken the one you're getting. Big value for him. So then what's the ideal turn 10? This and the 4 mana heal 12? Seems bad. Same issues as mind control. You devote your whole turn to this and passing basically but at least mind control immediately removes the card. 

Interesting idea that will get completely lost on page twelve: Why not treat this card as a pseudo Entomb? Remember when control priest was a deck that played with no win condition against other control decks but just stole two of them off of the opponent? I could see this being something like that though I'm not sure how a control mirror would honestly go. It's obviously less reliable than entomb but also more proactive. If you're playing a control mirror and your opponent's strong minions are at the very bottom of his deck then this allows you the possibility of scooping them out of there first. With Entomb you'd just be staring at each other for 8 turns of nothing potentially. Not sure though I guess we'll have to playtest

TL;DR theory is you build a priest deck that absolutely crushes aggro decks and play this card to make sure you don't get destroyed by midrange or other control decks who opt to include more game winning cards like Ysera in them. 

Quote from SammoTD >>

Most games it is simply a vanilla minion because you don't draw all your deck.