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This card is bonkers with all the other Shaman freeze effects.

Strong card all around. We’ll be seeing this card in every Mage deck until it rotates out.

Love the art on this! Also yeah, it curves right into Nourish.

Am I crazy, or is Windchill a stupidly powerful card?

Freeze Shaman might actually be legit……..

I don't think any card is outright broken. 

A tier: Xyrella: Very strong card. If you pump in enough death rattles, this can swing the game decisively in your favor. Deathrattles in standard are varied and strong, allowing you everything from board clears, to AoE health restore, to minion summons, to card draws, etc. Priests also have more than enough ability to stall games to stack in plenty of death rattles. The hero power is stupidly strong, and can keep the game running longer than it should. This is easily one of the best (if not THE best) hero card this expansion.

Scabbs: The return of Vanish and free Preparation every turn. Topped off with 2 stealth minions that will almost assuredly stick around to deal damage. Like Xyrella, one of the best, if not the best hero card. 

Kurtrus: The hero power is borderline broken. If you allow a DH to get a wide board at any point and this is active, you're dead.

Brukan: This one is kind of between A and B-tier for me. I think people are really sleeping on this card. The battlecry is pretty nuts and can be repeated by Brilliant McCaw, and the hero power is pretty much 1/2 the battlecry each turn. I really don't see how a card this flexible and with this much output won't find its way into most Shaman decks.

B tier: Cariel: Good card. I think people are a bit overreacting with this card's power level. The weapon is weak, despite being infinite, and the hero power is slow. If you're ahead, this will keep you ahead. However, if you're behind, this isn't a game changer that will help you win the game.

Guff: Solid card. My only concern is how slow this might be. That said, a Druid with 20 mana and reliable card draw is an extremely scary thought.

C tier: Tamsin: The battlecry gives you soooo much value, however why would you play this when you can just run quest instead?

D tier: Dawngrasp: While I believe in the big spell mage archetype, this hero card is lacking. The battlecry is random, and the hero power is way too slow.

Tavish: Upgraded secrets are okay, but nothing amazing. The hero power being 3 mana is kind of dumb. Summoning an Animal companion isn't going to swing the game. Honestly, the BC should have been 3 upgraded secrets and 2 mana HP.

F tier: Rokara: Weapon only gets two swings, which is ridiculous considering that it is the only battlecry for the hero card. The hero power is good, but situational, and WAY weaker than other hero powers. By far the weakest hero card in the expansion.

Quote from Shipmen >>

DM's quest was probably the worst. This hero card seems the best of the expansion. They are in compensation. 

Anyway,  it is still unclear how the demons from the hero power are improved. 

 The DH quest was so bad that even the Warlock weapon Runed Mithril Rod was better.

I’d really like to know how the 2 Demons summoned by the Battlecry are improved. Obviously it’s stats, but I’m still curious.

That hero power is nasty. You cannot allow a DH with that hero power to get a wide board.

Quote from TundrazZ >>

This is garbage. 8 mana runed orb, ignite your face, and cast a brainfreeze or frost secret. That or you play big spell mage, a deck that will not be good. And the HP is way too slow. Mage will be dumpster tier.

 Yeah, this hero card is kind of weak in comparison to the Shaman and Priest hero cards.

The fact that it only hits enemies makes this a crazy ass spell. Also the new mage legendary can discount this to 5 mana.

And a turn one with lightning bloom.

Quote from Sherman1986 >>

Honestly, if I had to really choose sides between this "evil corporation" (as thebitterfig loves to call Bli$$ard) and silly people acting as if they cared about others problems by doing stupid things (such as not revealing some digital cards from a video game), damn, I think I would join the Dark Side in a blink!

Sorry, but hypocrisy and stupidity combined are too much for me. Gladly, I don't have to choose. :P

 I hate that I agree with Sherman, but when you’re right, you’re right.

Quote from thebitterfig >>

The forum hates Bliz for even daring to release Mercenaries.  They can see Bliz is just another evil corporation for that.

But the instant it comes time to choose between an evil business and the victims of a CEO who literally threatened to kill someone on an answering machine (that is to say, it's absolutely been proven since there was a recording!), well, folks line right back up behind the evil corporation.

No one here is supporting this "evil corporation", we are just annoyed by the fact no one is boycotting Blizzard appropriately.

A bunch of hypocrites (I'm talking about some streamers, pro players, etc.) acting as if they cared by doing stupid things such as not revealing some cards don't help anyone. It's pathetic to say the least.

The worst part is some people out there probably believes these clowns are genuinely concerned about all this...

Jesus, I want to vomit!

Wow, refusing to reveal your digital card? People here acting like they are saving the world and ending sexism by doing this little protest and then coming back a few days later to keep doing the same thing as before. Congratulations! You get a gold star. We saw this exact thing happen last time and what exactly did it accomplish? Just reveal the card so i can get on with life, I don't really care for your politics. Hypocrites.

Quote from SnowRabbit >>

These "influencers" are hypocrites, In Brazil, my country, this being called "Lacração" is as if it were a response action to appear politically correct before a community. But these actions are worthless and only harm people. If you really want to boycott, the ideal is to stop playing blizzard games or stop producing content and monetizing the company's content that they criticize so much.

 

That would be a very hard choice to make, considering they make a living playing Hearthstone. But I agree with you, they are hypocrites whose actions only harm the community.

Months ago it was ok to try to boycott Blizzard at all cost, but by this time streamers, pro players, etc. should have developed better forms of protest. Obviously, they didn't, because they are hypocrites who really don't give a single f..k about what is happening and only care about their fake public image.

These "influencers" are hypocrites, In Brazil, my country, this being called "Lacração" is as if it were a response action to appear politically correct before a community. But these actions are worthless and only harm people. If you really want to boycott, the ideal is to stop playing blizzard games or stop producing content and monetizing the company's content that they criticize so much.

Let's boycott the boycotters. They are punishing us, innocent players that just want to see some new cards. What they think they will achieve with this? So we know about some problems within Blizzard? And what can we do about it? Nothing. So dear streamers and content creators, please stop with this. You are only annoying players that have nothing to do with it.

First they are not the same people. A lot of us want to know what decks we can build when the expansion dropps.

Second its childish to punish the community for blizzards actions because blizz dont care if they make a review of it or not. We do.

Third point: stop making game political playgrounds. A lot of people are just here to look at the new cards and have a good time.

Hopefully the virtue signaling will subside soon and the cards will be revealed because no one really knows the facts and in the end other than maybe a few moral busybodies no one really gives a shit either.

Literally, there are some people who do not care, we have our own problems we have to face. I expect after a hard day of work to come back home and see the staff that I am interested. I don't take anyone's side until I see a full investigation from the authorities. The whole hype around this upcoming expansion is ruined because of some people like them who draw to conclusions too early.