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Quote from SDhn2a >>

The one thing in common between all of these mechanics... is that nobody knew how they would pan out, or at least until a couple weeks after the expansion's release.

I'll be honest, I completely forgot about it since it's late at night here. 

EdSoSince TGT, every expansion has had a unique "gimmick" that tried to change things up. For instance, TGT had inspire. 

My person ratings:

TGT Inspire: was so bad. Barely any of the cards saw play. They seemed to be valued based on having the effect being used multiple times, which almost never happened since minions are removed so fast. Probably not surprising since it was their first really new mechanic.

WotOG C'thun: some people found it boring but it did work. Some C'thun decks were pretty competitive. 

LoE discover: seems to be the most popular non-vanilla mechanic since they keep adding more with it. The randomness + actual decision making seems to be a good fit.

MSoG: we all know about Jades. People are certainly divided over it. Even taking out Jade Idol it still worked. Handbuffs were a pretty large disaster since they were uncontrollable. Though the paladin ones of buffing the entire hand may work at one point since it is consistent. Kabal stuff worked pretty well, though only the legendaries encouraged Highlander.

Karazhan portals: sort of a gimmick. Iron forge Portal saw some play, silvermoon useless. Forelands Portal amazing. Maelstrom Portal amazing too. 

Un'goro quests, adapt and elementals: these seem like they worked out pretty balanced. Both are used in T1 decks. A couple quests worked but at least for me, I would've rather seen them be more powerful than they wound up being. Tempo and starting card loss I think is a large reason. 

So will at least some of the Death Knights become meta defining? Same for the LIch King and Arfus cards? 

Edit: I forgot a couple mechanics, added them. 

I think the Death Knight "gimmick" is a lot more likely to be viable than the inspire mechanic was. They at least have a lot of tempo value unlike inspire which was designed under the assumption of minions surviving more than 1 turn which never happened. 

Quote from TrillmaticC >>

My biggest fear is Prince Valanar, I'm pretty OK with the others.

Quote from TrillmaticC >>

My biggest fear is Prince Valanar, I'm pretty OK with the others.

1. Ticking Abomination. 

LIch King because the chance it is in actuality very good and part of the meta is very high. 

Quote from Falbrogna >>

What's with the extremely shitty artwork?

There are like a million of better Lich King pictures out there and this is what they pick?

Why is it not a dragon? 

How many cards are left to be revealed? 

Warlock solely to be a contrarian

Quote from Infirc >>

they're being careful, they don't want to repeat kharazan, boosting the at the time strongest class of the game into even stronger territory, you know how it went: wotg's tier 1  Shamman digievolved into kharazan's  almost  tier 0 shamman.

And token druid is one of the strongest decks in the game right now, they want to give druid some toys to play with without completely breaking token druid.

also as someone else mentioned, redundancy is key in gameplay, what do you thn aggro has worked forever and control only works in some expansions?, blizzard keeps printing weapons and charge minions and refuses to keep printing AoE removal.

Quote from codyischida >>

I think that DK its good because you gain a top hero power early and the game, but the battlecry its so poor, doesn't have enough impact on the board. 

And the problem there is, Justicar was never played for Druid. So it's hard to imagine how the Druid Dk will be that good when it's arguably worse than Justicar. (For that matter, the bodies the Druid DK battlecry gives are worse than Justicar too depending on situation) 

Will evolve actually work? I'd think so but would like cobfirmation