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Exactly this XD

While not necessarily a card you want to put in a deck, I'm super glad this card exists. Now I can make an Exploding Bloatbat + Stubborn Gastropod Zombeast to wipe my opponent's board >:D

Edit: Tested it out myself and this interaction does indeed work! Yay! :D

Been working just fine for me, I've gotten Poisonous + Deathrattle/Battlecry damage with Deathstalker Rexxar numerous times and it destroys any damaged minion. If you still don't believe me, there is a YouTube video that demonstrates the effect:

Question: Will the battle cry only effect the minions currently in the deck, or does the effect treat the deck itself as a "buffed zone" after Prince Keleseth has been played? For example, will new minions shuffled in by Archbishop Benedictus or Dead Man's Hand also receive this buff? Has anyone tried it?

Edit: Tried it, Battlecry's effect seems to only apply to the minions currently in the deck when Keleseth is played. Bummer, there go my hopes for a potential combo :/

Actually they are changing how keywords like Lifesteal and Poisonous interact with Deathrattle effects when the expansion hits. So now Anomalus will heal with Frost Lich Jaina's Lifsteal effect, and Deathrattle damage + Poisonous will kill.

Those saying that this isn't as good as Bloodmage Thalnos seem to be overlooking that Thalnos is a Legendary minion, so of course Thalnos is going to be better value. But the fact that this little COMMON card is even somewhat comparable to a Legendary minion is pretty damn impressive! For new players, this is a great cheaper alternative, and for veteran deck builders, this can be run as a "second/third Thalnos".

Edit: Also worth mentioning that this combos well with Corpsetaker for Control Decks :D

If this had more aggressive stats like 7/7 (to continue the memes) this might not be targeted as hatefully, but as it is the card's only benefit is having +1 attack over a Chillwind Yeti. That is god-aweful for this kind of a drawback!

I don't think there are enough Lifesteal minions to make this card good yet, if it ever will be good.

In a typical Agro Hunter deck this would be a bad card, but I see this could have some great potential in a Control Hunter. As a few others have mentioned it is a flexible card at a cheap mana cost, allowing you to either finish off a minion in the early game, or give one of your 3+ health minions to trade with Poisonous later in the game.

If I open a Deathstalker Rexxar from a pack, I think I might actually try to craft the tools for a Control Hunter :3

The only popular 5+ attack minions I've seen Priests play are Elise the Trailblazer, Drakonid Operative, and Medivh, the Guardian, and most really only run Elise. So unless you are adding in vanilla body minions with higher attack, there is little risk of killing off your own guys.

As a reminder, here is the schedule of events and rewards:

• Grandmasters Week 1 (April 9 – 11) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs
• Grandmasters Week 2 (April 16 – April 18) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 3 (April 23 – April 25) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Masters Tour Orgrimmar (April 30 – May 2) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs
• Grandmasters Week 4 (May 7 – May 9) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Battlegrounds Brawl: Battle of the Boars (May 12) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packs
• Grandmasters Week 5 (May 14 – May 16) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 6 (May 21 – May 23) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 7 (May 28 – May 30) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 8 (Play-offs) (June 4 – June 6) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packs

(Those marked with an * are shared rewards, i.e. you can only get 2 Year of the Phoenix packs at most from all those weeks altogether)

I feel - and this could be wrong and we'll see a meaningful difference - that the Shaman changes missed the mark a little bit, ya know?
Lilypad Lurker wasn't underplayed because its stats were bad, it was already solid on its own.  It was underplayed because elemental synergies are just kind of bad.  They're inflexible and reward making suboptimal plays sometimes.

Tidal Surge should never have costed 4 in the first place, so this is a great change - though I don't think Shaman has the tools to take full advantage of having a decent anti aggro card.  The things Control Shaman needs are absent from the game.

Unbound Elemental is also just... a suboptimal card.  It's a slightly worse Questing Adventurer that demands you play cards with downsides.  Just kind of stinky on the face of it, a single additional attack is nice but I don't see that pushing it into viability.

I wasn't expecting much for Shaman, tbh.  It needs changes way closer to the roots of its design, nothing they could possible change with a regular balance patch.  I'm not disappointed, but I hope more changes come next expansion that involve the whole class, not just cards that don't do well.  Ya know... since the whole class isn't doing well.

I am playing this deck right now and I am quite even on legend rank with it. I don't have second protector and switched it out for that weapon that gives 1+1 after attacking to give a little aggro boost. I must say that in all my games (maybe 8-10) I have never used cthun neither played the protector, because either I get crushed by people that have good removal early. then it doesn't seem to have enough draw to get to your lategame potential with cthun but I will try it out a bit longer... Kazakus is really handy in this deck, can buff your minions or draw you a lot and on curve turn 4 its incredible tempo... so all in all cool deck, will see how we have to adjust a little more :)

Thought I made a comment earlier but I guess it didn't go through. I said that I was excited about this deck and it looked very fun and interesting. Coming back to this post was to give an update. Hearthstone allowed me to queue for a little bit in the last hour and I went 4-0! 2 wins versus Libram Paladin, 1 versus Control Warrior, and 1 versus some sort of spell/control priest. Playing at Diamond 5 right now. The game isn't allowing me to queue anymore but I'll definitely keep playing with the deck. Had a lot of fun. Though the C'Thun cards can feel clunky at times, since the deck is primarily aggressive, they surprisingly helped me out in a few of the games. Super cool deck.

Really interesting deck, nice job! I'm excited to try this out.

Theres 3 Golems you choose from 

(1) Mana Golem 

(5) Mana Golem

(10) Mana Golem

Effects scale on the Mana Cost of the Golem you choose

First pick 1 in a pool of 3 out of 6 possible effects

• Swiftthistle - Rush
• Earthroot - Taunt
• Sungrass - Divine Shield
• Liferoot - Lifesteal
• Fadeleaf - Stealth
• Grave Moss - Poisonous

Second pick 

Wildvine

• Battlecry: Give your other minions +1/+1. / +2/+2 / +4/+4

Gromsblood

• Battlecry: Summon a copy of this.

Icecap

• Battlecry: Freeze a random enemy minion. / 2 enemy minions / 3 enemy minions

Firebloom

• Battlecry: Deal 3 damage to a random enemy minion / 2 minions / 3 minions.

Mageroyal

• Spell Damage +1 / +2 / +4

Kingsblood

• Battlecry: Draw a card. / 2 cards / 4 cards

no no no no NOOOOO! Stop.

I don't want Rogue to keep being a boring face class that nobody even want to play against.

I've played Rogue for years and weapon rogue is the most boring piece of trash to play (that's why I stopped after 3 games where I just won round 5-7). Even Pirate rogue was more fun to play.

Why Blizzard why?

You just did the right move and got rid of most aoe freeze effects and now you bring this shit in :(

i kinda see the patern of card creation here, we've got Grim Rally and later discard version of it Wicked Whispers, we've got also Shriek and now destroy your minion version of it  Grimoire of Sacrifice

Let's just look at the cases:

• 1 mana for +1 attack twice (and +2 armor if Druid rather than DH).  Not bad, stacks with the default weapon for 2-attack swings.  It won't activate cards like 0-mana +1 attack Twin Slice did, and doesn't have the pseudo-ramp effect with DH "when your hero attacks" stuff, but the effect is similar.
• 1 mana for 4 damage to your opponent's face.  SMOrc harder than Sinister Strike.
• 1 mana for 2 damage to any target.  Somewhere between Rapid Fire and Arcane Shot.
• 1 mana for two 1/1 dudes.  Not quite Lost in the Jungle, since it's split up.
• 1 mana for 4 healing.  Probably not as bad as it seems.  Rogues use health as a resource, so often cut it kind of close, but also saving minions in a tempo-based deck can be really useful.  Regenerate wasn't deck-worthy except with obscene combos, but getting it randomly when you need it isn't too bad.
• 1 mana for two totems.  Wicked RNG.  Maybe a Taunt Totem saves your game, maybe it's just trash.  Sigh... Shamans... Sigh...
• 1 mana to draw 2 cards and pay 4 life.  That's pretty solid card draw.  Rogue doesn't hurt for card draw, but this doesn't have to be draw when you don't need it.  Probably not as good as Backfire, but that's the closest comparison.
• 1 mana for 4 Armor.  Mostly pretty bad, but those times when you need it, maybe it makes a difference.  Worse than Iron Hide, and Iron Hide was bad.

This isn't quite as good as "Discover Sinister Strike, Lost in the Jungle, Rapid Fire, pre-change Twin Slice, Iron Hide, Regenerate, or Backfire.  It costs 0 mana."  But that card would be OP.

Like, just about all the outcomes of this card are fairly good.  Warrior and Shaman are pretty bad, Priest is pretty situational.  But most of the other effects are kinda nice, and the chances of getting *only* the bad effects, and none of the good options, is probably pretty low.