This is the first expansion I've heard people whine about 'forced archetype' so much, is it because it's on the bingo card and everyone suddenly knows what it means?
Blizzard literally always pushes certain types of decks, it is a 100% necessary aspect of the game because it gives classes identity. Ramp Druid is a consistently pushed archetype but nobody bitches about that because it's an integral part of Druid and has been for a long time. Just because DiscoLock is a relatively new thing (though Locks have ALWAYS had discard cards) doesn't somehow make it any more forced than the twenty billion 'forced archetype' cards we've had before.
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7 mana is slow af for hunter ,plus deathrattle make this card worse and reward is summon 1/1 cat (or hound)
i vote Dust it
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This card reminded me to Tomb Pillager
Have good deathrattle and opp know kill it will give you advantage but they cant ignore because aggressive stat ,only (and biggest) difference here is this card only trigger in opp turn
Good card but not auto-include in every deck
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New dr Arena
in constructed we have envenom weapon with same effect and wont see play,or maybe stealth rogue will be a thing ?
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Very versatile card .Not only early board clear but also can synergy with Northshire + CoH when you need draw for combo deck
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Hero card is ok and cool
But hero power seems useless,pay 2 mana to discover a card then pay more mana to playminion is too slow and unnecessary for hunter,like Dinomancy
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Your analyzing is really good (at least for disscusion) but i dont think it will change anything here
People always complain because they want a perfect meta (which will never happen) :
- more class diversity
-more archetype diversity (10 games face 10 diffenrent deck)
-control/slow deck rule all
-more interactive deck
-....
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I feel this is only quest dont push player to play/build specific deck just to get reward
2 Babbling Book and 1 Cabalist's Tome is staple in mage deck nowadays,that mean you already have 5 spells for quest (maybe more if book give you another Cabalist's Tome ) . So now is some addition :
- Primordial Glyph : insane value and give you another spell
- Burgly Bully : Solid body,generate coin to finish quest and combo with Antonidas,i'm pretty sure mage will run this because azure drake no longer exist at 5 mana curve now
- Archmage Antonidas : fireballs are fun,so fun
- Mana Bind : not really good but reliable choice
The hardest part here is spells isnt type of card you want mindless spam,you need it to control board long enough to set up OTK combo not just for quest so this very slow card,how good of this will depend on how fast of meta
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This (and so many retard overcosted hunter cards) is reason why hunter always choose face deck, 5 mana 3/5 draw 2 1 cost minions, what are you doing, Blizzard ?
Why dont make this 4 mana or have beast tag,with a class card i dont see any problem when you do this