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I really like the card design competitions (and the Gelbin Mekkatorque's workshop posts too), it is very entertaining to see the new card concepts!

It's like a new expansion every week - except from the fact that we will never be able to play with these cool card-ideas...

I' ve noticed that some of the GvG cards have been reevaluated after the launch of the expansion considering their utility tested during the real practice. So which one were "over-hyped" and which one "under-hyped"?

My list is as follows (based on usage in the most common decks, personal feelings and community thoughts that I read on forums): 

Biggest disappointments: 

- Bouncing Blade: My personal biggest disappointment. I thought this card would be great (and what a cool animation!) but nobody uses it (me included). 

- Mimiron's Head: Mega-Windfury was a popular term before the release, but actually I' ve never seen it in practice a V-07-TR-0N...

- Vol'jin: Actually it is a very good and staple card that can be found in every Priest deck. But there was such a big hype around it before the release, and now nobody is talking about nerfing him. Don't get me wrong, I really like this useful card, but clearly it was "over-hyped". 

(honorable mentions: Gahz'rilla, Feign Death, Recombobulator)

Biggest surprises: 

- Dr. Boom of course! We knew he would be good, but he was not in the center of the attention of the community until the first day after the release. Now he has found place in literally every deck (from control to aggro)... (and soon he will get nerfed :P )

- Troggzor the Earthinator: It was my personal favourite before the release and I think that even now it is really underrated. 

- Neptulon: Another legendary. Nobody thought it would be viable in other than Murloc decks. Murloc decks showed to be not viable, and the Tidehunter showed himself in nearly every Shaman deck. 

(honorable mentions: Piloted Shredder, Bomb Lobber, Goblin Blastmage)

What are your lists?

Another great Colma deck, worked well for me (as his tempo Warrior did several months ago)!

Good job!

Thanks for the feedbacks, I really appreciate and evaluate every comment you made!

I see that the common opinion is quite concordant, so Hogger will wait another bit before appearing in my decks. :)

Thanks again guys!

Finally I got to know what titles mean!

So now let's get started and reach legend! :)

Definitely Bomb Lobber (and moreover it is a neutral card, and only a rare one)!

Honorable mentions: 

Flamecannon (got me a 12-1 arena run, though it cannot be compared to constructed)

Onyxia (no immediate impact, but hard to deal with them, useful especially when you have no board presence)

and Crazed Alchemist, my all-time favourite (insane synergies in Priest and Paladin decks)!

Bonus one: 

King Krush (unfortunately never had it so I've never tried it, but it seems to be viable in control, midrange and even in some aggro decks)

And do not forget Mukla's Big Brother :) (it was the first card I wanted to craft when I started palying HS several months ago until I realized that I cannot have it)

Crazed Alchemist of course!

It has a huge synergy in almost every deck, especially in Priest and Pally decks!

So underrated...

My favourite card in Priest and Pally decks.

Thanks for the upvoting!

Even though murloc decks cannot be taken seriously on the ladder, every match is fun to play, so I appreciate your +1s. 

Thx again!

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So a bit of an explanation of the card.  I won't lie - I have 3 kids running around and don't have the MOST time to spend contemplating potential cards, but I did put some thought into it.

1/3 body looks overpowered - except this is a class card, right alongside Northshire Cleric.  Class cards follow slightly different balance rules for obvious reasons - and I don't feel the effect is absurdly strong.  Most of the time this guy unbuffed won't last long enough past turn 3 to have any favourable trades to even get in position to be healed.  I could see a Pyro/Servant combo I suppose... but even still that a lot of set up for 3-6 damage.

The real situation where this guy shines is early, and on a board that you have some control over.  Dealing the bonus face damage means that only a face priest would ever care about this - limiting the card to aggro decks.  It gives the Priest something to proactively heal and not feel terrible about.

Definitely excited to see other creations - last week blew me away!

Thank you for the deep analysis of why a chow is better than a second FoN in the current meta.

If you don't have dr. boom this is a good second choice. 

Theres a reason why approx. 0.5% players achieve legend when at least 50% would really like to get it.

I thought the deck description was funny (heh.. Sally) but all the comments on how you can simply roll Xixo face hunter and get a much higher than 50% win rate without thinking about anything and eventually get legend - feel free to actually try it. I occasionally run it and after a lot of experience with almost all forms of hunter/aggro' I can confidentaly say each games requires decision making.

It took Xixo less than 24 hours of game play, (less than an hour a day this season for certain legend) - makes you wonder why the legend rate isn't much higher - seems like a lot more than 1% of players would do it... if they could.

My submission is a shaman weapon, simple yet flavorful, the idea behind it is a shaman binds an elemental to a weapon to increase its strength, then when the weapon breaks the elemental is released from its bonds to the weapon. If there's a reason you didn't up-vote it I'd love to know about in in the discussion thread.

Here's what Unbound Elemental looks like if you don't know.

Edit: updated in case it was unclear that overload(2) isn't part of the deathrattle

Edit(2): increased overload to (3)

The problem is, there are so many decks running Big Game Hunter. I have played this card occasionally and it's really sad how many times this happens.. Q.Q

Running a similar deck.  I tried using Ragnaros, but I feel that Cenarius is MUCH more reliable.

Sweet deck dude, whats your opinion on cenaruis? lots of other ramps play him  but I dont own him so I use the same setup of boom/rag and I find it works like a charm because at worst Dr.boom will eat the opponents BGH leaving you with a free rag to do some work.

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