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Guys, Team 5 isn't always just going to HoF something just because it has a place in most or all of one class' deck types, otherwise there would be justification to remove almost every basic and classic class card that doesn't outright suck.

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I don't feel that it is healthy or smart design practice to get rid of staples in order to justify why a card should be added to the game that will only be a part of standard temporarily and then will need replacing with a similar type of minion/spell later on once the temporary cards rotates to wild).

 You are right. It is neither smart nor healthy. But Team 5 seems to disagree. They target cards specifically because they are staples and they apparently don't mind replacing them afterwards, sometimes contradicting their own statements. Just look at what I wrote above about AoL and UI.

Here is another excerpt from the same Interview:

"When we changed Keeper of the Grove and Ancient of Lore, the goal was for Druids to have more interesting decisions to make when deckbuilding rather than a large group of cards to be automatically included. Even though those cards changed, there are still some other offenders of this such as Innervate or Swipe…and Wild Growth to a lesser degree. Having some powerful cards that help define what makes a class different can be good, but those cards in particular have spawned a number of internal conversations where we have been weighing the upside and downside to having each as a part of Druid for Hearthstone eternity."

He worries about Swipe, thinking it's unhealthy to have it as a staple. Do you want to know why it's a staple and oftentimes an auto-include? Because any AoE-spell for board control is important, especially in any slower deck (which Druid was originally intended to play) and there is zero, none, not a SINGLE alternative EVER released for Swipe in almost 4 years. The only existing alternative is the classic Starfall... which was nerfed many years ago and is helplessly outdated by modern standards, just as Holy Nova. But his issue is, that Swipe sees too much play and would always be in Standard. That is the ONLY reason.

And if the designers think that evergreen staples are bad for Standard, it is no surprise that many here suspect that more evergreen staples would get thrown out of the format one way or another for just the same reason.

That's a good card. 

There are no problematic basic ir classic cards remaining therefore no justification to Hof anything.

The mark of a badly designed card is one that is broken at a certain Mana cost, and total shit if it costs (1) more.

Why are you bragging about getting rank 5?

They should have just done this a year ago. It would have avoided so many unnecessary nerfs and card designs. Ridiculous.

What a joke. More bullshit changes that don't address the root problems.

This would be the final nail in the coffin for so many players. 

The past Hof rotations did nothing to fix the game. They should carefully consider just throwing more cards out of standard after assuring the playerbase that classic/basic would be evergreen.

3 as a PC game 7.5 as a phone game

Classes like shaman, priest and warlock that are so dependent on expansions will always be feast or famine. They can't just give Superior cards to these classes every expansion to make up for bad evergreen tools, so they will always either be dominating or totally unplayable.

Blizzard seems to be thinking that nerfing all the good evergreens will fix this, but it's just going to create more classes that have no real identity and whose success relies on getting some broken gimmick every expansion

In Hearthstone, whenever a new expansion/adventure is released, we encountered with inconsistent card texts. I think, it can be confusing sometimes (It hasn't happened to me, yet) and it's hard for new players to understand the mechanics of Hearthstone.

I am going to list some inconsistencies in HS:

1. Druid of the Claw

Druid of the Claw's text says "Choose One - Charge; or +2 Health and Taunt" which is similar to Ancient of War. However this ability is same type with Druid of the Flame or Druid of the Saber. (three of them transforms into new minion - those three also have a unique form with Fandral Staghelm, however Druid of the Claw doesn't contain "Transform" in its text.)

So, it should be "Choose One - Transform to gain Charge; or +2 Health and Taunt" which is like Druid of the Saber.

2. Wickerflame Burnbristle

Wickerflame Burnbristle's healing ability is actually same as Mistress of Pain but they have completely different format of card texts. Wickerflame Burnbristle's card text is shorter, so Mistress of Pain's card text also should be "Damage dealth by this minion also heals your hero."

3. Put it into battlefield -> Summon

Previous text of this effect can be seen -> Deathlord, Ancestor's Call, Mysterious Challenger, Mad Scientist, Desert Camel, Deathwing, Dragonlord, Voidcaller, Varian Wrynn, Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound; Mindgames*. (Cards I remembered and found)

Then -> Dirty Rat, Patches the Pirate, Finja, the Flying Star, Krul the Unshackled; Barnes*.

Except *marked ones, all of the cards listed pull a card from deck/hand and play it immediately (without activating battlecries). *Marked ones copy a card from deck/hand and play it. In Karazhan and MSoG, they replaced the wording "put from deck/hand" into "summon from deck/hand".

I think, "Summon from your deck/hand." text is shorter and better than "Put it into the battlefield from your deck/hand."  The listed cards' text can be changed into "Summon from your hand/deck."

4. Auchenai Soulpriest

Embrace the Shadowgrants same effect of Auchenai Soulpriest for a turn. However,  their texts are slightly different. Auchenai Soulpriest reads "Your cards and powers that restore Health now deal damage instead." while Embrace the Shadow reads "... your healing effects deal damage instead." Like the other examples, shorter and clearer version of text can be chosen instead of using two different texts for same effect.

Auchenai Soulpriest also contains "... power ..." word. When we look at other cards that mention about Hero Power always written as "... Hero Power ..." with capital letters. For example, Prophet Velen, Raza the Chained.

5. Battlecry/Deathrattle

There are slightly different inconsistencies about these types of specifications:

• Museum Curator, Journey Below -> "Deathrattle card"
• N'Zoth, the Corruptor, Forlorn Stalker, Lil' Exorcist -> "Deathrattle minion"
• Defias Cleaner, Undertaker, Scarlet Purifier -> "minion with Deathrattle" (change to "Deathrattle minion")
• Crowd Favorite -> "card with Battlecry" (change to "Battlecry card")
• Rumbling Elemental, Blubber Baron -> "Battlecry minion"
• Nerub'ar Weblord -> "minion with Battlecry" (change to "Battlecry minion")

As an extra (it is probably intentional) -> Brann Bronzebeard and Baron Rivendare texts.

6. Others

• "ALL minions" (Doomsayer, Whirlwind, Dread Infernal) etc. -> "All minions" (Revenge, Abyssal Enforcer) etc.. Effecting "all characters/minions" at first, they written in all capitals.
• 'Fireball' in Archmage Antonidas, 'Map to the Golden Monkey' in Elise Starseeker etc. -> 'Arcane Missiles' in Rhonin, 'Golden Monkey' in Map to the Golden Monkey. Shuffled cards into your deck are mostly written between interved commas except those two.
• Darnassus Aspirant reads "Lose a Mana Crystal" while Felguard and Blastcrystal Potion reads "Destroy one of your Mana Crystals."

They are the examples of inconsistency in Hearthstone. I don't know if you care about these kind of stuff but I just want to write them to bring attention for :)

I also added a poll to know what are you thinking.

Edit: If you know other inconsistencies, just let me know and I will add them.

Thank you for reading.

You finally realize something many of us did a long time ago. Never pay money for expansions or packs. At least not in Hearthstone. It is one thing if you are buying a set and know you are getting every card, it another thing to throw away money in a slot machine in hopes of winning big. Hearthstone sells expansions like the music industry sold CDs. A few big hits that you hear all the time and remember fondly, and the rest was loaded with crap to give a percieved amount of value. 

They purposely printed cards like Weasel, Shadow Rager, Ferryman etc. And i have tried to have fun with some of them. The problem is that Team 5 is upset that we are playing classic cards over their new cards and now they want to nerf or rotate out "problem cards". Excuse me, but you can't sit there and knowingly make bad cards then wonder why everyone still plays Miracle in rogue filled with mostly classic cards. You can't create a few ultra competitive cards for some classes, and none for others then be pissed that those other classes are falling back on the classic set. Blizzard hypocrisy. Do one thing and say something else. If they destroy classic, it is likely some classes will become even worse and for what? Making the game fresh? Do that in your expansions, quit permanently killing archetypes ffs.

TL;DR: I am an average player who reached Legend for the first time and I share my honest opinion about the climb. Key words are time-consuming, luck and focus. I also mention some tips.

 Why am I writing this?

I promised myself that if I reached Legend this month, I would write an honest summary of the experience. I have read and heard so many different tips on how to reach legend, that I did not know what to believe. I also got tilted when I followed said advice and it didn’t work. I wanted to hear from someone honest what the climb was really about.

Background:

I am a 29 year old engineer who plays Hearthstone intermittently. I have played since beta and have tried for Legend three times including my successful attempt (April 2015, September 2016 and December 2016). I have 4086 registered wins in Ranked games and 167 wins in Arena (which I rarely play). I would consider myself an average player (maybe even average+). I play on EU.

The road to Legend:

My attempt in April 2015 was a short one. I got to rank 5 with Zoolock and when I didn’t make it to rank 4 the same day (lost against the rank 5 boss), I gave up.

My attempt in September 2016 was painful. I really went for it, but it was hard to progress as everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) was playing Midrange Shaman. I posted a message on Hearthpwn “Looking for coach”. I wanted to know what I was doing wrong, I was stuck at ranks 5-3, having played 143 games since reaching rank 5, going 71-72 (~50% winrate). I got a friendly soul to coach me for about 3 hours, but sadly we made little progress. I finally gave up.

See the attachments for stats and "Rank vs Day"-chart.

For my successful attempt in December 2016, I registered 753 games going 381-372 (51% winrate). The decks I played were Dragon Warrior (310 games: 171 – 139; 55%), Dragon Priest (127 games: 60-67; 47%), Pirate Rogue (117 games: 61-56; 52%), Renolock (95 games: 39-56; 41%), Pirate and Midrange Shaman (58 games) and Pirate and Tank-up Warrior (42 games). My deck tracker records this as 82.3 hours of in-game time. Based on my own notes, I spent about 130 hours in front of the computer playing Hearthstone over 28 days.

Climbed to Rank 13 using a Astral Communion druid. Got to rank 5 using Renolock and Dragon Warrior on the 7^th of December. Went to rank 4, but didn’t progress. Changed to Dragon Priest and tried some Pirate Shaman, no progress. Continued using Dragon Priest and went down to rank 7, playing mostly on full tilt. I was about to give up. Climbed back up to 5 with Dragon Warrior. Tried Pirate Rogue and went down to rank 8 (full tilt). Tried different decks the next days, mostly Renolock and Pirate Shaman, went back to 5. Decided to only play 1 deck: Dragon Warrior. Went steadily up to rank 1. Fell down to rank 2 and back up to rank 1 for 3 days until I changed to Pirate Rogue to reach Legend on the 28^th of December (there were mostly Pirate Shamans that day).

Some facts:

• Grinding to Legend is exactly that: a grind. It was not fun, nor challenging, it just took a long time.
• Hearthstone is 30% skill, 70% luck. Many games are decided already on mulligan or turn 2. RNG cards may decide the game including Ragnaros, Sylvanas, Mind Control Tech,… Whether the Shaman hits Spell Power Totem decides the match. If you are an average player, you will get a 50% winrate. You need more than luck to get above 50%: you need skill, focus and more luck.
• Hearthstone has existed for a while now, so many players have now reached the skill cap for their favourite decks (not too hard to get there). That is why many games in rank 5 and above are purely luck and draw related.
• Queue RNG. When the meta hasn’t completely settled, queue RNG may decide the game before it even began. I would therefore chose a deck that does well all around, a deck you master or the counter to the most prevalent deck (easier said than done).
• Aggro meta. The most prevalent decks will most likely always be aggro decks. As mentioned before, since grinding to legend is mostly about luck and time, it is more effective to use an aggro deck, since the games are shorter.
• Getting to rank 5 is the easy part. You might get halted at 2 or 3 ranks prior to that, but you will reach rank 5 soon enough. If you are really struggling get to rank 5, you are doing something wrong and you will not get to Legend.

My best tip:

• Don’t overthink it! If you play around everything, you will make sub-optimal plays. Take chances. I had a significantly higher winrate when I was having fun and making some risky plays. At the end of the day, this game is an RNG-fest; embrace it.

Obvious tips:

Again: since this game is mostly about luck, these tips will only increase your winrate slightly. Nevertheless, I would deem them completely necessary.

• Use a deck tracker. Be mindful of chances of draws.
• When falling behind, take the time to look at your win conditions. Change your plan accordingly.
• Always squelch on curve. The only thing that can happen from allowing your opponent to emote is you losing your concentration or getting tilted.
• Do not play when you are unfocused (tilted, tired, intoxicated, …). It will result in misplays. Never play on tilt! Take a break, even when you are only slightly angry.
• Learn to play your decks. It will take you many games to play perfectly with each deck. Use the early ranks to practice with new decks if you are going to use more than one deck.
• Learn the deck lists by heart. You should know what the opponent is likely to play next. Just visit any site like Tempostorm or Hearthpwn where people netdeck the most.
• Try not to switch decks. Play around 30 games before changing decks.
• The mulligan is very important. Many games are decided on the mulligan. Pay attention to your opponent’s mulligan. If he changed all his cards, you can probably be more aggressive and take the board early.
• Have a friend spectate you and (s)he might root out some of your repeating misplays and errors. Personally, I was taught I played to defensively and ought to mix it up a little.

Things I’ve tried that didn’t work:

• Logging every opponent and deck type so that if I met them again, I would know how to mulligan. I have only met the same opponent twice and one of these times, he had changed decks. A waste of time.
• Counter-queuing. Using the decktracker I would see which deck was the most used and queue its counter. In theory this should have worked, but I only ended up getting countered myself. I had to stick to one deck. Maybe it was because the meta changed fast due to the new expansion.
• Netdeck the “70% WR Best Deck for This Meta”. Changing decks didn’t help me. Playing consistently with an all-around deck got me to Legend. The guy who shared the deck either is a pro or got very lucky.
• Use Twitch streamers decks. I learned this a long while ago, but it is still worth mentioning. Popular Twitch streamers use entertaining decks to get views. Who wants to watch 300 games with aggro Shaman? This is especially true at legend rank, where everything is fun and games. You can copy their decks if they are using it at about the same rank as you with success (if you are at Rank 4, find a streamer that’s at rank 4 on the same region as you and copy his deck if he is doing well).

Why did it take you so long to get to Legend? / You suck!

It is a mix of playing when I shouldn’t (tilted, demotivated, trying new decks), being an average player and bad luck?

When you get to rank 1, do you get a lot of wintrades?

Here are my stats against Legend players (ranks 7000 -9000+):

Wins: 13

Losses: 11

Wintrades: 1

I was surprised by the lack of goodwill from dumpster Legend players.

How did it feel reaching Legend?

I was not proud. I was happy I didn’t have to play Hearthstone anymore. I was relieved I managed to reach the goal I had put so many hours into.

Any tips for NA?

I wouldn’t be able to confirm that it is way easier on NA as I haven’t tried reaching Legend there.

I feel like this commercial was made by Forsen twitch chat, it's pure cancer lul

This is a simple idea, which is usually not my thing.  Tell me what you think.  

control deck like Reno crush jade idol. jade idol really gimmick and most of them play 1 gadget only and depend on early ramp. really useless when ramp card or gadget in bottom of deck. reno deck just drop on curve and crush all the druid

totally free win.

u guy loses because unlucky or skill problem. Reno lock and control deck hard to pilot compare to face deck.

common mistake by inexperience player. 

1) waste removal when play Reno deck. ie: only 2-2 jade golem in board. clear with shadow bolt.  or 2 minion in board clear with shadow flame. 

2) greedy keep too many card in hand. very common in low rank. play any deck skip 5 turn by press hero power. turn 6 drop 3 minion. hope opponent no answer and press concede. loses to aoe board clear. QQ thread about how op the board clear or xxx class so op.

3) overextend in board. get clear by board clear. ie Brawl. i remember last time i play cw vs reno lock. 80% loses match up but i win because opponent drop 5 high cost minion  and get brawl. open QQ thread again complain brawl op.

4)using gimmick reno deck list. ie Nzoth, cthun, reno, demon lock. how you going to win when the deck so greedy and draw dependent.

Hello hpwn community. I come to you with my own guide to MSOG where I give you a short analysis of each card followed by a rating from 1 to 10. The purpose of this is to share my perspective and some of my knowledge so that you may then judge for yourself which cards to bet on and seek an advantage over the other players by playing the best cards. I have done a card review before but it was a community effort in which I had the last word - we ended up with a ~75% prediction rate and therefore it is not reasonable to expect much better from this review. I will review in the same order and using the same categories as the Gadgetzan Guide on this website.

Now then, to the review.

Grimy Goons

Don Han'Cho

It has a 5 mana body and a buff that would be worth 5 mana if it worked like the regular buffs, but it doesn't, since regular buffs have "charge" and thus allow for value trades / collecting face damage on the turn they are played. Because of this, the buff is worth considerably less unless the target minion has charge, in which case it should get full value (5 mana) and make this card 3 mana above curve. Since this kind of decks tend to be quite minion heavy but not necessarily charge-heavy (see the Dragon Warrior archetype) you are likely to almost never be able to guarantee that the buff hits a charge minion and thus there will more often than not be some RNG on the way (you are likely to topdeck minions going into turn 7 even if you want to play all your other stuff before you play this). Thus, outside of the hypothesis of building a combo deck around this that gets full value of the buff, this card isn't very impressive, but it has the potential to build a deck around because it cheats mana.

7/10

Grimestreet Smuggler

2.5 mana worth of a body and less than 1 mana worth of a buff outside of charge minions makes this card not good enough to see competitive play.

4/10

Grimestreet Informant

This is an expensive discover but most discover cards seem to be undercosted due to the fact that they hide information and this can be a very powerful attribute. I would say this is a more balanced discover card that discovers worse cards because they are cards that more often than not do not synergize with your class which turns this card into a much worse Babbling Book (you only get 1 mage card from book, its always a spell and it costs you 1 mana less).

3/10

 The Kabal

Kabal Chemist

2.5 mana body with a random battlecry. Babbling Book gives you a random mage spell and you pay about 0.5 for this, while with Chemist you pay 1.5 for a potion. There are 10 potions and among them there is Potion of Madness, Greater Healing Potion, Dragonfire Potion and Felfire Potion. So I would say you are paying 1.5 mana for a 40% chance of getting a game changing potion. People play cards with worse odds (hello again Babbling Book) but 0.5 to 1.5 is a big difference and might be the reason why this doesn't make it into the better lists. You pay too much and there are some really bad potions.

4/10

Kazakus

Let's look at a list of all the options:

• Heart of Fire – Deal 3/5/8 damage.
• Stonescale Oil – Gain 4/7/10 Armor.
• Icecap – Freeze 1/2/3 random enemy minions.
• Netherbloom – Summon an (2/2)/(5/5)/(8/8) Demon.
• Mystic Wool – Transform none/one random/all minions into 1/1 Sheep. (not available for 1 mana)
• Kingsblood – Draw 1/2/3 cards.
• Shadow Oil – Add 1/2/3 random Demons to your hand.
• Goldthorn – Give your minions +2/4/6 Health.
• Felbloom – Deal 2/4/6 damage to all minions.
• Ichor of Undeath – Summon 1/2/3 friendly minions that died this game.

It seems that whenever you pick a 5-cost spell its always above curve, but you need to get a bit lucky with the 10-cost spell and get that AOE poly or the 6-dmg AOE to get the most out of him. Ultimately this would have a lower power level than Reno Jackson if it were not a battlecry, but getting 2 spells out of this in control match ups in combination with Brann Bronzebeard is insane and the 5-cost spell can be game changing. However, its the highroll that makes it great and there is some hype about this card while it certainly doesn't justify running no duplicates in your deck by itself, but Reno does.

8/10

Kabal Courier

See Grimestreet Informant - this is worse because you play it for the discover not for the body.

2/10

Jade Lotus

Aya Blackpaw

The statline would be bad if it didn't have a deathrattle, but the deathrattle means you want this to die so the 3-health are fine and the 5-atk are good enough to trade into most minions at this point. 6-drops which are played in constructed are usually high value and often 2+ above curve (Drakonid Crusher, for example, is a 6 mana 9/9 when played for its full value, and Savannah Highmane has 19 stat points distributed between its bodies, although you could argue the hyenas are worth closer to 3 than 3.5 due to stat distribution), so that for this to be good enough the Jade Golems need 9 stat points combined between them. Therefore the first Jade Golem needs only to be a 2/2 for this to be worth playing. Another important advantage is that you will often need 2 cards to deal with her which adds even more value. For these reasons this card is very powerful and if the Jade Golem mechanic proves to be good enough it will definitely be one of the most powerful cards in the expansion.

9/10

Lotus Agents

Bad statline. Body worth 3.5 but not really because it only has 3 health which is cheaper to deal with than a better 3.5 body. I would argue the discover is therefore more costly than 1.5 which is already bad imo, making this card a terrible one.

1/10

Jade Spirit

The golem needs to be a 3/3 for this to be worth playing (2/3 + 2/2 is worse than Chillwind Yeti). Usually you wont have a 3/3 by 4 since you draw 7 cards by 4 and thats about 1/4 of your deck while you run at most 4 Jade Golem cards that come before Jade Spirit. As a general rule you're losing board in the first 2 Jade Golem cards you play and your opponent will be making favorable trades which makes the 2/3 pretty bad.

4/10

Druid

Kun the Forgotten King

Free 7/7 but only free on 10+ which makes it not as good as Arcane Giants which can be played for any cost at any turn. A free 7/7 that is a dead card for a good part of the game is not relevant enough to put into your deck. The 10 armor is worth 3 mana which would make it a 7 mana 7/7. Awful card unless you want to play ramp Druid where you Nourish for crystals, then its playable but it doesn't seem great.

4/10

Lunar Visions

There is Arcane Intellect to compare this to, and this is about as good as intellect if you can take full value out of one discount. Cheating mana can be very powerful so there's highroll potential, but on an average game you want a good chance at getting 2 discounts so your deck has to be minion heavy. Ramp Druid does suffer from card draw as it uses Nourish for crystals so this card could see play in the right decklist. Even in ramp Druid, its hard to run this many minions so its probably not good enough.

5/10

Pilfered Power

You don't have minions by 3 in a deck that wants to ramp, come on.

1/10

Virmen Sensei

The body is worth 4 mana and the buff is worth about 2 mana. Its also the 2nd one of the kind, the other one being Mark of Y'Shaarj. This is a good buff to beast Druid but maybe its not enough to keep up with the increased power level of other archetypes. Nevertheless its a great addition.

8/10

Celestial Dreamer

Can't be played on 3. Could be good tempo on 5 but the condition of a 5-atk sticking to the board going into 5 is unlikely to be met. It could be played with buffs. Needless to be said that you need to conquer some board presence in a deck that plays this, so something along the lines of beast Druid. If the conditions are met, its 1.5 above curve which is amazing. As of now there are 2 good buffs to do this which are Mark and the new 5-drop, Virmen Sensei. For an 8 mana combo it is not good enough. With Mark its pretty decent but there are only 2 of those. Therefore this card should be unplayable in the current state of the game.

3/10

Jade Idol

Its cheap, which is what we want for Jade Golems, and it has "infinite" potential value (should the games go to fatigue, which they shouldn't). My concern with Jade Druid is that Maly Druid operates under similar circumstances (you sacrifice early tempo for ramp and under-costed stuff) but it spends less cards to do so and begins taking advantage of its investment earlier by having a significant impact on the board with a good Innervate or an Azure Drake combined with cheap spells. If its possible to build a Jade deck around this card and Aya Blackpaw with Auctioneers then it will indeed make for a really good win condition vs Control decks, but it will be too slow to beat aggro and the best Midrange decks.

7/10

Jade Behemoth

3/6 taunt when the statline becomes less relevant (turn 5-6) is not good. The body is worth 4.5 so that in theory the Jade Golem needs only be a 3/3 to get good value out of this, but the fact is this comes for 6 and will likely meet an unfavorable board state. Because of this I believe the cheaper the Jade Golems the better and that this card is one of the worst Jade cards in the set.

3/10

Jade Blossom

Redundant effect but if it cycles as Wild Growth does then its a better Mire Keeper for Jade Druid because you need the cycle card to feed Auctioneers and to draw your Jade Idols. Its also 3 mana which is not too expensive for a Golem.

5/10

Mark of the Lotus

You need only buff 2 minions for this to be good value and Violet Teacher creates bodies which trade for cards and make this card very powerful in the right circumstances. It is a combo card however and thus it requires some commitment to get value out of it, and it can't be played with Fandral unlike Power of the Wild. With all the AOE in the game and the AOE introduced with MSOG this card becomes a lot less appealing because your opponent will often only trade 1 card for the extra bodies you create with it.

7/10

Hunter

Knuckles

It has to trade to get good value, so a value trade condition has to be met. You don't trade stat points (tempo) for conditional face damage in Mid Hunter. For this to be good it needs to be buffed by +1/1 before it comes into play - this will also enable more value trades.

6/10

Piranha Launcher

Nice meme. 2 attack on a 5 mana weapon really sucks and weapon removal makes it even worse because of the high durability.

1/10

Rat Pack

4/4 between its bodies is worth less than 3.5 but I would say more than 3, so it seems decent even without the buff. Reminds you anything? See Haunted Creeper. Creeper was a really good card and this card does the same for 1 more mana and 1 more stat point. The fact that it comes on 3 and curves into Houndmaster or can be buffed while still in your hand with the new cards with a scaling deathrattle gives it the potential to be even better than Haunted Creeper.

9/10

Dispatch Kodo

The body is worth 2.5 and the effect is worth between 1.25 and 1.5 mana (not sure, taking SI:7 Agent as a basis). Its good but not good enough if you don't run buffing effects in your deck.

5/10

Trogg Beastrager

2 mana body with an effect that is worth less than 1 mana because you don't take immediate value and therefore lose tempo when playing this card. Its already decent on its own but its really good with Rat Pack and Dispatch Kodo.

8/10

Hidden Cache

This meme would already cost 2 mana if it were a buff you can play and target yourself. Its awful and not even worth testing.

1/10

Shaky Zipgunner

Body is worth 2.5 and the buff is worth less than 2 but surely more than 1. It carries the risk of hitting the wrong target and losing you a lot of tempo but you only play 2 6-drops. The only bad thing about it is that it comes on the same turn as Rat Pack so it can't curve into it and its in a deckslot that's already highly contested for Hunter.

7/10

Alleycat

1-health bodies on average don't trade for whole cards but sometimes 1/3 of a card or a hero power, and this one in particular trades very poorly with other 1-drops like Tunnel Trogg, Mana Wyrm, Twilight Whelp and N'Zoth's First Mate. Is it better than Fiery Bat? Probably not.

5/10

Smuggler's Crate

As I stated earlier its not the same value as a buff that can be targeted but let's see how good it is with the new Hunter minions. Rat Pack becomes a 4/4 with deathrattle: summon 4 1/1s - thats 16 stat points which would cost 7.5 in a single body but as seen with Silver Hand Knight 6 stat points distributed over 2 bodies are worth 0.5 less than they would in a single body, and I would argue you can discount 0.5 more if its over 4 bodies instead of 2, adding up to a 6.5 Rat Pack on 3 which is 2.5 more than you paid for, which is definitely worth the investment. With Dispatch Kodo you get a 4/6 that deals 4 damage as a battlecry which is worth between 2.5 and 3 plus the 4.5 mana body adding up to [7, 7.5]. This is amazing value and I think this always goes with those 2 cards. The card on its own is also decent but not good enough to be played without the 2 cards mentioned.

7/10

Mage

Inkmaster Solia

Essentially a free 5/5 for your troubles and it has highroll potential with Kazakus. Control decks need good tempo swings so this is a welcome buff to Reno Mage.

8/10

Greater Arcane Missiles

I don't know how to estimate its worth but big chunks of damage that have random targets seem like a bad idea to me. The good thing about it is how it scales with spell damage but its cost prevents this from being abused.

2/10

Manic Soulcaster

Body worth 3 mana, tremendous potential value in slower match ups. You can play a 2nd Kazakus or even up to a 4th one with this card if you play it with Brann Bronzebeard. May furnish a win condition vs control.

7/10

Kabal Crystal Runner

Body worth 4.5 mana. If you play about 6 secrets in your deck you should draw 2 on the first 10 cards on average. You need card draw to make this happen but playing this for 2 or 0 is obviously very good value. The fact that it forces you to play 6+ secrets in your deck makes it less appealing but you can play them for free with Kabal Lackey and Kirin Tor Mage. While this makes playing secrets possible if you play more than 1 card per turn on average you will run out of cards very fast and the secrets may not be good enough to accelerate the pace of the game enough to support this. The card is decent but the archetype is questionable at best.

7/10

Volcanic Potion

Fair card, reminiscing of Demonwrath. Not much to say about it.

7/10

Potion of Polymorph

Its an added "you can't play minions" secret which makes it more powerful than it might seem initially, the other one being Mirror Entity. Its not as good as ME but with ME it might see some play in aggressive mage decks that run a lot of secrets. 

5/10

Cryomancer

Freezing an enemy isn't free and running multiple freeze effects means you're playing a control mage deck that doesn't really benefit from this card's value. Very underwhelming.

3/10

Kabal Lackey

Freezing Potion

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"and very strong single target removal and card draw."

Where? When?

What are you talking about? The only good removal rogue received is a 5 damage for 3 mana, is good but none even close for Hex or a lot of others spells like shield slam.

Card draw? You talking about the crap 7 manas spell to draw 4 cards unplayable without prep, the burgle give you 2 random cards or the NEUTRAL MINION holding miracle alone? What f... "very strong" class card draw is this?