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y'know I wish we got something that made sense at all cause pairing Sargeras with old god stuff which he hated and is the reason he began the burning crusade? (not to mention wrongfully classifying him as a demon which actively makes his card worse) this feels like they assigned 2-3 different expansion design teams on this expansion for when they had free time, not to mention how insulting it is he really only summons imps (since the infernal option is by far the worst of the 3) and the only other demon card we get is a worse version of a pre existing implock card and the forge effect gets rendered  moot cause no control/slower warlock wants to randomly discard a spell (tho it doesn't say random so maybe just maybe it's targeted, doubt it tho) 

So... am I the only one who is abhorrently disappointed with the fact it feels like we got a mesh of warlock cards from like 3 different expansions? and only like 2-3 of them are good/interesting? Forge of Wills and Loken, Jailer of Yogg-Saron have no active synergy in this entire set and only works with the big undead/Thaddius warlock and even then they're both absurdly boring and the forge of wills is anti synergistic and Loken as well to a much lesser extent cause you can discover the cheat cards, Imprisoned Horror feels like a bad and incredibly boring addendum to the package we got last expansion and I don't think a more gimmicky Corridor Creeper would work now days Thornveil Tentacle is just a waste of a class card slot that deserves to be a neutral Monstrous Form is just basically a new printing of Power Overwhelming of old and may not even be used in the modern day Wing Welding is just a weird form of like control discard support? meaning it won't see play at all in standard and more than likely won't in wild either Chaotic Consumption is a zoo card which we haven't really gotten zoo since implock in nathria which hooray another good card for implock and finally Disciple of Sargeras is... another control discard card (or just a worse Mischievous Imp which again just doesn't work cause the deck which would appreciate the taunts and can take the down turn to spend the forge mana wouldn't want to randomly discard a spell (though it doesn't specify random so maybe) and  Mortal Eradication is a great token tech card ...if only a bunch of 1 health minions happened a lot, feels more good to discover than anything for a slower warlock deck like I know blizzard has an absolute aversion to actually printing legion based cards but good lord the only reason we got Sargeras, the Destroyer is because this expansion gives everyone a titan, if they coulda gotten out of it i'm sure they would have as if it wasn't bad enough that the dark titan and lord of the burning legion can only summon imps (technically infernals too but you'll rarely see that) we get literally nothing else to do with the legion and instead a mismatch of old god themed cards which makes no sense paired with the class titan and as actual cards lumped into one expansion

Malacrass did NOT take the coin into account, it was your mulligan before the coin or first card draw so likely the whelp will do the same, so really it's just a value generator if you either got shafted with a high cost card in your opener or you chose to be greedy with a high value one or just solid if you held onto removal or a key early card for your deck which is still helpful later on

yea I'd like them to follow through with Ra-den in shaman especially with his connection to Lei Shen (since he's a portrait) but I doubt it's gonna happen due to Thorim having tenure and direct connection to Golganneth even if he is a blatant rip on Thor from norse mythology

Now to clarify here since you’ve gotten this wrong. Ra-den funnily enough IS very much a keeper, in fact he is (was since he’s dead now) the Highkeeper and was the choice to be 2nd in line to be Prime Designate should something have happened to Odyn. However he was down in the south creating the Forge of Origination (prime suspect of a mini set currently) and helping shape Pandaria, creating the Mogu and Anubisath/Tol’vir along the way at this time when Loken did his treachery.

Jotun isn’t a Keeper merely a Watcher and Sif isn’t either, she’s only an iron vrykul and her only claim to the Keepers of Ulduar is being Thorim’s wife.

But on a more speculative note out of the keepers we know for a guess at each class 

Hunter we know is Hodir already and Paladin is Tyr 
Warrior: Odyn (most obv since well warrior order hall in legion)
Shaman: Thorim (direct keeper of Golganneth
Priest: Ra-den (since he has the closest connection to Aman’thul and even wielded his power directly and helped store the titans' essence after Sargeras seemingly killed them). 
Rogue: Mimiron/Loken (I would doubt they would make Mimiron both technically a keeper and titan so I’d say Loken for his deceit and treachery)
Druid: Freya, direct keeper of Eonar and we’ve seen her in druids forge card already.  
For the rest I’d say it’s up to speculation as Jotun is known as “the curse-bearer” and only really had interactions with Tyr and the order of the silver hand during legion 

Well again you would only ever get ONE of any of them since it's one discover per so one potential 3 rune card for each rune since the Primus can't be discovered or generated himself

I feel they could’ve given the Primus a special exception where he bypasses the can’t discover triple rune cards since he himself can’t be discovered or generated as a Titan. Cause you’ll only ever potentially get one bonus of the triple runes AND it’s tied to a specific draw, not to mention he’ll likely die after the first ability AND it’s tied to the inherent RNG of discover which if you only get one shot at has a decent chance to miss. And even then really the main ones you’d use would be Vampiric Blood, Soulstealer or frostwyrm’s fury since Lady Deathwhisper is turbo dead since you would never run this in a frost deck ever Plagued Grain is seldom useful even in a slower more midrange unholy deck (blasphemy I know but I run one and have a bunch of fun with it) and Lord Marrowgar would be also fringe useful on the opposite end of either A.) not needing him or B.) not having enough corpses to use him. And at the end of the day I don’t think ONE extra triple rune card would be too egregious to deal with especially cause you know what it would be based on their choice of ability.

Side note another thing that would’ve been neat is if they made To the Void read send all minions other than Demons to the Twisting Nether to make it a much better 2nd or 3rd ability use if he lives that long.
(Also I know I’m biased since big demon warlock has been like my favorite deck in the whole game since before it was even a legitimate thing as I love the designs and lore of the demons ((and demonolgy is my favorite spec in WoW)) but damn I feel like they wasted something here.)

I like him well enough cause he’s big, he’s greedy and he’s undoubtedly really solid it’s just… how could they simultaneously do pretty decently on flavor yet mess it up this badly. Sargeras is LORD of the Burning Legion and while yes he does have flavor in that he summons an unending legion and causes permanent problems, he should have huge synergies and be a big demon decks wet dream and yet that is like the one place you DON’T want him. This is one time I think a tribal tag actively was a huge detriment to a card, cause all of his abilities tie to the portal he summons which is a battlecry so you can’t cheat him out with any of the big demon synergy cards or he’s actually useless outside of being a big beat stick. (and even then with how titans work I don’t think he’s good for even that) And on top of that resurrecting him aside from the stats isn’t good either cause due to the clarification post they made from what I understand resurrected Titans REMEMBER what powers you used on them so you can’t double up without just getting a new copy. (and even then they gotta be copied before being played since they remember what they had when copied) which kills the other big demon half with Bloodreaver/Kanrethad in wild. And if nothing else the character himself lest explicitly stated somewhere which I don’t think so …is not a demon, he’s the Dark Titan and corrupted in his own right but he’s still not a demon, it feels like they put the demon tag on him just to actively exclude him from a type of deck and yet they wanted these Titans to fit in several different deck types supposedly.

All in all I feel he would be so much better if they did one of two simple things A.) Just remove the demon tag, that’s it it would make it where you can’t accidentally cheat him out and ruin his usefulness potentially if you’re unlucky. Or B.) Edit his text to where instead of a battlecry it’s on his FIRST ability use he summons the Twisting Nether. Which would effectively be the same cause it would only ever summon one on his very first use but it would allow him to at least be useful to be cheated out and be usable in a big demon deck.

Personally I adore these new cards cause they're a slam dunk flavor wise, maybe not for the classical music thing. (tho if you do get Crescendo up to 10 damage that's certainly the crescendo of a match lol) but more for Warlock and it's class fantasy as a whole, these are one of the purist embodiments of I want power NOW i'll deal with the consequences of my actions later. Cause you're actively taking ever increasing speed bumps to try and win and they're certainly strong but you are actively screwing yourself should you ever actually reach fatigue since this does speed up your fatigue timer. However also seeing these I have very little doubt in my mind they're keeping the questline permabanned in wild because these could slot in so easily to make that deck even better it's not even funny.

Not sure if this is correct lest they've changed it since however overheal DID trigger on full health with the expansion announcement first showing off Heartbreaker Hedanis with overheal being the new priest keyword. May have been an error that hadn't been fixed yet but unless they've explicitly state, so do keep that in mind. And they didn't mention that the minion needed to be damaged per se, just healed past it's maximum, and if you wanna check yourself it's around 2:05 when showing off Fan Club

Ah yes Ner'zhul a shaman who listened to Kil'jaedan to be turned into the lich king, he was only a "warlock" for a very brief time, mostly messed with ripping open portals and regretted it, and Medivh, a mage who didn't even use the power of fel or warlock magic when possessed by Sargeras so his only claim is being possessed by the dark titan

What he means is that all of the diamond cards also got a signature version, so say you get ahold of a signature version of Grand Magister Rommath from your pre-order once you get the diamond version (if you decide to buy the pass) you can't reroll the signature (as far as we know since it hasn't been stated) thus forcing you to both have the diamond and signature variants since neither can be disenchanted which I wouldn't be surprised if that gets changed to at least reroll signatures cause that's p scummy

Good, she almost has more skins than Gul'dan which is ridiculous, give us something more interesting that isn't the usual suspects for free skins (not to mention some peoples feelings on Gnomes)

wooooo boy this and Cascading Disaster by themselves will make a Y'Shaarj, the Defiler deck happen for warlock, this is fuckin nuts and as a warlock main I love it, plus that flavor is amazing with how the old gods and the legion are at odds, the legion being detrimental for you but the old gods helping for a price and corrupting a servant of the legion