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The ones revealed so far have pretty good vanilla stats, so they won't be horrible in arena. Of course, there might be ones with worse stats. 

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From the video they showed it looks like there is a card with a deathrattle that draws Chtun for you as well! o.0 so it look like you can essentially get 3 chances to draw him. 

 

We've seen like 5 cards now. Wait to see more cards before you say the whole expansion sucks. 

Free C'Thun and 3 packs for everyone! 

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I'm saving up, in the form of GvG packs. Have 230 now and counting.

Just waiting for the full dust value refund.

I went from 900 gold to 100 gold because arenas. I'm addicted :c

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i dont agree but understant they nerfing prep. but why in the name of the devil are they going to nerf master of disguise? 

 because it is a classic card and therefore will forever be in standard mode. so whenever they are making new interesting cards they have to keep in mind that there is a card that can give perma-stealth to another minion,  for a potentially game breaking combo. this can limit their design space. so people argue that it will be changed.

Please tell me what game-breaking combos you can perform with Master of Disguise, I'm curious.

Anyway, Blizzard said they are going to adjust between 2 and 20 classic cards. If they nerf a card nobody uses, they are wasting their time.

Dr. Tentacles is just a slightly better war golem. I doubt it'll see much play in constructed. 

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I don't think they should be cards. It's just too weird lorewise that they can be destroyed ingame. The expansion should only about the Whispers of them. Spells and servants and stuff.

 What if they were permanently Immune?

They could be summoned like the Golden Monkey e.g. - Twilight Cultist > Summoning Ritual > C'thun ( Instead of Elise Starseeker > Map to the Golden Monkey > Golden Monkey )

 

One way I coudl imagine they can make old god legendaries be of appropiate power level would possibly be an aura card (like some of the tavern brawls have had) that when you have certain minions (mayeb a few of a new minion type called cultist?) on the board at the end/start of your turn/whenever summon X old god who's a crazy strong minion with an insane effect. However, this might be too slow and wouldnt see play. 

Alternately, instead of old god legendaries, they could have legendary spell auras based on them. 

The Explorer!

Uh oh. God made two of them.

 Indiana Jackson is the younger sister of the infamous capitalist Reno. She travels Azeroth in search of relics left from the ages of the Titans. Unlike the reckless Reno, she plans out her every move and leaves prepared every morning with her trusty SpyGlass. 

Hero Power

As said above, Indie plans her every move withher trusty ol' SpyGlass and gains an upper hand as she anticipates new challenges. Her hero power reflects exactly that. Indie finds the tools she needs ahead of time to combat whatever challenge lies before her. 

 The Explorer's hero power acts like a tutor. It allows combo decks to dig for combo pieces, Control decks to find answers or just aggro decks to find more face damage.  Furthermore, it grants insane synergy with our new Key Word, ANTICIPATED!

Edit: Sorry, it seems like the image didnt show up. Anticipated: If this is the first card you've drawn this turn, do something.

I really liked the Miracle mechanic in Magic and I thought it would fit very well in the explorer's class theme of being prepared. You find the tools you need a turn ahead, AND BOOM! NOW WHO'S GOT THE UPPER HAND? *Im sorry*

Example Cards!

So as you can see, both these cards have pretty normal effects, but it is enormously empowered by the anticipated mechanic. In essence, the class is all about playing a few turns ahead to create an advantageous position for yourself. So there's quite a lot of thinking involved-even for any aggro variants!

CLASS: The Gravedigger

"I will bury you!"

Lore: A former cleric of The Light, Mercutio possessed an extraordinarily strong connection to the afterlife, being able to see and communicate with the dead. He used this power to guide lost souls to their rest, and console the bereaved they had left behind among the living. It was a bittersweet duty, as, even if he could bring solace to the living and the dead with his gift, he was still awash in the sorrows of those taken too soon or who had died a pitiful way. When the ravages of the Scourge under Arthas the Lich King destroyed his home, Mercutio, one of the few survivors, only clung to life through the ghosts that he had once guided to the beyond. The bodies he had laid to rest, and the spirits of the villagers who had been slain by the Scourge, rallied to Mercutio to rid Azeroth of its curse. And so Mercutio wages his own crusade against the undead and the occult of Azeroth.

Unlike the Resurrect Priest archetype, or a typical Undead themed deck, The Gravedigger isn't specifically about bringing back minions who had fallen in battle. Instead, the primary focus is on drawing power from the cards, both minions and spells, expended during the game. The Gravedigger excels at control, essentially building a second deck out of their graveyard, which they can use to cash in later on in the game with the Graveyard keyword (a keyword I submitted for a Create A Card contest last season)

To empower the Graveyard (X) Mechanic, the Gravedigger's Hero Power spawns tokens that add themselves almost automatically to the Graveyard pool, as well as imparting some health onto the hero as they leave. While it lacks the versatility of the Priest's healing being able to target minions, the Gravedigger makes up for it by adding resources to their graveyard which they can use to amplify their cards later in the game.

Example Cards: 

To start, the Graveyard (X) mechanic is all about stabilizing and regaining control of the battle, although there's room in the future to push a more aggressive angle to the mechanic, introduce an aggro or tempo archetype to go along with the midrange and control. This can come from having removal, such as the Void Grave Digger's massive damage for a still adequate body should your graveyard be full enough; or in the form of large threats or powerful walls, like the Bergentrückung (named for the King in the Mountain mythical motif). In order to further boost their graveyard to active cards like these, there are cards like Restless Haunt, which spawn disposable tokens, as well as the spell card itself adding fuel to the fire.

Themes, to Summarize:

• Flooding the Graveyard
• Reclaiming the board
• Stabilization through healing and large walls

The Bronze Guardian

As a member of the Bronze Dragonflight, Moradormi has extensive knowledge about the future. She knows exactly what is meant to happen, and what isn't. Or so she thought. Discovering the ultimate fate of her flight, their corruption into the Infinite Dragonflight, turned the once optimist dragon into a full-on cynic. Still, she strives to make the future a better place, perhaps trying to atone for deeds not yet commited.

Certain events are just meant to happen, and there's nothing one can do to stop them, though they can always be delayed or, for better or worse, brought about earlier. This Hero Power has gone through some revisions, but this version is the one I found most balanced yet. Inevitability and Temporal Bomb set the main theme of the class.

Much like the Warlock's Life Tap, this Hero Power gives you a net total of 1 draw, but instead of paying with Health, the drawbacks of this Hero Power are manifold, the most evident one being the 1 mana cost of Temporal Bomb. There's also the fact that it's placed at the top of your deck, meaning it's on a 1 turn delay (if you don't have additional draw) and it denies your own next draw if not played immediately, which its second effect encourages. Speaking of, the second effect also serves to introduce the class' unique keyword: Latent.

Latent is meant to represent the ability of the Bronze Dragonflight of being 'just in time' by giving cards additional effects if they've been held long enough just to play them at the best possible moment. Mechanically, the easiest paralel to Latent effects are Rogue's Combo effects, except their trigger condition is different. Temporal Bomb's Latent effect is meant as a soft enabler for combo decks (since the cards hit by the reduction are random). 

All in all, the Hero Power is meant to enable control archetypes by providing them resources throughout the game, with Latent effects such as Temporal Bomb's being particularly powerful in slow greedy decks. It also enables combo decks by giving them access to consistent draw to get their combo quickly while also reducing card's costs. Faster decks also see benefit from the Hero Power in a manner similar to Zoo Warlock, being able to play multiple cheap minions while having access to draw (although unlike Life Tap, the draw isn't immediate).

Example Cards

Incoming Meteor: A very straightforward example of a Latent card. An overcosted Arcane Explosion that becomes much stronger if held for a few turns. One of the best sources of non-destruction AoE in the class.

Uncertain Death: An example of a "counter" Latent effect. Uncertain Death is a 4 mana Assassinate the turn your draw it, but becomes a 4 mana Deadly Shot afterwards. It is part of a rather small subset of Latent effects that are better off played right away, but are undercosted because of it.

Preacher of Destruction: Having all 3 example cards have Latent effects would defeat the point, though rest assured there are minions with Latent on them (since it works just like Combo would, the have Latent instead of Battlecry). This card embodies another theme of the class: each turn this is in your hand effects. Much like Shifter Zerus or Nerubian Prophet, these effects always happen at the start of your turn. These particular effects go hand in hand with Latent effects in the sense that you don't want to play them right away but rather squeeze the most value out of them.

Honorable mentions for effects the class features: "When drawn" effects, "For each turn this was in your hand" Battlecries and "At the start/end of your turn" effects.

Here's how cards with Maintenance work:

after using hero power 

after using hero power again

Each time you use your hero power with this card in your hand, the worst outcome is taken away until the best outcome is the only one left.

The Champion 

Orc last names are not inherited, but earned. They might name themselves after a certain weapon (see Doomhammer), or after a particular act (see Hellscream). In Grom's case, the only word that he could is Lok'Tar, or vitctory. He is a champion of the arena, and can do alone what most others couldn't do with an army.

Playing the Champion: Grom and his minions are so used to fighting in single combat that they shine best when they're alone. Hence, the class keyword: Paragon. The class will revolve around having one incredibly tough minion that allows you to control the board with much cheaper and more powerful spells. 

Draenei Scrapper

Overwhelming Odds

Single Combat

KNOW THE HEXXER

Yeah, mon! That's true, trolls have finally joined forces to take back what is theirs. Ya thought defeating da Thunder King woud stop 'em. Little ya know. Because the Dark Prophet sent the best of his followers to keep the Troll's will of fighting. And now, under the command of Zul's most devoted hexxer, Hakaali, the Troll Empire is ready to rise again!

Or at least, it'll be after this one match.

"The die is cast!"

For those who are'nt well informed of what a hexxer is, it's a caster (more often than not a troll caster), wich has been prove to wield a wide variety of magic sources (elements, darkness, wild gods...). In this concrete class, however, a Hexxer will be mostly focused on empowering its followers, breaking its foes, and some other well known things such as voodoo and trolls.

Hexxers are masters of ancient, and often sinister, rituals. One known by every important caster in troll's society allows to animate a construct with a shard of soul (maybe even from the caster's soul), as well as rituals to empower them so they have the strength of many men in times of need. And thus, the hero power is:

Why only one Voodoo Figurine? Even the smallest of these servants requires a lot of focus, and while having some of them at the same time has proven to be a recipe for disaster, it's easy to empower a single figurine.

And now, let's take a look at some of the nasty arsenal of this power-thirsty troll:

Haunting Spirit: While playing with Voodoo, you will inevitably attract evil spirits, or even real demons. A good hexxer can take control over them and use them against their enemies. Debuffing in a variety of ways is an important part of hexxer's identity.

Voodoo Ritualist: Your Voodoo Figurines are a very good source of power. Many rituals need these constructs, and thus many cards will have a synergy with this token, in a way or another. In this case, the minion cheats death by trading his soul with the fragment locked inside the figurine.

Banish Magic: While not the most characteristic spell of a hexxer, nullifying your opponent's magic is another good way to curse them. Also, this class will benefit too from self-silencing effects, as some of their cards will get the most benefit if silenced.

Commander Los (a play on Line Of Sight) is the leader of an elite group of Stormwind soldiers. He is known to hone in on specific enemies and make them pay for getting in his way.  Los and his followers are known for their dominant battleplans, punishing numbers and precise execution. They are feared for their ability to fill a battlefield and control it by any means necessary. Enemies are told to make sure they place their troops in the correct order lest they get lined up in the Sightline of one of Los's soldiers.

This works like a battlecry for a minion played from hand as it lands in its position. But it ONLY works if there is another minion/character directly across from it. If you drop it on an empty board and they have two minions then nothing will happen. (Refer to the Chess Challenge for when the opposing hero is considered directly across from a minion) This allows these effects to be a little more powerful. There will be spells and weapons that can trigger these effects a second time. The 'Guards' won't deal 1 damage unless triggered by another card.

Daunting Infantry: A solid 2-drop with potential to shut down early aggression or enable safe trading later in the game.

Right-Hand Man: The class legendary that helps clear an opponent's board while filling yours. The added effect of summoning another minion to the right side of the board is to allow this minion to stay aligned with the enemies if they die to 2 damage. Kills a maximum of 4 enemies.

In Formation: A nice keyword tech that can unleash havoc with a full board of Sightline minions.

Other Sightline effects include destroying opposing minions, silencing, and charge! I have some really cool cards cooked up for this class and I hope you see the potential! 

Edit: It would be specified whether the effect targets a minion specifically or any character. Sightline from a spell or weapon would use your hero as a character. In other words, targeting the opposing hero on an open board only. This class values board control so an empty opposing board will happen often. (But it doesn't really matter if that still doesn't qualify because no one likes this concept :(  )