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Hakkar drew power from beast-themed loas, so I thought I'd make him an Old God of Beasts (even if, in WoW, killing the loa bosses actually made him weaker, not stronger—that's no fun for Hearthstone). By playing the right beasts and killing them off at the right time, you can perform some pretty sick combos with Hakkar, but I don't think he's too wildly OP, especially at 10 mana.

He can get windfury from Young Dragonhawk or Grotesque Dragonhawk; stealth from Stranglethorn Tiger, Jungle Panther, or Sabertooth Panther; charge from Stonetusk Boar et al; and taunt from Silverback Patriarch et al. You could stealth him the same turn you summoned him, after he attacked with charge, if you had a beast with stealth to trade off.

Edit: Fixed emblem.

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If you want to have fun, paladin. If you want people to hate you, mage.

 I hate facing paladin more than mage because they're a flowchart class - by far the easiest class to play in hearthstone. They have lazy answers which you know is going to happen but can't do anything about.

"That thing is too big" -> aldor or uldaman

"It's turn 4 and I have truesilver" -> play truesilver

"That board is too good" -> equality + X

If you want to have fun, paladin. If you want people to hate you, mage.

Everybody needs to take a deep breath and just wait it out.

Face shaman lost very little in the nerfs or the switch to Standard format; it was widely expected that the deck would remain strong. Lots of [lazy/uncreative/stupid/efficient/competitive] (take your pick) players are just sticking with a proven archetype that's already very well tuned. Of course people playing brand-new, totally unrefined decks of their own creation are going to lose to an established top-tier deck. Same basic story with camel hunter and zoolock, although those two required a little more adjustment to the new format.

In two weeks or a month, when a bunch of new control lists have been established, refined, and teched to suit the meta, we'll see how broken aggro is.

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If you could bring one wild card per class back into standard what would it be? My choices:

• Druid: Poison Seeds
• Hunter: Webspinner
• Mage: Echo of Medivh
• Paladin: Muster for Battle
• Priest: Lightbomb
• Rogue: Tinker's Sharpsword Oil
• Shaman: Crackle
• Warlock: Darkbomb
• Warrior: Death's Bite

This is like a laundry list of the reasons why I can't wait for Standard, except maybe Darkbomb. Hearthstone will be a whole different game when I wake up tomorrow and that is a good thing. I for one welcome our new Old God overlords.

It could be a lot worse than six Bolfs. You could get just one Bolf, for instance.

Doomcaller is bizarrely overrated. It's a cool card, but with a very niche use.

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You're confusing two completely different parts of the game. The battlecry was relevant in deckbuilding—it kept Arcane Golem from being played in midrange decks. It was not relevant during actual gameplay. Saying that the battlecry was "a big penalty" is like saying that Mana Wyrm not being playable in rogue is "a big penalty." Sure, rogues would love to have it, but it wasn't designed that way. It's still a very strong mage card with no meaningful drawback in that role, as Arcane Golem was a very strong aggro/combo card with no meaningful drawback in that role.

 No, I've actually held Arcane Golemwhen playing Face Hunter and other Aggro decks. Have you ever played Aggro decks with Arcane Golem? Even for the players who don't hold Arcane Golem for lethal, almost everyone plays it absolutely last when they have nothing else to do or cannot fill out their curve with anything else. 

Face decks don't just go Face and win. Ideally they win on turn 6; but, what if your opponent plays a Sludge Belcher? You have to plan for that and when that happens you don't play your Arcane Golem!! 

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One card I think a lot of people are sleeping on is Nerubian Prophet. I just imagine him in midrange shaman and it can be bonkers.

If in opening hand it can be a turn 3 4/4, not bad at all.

Playing second? Imagine this:

Turn 1 Tunnel Trogg

Turn 2 Totem Golem

Turn 3 coin out Feral Spirit

Turn 4 Eternal Sentinel into Nerubian Prophet

Seems crazy unless opponent has brawl or Circle combo to clear all.

Can even keep it after a big board clear. Either way I think there are lots of ways to get a lot of value out of this minion. 

I believe Arcane Golem was nerfed not simply because of its combo potential but because it was an overstatted card without a meaningful drawback. Because it was always played for lethal (or sometimes to set up next-turn lethal in hunter), the battlecry was irrelevant, and it was basically a cheap, neutral Kor'kron Elite.

But I do agree that the nerf was excessive. They've gone from a slightly broken card to a totally useless one—it could've been a 5/5 and it'd still probably not be played often.

Since the rules said you can make a minion that interacts with 10 mana minions in general, i made this.
Now all may fear the mighty Deathwing before and after he is played!

Flavor text: What's better than being in one cult?

I had a tough time trying to make this guy look balanced, from my perspective. I wanted to make it a 6-cost minion, since I feel 7 is far too slow for this statline, but with Hammer of Twilight costing 5, I felt a 4/2 body for 1 mana, even late game, was a bit much. Hopefully it succeeded in balancing (suggestions, anybody?) While an exceedingly slow minion, the hammer of twilight provides fast removal, as well as ANOTHER 4/2 body when it's used up. It even combos with Brann to summon an immediate extra 4/2, and this also functions as a soft nerf for evolve. I like Shaman, and would like to see it step a little further out of the aggro rut it's been stuck in.

I think that if you have C'Thun in your deck, the Wow emote should be replaced with a "C'Thun!" emote, like Disciple of C'Thun.  I would spam it non-stop.

Anubisath Sentinel

"He once managed to defeat a legendary dragon, and for that C'thun gave him a bird head to wear. Now all the Anubisath know that bird is the word."

Flavor text: "He is not happy with his name. He doesn't owe anyone anything."


Continuing with the Paragons of the Klaxxi trend, this card is aimed at making Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound work in Rogue decks as Rogue decks usually don't benefit from enormously large cards. It comes at the cost of reducing the stats of the card, but it both gets it out of BGH range and allows you to play it faster. The drawback of course being that you have to draw Iyyokuk the Lucid before you can play Y'Shaarj, however in a midrange type Rogue deck this is affordable. The card allows for the Rogue to Combo Y'Shaarj with other effects like Conceal or Master of Disguise (or both). 

There you go ! With all the C'thun battlecries it could be cool. And it's an alternative to C'Thun's Chosen in the 4 slot. Plus, it allows you to play more cards that are not C'thun related (with their battlecries I mean). Like, for shamans, play Fire Elemental instead of Skeram Cultist (but why would shamans play c'thun right ?). or just play normal c'thuns battlecries for an even bigger c'thun. 

Old gods crowd favorite kind of !

The idea behind this card was to capture the image of a cultist so devoted that even when injured they channel all their energy towards their master. It only adds as much as it would be healed by - so as an example, if Devout Worshipper is at 5 Health, using the Priest Hero Power on it will give your C'Thun +1/+1, and Devout Worshipper will remain at 5 Health. If Devout Worshipper is at 3 Health and you use Ancestral Healing on it, C'Thun will gain +3/+3 and Devout Worshipper will remain a 6/3, but will now have Taunt. Because of the inability to heal it, I gave it almost Vanilla stats - the crazy boosts you could give C'Thun with things like Flash Heal and Circle of Healing made me hesitant to go any higher.