Well met! Since I've got Lord Jaraxxus from a pack, i can finally play him and discover the material for my review. Now it's time for it.
The Eredar Lord was my desireble card just right after i had known it existed. First of all, let's talk about his powerful sides:
This card gives insane lategame advantage if you are ahead on board or just gives you some favour when you are not so behind. After you play him, you have instantly applied Alexstrasza's battlecry on your face, also you have double Assassin's Blade. If opponent has weak board or few small creatures, you can start killing them right away. If you applied Emperor Thaurissan to that card, you can play it and instantly use Inferno! heropower to summon a 6/6 Infernal. Every additional turn you are in Jaraxxus form, you drop a 6/6 for 2 mana and deal 3 damage. The longer it lasts, the less chances to win your opponent has. Whatever he play gets killed by Infernals or your own removals, if you so far have any. Noone can sustain that forever. It's a comeback card, when your opponent is on the end of his stream and just chokes you down with remained stuff. You heal and start rising huge tempo.
This card is one of the most efficient ways of dealing with Priests and some Warriors, if they have their Grommash Hellscream gone.
Don't forget, that this card makes Warlock not so vulnerable to fatigue shenanigans, because you dont draw any cards from you heropower and drop mighty demons each turn. Your opponent is unlikely to have many removals left to stop your snowballing pressure, so even a 50 hp warrior may be taken down very quickly, if you have health pool to sustain fatigue damage.
Another thing about that card is that if it comes into play without its Battlecry through other means like Voidcaller, it's a solid 3/15 body, which is perfect for taunting, but be awared of The Black Knight being frequently used now.
Now, the bad aspects of it:
it has 15 health. Against some matchups it may be just very dangerous to set your health to that degree, because some burst or combos may finish you off right away. But i dont think you would play Lord Jaraxxus against, for exaple, a mage, ho didnt spend hist removals yet and has a lot of cards.
The counter-drawback of having 15 health is that if you include Lord Jaraxxus in your deck, you should carefully think about your defence. Draft healing cards, taunts and taunt-givers like Defender of Argus/Sunfury Protector to stop enemy board from directly touching you. I personally love to run Tournament Medic in my Lord Jaraxxus-including decks, and play it after transforming. It allows you to drop Infernals and negate damaging hero powers or even heal if opponent has none.
It's a demon, which has synergy with warlock-specific cards, but also it's a drawback, due to being instakilled with Sacrificial Pact being drown by hostile Warlock or random stuff like Nefarian.
His weapon, Blood Fury, is very powerful by itself. If we count it's manacost using the most common formula, which is WEPCOST=((ATK*DUR) / 2) - 1, we get 11 mana weapon. Insane, huh? Doubled Assassin's Blade. Nowadays people carry weapon removals, such as Harrison Jones and Acidic Swamp Ooze, so they may get insane value of drawing / duraility removing. Very unpleasant, but occures rarely, as they dont kinda expect Lord Jaraxxus nowadays, because of god damn zoolocks.
Another drawback that i noticed after WOG launch is being very vulnarable to C'Thun's battlecry. Because if you oppontnt has around 21/21 God, it will kill your Infernal and you. But if your opponent has no C'Thun in few turns after you transformed, you may not be so scared about him, unless its a 40/40 monster or something, because your 6/6s should consume most of the damage, if RNG is fair enough. Also it's vulnerable against N'Zoth, the Corruptor decks, because it resurrects powerful creatures, instantly having powerful board, and you are on 15 health, so it may be the end for you. You should run like Twisting Nether or DOOM! to counter that.
So, to tie things together, i would say that this card is a must-have for non-aggro warlocks, but sometimes it may even be used in zoo-oriented deck as the stream reinforcement. However, if new decks that are burst or heavily C'Thun-built become very popular, that card may be a dangerous step in a match, unless your opponent has no cards.
Note: Lord Jaraxxus may be budgetly substituted with Alexstrasza, because it either heals you or pressures your opponent being on 15 health with a 8/8 on enemy side. But The Eredar Lord is obviously better. If you really love playing warlock and have no Lord Jaraxxus, think twice, because, as i said, in current meta it may become vulnerable. If you got him from a pack - never dust it, unless you hate playing warlock or REALLY need these 400/1600 dust for a legendary.
P.S. if you ever consider crafting a gold legendary, or just open golden Eredar lord, consider about remaining the golden version, because it's just so insane. Golden Portrait, Weapon, hero power, infernals. Gold overdose. I wish i had one. I feel like one day i wll craft it golden no matter what.
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The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
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I'm betting that Standard will be the new... standard for most players, including streamers/pro players as Blizzard's tournaments (and probably other tournaments) will be using that format versus Wild.
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Goodbye deaths bite :(