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[Hearthstone] Knights of the Frozen Throne Review 4

hey guys how’s it going crane here bringing you guys another card review from the upcoming nights of the Frozen Throne expansion now I’m just going to go where I left off if you want to see my other reviews for the cards preceding these ones you just go back in order and the cards are going to be in the order that they were revealed in this last I don’t know four day period or something there’s been a lot of cards and kind of a contrast to what we’ve seen the last few weeks of releases it reveals I suppose these cards are actually somewhat good at least a decent number of them we’re starting to see some extremely powerful deck and meta defining cards and some of them are really exciting you know when the expansion was first revealed the hype level was relatively high because it’s you know Lich King stuff and then we saw the cards and we saw the second batch of cards and then was actually pretty low but once we started seeing these cards in the last few days things have been on the up and I am actually pretty excited to try some of these kick it off we got animated berserker 1 mana 1/3 that’s like oh no no more of these it’s for warrior o pirate over here but then after you play me and deal 1 damage to it is like wow that’s really crap in like just you know a curved deck you have to have massive synergy for a card like this to be good in an early game deck otherwise you’re using this for extreme combo activators and more of like a mid-range warrior list I can’t really imagine what that would be like but the effect is powerful a lot of the time you’d see control warriors and mid-range warriors wasting cards like whirlwind just to do one damage to the stuff that you’re playing now with this card you can basically do that as well and you have something on the board and it’s a threat to continue doing damage to your own minions which might not be a threat really but I think you can design that around that that would make sense that would actually have this card kind of like the key point of the deck kind of like Malc as our amp is to a discard warlock we have sanguine revealer another one drop warlock battle cry destroy friendly meaning gain plus two plus two so yeah it’s like a one-man of three three and some minions are pretty damn disposable but it’s not always the case that you can do that so it’s a bit of a clunky card it’s a pretty interesting though I think the best case for this card is you have like a divine shield or like death rattle II garbage minion in turn one you play this on turn two and a 3/3 on turn two plus maybe another one drop is actually a gigantic lead on the board I think it could help Zhu Locke certainly going to help warlock in arena a little bit not a lot but a little bit and maybe that’s good enough to see a bit more warlocks in that game mode and howling Commander 3 cos 2t a battle cry draw divine shield mending from your deck so this card is pretty powerful you get a card draw for three for a 2/2 that alone is fair I wouldn’t call that good but it’s fair all right people get all excited about you know drop it all man you play dis you get your tea really so what it’s going to have more divine shit and divine shield minions and tearing your deck you might not get Tyrion and even if you get Tyrion you definitely turn on the next turn you just had a crappy tempo play you can’t play this on turn 10 and then plate in because that’s a lot of mana this is like to cost zero one with that battle cry I think that would actually be stronger so it’s it’s interesting but you’re really going to have to make a like a deck full of divine shield minions full of shields everything for this to work and you basically are working off of the fact that you might be playing a deck with a lot of low drops a lot of divine shield minions and the fact that you’re sacrificing tempo to play this can kind of be made up almost immediately not just oh it’s Tyrion again but fairly strong card still venom strike trap when one of your minions is attacked some in a 2/3 poisonous Cobra it’s not that this is a pretty good secret a lot of people just lost their minds over this is nothing to lose your mind about it’s obviously a strong secret but when you’re playing a poisonous Cobra into a board that your opponent controls it’s often not going to be as good unless you’re running a lot of top minions you’re playing hunter running a lot of top minions I’m not so sure that’s going to work but who knows in the expansion new deck types and all this might actually be a much stronger card than they realize but I think it’s just – it snow flipper penguin yeah another one of these it’s a beast of Time shadow blade 3 cost 3 – lose the robe weapon and the battle cry gives your hero immunity for the turn so if you think about it on turn 3 may be responding to your opponent’s turn 3 you’re kind of like saving 3 damage attack into something be like for damage off the immunity effect there’s kind of like a mini truesilver it’s a little bit less of that because the truesilver sometimes you you can attack your opponent’s face and that to heal actually saves you from dying to burn damage so it’s a little bit worse than than true silver it comes out earlier in the class 4 has quite heavy weapon competition so it’s pretty tricky um could be good but mmm I have my doubts defile this is one of those really exciting cards you’ll one damage all minions if any die cast this again look at that so this card is obviously complete trash if your opponent is playing mid-range minions and upwards but it’s just it’s disgusting versus aggro decks like if you just think about most agra decks or most zoo decks or most like early game to mid game decks and they have like curve play style so they’re usually playing like a 1 or 2 health minion turn 1 2 or 3 health minion on turn 2 3 or 4 health mean I’m turn 4 this is like kill that one kill the next one kill the one after that kill one after that like wow it’s really good like Saul knows to get that first bump to deal to on the first draw card that another one card is ridiculous against those deck types obviously it has a lot to do with how many people actually playing agra decks but if the last like 3 years of kristen has taught us anything a lot of people are going to be playing at ago decks so there’s a really good card and it might be good enough to just the warlock on the map in many more States than just a control deck cryostasis talked about this card in want to yesterday’s videos how Freese works and all that it’s a lot better than it seems you can use this auto be played in the previous turn to attack with it so you kind of get like a form and a three-five with an ability card but it works off of your hero power so you have a dead turn it recovers you from a dead turn that’s some flexibility with freeze mechanics it can just be used as a freeze to stop your opponent from attacking the specific minion can be used with BGH so it’s it’s probably not like crazy good but it’s not bad and it definitely looks bad so you know be optimistic about this card to give it a try I think you’ll probably be impressed and yeah another freeze minion thing for shaman whenever another minion is frozen add a copy of it to your hand it’s six mana though and it’s 4/4 that’s huge huge drop in stats from what you expect for six mana six mana is a lot shaman has gigantic minions for the mana costs so this is not up against like boulderfist ogre this is up against some of the best minions in the game so oh man I don’t know we’ve seen some really crazy combo shamans in the past we’ve never seen them at Tier one so I mean this just feels as good as it might be as strong as it might be you feel like it’s not as consistent or strong as other purely combo oriented shaman decks and those have never been at the top of the ladder like ever except maybe for wild with like debt realm is lost but we’re talking about standard and rain and mostly and I don’t see it happening there it’s potentially a very fun card and it might it might create like a tier 2 deck who knows eternal servitude for cost discover a friendly minion a diverse game and some and oh my god this card is bonkers obviously you have to make a very specific deck you have to make sure you have very few minions and it always lands on a minion over for mana hopefully one way over for mana and the tempo lead ends up giving you the whole game extreme synergy with Barnes just crazy powerful effect but that whole deck is really weak against transform removal so again it’s going to be a meta defining deck hard to say that it’s going to be tier 1 because if you have everyone playing a deck works around this card then Shama I’m just going to run devolve in hexes and your decks going to be garbage so it creates a very powerful deck but that deck is very easy to counter and that’s really important to understand in arena though those counters are not always available and this card is probably going to be stronger in arena than constructed even though a lot of the time it’s going to pick up some pretty bad minions because you still have to curve out in arena it’s just that in arena if you can play like a five drop and maybe a six wrap and then read the five drop and a six drop with this card maybe even sneak in a hero power or something you know it that’s just that’s so hard to come back from if you’re playing against the priest so we’ll see doomed apprentice mage card three men at three to the opponent’s belt cost one more nothing crazy looking but I feel this effect is very powerful spells are generally fairly well balanced at their mana cost and your opponent will generally save very key spells for very key moments and you can predict that and screw that up I don’t know how strong that effect is overall because we haven’t really messed around of the effect that’s kind of like a marginal up in the cost of spells but I think this effect maybe not this card this effect is very powerful Princeville in our forecast for for battle cry if your deck has no four cost cards game life stone taught it’s it’s not that difficult to make a deck with another four drops we’ve seen like mid-range hunter kind of like aggressive shaman decks a few other things that just naturally don’t have four drops so for mana for a 4/4 lifesteal taunt and kind of like a curved minion based deck yeah that might not be not be too bad it’s it’s difficult to see this card carrying any deck but you know if you happen to open it in your packs don’t feel bad if you open the other princes you can feel bad but if you could open this one and you’re kind of like a free-to-play player you can probably drop this in a few decks and it’ll be pretty good dead man’s hand this is probably the most exciting card I’ve seen in the expansion so far so it’s a to cost warrior spell that does basically nothing in waste the card what it does though is allow control warrior to go infinite if you just have a control warrior deck and you’re like at zero cards you have a hand with like seven cards and you have two of these in your hand you play one of them and the other six cards go back in your deck but one of the other six cards is the other dead man’s hand and then you can even wait until you have ten cards and double up on some of those and then use one of the two dead men basically if you use this card while the other one is in your hand you will never run two cards in your deck unless somehow your deck goes missing and I guess it might be possible you’ll see in the same okay so that’s ridiculous the reason that’s ridiculous is because the control where your archetype has actually done pretty well against Agra decks it just has I don’t know how to say this failed miserably against the modern control decks I have extreme card generation control where it just doesn’t have the card generation it doesn’t have the card value that it used to on a comparative level to the other control decks but this changes all of that you can play controller and run a ton of draw you can play controller and run a ton of wasteful card just give you armor like that other card that was released my last review you know ten armor and reduce the cost of your close minions hand by two it looks really crappy well this is what with that it’s pretty good those are you’re printing a card now I can totally see this deck working and this is the heart of that deck so I think I’m gonna have some fun with that spreading plague pot cost drew spell summon scarabs with toss probably beasts and you basically match how many minions your opponent has over you so if you have what two things your opponent’s four things this summons two of them I think it’s decent value if you summon two obviously not if your opponent has big minions but Jen this is an anti agri card as you can imagine it’s very good if you can you know bust them all with like plus one plus one even that would just be gigantic so is there with you combo that you can pull off with druid to make this really spectacular naturally really spectacular against aggro it just going to get a really flexible card on a high power level like if your opponent has five things we have none you’ve got 25 health worth of taunt you get a +1 +1 to buff on those that’s 5 to 6 tops your opponent might just never get through those might just instantly win the game from that so it really is pretty crazy even effect this is the hero card for mage frost glitch Jaina I think it was leaked a few weeks ago people didn’t think it was real well turns out it’s pretty real 9 cost 5 armored battle cry summon two three six water elemental and your elementals have life steal this game holy crap I also change your hero power that’s your hero power then nuts yes that’s not so if you hit something that your power and it dies you sum the water lentil wire lentils that elemental and it has life steel so I think this card is absolutely insane I think people are not realizing just how good this is so if you have a few elementals employee let’s say you have 10 attack worth of elementals you play this you heal for 10 and you gain 5 onwards you like seal for 15 it’s not a dead turn you know healing for 15 and playing a 3 6 water elemental and having like enormous threats on the board and on the following turn like that’s not small at all this card is crazy now the issue is we see a lot of very powerful control cards with the dead man’s hand with warriors with this it’s just that right now crazy control decks still get pretty countered by like quest mage so while these decks might be really powerful they might just get meted out still so we’ll have to see ice Walker 2 cos 1 3 you’re here power also freezes a target I don’t know how good that’s going to be but this is gonna be really annoying oh my god like in arena and value oriented game mode you play a big minion it gets frozen by this you play another small minion it gets like removed the big meaning its frozen again just being able to constantly stall out a favor abort to the position for board clears it’s just insanely powerful and the card and constructive is going to need a lot of work to try to understand the meta and make it work in that sense but I think in arena clear cut this Hart is going to be just super powerful with other board clears you know we talked about card sanitizing other cards this has super synergy with board clears it’s just ridiculous any board clears and you’ve played mage there’s quite a few to stumble upon meat wagon for cost one for mech death-rattle somewhat a minion from your deck with less attack than this minion so obviously if you don’t bust this card it’s not very good there’s a few exceptions but very few and not really exceptions they’re just kind of okay not too bad but the idea is you play this you give it like a cold blood and suddenly you can get a malygos from your deck and if you can do that unlike turn five well you’re sitting pretty yeah yeah that’s about it this is an extremely dangerous card in specific decks so much so that I think we’d actually maybe see play in adventurous combo deck probably in the tier 2 area very weak arena card though and cronic can guys but I know it’s not I don’t whatever okay the name is what it is six five thirty one of your other minion dies from the – – ghoul and presumably when the ghoul died they summoned more – two ghouls so extremely steamroll e card pretty powerful but just coughed a lot of mana and has no health so it’s difficult to imagine these cards in constructed play but it’s obviously fairly powerful arena card especially in what I imagine would be like a zoo like deck maybe like a temple rogue or maybe like a zoo warlock cobalt scale Bane 5 cost five five dragon in the common slot so another spices story in arena at least we’re going to get a huge bump and we’re just going to see a lot more of this card just being your expansion common slot play arena you’re going to end up facing this the end of your turn give another friendly random minion plus three attack so it’s kind of like five four and eight five it’s not anything more than that because it doesn’t actively buff it but if you can target the buff on specific guys it’s powerful this is a powerful card I don’t know maybe dragon priests maybe the extra dragon will help the old really powerful dragons with the discovers and stuff I don’t know other than that I’m not so sure but it’s very good marina known for a 2/2 cost two three battle crowded with the top card from your opponent’s deck so this might look innocent this is not innocent this is a really powerful card I mean I’m excited to see this effect but I’m also a little terrified that are sewn going this direction I really want to try it I think we’re going to have some amazing moments with cards like these but I just feel like if people like it Blizzard might make like 10 cards like this and then we’ll have another level of RNG to our games what cards is my opponent removed from my deck if I try to play it so but it is really interesting if you think about it if you played a lot of the control decks when you have very key combinations or very key cards that you required actually win the game having even one of those removed to just end it not think about playing against like freeze mage you see an acolyte and you know you can give them like three cards but if it discards one if you can draw three for them by like triple painting and acolyte just to mail one of their cards that’s often worth it it’s often a play you’ll do you’ll see like an tonightís mill their seed Alice draws a mill you actually win the game from that play just because getting rid of a very specific cards completely nullifies your opponent’s chance to win in some cases and depending on the meta that can be in a lot of cases so card like this can be very powerful my only argument against the card like this is that warlock is kind of like a very brutish class especially if you’re playing zoo like minions seems to be like a zoo like minions so if you think about it like you know if you mail a lost rasa when playing a freeze mage you’re still going to lose to the freeze mage because you’re playing the lock against freeze mage same with like an tinnitus you know you might you might not take an extra six or seven or ten damage but you’re still probably going to lose that match the zoo warlock decks generally do pretty badly or completely crush their matchups and that’s especially true for combo and control next so I think if this was like a priest card I would lose my shit but this is a warlock card and it’s actually pretty balanced I’m just a little bit terrified that there’s going to be a lot of cards as mechanic in the future but who knows welke your soul claimer three cost one for when this meaning survives damage survive not take damage survive damage some 1/8 – to Google so a powerful effect you know if you can get one ghoul it’s not bad but if you intentionally damage it yourself that’s not the same as absorbing damage you know so if you play like that one drop that build damage to your own stuff as you play it and damages this it’s kind of like playing a three mana 4 a 1 3 and a 2 2 and maybe a little bit of value after that but it’s pretty unlikely 3 health means typically die off so it’s it’s very unlikely you’re going to get more than one ghoul and if you self inflict that damage to get the one ghoul you’re looking at 3 metaphor 1 3 + 2 – that doesn’t like to break the game or anything I don’t know if there’s a if there’s like a specific use for the ghouls that could totally change that maybe there’s like some ghoul consuming card I mean it’s like the Lich King and shit after all right it could happen I don’t know but as a standalone card I think the power level is quite low stitched tracker 3 cost 2 – battlecry discover a copy of a minion in your deck this is pretty strong as a hunter card you can a fish for the very few other minions you have included in your deck and that might be a really big deal would be I think a bottle bow man that’s death rattle summons a beast random beef and dice game this is not a beast so you could run very few beasts maybe around like one other beast and two of the obama bow man’s and with this card you could actually make that work and line it up so your gigantic beasts get revived throughout the game and i like it i like a combo enabler on a fairly mediocre power level a decent Arena card for a class that’s kind of in the middle I think this is a very well designed card sunborne Valkyr five four five four neutral give a JSON minions plus two health that’s pretty good in arena though over talk about arena because this is obvious not good never consignment but in arena getting a little bit extra health and pushing that tempo is a really big deal this is certainly a valuable card probably in a similar level to dark iron and dwarf it’s just a little bit trickier to set up so if you’re playing a spell have you made your priest deck which often are it’s not going to be as good as like dark iron dwarf but if you’re playing a minion heavy deck probably more of the likes of paladin’s or druids or you know warlock there’s a lot stronger because if you can have two minions trade up at the same time as well as playing an attack oriented static card that is a huge tempo boost to the board so should be interesting and I like the fact that it again encourages people to think in advance or positioning even I’ve screwed up a lot all of us do it’s something that good players will often win more from than in newer players and I appreciate that okay so this is the priests legendary people lost their mind over this card they really did battlecry shuffle a copy of your opponent’s deck into your deck so that’s really insane it’s just that like if your opponent playing an aggro deck this card is like worthless so discard like you know often we talk about a card being good or not based on how the meta happens but there’s usually still some innate worth to the card so you know card like pretty good but it could be really good if the meta kind of makes it work well this card is just total ass if your opponents are all playing agar it’s just horrible unplayable it will lose you the game if you don’t play it it’ll lose you the game if you do play it horrible against control matchups you will go from probably close to a 50/50 to nearly automatically winning so it is one of the most polarizing cards based on the meta that we will see that’s what makes it basically impossible to really analyze but I did have a few other thoughts on the card as a whole I think it’s just overall going to be a really fun card very meme card having a ton of cards in your deck you see like Prince vs. Prince legendary matchups when you play this and you have like nearly 70 cards in your deck or maybe you can bounce this and constantly play it to have even more than that you know just some really crazy moments are going to happen and I love me cards like that the other aspect is I have a feeling that deck trackers are going to make this card a bit unfair and I worried that I really like deck trackers to be honest I think that Blizzard might take a stance on deck trackers because they are actually abusable with this card so think about it you know if you have a deck tracker and the deck tracker can actually track the cards in your deck I don’t know if they can do that but I’m pretty sure they can that could be a problem because if just by playing the game normally you can’t see that well that could be an advantage however that might not be the case it might be one of those cards where you can just hover over the effect on the left and you can see all the cards that went into your deck so it might be pretty fair but I think it’s something that Blizzard should have in mind hopefully it did have it in mind when coding everything embrace darkness another face card spell epic choose an enemy minion at the start of your turn take control of it so it seems like a powerful effect it’s it’s not as good as mine control you might think well it’s like mind control except your opponent injures the card more that’s not true it’s worse than that so if you’re playing this card compared to mind control yes you save for mana but one your opponent is going to injure that minion the best it can that’s a reality so it’s gonna it’s going to be like pre attacked that meaning is also going to kill something that you had in play most likely your opponent’s next turn after you play this is going to be set up in a way where he can kill the minion that you just took from him and also because you play this it does nothing then you take the menu on your next turn it won’t get charged so it will still do nothing it’s basically like a to turn delay on being able to use the minion versus mind controls one turn delay there’s a lot of disadvantages and honestly six-man is a lot kinder than 10 but that is a pretty stacked list of disadvantages against using this card now if we see just like some really hyper control meta that probably won’t matter just playing this just be as good as playing a mind control and maybe you’d want to do that because it’s slightly better in terms of curving up so you know maybe you’ll actually see play but it is a very clunky card and I do not think it’s better than mine control it it’s at best about as good just at the meta might make that a decent case then we have phantom freebooter for cost 3/3 pirate battle cried game stats equal to your weapons so a neutral card obviously unlike arena is pretty difficult to bank on weapons but if you’re playing rogue it’s at worst for for a 4/4 which is okay disadvantage is a pirate because it can get Galaga but that’s not too bad in the end obviously some pretty crazy combos but it’s still a minion that has a silence of effect it’s a pirate and has to wait a turn to attack make you some stats and it’s just stats so it’s not going to not break the game or anything then we have mind breaker 3 cost to 5 hero powers that are disabled man it looked like a custom hearthstone card without ever seen one I like it though it’s a different dynamic it’s a different approach to your game plan playing hearthstone and I have no idea how strong this is going to be I imagine it’s designed to be played against decks that rely on the hero powers that they’re granted from their new death knight hero version of hero cards because you know if you have like a normal hair powder on your phone has a really Opie Opie here to power then this card is really good 3 cost to 5 on curve that’s pretty good so yeah overall that might be all right now we have Crypt Lord 3 cost one-sixth taunt not bad after you summon a minion game plus one health so another one of those cards where it could just be so good if it had a little bit better attack but it’s still not bad three four one six taht is gigantic for that stage in the game it’s another like crazy anti agra card which seems to be the theme for Drude and of this upcoming expansion so far but again we have no clue how well that would fit into the meta all I can say is it’s a fair arena card for the moment hope you guys enjoy my review and that certainly looks like the cards are heating up and looks like we’ll actually have quite a lot of awesome decks awesome moments and just some really cool stuff coming so hope you guys are adding the increased hype and excitement and wait you [Music]

(Hearthstone) Knights of the Frozen Throne: Card Review Part 1 – Druid, Hunter and Mage

hello everyone Brian Kibler here and that’s right it is time for my night to the Frozen Throne card review those of you who may have followed my channel for a while probably known that I typically done a week-by-week review of the cards added they’re revealed but with the difference or cadence of the released season as well as the fact that I was doing something very similar on Omni stone with fire baton for an each week I decided to instead wait and do is to review pretty much all of the cards now that they have all been revealed let’s go ahead and take a look at the first druid card these are by the way alphabetical by class you’re looking for a specific card about Talia Fineman so Crypt Lord this is interesting sort of defensive minion that’s an option for for druid decks but the weird thing about this is that it’s low attack I think makes it difficult to really justify putting in your deck over some of the other options that exist there’s a lot of health and get a lot more health but if you’re playing it back with a lot of minions are you really looking for just like more health on a ton minion rather than more attack to kill your opponent that’s usually with the sort of swarming style druid deck typically end up wanting and only one attack means that lots of things from attack intents and survive unless it’s buffed if you compare it to say tar creeper it’s similar you’re going to have to do a lot of work to get this to be more viable as a legitimate defensive tool than tar creeper already starts off so I’m not super impressed by crypt Lord in terms of what options it really offers they don’t already have but do want more things like that in the three slot I could do this card seeing play next up we have druid of the swarm this is a more attractive option in my mind if you’re looking for a talk for your druid deck in part because it’s a 1:5 talk for to potentially it can be either a 1:5 talk or one to poisonous and that’s pretty powerful 1/5 taunt is a lot of steps forward for just 2 mana to compare it to the previous one 6-4-3 it’s like okay well yes the other one can get can get buffs further but the dirt of the swarm has both you know a lot of stats for even less mana as well as the option of going one two poisonous if your port has larger minions that you want to kill I think this is one of the cards been injured in this expansion that’s likely to be kind of underrated is my guess simply because I think the one two poisonous minions are likely to be somewhat underrated I think that druid typically has a lot of difficulty killing larger minions mid-range and big minions and this gives them a way they can do that more readily it is really scary if you’re playing as one as potion of madness though and seeing as a as priest is one of the classes where you most want the oiz in to kill their fake minions that can be kind of dangerous so I think this is definitely a a pretty strong card that will likely see quite a bit of play in druid decks alright next up we have faith spinner this is one of the weirdest cards in the entire expansion here thanks there you have a 5 3 4 5 which is kind of odd that line for really anything like this that has a secret death rattle you choose to either deal three to all minions or give all millions plus two plus two and I actually play this under reveal stream with Fandral which is pretty funny because there was all the minions get damaged and grow which is nice but this look of it it feels like a secret element of this is a little strange because each of these effects a something you want a very different set of circumstances if your opponent has a lot of minions you’re probably not going to give this death rattle of pomp everything on the board so you’re putting in very often just kind of figure out okay well I can trade into this way and you don’t have minions you would likely want to do damage so you want a like trades visit way there is a lot of chance to really get blown out if you do guess wrong in there so some level of mind games going in there but it’s still hard to me to believe that you’re really going to want to put that choice to your opponent if they can in many cases describe figure out okay well you have stuff you’re like you’re going to a bus stop resident you have no stuff you want to kill my stuff got it so I think this part is neat and I like the design space that creates but I don’t think it’s likely to be a high level competitive card next up we have Nash which kind of sounds like bash which is kind of what this card reminds me of a free cost for three damage and free armor not necessarily all in one you know with batch you obviously could kill something and not take the damage back this is sort of just another armored plus attack modality or articles attack combo in in Druid we see claw and bite and now Nash of course and by guessing then chily ba5 cost one the six cost one or something like that I don’t know but it’s just kind of another pretty simple tool for Druids I don’t know this is likely to be a card that will see a ton of play well feral rage is still around because usually getting a lot of one or the other is stronger than getting a little of each in the case of this particular effect but it could give you just more tools for removal if that’s what they’re looking for that could also get kind of out of range and burn decks as well so just a pretty straightforward card I don’t think it likely has a home while fair wages around but could be could be a highlight in the future next up we have Hydra docks and this is a really weird card to evaluate when this was first revealed when we first saw this card I was like oh how can you possibly get enough you know value from had knocks in order to justify the fact that it is a nine cost three seven that doesn’t do anything you play and well it turns out some pretty good taunt minions in this set including the Lich King that we’ll get to eventually and this cannon is give you a huge amount of as long game value long game stability in any kind of matchup that is likely to go to attrition and the fact that it brings back taunts means that it actually keep you alive but the problem is of course spending that nine-minute upfront and just getting a three seven on the board that turn that is kind of tough to justify against aggressive decks so it’s got really cool animations I got to see on the reveal stream and does have a huge upside especially when you keep in mind that there are powerful minions like the Lich can give you huge value can bring back at this the problem though can you really afford to spend all that mana and not really do anything immediately I mean maybe you can play with spear sing or uber but that’s asking a lot because you have to have a spiritual number lived through you know your turn eight or nine or ten or whatever and then get to play this and then get the effect immediately I’m not really buying it I think this is more of a cool highlight-reel type card than any card that is likely to see a lot of high-level competitive play but the animations are sweet the spider is sort of spawning everything is really neat and you know I hope to see it on some videos at least because it’s very cool all right next up we have the death knight for druid which is mal Furion the pestilent and when I first saw this car I first saw this death knight revealed I was kind of unimpressed I was thinking okay you know you get some spiders you get some scarabs and you get a pretty powerful hero powers he played Lord you choose one either get +3 attack or 3 armor which is either of those a pretty powerful thing and obviously having the ability to decide the 21 each turn is super strong if there’s something you want to attack ok + attack if you’re just looking to stabilize and and have more time in the game to do more powerful things than you know sweet hang out and some armor you kind of have tank up or punch you in the face either which is quite strong but nothing about this sort of screams like oh my god this is crazy I think was just like a combination of ability and hero power that is is just solid you know this isn’t like one of the the Paladin death knight or whatever that screams like literally says win the game you’re killed opposing hero because it doesn’t really stand out as being this is outrageously good but you’ve got a little bit of value when you play it and it has this very strong long-term value from the hero power and the fact that it gives you the armor which is kind of hidden behind the hero power now they all give you five armors so don’t worry it’s not if you don’t need to worry about that they’re all the same in that in that regard but it also gives you the poison spiders or scarabs depending on what you need which can also help keep you alive and all these sort of survivability things on one of the cheaper death Knights this one only costs seven whereas many of them cost you know eight nine even ten this means that you can get this down faster which means that you can get more activations of the plague lore hero power to give you significant value and advantage over time and that’s sort of where the strength of this card feel that comes in which is that you’re you know it also played drew if you have ramp effects that can allow you to get this out even earlier so if you can get some about a board present from the battle cry which by the way is a choose one and thus also works with Fandral tested that way on the screen and you’re here positive if you have and roleplay you are punching your opponent really hard tagging up and getting spiders and scarabs so lots of powerful combos there with choosing to but yeah I think this is is not the flashiest of definites but I think it’s likely to be one of the better ones simply because it is cheap and does a lot of things that you want out of something that is going to naturally lend you to wanting to play a bit of a longer game so I think this cars quite strong and I think we will be seeing a good amount of it in raptor decks alright except we have spreading plague or unleash the scarabs which hilariously is not actually at least the scarabs as ben brode and i discovered and he reveals cube when i played it when i went ahead one more minion than me and got one scare when I was a oh that’s not not what I was hoping that would do at all I’m kind of unimpressed by discard overall in part because well unleashing the scarab have been a lot more powerful excited visited but it’s hard for me to envision wanting to have this in my deck instead of say something like Star fault instead of something that’s actually going to kill my pony’s minions when I play this yes I can play spreading plague and get three or four one five times but is that better than actually having a card that could kill the opposing minions that are then going to either be attacking my Todd’s or you know are enabling bloodlust or enabling evolve or enabling the inflame tongue totem any number of things that could cause serious problems but just trying to hide behind these these pumpkins and yes there are tools which we’ll get to that you care about taunt and druid obviously has an ox as well as I call it bolster there I think major is a bear but it’s kind of literation in it so it’s good that could be a combo with this and have it be more powerful than just one five times and I think people say oh you can plant it to the deck with marker the Lotus or mark with a while on top mark the wild powerful on that one and then obviously gives you more than just the one five times but if you’re playing those cards in your deck usually when I’m flying a lot of minions that are cheap that you can easily buff like the top of that token druid decks that we we tend to see these days and their finds of fireflies and you know tar creepers and whatever else all just cheap things are funny bored that you can easily proactively buff rather than try to react what your opponent’s doing which is kind of a spraying plain does so I’m not really sold in the start I think you better off actually killing your opponent’s minions but you know again could be cool if you have the right support but probably not a top-tier card all right here is this is bolster very kind let’s compare I don’t need a strong shell scavenger like a giddy ish no but anyway hey battle cry give your top minions plus C plus – literally exactly what bolster was when I was card that it was a warrior card kind of kind of weird to see druid getting essentially the same sort of stuff and took okay well warriors taunting me and now George do this too and have the same kind of support I’m kind of at least like to see them doing different ways rather than this being well the same faithful for kiss on a minion it’s kind of weird to me but I think that this is you know a powerful card obviously in the right circumstances of the right-click but feels like requires a lot of work you need to obviously have probably multiple minions there was a neutral minute make two copies with two three a top minion that you could obviously fly this alongside and get you know hey look these these two very powerful taught me that’s a lot of setup in a number of cards that are probably not that powerful on their own so I’m not really sold on the the bolster bear here but obviously in a pink can go in certain decks tante decks and it looked powerful in a highlight reel moments just don’t think it’s consistent enough to be a top tier competitive card and next up we have occurred that Trump revealed so appropriately because this is the the ultimate value card which is ultimate infestation which is deal 5 damage drop five cards game five armor semana 5/5 cool so first of all you know this would cost 10-minute n is a lot of mana then people saying well you’re playing it in rapture than that means you can you can cast it earlier it’s like yes but how many others X play any 10 cards that aren’t ranked terms like maybe you see a death wing or something like that in the very top end of some number of decks and that’s a card that that can totally swing the game by itself without what needing to be provided with value over time which is a big part of the draw of this is the draw five cards and I feel like for ten mana you have to be getting a lot you have to be getting something that is you know old God level of game swing eNOS and in particular or something that can can easily get you back into a game when you are behind and I’m not sure this quite does it you know I think that you’re going to want to play yogg-saron rather than ultimate infestation a lot of versions of ramp dude you’re going to want to play maybe even Deathwing itself or you look at big dirt that typically has yes it has a bunch of ten cost things but those are ten cause things you’re also kind of cheating with you know there’s the death wing that you can put out the other decimal you can get with bars or whatever else all these various ways that you’re just getting you know it’s not a power from that and it is true though that I could maybe see this being as a one of in raptor index they’re looking to go really long against other controlling type sex because obviously a single big minion against control is often not enough because they have their elder peacekeepers they have their koalas that have whatever it’s going to to help deal with an individual large threat whereas this not only is an okay threat right now the immediate impact of this is you know you you probably kill a mid sized minion which isn’t that big a deal altering time necessarily and then gain game five armor and and some two five five that’s not a huge onboard swing so the real value of this is of course to draw five cards and that’s kind of reminiscent of sailing lay on hands actually an example that Mike donate and we discussed this card on an omni stone during our reveal stream and I think this is a clearly a very analogous to that in that you are not going to be looking to play in a deck that that isn’t really fundamentally focused on playing at the very long game which most revered X I feel like that they’re they’re not really about trying to grind your opponent out with value maybe they can be now because if they does involves an infestation maybe that sort of creates a totally new dynamic but you can also very easily imagine yourself fatiguing if you play you know this or especially multiple copies of this in a game in fact I nearly did coming to here other revealed stupid bed bread but of course you know if you are playing say mouth carrying the pestle in that deck that can give you a lot of the ability to to win those longer games as well so is the card that I’m not totally sold on but I can definitely see it being being like a one and ramp trip but I’m not convinced that it’s like the second coming of yog or whatever some people have been have been discussing about it’s certainly a great card to get off of yog and I’m excited for that possibility in all of my decks because hey you don’t need to be a druid to play a 10 cos druid spell if you get this play dog sir and last up for druid is the credits seems kind of unassuming to me web we’ve again sort of going in the table druids in this set are about sort of poisonous spiders and the scarabs the one five-ton to the one two points is and this current surface doesn’t really look that good because you’re paying five men in two one two well sure but they’re poisonous which is a huge deal in terms of as a druid having the capability to deal with your opponent to water minions which again as I mentioned earlier drew can typically struggle with and I do think that this is a card that could be a reasonable utility card in say those records now next we’re talking about because being able to actually kill large minions in the mid to late game is a place that those decks can can often struggle that said you know oftentimes you would rather just be ramping and doing more powerful things in your opponent’s so their big thing isn’t the biggest thing in town so this kind of low utility in that kind of strategy and I’m not really sure that it’s going to do enough in that type of deck also again much like the what drew to the Scarab or whatever it was that made the you know one two poisonous really bad enough potion of madness and that can be assuming priests make a comeback which I think they might I think priests have some sweet new stuff from this set is a very real concern and having your minions potentially thrown away to that when you’re playing around style deck against the card that would otherwise often just be stranded in their hand I think is a very very real issue so I’m not totally sold on this but I think it has more utility and it looks like on the surface simply because those poisonous spiders are pretty strong for some of Druids weaknesses all right let’s move on to Hunter and we’ll start with the hilariously named abominable bow man we get a nice way to try and keep pronouncing eventually I don’t think I’ll have to do that on broadcast cuz I don’t think the carbons going to see a whole lot of play Hunter’s in a weird spot where obviously it’s a pretty weak class right now but there seems to be a desire and I think an understandable one to push a lot of the the hunter cards that are coming out toward building different types of hundred decks rather than just the you know you’re playing an aggressive hunter deck that’s trying to smoke your opponent down with wolf fryers and things and just finish off your hero power that’s kind of what the hunter class naturally wants to do based on its hero power but that’s not necessarily that interesting a style of play so it seems like Blizzard is trying to create a bunch of cards that can support different styles of under play like this one where you want to think about okay do I wanna just play a bunch of cheap things and rush you with them or maybe just play you know big high-value beasts and thus have an extremely effective death rattle from above oh man and I’m not buying it I’m not sure that’s something that’s going to be effective enough to really justify building your deck in that way and frankly playing hunter at all because I think hunter is still looking like it’s likely to suffer after this expansion because these types of cards just I don’t think are quite powerful enough to really move the needle as far as as Rex our placement of meta game so it’s definitely a neat card you know certainly something that can be very powerful if you’re building the soft hunter deck because obviously there are powerful beasts that you could then use off this back and they clear this off board you get even more beasts and whatnot you know especially those beasts or high Mane’s but I don’t think you’re gonna be able to live that long it’s just not how the meta game is shaped out so I’m not really seeing a bottom abundant little bow man sing much play it’s a good thing because I don’t wanna keep saying that name alright next up we have bear shark which is hilarious because the bear just staple to a shark or whatever it is and I yeah it’s it’s a credit more it’s more likely to fit into the you know beat your opponent up rush them down the kind of deck that we’ve come to know hunter wanting to to really lean on but I think it’s just too vulnerable against the the aggressive classes against the aggressive decks this dies to fire war axe to three cost beats the just straight-up die still works and yes it’s good to get it’s a mage this is a very strong card if your opponent is playing a deck that’s going to rely on spells to kill your minions it’s a four attack menu to start with so it can’t really be touched by any priests spells and then well it can’t be hit by self so it’s going to be difficult for for those three active classes to deal with it outside of minions of their own or AoE the problem of course being it’s pretty vulnerable to those minions and it’s vulnerable to most of the forms of AoE and there aren’t really that many just spell heavy control decks that don’t also have minions that can help you clean things up with you know just described evening of the mage like okay well you play this but there is a man one can play or they have you know an archaeologist in a babbling book and it’s difficult to really get the value that you you need out of the bear chakra justified conclusions there’s just a lot of good three costs spells and and and minions in hunter you’re competing with things like equal or bow or animal companion or Rat Pack and I think that what hunter is mostly looking for are things to get them aboard faster cheaper things rather things that okay well if I’ve gotten to this point and I’m not getting beat up and then I have something that’s good in this relatively narrow case well you need things to stay alive and bear shark is not one of those but it could be sort of a killer card in the right matchups again getting its control mage style decks this could be very strong but I’m not really seeing this building any of the holes or picking the problems that hunter has right now alright next up we have a corpse Widow which is a pretty strong card the end of this is a four six four five which is not amazing stats but but pretty solid especially considering two beasts so it does have synergy with a lot of what funder wants to do I don’t really know what’s beastly about that that seems like I guess it’s a spider fish thing I don’t know if it’s beast oh your dental cards costs us unlike the a bottle bow man abondon mobile boat whatever the thing is this the thing is that is a more powerful tool for those deaths riding style decks because it is something that can actually ramp you out to do powerful things in itself like playing this they fire about was saying on Omni stone last week that you cornered a corpse widow on four and then you just play a I’m it the next time I go well that’s really hard to beat or you can play this and play a high made and a traffic going first you know there’s a lot of powerful death-rattle minions in Hunter and in many cases they’re powerful especially in combination with one another or other similar sort of things like playing this one five then in turn six you can fly like tundra Rhino and if kindly grandmother and Rat Pack and all these things which are insane when they have charged because of these death rattle minions that you you can trade in and whatnot and I think this is definitely one of the more exciting cards for for hunter in the set it has a lot of potential upside so I’m not totally sold on it because by itself it’s not really necessarily that impressive but six helped us a lot it’s hard for people to kill a six health minion on turn five without expending significant resources if it does survive it can give you serious value with things like the highway situation and then even if it doesn’t you can just play this and then you can play you know three to cause death runs from your hand that’s a pretty huge tempo swing in one turn it’s whether that’s enough to really justify that you know it’s inclusion in a deck built this way that’s unclear but it’s not really a card that has significant potential all right next up we have debt stocker wrecks are who is one of the very first cards we ever saw revealed in nice present during the course get the fire armor and then a dot new here a power build a beast which is hilarious name and hilarious effect we have crafting of custom zombies but this is I think it again kind of like the the bow man which I’m not going to try and pronounce the full name anymore it’s not gonna happen is you know the kind of card that’s trying to push hunter in a direction it’s not just tempo kill you it’s doing it’s a more value oriented interactive game and obviously replacing your hero power with something which gives you that sort of value opportunity and not just press this button shoot you present button shoot you overturns I think is obviously very important to that but also the battle cry is it’s reasonably solid here it’s still too damage to all enemy minions at six mana which is kind of I am not quite enough but in terms of how much damage is doing or and what when it comes down against the lines egress and exit do with this now so you have to do a lot of interaction before that which is as you sort of been saying one of the things that hunter really struggles with right now so I’m not sold really undef soccer Rex ours plays the men again I wanted to be good because I want there to be in a way to play hunter in this sort of interesting way that is is more controlling is more of mid-range focus but I do think this is likely one of the weaker death Knights in the set which is just sad because build a beast is adorable in hilarious it’s also interesting that the build of beast zero power does sort of create additional context for any beast minions in the game obviously the fact that for instance the office which I will get to eventually but it’s a beast it’s a go people that something you couldn’t get with death starter XR or you can you know get stealth things elf beast is a huge deal you know it spells poison I wast like that combined something I think well this is actually potentially really scary but I want this card to be good and I definitely going to try and build decks and play with it I’m not convinced it is enough with the context of the other hundred cards it exists to really put that style of control and hunter deck on the map that kind of that does exist though this might be a part of it but I’m still leaning in the direction that I think you’re more likely to see like noise off mid range style Hydra decks rather than going the desktop or Excel route next up we have exploding below to bat which is a very good card it’s just a kind of a spell attached to a minion you have to forecast in cop21 that’s right it’ll deal two damage to all enemy minions and this this is a card that I think you’re likely going to see if you’re trying to build a deck that this you know that’s rattle inch combo deck or that’s trying to play a more controlling game that you know you’re putting this in your desk soccer Rexxar neck maybe you’re putting this into your nose off deck maybe you’re you’re trying to do those sort of things by having this is a beast spell slash minion obviously the body of this is quite poor you’re paying for for a 2-1 but you’re really looking to get the death rattle from this and maybe you’re playing with death there after all neighbors to get multiple triggers of it maybe you’re playing it with buffs that you’re going to have to attack into you have master this that’s attacking too so they lose a lot of their board it’s tough though because you know if you were just to pay for minute to do to damage to all any minions that would probably be good you know but of course a ton of work to get that effect out of this and you know is all of that sort of piecing together of those kinds of those kind of effects really worthwhile you’re ultimately getting not clear it’s not clear it’s enough if again just getting to turn four you probably have taken a lot of damage at that point and lots of the aggressive decks have high health minions or even things that increase their minions health so this will often just not be quite enough to kill everything and without an interactive hero power because hunters just smorc it can be tough to really leverage that incremental damage to actually get back in the board when there’s the Selective four bodies after you’ve used your AOE well next up we have a very amusing art piece burr car that you might want to play with your exploding blow pad which is play dead this is yet another feign death kind of terror scale stalker kind of kind of pushing pretty heavily hunter is having the kind of death rattle mini theme that they’re trying to get the most of their death throes I necessarily killing the minions this obviously the the cheapest and simplest version but just won’t cost Riggle what trigger one minions death rattle and this is obviously a car that you want to play with stuff like exploding blogbeast because our bloke bat or whatever it is – beast – that blows it because you you want most of the power of the minion to be in its death rattle in order to justify playing this card because we’re spending a card this isn’t like savannah highmane you play dead on savannah highmane here you’re getting two tutus for for 1 mana effectively but you also have obviously invested in the savannah highmane and then your state of the game are those tutus that powerful we’re something like exploding blow fight it’s like okay well you know getting that trigger potentially twice if you’re you know plating it and then getting to attack with it that could be pretty strong but it’s not clear that’s again really going to be put enough in a lot of cases to just wing work back to you fast enough to get over your early game disadvantage you typically have but this discard is I think worth looking out for because fame does kind of had a home some play in some places the punter what it did exist but I think we’re seeing more cards that have more of their power actually in their death rattle effect rather than a combination of their death rhotic plus their body and that makes this a curve it’s much more much more significant much more powerful in terms of the now you’re going to getting from it and obviously one is half of two and a lot of people don’t really I think respect how much easier it is to combo something with spell or minion or whatever else it just cost one it really makes the possibilities of getting those things off over the course of a game especially potentially multiple times much more realistic so I think this kind of potential I’m not sure it’s going to find a home right now but I do think this is a card look out for all right well good news everyone on my care elitism was nearly well enough but this credit is definitely quite strong professor Kreuger side whenever you play a secret put a random hunter secret of the battlefield I really like this card both in terms of I think it’s likely be a pretty powerful card but I also think it’s cool and that you actually have secret secrets now in many cases you know you play games where you pretty much can figure out what the range of two or three seekers what it might have and actually ending up in front of for people to play around the possibilities any of the potential hunter secrets I think is quite strong this guy’s weird tensions though obviously feels like it once he played the deck with cloaked Huntress where you can play closures on three and then place your side and 4-ply a bunch of secrets going to put your free secrets the problem with that is that it means you’re you’re applying your clip vectors on three and then exposing it to potential removal by not playing your secrets right away and your opponent just kills if it’s a clip that we lost a ton of value from the clip Huntress trying to set up the future side turn as well and a lot of 100 secrets I think are actually pretty poor right now that’s actually I feel like been a big element in hunter being relatively ineffective in the meta game is just how bad freezing trap is right now if reading charts basically bad because of patches and you know not being able to reliably strand a minion getvalue tempo eyes off of your freezing trap has made a lot of sort of hunter tempo plans that were built around that card much much weaker you saw hunter was good against other mid-range decks because of freezing trap but that’s not really the case anymore which makes try to play a secret base hunter deck Wow patches exists very challenging and I’m not sure that Professor future side will be quite enough to overcome that though he does have some more new support which i think is actually good in the world of patches which we’ll get to momentarily momentarily me right now I actually skipped around in the alphabetical order here to go to venom and strike trap immediately I think this card is quite good one of the big problems that hunters had is it’s not good at being able to establish a board against opposing decks that have that have lots of aggressive minions and weapons and one of the problems with that is again that sort of problems with freezing traffic in the world of patches as well as the unreliability of a lot of you or your secrets and if your opponent is trying to kill your minions well you know that that makes getting it to costs to three poisonous Cobra so it says right there it makes it a lot easier to to actually establish support if you can you know get like your venom strike trap online and previously you had access a snake trap but I feel like snake trap never really was that good in a world where you know there’s milfs from portals around there’s various whirlwind effects it’s much less reliable and often would just get kind of freak weird you know you’re going to taxi into it and they’re like okay well my triggers nature have now is ravaging Google they can’t do that with a venom strike trap if they’re trying to cut down your board and they need to be aware okay well you know if I attack this minion to that I’m potentially running the risk of Mike in my next minion where my best minion is just dying to poisons Cobra and that’s like a real decision point whereas often snake trap because there were so many reasonable ways you could clear those minions for effectively free it was not nearly as good in a lot of those matchups where you’re trying to protect your board and similarly the fact that you get a three health beast off of this is much better at with hound master it’s much better with your other sort of beasts energy head cards in terms of just actually having those online as well so I think this part is quite good and I think that this is a card that you know may be of the things that a hunter needs for a sort of revitalization I think this is this is a good start all right next up we have stitched tracker which is an interesting card and this is a three cops to tooth so not particularly but that’ll try to discover a copy of a minion in your deck this can give you access to lots of utility minions you can give you access to specific power minions you have say your deck is nothing but stitch trackers savannah highmane zanna’s offs in a few literally every single time have a chance of getting either another sis tracker I made or an adoptee I’m here in Israel obviously have to adjust those but you could have a limited a pool of minions that you know this can get you jobs to roam on almost every time if you’re playing Chi spell heavy both of you back you going to be playing you know just combinations that are going to allow you to to have pretty much all always powerful powerful discover options for your tracker and that’s in a pretty solid value tool in in a hundred deck that again is looking to try and play a valuable game as to whether hunter can afford to try and play value style game given kind of the nature of the class and the tools it has available not totally clear but being able to access say you know more problems to Professor future side in a game where you’re playing a secret base bag you’re able to access more copies of like I said is off or yacht that can be incredibly game swing if you’re playing it’s very much up in fact it’s a discover effect obviously it can give you access to what you want in particular circumstance you know obviously get the control deck yet more savannah highmane to go for it if you’re playing against you know an aggressive deck maybe you you have like one copy of blood disease and you can access a bunch of different eleven Souza’s in a game against pirate warrior or nesting rock you know you you have can build this interesting toolbox with six tracker that obvious you don’t necessarily have access to specifically the card you want at any given time but it gives you much higher access to the variety of potential potential cards as you put into your deck over the course of the game more much more likely than you would by just naturally drawn in them and i think that’s a very interesting deck building challenge so this is the kind that i think it’s easy to overlook but i think in a lot of potential all right last and possibly least of the hundred cards is toxic air out the various race card to made a deal to differs to a minion which usually isn’t quite enough to kill most of the minions that you you want to kill at around the to Pentecost but it survives the poisonous if you want to kill a big minion then you can play this on a slick not a small minion because you can just kill the small minion if it was you know if it’s a actual smaller it probably dies too damn it’s just not gonna get poisonous so what is this good at I’m you know I get this or thematics of what’s going on here it’s like okay this is the top down designs with poisoned arrow or whatever it’s like sure I get it but it’s hard from you imagine like what you want to do to this card we want to do with this card because it’s not going to get big minions not going to get a small minions but really good with small minions you basically just really want to shoot a three health guy with this and then trade it into your opponent’s biggest guy and you know yes of course you can use it to just kill your you know your opponent’s small guy but this is really inefficient way to do that and I just I I don’t know what you want to do with tox arrow in a deck effort I don’t know why you’re putting this in your deck really so it’s hard for me to really wrap my head around exactly what the plan is with this card which I usually feel like you know okay I can at least envision why you might put this card in a deck I’m kind of struggling on this one because it doesn’t seem like it’s particularly good against anything and that’s kind of hunter not particularly it against anything these days but that’s kind of why I’m having this more than I otherwise might because this field is so like such a strange design to give a class that is kind of struggling it’s like you know it’s not I mean I wanna say it’s like not purify the purify action of the card that did it interesting thing you can imagine a context in which you wanted to purify your deck at least I could even if even if no one else there seems it seemed to be able to they want to rage about it okay photographer Garrow I just I don’t really get it and and that’s that’s kind of a bummer for a class that really needs all the help it can get so if you have a brilliant use for Toxocara there I mean maybe you’re playing this on your your divine shield minions but you’re playing a hunter deck so what are you doing with that I guess you can you know Archie Squire Toxocara with haha now I have a 1/1 that can kill your guy that I spent two cards on I’m not buying I don’t I don’t know I don’t I don’t really really get this card I am at a loss so yeah kind of I feel fine hunter sometimes I’m at a loss and with that let’s move on Vermonter alright moving along to mage which I would actually want to courage that was not revealed and until the very end I simply the face book dump which is brent of sindragosa is a very strange card it’s one mana deal to do random enemy minion and freeze it they having to go random any minion at most age of the game is going to be not particularly useful simply because well you don’t necessarily hit what you want but this cost one so the fact that you can have it is essentially a cane blast type card and the early stage is a game to kill opposing cheap minions can be pretty effective I think if your aim find a way to help deal with with necks that are sort of putting out significant threats early on that said it’s you know it’s going to be difficult to justify including this in a world where there’s lots of things like fireflies or patches and whatnot where your opponent is you know pretty likely to have a number of small things on the board manic time if you have like a totem with this it’s like that’s pretty bad in a patch of this like that’s also pretty bad because it does freeze the many other hits it does mean that you get still get some value if you do hit a larger minion that it doesn’t kill you’re at least delaying your opponent’s you know big threat from hitting in the face but a lot of time you’re gonna hit something small or you’re not really going to be able to control how this is working out and I don’t think it’s likely to to really see play in competitive environment all right next up we have cold race with a three cost three four with a battle cry of the enemies frozen draw card I think this card is very good I for a long time was kind of trying to find controlling style mage cards that from a minion perspective if you want to to play kind of proactively if you want to play the board there weren’t really all that many good mage minions until I flamed Waker basically but flamewaker still didn’t really play a minion based decks don’t have something spells cold rates is is really interesting because it’s a three for three which is a pretty decent body already but has the the possibility that you just effectively can’t rip off that you draw cards if any frozen and there’s a lots of good things that can freeze your opponent’s minions or freeze your opponent you know obviously frost bolt is a card that pretty much goes in every major deck water elemental is a imaging that comes down right after cold race on curve and you can very easily imagine you can put the water elemental play cold rate draw card ping something or you know play a frost bolt or whatever and there’s also a reasonable number of other free synergy things cryo mansur and whatnot I don’t think we’re necessarily just going to be looking to make a freeze deck and this is a you know an all-star of but it’s just a reasonably studded minion with upside for a deck that can sometimes it’s not playing all of the sort of act like pains and things like that from a mate respective can sometimes run a little bit late on cards so I think this is a car that has a ton of potential and I would expect to see a lot of competitive play all right next up we have doomed apprentice this is a card that I don’t think I very much potential I think this is a car that was designed more to be sort of an homage to Sorcerer’s Apprentice to kind of reflect the sort of dark twisted nature of the Knights of frozen throne and creating and these these new versions of you know both the characters as well as the minions in some cases we’re familiar with and this is obviously just meant to be a dark reflection it’s sort of the premise but as actually mike said I said on our Omni Stone stream is this sort of sort of effect that you don’t necessarily want to make good because it’s very frustrating to play against so this is clearly not just a mirror of sort of apprentice it’s a worse version of that and I think that yes maybe you play against a spell based combo deck and in effect like this could be good but I think it’s difficult for that effect to be good on a minion that this fragile if you’re playing against a virile rogue they can just backstab this for one minute it’s a to health minion so I don’t really think this is a card that even in the matchups where you might think odes the sort of effect it could be good I think the combination of the cost and the effect end of the body specifically the the two health makes it hard for this card to really ever find out but that can be fine you know it’s good parent we got cool voice lines and definitely has a very dark reflection type feel to it so I like the card exists but I don’t think you’ll see play alright well next up we have what is possibly my favorite card in the entire expansion which is frost glitch Jaina who tossed nine but she’s worth it battle cry of summon eight three six water elemental your elementals have a life steal this game 5 armor like all the death Knights and then the new hero power of icy touch which deals one damage and if it killed a minion you summon a water elemental so however went a sindragosa it was first revealed and I was like oh you know I want to light this card but it’s difficult to to get excited about sort of attrition control style mage cards because it’s a tough for mages of class to really play a control game that doesn’t really just revolve around burn your opponent out with pyroblast or Alexstrasza and you know all that sort of basically freeze mage type stuff because mages it really have great ways to actually sustain itself which is you know it’s fine mage being a different type of control class and you know not having the same just armor and healing and all the other control classes that’s totally cool but I loved playing those this one controlling style mage Dex and frost lich Jana is a card that can make that very much possible obviously your element having lifesteal really redefines you know you the way that you actually can interact with aggressive decks instead of just kind of having to hide behind freezing all your opponent’s stuff and ice blocking though ice block of courses is obviously very good with Russell’s Jaina to buy you some time to play this 9 drug but you can still actually have this like interactive gameplay where you don’t just have to be afraid of your opponent blowing up at any time unless you have an ice block up and and I really like this I think this is a card that will really create opportunities for controlling style mage decks to have a very different feel than they’ve had for instance I loved playing illuminator before back in as gbg I think you know you’d heal every every time the end of your turn when I got a secret because it let you play is there even way of not just being about burster opponent down which is mostly what you tend to see the controlling style freeze image style mage decks do and I think frost is Janna has very similar sort of place higher into the illuminator flight pattern which is you guys sub grind your opponent out all hiding behind and being supported by your ice block it’s not just all about ice block create a winner to kill you kill you which also means that you can ply a controlling mage deck that is less vulnerable to things like armor gain you know in many cases you see mage decks really struggle to beat everything scales feral rage decks because they are totally in on the Alexstrasza you know bring you out planned in many cases and this can’t overcome Epona – who come prepared in that way well if you know now you are able to just keep so many water elementals and keep gaining life back you can play very differently against people who are just trying to out armor you and I think that’s that’s super cool also really changes the context for a lot of cards that already exist with pirates for instance was a card that kind of had some fanfare coming into un’goro but has mostly kind of fallen by the wayside in terms of one on extend to play and in part because it was just kind of a big dopey minion as you got into later shades of the game it wasn’t really quite powerful enough to justify especially a control back that already had expensive things to do with the late stage of the game but now if you have pirates and you get life steal and you know six six or ten ten your life stealing and connecting it’s like that’s that’s it pretty incredibly powerful and that’s pretty awesome similarly they carpet berry get in anomalous there’s all kinds of things you can combine the the lifesteal power to give them very different very different context with this this new main set I love this card I’m showing a building tons of decks including this card I wouldn’t be surprised there’s crap in golden one day one because that’s how much I like this card is one of the best cards in the set alright next up we have frozen clone which is a bit of wordplay that a lot of that going on this set you know thumbs up from me for for frozen clone but it’s a secret one of your two played the minion add two copies of to your hand this is an interesting cart because it creates a different dynamic in terms of like how you want to play against secrets depending what they might be you know we’ve seen obviously the secrets that are like I’ve given with the anti spell secrets there you know there’s the the anti minion secrets but you generally want to do kind of the same thing as each of them is like okay well guess the end it’s all secret you don’t play your cheapest spell first you wanna play your least impactful spell first similarly against the anti million secrets in a mirror and push the bottom or there’s a small thing to those so your phone doesn’t either neutralize one of your biggest threats or get a copy of one of the biggest threats against frozen kun is not totally clear maybe you want to play a big thing into frozen clone because you make your opponent’s head clunky because now they have you know two copies system that’s expensive in their hand versus you know people he played like a novice engineer into this your opponent has a cheap ways to draw cards and that can really change the way their hand plays out I find it interesting and it just it just creates a new way to think about what the implications of different secrets can be and I don’t know that it’s like good enough it probably probably isn’t is my guess I don’t think this card is likely to to have a real competitive home at least outside of Exodus trying to put all those you can apply which we’ll get to I think maybe in the next card but it’s hard to imagine a world in which you want this card instead of like a mirror entity and maybe you’re playing this against other control decks and you know there you get a copy of Kazakh s or something that’s obviously pretty decent you want like you know not necessarily just a big body one things that battle cry and have value because you’re getting two copies of it so I just like that it breaks up the dynamic of how you want to play against different secrets and I think that makes the game play against secrets much more interesting all right next we have ghastly conjurer not quite the the every secret just yet but battle cry at a mirror image spell your hand two six four four this is I think actually a pretty interesting card for quest mage decks quest mage decks mostly want time they mostly want time and they want generated spells and this is generating a spell that buys you time yeah you if you’re playing it’s an aggressive deck this is a two six four four which means that it can possibly especially once on your hero power trade into a few of your opponent’s smaller minions as well as obviously buy you time to survive to get the quest online as well as you know actually increase your ability to complete the quest by generating cards most on your deck so I think this is a card that has some potential specifically in that space I’m not necessarily as convinced and just sort of a traditional nature control that maybe this could find a home and say it kazakh three spec kazakh sprays like it’s mage that probably nothing cuz I was pretty sick go be tough where you’re just trying to buy time to say get to frost l’chaim because you know again it’s not that easy for your funder to remove in fact it has to attack it doesn’t let it actually win many fights against things but if you’re playing mage you obviously have your hero power which can mean that this trades better than it looks on paper essentially and if you’re playing us a pirate warrior you know you can potentially soak up some really big hits with those those mirror-image tokens you can get your opponent to commit arcanite reaper sum to zero Deuce and that’s pretty powerful so I think is a card that has more potential than it really looks like on the surface and I’m definitely interested in supporting that next up we have glacial mysteries which is yeah of course I was alluding to before put one of each secret from your deck under the battlefield obviously this is a mysterious Challenger type throwback and a lot of ways but it’s known today’s challenger mage secrets are better there were powerful the Paladin secrets but I don’t know that there’s so much more powerful that you want to pay even more and not get a body attached to it it’s also because it’s cost eight and you know it obviously eight is more than six there you go there’s a math lesson for the day you’re going to be more likely to have drawn the secrets from your deck to make it so that when you play your glacial mysteries you’re not getting maximum value out of it so it also obviously having cards like archaeologists in your deck which if you’re playing a secret mage style deck you probably want to have in your deck it’s going to break up the value you’re getting from relational mysteries so I think this is more like a you know a highlight reel type card it’s more of a cool fun card that can have big dramatic moments more than is a really top tier competitive level card so because it has a lot of a lot of asks in terms of how you build your back to maximize it and it also asks you spend a lot of minute it’s a lot and I don’t think it’s quite worth it except we have ice Walker one three four to your superpower also freezes the target this is their kind of actually I think fire baton I kind of disagreed pretty significantly on me stone he thought it was kind of trash and I put the fact that an elemental so maybe you you play this in an elemental synergy kind of deck not really sure how much of that you’re necessarily going to have it looks like obviously you want to play elemental Jaina but I don’t know that you guys still wanna play full elemental deck that includes you know icewalker of your elemental chains is not really anything that this enables of them like Thunder lizard and it’s not really that big a deal but this this enables your hero power to deal with big minions in Missouri mid to linking obviously can also lock out your opponent’s weapons in the in the mid to late game water elemental is one of the strongest cards against a pirate warrior because you stop your opponent from ever being able to arcanite reaper view they often need to spend a bunch of damage really in officially removing a large elemental in order to unlock their beliefs to weapon and heroic strike and all that and I just hope we can kind of do that it’s you know maybe additional copies of that kind of effect maybe split one of these you probably don’t you know I don’t think that I want to go to bat too hard for this card but I do think that it is a card that in like say arena has essential to be super strong because you have being able to neutralize your prime is the biggest thing at any point is much more powerful there than is in the more sort of interactive and intricate constructed meta game so I think this is a card that that looks worse than it is I don’t think it’s that good but it has been potential all right next up we have simulacra which is a super interesting card this is obviously a card that could go into say a quest mage style deck to copy your sources of premises you don’t necessarily need to draw all of them and your mobile reflection you can sort of have redundant copies of your combo pieces with the simulacrum it can also just go into like a arena send in kazakh style deck giving you additional copies of some of your your key and powerful cards at very stage of the game is the fact that it can really go with anything is super cool this is a card that has a lot of a lot of potential you could potentially have extra Malygos as in a game not that you want multiple malla Jonases but you can have extra alexstrasza as extra whatever you know like say you’re playing against a edge and you draw your a year or so your take like you know what I could really use to eater of Secrets in the game against another mage and gives you access back I think this is a really really interesting card both in terms of the deck building implications as well as the actual gameplay that goes into trying to sculpt to your turns such that you get the simulacrum on the specific minion that you want this is going to open up a lot of cool combo possibilities and hopefully not make quest major Presley good control decks because I think that’s a real risk if that gets many more tools I’m not sure that this is quite what it needs but it’s definitely at something that can fit into that deck and a little concerned about that but we’ll see all right the last but certainly not least is sindragosa this is a the card that when it first was revealed I was kind of lukewarm in it I was well I want to love this card I want to be like okay was the giant dragon that provides long game cool value because the zero one frozen champions when they when they die they’d give you a random legendary minion in your hand like okay well that’s that can create all kinds of cool gameplay moments like tons of value in the lungs of attrition Tech game but I wasn’t convinced that like you could really build a deck where that was sort of a viable end game strategies it’s because you know mage typically had to play in the I’m going to burn you out of style gameplay because of the tools the fence it’s also has available the reveal of Lich King Jaina totally changed my tune on sindragosa because looking Jaina I think gives you that ability to try and blend more sustains battle game plan thanks to the lifesteal of mailmen tools and you don’t necessarily just have to play you know a bring you out ice block hide kind of kind of strategy as a control mage anymore and that makes it much more exciting the possibility that you can you can potentially play sindragosa in that cell deck also obviously for us this Jaina when you’re killing your frozen champions you get water elementals because there’s zero ones you ping them triggers icy touch so that you are beating yourself even better suited to to winning these long games and not just getting you know rushed down and burnout or whatever so I kind of want to make dragon mage with sindragosa because you’re so likely to discover it of another spread his story and that maybe a little bit too greedy it’s a lot too greedy but it’s going to be super cool so I am now excited to play with this card when there was a long time when I look ass I don’t think it can really justify it now this is like you know probably be paired with frost this Janna as a day one craft for me I’m really excited this card I don’t know this is really good enough to really see like top two your competitive play because that style of deck still has a lot to prove but I think Frost let’s Jana may make that possible so we’ll see all right well that is it for this series of reveals for the first three classes so let me know you think in the comments and I will get back to reviewing the other cards to get you my thoughts on the whole set very soon thanks for watching you

[Hearthstone] Frozen Throne’s 35 Legendary Deck

hey guys how’s it going cranium frozen throne has arrived and as is always the case with the new expansion the absolute first neck we got to try is the new version of 35 legendary deck so the all legendary thing has kind of been like a theme every single time there’s a new expansion I’m curious how well this deck will do and over time it has improved because over time Blizzard has routinely introduced better and better early game Legendary’s making the deck a bit more viable now I tried different different style a few different classes and seems to be fun experimenting and a few of my friends seem to have the same idea and we get to have some pretty fun friendly matches so today I want to introduce you guys the Frozen Throne expansion through its legendaries enjoy the games guys and I’ll see you guys tomorrow if you’re challenging me you’re doing 35 legendaries ok don’t don’t screw around with your new wild deck using some of the new expansions cards run 35 legendary games right now I’m missing Kazakh I am NOT I kinda want to keep lich king it’s a tough keep so late but let’s try it oh maybe not so late now Sargent Sally is is on the weak side but it is it is a three drop so I’m taking it free-to-play deck I think the coin has much more value than trying to tempo him out against the 1/3 okay that’s kind of bad well five drop battle-cries flying up that many pretty bad is one damage off from clearing my board I can’t take the random polymorph from Maine okay okay okay I have no time for games tonight akela I have to live a minyan because we’re gonna have to push King next turn true terror I thought it was hand as well so all the minions in my deck okay give it a try suppose has a nice lift guys yes yes it’s out next ramus is live okay it’s life goodies got like frost worms flying around in the background the only issue would be if you put black knight in the sec whoa no really Oh what Prince Malik is our black knight okay I missed it didn’t scumbag me he didn’t like willfully put it in all right let’s give us a try I guess oh I seem too good turns out even in death lich king can win mm that’s okay well my deck is all minions so what’d you expect Oh mah dragons okay this might be a little difficult to take in but I’m pretty sure this is a play because the main way that he stays alive is Deathwing but if he plays Deathwing the boombots might have something to say about it much damage is that I think it’s safe to say Lich Kings single Henley just absolutely wreck that [Applause] pretty good he thought it was arena did you need to step off those drugs there they’re messing with you a bit good much [Music] try to make some tempo plays old strong decklist here yes it’s true in the EU it comes on the Levin but it’s like eleventh over there so it’s not exactly eleventh you can call it a compromise I’m pretty sure I took that out did I not yeah I did I did take that out now cuz our had other plans it seems tonight a tale terrible tragedy a lot of minion removal against not very many minions though oh okay I did give them bananas I guess pretty strong no there’s no lethal here no that’s the good one yeah this card is pretty strong when you’re winning okay replacements have arrived the legendary games are generally pretty fun it’s just they get really snowball a if one player has an insane draw mostly going first but that’s just so unlikely so most the games aren’t good keep our face the arena I’m waiting with this sorry bro I think we can be in charge here [Music] it doesn’t activate but yo uh two two and a deck that has very few two drops okay [Music] I’m going to go for the office a few of these death knight cards are pretty weak but I need 35 legendary games they’re generally pretty useful second Golden Goal down at the same and there’s better stuff to hit I imagine what’s this whole cooldown thing and I have a lot of messages to beat the dragon thing with palem from earlier oh man I gotta get rekt by Lich King again now okay fine these are just one more us that’s risky and they’re not that risky I have no time okay oh I’m dead not much of this damage like Alec here okay so we can actually give me a top this way let none survive I dream should I bet on bit on lich king hydra to get the talk back yeah but yeah yes sir right now I think I’m gonna try didn’t have to damage last turn so there’s 40 percent chance that you can’t kill me and if you can’t kill me I can get Lich King into Lich King which is a really big deal gonna heal me yeah I can heal me okay okay that’s good it’s a high-risk play for sure but I’m such a such a bad spot I think this is a spot where I can win okay all right see here we kill that off then we killed that off to get the Lich King back we deal five there one there Brina I’d rather have the 1 1 so let’s attack shame a great comeback I’ve ever seen legendary match ok fine this jungle hi that’s okay that’s not okay come on the weak side okay we fix the turtle okay fixed missed three drop yeah but we fix the other cards my life [Music] [Music] yeah what eyes would have been better [Music] wow that’s ridiculous get to save it with the hero power okay [Music] [Music] I’m running pretty low on cards due to my adventurous Hemet play that’s kind of bad [Music] harvesting servos get ourselves an evolution match [Music] hmm oh that’s a good hit Wow what a top deck okay did you get taunted nope oh my god I had to get really lucky to win on that one but I did [Music] you [Music]

[Hearthstone] Frost Lich Jaina, Your New Goddess

hey guys how’s it going crane here today I’m giving eyes the most amazing highlight I’ve experienced with the new hero cards and it has to do with it Jana so Jana via the Lich pretty strong card it is a little clunky right now because it gets kind of countered by some of the very greedy decks out there but it has some crazy performances against the mid-range and all index and I had a highlight that I just could not believe the power of the card when you get those elementals going there is absolutely no stopping you sort of like you know insane board reset clear or you know otk combos and it’s it’s just such a cool card um there are many powerful cards in the Frozen Throne expansion but I think standalone in a typical situation Jana might take the cake and if you’re not convinced watch the game and I’ll see you guys tomorrow can’t see what’s up with druid I guess it’s pretty well crypt hand for thick like this where do I get a thousand packs I have a million dust you don’t have a million vest me um well the met is still a toss-up I couldn’t tell you what looks good what’s not right now I don’t know excuse me yuan Jun let’s rank 22 catendra is strong back like if he gets c’thun to like 15 15 or much higher which he could I don’t know how I’d ever kill it I have no silence removal so came gotta get it via primordial glyph yeah Wow pretty strong full [Music] DK ginormous plenty of elephants be pictured one oh shit think of going for an extern lethal which you will get okay it’s just so rare that you’d want to use a ramp on turn eight here those who wheel yeah I think if I go for a primordial glyphs into Pali right now I won’t make it I think I have to do this hope to survive another turn after that those c’thun druids are serious bro what nice Cara yeah wait 101 now I haven’t thought about a professor future sidetracking me at 15 might give me the breathing room I need certainly not recommended [Music] if I come I tell most even come by Thomas without the innervate play would have been fine I’m all in on that one if I do it where’s your God now I can witch-king Jane is the new God you’re shivering are you afraid [Music] came where shall I go for days that’s right I’m not losing any of my life game you’re going to 30 and we’re staying there [Applause] we did I can see it’s your rank 22 game give me that fucking star that’s right a game demands two stars [Music] you [Music]

[Hearthstone] Kripp’s Top 10 Frozen Throne Cards

hey guys how’s it going cranium so I thought a lot about what I want to do for you guys in terms of summarizing what the good cards are in the upcoming Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion and I think that rather than re reviewing all of them now that we have more information from seeing all the cards and knowing how kind of the class archetype will work out like what classes have more options for powerful combos or powerful decks and all that what kind of cars is really high power level that we have to acknowledge will likely be in a lot of decks and you know we can get a slightly better picture but I thought instead I just give you a list top ten most powerful cards the most relevant meta cards I believe we will see from the upcoming expansion now I have a little bit of an asterisk so I think some of these cards might take a little bit to see play it might even be in the you know expansion after this I think some of the cards that were implemented in this expansion are very powerful aggro cards but there are a lot of control cards so one would think that was or just kind of figure out a way for control to take over with just enough healing taunt measures and all that so you know maybe Agra will be a thing but it doesn’t mean the Agra cards we got in this expansion aren’t ridiculous so let’s kick it off here number 10 on my list is actually the Lich King so some people think this is just the best card in the set and you know it could be but you have to keep in mind that this card is really only going to see play in a slow deck so if you’re playing a mid-range deck often enough you’re going to have at least one or two big cards you’re going to pick over it now with the launch of hero cards there are just heavier cards in this one and most mid-range decks rely on the very few but extremely powerful late-game cards so basically King might be an auto including every single control deck but we have seen some of the easiest control cards we’ve ever seen hearthstone history in the upcoming expansion so while I think the Lich King is way above the power level of previous late-game cards in general it is actually competing with a lot of spots at least for non control decks and yeah you are going to see it quite a bit in control decks that’s why it’s 10th on the list a very powerful card we have corpse taker so this card just looks really good and if you really think about it it just is really good like if you’re playing paladin and you got a the burned bristle whatever his name is wicker flame this is going to be a 4 mana divine shield taunt lifesteal just if you have one of those in your deck that’s just ridiculous I don’t know if you guys have tried it but if you just play divine shield taunt minions in your deck it actually does a really good job stopping most aggro it’s just there’s usually slightly better ways to do it but this is a much better way to do it and it’s in that same Department so I think we are going to see a lot of corpse takers especially in the mid range and control decks maybe even in the aggregate decks honestly then I have skalamander I think I have praised this card more than anyone else people seem to doubt its power I don’t doubt its power I think this is the single biggest board cleared deny card we have ever seen and I think it’s stata dwell enough that we’ll see play so I think if you’re running unaggressive – on aggro like an aggressive maybe a zoo deck and you’re up against the control deck usually turn 5 6 7 is when board clears start dropping on your board and you know you start losing and you need chargers and burst and all that kind of crap well if you have a pretty good board and on turn 5 you play this your opponent I would say it’s a mage he cannot Blizzard you because he’s probably just going to die it does really well against doomsayer I think we’re going to see a decent number of doom there’s even though yeah priest has a number of counters for this potion of madness doesn’t really punish it that hard I mean yeah it punishes pretty hard but not as bad as you think because the priest doesn’t get your 8/8 may just be able to five drops again pretty strong but still the main weakness is the priest and it’s not like you’re going to lose the game if it gets potion amends much like other cards with similar effects from the past if you can have any kind of taunt activator if you’re using like the bone mayor if you’re using a spiked Ridge steed like imagine you speed this play this your parents just going to leave it play speed on it for eight taunt and when it dies you get an eight eight and two six thought to protect the eight eight like it’s just absolutely crazy crazy amount of stats for the mana and that’s why I think it will see some play the main answer for this is silence removal but from what I have seen it seems like silence removal is the main counter to priests so there’s a lot of sounds removal going on you know maybe it’s actually still okay to play this because you’re not going to run up against that many priests which are going to have slightly more efficient counters against you then I have the shaman hero card for all deaths here it may not look like you know the craziest card ever but it’s a five cost hero card with a really powerful effect so if you play a four drop and your four drop attacks something let’s see if I can injured four drop you play this it upgrades it to a six drop on turn five and then your hero power just pushes the board constantly it gives you armor which lets you use weapons more in the mid-range deck without having to run healing it’s just a really really high power card and I think it fits into possibly even fairly aggressive shaman decks certainly in mid-range certainly in control it’s just I mean this card the only way this card density play is if shaman says no play and I have to think that won’t happen then we have a despicable dread lord cost four five demon the one damage to all enemy minions at the end of turn I think this card I think people people saw this or like yeah that’s a good card and then just moved along I think it’s worth taking a second look I think this card is a lot stronger than the first look would suggest it denies so many plays from your opponent you know the the end of turn effect happening again and again and again is just it’s just ridiculous against fast decks and it’s a pretty strong mid-range card it carries its own so demon which works with the the new warlock hero and a few other options as well it’s just it’s just ridiculous then we have dead man’s hand in number five so I’ve been a backer this card for a while I know a lot of people haven’t shown it much support but it I think it is the single card that enables control warrior once again and I’m I’m Toland firm on that I think even even like the the warrior hero card I only has a good control warrior card but we’re going to have at least a few control decks working out and control order being able to go incident and keep in mind J druid has a counter now so you know seems like this might be the absolute top dog of control it’s possible and I think that demands some recognition now we have the new one drop on cop21 and it gives a friendly minion +1 attack permanently it’s kind of like what abusive sergeant kind of was in the past and yeah Jesus art is a ridiculous card so this is a ridiculous card and you know there’s some chance a growing zoo might be completely dead in the upcoming expansion I highly doubt that but whenever an aggressive or zoo deck pops up in the meta once again I have a strong feeling this is going to be part of those lists number three is the Warlock hero card I think this covers what control warlock decks were missing all of this time it the hero power that you get deals three and heals you for three so much single target removal so much constant healing exactly what control warlocks were missing they had the big board clears they had the efficient giant plays and all that this is the only thing they were missing and they got it so I have a really strong feeling that warlock is going to do very well and I think this card is going to take them pretty far number two is defile one damage to all minions and if any die cast is again so I thought this card was pretty good I mean it’s obviously pretty good but when we saw in a few of the demos considering some of the cards that people are playing even control decks are playing a lot of cards that just you know that they have to die like two or three times to follow just ridiculous at removing them and it’s it’s better I feel than most other removal options and even warlocks previously had so that’s saying a lot warlocks had amazing early to mid-game board clears and this is better than the past so think control warlock is going to be a thing but we’ll see number one you’re ready for it it’s a one drop yep righteous protector this car is just obviously bonkers I talked about it I think it’s the car that annoyed me the most because it’s clearly a card that’s way above its power level in the one drop slot so I think this card is going to supply in every single aggro pally as long as it’s in standard it’s going to see play and every single mid-range power lead every single buff pally in every single control palette even it’s possible right like it’s so insane even if you’re playing like a combo oriented paladin deck dropping this and then using whatever to turn set up combo that you might need might actually get it to work for a one cost card that’s also insane against every other deck because you can play it on turn one it’s card it is crazy there’s there’s really not much to say about it overall this expansion while my list has 10 it really took me a long time to get down to that I think there are easily 25 extremely powerful cards certainly so I’m not on this list and I think more than any other expansion I’ve mentioned before there are an unbelievably high number of high potential cards cards that could be amazing could not be amazing and those cards I feel are what really make the game fun for me I get to test them out there’s so many things to test try experiment and try to push out some crazy decks out there more so than any other expansion we’ve seen before and that’s pretty exciting any other game might stay fresh for more than typical two to three week period maybe we might get more than a month out of this expansion and I can’t wait to try it out let me know what you think share your excitement the expansion and let me know what card do you think I may have missed on the top [Music]

[Hearthstone] Frozen Throne’s Best Day One Deck

Haga the gum cranium so we hadn’t a Frozen Throne launched it’s been quite a blast to check out all the different options cards and mess around and do all that kind of stuff today I want to give you guys just a little bit of direction I tried a lot of decks on the first day streamed for like 17 plus hours overall I had a few successful decks and while there were a few quite exceptional I think the best results came from the new zoo lock as it turns out now be warned zoo lock seems to perform pretty well to start of every expansion because most decks are not refined so zoo lock you know has a good chance against agra has a good chance against mid range is a good chance against control and because the other decks are generally not very refined in the first few days of expansion zoo lock outperforms where it normally is but it really really performed I think my win rate was close to 90% with this deck and it just slaughtered people now there are some aspects of this deck that I think work but could be changed I’m using Prince’s the only to drop the battlecry buffs all the cards left in your deck I think it’s reasonable because most the two drops are not essential to zoo you can just play more one drops if you play more one drops you have a more consistent opener and that’s really how sue works I have just tons and tons of minions of very few situational cards you play is that kind of like a board control deck not so much as a finisher with charging Doom guards and whatnot you don’t need those what you need is the scale of mansur the skill of answers five cost to two when it dies it spawns with 8/8 if a dodging your opponent’s turn well you have so many activators to give it taunt and this card single Henle counters board control cards so you know you play this turn five into a mage turn five into a paladin they’re behind on the board they literally have no options they can’t clear your board because the video they die if they don’t through the board well the dance u-turns so it’s just an amazing card bone mayor is kind of like the late-game finisher and there is a bit of inconsistency because sometimes you draw like two bone there’s in the early game and you have some issues but even those games even with like absolute trash to your openers this deck can still come back and win just because it’s so ridiculously efficient in terms of board control Zoo game so check out the hope you guys are inspired up together and join the expansion as much as I am and I’ll see you guys tomorrow spirit lash with mass dispel I don’t know about that and I cyclist good no this is not while [Music] [Music] [Music] what I was hoping for but whatever doctor all right here’s what the wrecking comes and it’s over Thank You skele man sir you can’t board for mid-range warlock from ranked 22 to fourteen same wind revealer what’s that [Music] glory to the fedora he needs potion a madness dragon fire and that just kind of like breaks even it doesn’t going to do much I don’t think so at least if you cast potion – on scalamaster and kills it off it won’t spawn anything the only thing is week two is cabal Shadow Priests I’m not sure that’s a playable card right now until I use live on 1hp them the prince deck at p.m. and that’s much better well mate alright now you guys tell me scalamaster is not a good card I think your boy Walker that much potion of madness doesn’t counter exactly good good answer to it I think that’s fine well play no I don’t think a piece of it’s worth that there probably going to make some shit play line up into a dragon fire potion or where to place akela my answer is not going to play the dragon fire potion these endless okay that’s really good [Music] [Music] okay ole opry we need Argos abusive veteran bone there is my field it avoid walkers really strong against paladin those dumb one-drop they just got so keep it to rate the legend yeah that card I want a coin but yeah it’s a bad idea to okay I’m sure ticket we’re like I think I was talking about it but it sounds pretty bad there’s a good girl beat your pink that expansion is pretty cool I’m pretty happy with everything wow that feels like a pyro quality rested apart it’s pirate father to remind you guys we have a we have a deck with a print in it and it has a lot of all right your midas over okay so basically it’s going to happen is you’re going to piece keep that we’re going to reverse piece keep that and then we’re going to shoot on the Peacekeeper not actually kind of sex I don’t think I can get through that come one off even in the best case yeah surface no skele münster to instantly win the game I ran a control pally out of cards I guess that’s fine my field put kind of like flappy bird – yeah it flaps no less sure that’s really sleeping bro that’s like oh my god what are you doing what the fuck are you doing huh what well played okay okay into the break my seal there is only much you have prior or will just be control palette and about every single answer actually ran out of cards clearing us things we might be back guys I’m not sure that’s a good thing but yeah I mean I really like skill um answer but I feel like I have to draw into it have to just get good one drops oh man oh man dude for a deck of fourteen one drops this is really shit nothing except mine seriously yeah typically this deck has three good one drops turn one and then two on turn two I think I’ve ever okay can I guess Dora my field I don’t think there’s any harm in that attack well I mean this is you can’t even you can’t even believe how bad this dries so yeah sure might lose this cuz honestly I think I had the chance [Music] quickly that’s in pointless it still works Oh bad huh glory to the fedora [Music] pretty confident ass to play you know who’s creating the in-game recipes now I thought that this time around they’re pretty decent interesting felt like when they launched the deck recipe and I remember one that was I felt like some intern did them because they were terrible but it sounded pretty interesting I think it’s probably easy to do good deck recipes this time because whole expansion has a nice appeal that’s really bad now we’re still dealing with all this garbage probably a long list I mean you can see how powerful zoo is after all that bull crap still doing things I mean it’s drawn zero cards is head like insane perfect answers it’s going to be more of them to actually come back after being in a ridiculously favorable position and I don’t I don’t have board clears I have to trade my way back into the game which is terrible that’s not bad I’m going to save the Deaf speaker one turn I think his main way out is a dragon thing that’s Picard counters it sure whatever blood will flow [Music] [Music] looks like I might actually win this game hmm nothing scared me except mine reporting for duty not sure that actually helps very much I guess it does Drive lethal 3 3 yep that’s me fun y’all peace we won that all right if suspects actually crazy [Music]

[Hearthstone] The New Frozen Throne Deck Recipes

hey guys how’s it going brain here today we give you guys my first look through the new deck recipes the other day when the Frozen Throne patch went through before the expansion was released but the patch went through it had the new deck recipes we can kind of see what Blizzard was promoting cuz a lot of the players who pick up parts on pick it up during this time and they pick it up using the advice they see into the game and the advice is seeing the game has a certain direction or flow to it it can be a pretty important deal to them and I find it pretty interesting to see what kind of deck recipes Blizzard comes up with traditionally about half of them have been quite good and half well not so good and this time around it’s very similar but I thought it was a bit more interesting probably led on by the fact that the cards themselves from the upcoming expansion are overall more interesting than in the past we have very few dull cards we have very few cards that are clearly underpowered and most cards are in that range where they might just be really good but you know you have to you have to try that you have to test them you have to see how well you can synergize them with other cards and yeah having an overlooked for the first time it’s an interesting experience and I wanted to share with you guys that today so enjoy it and I’ll see you guys tomorrow no pain no gain well I don’t have to look at the deck list because it’s a warrior hero card deck oh come on come on I mean seriously this is the worst card in the expansion so let’s say you have this and then and then you play this and it’s like wow combo wombo four mana 5/3 wow that’s really good whoa why not try Yeti it’s free after all what else we got overload giants Robbie oh wow that’s that’s pretty good synergy if you can play a bunch of giants and then freeze them if you can replay them what’s Banshee if you can replay the mill full cost of zero xers pretty good avalanche two freezes ice breaker is I mean this tech might be terrible but we have no idea it’s so different I want to try this this looks like a fun deck that’s a pretty good curve too I have a feeling this is a strong curve the defenders a good card it maybe it’s not a maybe it’s not a really good card but it’s a good card I think if you stick this in any shaman deck in the next expansion you’re not going to regret it so that’s just fine if you think this card sucks aggro is still going to exist hi Sean deck is potentially quite good well I’m in like it what do we got the sauce valera slayer bone baron okay orifice yep how many death threats are there yeah one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen thirteen so roll the bones is draw 1.4 cards for two I think that’s still worse than novice engineer yeah some of these cards just really low power level and that’s one of them alright when we got here Arjun Squire Arjun Squire 2.00 bench is the for cost five five that you discard cards so that cards good to any time but that’s going to be a really good arena card by the way that Banshee card is better than yet in arena hundred percent one hundred percent no doubt about it that card is going to be like an eighty point arena card man she’s great and constructed obviously sucks but constructed is about overpowered shit synergizing with other overpowered shit so that’s different conversion hydrologist wow that’s a really aggressive curve I was going to talk the deck but actually with a curve like that it can probably cycle through very well I think this is probably a more powerful deck than I realize no hero I think it’s fine so aggressive think bomb is pretty good Elway they get to deck recipes wait do all of them get to that recipes oh so one recipe is like mostly the previous expansion and one is like the new new expansion yeah that’s how it is but the hunter one is very different like it’s missing seven cards okay it’s probably been orifice oh it’s a beast and if you could stitch the track or our fists very good so there’s actually very few minions in this deck it’s running a shitload of traps so I think the idea is that you get cloaked Huntress to have insane value with secret keeper and you can get a stack on when you’re cloaked huntresses because you have few minions and you could get it would stitch the tracker future sides pretty good I think it’s Beck’s luck but it looks really interesting I probably give this a go the eternal hunt the sauce well it’s pretty bad with high main it’s fine with that wait how does how does that gain attack what what is that supposed to pull validated doomsayer for mana 7/7 the egg huh okay all right it’s very different I can’t say it’s bad without trying it Hydra knocks Lich King no Furion and we basically saw this deck in their card reveal demo there’s same decent it’s like if you play the deck right now it’s obviously insane but it’s going to be up against really strong control deck all the classes are getting rid of strong control decks will you discard from Oh yeah I don’t know about that go own the mayor meat wagon bone man is pretty good down there on Devil’s Touareg is really good that’s three week that’s good oh man this is like a really cheap deck this is going to be a scary deck surprisingly they don’t have a control or lock deck Center the fire and ice and it’s basically what I said those cards really good elementals but like six cards from this expansion I don’t see how it keeps up with the incoming new decks so I think that’s probably too weak cool this one is missing ten oh wow yeah this is very strong probably want to try that myself shadow Reapers revenge so what do you play circle healings those things you got the two radiance you got Lyra oh yeah that’s basically what I imagined this would be wait what well if you have if you have shadow Reaper in play okay if you take this deck and turn it into one with Raza to make your hero power zero I actually think it’s a good deck so if you play villain and then play that your hero power is dealing 8/8 that’s like you play to zero cost spells and hit your opponent for 24 that’s not bad I told you guys that card might see some play you can quote me on that all right so like you know half of those vectors shit but you know wizard made them so that means nothing um but almost all of those X are really interesting almost all those X are awesome you’re gonna have a lot of fun in suspension [Music]

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