Brann should be absolutely amazing in dragon priest. Twilight welp becomes a 2/5, wyrmrest agent a 3/4 taunt, blackwing tech is a 4/6, twilight guardian is a 5/6 taunt, azure drake draws two cards, blackwing corruptor deals 6 damage(!), nefarion gets 4 spells if you run it, shrinkmeister/cabal steals a tirion etc. Not great with injured blademaster though . Also what happens with voljin, does it swap stats then swap back?

Great write ups btw kirby

I really wish museum curator was a 2/1. I don't think that would be super op for a class card. It could still see play if brann works out though I guess.

I think things like Brann + Shieldmaiden, Brann + Healbot, Brann + Azure Drake are going to make it a staple in control decks. I still wonder if it works with Coghammer, given that Coghammer says give a random friendly minion taunt + divine shield. With the wording I think there is a non zero chance it can proc on 2 different minions..

I would assume it doubles Coghammer since it isn't something you choose like BGH. But we shall see.

They said it only pulls from cards that are legal in your deck.

Some thing do get around this, like the 'discover a new basic hero power', obviously that would be pointless if it offered you your own hero power three times

yep discover is from all available cards to your class, neutrals and class-only, but obviously no neutral spells so yeah.

Basically discover cards you could draft

Looking at this some more, Discover a Spell is sooo much better than drawing a card from a Tempo Mage's deck. You're 25% to get exactly Frostbolt or Fireball, which are the two best cards in the deck. A lot of the slower mage spells are almost always good given that having at least 5 mana was a condition to drawing it - Polymorph, Flamestrike, Pyroblast. So you're already at 48% to get one of those five cards.

A big chunk of the trash has situationally high upside. Stuff like Frost Nova and Echo. Even crap like Vaporize and Dragon's Breath in the right situation is significantly better than drawing a card from your deck.

It's pretty hard to get a crap card. There's enough always good cards and only a few always bad cards. It is much easier to get a crap card drawing from the top of a Tempo Mage deck.

I think you have to run two Ethereal Conjurers in Tempo Mage.

feugen and stalagg rogue :O

would be cool if true!

still think the spellpower of drake might keep it over tho

OMFG i just realized cursed blade doesnt only double the dmg you receive when you hit but from all sources

WTF its so bad

you bet your ass the first trolden video post LoE is mech mage w/ blingtron doing 24 damage with double fireball

I love how rogue keeps getting really powerful cards that don't even come close to fitting into any current decks they have.

btw, cursed blade is definitely a face warrior card. 1 mana deal 6 damage is pretty buff.

its definitely the only archetype where its possible to even consider

but its still **** lol

take double dmg from every hunter charges and hero powers! 10 damage kill commands! : D

It's gotta be a nerf to blingatron and all the other cards where you can steal class cards. It'll never be played in any real constructed deck.

It's not a nerf to Blingtron. Just adds more variance. If your opponent gets it, you probably win, even when you're a bit behind. Same the other way depending on opponents class (the less direct dmg spells they run the better). No one that runs Blingtron is going to stop because of it.

If anything it buffs Blingtron.

Prep eviscerate the raptor!

oh god that combo has to happen at least once

It might even be competitive!

Sounds crazy to say but I wish they would have given at least like 2 weeks notice for the expansion, to build a little hype and allow people to save up gold and what not.

People don't even have time to do card reviews or theorycraft much.

Very unusual to announce something and have it drop like less than week later.

Far better than waiting months and months for sure, but I mean, a week more would have been ideal IMO.

at least theyre dropping wings not everything at once (also not that many cards)

Did some digging. Loe will be released nov 12 (2 days) and the first wing releases 10 cards:
Djinni
Scarab
Anunisath
Summoning stone
Rumbling elemental
Holy trial
Reno jackson
Ancient shade
Obsidian destroyer
Dark peddler

Explorers hat and torch auto get released.

So basically my prediction is...
Arena meta will shift, albeit slightly. Remember tgt cards have been emphasized; paladin gets slightly weaker with fewer murloc knghts and seal lf champs.

I think arena for warriors gets ever sk slightly better bc obsidian, and shaman slight buff.

For constructed, i think ppl will try reno decks (i will), but secret pally will get another secret to try, and maybe flamewaker or freeze mages try torch

Lifecoach says:
Reno Jackson best card (I think he thought you had to run all one ofs in your deck for it to work too)
Eerie Statue maybe okay
Keeper of Uldaman good
Tomb Pillager second best card
Fierce Monkey good
Unearthed Raptor okay
Dark Peddler okay in handlock
Museum Curator okay
Tunnel Trogg good
everything else sucks