You got yourself a deal, mate. Care to remind me by the end of October in case I forget?

Major counterpoints – the dragon tag makes him fetchable by Curator on curve, sure, but this has a deathrattle which means it gets brought back by N’Zoth, which means you get the full value of it twice, the second time without paying any mana for it. The deathrattle is also a lot stronger in the late game than clearing a bunch of small minions – usually there aren’t supposed to be many of those lying around come the later turns.

I’m not arguing it’s better than Drake, although I’m thinking it. But I said it as a warning for people that say the card is too slow – they were saying the exact same thing about Primordial Drake when it was spoiled.

N’Zoth’s true first mate. And if anybody calls it bad, I swear… I swear I will make you look back at Primordial Drake.

If you think this card is back, you are wrong. Quote me on it. Screenshot this and we can talk about it in 2-3 months.

Or as I like to call it, the Non-cabalist’s Cabalist’s Tome.

I strongly disagree it discounts the cards that you mentioned. It will work on deathrattle weapons for sure, but not on cards like N’Zoth or ones that simply have the word “Deathrattle” somewhere on them.

If you want to test it out, go play the rogue spell Journey Below 1000 times and see if you are presented with any of the aforementioned cards as a choice. Hint: If you play it in Warrior, it has a good chance to give you Death’s Bite and the other deathrattle weapons – Tentacles for Arms and in the future, the new warrior Bloodrazor.

Not a big believer in the divine shield synergies deck. Do you remember all the handbuff cards that were revealed for Mean Streets? Look what happened to those. The archetype my succeed or it may not, it’s way too early to say. On its own, the card is fine, but it’s not the next coming of Jesus like its rating will have you believe. Especially if the meta truly is slower, a 1 mana 1/1 minion is very unlikely to have a real impact on the game.

If Argent Squire is not seeing play, this won’t either. Even if it does, it will be in an aggro deck and I think aggro will have better options than this. At best it’s a mild inconvenience. It might have 2 functional health, but 1-attack minions need something else to make them playable.

Both of you are correct of course, in fact I mentioned that I very much doubt it will be changed. Perhaps I failed to clarify that rewording Unleash won’t keep it as-is and will slightly change how the card functions, but seeing something like Spreading Plague really makes me reminisce of Unleash.

I will make sure to edit the original text to avoid confusion, thank you for pointing it out!

I really don’t understand why everybody is rating this card so highly. I see comments how it’s good in token druid, but we don’t know if that’s even going to be a good deck in the KFT meta or whether it will play this card. Without some serious buffs to its attack, that’s a garbage stat line, no matter how much health it has. At least Tar Creeper took down things with him when traded into.

Perfect 2-drop for Renolock. Get an Emperor tick on one of the following cards and get ready for one of the sweetest turns in your life – Brann – > Kazakus -> Dirty Rat -> Gnomish Vampire. That’s a middle finger to the opponent if I’ve ever seen one.

N’Zoth is still in Standard as far as I recall. It’s very strong and therefore aleays viable, the only question whether to plat it or not is how fast the meta is.

Pretty sure it brings back taunts from Choose One effects, otherwise it’s a bad card.

People who are not rating this eith 5 stars have clearly never played N’Zoth control decks in Wild. This is an additional round of board flood that comes back to make the N’Zoth board immune to AoE because it will just flood again.

If you argument is “bad stats, too slow”, go play Control mirrors in Wild (happens more often than people think).

I don’t understand why everybody is so hyped about this card, it’s not like the best thing ever. Hunter secrets are not particularly strong, the only really good ones are Freezing Trap and Cat Trick. You’re looking at a turn 6 with a subpar body that the secrets’ effects have to make up for (and it’s not a beast). Secrets are generally bad during the later stages of the game and better early – this guy forces you to not play your card to get more questionable value later.

Overall, we’ll see, but… eh, 3-4 stars.

It seems very strong indeed… but given that it requires “an activator”, we’ll have to wait and see. Interesting though, this is the first Hunter legendary that I can think of that’s not a beast.

First one of my Top 10 cards for TFT.

Thank you very much, look out for updates and Part 2 someday.

Funnily enough, I always thought the fourth card type they would introduce would be Hearthstone’s version of “Enchantment” from Magic: the Gathering – something like a permanent spell with an ongoing effect. To me it seems like they have dipped their toes a little bit in that space with Lock and Load, Embrace the Shadows, Stampede… can’t think of another one off the top of my head.

But hey, Hero Cards look really promising too! I sort of hope there is some interaction to go along with them, or at least in the future. Then on the other hand, I wish there isn’t any, because that would take away from their uniques and we can’t bank on them to be reliable, which is crucial for something that’s essentially a deck’s win condition. Overall, mixed feelings but very excited for the new toys.

Really, really good card. Even if they don’t give Shaman a ton of freezing support this particular expansion, this is the card that’s going to keep getting better and better with time.