Quite possibly, but we’ll see. Even if it only hovers around 50% ish, I’ll play some version of the deck, and with seedlock getting booted out of Wild, LPG mage may well be worthwhile again.

Glad to see the HP mage buffs, that’s a deck I really want to be viable

I would say FDH isn’t really a combo deck per se – whilst it’s highly synergistic, it plays more like a slow midrange deck with a flexible burn finisher, and is occasionally able to win the resource battle. It can rarely even muster a full OTK, so I’m not sure it fits cleanly into any of the traditional categories.

If you’re looking for a control deck to play, I can recommend Fel demon hunter from personal experience, it seems pretty strong so far and is quite fun to play (I’ve been using VS’s list). I’ve also seen quest Shaman described as control, and that’s supposed to be one of the very best decks at the moment.

I wonder whether a more midrange build of Lifesteal DH could emerge here, with Il’gynoth playable as a threat in it’s own right, rather than exclusively a combo piece?

Just chance probably. How many did you open?

Yup, seems pretty mad tbh. Are there any current draw engines which you’d say are comparable?

Oh no, I can absolutely see that that’s how it will work, I just didn’t quite think of that interaction.

True that tbf be fair

Fair enough, they probably just didn’t bother updating it

Whilst, as you say, explanations aren’t necessary, the flavour text for Varden’s card does provide some interesting context for their identity.

Um, yes it is?

Even druid loves this, maybe pounce could be enough to make this usable in Standard in a quest deck.

They’re really trying to push aggro Priest then, huh? 5/5 in literally any other class, but I’ll have to give it a tentative 3.5/5 in Priest.

Fascinating… they seem to be pushing a rather slower take on pirate warrior. I’m half tempted to predict a flop, but I hope it works. 3/5

Fairly sure Wild aggro druid will want to try this, and it will wither work very, very well or be utterly useless.

Looks quite interesting, although perhaps a lower curve than I might expect. Is Lothraxion really so important as to run so much high end card draw to try to dig him out? Would it really not be worth running Alex instead of, say, Cornelius or one of the 4-drops?

Between Skull of Gul’dan and potentially new tradeable cards, I don’t think Glide will be necessary (or good for that matter, since it likely cuts out some of the cost reduction and card advantage, so it may massively devalue the early parts of the quest)

I’d completely forgotten about the new mechanic (as I often do, it seems), if we get some worth running in DH, possibly this could be worth running in a higher curve deck to exploit the cost reduction… either way, I’d be curious to see what Lifesteal DH makes of this, although it might be unnecessary and the reduction in early consistency might be too painful.

You can have up to 14, but only in completely ideal circumstances and I can’t be bothered to figure out the most likely outcome.