LuKeAA's Comments
Underbelly Fence
Outstanding in Wild if you can curve it with Swashburglar > Patches turn 2 (unless you’re playing against Rogue) otherwise, it’s abit slower 2 drop with 3 drop stats.
It still brings support only if you opt to build an arguably funnier version of Rogue,
so 6/5.
Plot Twist
I think people confuse “Control” with “Combo” or “Value”;
there is a reason why it’s called “Control”; because it is meant to control something; that’d be, controlling the board;
now, before rotation, Control Warlock was a thing due to the great means at its disposal of shutting down aggressive plays/boards and of sustaining itself through “reliable” heals; Hellfire, Defile, Bloodreaver Gul’dan, Skull of the Manari with Voidlord, Good Taunts, Amethyst Spellstone, those were great control tools for the earlier game;
for lategame, Twisting Nether, Godfrey and just “curved out Voidlord” were more answers;
with the rotation, all of that early game board controlling (except Hellfire), is leaving; Shriek with the discard synergy is the only early game AoE that the Warlock has left (for now); I am not sure where other “aggressive fending” tools are listed but I can’t seem to find them;
now, if Warlock were getting some more “self-sustaining” and “board-controlling” tools, then this could potentially work as the lategame fatigue win condition vs other control decks; but for now, Warlock feels like in a rather struggling situation against Aggro.
Things might change in a couple of reveals, tho.
Plot Twist
People seem to be slightly over reacting about this. First of all:
– while Warlock has not much of a problem with card advantage, this still counts as losing hand advantage for 2 Mana (not suitable for Handlock like builds, without considering Zoo and/or other possible aggressive Warlock builds);
– Warlock is losing all of its good Control tools, all at once, which means that, at least upon release, this might struggle to find play (in standard);
– even then, this is a “2 Mana CAN do nothing”, as you may just draw what you returned or not draw into the outcome you needed;
That’s not saying that the thing looks bad; it does have some interesting shuffle applications and synergies:
– the new legendary comes to mind, which gives a “possible” Rush board (although everything else dies) for 10 mana;
– Elekk will apply a Dead Man’s Hand-like effect to this, shuffling extra copies of your hand whilst providing you with a new one; so as long as you have 2 Elekks and 2 copies of this, Plot Twist Warlock will be the new Dead Man’s Hand (albeit a worse and more inconsistant version of it, which never managed to shine in the first place).
Cool, but not mad OP/Broken/Busted. 3/5
Vendetta
4 Damage Pre-Nerfs Backstab for whoever chooses fun rogue approach?
That’s what I’m talking about!
6/5! Good design.
Catrina Muerte
EDIT: I’ll up my vote to 4/5 because she can speak Spanish; that’s always good to include in your resumè.
Catrina Muerte
While Kel’Thuzad can bring you back a whole board, this only 1 minion; that one minion could have died anytime throughout the game. By the end of the turn, you are getting a minion back.
3,5/5
Duel!
This expansion is going full ham on trying to disrupt OTK/Combo builds!
Hory Sheet, 3/5.
Muckmorpher
-1 Shadow Essence on a Minion with counter-synergy with Shudderwock.
I really hate that counter-synergy.
3/5.
Hecklebot
Probably because of the Battlecry; the Deathrattle impact makes Deathlord less immediate, even if the effect is the same as Deathlord.
Hecklebot
Is this the Neutral “Dirty Rat” we were promised?
Huh … Well, from the Deck and from the Hand has quite the discrepancies, but overall, it can do the job.
3/5 because Dirty Rat was just awesome.
Crystal Power
This one confuses the “living Mana” out of Fandral.
4/5 for the usual 1 Mana Druid decent Spell.
Bronze Herald
Step 1: play Bronze Herald;
Step 2: kill Bronze Herald, get 2 Bronze Dragons;
Step 3: play Dragon Speaker;
Congratulations, you get two 4 Mana 7/7 Dragons, Overload 0.
Let the memes stay alive forever!
I wonder how Kibler is going to do without voice.