minti's Comments
Blastmaster Boom
We all wanted the return of the boom bots but this straightforward replaces the Wild Boom card. I though blizz knew how to design around such famous and loved card from the past. We finally get archetype for dr boom and the card that made him famous retired. A bit sad but this is straight forward more valueable for the new decks. Its basicly dr 7 with potentionally more BOOM-bots.
Heistbaron Togwaggle
Marin the fox’s treasures just became viable. At the same mana cost but with a little less of a twist for sticking a lackey the following turn or just by paying just one extra mana and you get to DISCOVER it or whatever choose is, talking about mechanics from the past. This straightout retires marin for the rogues.
Not shure if there are enough lackeys to make this into a archetype straight away. But as the year goes on we will see more of the lackeys so this can potentially turn into something very good.
Hench-Clan Burglar
This is not the typical burgle effect though. It says spel lfrom another class not from your oponents class. So this is guaranteed a non rogue card in tess mirrors. Much like tomb pillager but a bit more fast while it does not give you a coin it can give you something usefull. Well as for how much the coin is worth is is not that valueless in rogue. So i don’t think that the deck that run tomb pillager will replace it for this. But it is verry good card.
Fal’dorai strider is retireing so this is the immediate replacement for it. It will be a staple card for rogues as they like high dmg minions that benefit them even if they are removed. With a spellslinger like effect i think this is how the even the aggro decks will run. My aggro decks are more appealing with random fireballs in there 😀
Unidentified Contract
say hello to the rogue mechanic from the past. And as with the other ones you hav eone gamewinning effect. One fery powerfull and the other ones are mediocre. With this the weakest one is the patient assasin. but a least you don;t pay the mana for it. The mana cost is high. And vanish is still relevant and free. while this is epic for reasons unknown. Like with thistle tea it is very much control oriented and rogues don’t do control. They are too op for it. i doubt it wil lsee that much play. Assasinate is 5 mana and i am not shure if the other 2 mana effects are worth going up with 6 mana cards.
In wild valeera does not like cards with more than 5 mana. even though she runs vanishes. I still think that assasinate is a very good card. And i really thing it was a better fir into valeera decks over the vilespine. But vilespines stats are not that bad.
Overall this card sees no playable archetype for the rogue whatsover. Thistle tea v 2. Will see no play, and no one will waste their prep for it. All the effects are dust 2 mana addons for a one mana upgrade.
Wrenchcalibur
Well the bomb decks just became tons of aggro oriented instead of control, A bit higher cost than the Fiery waraxe but 3 dmg is still relevant removal with a twist.
Clockwork Goblin
Oh man a new archetype coming into wild. Bomb warrior. Make way for the fun. And by fun i mean really fun. Its a nice way to screw combo. The more they draw the bigger the chance to draw the bombs. You can dead mans some of the bombers belefull banker then augmented elek them. bran them. Ofc surviving while your oponent draws the bombs is still the hard part of the deck building but it is on. The deck also works againts reno decks since if you shuffle multiple bombs your oponent will not have his reno active. Whitch is why the darkness’s the candles were used for.
A small card that can go a long way. 3/3 is a regular stat for a 3 mana control minion, but this has th eextra mech tribe to it. In any case it has a place in some decks. Finally some interesting mechs. I really wished boomsday had such interesting minions like this and omega devastator.
Dr. Boom's Scheme
well no need to complain now schemes are not that powerfull. Only the rogue one. 1 out of 5 good is not bad.
Gaining armor is important for control only warrior. Warrior not like priests can go aggro. And gaining armor is not that good at 4 mana. 4 mana regular cards can give you 12 points like pthe priest healing potion. the shaman healing wave gives tons more if you win the jaust, jaust for 3 mana. and having a card sit 15 turn in your hand to be usefull is not good.
May be boosting it to 2 or 3 armor. or at least making something good like deal 1 dmg to your oponents face. And make the first ever otk warrior control deck :D. There is a long way before this becomes usefull, usable or interensting, let alone fun. I thought it was good being evil.
Madame Lazul
medivh become corrupted before he became the guardian. Kind of he was corrupted from child birth by what i can recall from the novel. And medivh was the first one ever so you can downgrade this again.
Madame Lazul
well its a nice idea but it would have been more balanced if she would just burn the card. Its like an epic demonic project. One of your cards is a crappy 3/2 for 3 mana and your oponent loses one from his hand. That is what i call evil.
Madame Lazul
i don’t think the RNG is in favour of this card. Even if you know what your oponent has priest has no good answers to the combo decks. If you are priest and you go againts a combo deck you insta lose.
Even if you are priest and you are in fact playing combo you are still more likely to lose to the other combo decks because your card draw is very limited and you are forced for the past years since heartstone firs launched to plat the same card draw scheme northshire circle acolyte and wild piro. whitch is a total of 8 cards + your combo and all the other board clears you can find.
And that is not fun anymore. I am not saying its not powerfull. but its boring.
As for the effect. Knowledge is powerfull. But its not worth if you can’t utilize it. Priest decks are very stale and people usually kno whow to play around them anyway. Even if you snipe your oponents shudderlock. It is basicly useless for you. This card is weaker than it may seem. The effect is cool but other classes could benefit more from it.
Madame Lazul
Well we saw how usefull chameleos was. Not usefull enough for his dust cost. But it was usefull. The only good things this card does is it shows you 3 of the cards your oponents holds. Chameleos could have shown you more.
Its stats are very bad for priest. You would never run the 3/2 version of a card in priest you preffer to have the 2/3 because you could heal it and make it deal more dmg. And you are also overpaying for a discover card. Knowing what your oponent has in hand is mor eusefull if you are trying to aggro your oponent whitch is something proests don’t do. And this card is so powerfull i think thoughtsteal is its competition :D. You can instantly replace it with thoughtsteal. After all everyone is playing netdecks exept very few people and you know whats in their deck anyway.
Too much dust cost for too little value even for telanji shenanigans this thing gives you poor value. And as taznak pointed out its a very poor valu eagaints aggro. especially if they ditch their hand o nyou or if they got tons of value in their hand.
Azalina has similar effect to this card and azalina can win you games. And is not rotating out. Chamilios is more usefull than this and chamellios was not crafted that much. The game was supposed to get better so devs should have learned and make the peeking at your oponents hand somehow usefull and i don;t know maybe get a way to explot the value a bit.
All in all this is like 3x mind visions into one card that let you draw just one of them. And getting one of your oponents card is not great since its not that likely for you to get descent value for it. You can get lucky but its a vely low chance.
Another dust donor for priest, the card is neither deck defining nor you can build around it. If you are unlucky to get this you will have no deck to build around.
i mean imagine that you are a player that just started playing heartsone and got this as your free legendary. The only thing you can do with it is to get 3 more legendary card and instead of having a full built deck you are much better with craftign a whizbang. In the new expansion of you happen to have zerek and zerek’s cloning gallery and lady in white and chameleos. cloning galery retires and it requires you to have all the old legendary cards so you have 0 ways to play priest.
Oh chameleos is not rotating so its just a better card than this so anyways don’t feel bad for dusting it.
Although bad i like the fact that casino priest got some legendary cards. Well casino priest didn;t get anything as good as what the burglar rogue got lately with cards like tess and espionage, it is getting toglaggle scheme too. Whitch is something casino priest could want but anyways priest is just the dumpster of cards.
Omega Devastator
Howd on there bud. splashing a lich king does not make your full mech deck not full mech. And to be frank the odd hero power is something very powerfull and it felt like the dr boom hero power was a downgrade. Second off odd warrior was popular control archetype because of reckless flurry. and a sudden lack of low cost removal options. Although you can always use the old control tools that warrior never lost like doomsayers brauls shoeld slams and executes. All the mechs in boomsday came with mana cost 5 or 1 and very few 2 drops. The only good 3 drop mech was amalgam and its not that much of a control card. So the archetype felt quite incomplete. And now we are seing rush and dragon warriors getting descent values. Good things are happening with warriors.
And a copy of dead mans hand can make every deck with few descent legendary threats a good control deck. the abbility to run 2 lich kings in a deck basicly makes it control.
Improve Morale
Also the quillboars are getting into quite some cards lately. I think we may see some quilboard villian printed these expansions who knows.
Omega Devastator
yes you are correct. Although omega assembly is in every control or mech warrior deck already. If this had come in the boomsday expansion mech warrior was going to be usefull. Or at least if omega defender was a mech.
Omega Devastator
omega cards didn’t see much play. They were mainly arena players insta picks. This may be the first one to make it to constructed. its a nice addition to the mech archetype and you would happily pick this in your delivery drone. getting this on turn 10 from delivery drone makes dr bomm hero the best hero :D. And i thought that the 7 armor wasthe best, now it can be the second best.
Omega Devastator
i don’t thing this was the original omega defender’s art. Its more like that they goofed and they have the cards developed in advance.
Improve Morale
It could be used to slim your deck. Warriors good enrage cards are dead and gone. It could have been just a discover card but lackeys are not that powerfull. despite being above one mana cost minions they do have 0 mana worth of boddy with a 2 mana worth of effect. Attatched into a already existing boddy is ok but paying a card and one health for them is not worth. Lets say you ping an enemy minion and you get witchy lackey and if you don’t have a minion to evolve you are just stucked.
It is execute activator though as long as you don’t get witchy lackey its usefull somehow. I don’t see this beating the competition for the active warrior deck. Maybe the new rush aggro warrior it can give you good value for the 1/3 rush wasp that enrages to 4/2 minion. But the wasp din;t make the cut for the deck and this thing’s mana cost is way too high for it to be a viable option for any kind of deck. If you run devastate it can be usefull, but its another card no one uses sicne execute is much better.
This will not see much play even if the lackeys get OP its not worth the value.
Rafaam's Scheme
I loke lock getting bad cards. They deserve to get unplayable, despite the fact that they will always be tier 1 for Wild. I am not shure if that will please the people playing lock. If no new cards get released for their wild decks they will probably not spen money on the expansion. It is as simple as that.
I played hireek in wild with forbidden ritual and northshire councilmen, imp gang boss and implosion, and it did not made hireek good. And forbidden ritual is a much better version than this.
I have seen lock having those really cool imps but not a good archetype for them. Maybe in few years we could have a usefull deck for them. Although fiendish circle will never be a usefull card.
If it was upgrading the stats and the numbers that would have been very powerfull. And it will basicly be the better version of hireek. And if it was upgrading the power it will not fit the imp archetype that much.
I must point out that the sneaky devil and raid leader really shine in those kinds of decks but the face dmg the lack of good board clears ( since lock likes to hit not only his minions with his aoe but his face as well) And the deck kind of failed either with the card draws, the tempo or your hp.
Another thing i found out is that C’thun and usher of souls is much more reliable OTK in this deck than just hoping for hireek :D. And you do have a way to draw c’thun with harbender of doom but that is waaay later on turn 6. And you can lose the board very fast. My advice is to just bring c’thun in this deck. Usher of souls gives you instant value even if c’thun is not in your hand. and the spirit of the bat is simply a bad card. Its a low cost boddy though so you can fit it in there. I guess you rename it as spirit of the BAD :D. But still it can squeeze you some value.
And i am quite shure that people want instant value from their 6+ cost cards. Even if you had a consistent way to instantly play hireek on turn 8 as a full board of 8/8s on curve. It will still be not enough for your deck.
Ok that was all about the archetype as for the card its amazingly bad but i kind of like it becouse of the archetype. Imps are not a working archtype i nany way in HS and it could become.
Compared to the pther schemes, the rogue one is OP as hell considering ther eare 45 turns limit you can go over it easy as pie. Hagatha’s scheme is usefull. Board clears have the bad habbit of getting stuck in your hand and this gets better, they also are very annoying for your oponent if you top deck them. They can insta win you the game and hagatha’s scheme won’t . Lazul;s scheme is bad cancer card, made with no imagination whatsover and we should pretend it does not exist. While this is just bad. It is an excuse to make 2 good legendaryes for 10 classes, now we know its hard to design 5 above average level cards that will not break the game. Lets hope boom’s scheme is at least great card that can fit into any deck, despite the fact that warrior is control oriented.
0/5 for this at least its not a dust donor card since you don’t get that much dust from it :D.
Swampqueen Hagatha
First off people did not say shaman spells are trash. It was mentioned the first time when the card was announsed on steam with the card. The reason shaman spells are considered bad is that they usually come with overload. And that requires more planning than any other class. Since if you are playing control and you want to play something you must plan for it in advance. Whitch is something your oponent can see. And that makes you predictable whitch is even worse for control.
So this is whyshaman spelsl are considered trash. Don;t get it wrong those spells are the most flexible in the game. And shaman has all of the magic effects exep sap like effects. But polimorph effect are extremely usefull. Jade lightning is the best jade spell from the whole jade archtype. The problem itself are not the spells its the archetype.
bubleies and yamiess’ replacement. A bit more paladin oriented and a bit more sticky with less healing :D. Healzoo is going to wild but this can be used by locks still.