please tell me you can hear this, cuz it works on my side

honestly think climactic explosion is really bad, not because rainbow dk is bad, but because rainbow dk doesn't have enough ways to spend corpses

One more note for Kangor, Dancing King for Paladin. Since Ragnaros is in the Standard pool currently, this opens up the potential to cheat out Rag, deal 8 to a random enemy (prob clear an enemy minion) AND HEAL FOR 8 cuz Rag gets lifesteal. Cuz of this card i think that transforms Ragnaros into a combined hybrid of BOTH rags. Rag lightlord and Firelord. I think its just strong.

Amalgam Band going to be a highlight reel card where someone gets stealth+taunt+divine shield/reborn or whatever and just concedes because they played a 7 mana "do nothing".

Poor warrior. I have no idea who is designing for warrior recently, but it feels so bad to be a warrior fan in [current year]

You could put Pozzik into a Deathrattle Druid deck and immediately trigger its deathrattle for an immediate tempo swing. Not to mention that with the Hero Power package that Druid has already good deathrattles, so you wouldn’t even stress if you can’t play it soon.

Rarran is meta defining in my heart ❤

ETC is meta defining because it goes into 100% of non-aggro decks for the next 2 years as it allows them the flexibility to deal with the variety of decks they can face. You put a strong value card in for the control decks, a disruption tec card for combo, and something midrange for the tempo decks. Everything you could possibly want

Thank you for illuminating me on the "Audio-Engineer." The card is so incredibly inconspicuous, that I didn't notice how much of a tempo piece it could be.

You should go through your previous set predictions and rate the rating.

Rin is an incredible option for a control deck running the new ETC. Could lead to instant wins against common meta decks if any combos get popular

I love Legnends Also, the hunter spell case bring back Mukla along any other beasts that are 5 or more. I think the spell should be in B or even A tier.

something really scary with Mukla is the rare situation where your opponant doesn't have any cards in hand or field, your opponant will have to play bananas on YOUR minions or auto loose (tho granted if you're opponant have no cards t6, you kinda already win)

I love the new legnendaries from the festival of legnends

DJ Manastorm is absolutely insane, the discount carries to next turn even if he dies. That is very easily TTK

DJ manastorm I think is being underrated here, the idea of the card is play dj manastorm, play 0 mana stalling card, otk next turn with a 3 or 4 spell combo, 4 spell if no minion, 3 spell if you play guild trader

Im gonna try to push stranglethorn heart in my deathstalker rexxar deck. I also agree with Rarran about Pozzik. Cuz if ur fighting aggro, ur already gonna be 20 hp and their board is gonna wide asf. So choosing to play the 3/3's instead of clearing board is gonna hurt u alot.

I know the hunter spell isn't absolutely insane but the fact that it's tradeable makes it incredible

photographer fizzle might be good in a curse kit in a world without brann and tamsin roame

With Inzah you can play Jive Insect and Criminal Lineup with the new 2/3 mech that gives you 11 mana. Also jazz bass can let that happen as well and if you played jailer before then 👀 This is the best moment I’ve ever felt as a shaman main, so happy, the memes are overflowing

I'm a Rogue main, so I see the HUGE potential of Bounce Around. And... yeah, Bingo decks with Photographer Fizzle and at least one Shadowstep in my hand? People will want to MURDER me. Photographer Fizzle is a S+ tier for me: you can copy your combos, you can recover if the opponent destroy a core card in your hand with patchwerk (or stole it), you can have infinite value if you have a way to draw consistently, you can use it as a backup plain if something go wrong, it has a battlecry effects so you can copy it with cards like Brilliant Macaw, you can use Youthful Brewmaster on it... This card is a "must have" for sure.

Don't forget with Rin - if they're at ten cards in hand, you're burning 4 cards and discarding two cards, which is pretty brutal - deleting 20% of the enemy deck was nasty on tickitus

I just want to point out jive, insect can target opponent minions as well. So you can get through taunt. Just wanted to point that out

I‘m gonna meme around with Photo-guy so hard. Gonna Snap Romash,Blizzard,Cold Case, Ice barrier, play the copies once and then just Romash til my opponent concedes

I am telling all of you right now: Fizzle will be autoinclude in every deck like zilliax was

a big thing to also consider is how some of these work with the etc sideboard

Climatic necrotic explosion - well you can spend alot of corpses in death knight i guess we have to see how it works. Cage head - the major problem is getting it to die when you want for the 9/9. Going down swinging - seems great. Halveria Darkraven - seems good with rush. Rush out minions and then keep attacking to keep buffing. Zok fogsnout - depends on how it improves. Rhythm and roots - its alot of delayed stats. Stranglethorn heart - there are some targets but not sure i want to be holding onto a mostly dead card. Mister mukla - well it forces a burn. i guess it really depends. There can be a situation in which they also have to buff mukla because they don't have targets for bananas besides mukla. So mukla might be alright. I think the rush really helps. Dj manastorm - I think its good if you have spells in hand. The problem is I think alot of high cost spells are leaving. Infinitize to the maxitude - trying to figure out how many final triggers make it worth. Kangor, dancing king - seems good as long as you ensure it has a switch target. Starlight groove - seemed incredible until I thought about how many classes easy break this Heartbreak hedanis - priest is happy to heal minions anyways. Love everlasting - this is great so long as you have spells to keep it up. Mc blingtron - this is going to crush somebody for sure. Bounce around - super dangerous because rouge loves bouncing things. Inzah- I have no idea I'm guessing It can set up combos maybe. Jive insect - defintely combo material. Also potentially let's you have a rag on 5. Rin, orchestrator of doom - does warlock things its probably good Symphony of sins - the effects seem good. Blackrock and roll - it's a slow card but it's great for buffs. If it's discoverable it's incredible. Rock Master voone - menagerie support. One amalgam band - for menagerie Tony King of piracy - seems great for anyone that wants to play cards from your deck. E.T.C band manager - seems cool that you can possibly ignore decibuilding requirements by hiding the cards in ETC. Also good because you can have contingency cards that wouldn't be good but would be great situationally. Pozzik, audio engineer - I'm seeing that an enemy will immediately plonk those down. Photographer fizzle - this is great.

8:23 If the Metagame is slow, which I hope but doubt it will be, this has the potential for so much value.

I have no idea if with Pozzic audo engineer was sarcastic or not, idk, Im 3 days old

'it's two unholy so you have to put it into some type of unholy deck' - rarrin 2023

Great tier list! Agreed that POZZIK is probably the BEST sleeper card in this set :) Can't imagine it being in Undead Priest given that its already so strong now ...

for rin in warlock i think you could play etc with rin and 2 different things in the side deck and u can pick rin in matchups where u might need it

Stranglethorn heart is a "one card" otk, the 2/5 beast that gives charge to your beasts is 5 mana. Though the requirement is that you have like 7 or 8 5+ beasts with a total of 35 attack. but in a late midrange deck it's definitely usable. Also you can put it in etc, so you don't have a useless card against aggro. Makes me wonder if you wouldn't main deck savannah highmane with it. Apparently rhino is wild only, so not a standard combo, but still a great midrange/combo imo. Your top end is probably mountain bear. Though even without rhino, if there's a midrange deck that plays like 6 or 8 5-7 beasts it's a great include, at least in etc as a finisher against a lot of decks.

'it's 2 unholy which means you have to put it in probably some kind of unholy deck' no way rarran, no way

Maybe I’m crazy but I think you’re really underestimating dj manastorm, sure it’s a ten mana 8/8 but it’s really 10 mana 8/8 etb cast a 9/10 mana spell. Cast 2-3 expensive spells on your next turn. As long as/as soon as there’s playable big spells for mage I think this gives you enough tempo to swing the turn it’s played and then as long as you don’t die you really should just win the next turn. Idk 10 mana win the game with some build around seems decent to me as long as it’s not a turbo agro format but I’m also not super tuned into the meta at the moment.

I only just got back into playing Hearthstone after getting the 150 pack bribe, and I made a rainbow Death Knight and called it "Commitment Issues". The name is far better than the deck.

I feel like Infinitize the Maxitude should instead be named Plan for Your Next Turn so people understand how it should be used

song choices are lit love Delfino Square

I totally agree on the Pozzik Engineer card. Anyone who thinks the battlecry even means anything significant is fooling themselves. Not so great but still worth noting is how it gives them 2 practically useless cards to their hand taking up 2 hand slots. Great against opponents wanting to draw for an answer. Crazy aggro card indeed. Starlight groove is gonna be annoying for sure. At least it isn't halving face damage indefinitely like the paladin hero card, and sometimes you'll have divine shield but will need to use a holy spell for something so sometimes holly spells feel wasted. I'm surprised bounce around didn't get an S. Such a stupid card to print for Rogue. If shadowstep isn't getting hall of famed, Rogue is gonna be a problem at a start of a new year. Lot of cards are rotating but the current sets are good enough for Rogue. My favorite card of the legendaries is definitely "Jive, Insect!" hahaha it's so cool!

I fucking love the Super mario galaxy songs in the background. Very nice detail in every video ;) I actually listen to the playlist regularly

So one thing Rarran, DJ Manastorm allows mana cheat. Remember what you said about mana cheat: it wins games.

Give Voone Rush that would already help the card a ton.

"Infantilize the Maxitude" Gagagoogoo

0:54 I think it might possibly see play in neutral purify death knight (wild)

I like the snapshot guy for my shudderwock main account.

Personally I absolutely despise Love Everlasting. On standard it might be not a powerful card but it's another mana cheat for big priest on wild to play their shadow essence faster. Palm reading was bad enough already. If this gets played on turn 2, shadow essence is playable on curve turn 4... It's gonna be painful

“The best card warrior got this set was Tony” 😂 I’m definitely going to be playing an open fort deck that is all centered around getting tony and giving them hot garbage draws

Going down swinging is mega defining. Calling it now

Tony seems to be super good with the jailer

We love the warlock legendary spell ensuring that playing any control deck into it feels like complete and utter ass! Like, if control warlock ends up being even remotely a thing in this expansion, the only real counterplay for that is "have a combo finisher of some sort, also hope this doesn't hit any of the pieces before you can draw them". The counterplay for any control deck that doesn't have a combo finisher, i.e. the most pure/traditional style of control, is "go fuck yourself". Bravo, team 5. The meta polarity that Tickatus caused for every other control deck was such a huge hit with your playerbase the last time around, right? I honestly can't tell if we're flipping the usual approach of "put all the dumbest shit in the last expansion of the standard cycle", or if that's still the case and the expansions to come will make this one look tame. Before anyone argues that version of control warlock was a bad deck: So is control blood DK (especially the dog shit Renathal lists, i.e. almost all of them), it doesn't stop it from seeing a fuckton of ladder play for whatever reason.

Tony + Fires of Zin'Azshari + Steamcleaner sounds like literally the most viable option for Warriors to me.

Not sure if it's just me but I'm thinking that with the new legendaries that they're putting out paladin will either be shaped towards a less agro playstyle for the entire season or Blizzard will just give paladin a weapon with insane value but will make them take damage as a tradeoff. Considering that we're talking about blizzard I can definitely see an insane weapon like that coming out at some point during the future.

Audio Engineer is broken if u are playing rogue , just imagine playing it multiple time and trigger the death rattle

first expansion in a long time where im excited to play EVERY class :)

Coming back to this with halveria being run in basically the best demon Hunter deck as a huge win con and the legendary spell being basically unplayed in most decks is hilarious Is there even a deck that it goes in, not relics, not outcast, and spell DH isn't really around much now

Heartbreaker Hedanis is gonna be insane I think. Combo overheal is gonna be a thing

did u know these cards are going to be there for the next 2 years

12:59 I think this right there is the biggest blunder of the video. The potential of the spell is amazing, but unless you precisely have the minions that guarantee you spells in your hand permanently, it always has the potential to whiff. It also restricts you because you absolutely have to play a spell if you don't want the effect to go to waste. Now there are ways to build around this, of course, but generally speaking I think it's far from the strongest card we've seen for this expansion. No way is this a S-tier card if the Paladin one isn't. If anything I think this card shows how they might nerf the Paladin card - if they don't put a hard limit for refreshes on it they will put a restriction on it that you'll have to fulfill, otherwise the effect will be gone. 26:34 I do disagree with that one as well. Like it's not bad but I think you're overestimating how strong it will be. I would give it an A-tier. The problem is if you're behind and your opponent has some board presence, they can just take the 3/3s as a refill, summon them and deal with Pozzik. Now you rightfully say "When you have ever played a 3 mana 3/3 that does nothing. But that's not the case here. It's not a 3 mana 3/3 do nothing but a 3 mana 3/3 deprive your opponent of ressources. If you go aggro against aggro and you are behind on board, this card just is a refill for your opponent, even if a weak one. If you are ahead, yes, this card is probably gonna be the finisher, you are ahead, you establish board first, your opponent playing the 3/3s would put them too far behind and you would win from there. If you have an option to proc your own deathrattle, something like "Play Dead" for Hunter, this card is insane of course, because that combination would be a 5 mana 11/10.

And I still want to know whether 'charge' is a bonus effect, although I agree it's too broken on the amal-band

Anyone else notice the thumbnail says sad and broken

they might add a fire tutor for blackrock and roll

The amalgam is going to be meta defining. Charge with windfury would be a pretty common highrolls.

Pozzik feels like a much slower (pre-nerf) Drek'thar to me; obviously Drek'thar was one of the most bonkers cards ever in its original state, but this looks a lot slower to me - it lacks the immediacy that makes the most overstatted Aggro cards as oppressive as they've been. It's very different to be pressured by a 4/4 that also summons a ton of other stats immediately, versus a 4/5 that only has a Deathrattle to summon more stats (and no Taunt or Rush). I mean, don't get me wrong, it's still a lot of stats, it's still a lot of pressure, and I still think it's a good card. Just, I probably wouldn't put it in S-tier. Guess we'll see, though. I'm sure I'll be proven wrong in the very first week.

10:25 That card is getting nerfed, I can already tell you.

I think that the legendary song for dk is gonna "see play" in a 3 unholy runes that aims to discover it. Immagine a lord marrowgar followed by the spell the following turn...

Hunter spell depends on beasts but tradable + a big summon effect like with nzoth, guldan hero, hadronox which all saw play has a lot of potential. Even if the beast support isn’t there now, to not mention it could go up unlike millhouse which you did make that argument for seems wrong to me Those other cards didn’t demand you summon big minions but they benefitted best off of it, couldn’t summon a second 8/8 to go face (you could get two doomguards but then what’s the bigger prerequisite there in that case?) The card has a lot of potential with some decent support in summoning big cards, or a nice taunt like the bears etc. Depending on what they release this could be used as a finisher, as a tool to out-value with tonnes of big cards in the later game before flooding with this, or even as a slot into something midrange which runs a few big boys like mukla and king Krush as one of its higher cost cards. It offsets the downside of needing a lot of big boys or having a lack of consistency drawing them so you can play them and get value from this card by being tradable. That single effect means it can be run in stuff that isn’t necessarily entirely built around whether running loads of high cost beasts will work and can fill a role of something like scourge in unholy when you’re low on cards for a high value play, or as a massive value play against slower control decks. The instant effect of cards like Krush means you don’t get entirely screwed by simply getting soulstealered Can help control board and comeback, or can help win more. Has potential to work in midrange or some form of big hunter - only time will tell if it meets any of these potentials but it is there

Im sorry but putting climactic necrotic explosion at c is insane

Paladin scares me

Shaman minion can enable some otks esp in wild with mally as a 2nd thaurissan

Blackrock 'n' Roll should have been a quest warrior needs it

Guys: If you attack an hero w divine shield they don’t give damage to you unless they equip a weapon

I saved my coins for the mini set ... It's gonna be worth it i think ... When is the expansion comming?

Pozzik argument is pretty weak. "How often would you play a 3 mana 3/3" is an incomplete question, because by not playing it you are giving it for "free" to your opponent. You also have to think that playing this into a control deck just gives them at least one free resource to help control the board until they can pull ahead. I feel like silence effects will be a lot more prevalent in this meta as well, with some crazy deathrattles and board effects being rotated in. Definitely one of the better cards, but this in S tier while you put E.T.C in A (which is a card currently played by almost every deck) is a head scratcher for sure

Astalor(3) +prep+bounce around + Astalor

I think the legendaries this time around feel a notch weaker than before. This seems like a good ranking to me... though I don't think anything stands out as S and some of these (Bounce Around) should drop too

I get that Pozzik is basically a "4 mana 5-4 dr: summon two 3-3s", but I don't really see how it's that insane 😅 I think it's fine, I wouldn't want that to be a two ofs in aggro decks, but I don't really think it's that ridiculous.. Im rating it low A or high B tbh

Mc Blingtron into Astalor, prep, legendary spell, Astalor, shadowstep, Astalor, Shadowstep, Astalor

My hot take with Bounce Around is that its actually kinda bad, but will be good in meme decks.

I think the Pozzik call is reasonable. It falls off lategame but boy is it backbreaking early, and that might be enough.

I'm honestly really concerned about Hearbreaker Hedanis just taking over. i believe priest still has access to flash heal, and it works even if the minion wasn't hurt to begin with. with the amount of "heal all friendlies" priest gets right now? i'm scared. Bounce Around, i'd put easily into S tier. i think, especially seeing some of the other stuff rogue is picking up in this set, and knowing some of the tools they have floating around, it's going to be so much free effect triggers, especially with the combo kit they picked up this set. I think you're more or less right on Jive, Insect!. it's a good card, but i'm not really sure how good ragnaros will actually be with the sheer amount of "yea, that's gone" that so many classes have access to anymore. i think the only class that'll really struggle to answer it is demon hunter, and maybe hunter. I don't think Rin is going to be good, unless warlock picks up an effect that allows you to recover cards you destroyed from your deck, and/or more discard recovery. Pozzik i think is a solid card, but i don't think it's going to be insane. though my thinking for that is basically that the 3/3's lingering from a sweep or trade isn't a massive issue for the decks i play, and that's assuming they don't just collapse to the corpse explosion continuing to chain off.

I think you are wrong on pozzik. You are going to want to play the 3/3 do nothing against this card, because in this case it’s not just a 3/3 do nothing it also denies your opponent the 3/3 summon on deathrattle. In this case pozzik is only good on exactly turn 4, because if you play him on turn 5 your opponent has the mana to play both audio bots on same turn. it’s like if you played a bad 4 drop that gives and makes your opponent play a bad 6 drop. If you can get him out on exactly turn 4 he’s pretty nice, but that’s not going to be a majority of the games, he’s going to feel bad to play a majority of the games

Photographer Fizzle is like Theotar. 80% of decks will run it

E.T.C for the DK 10 mana spell, put it in a marrowgar deck and boom, crush the meta

The overheal legendary in wild will be busted, mark my words

14:01 its a 4 mana 4/8 edit: Thought it was deal 4 damage not take 4 damage

Oh hey audio, neat

Does going down swinging interact with blades of azzinoth the way i think it does? Cause that sounds like gonl otk again but for druids brother

I’m saying it now : Rin , the orchestrator of doom is NASTY.

Priest, rogue, and warlock meta

The problem with MC is it doesn't say if the effect is Only while the opponent has a mic equipped

The second I saw Pozzik I was in agreement with Rarran. Play a 3/3 for 3? In 2023? If you’re opponent plays Pozzik on 4 and you play 3/3s over the next two turns you’re chance of dying increases dramatically. You have to play the bots eventually so you’re opponent doesn’t get them. In the meantime, you are taking 5 damage per turn.

I think kangor alongside divine shield makes paladin basically unkillable.

Pozzik S tier is troll

black rock and roll and the shaman guy both seem like good E.T.C cards. if you play etc on 4 you get to discover your strong 5 drop and if you play etc anytime after that you get a different strong card

I agree with you but why did you put Mage cards so low ? Theyre extremely powerful and will get even stronger. You just cheat out infinite spells, get to repeat them ALL once in a game, and do a good combo with the gnome leg. The mage losing tempo is another problem, but nonetheless A tier minimal. Just remember Casino Mage, sure it was a lot faster, but got nerfed multiple times

Oh this is something I'm willing to watch... But not at once 😂

Rin is an etc card.

Most death Knight corpse spenders that are decent are 2 runes 🤔 and the discover cards are 2 runes too. Not too sure how good rainbow will be unless you try some sorta menagerie build maybe

Inzah is better than most of those reduction cards because it works on overloads in hand too.

I think you are wrong about Blackrock and Roll. About part where you were saying how problematic it is to play you are 100% correct, but payoff is great in my opionion. If you dont die turn after playing it you probably won already