Literally one of the most broken cards in the game he can alone win you a game by doing 30+ plus damage and lifesteal.

The infuse lifesteal one work works ridiculously good with paladin just keep summing n can wipe a whole play and heal you for the entire amount

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He didn't know all the new cards

Honestly, totem shaman is a meme. There's not enough to make it worth playing. Oh, wow, cheap 10/8. Yawn.

@@theparagonal almost every giant has seen play

@@mat-sr2vw In the past

@@mrsqueak4837 with pain warlock who runs 4 giants still being the tier 1 deck in wild right now. Cheating mana is good.

It sounds good, but once you play Bru’kan, which is a strong hero card and defienetly worth playing, your gero power loses every connection with Stonewright

stoner parrot

@@Plantje024 and it also sounds more like a combo, but all those totem spells could work and lets not forget eysor.

@@Plantje024 yeah losing the hero power sucks but I feel like even with just 2 battlecry of stonewright it shouldnt be a problem closing out the game soon enough. We'll see tho I'm more of an Evolve shaman guy anyway

I bet it's gonna be something more on the line of " i play totems to eventually play the big one, but in the meantime, i evolve them "

You are not dumb, this is the first "pure pally" card since High Exarch Yrel. Granted the Elitist Snob awards you for having paladin cards in hand, but it's minor. The next expac may bring the pure archetype fully back, but who knows

It costs 4 mana though...

@@teamfossil6312 ...I swore I saw it was three mana, I misremembered sorry

Nice in any Reno decks

I think the stonemason definitely needs to be played more than once, at least twice, for summoning basic totems to be worthwhile value. You gotta turn those totems into silver hand recruits *after* the Paladin questline.

I mean I’m looking forward to it in wild because the value of splitting axe is even better!

I think your looking at it from the wrong perspective. You don't need to buid a deck around it, but having totems that have even +2 attack can pick of smaller minions early game. Not to mention that with return to hand cards that +2 can be as much as +8. Shaman also has many cards that give effects like windfury. So while it may not be a game winner, it can give you early board control if its pulled early game. If you have a deck with Totem Goliath, that forces your opponent to question whether or not they want to deal with it or not. Because when it dies it summons 4 basic totems. With a little preparation, those totems can have +4 attack, meaning you kill off a 5/5 only to have to deal with 4 4/2s, which get even bigger with spells like bloodlust or windfury.

@@ivenstorm how can you pick off early games minions when you have to play the legendary first

@@treyheffernan2265 Legendary only costs 4. Turn 3 with coin. Shaman has enough cards to make something like that viable. Again, its not a game winner, but it can be used. And if its not strong enough now, chances are Blizzard will reduce its mana cost to 3, while reducing the attack to +1 for totems, which makes it bounceable for a lower value version of pogo hopper. It won't see much value in Standard, but in wild it can be extremely powerful if attained and used early game, especially in bounce decks. People can try and craft totem decks now. Or even toss in Quest Shaman for a tiny bit of extra value. And there are different ways to use it. You could theoretically toss it in a Pirate deck with Mr. Smite. Murmur a Hench-Clan Hag that's 4 extra Amalgams which count as totems, even 1 use means 12 extra damage with charge. Use it twice? 24 damage. You see where I'm going with this. People complained about Leeroy, which was only 6 damage. It doesn't need to be a win condition, but popping it into decks revolved around the bounce mechanic, or double battlecry mechanic can be game changing if played correctly. Bolner Hammerbeak exists as well. Play a battlecry, copy the first battlecry played this turn. That on the field, Heart of Vir'naal, Stonewright. That's at least +6 extra damage. I'm just suggesting ideas. It doesn't guarantee that it will ever see play, but I think people are going to ignore this card that can potentially be very good in the right deck. Even as a side card, it can have some value I think people are ignoring.

Trump literally got deleted by this deck on turn 9 (on the test realm). Seeing this felt super broken. The card is way better than D Tier imo.

I think he’ll kick c’thun in the teeth

You’re not considering that you have to have him in hand for him to infuse. If you top deck denathrius in the late game he’s absolutely terrible

Youre forgetting the fact that you dont need to hold cthun all game for him to get value

Cthun was a slower Meta

Control doesn't really play alot of token minions though, your infuse will be weak

C tier

The Elite Snob card also really helps pure paladin that will most of the time give you a 3/4 Zilliax.

Good in every single class except warrior, Priestand rogue; btw, warrior, priest and rogue suck atm. The card ended up being BROKEN.

@@N12015 yeah, I saw that happening. At the very least I saw the potential of being good, unlike rarran that leave him in the C tier.

Thank god it's not a paladin card

I think the problem with the card is it doesn’t have a keyword like Stealth, Taunt, Rush etc. even if he keeps coming back, it’s still just a 5/4 body, no immediate value.

Also location deathrattle

Regis I think is more experienced, Rarran has some real hard misses when it comes to gauging cards.

I think Remornia is great and Denathrius sucks so maybe it'll be in the middle

@@fuckomcducko2216 yeah Denathrius could have been OK but making a neutral hard counter to him with the mad Duke is rough

@@Kristjan0209 and like he said you have to have the sire in your hand the whole game to be good

@@Theblindgamerr1011 well Druid has the 2 mana card that draws your highest cost card

People said the same thing about Skull Of Manari back in KnC, and that didn’t do anything the turn they played it, you’re always getting an attack in with the dagger

He only draw 3 or 0

Countess is definitely being slept on, the crusader was worse and it was a very good value bomb

I'm in complete agreement. The vast majority of them are just outright bad. This set overall is complete garbage in power level compared to even the worst of the last 5 sets. This is The Grand Tournament 2.0. Out of the entire set revealed i have seen maybe 10 cards total that are good enough to see regular play in meta decks. that's it. We will obviously see a lot of experimentation with them for the first week or two but i guarantee after that there will be like 1 or 2 new cards in decks at most. The legendaries are by far the most disappointing part of the set for sure. Most of them, being terrible gimmick cards for decks that don't have any support or saw no play already.

It's funny how hearthstone players have been complaining for years about power creep, then the minute Blizzard releases a lower-power set they complain about that too

@@Noobie2k7 and I think it's a good thing regarding the state of powercreep in the game. Sadly the dmg has already been done..

@@greenseer6 different complainers. you just see the people complaining not the people who like the set. Those people are busy playing the game to write messages.

I disagree, I think all of the legendaries Rarran has in A and S tier will see play besides Vashj (not enough support this expansion), the mad duke (just super overrated), and maybe Darkvein (could be too slow+hard to use). A lot of those legendaries in A tier and especially Kael'thas have just disgustingly busted effects.

joking*

i mean 5 mana summon 3 dormant stat bombs (btw if you do the math its 5 mana 15/14 plus a 4/2 weapon over three turns) is absolutely busted

@@AquASnK_Gaming yeah except for those hunter cards which seem really strong

@@legominer9520 well not really. Countess is really strong as well. Paladin doesn't really need neutrals so it's not much of a build around and that payoff is huge

Completly aggree, there's maybe an exception for Imp warlock somewhere but if you're aggro you don't want to keep cards in your hand and if you're control you probably don't play enough minions to see the effect. Probably one of the worst mechanic added.

@@gudluck6687 Yea a very few of them might work but man people are acting like this is the strongest mechanic ever

Renethal is fine. Some decks need that extra health to win certain matchups. Quest decks generally don't care about deck dilution because their win con is in their hand. What I like is it's not an autoinclude, it gives each deck 2 different versions (renethal and nonrenethal). In some cases the renethal version is worse, in others it's better. Overall really well designed legendary.

I’d recommend saving up, the theorycrafting streams were today and from what I can tell the locations and a good bit of the legendaries are really good, sire denathrius doing some nutty stuff. I wouldn’t be turned off of it yet

@@echoechotv6682 i am also f2p so i prob won't get a lot of the legendaries (prob gonna open like 20 packs) like denathrius, if i get 2 i am gonna be happy, and most of them seem fun to play at least so it's fine. But thank you for your input

Ah, finally a way to not get insta murdered by questline priest, I like it

@@kazumas3369 I like that it is a way for control decks to try and play around Quest Priest's win condition and forces the deck to have a second win condition in those matchups. If you're lucky and draw this early vs. Druid you also have a chance to steal either Prestor or Guff. We will have to see how this card performs, I'm much more scared of Kael'thas than Duke.

Yeah, I play on demon hunter and on a perfect turn 10 (I get all the cards i need, table is clear, i have no weapon), i can play a naga which deals 3 damage to a random enemy whenever my minion dies, then i spawn felwings for 1 mana, 3 illidari for 3 mana, and use a spell which deals 1 damage to all minions with honorable kill: give your hero +1 attack, and 2 fury spells, go face + 2 predations which do 3 damage each and cost 0 because i play a naga and that all equals 38 damage to the face.