[Hearthstone] Grand Tournament Card Review 4

[@danmon1234]

For those who don't know, set the video speed to 2.0. You will save around half an hour of your time by doing this, and you can still hear Kripp fine.

[@NeoBoxy]

danmon1234 You are a genius

[@WHATTHEH4CKZ]

danmon1234 i guess setting it to 1.25 speed transforms this lazy, depleted kripp to the average sharp minded kripperino.

[@SpectreFantom]

danmon1234 0.5 only. Luv hearin' Krippo

[@JDiduhDee]

danmon1234 Thank you

[@egg0wafflebuns340]

danmon1234 THANK YOUUUU

[@nemesisnick66]

kripps shadow looks like he has a cigarette in his mouth

[@JoshRioTeixeira]

nemesisnick66 He does. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@guchmaster69]

nemesisnick66 You saved my life bro!

[@VegasLowRoller]

nemesisnick66 LOL!

[@shahramshey8885]

nemesisnick66 LOL

[@Gharcos1999]

nemesisnick66 lol

[@JoshRioTeixeira]

For those who don't know, set the video speed to 0.5. You will waste around half an hour of your time by doing this, and Kripp sounds stoned as fuck.

[@TheShattubatu]

Josh Teixeira Actually you'll waste an extra hour of your time!

[@blblbl4543]

Josh Teixeira LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@emgoss84]

Josh Teixeira Doubles the time taken to watch, but infinitely enhances the video.

[@h3IIfir3pho3nix]

Josh Teixeira If you switch the speed to 2 it sounds like he's on crack :P

[@theskeletongang]

TheShattubatu Actually you'll waste 0 extra hours of your time!

[@renan.nascimento21]

3 cards on hand: Doomguard + 2 fists of Jaraxxus... I CAN SEE YOUR SMILE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!

[@94alibey]

***** accually if you have 2 fists and play deathwing its guaranteed 8 dmg face hmmm interesting

[@morratonlol]

skip to kripp 0:04

[@hellios5576]

You want to kill us?!

[@buttAttack]

Hellios55 is that not the point of the game? I mean you do explode in the end... o_0

[@michaelohalloran9598]

*****

[@MelloParasite96]

Morraton Lol Not funny dude i almost die

[@Thoraxe555]

What would happen if someone plays Blingtron and gives Charged hammer to a warlock, the warlock then plays jaraxxus and obviously replaces the hammer with jaraxxus's own "weapon" would his hero power turn into deal 2 damage or summon the 6/6s?

[@OrphanAlloy65]

Probably deal 2 damage

[@Deminese2]

Thoraxe555 It would be the 2 damage because Jaraxxus wep destroys the weapon while you have the 6/6 infernal hero power. So RIp infernal.

[@DuTogiraIkonoka]

The battlecry of jaraxxus occurs as an etb effect, the success of which created blood fury AND the hero power. Following the creation of blood fury, the shaman weapon is destroyed and the death rattle triggers, replacing the jaraxxus hero power. That is how it works.

[@valibrave]

I think it'd be the 6/6 since the deathrattle triggers first because the weapon was played first

[@simonamorim1405]

Aviana is probably my new favourite card!imagine getting that pulled out by deathlord!!!!!!

[@TyranusRex721]

simon amorim Holy shit! I did not even think about that!

[@maskeddummy1473]

If you put it that way no one will play death lord

[@Iceman8kay]

simon amorim I'm just gonna sit here and wait for all the mages pulling Aviana out of portals right as they start to lose board control.

[@Mandragara]

simon amorim Aviana Innervate Malygos Faceless Faceless 2xMoonfire = 32 damage.

[@mihaip90]

simon amorim Sorry about that

[@Nycro4]

Can't wait for a fatigue paladin deck with 100 points of healing.

[@Iceman8kay]

Dick Chappy I can't wait for the torture paladin decks, who just keep both players alive indefinitely in fatigue until the opponent ragequits.

[@naethavenir9422]

+Iceman8kay is that possible?

[@Iceman8kay]

Kidlat Awa At the moment? Not at all. But with the direction paladin keeps getting pushed it with card after card that does healing, it just might be a thing at some point.

[@ktktktktktktkt]

Hey look, if you flame lance a mountain giant, nothing's left over but if you polymorph it, it leaves a 1/1. that means it takes 5 mana to flame lance and full clear compared to 6 mana to polymorph and full clear. That must mean flame lance is better than polymorph. Kappa

[@maskeddummy1473]

A)Flame lance Tirion and ping or b)polymorph ping If you picked a) you won

[@w1q2e3r4t5]

MaskedDummy Flame lance first and ping you mean?

[@dawsonvanorsdale77]

w1q2e3r4t5 nope

[@w1q2e3r4t5]

Dawson Vanorsdale You're doing it wrong then.

[@dawsonvanorsdale77]

w1q2e3r4t5 nope

[@iftkics7699]

i never really realized how much effort kripp goes through to make these videos for us. He has this huge day and still makes a video for us. Kripp is love, kripp is life.

[@lonkor1]

why does fist of jarraxus' card portrait shows archimonde? blizzard pls

[@kawaiarinokripperino9719]

Wow really

[@lonkor1]

***** it is

[@PurpleHazeMaze]

Lonkor EU "That's actually Jaraxxus. An Eredar Lord's skin changes color to match his mood. That's Chillaxxus." @bdbrode

[@lonkor1]

Mahou56 ( '_' ) /

[@Trinity0809]

Mahou56 i actually like bbs answer, but no, that's not how it works, this collor is mainly known to archimonde, and i think some not importent quest-eredar

[@SuperHipsterGamer]

The druid class cards opens up for some very interesting ideas. Not only are their new great ramp oppourtunities, but now there's also more smaller minions, that opens up for tempo decks.

[@Lantern_Light]

Burgles a coldarra drake. Oh. im a rogue. aww.

[@maskeddummy1473]

You're forgetting poisoned dagger or blade? The op synergy needs nerf

[@Iceman8kay]

Dartanian90 Burgles Aviana. Terror ensues.

[@dominicandude14]

Burbles avianna, has no minions left..... Feelsbadman

[@CompleteAnimation]

Thanks for making this, even when you were tired. You're a champ!

[@SkipperinoHS]

56:48 please save yourself

[@jaxsonbateman]

I really like the look of Bolster. You're right in that it doesn't fit into current decks, but the sheer power level of +4/+4 for 2 (assuming you hit 2 taunt minions) can't be ignored. Even in a control warrior deck that doesn't run many/any taunts, Sunfury Protector/Defender of Argus enables this card. Obviously 'the dream' doesn't happen in many games, but can you imagine somehow getting out turn 2 Armorsmith, turn 3 Acolyte of Pain, turn 4 Sunfury Protector + Bolster? That's a pretty nice early game board for a control warrior.

[@zezeratul]

3:19 None of you (players doing reviews) thought about the fact it's a deathrattle. YOU CAN SILENCE IT GUYS, IT IS OP, NEW META AND SHEETS

[@user-gk1vc5ic6j]

I think everyone thought that

[@taesheren]

Mster Mean What about returning the card to hand, wont that also skip the death rattle?

[@bool7994]

Mster Mean People start playing ancient watcher and ogre brute along with this card and wailing soul and that would be a fun deck.

[@ktktktktktktkt]

Mster Mean The fact that you can silence it isn't OP you know. if you're playing it turn 2, you can't silence it immediately and later on it's not as useful. Druid doesn't run owl so in order to silence it, you'd need to use keeper probably. Not a very strong use of keeper. 2/3 body is not significant for druid's play style. It might be strong as an antiaggro card that threatens to ramp if you don't deal with it. Thus, it can punish your opponent going face. However, I strongly doubt that silencing it is going to be what makes it a good card.

[@zezeratul]

Taesh You made me like, herp derp

[@TheAudioInjection]

I really wanna make an Auchenai Soulpriest combo deck where you got Auchanai+ zombie chow + zombie chow + mind blast + mind blast + flash heal + flash heal + circle of healing.

[@kawaiarinokripperino9719]

It was around during naxx with should priest baron raivendire + zombie chow + zombie charge.

[@dirtylevel]

TheAudioInjection only gonna work if you emperor thaurissan out 2 mana minimum because you just listed a 12 mana combo

[@ElyskeTheDonut]

There's the Prophet Valen combo with 2 mind blasts at 20 damage plus smites for 8 more. It's feasible for the 20 - Day9 did it a little while ago but it was inconsistent during his play.

[@anonofyesterday4650]

ElyskeTheDonut There probably would be priest combo decks, becouse: (After Thaurissan) Velen(6) + Auchenai(3) + Flash Heal(0) + Flash Heal(0) + Mind Blast(1) = 30 damage 5card 10mana combo.

[@sunnyyang3259]

Looks like a new player layout isn't the only thing that changed with KZbin. At this moment, the video was uploaded 9 minutes ago, yet already has 623 views. Has Google finally fixed the 301 views bug?

[@user-gk1vc5ic6j]

Yep, they took away the 301 club

[@puffle03225011]

sunny yang It wasn't a bug.

[@sunnyyang3259]

Colin Pierce I realize that it wasn't a bug, but in a way it was. You expect the information given to be accurate, which it wasn't until the view count was verified. That counts as a logical error, which in terms of computer science, can count as a bug.

[@willpurdy5054]

It wasn't a bug, it was making sure the views aren't bots, that's not a logical error

[@sunnyyang3259]

William Purdy The logical error was that it didn't display the true amount of views when it should've.

[@MediocreAtLife]

Thanks for taking the time to make this man, I know you weren't feeling good and I hope you get better very soon!

[@mrlarvux]

Nice quality Skip.

[@bullseye608]

Damn I'd listen to this calm Kripp voice all day

[@brianb7112]

confuse will destroy shaman totem decks

[@DBZ-Mousa]

Brian O Good one! And not only the hero power totems!

[@LimeyLassen]

Brian O doomsayers too.

[@Poetabrasileiro]

Brian O It might enable a kind of Rush Priest Deck.

[@danielbarrientos4721]

Thank you Kripp so much, for making the effort to make videos for your fans

[@DominoUB]

Target Dummy > Target Dummy > Coin > Bolster

[@DFox-kv9pi]

Lol.

[@nathanc.1805]

I think I figured out a rather decent way of using that confuse card. Yes it would be used in a buffing priest deck, but it's relationship would revolve around cards such as light warden, as opposed to replacing inner fire. The main issue with light warden is that it often doesn't live long enough to deal its damage, but what if the attack is buffed to a crazy amount, then use the confuse card to assure its survival, assuming that there's no removal, then when it's ready to attack use inner fire to deal a ton of damage. Could be possible.

[@Karou812]

"Five drops can't really kill six drops" *cough* Venture Co. Mercenary *cough*

[@Hogis__]

There are others as well, like fel reaver, but they're not commonly played. I haven't seen a single tournament deck with venture co

[@maxischmidt1299]

Cough Antique Healbot cough

[@d07RiV]

The Spyngas venture co doesn't "follow the rules". But when he does, he's a sad little goblin.

[@WallnutDan]

RiV even more so for fel reaver

[@InfernoGoggles]

Interesting thing with the Jousting mechanic is that because it draws from the deck(like thought steal), it shows you what the opponent does not have in his hand. Minor information, but valuable none the less.

[@WesBWhitacreIII]

Surprised you didn't touch on the fact that you can play Emperor Thaurissan in control druid as soon as you have say a Rags or Dr.Balanced in hand. Then come the turn you drop Aviana those creatures effected by Emp become casting cost ((1)-1) And you can instantly free cast them at 0. Control druid is about to get crazy.

[@simonamorim1405]

Holy shit!!!!!!!!!

[@ThraxI1019]

if youre holding all those cards on turn 10 youre probably dead even against a slow deck

[@leudyrodriguez2488]

That combo only works if you have aviana on the field first and play emperor after, if you reverse the order she simply sets their mana cost to 1

[@TheAwkwardGuy]

Wes Whitacre I don't think so. I'm not too sure but it says "Your minions cost (1)" Which can't be changed. However, if Thaurissan works the same way it does with Loatheb (if you have a 5 mana spell that was Thaurissan'ed 10 times, when Loatheb is cast, it is still a 0 mana because (5) -10+5 = 0

[@leudyrodriguez2488]

It was confirmed by blizzard that aviana into thaurisan makes them cost 0 while she's on the field. When she's removed they're reduced only by however much thaurisan did.

[@clearlypellucid]

Gadgetzan Jouster could be played in midrange decks as a counter to aggro decks and just for the information you'd get about your opponent's deck which might help you against control.

[@GritimoTheOdd]

Brave Hunter? is Blizz giving a tribute to Pixar now?

[@Iceman8kay]

GritimoTheOdd I dunno, but under miracle circumstances a hunter could shred you using them. Imagine: Face hunter with an empty hand, two Brave Hunters down and they have both been Faceless'd for some reason, alongside having the enemy mage's hero spam dragon thanks to a mind control tech. It's turn 9. Hunter's turn begins, it's a boar. Hunter lays boar, burns the rest of turn on hero powers. You're dead before they're even out of mana. Miraculous face hunter magic.

[@GritimoTheOdd]

I was referring to how much the portrait on the card looked like the main character from the movie Brave, but your suggestion does have merit itself. :)

[@Iceman8kay]

GritimoTheOdd I was suggesting this as a possible outcome of its use, thanks to how my luck seems to go when playing anything but my paladin deck against a face hunter.

[@4cmd]

Iceman8kay your comment was totally unrelated to what he said in the first place

[@lamalfie9105]

It's not long before they make an 'Ice Priestess' or freaking 'Snowman Totem' now is it? *wink* *wink*

[@Tommyhillpicker]

I mostly agree with Krip's opinion on the Armored Warhorse, although I can definitely see it possibly seeing play as some kind of finisher in some decks, namely Handlock for the Warhorse > Power Overwhelming > Faceless combo, just like Leeroy back in the day. You will often win the joust in that deck. That's all I can possibly see for it though

[@eppinizer]

Damnit, just missed my mulligan cuz I wasn't paying attention :(

[@jackfink338]

Ty bro

[@aidy121]

Jeff McIntire lol I miss like half my mulligans, *sigh* there needs to be like a 10 second warning sound

[@aidy121]

Steven Ater I never do that; because the mulligan plays a sound, its just sometimes I want to queue up a game while watching a video.

[@PhrozenBlood]

aidy121 it was a joke bro. im not one of those ppl that rages over things like this. just a game and the person on the other side can do whatever they want. i also believe face hunter is just a deck like any other yea it can be rage inducing but its still just a deck. i dont use it myself tho cuz it would burn me out way to bad and the game would get boring

[@dovis99]

It is really good to put such videos at 1.25 and it sounds really smooth

[@endless8936]

Target Dummy should cost 1+ mana and 2+ health (WAIT, THIS IS NOT A TROLL). He should be targetable by all friendly minions and have a text saying "everytime a friendly minion attacks it, the attacker gains 1/1+" And maybe lose the "mech/taunt". That's my idea to make a 'useless' minion good.

[@lownverted9150]

You made it gain 1/1 every time it is attacked. You need at least 1 damage to attack. Useless.

[@endless8936]

Sorry, i meant, "the attacker gains 1/1".

[@parak00pa]

Endless that's complete, total, utter nonesense and would certainly not improve this card at all, it might actually make it worse.

[@tomato2243]

Target dummy is actually used in iron sense I mech rogue

[@shmuckintosh]

Endless so you basically lose the chance to attack the enemy for a turn for a banana? doesn't sound too good.

[@The1337Snuff]

Liked this video just because you said hunter needs garbage cards! Love you Kripp!!!!

[@Kaiser499TV]

Brofist of Jaraxxus.

[@multijpboy]

31:21 shouldnt there be the naxxramas symbol on zombie chow instead of classic?

[@FromHJH]

I watch this at 0.5 speed

[@rrteppo]

a mech taunt deck for warrior might be a good place for Bolster. You have your mech synergy cards and then a number of mech cards have taunt so you would then use the taunts to protect like your mechwarper.

[@diggymgee]

VengfulDarkness 6 mana for two 3/4 with divine shield by turn 3 with coin. Could haps.

[@rrteppo]

***** if you wanted to be crazy and run target dummy even though it is a bad card. on turn 3 with coin you would have, two 3/4 taunts with divine shield and two 2/4 taunts. It would be silly, but may actually win some games.

[@diggymgee]

And it'd be hard to get that sort of start. Whatever, I don't care. More content for trolden.

[@SpectacularRed]

To skipparrino Kripparino 56:48

[@jomolisious]

does zombie chow not reveal you're handlock if you play it turn one?

[@Bjorn-AFCA]

Aviana & Kel'Thuzad oooh snap

[@Iceman8kay]

***** Or burgle>Aviana and Master of Disguise. Have fun with that.

[@burdo43boriszero1]

Being able to triple kel'thuzad? Making the I paler better by giving more minions? Yes plz

[@mysterymoritz]

+Iceman8kay YOU GET SPELLS FROM BURGLE, NOT MINIONS!

[@coolhunter3]

Lord Jaraxxus you get class cards and those include minions. Nowhere in the card does it mention spells, l2read

[@mysterymoritz]

Randombanana Ultimate Scrub YOU FACE JARAXXUS, EREDAR LORD OF THE BURNING LEGION! Well, Jaraxxus is...sorry. Jaraxxus just joined the elementary school. HE CAN NOT READ THAT GOOD!

[@Harryfb97]

For those of you who watched him review the cards on stream, the video starts at 41:20

[@dontpostcringe5824]

ES HEIßT KÖLN!

[@orange5423]

Calloone he said haha

[@orange5423]

Het is gewoon Keulen hoor, voor NL

[@niklashasse6112]

Es wird in Englisch anders geschrieben und ausgesprochen Köln = Cologne

[@dontpostcringe5824]

Gehteuch Nichtsan heftig man bist du dumm... -_- liest Kommentare auf KZbin, also geht man davon aus, dass die kommis Ironie oder Witze enthalten. nice grammar, m8.

[@niklashasse6112]

Gehteuch Nichtsan so muss man nun auch nich regaieren er kann aj nur ein internet troll sein

[@stevenlithway8339]

can there be a "failing shredder" card, a 2 drop 1/3 that sommons a random 1 drop?

[@wnsctt2]

Damn fist of jurraxus op! U do a deathwing and do 8 dmg to the opponents face! And have a 12/12 on the board for next turn!

[@parkerhahaha]

8 damage?

[@SpeedyMaster1000]

Natalie xx maybe 2 fist of jaraxxus

[@parkerhahaha]

oops forgot that, thanks (me is smart)

[@Alucard666QC]

Natalie xx If you have 2 in your hand, it's 8 damage. I'm pretty sure it's what he was saying.

[@Khornekultist]

Natalie xx 4+4=8

[@chessmaster914]

Kripparrian You mentioned in the stream that you began to like the Inspire mechanic. Do you think that it will have more of an effect than you originally thought. Will it catch on in the current meta, or will it have the same effect as Dragons did?

[@angelgodplace]

aviana deathwing the dream

[@bapholist4871]

At that point u could just play deathwing by its self....

[@theoreticallyinsane5]

Mike Ciulavu Shh...They dont need to know.

[@camden666]

Antonio Craveiro It wouldn't be the dream because when you actually play deathwing you cant play anything else, hense you don't have a hand. And Aviana dies

[@JdoggJ1]

Antonio Craveiro y not just play deathwing by itself XD

[@dominicandude14]

Lol, you guys are stupid, you deathwing first, so you don't lose your avianna after

[@frankbauerful]

I think 1 Bolster may add even more consistency to Patron warrior. Against aggro you're often forced to use your Corsairs and Ghouls defensively. With Axe equipped Bolster allows you to play two 5/5 taunts on turn 4 in the ideal case. But even one 3/5 Ghoul is very good. And with death bite equipped Warsong gives you a 10 damage combo on turn 5 that leaves two 5/5 taunts. The mere existence of this additional combo may change how people play against Patron.

[@alex-ix9jb]

I think confuse would work like a heroism in inner fire decks. Where you would have multiple high health creatures and just swap them all around.

[@Meitti]

Master of Ceremonies probably going to be in a lot of Priest decks, since Velens Chosen also gives Spell Damage +1 to a creature.

[@imdbrazok]

Player uses Skipperino Kripperino.. It's not very effective!

[@jl3977]

Wrathguard seems pretty cool, its practically the same effect as flame imp, unless you buff wrathguard up.

[@Tarkov.]

I'm super excited for Bash. I run slam in my warrior deck and lately have noticed I've been overdrawing a lot. This ought to fix that problem.

[@CityXV]

Thanks youtube recommendations, now I finally know which TGT cards I should use for my decks.

[@MrGamezWatch]

Ty Kripp for putting ur time and effort into this

[@Lycargus]

Fix : The Skeleton Knight : 6 mana 7-4 Deathrattle: Reveal a minion in each deck. If yours cost more, resummon this minion to the battlefield.

[@fishwithoutwings]

Charged Hammer is very interesting because of Blingtron. You could really mess with a Handlock if you removed their ability to lifetap for example. So now when we play Blingtron there will the the chance that a character will lose their original hero power if they use up the weapon, or it gets removed.

[@Iceman8kay]

AscendedFish Calling it now: Someone's gonna drop Blingtron, enemy handlock gets Charged Hammer. Proceeds to drop acidic swamp ooze to make handlock instantly forfeit.

[@liwendiamond9223]

Just so you guys know, I'm gonna try to make a warrior deck centered around Bolster, because I've been looking for an opportunity to play a taunt heavy deck since the beta and I think this is finally it. Sunfury Protector into Bolster for 4 mana to buff up 2 targets is already so much worth. The Armorsmith synergy! Oh man this might actually be great. Might even break out Rampage out of the attic for this one.

[@CaptainSweatpants90]

I know that this counts for pretty much every minion, but Anub'arak (around the 42:00 mark) should be pretty good out of an Unstable Portal, especially in Arena. 6 Mana 8/4 is very solid, if it spawns a 4/4 even more so, and you get to keep a big minion for later in the game - seems like a pretty sweet deal to me.

[@lewisshortwood5373]

Some of these upcoming cards with the joust mechanic feel like they have the potential to work in a Holy Wrath Pally looking forward to testing somethings out with that.

[@QuantumBraced]

Aviana is absolutely sick. I think it's easily the best legendary in the game. Aviana + Innervate and you can set up a ridiculous board. If you have a second innervate and/or coin the possibilities are endless and you can even win right away with a Malygos combo. Kripp nailed the strongest aspect of the card - it's that your opponent has to either remove it or the legendary you played and either way they are screwed, especially if it's Malygos.

[@krikornorsigian8099]

Bolster with Hobgoblin is gonna be a sick deck. There happen to be a lot of 1 attack taunts. And the taunts can protect the hobgoblin.

[@WildBassfly]

So what happens when you have a Skeleton Knight and a Baron Rivendare on the board? Do you get to retry the joust if you loose?

[@Makingnewnamesisdumb]

Maybe I'm crazy but I feel like Confuse could be an aggressive Priest deck's version of Savage Roar or Bloodlust.

[@OrphanAlloy65]

Murloc priest confirmed

[@Makingnewnamesisdumb]

OrphanAlloy65 I do play murlocs but not murloc priest. Still, priests run a dozen different minions with greater health than attack and tends to keep them pretty healthy - this is a big part of why Lightbomb is so good. It just seems obvious as an option to put a class that frequently runs stuff like Deathlord on the offensive, at least just to end the game a little faster.

[@Arbeta10000]

Will the Darnassus Aspirant give you excess mana when played at 10 mana just like wild growth does? (it would make sense for it to, since it's the same effect) Because in that case you could cycle it on turn 10+ with basically no drawback as you'd gain a mana crystal on your turn again after the deathrattle has triggered.

[@Epicgamars]

Kripp, I had to log in because you're one of the only streamers I watch who say "Aviana" is going to be a powerful card.

[@DJMack64]

So Skeleton Knight, if you double trigger his deathrattle, how would that work? does it just double your odds to get him back in your hand, or would you get 2 chances to have a skeleton knight put in your hand, aka duplication. I'd think the 1st way seeing how it says "return this to your hand."

[@Nosbled]

You talked about maybe a chance of seing tempo warlock with Fist of Jaraxxus. How does tempo differ from the current zoo-demon lock? Tempo is about being ahead if I understand it correctly and zoo lock can pump out a shitload of minions.

[@Beefyjesus0]

Auchenai Soul Priest double zombie chow, circle of healing double flash heal, double light of the naruu. 26 damage to face and clear or attempt to clear board. Sounds fun. 10 mana or 3 with one good emperor tick.

[@mitosis5843]

Skeleton knight is the worst card? Did Kripp already forget about demonfuse?

[@Darkmage1293]

Druid of the Saber - Finally, a replacement for the Robo-Cub in non-mech druids. Bash - I'm more prone to using Shield Block and Shield Slam...I guess if you want to forsake a card draw and 2 armor to deal 3 damage... Brave Hunter - Not meant for a turn 1 play....it's a hidden leper gnome. Plop it down to burst your opponent for the win; if not, you've kept putting minions on the board. Early in, you want to play a Leper Gnome turn 1. But if you draw a Leper Gnome and plop it on the board, it does nothing. If I had quick shot and brave hunter, I could combo into 7 damage and cycle another one to maintain tempo. I see Leper Gnomes being silenced at times just to slow down the game... Eadric the Pure - If you have board presence, this is great. If your opponent just flooded the board, this can stall. He begs for some Emperor reductions; in that case, you might have the ability to flip the board in your favor with Sludge Belcher or Tirion. Armored Warhorse - Beast Druid is all I see him in. You are usually likely to win Druid jousts. Ancestral Knowledge - I'm scared of this card. Overload 2 be damned.

[@clearlypellucid]

Brave Hunter is probably superior to Leper Gnome in a Hunter control deck. In such a deck, it's an option you can use to trade for some 2 drops in the early game, and it isn't a dead card like most 1 mana cards are in the late game. And, of course, in a control deck you have a better chance of protecting it.

[@masterplusmargarita]

I weirdly see Jousting cards in something like Rogue. Rogue is a class that can usually survive the early game OK with mostly spells, so if they cut some of the lower-cost minions in favour of Joust cards and low-cost spells they might be able to win Jousts by virtue of having higher cost minions. Of course, maybe cutting smaller minions would just result in the Rogue falling behind too much in the early game and evaporating. I barely play Rogue, so I have a bit of a hard time really knowing how much they rely on them.

[@thedevilspunch]

Would really like to see a more in depth analysis of these cards.

[@soapfoam]

Do these new weapons make Blingtron better or worse? I guess you have less chance of receiving a 1/4 light's justice.. but you get another chance at a 3/2 and a 2/2. Makes those gorehowls and doomhammers harder to get as well.

[@agentJonah]

Um, am I the only one who noticed on the card 'Fist of Jaraxxus' they used Archimonde as the card graphic and not Jaraxxus? Jaraxxus has red skin, not blue.

[@Jethro0815]

Zombie Chow > Flash heal in my opinion because of the 2/3 body. The Auchenai combo was a real thing back when naxx was out. With Baron Rivendare and Circle at 10 mana for 20 dmg. Got even easier to pull of with Emperor.

[@americanexistentialist4756]

best analysis of the jousting mechanic so far.

[@raythetse]

Living roots + Power of the Wild could work very well in a druid deck with lots of jousting cards. You can have early game minions without diluting your jousting potential.

[@benniebees]

bolster can be combo'ed with defender of argus or sunfury protector. Put haunted creepers in that deck, some shredders and youre good to go?

[@Gman81100]

Gormok the impaler.... 1. Be rogue 2. Have 4 minions on board 3. Summon gormok (4 face damage) 4. Shadow step replay (8 face damage) 5. Shadow step again ( 12 face damage) Pretty good

[@abhorra]

What do you think of power creep inhibiting new players from playing constructed? It does not feel good to lose to over powered cards that just feel so out of reach dust wise.

[@MrJugede]

The subtitles from 3:10 to 3:20 are just hilarious

[@Uncle19]

priest with velens + double mindblast for 20 dmg, then auchenai double flash heal for the extra 10, then just a ton of draw and stall? Might be interesting?

[@BaalBlade]

48:56 Auchenai Soulpriest + 2 Flash Heal + Priest Hero Power = 2x Face Fireball, same cost too. Of course harder to pull since you need 3 cards, but yea... Exclude 2 Light Naaru else = potential 18 Face Damage Leeroy style

[@Orillion123456]

Why is the picture of Fist of Jaraxxus showing another Eredar? Jaraxxus is red, the guy in Fist of Jaraxxus is blue/teal, so something seems weird.

[@MatijaReby]

But you kinda forgot that you also get info about your opponent's deck with the gadgetzam jouster

[@haloquadratumwalsbyi243]

I think that master of ceremonies might fit very well in some shaman decks, since you have a reasonable chance to get a spell power totem.

[@kawaiarinokripperino9719]

That 5 mana combo, your better off with a shredder

[@haloquadratumwalsbyi243]

It is not a very reliable combo, but the chances of you having a spell power totem on the board sometime is quite big.

[@ExtraTurtle]

about the "reveal a minion in each deck" does it show your minion to the enemy too? and what happens if only one guy has a minion or nobody has a minion?

[@dokpboy8]

The artwork on Brave Hunter is really awesome imo.

[@rafalborkowski]

Flash heal is great with auchenai, I'm currently trying to play a priest that just clears the board with wild pyro and spells / auchenai with circle, and than face damage with charges and mind blasts and this would fit soooo well. it's so much better than holy light since you can't really holy light with auchenai on board.

[@ToxiqCZ]

You can play a Darnassus Aspirant on turn 2 and on turn 3 (4 mana) Keeper of the Grove

[@BadHombre914]

probably a stupid question but how does he know about these cards? they are not yet listed on the site....

[@parks97]

Wait, why does the Zombie Chow at around 31:00 have the classic symbol behind its' text? HAX

[@NieKohamDzastina]

9:15 you're missing Spell Totem into Master of Ceremonies insane combo that will bring shaman to the tier 1 of constructed. Kappa.

[@Dryaspis]

That brave hunter is from the movie "brave" I presume ?

[@MarketResearchReading114]

that injured 1 drop is supposed to synergize with ressurect priest decks so they can have an early drop that isn't absolute shit

[@Hard4Love1]

So, after the GT realease, we will get new packs as rewards on arena runs? or still gvg? Any info about that?