IM GONNA HATE THIS EXPANSION

[@professorryze3739]

1:53 Rarran learns that you dont want to play boardclears on empty board

[@sora8711]

Draw 3 cards, discard 2 cards. I can't believe they printed Graceful Charity.

[@fcuk_x]

They didn't print shit. They pressed buttons on the computer.

[@StirFryTuna]

I hope you get to choose which 2 get discarded

[@FujisakiChihiro55]

​@@StirFryTuna it should be random

[@sungodniku]

and that's the bad version 💀

[@SkywardSpork]

​@@StirFryTuna I imagine it'll be like that warlock card, you choose the 1 to keep

[@ozzy6831]

"Im going to play Yugioh" now i really know that Rarran is serious about not liking this card

[@hugomendoza5665]

That buff murloc is superbly designed, what an interesting solution to certain board states that we haven't really had before. New Griftah is super cool too, I like the idea that whether you play it or it gets played against you, you both always know what the other person has, so you both are trying to out-think your opponent and out-play around their version of the amulet.

[@RedEyeStorm7]

Griftah is gonna be op with sonya

[@richard-pv4ff]

@@RedEyeStorm7 with the 4/3 pirate that discounts by 3 there is a few nasty combos available since you get 2 griftas and 4 amulets

[@adrjanidurante]

Every minion that the opponent plays gets insta-cancelled

[@noidea2568]

10:19 turn 6 shudderblock into turn 7 bayfin bodybuilder + rat THE DREAM!

[@GL-ML]

wait, you're actually cooking

[@andreij2377]

There's a lot of "maybe problematic" card in these set, that naga, windfury pirate. Though i like those location payoffs, but i could already see them being irrelevant because of those toxic decks (i.e. naga dh, handbuff pally, etc.) i could already see pirate paladin just because of that windfury pirate plus 1mana charge pirate.

[@dollenrm]

That windfury pirate is a real problem. How did they not learn giving paladin acess to windfury a neutral windfury no less is a bad idea. Like that card fits in handbuff pally super well. It might as well say give southsea deckhand windfury and it would be the same

[@Cuestrupaster]

What you mean "maybe problematic" that windfury pirate is a 110% problem card.

[@edwardking9359]

​@Cuestrupaster It's not a "110% problem card" yet, since no one has played with it yet. We don't know for certain how it'll be.

[@Cuestrupaster]

@@edwardking9359 Yeah like that time we saw shroomscavate and no one called it would be broken...

[@amethonys2798]

​@edwardking9359 my brother in Christ I would almost guarantee Battleground Battlemaster would see play in Handbuff Paladin and it costs DOUBLE this card.

[@NovaCorpLive]

bro literally just ended stream, and this video is already up. You are a true champion rarran.

[@hakanbrakankrakan]

I don't think he edits

[@RedEyeStorm7]

Its unedited

[@namelessshadow7748]

More Rarran is my favorite Rarran's clipper

[@hakanbrakankrakan]

@@RedEyeStorm7 if he delegates editing, why wouldn't he delegate clipping and shipping?

[@moneybuyer16]

So weird to me how they're pushing all of this location support after rotating Nathria. Also, that 6 mana 6/6 will be an infuriating firelands summon

[@shrekkek9396]

Why is it weird? Locations are now a core mechanic, they will be pushed alongside all other card types.

[@ninjanikstudios2280]

It didn’t start in your deck, so if you summon it it’s a 6/6 with charge. Doesn’t seem that bad, unless you meant infuriating for them

[@byeguyssry]

​@@ninjanikstudios2280 He means infuriating for the opponent, yes

[@TheKilogram1000]

My opinions: - Tidepool Pupil could be 2 mana, and it would still be good. There's no reason it's printed as-is other than to push the power level. - Dread Deserter, Lamplighter, and Sailboat Captain are either useless, broken or fair, but always feel bad to play against. - Overplanner adds to the consistency problem in the game where everyone has infinite draw or it doesn't see play. - Concierge speeds the game up. Either the mana cheating is good enough and I hate it, or it's not enough and I still hate it. - Bayfin Bodyguard looks fun. Might be useless, but at least it's better design than what we've seen. - Scrapbooking Student looks good, assuming locations are balanced. If there is a problem with this card, it's with the locations in my opinion. I didn't do all of the cards, and I want to give the benefit of the doubt, but after the amount of patches in Whizbang, I'm worried how much of this next expansion was playtested.

[@kindaliving3440]

imagine just nerfing a card last patch for paladin not to get windfury and printing a card with same cost and concept for every class to use

[@saintlxrd2010]

Scrapbook Student is a nod to another card called Transfer Student - This card has different effects depending which game board you're on. So the flavor text on Scrapbook student is a cool easter egg. I'd love to see Rarran making a video about refferences in flavor texts

[@satibel]

despite how potentially broken it is, tidepool pupil is a flavor win imo, School Teacher says "Who here can spell "Zin-Azshari"? Anybody?" as its entrance, and pupil's flavor text is "Z-I-N-A-S-H-A-R-Y"

[@KingInferno3]

Bayfin Bodybuilder plus Snoozin’ Zookeeper ultimate wombo combo

[@Abrody1477]

"Let Him Cook"

[@МаксимПыров-ч5в]

Bro invented 7 mana 5/8.

[@JonasMohr-r4g]

wow 7 mana for a really weak minion tier 0 combo there

[@x10018ro]

Griftah is the coolest card I've seen in a while. The draw 3 option is probably the best one since it can actively hurt your opponent. Also nice with 1-Cost spell synergy (Pip, Sonya, Lynessa).

[@elbardo_lux]

your opponent is getting a worse version of the amulet, but your opponent also didn't have to pay 4 mana to get it, so idk

[@cluelessmango768]

Right, but at least you get to pick the amulet, so you could choose one you need and your opponent doesn’t. And some of the phonies are quite a lot worse than their counterpart

[@dollenrm]

Also giving your opponent the draw 3 discard 2 amulet can cause them to accidentally discard their wincon if they use it. So they either have a spell they dont want to play clogging their hand or they pay 1 mana for one card and potentially losing 2 important cards

[@blahthebiste7924]

That's what I thought, until I realized how big of an impact it is that you get to use yours first usually. Like, if deal 6 damage is lethal, it doesn't matter what you put in their hand. If you take control of their Yogg and use his titan ability, it doesn't matter much that they can take him back next turn, the damage is already done.

[@satibel]

af kay does basically read "when you summon a minion during your turn, give it +2+2", but with her stat line and cost it's probably still pretty awful. though at some point someone's gonna play some watchpost deck and you're gonna hate your life

[@amethonys2798]

The issue is the card is horrendously slow and is probably never living a turn anyway meaning you HAVE to combo it with something that summons a bunch of minions. It's arguably worse Funglmancer (since Funglmancer can be 4 face damage) and that card is like 6 years old or something.

[@satibel]

@@amethonys2798 yeah only thing I can think of reasonably is having it with very low cost minions like spamming a bunch of 0 or 1 cost shits. I think it should cost 3 tbh, but if you copy it it can probably do stuff. I guess it might be ok in totem shaman, but yeah most of the time it's bad, though what I was saying is that at some point someone will make a 10% wr deck with it and you're gonna hate when it highrolls and you get wrecked by it.

[@TheThewhatnow]

Tidespoker pupil is pretty bad. It’s bad until you have played 3 spells so you can’t play it early. Once you play it it is essentially just like playing a 1 mana card to discover a spell from your deck which is normally a 0 mana effect.

[@blahthebiste7924]

Spoken like someone who never played when Sivara was in standard

[@amethonys2798]

Bro what? Commander Sivara was broken in Mage for a similar effect (you usually only cared about 1-2 of the 3 spells you put into it) except it was a one of and only in Mage.

[@VDeity_X]

Overplanner can also be useful with Marin's Fill hand card. The meme dream would be to draw Momentum on DH with a fairly low hand size, lol.

[@hellcopterts8895]

1- Tide: Now we can play 3 of the same spell instead of 2, or 2 legenderay spells instead of 1 Rating: Good 2- Zookeeper: If the beast survives combat its REALLY bad Rating: Unplayable 3- Sailboat: More expensive deckhand extender. Can also push another random pirate already in play into letal range. May allow some new OTK combos from hand. Doomhamer vibes. Rating: Playable - Busted 4- LampLigther - Finisher for elemental decks. If its possible to generate copies of this card it could become really dangerous, but at 3 mana and poor scaling is too slow for an OTK Rating: Playable 5- OverPlanner - Only usefull if the player has other ways to shuffle his deck. Draw 2 cards is better then this effect otherwise. Rating: Unplayable 6- Dread Deserter - Worse then Lerroy as a finisher and too expensive to combo. Good out of RNG. Rating: Unplayable 7- Concierge - Could be a rogue card. Will see play in Tessa / treasure rogue decks Rating: Playable 8- BloodSail - Stats are not very good but discovery is fine to maybe get a third copy of a pirate. The opponent NEEDS to remove it or can become a very nice target to windfury on T3 Rating: Playable 9- Bayfin - Good tech card to get out of Bloodsail against some matchups (mostly hunter) Rating: Unplayable 10- ScrapBooking - Too expensive, also the location needs to not be used to get maximum value. Rating: Unplayable 11- House keeper - Ask for a location, location activation and needs to survive to get 3 armor for each proc Rating: unplayable 12- Seaside Giant - Good discount, requires 5 activations to cost 0, which is doable Rating: Good 13- Grifta - Weird card. Highlander decks can use the extra value. Rating: Playable 14- AFK - Effect is very good but (statline + mana cost + needs a board + dont buff herself) is too much. Rating: Bad

[@xpotoh356]

Now to make E.Mage and E.Shaman a SSS+ tier deck we need a (common) elemental called "Gas-lighter" with text: "Battlecry: last turn you played an elememtal" Imagine getting 14-26 damage to the face from 2 Lamplighters just for facing mage or shaman

[@kanegregory5779]

A. F. Kay used to give +3/+3 instead of +2/+2. This can be seen in the reveal video (in gameplay it makes the 2/2 ghouls into 5/5s instead of 4/4s), hinting that it was only modified shortly before it was revealed, so perhaps that's why it doesn't seem as good

[@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca]

editor is goated. Rarran can react to this few weeks after the expansion and it will be another entry in the ”Worst Card Predictions” -series. Brilliant!

[@simonthelemon5831]

tidepool pupil: 2 more ice blocks in wild very fun and interactive against legit every meta deck at the moment

[@KraylebStudios]

I like that theyre getting neutrals out of the way first

[@nickjoseph77]

I love how we have people with a lot of energy like Zeddy, people who give really in depth analysis and discussion like Regis, then Rarran is like "this 1 drop Naga is trying to bring back DH so it can eat my whole ass." Lololol

[@NevirSurrender]

Crazy they made commander sivara 1 mana and accessible for all classes

[@miltonarijr]

Zookeeper is actually pretty decent, there are only 4 specific scenarios where this card is useless: 1.- the combined attack of your opponent's board is less than 8 2.- your opponent has an empty board 3.- your opponent has a full board 4 .- your opponent has a board with amitus on the field but right now how the meta is, it's actually pretty decent as a removal, I actually think that if this one was on 5 it would be OP

[@blahthebiste7924]

5.- the 8/8 swings into something that just value trades it, like an 8/10 paladin minion

[@BlueYYu]

5:58 I bet the mini-set will have a card called "Underplanner" that Dredges thrice.

[@Muscimologram]

All you need is a "discover a pirate" for the 6/6 charge Edit: oh here it is

[@andysn2428]

I like the way the expansion is going for "have this op effect, but your opponent will benefit from it too" making it a bit less mechanical, although few of these fun cards are likely to survive the meta 😂

[@Nepomniachtchi_Austin]

0/10 needed an Ultrasaur

[@zemat762]

with all the location specific stuff, are we getting legendarry locations for each class?

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

Zookeeper definitely feels weird to play. It seems like it would be best in a scenario where you and your opponent have built up boards, so the beast it summons can soften things up for the rest of your board to deal with, but im not sure how common that scenario is.

[@blahthebiste7924]

It's ideal scenario is "kill Ragnaros and get a 5/8 for 7" which is pretty good the 1/1000 games it happens. The card works better against 8/8s than wide boards imo

[@tonydelgado6301]

I think this will be a just good arena card

[@AmirhoseinImani-sp9in]

hearthstone will split into "After perils in paradise expansion" And "Before perils in paradise expansion"

[@ninjanikstudios2280]

This already exists. Theres before demon hunter and after demon hunter

[@criticaltipper7699]

Deckhand outfit tailer sailboat captian is only 7 mana btw :)

[@satibel]

imagine combo for 9: brann, lamplighter x2 if you've played elementals for 7 turns it's probably lethal, and for 8 it is lethal from hand. the deck now doesn't need to be good it just needs to survive to 9 while playing an elemental per turn and maybe dealing 2 chip damage. (plus you don't have to go for full combo, sometimes 18 from hand will be enough)

[@Necrotechian]

Bayfin bodybuilder: just play Front Lines (Summon a minion from each player's deck. Repeat until either side of the battlefield is full.) and hope it is one of the first ones you draw into or play it on the previous turn before the front lines... and you just discarded bunch of minions from your opponent and filled your board.... or play it before any summons something for your opponent cards...

[@adrjanidurante]

If one has a mission spell mage (fire ,arcane ,ice)with the card that plays all the played spells that were not in your deck and some how he would play something that does 12 damage +3•xn and kill himself or the opponent or a minion .I feel like that card is so powerful if you can even decide to heal

[@nuclearbirds]

Not gonna lie, “clear the opponent’s board, summon a 5/8” for 7 mana is not bad. Rarran doesn’t see the vision.

[@sora8711]

If the opponent has a board like 5/5 2/3 5/5 depending on the order of the attacks that's a board wipe and a 5/8 for you. Even if they only had a 5/5 and a 5/5 everything your opponent has dies.I don't think it's as bad as he's making it out to be.

[@x10018ro]

Its situational tho, which makes every card a lot worse.

[@sora8711]

@@x10018ro Defile is situational. It was very very good.

[@lancex5195]

Yeah I think he's crazy, I'm not 100% sure it'll see play but I could see it seeing play. All boardclears are bad when your opponent doesn't have a board but I don't see it held against all those cards.

[@x10018ro]

@@sora8711 Defile costs 2 mana. This rots in your hand for 7 turns.

[@RanduinStorngard]

4:21 we havent changin year and skaar alrd got power creep'd lmao

[@neekovo9256]

AFKay is likely good because when you summon a minion it is guaranteed to not attack that turn and instantly gains +2/+2. You make that a taunt and you instantly are getting fairly high value just from +2/+2 on every minion you summon that turn

[@amethonys2798]

I mean that would be cool and all.....if she didn't cost 5 mana. The "insane" play they showed off for her was AF Kay+Army of the Dead. That's a 2 card combo at 10 mana in most likely an aggro deck (some amount of Unholy Runes) all for 15/15 in stats ONLY if you don't use the Rush on the tokens. The card is booty.

[@Altune-]

If you have a 3 cost spell and Concierge discounts it, does it count as a 2 cost spell for the purpose of Lynessa?

[@shrekkek9396]

Murloc deals with hunter's 6/6 rat and 3 cost minion secrets. And deathrattle summons. Wouldn't be surprised to see it in E.T.C.s.

[@amethonys2798]

I wonder if Scrapbooking Student is even more ass than we think. Considering it says "summon a copy" it most likely will keep the location's durability and "locked status" or whatever you want to call it considering that's how copying minions works.

[@camilgirouard3736]

Pupil just being a better and neutral rewind

[@Fipul30]

АФК, я могу увидеть в Паладина с "Вытащи 3 еденички из деки" ибо они не могут атаковать когда призваны. Но это дорого...

[@adrjanidurante]

Wait the four cost card is useful when you repeat spells with the parrot (if he repeats the ten mana spell that repeats one spell for each cost)

[@EpischeMusik]

same, its been quite a few years, probably more than half of the games lifespan when they made decent expansions

[@luckyfansubs5404]

remember chat, if rarran called the card "bad/awful" it's gonna end up being meta breaker.

[@Boelias1]

The charge pirate will probably be decent for finishing the game off with zephrys discovery

[@DenkiRay]

17:00 It's a good design for how Griftah is in WoW, more like. Never trust him if he says he will buy your treasures a second time each day.

[@KraylebStudios]

What does he do in WoW?

[@herpderp2max]

lamplighter seems fine until you remember shudderblock is a card.

[@dylansponder708]

reminder, shudderblock cannot target the enemy hero

[@ulyssessanchez2328]

AfK Zarima- Your goal with AFK is to build into your combo and passively making a bigger board 5 mana still bite tbh but I'm assuming you have little dorks/rez/Randomly Summoned basically have her out with taunts or creatures that don't need to do anything (Hidden Gem) unil BAM! Elzar

[@tehtayziez]

Da heck, Concierge is Chloe Moretz.

[@Ttangko_]

Snoozin Zookeeper is the first big board clear a Hunter has access to

[@Landmeeuw]

YEEEEEES MY ELEMENTAL DECK IS BUFFED WERE SO BACK

[@satibel]

zookeeper is a boardclear with a decent body in neutral, so druid might play it

[@dermegger7733]

Noo, I can't go another expansion with only seeing 70% Paladin...

[@SivartAuhsoj]

If your opponent doesn't have a board, then a boardwipe is dead in your hand just like Snoozin' Zookeeper. If your opponent has a board with around 8 health and attack worth of minions, then Snoozin' Zookeeper is better than a boardwipe because you end up with a 5/8.

[@mlp_firewind8129]

All rarran did when we called zookeeper unplayable was expose himself as being unable to calculate simple addition and subtraction problems.

[@amethonys2798]

Deathwing Mad Aspect was a questionable card at best in Warrior due to it being prone to making bad trades and also not full clearing boards....while having 4 more health to live for more trades.

[@Assassin21BEKA]

13:06 Rick and Morty reference lol

[@rockitloud222]

2:08 Rarran doesn’t understand the complexity of an MC Tech in 2024 🤓

[@nikolasioakimidis3003]

This is stronger than the mage naga legendary lmao

[@MinoriGaming]

Hear me out, Odyn Warrior using Hiking Trail, XB-931 Housekeeper, and Razorfen Rockstar.

[@lrainwater1608]

Pupil is probably one of THE best 1 drops if not the best one.

[@troybrodeyr]

“4 mana 4/5 is a pretty bad stat 1 line” That’s all we needed to play yeti though!

[@RedEyeStorm7]

Yeah thats actually the "premium" stat line for 4 drops without having a downside.

[@AlfiansyahHendry]

Dread Deserter totally works with resurrect and copies right??

[@callumbain1238]

Over planner is basically Brainstorm from MTG

[@stephengray4577]

Can’t u play the mech, the armour location and get it out for cheap ?

[@TheUltimateShade667]

Tfw they nerf shroomscavate because windfury is too problematic in paladin and then just print windfury in neutral anyway.

[@maelgwn1936]

Wait is this like a normal thing that a card doesn't have the artist listed?? Cause the art for Concierge looks uncanny and it does not have an artist listed

[@FinalCalamity1]

Bodybuilder beats some secrets too

[@ehrman9478]

Im playing munchkin, and in this game there is a card that does exactly what Overplanner do and im happy its in the game, love that card

[@Renia118]

So clearly the Tidepool Pupil can’t spell “Zin-Azshari”

[@Awkwerp]

are we really at a point that "a 4 mana 4/5 statline is awful" is true? like what are you expecting a 4drop to be in current day??

[@EnderGoku9001]

1 mana value is crazy

[@LastSider]

Not liking the meta and atm not playing. I feel like with travel thing, this gonna become a nightmare to balance.

[@gregchristensen645]

Have you thought of reviewing the upcoming set with cgb? Then you can do a follow up and see who got more guesses right on what cards will be good

[@xjesh868]

Brann+coin+shadow step+pupil+??? is going to be nonsense in wild

[@cathulionetharn5139]

afkay technically works on recently played non-rush non-charge minions You play a taunt, it's a taunt, not a rush, not a charge, have a +2+2

[@neilu7132]

yeah I'm also thinking it's good for some sort of aggro deck with slow summons like the recent hunter dogs or some token / treant druid. But I kinda doubt those decks really have a slot for afkay...

[@MrShukaku1991]

Afkay clones. If you can make a couple copies, they all buff eachother, and any other minions you play that don't rush.

[@cathulionetharn5139]

@@MrShukaku1991 yeah, but it's a 5 mana 0/5 so I imagine any combo that can get several copies on a board could get game winning value with a lot of other better cards

[@Geist1337]

Isn't Lamplighter just turn 10/11 20+ damage face?

[@Tatercon]

Gl making it to turn 10 ever with handbuff paladin being t1 on release

[@bforbiggy]

I hate bodybuilder because it reminds me of how long and specific yugioh cards are

[@mlodykasztelan]

I bet first nerf will be concierge to "cant cost less than 1" I wonder if planner seem play when you can just draw

[@WolfSoulZell]

A couple cool cards so far but I'm leaning towards not buying bundles for this expan and just getting what I can from gold/dust.

[@kentksclark]

Snoozin' Zookeeper with a double battlecry (I.E. Bran) makes it so both 8/8s destroy themselves.

[@thiagocerqueira9473]

1:50 But like, isn’t every removal like this? If the opponent doesn’t have a board it just sits in your hand till they do?

[@chaninakosovske6567]

Hyped for light show mage with the naga and new 3 mana discover three 3 or less spells location

[@chaninakosovske6567]

Concierge in tourist mage to make all the 1 cost palafin spells 0

[@solamentealvaro2346]

Seaside Giant with the 1 cost location of priest in zarimi deck, you cheat the taunt for 1 mana, and giant por healing location .-.

[@moonlight2870]

Sailboat captain in handbuff paladin is nuts.

[@peristeronic5520]

And now 8/7 deckhand + 8/8 outfit tailor + sailboat captain is just 7 mana lethal… or an 8 mana lethal would be deckhand + tailor + captain + second deckhand if there aren’t enough buffs on the first deckhand/tailor

[@moonlight2870]

@@peristeronic5520 I know, right? I LOVE IT! Hand buff is my favorite deck

[@kennethxu1789]

Lamplighter could be goodif elemental shaman is good. Imagine skaar turn 7 into 2 cost ele lamp lamp turn 8. Crazy damage output but the elemental chain has to be good

[@danang5]

the 1 mana naga remind me of 5 mana mage legendary naga that have similar effect,but 5 mana

[@Karp_Dominion]

Snoozin zookeeper with a mayor noggenfogger on board and then the 8/8 hits the enemy’s face.

[@bakankurbaga]

zookeeper works with the paladin aura it dont make her good but something

[@malquriouskeepsyoucurious4625]

The existance of A. F. Kay gave ma an Idea for a better legendary. I would call it ''Dustobot 1600'' a 10 mana 10/10 ''You can disenchant this card for full dust value'' Id say it would see more use than A. F. Kay and p[robably be the most anticipateds card of any set it comes out of. or better yet, put it in classic packs to make them great again.

[@chaninakosovske6567]

Lamplighter is lowkey highkey better than skarr

[@gersonmoura3284]

The naga with pip and griftah will be annoying AF

[@Hazaak.]

with snoozin zookeeper, compare to a boardwipe. Now name a boardwipe for DH, hunter, rogue, or druid

[@blahthebiste7924]

DH has a few they're just not very good

[@Liamo051]

Seriously had enough of this game can’t lie. I don’t play standard anymore, just BG and arena, and even still I’m absolutely sick of card design and philosophy. Every card is either stupidly good or unplayable depending on which classes have been chosen to be the meta for the expansion

[@royaloreo1275]

Did rarran actually understand concierge? If you're paladin every rouge card you put in your deck is cheaper. I don't think that makes concierge good, but i want to make the case clear

[@amethonys2798]

It still takes playing 3 cards to even be mana neutral. Thief Priest had a card that on BATTLECRY reduced the cost of cards by 2 and it didn't do anything.