Mind Control Tech is 5 mana because you get to choose the minion that you steal. Which is INSANE.

I can NOT believe MCTech doesn't say the word random. Goodbye Sylvanas.

'i got the beast in my sights' is still one of the best and most iconic hearthstone lines to this day fucking stoked about soulstealer too

I love that Boulderfist Ogre was the last card, even though all the cards were sorted from greatest to least cost. :)

11:26 The Dream card also changed to "Return a minion to its owners' hand" rather than just an enemy minion. That is a huge deal.

HOLY HELL DOES MIND CONTROL TECH TARGET NOW?

It was a bold move of Blizzard to redesign the game so there's only 3 available board spots now

3:51 Rarran called minions "monsters". He's being converted to a yugioh player 😎

One thing you overlooked with the rune requirements is now all cards that used to be 3 runes can now be discovered. Meaning potentially 2+ soul stealers each game again.

I can't wait to be leeroyed + shadow stepped + leeory again + breakdanced.

My biggest concern is Boulderfist Ogre having too good stats for its cost forcing the meta to be warped around it.

16:07 they said they’re “uprooting ramp from Druid”, safe to say they will not be printing crazy ramp cards this year thankfully

In Thralls voice - That's incredible! - When you roll spell power totem with Spirit Claws! All we miss now is a Tunnel Trogg!

I imagine that Oaken summons doesn't say "Recruit" as recruit was a, if not the, core mechanic of that set. As it is coming to the core set, which has no other "Recruit" effect cards, it would be more out of place to keep the keyword than to just change it to summon

Just realized, all the triple rune DK cards that lose a rune, like Soulstealer, will be discoverable again

They got rid of SO MANY Rune requirements for DK. Rainbow DK in particular now has an *enormous* tool box, especially since cards like Soulstealer can be discovered again. But I'm kinda mad at the Frostmourne "buff" All they needed to do was give it a *"Your Hero is immune while attacking"* effect , instead they arguibly made the card worse since the whole point is to kill big minions with it, which is harder now with its lower Attack 2. The buffs/updates to older cards is very suprising tbh: Twisting Nether getting rid of Locations now too is wild! Classic Ysera giving you 2 Dream Cards per activation of her effect is actually really cool And the Elusive replacing "Cannot be targeted by Spells and Hero Powers" keyword definetly helps cut down on the card text

Leeroy into Mind Control Tech, might be huge with it being targetable now.

I JUST WANT NAGA TEACHER TO STAY

Spectral Cutlass AND Raiding Party are back?! This year is gonna be a banger for Thief Rogue, and I, for one, am super excited!

I really like how the Recruit keyword was introduced previously... when the word "summon" is basically a synonym for it LOL recruit should imply that a minion is being summoned from the deck. for e.g. Oaken Summons can read Recruit (4), the number in brackets being the cost (if any). A card that recruits multiple times can just read "Recruit twice".

So I'm seeing handlock AND zoolock, control warrior, miracle rogue, midrange hunter and freeze mage. That sounds like such a nostalgic and awesome meta, I might even return!

Can’t wait for the Quentin tarentino decks enabled by “footman”

Just when I thought I was out, they reel me back in... While some of those new cards are clearly Rumble cards, they are also Warcraft 3 units. Huntress, Footman. I love that stuff. The Huntress ability is also ON POINT

Great video rarran ! I'm excited for the future of hearthstone. The shaman changes look good, wish we could keep bloodlust or doomhammer but it's all good. The claw has comeith

Spectral Cutlass coming back AAAAAA I love it. I cannot WAIT to have fun with weapons again in my thief rogue deck.

MCTech, Sylvanas... Flamestrike, Frost Bolt, Mountain and Molten, Swipe, Justicar, Spellstones... so many cool stuff

This is ramping up to be a very fun, very mid-range, very nostalgic era

Ysera Awakens has returned to it's real self, all characters, finally

It'd be cool if Ysera Awakens dealt 5 to all except herself & her minions (laughing sister and the dragon) just to prevent one card from her generation deminishing the effectiveness of others. Adds extra but niche consistency to her.

I wonder how much it would hurt Rogue if they just nerfed Shadowstep by removing the mana reduction component. It already has a function, which is letting you play powerful card like ogre gang or the excavate swiss army knife multiple times. The 2 mana cheat was a good compensation for tempo loss back in the good old days when Rogue didn't have access to all that many good battlecries. But now there are so many "I'm gonna fill my side of the board, destroy yours, fill my hand with free stuff and on the top of that, fuck your mom while at it" type of battlecries that it feels just overkill that rogue can do the same thing all over again next turn but also have 2 extra mana to spend on the top of that. Imo it would be better if it was just left to be a value card instead of both value and tempo. That would free up more space to design cool and powerful cards for rogue.

MC TECH TARGETS NOW, I was blinded by the trauma caused me before but I hate the card more :)

Ysera Awakens goes back to its original state of dealing 5 dmg to ALL CHARACTERS and not just minions.

Leeroy in this current powercreep meta might not even see play pretty sad lmao

McTech isn't random anymore. Holy shit.

Bro I don't even play Druid that much but I'm really happy abaout Raven Idol and Swipe

Losing ramp in druid will hurt the class but damn, I'm so excited to play Oaken summons into Park Panther again

I've actually been running BGH in a few highlander decks over the past few days, been performing well and feels so good indeed. Hunter is one that makes good use of it IMO.

11:54 Mind control tech isn't random anymore :D

17:08 PRANKENHIEB OH TOO MANY PRANKENHIEBS

lol never thought about just making that sentence 'cleave.' That sounds so elegant. xD

it only took them 10 years to add elusive

I don't want to ever hear Blizzards reasoning for keeping Shadowstep in the core set, I think my head would explode. But I am somewhat optimistic about some of the changes. The rune changes for DK cards opens up so much more flexibility in the class and also helps Rainbow DK a TON. The lack of Wild Growth or Nourish is surprising but I think it'll let them have more focused ramp than generic. The Dragon druid decks have essentially 2 mana wild growth on a stick, but it's conditional toward dragons so you wouldn't see it in everything and lets them focus balancing that archetype around the idea of having that ramp, but it wouldn't effect other archetypes. I also really like the Justicar inclusion, and hope that being at 5 mana allows the card to see some play. The biggest thing for me though is the Rumble cards. The teaser for the next expansion looked like it was more playful and crafty, making me wonder if the expansion isn't traditionally themed but maybe having something to do with a mashup of Warcraft products.

The thumbnail on this video was so funny with leeroy jenkins and the look you made. Great thumbnail for this video

Prepare your asses for the wombo combo of warrior pulling on turn 6 brann into turn seven dirty rat into mc tech to yoink your wincons

I think druids still have plenty of ramp left, there's dragon druid and this draw a nature spell and gain an empty mana crystal minion.

When you scrolled to what's leaving Core for Hunter, I had a visceral reaction to seeing my boy King Krush. He deserves his long rest. RIP King, we'll miss you.

Oh these are exciting. Cant wait to play Justicar in every single deck even if its objectively wrong to do so. Now please also give me Saraad back

Bro didn't read mind control tech

At least Garden's Grace is gone for Leeroy shenanigans. Would've been so much fun getting bursted for 30 by +10/+10 and windfury

Res priest is coming back baby! I’m actually excited to come back and play for once with these new core cards

Did he notice that mind control tech you now choose what mininion you took from your oponnent ?

I think the bgh change is a huge W. I think ALL situational cards should get the "tradeable" keyword

love the glasses, where u get them from?

Prison of yogg saron nerf with the twisting nether change feelsbadman

I love all of the additions here except for possibly MC Tech not being random.

The new 6 mana rush minion and the 2 mana hunter spell that does overkill damage to the hero combo gonna be insane

I assume the reason why a lot of the token stuff for DK is leaving is because there're cards coming in that might replace them.

Conspiracy time, Leeroy is added into the core set to make Highlander Kurtrus playable... something there?

Blizzard: We know Shadowstep narrows design space by 90% and breaks Rogue every expansion, but it's fundamental to class identity! We can't just rotate it! Also Blizzard: Druid can no longer ramp lmao

justicar + fiery war axe = old school armor up warrior is back !

Looks like mind control tech isn't random anymore. Kinda busted

i love the change to druid because it seems they want to bring back a beast midrange deck

Ysera awakens goes face again btw, and you can target with MC tech

"what if we bring back all the oppressive tilting cards back?" Blizzard: yes!

I feel it’s a bit glossed over, all of the death knight rune cards that were previously 3 rune requirements are now able to be generated/discovered

I'm not gonna lie, turn 4 Footman into turn 5 Warsong Grunt into turn 6 S.A.F.E. sounds TERRIFYING.

Ahh man. I was thinking about getting back into the game, but then hearing that the good Mech cards are getting rotated out, now I don't know.

Might check it out

I already miss selective breeder. One of my favorite cards in general

While I wasn't using any of the legendaries that are rotating out in standard, I will miss having access to free Aegwynn and Armagedillo in Wild.

11:12 also all CHARACTERS, not only MINIONS

Demon hunter potentially having an aggro deck or a bit faster tempo deck again will be nice as outcast dh was possible my favorite dh deck.

Reaaallly excited, seems like a great coreset!!

druid cries while rouge shaman warlock and warrior are partying

HOLY SHIT hammer of the naaru when forged in badlands were out we had secret paladin with kazakus and alex that was like a banger deck i got first time legend with it at 82% wr xd

Rarran is worried about MC tech and doesn't even realize it's buffed... Just wait until he finds out

Warsong Grunt+ Paladin aura, now u are dead and he is full

With LoR kinda dying I'm thinking of returning to HS when the rotation happens. Is it worth it?

Just gonna say this: Battlefiend started as a (1) 2/2 it never had the 3 health And they reverted all dream cards except the laughing sister. And you can pick the minion when slamming MCT.

Rarran for the pack series would you open more classic packs to get some of the new cards? Maybe 5-10 just to spice it up since stuff like a spirit claws could be game changing

Trueheart honestly needs reworked into a neutral quest. Not as powerful as Baku, but would at least guarantee you get it by a certain point in the game. The card is so bad if drawn late and honestly even turn 5 is too late, but just making her a 3 mana 4/2 or whatever wouldn't change anything when she is in bottom 10 cards of your deck.

I could honestly see footman as a tier 7 in battlegrounds considering how good the immune while Attacking dragon is.

expected sylvannas to be buffed some way. siamat buff seems exciting, I will try an elemental deck. overall a solid core set.

Some of these changes I am STOKED about… others I am terrified.

Ball of Spiders being 3 mana is actually sick as hell

Ysera Awakens is deal 5 damage to all CHARACTERS. Used to be minions only. Big change :)!

Overall positive feelings, especially with the mage legendary as it indicates it's gonna be more re normal mage rather than otk But there is 3 cards I'm gonna miss a lot: Alex Lifebringer, King Krush my cutie and my favorite spell Pyroblast T-T

Altered (new tcg) seems promising, have you heard about it?

Hey Rarran you goober you have the regular shaman hero power on there when you show all the upgraded hero powers

The rune reductions to things like Soulstealer also puts these cards back in the discover pool right?

Very mixed feelings... As a control warlock main I’m so excited to play handlock again. But as someone who dislikes shaman and having stopped playing several times due to shaman I’m very worried about the return of Argo shaman, thank god shudderwalk isn’t here too xD

Handlock will rise again, love u blizzy

FIRE FLY IS BACK BABY

Holy shoooter the priest package with the Reno deck?

night elf huntress in hunter... pretty good finisher card

REALLY HAPPY to see Fiery War Axe EDIT: Oh god, Skill Command... EDIT 2: OH GOD OBSIDIAN STATUE EDIT 3: OH SWEET CHRIST ON A BIKE *DOOMGUARD* ? God I'm glad I only spectate...

oh my god Death knight is bouta go crazy

The 12 hero powers for justicar trueheart. He knows something...

Ysera Awakens hits face again. Currently I believe it only deals its damage to minions. Dream, I believe, is un-nerfed back to zero mana. I think it was nerfed to 1 mana a couple years ago.

Handlock is back baby!