[Hearthstone] Knights of the Frozen Throne Review 6 

flame imp >coin >voodoo witch doctor >happy ghoul >happy ghoul. 11/9 worth of stats on turn 1.

tbh you are the most fluent speaker i have ever seen

31:24 Kripp loves meteor confirmed

So for Walrock you deal 3 damage and heal for 3 but for Druid you get to chooce pretty much between those two and you take face damage to trade. Seems fair.

kripps answer to every card: might be playable = guards himself from failing predictions

Playing your videos at 1.5 or 2x speed is the best thing i've done this year

33:09

"I love any card that forces people to focus on positioning" "Meteor is a bullshit card!"

You missed one of the most important facts about the new Shaman giant. It's 11 mana! That means 10 mana minions can finally be Evolved!

OH SHIT, DEATHWING CAN GO IN EVOLVE DECKS WITH BARNES NOW BECAUSE THERE'S AN 11 COST MINION PogChamp

Bravo Kripp. I give you a lot of credit for being the first streamer I have seen to give Toxic Arrow the credit it deserves. I realize not many people play hunter but those of us who do will be running Shaky Zipgunners, Wild Pyromancers, Toxic Arrows, Hunters Marks and Barron Geddon.

This expansion is giving me some PTSD about Gadgetzan. Do you guys remember that? where they announced a bunch of control like cards that every one tought would be the big thing and some small drop aggro cards. And those turned out to shape the expansion. Well at least it was fun in Arena

I think there's one important factor to consider with Arfus and The Lich King; all classes can more reliably get an extremely powerful weapon, i.e. Frostmourne.

Most soothing "hey guys how's it going, Kripparian here" ever. So peaceful.

I like how the card evaluations have shifted from judging the card in a vacuum, to saying the meta necessary so that the card is playable, and how likely that meta is.

I think Doomerang will synergize much better with Shadowblade and Perditions Blade thanks to being able to make repeated use of their battlecries. Something like Shadowblade + Doomerang on turn 4 Is like a better Multi-Shot for Rogue, which could give them alot more survivability.

In a bit. He's been dropping the "little" part of this for some time now.

Backstab -> Perditions blade deals damage -> Hit with Perditions blade -> Doomerang -> Replay Perditions.. Seems preeeeetty good!

The Papich King 8 mana 8 atk 8 hp Tauntych At the end of your turnych, add a random cardych to your handych.

You were really well spoken in this video. Great analysis, Kripp.

"HEALED-near" "ZELL-uht" "PREV-uh-lent" "EH-bun" "LIFF-a-STAY-el"

So...Stonehill Defender can discover the Lich King now? Well-represented huh?

At 18:38 you see kripps beautiful wedding ring.

I've yet to see anyone mention that Snowfury Giant really changes the Evolution game. You can guarantee evolving any ten mana minion will give you an 8/8, and if you evolve it again, you get another 8/8 out of it. That's actually pretty great for a control variant of that deck, which is more possible with the Shaman Deathknight. Doomerang is the perfect answer to the question "what if Savagery were a rogue card and still really shitty?" Similar questions to this seem to have come up throughout this particular expansion. Skelemancer huge buff to Priest Arena. Common minion that cripples Mages, but really plays in to Potion of Madness. Spectral Pillager seems to be a weak attempt to bring back Miracle Rogue. It's possible... The ideal situation is to Shadow Caster it twice, to bring the cost of your combo down to the same region as if you were playing Van Cleef... I think an eight card Van Cleef combo isn't incredibly uncommon to pull off, so with two of these you could get a good 16-20 damage to face... throw in the two Evicerates, and that could easily be up around lethal range of damage. Like I said, it's a combo that's possible, but it's far too inconsistent, and requires you to commit a lot to this combo. Miracle Rogue has always been a deck of multiple options for lethal, I'm not sure reducing the options is going to make it viable. I can see Hyldnir Frostrider seeing some marginal Constructed play. In the early game, 3 mana 4/4 is good enough against aggro, and in the late game it has a really cute combo with Moorabi (especially if you can get Moorabi to stick for a turn, and can land a Faceless manipulator on it). This sounds like the basis for some weird Disguised Toast Tournament deck... I actually wouldn't be surprised to see Furnacefire Colossus run in Paladin alongside Lights Justice. LJ is actually a really strong card in certain aggressive matchups (it can be a game winning card against Pirate Warrior early on), but doesn't see play because against anything other than aggro decks it's garbage. Well... Furnacefire Colossus actually turns it in to a "0 mana, give your Boulderfist Ogre +1/+3" which is actually playable. This largely depends on how many one health minions we see going forward. If Lights Justice is insane against aggro in the near future, this is at least a one of in every Paladin deck. Everyone really seems to hate Toxic Arrow. You're all right, but for the wrong reason. Right now, Hunters quite often run Hunter's Mark in more aggressive decks, to give them a way past big Taunts. This is Hunter's Mark, only it doesn't cost one mana, so if aggressive Hunter decks start to pick up the pace again, you won't be able to use Skulking Geist to destroy it. Keening Banshee seems to be an attempt at making the new Mill-lock a thing. I think we're still at least a couple of expansions away from that being viable, but it's going to need a pretty hard push (and a lot less options for Discarding your own cards. Seriously, Blizz, we really don't want Discolock). Spellweaver is a card that would have been fair about two years ago. Now it's just a testament to how little Spell Damage has kept up with everything else in the game in terms of power level. Aside from Bloodmage Thalnos, I haven't seen a single spell power minion since Un'Goro released, and I'm not sure I've seen Thalnos used as more than just an extra two mana cycle card. Keeper of Uldaman stopped seeing play after about three months, and Dark Conviction is not as good as it. Typical scenario in arena makes this a four mana 3/3. Safe to say, it's garbage. Acherus Veteran will see play in every aggressive deck, because pre-nerf Abusive Sergeant saw play in every aggressive deck. This is good enough on turn one, and will often let your minions trade up. It has more potential for recurring face damage, and is all around a card I didn't want to see. The Death Knight cards are all over the place. They feel very appropriate to the uncontrollable Lick King (such excellent Ludo-narrative Synergy), and enough of them are completely game winning against specific decks that it's going to be played just for the Trolden opportunities. Ebon Blade + Beardo combo deck incoming, for sure. You officially cannot let two of those horses stick on the board. Is that difficult to avoid? Well... not really, no. But it is incredibly annoying to try and deal with, when every other card Paladins run is also a must-remove card. I really like this card, it's the most unusual combo deck we've seen to date.

Kripp, I don't even play Heartstone that much. I just love watching you, listening to your voice is calming me down, and learning a lot of information that I probably will not use in my life seems perfectly fine to me :D

To note, Spell Damage, especially early game like Tuskarr Fisherman, synergizes with Defile and Mortal Coil a ton, so it might see niche play.

Snowfury Giant is an elemental, they just fucked up. They commented the card with the correct tag on the facebook post

I think the best weapon to use with Doomerang may be Perdition's Blade, actually. Play it (preferably with the Combo) to do 2 damage then attack, next turn play Doomerang for 2 damage, play the Blade again (with Doomerang activating the Combo again for another 2) and attack again. Not bad.

Something I'm noticing here is a lot of the card art in this expansion is from existing images since Hearthstone came out. It's cool to see these images finally be seen as cards, but I'm also wondering if they're giving the artists a break since they had to work on both the cards and boss art for this expansion. Not to mention the ridiculously beautiful art from Meanstreets and Un'goro.

o man, uther the ebon blade + auctionmaster beardo has some otk combo possibilities

Something you missed about the Snowfury Giant; all 10-cost cards will evolve into it.

LOL Kripp referencing to Trump's troll leak of the warrior DK

Drain Soul should have been jankier! Minus the lifesteal, but instead, like.. add a Soul Shard to your hand if it kills a minion. Dunno what the soul shard would do, but hey, flavor!

Furnacefire Colossus should have been "Battlecry: Discard all weapons from your hand and gain their stats. This minions stats are unknown for 1 turn by your opponent." Obviously they can see if a weapon card has been discarded but not what weapon it was. I agree with you Kripp, it just needs that little bit extra to be relevant.

They correct Snowfury when they posted it, it is an elemental.

5:30 The days of Control Warrior out-valuing and grinding people into submission is LONG over. Armor doesn't have nearly the value as it did when we were back in the days where you had the ability to go card for card against any control deck. Now you have Jades and huge card generation tools that make old Wallet Warrior obsolete. It didn't go away simply because of Pirate Warrior, it went away because even in its traditional optimal space it gets blown out. Whirlwind on hero power allows for way greater synergy and has the potential to save a DK warrior from a ton of damage.

I think the "If it's your opponents turn" cards combo great with Doomsayer + Treachery! Warlock may come back I hope

Druid can make use of king. Also you forgot to mention that since there's an 11 cost card 12 mana giants can now be devolved and 10 mana cards can be evolved

Lich king from free from amber... Mmmm Hell yeah :з

I've got 150ish packs coming but I must say this is the least excited I've been for an expansion. Hopefully we can bring back some tier 1 control decks.

I just realized today that evolve shaman probably got the most love this set. The hero card is meh but cards like Saronite Chain Gang, Meat Wagon (its better in shaman than you think), and the 2/7 for 5 taunt which admittingly isn't that amazing to evolve but will help you maintain board while helping against other aggressive decks, these should all act as a nice boost.

I think you reviewed the rattling rascal in one of the earlier reviews

I think bloodworm will be better than expected. Unless someone using a board clear or removal on it (and why would they) you're going to get at least +4 health, so if you compare it to antique healbot you get a 4/4 +4 instead of a 3/3 +8.But bloodworm then has a decent chance of triggering twice, meaning it would out value healbot which did see play in some constructed decks. It's also got the potential to survive until the next turn where it can be buffed up, and pretty easily too because it's a beast.

im pretty sure happy ghoul will work even if your overhealed, as its text is weird and says when is healed instead of heal

Curious to test out a secret mage with Drakkari Enchanter into Ethereal Arcanist. Obviously the win condition is still usually burn damage, but with Enchanter up (and a secret in play obv.) Ethereal Arcanist is a 4 mana 7/7 that gains +4/4 after each turn.

The new Arthas reminds me of Ragnaros due to similar cost and stats, rarity, and playability, and his ability is like Ysera, so I agree that he will be probably in all the top tier control decks. Not to mention he's the coolest character in all of WOW.

13:57 Turns out Kripparrian shares Fuhrer's idea about the master race

Now that we miiiiight be seeing Malygos more often i wonder if there will be a special line between him and Sindragosa. Nerdgasm overwhelming.

But wicked skeleton gains stats for dead enemy minions as well! It's going to be huge by turn 10 even if you don't build deck around

The expansion after The Frozen Throne shall also have a new and exciting keyword: Spellproof! (Cannot be targeted by spells or Hero Powers)

I thought warlock legendary blood queen had potential but after i saw the full set my thoughts have changed (.4 stars to 2 stars ) why ? Let me explain When playing warloc you are generally at 15hp at turn 5ish especial if you are playing discard lock Since when you are playing a discard deck good opponents generally ignore your high stat card and go face setting your life total at 15 insh at turn 5 Which prevents warloc hero power and the deal this mch dmg to your hero/al char Normally these cards are good but since your opponents played aggressive using these cards- spells - hero power becomes ify This is why being able to heal yourself becomes so important for warloc making the 1-6 blood queen good And in an average game you can easily discard 3 cards making it a 4-6 Which can easily make 2 trades which is 8 hp and that is alot But then i when i saw the full KFT set blizzard introduced a 5 mana 4-4 lifesteal beast common neutral card And this card is like soo much better then the blood mage Since now i dont have to take the risk of playing a 5 mana 1-6 already making the 5 mana 4/4 a better pick then blood queen I dont have to discard cards to make the card playable 3atk and good at 4 atk The neutral card fits in control and even in some zoo blood queen does not You can say it has 2 less hp but 2 hp over being forced to discard cards is better in my opinion and its a beast so it's bluffable If blood queen was a demon it would had been a different story but she is not making her worse then. The common neutral in every possible way So blizzard introduced a good conditional card for warloc then introduced a even better non conditional card Making the previous card bad aka dust

Kripp, you missed the fact the new shaman giant is 11 mana which means that any evolved 10 cost card will change into it instead of staying the same thing.

It'll be interesting in wild to experiment with the hero cards with bad hero powers and Finley

I can't tell if Control Hunter is here at last, but I'm gonna try it.

Does the Druid Hero Power and Battlecry effect work with Fandral Staghelm? If so, it seems pretty good to be honest.

The Skelemancer is extreamly good card vs Doomsayer. Also you can "give" your doomsayer to your enemy with the new warlock spell

But does the lich king have interaction with uther, jaina, or sylvanas?

What happens if you play Justicar with a Hero Card? Btw looks like Kripp forgot about the weapon buff cards coming with the set alongside Doomerang.

Wow! Great insights on these cards, Krip. It seems like there is a bright future for mage and palidin at this rate.

I feel like the Deathrattles that only work on your opponent's turn are interesting, but were overvalued by Blizzard. The stats seem to have taken a bit more of a hit or they're *just* a little overcosted for where they should be for the Deathrattle's effect.

I have a feeling handbuffing is going to make a major comeback this expansion. So many already good cards that become ridiculous once buffed as well.

11:12 I have something to say about it. That art is gorgeous! Like holy shit look at that murloc!

I like the DK for Druid, it can be cast on 2 lol

Hunters mark is pretty similar to toxic arrow, if you use the arrow on your own minion. If your minion deals damage, the hunters mark target are gonna die.

You know an extension is bad when we talk about playing the card in arena

Tuskarr Fisherman is kind of scary with Brann in rogue. For just 5 mana you can play Brann than this card for +2 spell power, then you can shadowstep up to two times for a potential +6 spell power for no more mana. Even with the double shadow step that will only be a 4 card combo. That is scary stuff.

16:20 3cost 3drop 4Head

Doomerang probably applies weapon effects, e.g. poisoned weapon, and hence the strange wording of the card, rather than "deal your weapon damage to a minion."

Doomerang and Shadow Blade in 1 Turn is 6 Damage for 4 Mana, you take no damage because of the Battlecry and you get the Shadowblade back, its kinda like Fireball but more flexible and combo reliant.

Whoah, dude, I just realized that those discover taunt effects will now be able to get Arthas too. NICE. Especially since there's no way I'll get one in a pack. I'm not that lucky.

paladin death knight hero + the legendary 3/4 goblin that refreshed ur hero power when u cast a spell + a bunch of secrets = exodia win

I havent been paying attention to tall the new cards. is there anything that gives a card lifesteal? Blackguard with lifesteal would clear their entire board and heal for all of it. Assuming the damage blackguard does counts as him doing the damage and applying lifesteal to it.

I feel like the two buff cards Paladin gets this expansion may actually revive Quest Pally to an extent. Dark conviction especially might be able to off a few instances of playing one of the weaker cards turn 1 and buffing it turn two or three to get more board presence. Most likely, quest paladin is still trash, but it helps.

snowfury giant in 4:27 is the first 11 mana cost minion in the game. does that mean evolving a 10 drop or devolving the 12 mana minion ??

kripp: i love any card that focuses on positioning oh yeah because you keep going on about how much you love meteor

I just realized the druid hero's 7 mana so that you can innervate him out on 5 (THE TURN AFTER FANDRAL).

If you replace Jaraxxus with the warlock hero card, would you summon Jaraxxus? Because of Jaraxxus' text saying "Destroy" I'd imagine you would. And if the argument is regarding the battle cry timing, what about if you played a second hero card?

Okay, hearthstone has flatout made a necromancer deck possible with nzoth and the warlock DK, i'm hyped

when he was talking about avalanche i think he forgot about meteor

Turn 10 paladin can instant win with that hero power on that hero card.

Probably too slow for constructed, but am I crazy to think that Night Howler (4/3/4, gain attack when taking damage) is insane for Priests in Arena?

"I've assembled all five pieces of the puzzle!" UTHER OBLITERATE!

17:22 double gorehowl and double arcanite reaper kek

So why don't we finally nerf acidic swamp ooze? It's just another card that some people feel forced to include in their ladder decks, like Azure Drake or Ragnaros were. Instead of destroying a weapon, have it take away durability? The card still has good stats for it's cost. Maybe that's not the right answer, but like he said, weapons are countered way too easily in the game right now.

So evolving 10 cost minions is now possible?

The fact that Uther doesn't equip a corrupted ashbringer bugs me.

I think the new garrosh is to give control warriors a better chance vs aggro. It can free up other anti aggro slots so control warrior can pack in more late game and do better vs control

I like wretched tiller, if am 1st to play I think I should be able to extract 2-5damage early game or a 2 mana answer for a 1 drop. Not the best card, but I like it.

Holy crap all the people im subbed to uploaded exactly at the same time all together!!

WIth Rattling rascal in warlock you can give it to your enemy and get a 4 mana 10/10 basically.

I was really hoping the lich king was going to turn out to be a neutral hero card transformation

Moorabi + Hyldnir frostrider = get your entire board back to your hand, pretty sweet

Drain Soul is almost a strict powerup on Drain life. the only time drain life is better is if you hit a divine shield guy.

I feel like Spectral Pillager would have been way more fun and usable as a 4 mana 3/3 or as a 6 mana 2/2 that dealt 2 dmg per other card played this turn.

Man, remember that ability valled silence. God forbid we get another silence card. It's been ages.

expansion looks really really good anything with the lich king looks really really good

Kripp do you care to give your thoughts on the change to heros weapon swing, now will not refresh when changing hero.

9:30 Night Howler could work with self-damaging warrior, kripp pls

Kripp is the one who hyped up Dead man's hand, but now when he see's the warrior hero he stops seeing the synergy. Warrior has Armorsmith that love getting WW effects and give tons of armor, and acolite of pain is run in Warrior already. So just dead man's hand copies of armor smiths and acolite's into your deck and then your WW is 2 mana a better armor up and draw a card.

Will Saronite Chain Gang add 2 to the warrior completion quest? If so, it will be an auto include in that deck