[Hearthstone] Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Review 5 

Everyone's complaining about Jade Idol, but you can't even get rich with it. Unplayable.

1:10 Shadow Sensei (Rogue Rare) 1:25 Sergeant Sally (Neutral Legendary) 2:03 White Eyes (Shaman Legendary) 2:58 Public Defender ( Warrior Common) 4:10 Kabal Songstealer (Priest Common) 4:50 Blastcrystal Potion (Warlock Common) 5:55 Lotus Illusionist (Shaman Epic) 7:04 Streetwise Investigator (Neutral Common) 7:19 Cryomancer (Mage Common) 8:24 Freezing Potion (Mage Common) 9:30 Kabal Trafficker (Warlock Epic) 10:39 Street Trickster (Neutral Common) 11:10 Blubber Baron (Neutral Epic) 11:59 Hobart Grapplehammer (Warrior Legendary) 12:34 Unlicensed Apothecary (Warlock Epic) 13:44 Defias Cleaner (Neutral Epic) 14:35 Finders Keepers (Shaman Epic) 15:18 Crystal Weever (Warlock Common) 15:38 Weasel Tunneler (Neutral Epic) 16:15 Greater Healing Potion (Priest Rare) 16:45 Sleep with the Fishes (Warrior Epic) 17:23 Naga Corsair (Neutral Common) 17:47 Alleycat (Hunter Common) 18:12 Wrathion (Neutral Legendary) 18:58 Genzo, the Shark (Neutral Legendary) 19:41 Luckydo Buccaneer (Rogue Epic) 20:26 Red Mana Wyrm (Neutral Common) 20:59 Mayor Noggenfogger (Neutral Legendary) 21:48 Gadgetzan Socialite (Neutral Common) 22:22 Smuggler's Crate (Hunter Common) 23:07 Greater Arcane Missiles (Mage Epic) 24:15 Shadow Rager (Rogue Common) 24:46 Krul the Unshackled (Warlock Legendary) 25:46 Hidden Cache (Hunter Rare) 26:28 Ancient of Blossoms (Neutral Common) 27:05 Small-time Buccaneer (Neutral Rare)

Greater Arcane Missiles will NOT fire additional missiles. This is why the "3 damage" is listed as a number and the "three missiles" is listed in text.

Here they are: Shadow Sensei: terrible. Sergeant Sally: Extremely powerful with Power Overwhelming.Smooth board clear. White Eyes: CRAZILY STRONG. But is it good against Jade Golems? Public Defender: Might be interesting. But just worth nothing. Kabal Songstealer: Preeeety good. Good in Arena. Blastcrystal Potion: Not so good in Constructed. Low value. Powerful in Arena. Lotus Illusionist: Should be powerful. But uncertain. Streetwise Investigator: Not so many Stealth in Constructed. Go to Arena. Cryomancer: Good with Water Elemental. Freezing Potion: Probably not gonna be useful. Poisoning Mage card quality in Arena. Kabal Trafficker: Cool card. Powerful. But is Control Warlock good enough? Street Trickster: Probably can be seen in Freeze Mage. But, meh. Blubber Baron: Like Bolvar, not very good. Hobart Grapplehammer: Powerful for Face Warrior. Like 2 mana 2/2: deal 6+ dmgs to opponent's face. Unlicensed Apothecary: Strong stats. An interesting card. More valuable in Arena. Defias Cleaner: Good for current meta, but in future Jade Golem meta, well... Finders Keepers: Last moment desperate card, gonna help you find lethal. Crystalweaver: Demonlock promotion? Probably not gonna work. Weasel Tunneler: Hilarious effect. Greater Healing Potion: Not flexible, but still powerful. Sleep with the Fishes: Not strong by itself, great synergy with other Warrior cards. Naga Corsair: Seem not impactful. But still good, we'll see. Alleycat: Powerful 1-drop. Wrathion: Mill yourself in Dragon deck. Genzo, the Shark: Powerful aggro card. Strong effect. Luckydo Bucanneer: 6 mana 9/9 is good, but not comparable with those Jade Golems. Sketchy. Red Mana Wyrm: Could be OK. Mayor Noggenfogger: Not sure how this work. Future meme card confirmed. Gadgetzan Socialite: Might fit in some decks. Smuggler's Crate: Not a good deal for Hunter. Greater Arcane Missiles: Interesting card. Kripp thinks spell damage addition should add onto missiles instead of damages. Shadow Rager: .....Actually ok. Krul the Unshackled: Powerful and wonderful effect. But might not really work. Hidden Cache: Weak secret. Will not be seen in general Hunter deck. Ancient of Blossoms: Might be more important in Arena. Small-Time Buccaneer: good Rogue card. YOU'RE WELCOME.

Jade golems look insane. You will soon thank us face hunter players for keeping them in check

Forgot to mention that 2 Weasel Tunnelers also at least temporarily partly shut down Reno/Cabal decks.

"Shaman struggles to get the board on turn 4"(Kripp 2016)...... 6:46 I guess the 4 mana 7/7 isn't a thing.

Turn 3 Shadow Rager Turn 4 Shadow Sensei 11 - 7 stats on turn 4. The curve! The Value!

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23:57 They clearly wrote "three" the word and "3" the number intentionally, since spell power changes numbers, into * 4 * not * four *. So no, damage increases not number of missiles.

Ben Brode said a while back that the reason cards like Magma Rager exist is to teach new players to recognise bad cards, and to give experienced players a hyperbolic point of comparison. Following that logic, since we are essentially giving Magma Rager to Rogue this expansion, following his logic are we being taught that Rogue is going to suck? Seeing the rest of the junk they got, I'm pretty sure that's the message. I also want to point out that Priest got a two mana resurrect spell, followed by a five mana resurrect minion. Then they got a two mana silence spell, followed by a two mana silence minion. Should we expect to see a five mana spell version of Mana Geode in an upcoming expansion? PROBABLY NOT. WORST THEORY EVER. After having seen the cards, I'm not personally convinced that there's anything to significantly hinder the current Midrange Shaman here. Sure, Priest got some strong cards, but strong against that deck? A 2 mana 2/3, a flamestrike that doesn't hit Azure Drake, an overpriced alternative to Flash Heal, and Dark Cultist 2, Turn 3 Boogaloo? Reno decks are not consistent enough to do shit. Grimy Goons aren't fast enough to keep up. Rogue is playing Purify 2.0 this expansion. Jade Golem decks? Druid's the only class that can even get them past, like, 7/7 across the course of an entire game, and Miracle Druid isn't a consistent win against Shaman now, so I don't see Jade Idol improving that. If someone's seeing something I've missed then I'd love to hear it, but I'm probably just gonna play this expansion for about a week while everyone's testing new cards, then go back to waiting for Shaman to lose Tunnel Trogg at the start of the next standard cycle. And don't even get me started on arena balance. Warrior gets a 2 mana 0/7 common, while Mage gets a 5 mana 5/5 with an upside? Priest gets another three drop that benefits from them having a two drop, but their two drop is an epic? Rogue gets a second SI7 in Jade Shuriken, while Warlock gets to clear its' own board on turn seven? By the way, anyone hyped for Raza synergy with Paletress, take a look at the legendaries added in this set and cry. The new legendaries average at around 3/4 to 4/5 worth of stats, and are mostly battlecry minions. The only one with an ability you might want is White Eyes. Maybe Beardo, if you have a hand full of cheap spells. Paletress took a huge nerf, as did Saraad (those Jade Golem spells though), who already wasn't seeing play.

The greater missiles will increase damage, since it's "three" missiles and "3" damage.

the snack that smiles back

Dude thank god its out. I've been holding in this shit for hours waiting on this vid to drop. :)

Waiting for Shadowrino Kripperino and Magmarino Kripperino to face off eachother.

Trying to get kripp to see this deck. Hardest (viable) deck you will ever play. Threatlock ___________________ Sacrificial Pact Corruption Mortal Coil Power Overwelming Voidwalker Acidic Swamp Ooze Demonfuse Youthful Brewmaster Earthen Ring Farseer Imp Gang Boss Shadow Bolt Ancient Brewmaster Barnes Defender of Argus Dreadsteed (important) Elise Starseeker Hellfire Shadowflame Summoning Portal Twilight Drake Abomination Cult Apothecary Prince Malchezar Dread Infernal Emperor Thaurissan Justicar Trueheart Reno Jackson Siphon Soul Fearsome Doomguard (unimportant) Twisting Nether

Greater Flamestrikes incoming.

FUUCK ! I was hoping to see Kripp play some PoE :(

Considering how many self-damaging cards Warlocks got this expansion, I was REALLY hoping for a "if your deck contains no duplicates, heal the same amount of damage that you did to yourself" effect. Oh well. Still a few more months to get rich.

RIP ROGUE. Blizzard has shown much love to every single class except Rogue. Let's see how their creative minds work. *Shaku the Collector*: Undercity Huckster with Stealth *Lotus Assassin*: Slightly better Stranglethorn Tiger *Luckydo Buccaneer*: Probably the only good creative card in the set, still very similar to Drakonid Crusher *Shadow Sensei*: Houndmaster with less viable targets *Gadgetzan Ferryman*: Youthful Brewmaster *Counterfeit Coin*: Half an Innervate, the only viable card but adds nothing new or original *Shadow Rager*: Does this even need an explanation!? We got this instead of a Jade card!? This should have been a neutral. *Jade Shuriken*: Would be good if Rogues had enough Jade support *Jade Swarmer*: Might be good, if Jade Rogue can even work. Just a Jade variant of Kindly Grandmother

rouge is the new priest and the old shaman and the old preist

next up priest rager 4 mana 5/1 deathrattle gain 5 life

The next rager could be a paladin card, how about Light rager; 3 mana 5/1 Divine shield.

Blast crystal will be good in reno, a lot of trouble of reno comes from only have siphon for hard removal, this in the lategame will have an insignificant side effect and therefore makes this a 4 mana assassinate on turn 9, where reno lock could be struggling to remove malygos, rag, giants, etc

I think Red Mana Wyrm is INSANE in Miracle Rogue and might see a nerf, because Blizzard hate combo. Tombpillager coin, coin, new rogue coin and Preparation are all ways of doing the following: Turn 5 Red Mana Wyrm > "coin" > Conceal. You have a stealthed 6-6 minion at turn 5 that dogde most board clears and removal in general. Next turn you have 6 mana. Remember how insane Auctioneer is when you have acces to 5+ mana crystals? With RMW, you get +2 atk instead of drawing a card, meaning. Cold Blood is +6 dmg alone for 1 mana, that + any spell is +8 dmg. By that stage your RMW is a 14-6 minion ready to attack. We are talking ONLY 2 spells here! Add like 2 more spells and you have +4 dmg from RMW's effect by itself. If one of those 2 spells is eviscerate or coldblood you have a 22-6 minion ready to attack! With the draw that Miracle Rogue already have you can get combos like this one going easy. I think Miracle Rogue might be one of the if not the best deck going into the expansion.

Ugh Gadgetzan Socialite compared to Voodoo doctor. One mana for one health... really?

The wording on Arcane Missiles is "Deal 3 damage randomly split amount all enemies", not "Shoot three missiles that deal 1 damage each", so I'd say it's pretty obvious that Greater Arcane Missiles are gonna do more damage per missile with spell damage, and not add more missiles, as it's ALWAYS the numeral digits that get bigger by spell damage, and not any other part of the text. I thought Kripp were pretty savvy on card texts, but I guess not.

New warlock 2 card OTK: Turn 10 play Unlicensed Apothecary + Forbidden Ritual.

MEME streets of gadgetzan

I think the greater arcane missiles scale in damage for missile than number of missiles, because the three is written out, and spell damage usually affects the number that is just a number.

so glad they nerfed blade flurry so they could design better weapons for rogue... WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE WEAPONS!! Luckydo buccaneer was pretty much a big "fuck you" to the rogue class.

they need to make a shaman legendary that has deathrattle= add 3 evolves to your hand

Hey guys how's it going

pretty happy it is december 1st, thank you for informing me, king forehead and pioneer of fun, Kripparian.

For control, Blastcrystal Potion seems really good since you'll just regen the crystal late game, so it becomes a better assassinate. Especially useful might be Sylv + this, depending on the situation, since the text suggests you can target your own minions.

Sargeant Sally is the best warlock board clear of all time. 4 mana deal 5 damage to all enemy minions is ridiculously cheap. I'd dare say it's the most efficient board clear I've seen in a while.

Can't wait for Jade Druid to be destroyed by Grand Theft Anduin.

I'm 95% sure, that spelldamage will add 1 damge to each of the Greater Arcane Missiles instead of generating extra missiles. Since spell damage usually increases the numbers on a damage spell and the only printed number is the damage value of each missile, that would make the most sense.

About the card Greater Arcane Missiles, I'm pretty sure that *Spell Damage* will increase the damage of the missiles instead of creating more of them. Cards like *Arcane Missiles* and *Avenging Wrath* text is something like "Deal X damage randomly split", that means that by increasing the damage it will generate more shots. On the other hand, this new card says "Shoot three missiles that deal X damage", that means if it's played with *spell damage* it will increase the shots damage and not the other way around.

are they really trying to push ice control/tempo mage with shatter? If it has overwhelming support shatter could be pretty good but I doubt it.

"Shaman tends to have a hard time getting the board on turn 4" UM, WHAT?

1Freezing potion vs Sap very similar, however freezing potion still allows end of turn effects to occur like ysera and ragnaros

I'm super excited for the Kel' Thuzad/Weasel Tunneler deck in wild. "Force your opponent to draw exclusively garbage"

I'm actually stoked for this set to come out.

I dont care how good public defender is I'm building a deck around it because of that artwork.

27:05 LOL that Small Time Buccaneer card review though!

Greater arcane missiles does the same amount of damage whether it goes into the damage or number of missiles. Either way it's still 3xsp dmg . The difference is going on the damage per missile helps you kill big creatures and going into the number of missiles helps you kill large boards. What would be cool is if you could choose which way the spell damage goes.

24:15 is that me?

Wow, with all these beast boosts, I might have to add angry chicken to my deck

23:10 I feel like the number of missiles will remain at 3, and the damage will increase. I think this is the case because they spelled out the word three instead of using a number like they normally do. When a spell damage is on the field, the number will normally increase on the card, but it won't if it's spelled out.

Hey Kripp, love the reviews and videos overall. Sometimes I get burnt out on spamming ranked play, you get me back in the mood to play cards I find fun. Ill be joining you on Xpac release day.

so disappointed with the warlock legendary

We need a shadow rager krippereno asap

I remember a black rock mountain adventure card that dealt I believe it was 1 damage to 20 different targets? When you have it spell damage, instead of increasing the number of random targets, it increased the damage dealt to each target. I remember very clearly playing this card with a Malygos on board and promptly restarting the battle.... after dying to the effect.

7:12 That impression made me laugh a bit xD

wait, if you shadowflame Sergeant Sally does she basically activate twice?

1. Play Thaurissan with Baron Rivendare + 2 Weasels + Echo of Medivh + N'Zoths Tentacle in your hand. 2. Play Rivendare and 2 Weasels, copy those Weasels with Echo of Medivh, play 2 more Weasels, play the Tentacle and ping it. 3. Shuffle 8 fucking Weasels in your oppenents deck !!! 4. ??? 5. Profit

The wording of Greater Arcane Missiles looks as though spell damage will increase the damage of each of the three missiles, so this spell cast with Malygos in-play will deal 8 damage 3 times. That's probably why it's worded so differently than Arcane Missiles; to avoid confusion. Edit: Also, if you notice, "three" is spelled out. That means it's set and cannot be changed. Spell damage only effect digits (numerals 0-9) in card text.

I'm excited for a possible jade pirate rogue? Low cost stuff and strong tea/sprint to keep momentum?

these set actually looks really interesting... but god damn they made what feels like every other card a legendary. Now a lot of the deck defining cards are legendary, and it will be very unlikely to get them from packs because even if u get a legendary it'll probably be something shitty

where is "Shadow Ragerino Kripperino"?

I think that based on the card text for greater magic missiles, the "3" damage will increase rather than the "three" missiles.

Blastcrystal Potion is also one of the potion you can discover in the kabal card, prepare yourself to see it with mage, warlock and priest.

So when you play 5 mana 2/2 your blubber baron will get +3/+3?

you get a 5 7/7 and you get a 5 10/10 with taunt and you get a 0 7/7 and YOU get a 3 2/3 with STEALTH owwwwww

Could you do a video to evaluate some of the new decks after the expansion?

Yeah I'll definitely be there at the live stream and amazing card review as usual .

My favorite is the grimestreet gang. Whats your guys's favorite?

I want a silent giant: Epic Priest 20 mana 8/8, costs 2 less for each silence effect played this game. Give me a reason to play purify?

Blubber Baron works with all the tri-class hand buffs. If a buff targets this minion, he gets the buff as well as +1/+1

blastcrystal will work really well with renolock and if you play it on turn 10 it's just a pure hard removal for 4

where my shadowragerino kripperinos at

This expansion seems to be pretty good.

Greater Arcane Missiles won't fire more missiles but the damage per missile will be higher. Reason? The thing that will change on the card with lets say +1 spell power in play will be 3 into 4 not three into four.

The reason for the Stealth tech card is the 2/6 Red Mana Wyrm in Rogue with Conceal.

Krul can be insane with discard demons. Just hold on to them until you play this and boom: two doomguards for 10 burst, and an almost full board.

I'm waiting for Kripperino Shadow Ragerino to be a thing.

"Shaman struggles to control the board by turn 4" 😂😂😂😂 I LOLED so hard.

And so, another Ragerino has arisen from the mysterious shadows, embracing the dark and striking when it is the least expected.

Why the fuck hasn't rogue got a new weapon?

How can you dismiss shadow sensei? It's like an objectively better houndmaster

Druid Beast deck plays stealth. Also, new Rogue might play stealth. I think the "enemy minions lose stealth" is a good new tech tool in Constructed.

Greater Arcane Missiles will still shoot three missiles that deal increased damage with spell damage hence why they wrote it as 3 on the card and not three so that it can be increased to *4* etc.

10:55, 13:45 Can we stop with the class appropriation? That demon should be a warlock card and the defias dude is obviously rogue. This reminds me of grand tournament where silverhand regent and grand crusader were neutrals, while paladin got a murloc and a walrus. Wtf were they thinking?! (I'm only half kidding).

Aaaand once again Kripp makes the mistake of evaluating new cards based on what he ASSUMES the new meta will be and which decks will be good and bad, even though he has a generally bad record when it comes to predicting the meta. Stop evaluating cards based solely on whether they fit with an existing deck or with the predicted meta. Kabal Songstealer is a 5/5 minion for 5 that also has silence. A 5/5 for 5 is slightly below the power/toughness curve, but well within the expected range for an arena card. It's common, so this will be potentially a defining card for priest in arena, where it will be very good. In constructed, it can't be ruled out, because big bodies are good for priest and because silence is always valuable, but it isn't a card that is deck defining. See? Easy, straightforward, and you don't have the speculate about the meta. This card is good or bad independent of whether or not priest is dominant. Another one: Blastcrystal Potion costs 4 and it's hard removal, which puts it below the expected cost. This is extremely valuable, but the cost of a mana crystal is very high. IN arena, it's well worth the cost, because hard removal is valuable and not that common in general. IN constructed, it could find its place in aggressive decks that have a low mana curve, where the cost is less meaningful and the benefit (being able to simply remove a fat creature that you can't easily burn) is very high. See? Instead of saying "Typically control decks like removal" and blah blah blah, you evaluate the card as it is, and not whether it fits your prior expectations of what card should go in what deck.

so, are we going to see some kind of one shot ko king krush deck using all the buffs while in hand?

Is there any good card in this expansion for discolock or zoolock? What do you think about dopplegangster as a replacement for forbidden ritual?

Not first

First than Skipperino

the arcane missiles is spelt out three so spell damage would only effect the number 3 so damage not amount

feeling good as your opinions line up with kripp's

@nl_Kripp I believe Public Defender, the 2 mana 0/7 Taunt Warrior Common, is broken, because you really don't even need to buff it for it to be good. 2 mana heal 7, also it could deny more than 7 damage, like two 5/5's have to trade into it, effectively healing for 10. Then there's Inner Rage, Cruel Taskmaster, any damaging effect with Rampage etc. May be decent in Arena anyways, you could play a valuable over-time minion like Obsidian Destroyer, at least delaying a turn.

I don't think Greater Arcane Missiles adds more missiles with spell power, since the 3 damage is written with numbers and three missiles is written with letters

@Kripparian on 23:05 spell damage will not produce more missiles, but will give more damage to each of those 3... Why? Spell damage increase number on card... Three is written with letters, and 3 damage with numbers... :)

Shadow rager! *looks at the camera I died there lol.

Will you be uploading the pack opening stream to RU-vid? I would like to see it, but the stream doesn't fit into my schedule

he didn't mentioned the 3 mana 3/3 druid card that said if you controle a 5 attack minion or more gain +2/+2

spell dmg will probably not shoot more missles with the greater arcane missles card because how the text of the card is: arcane missles is deal 3 dmg randomly split among all enemies so if you add spelldmg +1 its 4 dmg randomly split so obviously 4 missles, but greater arcane missles says shoot THREE missiles at random enemies that deal 3 damage each so the spell dmg will be added to the 3 dmg meaning 3 missles that deal 4 dmg each so your spell dmg just gets trippled but no more missiles

Wait, does the Weasel Tunneler your opponent draws have the same deathrattle effect?