Hearthstone Reviews That Don't Make Sense 

Man, I miss Reynad doing Hearthstone content. He´s had such a good grasp on the game while also being incredibly entertaining through his cynecism and story-telling.

kripp :"man a 10 mana 5/7 that summons all your deathrattle minions? naaah, you need a card that immediatly impacts your board, this is beyond garbage" also kripp: "9 mana 5/9 with taunt and cant be targeted? finally, some good fucking cards!"

I cannot believe how Silithid Swarmer was so highly regared with its 3/5 statline with conditions, whereas Darkshire Councilman was roasted for being a 1/5 with enormous potential.

The reason hexproof and shroud (can't be targeted by spells or effects) is good in Magic is because you can't choose to attack a specific creature like in hearthstone. The creature could just be safe every turn until a boardwipe.

Small context for Day9 for newer HS Players: his reviews are like 30% substance and 70% memes. Especially in later sets when he took donations to change his stance on cards. He did it with Magic sets, he did it with Hearthstone. That’s why we have the gem of his review of Jade Idol.

My favourite thing about this video was Kripp saying N'Zoth wasn't good enough, only to later on have an entire rotation where he 'improved' meta decks by adding Sylvanus, 2 loot hoarders, and N'Zoth regardless of the deck archetype lmao

Damn, Reynad calling out Rarran hard there lol Watching your set reviews for badlands I swear like 60+% of cards you said "yea this is good if it has the deck to support it, idk tho".

Yogg was so good because most of the time you play him in a losing position, so if Yogg is bad nothing changes, but if he's good he can rip your opponents heart out of their chest through their computer as he destroys any hope they ever had

The reason Hexproof/Shroud (target protection) is so good in Magic, is because in most formats "Kill your thing" is only 2 mana, sometimes 1 mana. Hearthstone had _awful_ removal, and so that sways Soggoth into being just a regular taunt 5/9.

Patches is good for the same reason Pot of Greed is good in Yugioh. It's not a game-winning effect on its own, but it's completely free and there is no reason not to run it. If there was a 0 mana 1/1 that draws a card like Amaz said, it would be an auto-include in every single deck until it rotated out.

As much as I like Wrathion by design, the fact it itself is not a dragon is a failure by design to support a dragon archetype deck. You can do that with smaller minions that give lesser bonuses but a 6-cost designed to refill your hand should be part of the archetype it supports.

Seeing 4 mana 7/7 actually gave me flashbacks to getting killed by turn 4 on my control warrior deck. Its so crazy seeing all these videos and the memories of playing hearthstone back then.

4:20 That made me laugh SO hard. Shout out to the editor, that is one of the funniest thing I've ever seen about Heartstone. Best first video of 2024!

The Boogeymonster is literally just Gruul with extra steps, which is already pretty bad, except compared to Gruul it's -2/-1 on your opponent's turns, and -3/-2 on your turns. It's actually crazy

Omg Reynad's whole video about the patches pirate meta was so clever and he really called out the design and made a great point.

Remember: card evaluation has/is/probably always will be hard as hell so no hate on anyone it's just fun to watch.

Patches and corridor creeper are for sure the biggest misses in reviews hahah these videos are so good Listening to the patches rant is 100% right every deck was the same deck the neutral cards were so good as a package

Reynad's analysis of Yogg paired with Rarran's reaction actually has me crying from laughter rn. Ooooh, it's so good.

Amaz was spot on because he rated most card highly. Trump and Kripp are here often because they actually take a few risk in their rating.

Reynad at 40:15 is sitting in the most baller spot ever. In the heart of Sidney at circular Quay, top floor at sick hotel with a full view over the fucking opera house. Yet instead of enjoying life my man sits inside malding over Patches hahah I fucking love Reynad top mate.

Its such an injustice that they didnt throw in Day9 Jade review to cap off the video. I was waiting for that moment.

The nostalgia in this 😂😂😂 is so real I can feel myself teleported to those years I played those exact meta and cards, I literally remembered the card reviews

Its so crazy that even when Handbuff Paladin became a thing Don Han'Cho STILL didnt see play. Insane how shafted Grimy Goons got.

Man, Day9 was the funniest guy in the entire Hearthstone community. I loved that guy, he made my day everytime i watched him!

Man I remember that I realized how fucked Patches was when I saw priest decks running it... it was literally in *EVERY DECK.* You deck was worse if you didn't run Patches, straight up.

Man, this is so nostalgic since this era of Hearhstone was the peak for me. I stopped playing shortly after these sets rotated out but still enjoying these videos.

God that Day9 section had me dying

Man, seeing baby Kibler again makes me feel old

Man, this video made me remember how much I miss some of the old Hearthstone creators. Reynad, Firebat, even Trump now largely; those were good times.

I actually remember Pint-sized potion being very, very good. You could combine it with both the 6 mana and 4 mana steal opponent's minion cards as well as a board wipe I can't remember the name of. On it's own, it was just okay to help your trades but it really shined when combined with other cards of the time.

Not thinking C'thun would be good in Control Warrior seems insane to me. Like a big game ending card at the end of a long game spent exhausting every resource your opponent has is exactly what control decks have always wanted.

The inventor of zoo warlock said darkshire councilman was 'too weak'... that broke my heart

"Props to blizzard for making every class playable" Reynad dropping some bangers

I do believe at the time, hammer of twilight was ran as a 2 of in the best midranged shaman deck, so the praises werent far off

The reason that soggoth was decent is the fact that he is a big body with taunt that you are obligated to trade in to remove it, also poisonous was a very rare text in that time (cobra and snake if i recall correct)

Purify was also useful with Ancient Watcher and the i think Ancient Statue (4 mana 7/7, can only attack if it's the only minion you control).

Menagerie Warden was actually pretty nutty. That iteration of Beast Druid was when I got legend for the first time, the deck was a certified meta breaker (mine also featured The Curator, Finley and Azure Drakes). It struggled a bit against Shaman, but it crushed every single Shaman counter with 80%+ rate and I still won more than I lost against Shaman, the matchup was full of little tricks you could use to get ahead.

23:31 My opinion of Yog wasn't "Play this and you don't lose the game.", it was "I'm losing anyways, so might as well pull the lever on the Slot Machine and hope for a Jackpot!"

26:54 Wonder if the design team thought thay while maelstrom portal is strictly better than arcane explosion in a vacum, because mage as a class works with a lot of soell damage and just casting spells in general then in the context of the class it's balanced correctly rather than one better than the other.

I'll stand up for Mukla, Tyrant of the Vale. I played him in Reno Mage during Gadgetzan. The body was good. The bananas would be discounted either via Emperor or via a Sorcerer's Apprentice played alongside Archmage Antonidas who I would buff with the bananas and who would turn the bananas into Fireballs which would lead to lethal over the following turn or two. Having reliable generation of cheap spells to turn on the combo was great. Fun times in dumpster legend. Oh, yeah. Inmaster Solia was in that deck, too. Flamestrike, Blizzard, and Firelands Portal with an extra 5/5 body attached to flip a board. Sick card. Kind of like OG Corridor Creeper, if you think about it.

The kripp from the future thing was probably talking about druid, iirc soggoth was played in druid due to lack of armour gain for the class at the time, and a slightly more difficult to remove large taunt actually was not bad in the class, especially when you don't have to think about the mana cost too hard cos you're druid, still wasn't great though

The thing about Yogg, is that its not actually as random as it seems, since you're drawing from the entire spell pool, with enough spells, ON AVERAGE, you can expect some combination of 1. Clear the board, 2. Draw a bunch of cards, and 3. Buff your board, since thats the average goal of spells across HS. The problem with the card is that its allowed to reach far far beyond what a single 10 mana play can do because of the risk of catastrophic failure (twisting nether against a deck about to burn you out next turn>10 dmg on your own face). The risk is asymmetrical enough to warrant playing yogg but the idea that in a competitive game, one player can take on massive risk, forcibly remove agency from their opponent as well as themselves really feels bad. You're pretty much just playing two games, a normal game of HS before yogg, then randomly you're both scrambling to solve a gamestate after yogg that your opponent is often favored in

the craziest thing for me was a 3 mana 1/5 with good text being seen as unplayable. i feel like thats an ideal stat spread for a minion you want to live a turn or two on curve

I missed the part when you got that roasted for Patches. Fully agree with your rating honestly. Maybe people didn't play during that era? I don't think a single legendary has warped decks so much around it. You started including non-synergistic, bad cards in decks just to be able to play Patches. I remember so vividly, priest decks running pirates and Patches to keep up with opponents Patches. Golakka Crawler was such a safe include.

It's actually crazy how time passed and people still don't get patches. Even saying Zilliax which has been in the game for a whole year now and hasn't seen any play at all! Haha

I miss Day9s card reviews.

Mean Streets of Gadgetzan was my favorite expansion. Reno Priest with Kazakus, Shadowreaper Anduin and Raza was the most fun I ever had with the game, so much variety from game to game, so many creative cards you could put in, baller deck.

Soggoth was incredibly frustrating to deal with in Arena. Also, Unlicensed Apothecary became obscenely broken once the Warlock Quest for taking damage on your own turn was released. It can OTK almost everyone with the exception of 200+ Armor decks

The thing with Spirit Claws is how absurd hitting SP Totem was. If your opponent hit SP Totem you are pretty much never killing it with a minion since your opponent has a 3/3 weapon so in the BEST CASE SCENARIO you have to trade a Frostbolt/SW:P/whatever with your aggro opponent's hero power.

34:13 idk why but that reaction just tickles all the right serotonin

"Yeah idk, Mukla doesn't seem totally unplayable" Rarran: LMFAOOOO!!!!!!!!!111

I remember playing Unlicensed Apothecary with Darkglare and some demon buffs although I have no idea if that was wild at the time, definitely won some games, definitely lost some games.

I haven’t played hearthstone in years but I watch all these throwback style videos. ❤

19:00 Holy shit I cannot believe that’s Kibler.

Raynads rant about Patches and Corridor Creeper is so good... god that time was so miserable to play in ^^

30:37 : this part about Spririt Claws is hilarious, remembering how much aggro chaman was broken in this meta almost sollely due to this card. Man, I stopped playing construct when Battlegrounds came out, I discovered your channel yesterday and it somehow made me want to get back into it. As it turns out there's an expansion coming out this week, do you think it's going to be good ? Enough for me to spend a part of my 34000 dormant gold ?

I quit Hearthstone for a long time because I was salty about only fighting pirate decks.

Tentacles for arms actually saw play in fatigue warrior, turns out instead of hero power and pass, swing for 2 hero power and pass is good enough. It's basically a 2.5 mana hunter hero power that targets minions in that deck. But yeah outside of that it was abysmal.

47:19 after the reynad lore drop made me laugh so much

seeing firebat brings me back man, i miss his content

can't wait for part three, mainly for the day9 copypasta

@36:00 I wouldn't say Knuckles wasn't good, I think he was actually VERY good. It's just Jade Golems came out and their power creep broke Hearthstone forever. Everything that wasn't a Jade Golem was basically irrelevant. And then Un'Goro had to power creep over that because why nerf Jade Golems and make a hundred cards more playable when you could... leave most of the game irrelevant and unplayable and turn the game into a dumpster fire FotM arms race that it never recovers from? Activision! Poggers. Bobby's got to buy another yacht after all.

Please keep doing this series, love it

25:00 "u want to cast a spell? I want to cast a spell!" :D

33:00 "It's simple! I play Barnes, summon Blood of the Ancient One..."

What happened to Do you know hearthstone? 😢

hexproof in magic is so good because you cant just target the minion with your small minions and trade into it. your hexproof dude just sits there until you buffed it so high that the opponent died or it got hit by a boardclear

How can anyone possibly think Hammer of Twilight was a good card? Not only is that 4 atk most likely stuck going face on turn 5/6 since it doesn't trade well on curve, but a 2 health minion is dying to a lot of things for "free" on turn 6....

I love the style of humour from many of the classic Hearthstone content creators. Its very sarcastic in a fun way like you can tell they're just giving Blizzard "the look" with a lot of these cards

Silithid Swarmer being praised and Councilman being labeled trash is SUPER weird considering Councilman is almost always at atleast 3 power when it can attack on turn 3 or 4 and has no real condition.... The only downside to Councilman is it can get value traded into on curve, but that card is virtually impossible to kill on curve especially with the removal of the time.

Inkmaster Solia... is a card. In many games it will sit in hand next to your 3-mana spell and do nothing but make it cost more. But when you're behind on board and the stars align, you get to wipe your opponents minions and build your board up at the same time. I thought playing Loatheb would protect my board. But Solia had something to say about it. Her cost reduction overrides the cost increase from Loatheb.

Upkeep triggers are also better in Magic because you actually have ways to protect your stuff on opponents' turns.

13:03 Ah they cut out the best part. 2/5 eci rager

Buff tentacles for arms to like 3 or 4 mana, or you know what, just go through the older sets and make slight tweaks to all of those trashy cards, make wild a little more interesting

It’s honestly funny seeing what is seen as insane value back then compared to now. 5 mana now there’s a card that draws you 5 cards unless you draw spells except for when you play a deck that has little to no spells

I'm so sad Day9's reaction to Runic Egg wasn't included. One of my all time favourite reactions to a card.

Really like these videos. keep the series going!

Amaz didn't make a prediction of Patches. He meant that it gives you a weapon, which makes YOU a 1/1 charge minion (or technically a 1/30 charge)

I can still hear Kripp from the unicorn priest parody video saying "I CALL ON THE FOUR MANA SEVEN SEVEN"

When I saw Day9 drinking for the MSG review I instantly thought of his infamous Jade Druid meltdown.

Unlicensed Apothecary being released in the same expansion pirates and aggro became that strong had to be an inside joke by developers

"It's not proactive. Taunt, lifesteal, killing minions is Ok." Sure. Blizzard, remove everything but taunts, killing minions and lifesteal, because all the rest are not proactive.

I got to rank 1 with Silence Priest once. As someone who didn't play often and hates playing meta decks, that felt great.

Seeing Day 9 with his takes is wild. Kinda wanna see if Rarran can contact him and show him some cards of today and see how he thinks of them

Amaz seeing the future saying Nzoths first mate summons a 1/1 charge

Getting blasted by Frodan at 29:48 really just send my soul back 10 years in all the right ways

Haha that 1st one. I remember crafting Mukla and never 👎 using it *Edit* 20:30 Yeahhh this one’s hard to judge 🤔 There were some Great Pirate Cards that made for fun deck builds 21:30 Ooooo Yogg’s in this ☝️O.O 23:49 Just Nastyyy 27:40 Shit he’s right, I had this Mid-range Shaman Deck then. +Discover Mage came outta this too- DAM

Whats so good about Spirit claws, is that even without spell damage it was still a 1 3 weapon, and we all know how muster for battle was good for trading. And of course Gadgetzan was right around the corner and turns out additive damage stacking up , leads to lethals on turn 4-5 , Which is why Gadgetzan being the meta of Aggro vs Reno decks made the expansion so good and skill based. It is probably the only time in Hearthstone history where both Aggro and (Control) Reno were so balanced to a high degree, that skill expression showed.

Man I gotta call out chat here. N'zoth didn't see much play until after next expansion because the DT minion pool was too small. It's also crazy that during WotOG both servant, hammer and tentacles saw play because of how massively limited the pool was.

I will say for future videos (because there will be a certain warlock card that clears the whole board for 2 mana). Trumps star system is a bit different. He values the card NO MATTER HOW GOOD ON A INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, by how played it will be in meta decks. So if a card is 4 stars it means that that it is played in tear 1 decks or defines a tear 2 deck. If a card is 1 star it means the card will not be played in meta decks because that class doesn't have any high tier decks. So yes defile he rated 1 or 2 stars because he didn't think warlock will be played EVEN THOUGH he says that the card on a individual level is one of the best cards ever Ty for coming to my TED talk

1 minute in and I miss Firebat. I quit Hearthstone content when he quit and only started again because of Rarran

This video reminded me of the good old days when someone would drop darkshire councilman and then implosion for 4 damage and suddenly the council guy is a 5/5

Man i miss Firebat. He was the reason I even got into hearthstone

Gotta give Scamaz credit he knew how to do two things very well: Rate Cards and Bot Views.

Trump saying “I can’t think of a single aggressive card” during the Gadgetzan review might be one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen

firebat is a genius man. he was almost spot on for most cards others misevaluated.

you also need to start taking into account that kripp was a big arena player at the time so him rating hammer of twilight like that may have been biased towards arena.

The first deck I ever played was trumps whispers of the old gods f2p zoo deck. Darkshire councilman was its best card

Holy shit Reynad calling out Rarran's card reviews in the future at 26:01

Yogg was so broken in druid. A way to swing a board after ramping whole game was nuts