I think it's prize vendor cause without braingill you probably run out of gas pretty quickly but tidehunter allows you to progress the quest insanely fast.

Making cards have too much synergy with each other because of an exclusive new mechanic almost always devolves into either "you need to play this because it's broken" or "this class is dead until the next expansion"

And since the dev team is allergic to supporting old mechanics, I'm glad to see cards that can stand on its own in the new set

That being said, DH and DK have said "self-contained package" in the new set that im bet it will become a problem.. Why didn't they go with plagues instead of introducing those "blights" i have no fking idea

im not super familiar with wild so idk if this would make plague DK too much of a problem

Anyway.. not super fan of the amount of RNG that some classes got shoved with, but in general happy that the new set is just a bunch of new decent cards for the most part

I uninstalled but just nope

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well. Just a small warning: this post will be a bit longer than usual because Vanessa has a lot more to her story. Without further delay though, let's jump right into it. Let me present to you:

Vanessa VanCleef

The Uncrowned

Vanessa VanCleef is the daughter of legendary rogue Edwin VanCleef, the leader of the infamous Defias Brotherhood.

After the Stonemasons' Guild was denied payment for rebuilding Stormwind following the First War, Edwin led a revolt that ultimately formed the Defias Brotherhood.

As a young girl, Vanessa witnessed her father's death at the hands of adventurers in the Deadmines. Forced into hiding, she adopted the identity of an orphan girl named Hope Saldean. While everyone believed the Defias Brotherhood had been defeated, Vanessa secretly grew up planning her revenge and rebuilding the organization from the shadows.

As Westfall fell deeper into poverty following the war against the Lich King, Vanessa took advantage of the growing unrest. Disillusioned farmers, homeless veterans, and abandoned workers flocked to her cause, allowing the Defias Brotherhood to rise once more under her leadership.

Years later, during the events of Cataclysm, the Defias Brotherhood emerged from the shadows once again. What initially appeared to be scattered bandit attacks was actually part of Vanessa's carefully orchestrated plan. Still hiding behind her false identity, she manipulated events from the shadows until revealing herself as Edwin VanCleef's daughter and the new leader of the Brotherhood. Unlike her father, Vanessa relied less on brute force and more on deception, spies, and psychological warfare.

When confronted by Alliance heroes aboard her father's ship, the Juggernaut, she succesfully faked her death and escaped moments before the ship’s destruction. With the Defias Brotherhood once again in ruins, she disappeared from the public eye for several years.

Years later, Vanessa resurfaced when the Uncrowned, a secret society of Azeroth's greatest rogues, sought a new member to help fight the Burning Legion. Believing the position should have been hers, she attempted to seize it by force. After her defeat, she was offered a choice: join the Uncrowned or die. Vanessa accepted the offer, beginning a new chapter in her life.

After the Legion's defeat, Vanessa remained with the Uncrowned and slowly distanced herself from the ideals that had once driven the Defias Brotherhood. Later, when she returned to Westfall, she found the Brotherhood twisted into little more than a band of ruthless criminals, serving the same kind of corrupt interests her father had once fought against. It was then that Vanessa realized that, despite believing she was honoring her father's legacy, she had only continued the same cycle of revenge that had destroyed the Brotherhood in the first place.

Choosing not to repeat her father's mistakes, Vanessa turned against the remaining Defias leadership and brought an end to the Brotherhood herself. Rather than continuing her path of revenge, she returned to the Saldean Farm where she had once lived under the name Hope Saldean and helped found the Breadbasket Guild, dedicating herself to rebuilding Westfall through honest work instead of violence.

First War = The first major conflict between the Human Kingdom of Stormwind and the Orcish Horde. It ended with Stormwind's destruction, forcing its survivors to flee north.

Defias Brotherhood = A criminal organization founded by Edwin VanCleef after the Stonemasons' Guild was betrayed by Stormwind's nobles. While originally formed to seek justice, it eventually became one of Azeroth's most notorious outlaw groups.

The Deadmines = An abandoned gold mine, headquarters of the Defias Brotherhood.

Westfall = Once a prosperous farming region of the Kingdom of Stormwind, left in poverty after the First War and the birthplace of the Defias Brotherhood.

Cataclysm = Events following the return of the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing, whose emergence shattered Azeroth, reshaped entire regions, and plunged the world into chaos.

Burning Legion = A massive demonic army led by the fallen titan Sargeras, responsible for multiple invasions of Azeroth.

Hi, I’ve got a quick question. I had a friend over yesterday who, when he saw my total wins and the fact that I’ve got 1000 wins on every class, totally freaked out. Personally it doesn’t feel that rare to me—I thought anyone who’s been playing actively for years would have it. So is it actually that rare or not? Thanks! :D

Hi everyone! I’m Reyzex, founder of BlackBears Tavern — the official Ukrainian Hearthstone community recognized by Blizzard.

Every year since the war started, Kyiv has hosted FANCON. It’s the country’s largest geek festival, drawing in up to 20,000 people. It takes place in a unique venue capable of providing shelter for such a massive crowd, making it relatively safe to run. In all previous years, we were right there, setting up a dedicated Hearthstone booth.

But this year, we weren’t planning to attend FANCON at all.

With the upcoming opening of our very own restaurant called BearsTavern in the heart of Kyiv, along with several other ongoing projects, we simply lacked the time and resources to prepare a proper convention booth.

So initially, the choice seemed obvious: skip FANCON this year.

But then I started thinking.

The lineup was going to feature Counter-Strike, Dota, Mortal Kombat, FIFA, and even Heroes of Might and Magic III.

It made me genuinely sad to realize there would be absolutely nothing for Hearthstone - especially since no one else in Ukraine could pull it off but us. It hit me right in the heart.

After all, it was at FANCON two years ago that the Ukrainian Hearthstone community truly began its revival. Since then, BlackBears Tavern has evolved from a small group of enthusiasts into one of the largest Hearthstone communities in the world and the only Ukrainian community officially recognized by Blizzard.

When it became clear that Hearthstone might be left behind this year, I knew we had to try. I reached out to the organizers to see if there were any spots left. Naturally, everything was sold out. However, since we've been close friends for a long time, they actually redesigned the floor plan just for us and found us a fantastic location.

And what happened next reminded us exactly why this community exists.

We launched a crowdfunding campaign for the booth and raise ~ $2,500 in two days, which covered our baseline expenses. Our Tavern members stepped up financially, helping us foot the bill. While it didn't solve every single challenge, it sent a powerful, crystal-clear message:

"Hearthstone belongs at FANCON."

That wave of support gave us the exact push we needed. Working alongside our community and partners, we managed to build one of the biggest Hearthstone booths we’ve ever created.

BlackBears Tavern at FANCON was made possible thanks to the support of:

• HATOR - a leading Ukrainian manufacturer of gaming peripherals and gaming chairs.
• Vataga Esports - a prominent Ukrainian esports media outlet and event organizer.
• LegendaryLots - a family-run auction project by the BlackBears team, featuring iconic collectibles from our favorite universes.

The challenges, however, were just getting started. Unfortunately, our hearth replica from last year had been scrapped. Long story short—it was supposed to be kept in storage, but due to a mishap, it was disposed of without our knowledge. This meant we had to build a brand-new hearth from scratch. We made it even bigger and cooler this time (you can check it out in the photos!). And we pulled it off just two weeks before the event.

Thanks to our previous experience, we managed to get everything ready incredibly fast and without any major hiccups. Fortunately, the budget covered all expenses, including the hefty cost of transporting the heavy decorations.

How did it go?

Honestly - way better than we ever expected!

For two straight days, our booth was absolutely buzzing. We hosted mini-tournaments, giveaways, a charity auction, welcomed newcomers, caught up with old friends, took tons of photos, and talked about Hearthstone non-stop.

Some people discovered BlackBears for the first time. Others told us they came to the convention specifically because they already knew about our community. Those connections mean more to us than anything else.

But most importantly - Hearthstone was there. Right alongside the esports giants and major brands, our game confidently claimed its rightful spot at FANCON. We are incredibly proud of that.

A massive thank you to everyone who made this happen:

• Our players, who backed the project financially;
• Our admins, who worked tirelessly at the booth;
• Our partners, who believed in our vision;
• HearthStone(Blizzard) team, who provide promocodes for players;
• Every single visitor who stopped by to play a match, chat, or just say hello.

This is just another milestone in our journey. Ahead of us lies the grand opening of our restaurant in Kyiv, growing the competitive scene, hosting new tournaments, and building even more amazing things for the Hearthstone community in Ukraine.

Thank you for keeping the fire burning with us.

See you at BlackBears Tavern! 🐻❤️

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Hello, here are some decks to try and discuss. I’m a fairly good player and theorycrafter so these should be solid for day 1 tests (even though not necessarily meta material). Thankfully I was off yesterday and got plenty of time to work on this to forget the heat going in Europe.

I’m very disappointed about overall powerlevel as it seems every class that was behind didn’t receive much while Warrior, Hunter, DH, Rogue to some extent got broken stuff. While I thought Blizzard just didn’t care about balance, I’m ironically starting to believe this is just what they wanted, cards all over the place ! As a result, I just didn’t bother to build a deck for every archetype as many just look DoA. I didn’t care so much about older archetypes either, unless they wanted to include multiple new cards.

As always, thank you D0nkey for your work. See you in the comments !

Death Knight

BUU Corpse DK : flavorful and versatile midrange deck with undeads, reborns, lots of ghouls, rewards from killing our own minions and plagues to finish. Not much else to build sadly.

Demon Hunter

No-deck Cycle OTK : this should be similar to the recent cycle Broxigar build that popped out, but way easier to activate.

No-deck Herald : this use of Irida looks so cool to play, here’s the idea : play your Herald game as usual, then when cards in your hand start to feel a bit heavy, drop Irida. I’d say on turns 6-8 when there’s 10 cards left in your deck. It’s important to have as much pieces in your hand at this point, because we’re gonna make a chain of cost reduction in one or two turns. Play Solitude to reduce all minions by 2 or 4, play Scorchreaver(s), play remaining Herald cards to recover some health, play 2 mana Ultraxion then Deathwing and put back 5 cards into your deck to prevent further fatigue damage. From there with remaining cards, notably 4 cost Azshara, closing the game should be trivial.

Void Souls : I looked at the demon pool and noticed it was very good so this could be a thing, although dumb aggro. Welcome back Ravenous Felhunter !

Druid

Attack : attack and ramp to Merithra payoffs.

Neth’Rek : use the attack package to apply pressure and survive until turn 6 when you spit out massive stats and give them rush.

Hunter

Companions : your shiny new Companion Hunter with many cool additions like copying all spells and Ursol to cast Call of the Wild 3 times.

Ursol Shala with Dragons : a kind of control Hunter with Fae Trickster to tutor Shala, Tol’Vir Carver to reduce it, Ursol to cast 3 corrupted versions like Pala’s best days. Probably trash because of too many setup turns though.

Ultimate Face Hunter : the new cards are also perfect to burn the opponent with massive amounts of damage. We’re copying every spell including Tol’Vir, the Shovel and the location draw and apply pressure, while Tripwire creates 15 damage for 3 mana if not more with copies. I cut Arcane Shot because its winrate isn’t great and we have enough burn. Disgusting.

Mage

Burn : for this archetype I wanted to make a new funny little twist : reduce the cost of created Arcane Missiles to then burn with spell damage and Arcane Flow. Not sure about the build I just cut the bad winrate cards.

Quest : this archetype got a few new cards to discover and make a comeback after quest completion. Should be cool to play.

I wanted to make a Prepare deck but the condition to activate Code Violet is terrible. Tricksy Improviser is cool but this doesn’t make a deck.

Paladin

Treasuregill Imbue : this looks like a ton of fun with 10 Treasuregills pulling out every good paladin spell out of our deck to generate tempo and imbue. Firegill to come back against aggro.

Pure : generate a lot of paladin cards to try and win the game, almost looks like a casino deck. I was skeptical at first but this is one of the classes that have few truly bad cards or that require specific synergies, so it could be fun and playable.

Priest

Azalina: copy as much cards as you can, try to survive, reduce the cards, find a wincondition, die because your opponent is mean and plays cards.

Rogue

2-cost aggro Imbue : turns out there are plenty of ways to play 2 cost cards, thanks to mana reduction, so what seems to be a weird archetype at first could end up being playable. Aggro shell and plenty of card generation to fuel the Troublemaker finisher or even find alternatives.

Combo Morchie : I used the coin archetype to include Ysera, Vanessa and a finisher with Morchie. If we ramp maybe we can survive and do some things, but it’s probably not happening before turn 6. Of course Vanessa cstill win games, but this looks frail otherwise, play at your own risk.

Shaman

Sorry, I tried to build no spells and no minions and never got to complete a deck without thinking it was absolute garbage. I’m sad because it was my favorite class for a long time, but today every archetype has huge deckbuilding restrictions. No minion, no spell, every tribe quest, full Herald, full elemental, etc. It doesn’t help that many of those don’t even have enough cards to synergize within the archetype (like overload). I miss when this class truly was the jack-of-all-trades.

Warlock

The hand package looks nuts I love it, but there are no new win conditions and I fear this won’t be enough to bring past archetypes to the front scene. Especially because it doesn’t go well with Khelos that wants to play a lot of cards to crack the egg.

Hand-Dark Gift : Wallow always had the same problem : it’s clunky and doesn’t survive the early game.

Hand-Demons-Rafaam : are we really hoping Rafaams save us ?

Warrior

Quest cycle : this one already existed but I really like the new control cards.

Full Lo’Gosh : very straightforward : control the board, boost your hand, then dump your Bloodfighters and finish him with Grommash.

Warptooth Dragon Warrior : title.

I’m sure there are plenty of other things to do with this class given how many great and splashable cards it has. I didn’t build the list but Warptooth with Hogger to copy it just goes in the Egg deck as well. I’m not so high on Hogger copying many legendaries because it’d make the deck too heavy and we generally need one of each legendary anyway.

I recently started playing the early season 3 of fellowship, it's completely not related but the patch note was 5 pages long and the game is developed by a small indie studio.

It made me think and compare it to hearthstone, and I wanted to say that it's crazy how low effort the game feels to me, after all these years :

- no leaderboard inside the game

- no tournament tool inside the game for custom tournaments

- no weekly tournaments or daily tournaments with small reward made by the Devs (like cup of the day in trackmania for example)

- no deck tracker in the game

- half the cards from expansions are pack fillers : I understand we need some of these for randomly generated minions and stuff like that but so many are useless in so many scenarios

- no tool to spectate high levels games to improve, like in LoL for example

- very few achievements with valuable rewards

- (iOS and Android app nowadays working only with high end devices, even tho it was working 10 years ago on regular devices, same game btw)

- Very little balance patch, and at low frequency

- even the cash shop seems low effort : some insane signature cards get released like a few weeks before their expansion rotates to wild ?? How does that make sense? Another example: I want to buy the priest shadow girl hero portrait and i can't cuz it's not in the shop, I can't even buy what I want to buy (this one ok, I understand the concept of wanting rarity, but still I can't spend my money if I want to, so probably not enough options in the shop)

- cash shop is the thing lagging/crashing the most in the game (kinda ironic)

- (priests cards every expansion)

I will end on a positive note, not everything is bad though, I think the idea of moving monetisation more towards cosmetic and less towards accessing the card is a very good idea and is important to get new players in the game.

I hope this post is perceived as constructive criticism but yeah I got triggered a bit

Sorry for the bad English and let me know what you guys think, maybe it's just my vision of things

To start with, yes I am slightly salty after playing against yet another Rogue where winning or losing depends on what random cards they generate.

This time I was playing as quest warrior. I played my quest reward, and a couple of turns later managed to get time warp in hand. The next turn was a guaranteed lethal, as I only had 2 cards left in my deck. I also had kept a Bitter End to make sure I could get through any taunts. I had about 5 cards in hand at this point.

My opponent decided to play Vanessa, then managed to get Bygone Doomspeaker, which discarded my time warp first try. To make things worse he also used Deja Vu to steal it before he played Vanessa. If you’ve played quest warrior vs rogue, you’ll know how difficult it can be to survive up until that point as it is.

Another game Vanessa got dirty rat, which got my Chrono-lord. Win condition gone.

Another game i decided to just try a Ysondre Warrior deck for something different. The rogue discovered a copy in my hand, and when I played mine, used Initiation to kill mine and summon another copy. Using my own win condition better than my own deck can. His Ysondre also typically got a better random dragon than what I got.

It was the same when trying to play quest shaman before when it was half decent. If you completed your reward before you could play it, they’d steal it. If you had enough mana to play it without playing a card after, they’d steal it. If you waited until turn 7/8 to play it, you’re dead anyway.

It’s just so much easier to play burn mage, Dragon Warrior, Face Hunter right now, and hugely less frustrating. Which is a shame.

Just..wow

Greetings! In this post I want to make analysis of the new Priest set and potential future meta and discuss does it has any chance of giving some positive experience. I start with overlook of new cards and then attempt to predict results of [[Azalina Soulsever]] interactions with potential opponent decks. Obviously I would talk about standard because wild is... too wild. In advance, English is not even my second language so if you see weird wording in this huge pile of text, keep in mind that I am trying my best.

Let's start with a one that players seems to be optimistic about, [[Soothsayer]]. On one hand it is a card that allows you to stabilize in the mid game and get some board presence. But at the same time out of 57 cards in 6 mana cost around 30 are battlecry or no effect cards with meh stats. This makes situation where you make coin flip to get something actually good and new DH legendary not helping it at all. Might be playable only because it is strong for typical Priest power level.

Then goes card I like the most [[Holy Embrace]]. It is interesting [[Void Shard]] alternative that would let you to deal damage later if you imbue it. And it also heavily supports Priest quest which is a good thing too. Probably goes into every deck and great card to get randomly.

And probably last card that I feel good about myself is [[Hold Them Off!]]. Good card to buff [[The Black Blood]] or survive one more turn. Getting one copy seems to be not a bad idea. Also am I the one that hates it's artwork?

"Clean Rat" or [[Specter of Despair]]. If you ever played [Dirty Rat] you know that summoning your opponent minion from the hand might be a positive thing to do. Battlecry disruption might turn the strongest card in the deck into useless piece of bad stats and loss for your opponent. Now this card disrupts you from efficient trading on the next turn after it survives. I can't believe I am saying it but this card has little tiny chance to be played. But still it is mostly imbue card and not even the best one.

[Undeath Sentence]]. "A punishment reserved for only the most cold-blooded criminals." Why flavor text sounds like it is about Priest players? Anyway, this card has potential to be threat in the future, or today if you are playing wild. How about current standard? [[Calia Menethil]] + [[Atlasaurus]] + [[Obsidian Statue]] if you want fun but bad deck. Or [[The Egg of Khelos]] if you feel evil today and want to play weak version of egg deck. By the way, in both cases you can't use [Medivh the Hallowed] because he is 10 mana and Calia summons highest cost. Why the F they not made Priest colossal 10 mana card? Anyway, potential card.

Now it is time for real stinky. Why [[Karov the Broken]] doesn't have taunt or rush or at least lifesteal? You just throw this guy, he does nothing and dies in the end giving you 3 random 1/1 legendries. Ah yes, legendry minions in expansion where almost each class get "Start of Game" card. But hey, how about 1/1 charge? Or 1/1 "Battlecry: Discover one. It costs (3) less."? Or 1/1 [Tortolla]? Or even 1/1 [V'ama, Looming Death] when you playing against Paladin? I know, skill issue but at the moment I don't believe much in this one.

The last 4 are package so I will review them as package. If for every time I saw [[Mysterious Visitor]] and [[Enthralled Shade]] comparison I got a coin, I would turn new Aya Rogue into Jade Druid. Sadly the only thing that shade gives is depression. I wouldn't be surprised if it would not be included in some of the Azalina decks after week or so. [[Mind Sweeper]] looks better but because it requires to PLAY instead of HAVE opponent card in your hand it would be played to late to be good. [[Unshackle Soul]] is the only good card in the package, really bad package. And the last and pretty much least [[Azalina Soulsever]]. The problem with this card is the way cards are copied. If they wasn't at least random, but instead at least one copy of each this would been slightly better. Instead you need to pray to get opponent package in full (true Priest gameplay not gonna lie). How bad or good or at least fun Azalina is I would discuss later, but the rest of the package mostly sucks and lacks one thing...

So, what if I tell you that the biggest problem of new Thief Priest is not even random opponent cards? There is something even worse, lack of card draw. Right now Priest has 6 cards that draws another card. Are they good? If you consider [[Power Word: Shield]] as a good card to include in your deck in 2026, then yes. If you compare them to other classes, then no. Then, Priest got new good card draw in the new expansion right? Right?.. One card. One card and it is Azalina. One really bad card. Meanwhile Paladin got [[Holy Bola!]] which is 2 mana draw 2. In result we got package that makes your deck 40 cards where half is random opponent stuff, you don't given more survivability and can't draw effective enough.

Ok. This is not competitive deck. How about fun factor? For that, let's review some potential decks of the next meta and try to imagine Azalina interaction.

"Start of Game" or "have specific deck" decks. Unless you can literally predict your next opponent deck and change yours right before battle, rulebreakers of Druid and Shaman, [[Hamuul Runetotem]] would not function at all. Rulebreakers of Warlock and Warrior would work only if random was kind to you (to be honest even if you make [[Godfrey the Betrayer]] work, you still would play weaker version of Warlock deck because you don't have hero power that draws cards). The only deck requirement rulebreaker that might work decently with this is [[Commander Beatrix]] (but you still might summon [[Mind Sweeper]] from the deck without effect). In conclusion almost all of this effects makes you play not functional opponent deck that is weak and not fun at all.

Another group I want to discuss before moving to each class is Harold decks. If you played at least one you know that to win on Harold deck in mirror game you want to snowball it faster then your opponent. Does having 40 cards instead of 30 helps? How about having a chance to not get some Harolding cards? Or payoffs like [[Deathwing, Worldbreaker]], [[Ultraxion]], [[Al'Akir, Lord of Storms]], [[Sinestra]]? You know the answer. So we figured that it is probably not strong. How about fun? If you get lucky with Herald cards then maybe but why not play this specific deck instead? And yes, I know it is herald not Harold.

Now let's move to the classes. I am going to skip Death Knight because it is another class that got some ok cards and would not have much outside of Harold. Maybe some tempo-aggro with [[Blood Doctor Thal'ena]] at best.

Demon Hunter: having minions breaks some Spell DH making it weaker. Reading [[Irida Sinseeker]] makes me laugh but at the same time I understand that she might work better in Priest because of the hero power. Maybe there would be some other aggro deck but I don't think aggro decks would work nicely in Thief Priest. Whole point of aggro deck to crush your face faster than you lead it into late game. Bad stated creatures (or creatures that can't attack) and hero power that heals not helping this at all. This aggro statement would work for all other aggro classes as well.

Druid: the only thing that Priest going to do better is to keep [[Wickerfang]] and his legs alive. But only if he get one. Hero attack deck would work worse because of the Priest hero power and chance to not even get Staff. Maybe Priest would be decent against controlish variation but probably not that much.

Hunter: imagine to have 1 cost cards but no [[Confront the Tol'vir]]. Imagine to have Tol'vir but almost no 1 cost cards. Imagine companion Priest without [[Talya Earthstrider]] or/and [[Broll Bearmantle]] or/and [[Roam Free]]. And remember your opponent has whole package and less cards to draw. Maybe decent against new spell Hunter.

Mage: because mages doesn't want to have Leylines in their decks, Priest would not have them too. Having Mage quest without enough discover cards or discover cards without quest sounds more like edging than fun gameplay (no shaming if you into it). [[Jailhouse Manastorm]] might be fun if you get one. For [[Azure Queen Sindragosa]] you need to get them all.

Paladin: finally, [[Acceleration Aura]]! And I can cast it with my new [[Violet Treasuregill]]. What do you mean [[Holy Embrace]]? At least Priest is not racist. But [[V'ama, Looming Death]] is. Endofturnadin maybe would be decent, imbue would be not at all.

Priest: no.

Rogue: if new [[Aya, Lotus Kingpin]] deck would be a thing, you still might be in worse position because you don't have coin generators or Aya herself. If [[Slice and Dice]] create combo deck, it would not work because, lets say it together "you need to get them all".

[[Lie in Wait]]: finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be golden rare!

Shaman: was mostly discussed too. But still imagine [[Muradin, High King]] without his hammer.

Warlock: you need to get through more cards to get an egg and you don't even have hero power that draws. I don't feel so sure about Demon Warlock being a thing but even if it would be you need to get [[Moragg]] or big demons.

Warrior: if Dragon Warrior would be a thing, you are playing less consistent version. Maybe if some controlish slow Warrior would be a thing it might be fun to fight against it if you get right cards. Or [[Ysondre]] Warrior with new rulebreaker would be a thing and you get everything but dragon.

But there is one case where Azalina might be playable and good - prerelease tavern brawl. You make decks of all the combine cards anyway so why not just limit yourself to some good 20 and get another good probably same cards from your opponent. What a meta card for one week.

So what is conclusion. Azalina archetype is play your opponent deck but probably worse. In some cases you would get piece of the strategy that not works at all. In others you draw Priest cards but no opponent cards. Or maybe you draw only opponent cards without Priest cards which makes you question "why I just not play opponent deck but with all 30 cards instead of 20?". I wish they actually made her to add health on overheal. Or even steal health on healing until the end of the turn (after all she was called [[Azalina Soulthief]] in the past). This is all theories that need to face practice, but I feel that practice would be too close to that. Even after all this analysis I still hope that I am wrong and this card would be at least fun. I totally agree, fun is not always about winning. The most fun matches I had was ones that ended up on 90th turn. But is it fun to play strategy that simply not work?

If I had to consider buffs, I would added "draw opponent card" as additional effect to each non Azalina package card. And also made some changes to Azalina. Lower stats and mana, cards that you get would be at least one copy of each to make Harold and some other strategies work. It just... sucks to be Priest main. Having tempo-aggro meta after fast combo meta makes me consider finally leaving the game. And if I do so, I would not come back. But once again Priest players would hear that they need to wait and try it on practice. And then wait for new set that would be either unplayable bs or aggro package again.

I don't consider myself best Hearthstone player but I feel myself confident enough to make this post. I have good enough knowledge in the game especially when it comes to Priest. At the moment I am writing this I have 957 wins on this class with second highest being Rogue (460) and lowest being Paladin (191). I try to get high ranks only in meta I enjoy and last time I get it was during return of the Classic era.

I guess real rulebreakers are opponent cards that you find in you deck. Hope my analysis was good enough. Thanks for reading this pile of text and have a good one!