Thanks to the crazy people who hung out for 3+ hours rating all the cards and typing up their thoughts. It's almost less to accurately predict how good a card will be, and more an exercise in briefly discussing each card and seeing if there are synergies I'm missing, while looking at the entire expansion in one go.
Some overall gut feelings:
- I think I've done this stream 3 times now, and this felt like the hardest expansion to rate. There are several cards that seem to have clearly strong effects, but lack the perfect meta/deck/situation. For other(s), there are so many possibilities that my mind boggles even attempting to imagine how well or poorly something will work -- between a bunch of cards rotating, a bunch of potential odd/even deck restrictions, and a bunch of mechanic and clan synergies.
- This expansion feels weaker than we are used to. I fear for really long control games and mind-numbing ladder climbing, but ultimately the power level is probably a good thing since the meta is getting reset with the rotation, and these cards will be around forever if not nerfed.
- There are a ton of effects where you would want silence, and zero new silence cards.
- The art in general is extremely solid. There are maybe 5 or so cards that jump out as having clashing art, probably because of how good the rest is.
