Board 8 > Hearthstone Discussion Topic - August 2018 Edition: Mecha'thun Cometh.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Still a great finish, nice job.
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KokoroAkechi posted...

Man I didnt quite make it. If I had like another hour maybe. Finished 334.

Nice! Go get em next month
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Whats even more annoying is my last few games I was not only matched up against players in 1k plus legend (games I had to absolutely win) but they slow played like crazy. I can understand if youre like in my position and want to calculate your best plays because your close, but when theres like an hour left come on.

In any case on the last day I went from like 2000 to my finish spot.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Korayashi posted...

So I made it to 3 stars at rank 2 with my decks. Then I've just gotten badly beaten over and over and over again. Woo.

Hey you fuckin killed it doing that well. I couldn't get past rank 17 after ending my own hiatus.

Thanks man, I appreciate the kind words. Didn't happen last month, I think it was a mix of bad draw luck and my decks just lacking something. Looking forward to the new expansion and giving it another go though!
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The final reveal stream is over, looks like there are a bunch of new cards on the hearthstone website here: https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/expansions-adventures/the-boomsday-project/cards

There was some powerful stuff, Mechano-Egg for paladin seems strong, Hunter had an epic that has an aura that doubles deathrattles.
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Love the Hunter Bazooka spell, too.
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I don't understand how the art on Goblin Prank ties into its effect

So how long are they going to leave the fire festival banner there every time you start Hearthstone up?
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Also notable: arena changes and snapshot of buckets for the next update. https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21964711/developer-insights-12-0-arena-update-with-kris-zierhut

Class cards and spells/weapons have their appearance rate reduced by a fair amount.

Rates and epics will show up a bit less since they get picked more often when offered.

They provided a sample of offering rates and buckets for download.
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oh dear lord, Mecha'thun

neutral
10 mana 10/10
Deathrattle: If you have no cards in your deck, hand, and battlefield, destroy the enemy hero.

lol

You know, for once, we actually have enough time to do our own set review. I'm tempted to just scrape together my random reactions to cards and see what everyone else thinks.
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NewerShadow posted...

Also notable: arena changes and snapshot of buckets for the next update. https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21964711/developer-insights-12-0-arena-update-with-kris-zierhut

Class cards and spells/weapons have their appearance rate reduced by a fair amount.

Rates and epics will show up a bit less since they get picked more often when offered.

They provided a sample of offering rates and buckets for download.

very cool. this is easily the most transparent arena update we have EVER gotten. I like that they are working on the issue of variety which many players have been pretty annoyed with for the last cycle. still not sure how I feel about them using rates that arbitrarily coincide with the rarity of a card. those values are not really tied to anything, have no basis even in constructed play, and here in arena feel even more pointless. some trash neutral epic that never gets played is being offered significantly less than bonemore because bonemare is a common card? okay then.
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very excited for this card

https://i.redd.it/gx0ss5tcsid11.png

not sure if it really comes across as very powerful or impactful but playing a classic style hunter has been nearly impossible since quick shot rotated out, and I've been one of the vocal butthurt complainers that we have never gotten a suitable replacement. finally the ability to deal 2 damage for 2 mana again!

this will increase the reach of hunters not quite as much as quick shot (due to the draw ability), but has its own applications where it should be more useful. and, once again, just the added 2 damage of reach that can be played as part of one big damage-to-face turn is something we were missing the cards to pull off for more than a year now.
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I'd literally never seen Temporus before just now. Got it from Bone Drake in arena. I'm always stunned when this happens. I'd never heard of twig until like earlier this week. I guess this happens when you skip entire sets and pay not attention to the ranked meta.

Alright, you know what? Let's do this. I wrote up quick thoughts for all the NON-MECH NEUTRALS. If this goes over, we'll do mechs tomorrow, the mech classes the day after, and we'll hit the other classes on the weekend.

Arcane Dynamo
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/arcane-dynamo/
Rating: low
Comment: There are some classes that might profit from this. Discovering a spell 5+ probably benefits classes like mage and druid mostly. I'm not going to look at the complete spell list, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's *one* class that ends up liking this guy. Especially in a Spiteful deck.

Augmented Elekk
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/augmented-elekk/
Rating: high potential
Comment: Spider tank with upside. The ability could lead to a LOT of spiders, or Un'goro packs, or rogue gang up dude procs. There might be a deck there with those and the pogo hoppers, but somehow I doubt it. I think this card's probably overrated.

Brainstormer
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/brainstormer/
Rating: awful
Comment: It *could* be a 3/10, but realistically even in a spell-heavy deck, it wouldn't be better than a 3/5. And if you're running a spell-heavy deck, do you want *this* to be your minion of choice?

Cloakscale Chemist
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/cloakscale-chemist/
Rating: low
Comment: Stealth and Divine Shield were kinda maybe okay on Silent Knight, but on a 1/2 for 2? Highly unlikely this will be used unless someone REALLY wants a sticky minion.

Crystallizer
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/crystallizer/
Rating: awesome
Comment: A 1/3 for 1 is always going to get attention. This one also puts damage on your hero without actually losing life, which facilitates damage strategies, healing strategies, and just generally strengthens a priest game. This is potentially a fantastic card.

Electrowright
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/electrowright/
Rating: low
Comment: Much better than Brainstormer because at least it's more consistent. Reminds me of the 4/4 for 3 in GvG, but with a condition some decks -- notably big mage -- will fill pretty easily. Still, I don't know if a 4/4 for 3 is actually *good* in 2018.

Giggling Inventor
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/giggling-inventor/
Rating: high
Comment: Superb anti-aggro tech. If odd paladin becomes a problem, this guy is going to be everywhere. Also could be useful in mech decks, so maybe he should get mentioned on the mech list, too, but mostly I just see him as a 2/1 that deploys two annoy-o-trons.

Harbinger Celestia
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/harbinger-celestia/
Rating: awful
Comment: A 4 mana 5/6 with stealth, and no immediate downside, and it's terrible! Unless I'm misinterpreting, your opponent just has to drop a 1/1 and that's now what you have to show for 4 mana. Only time I see this being good is if you're playing against big priest. Too easy to play around most of the time.

Holomancer
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/holomancer/
Rating: Abysmal
Comment: So each time your opponent creates a minion -- from a card -- you get a 1/1 copy. In niche cases, maybe a token generator. But I cannot think of situations outside of mirror matches where I'm likely to want the specific minions my opponent has teched into his deck. I guess maybe in some cases, it keeps some nasty deathrattles off the board until he's dealt with...but it's a 3/3 for 5.
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Loose Specimen
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/loose-specimen/
Rating: Low
Comment: So, on an open board, it's a Pit Fighter with +1 attack. At any other time, the only upside is killing off your deathrattle minions. However, that *MIGHT* end up being a strategy, so don't rule it out.

Microtech Controller
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/microtech-controller/
Rating: Medium
Comment: It's basically Muster for Battle, but with one dude getting +1 attack rather than a hammer. Granted, the other two are mechs, and that might factor into some kind of token mech strategy, but I haven't seen many cards to support that. So at a glance, this seems terrible, but token druid is going to LOVE her, I bet.

Omega Defender
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/omega-defender/
Rating: Medium-high
Comment: I think people are sleeping on this one. A 2/6 taunt for 4 isn't fantastic, but if you're in a control deck whose games go long, this transitions perfectly from being an aggro stopper to being a late-game threat. I personally think this card is borderline insane, considering you can drop two of them on turn 10 and still have mana left over.

Seaforium Bomber
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/seaforium-bomber/
Rating: Has potential
Comment: Warrior used to have a card that did the same thing, and the bomb did 10 damage. That saw very little play. However, by being neutral, and on a 5/5 for 5 (which is respectable,) I think this card will see experimentation. I think it's more likely it would fit better in a goes-in-your-deck strategy than in-your-opponent's-deck, but we'll take what we can get. Especially with that shuffle dude and maybe some bounce effects. Who knows? Unlikely, but maybe.

Star Aligner
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/star-aligner/
Rating: Either terrible or fantastic
Comment: ...but probably terrible. I'm waiting for someone to figure this card out, because it totally could happen, but I don't know the upside is worth the trouble.

Subject 9
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/subject-9/
Rating: Medium-high
Comment: I think this card is hilarious. It's not Mysterious Challenger, but being able to pick the use of the secrets actually might make it better in some ways. Probably best used in hunter, since there's not much in the way of secret tech left in mage right now, but I see it as plausible. Paladin is unlikely, and rogue just doesn't have enough secrets. (Where are our new rogue secrets, Blizz?)

Toxicologist
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/toxicologist/
Rating: High
Comment: Oh dear, just when I thought Kingsbane rogue might be fading from lack of support. Not fantastic in other contexts, but we've seen cards like this before...including one that's strictly better.

Whizbang the Wonderful
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/whizbang-the-wonderful/
Rating: lol, no
Comment: This is not a card for competitive play. It has it's place, but climbing ladder isn't it. I'm kinda curious if this can be picked in arena, though.
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azuarc posted...

Loose Specimen
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/loose-specimen/
Rating: Low
Comment: So, on an open board, it's a Pit Fighter with +1 attack. At any other time, the only upside is killing off your deathrattle minions. However, that *MIGHT* end up being a strategy, so don't rule it out.

+axe flinger in wild?
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Blink Fox is the best card ever printed.
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Early thoughts:

Overall, Boomsday seems like an expansion where they're really filling out curve cards for the classes. Witchwood had a lot of tech-y cards or niche cards, while this time around there's a bunch of stuff you can play in the early game. Maybe the meta speeds up to the point where Druidstone doesn't become a thing, maybe this is all part of a buildup to when Keleseth rotates and 2-drops are a thing in decks again.

There are Deathrattles galore this time around, and with Magnetic always being a threat, silence should continue to be valuable.

Card I irrationally like: Mechanical Whelp is going to be stupid sometimes. (Neutral 6 mana 2/2 mech, deathrattle: summon a 7/7 mechanical dragon). If you pay full cost for this, it sucks, but luckily there are a bunch of ways where you don't have to do that, and your opponent might end up hating you for it. At 2 attack, it gets pulled by Oakheart, you can rush it out with the Hunter legendary, rush it from your hand with Warrior's Boomship (or even Dr Boom's effect), Discount it and kill it with Priest's Reckless Experimenter, and a bunch of other stuff.

Bronze Gatekeeper (Neutral 3 mana 1/5 mech with Magnetic) seems like it might warp the early game a bit just by existing? Any mech left alive at turn 3 and later can become a taunt that soaks a ton of damage. Do you kill off mechs to prevent the possibility, or do you go face and just accept it if it happens?
Wargear and Zilliax seem like the only other neutral magnetic minions worth anything. Nullifier in Warrior costs too much. Hunter's two magnetic minions both look strong. Annoy-o-Module is strong in Paladin.

Legendary minions: Druid/Shaman clearly the best, Mage/maybe Rogue seem playable, other four seem not as good, though maybe Hunter's sees play in an odd deck?

Legendary Spells: Shaman and Priest seem bad, but the rest seem like they're varying degrees of good.

Classes/Decks I'm looking forward to playing: Rogue (bounce, deathrattle, steal), deathrattle priest, big hunter, divine shield paladin, mech warrior.
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azuarc posted...

Star Aligner
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/star-aligner/
Rating: Either terrible or fantastic
Comment: ...but probably terrible. I'm waiting for someone to figure this card out, because it totally could happen, but I don't know the upside is worth the trouble.

I really don't think you need the 'or fantastic' part of that rating. Hope there's at least a top tier animation once you actually pull it off, though. I'm certain either this card of Mechathun is going to turn out like the four horsemen and just be Hearthstone blue balls.

azuarc posted...

Whizbang the Wonderful
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/whizbang-the-wonderful/
Rating: lol, no
Comment: This is not a card for competitive play. It has it's place, but climbing ladder isn't it. I'm kinda curious if this can be picked in arena, though.

Nothing to do with the rating, but what is everyones guess on how long it's going to take for a streamer to climb to legend with this?
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Camden posted...

Nothing to do with the rating, but what is everyones guess on how long it's going to take for a streamer to climb to legend with this?

Successfully? I'm going to bed they can't do it. Not from any appreciable level. But you know there are going to be people trying from day 1.

And no, Star Aligner's probably not going to happen, but I'm just predicting someone finds something crazy that makes it work in a way that's not ludicrously impractical. Just like I figure someone's going to make Mecha'Thun work. (Actually, I think that will happen. It just won't be the primary strat for the deck.)
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I'm already planning out my Mechathun deck. I'm going to make it work just like Shudderboar, aka it's going to win every fifth game and a third of them will actually be from the win condition I want.

I really think Whizbang would be a ton of fun if you got to discover a deck at the start of each game. You have to play with the inferior deck recipes still, but you get the option of choosing your deck after you see what class you're going up against.
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Star aligner doesn't seem that hard especially in priest.

Stick a 7 health stealth (tiger + PW: shield)

Next turn:

Injured blademaster + circle of healing + star aligner

There are plenty of other ways you can manipulate a 7 hp to stick and then its just ac3 card combo that you run 2 copies of.
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The 10 card burgle card rogue is getting looks fun, but probably just not good in a Tess deck. Just like the echo burgle card.

I need to look at the paladins cards and see if Galvadon is getting another buff. He got huge one in both recent expacs, so hopefully he'll be the best paladin deck soon.
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It could be good with Auctioneer or Prep Sprint, or even curve Elekk into it

I think I would rather have the Spiders and Mistrel though, lots of competition at the four
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Star aligner doesn't seem that hard especially in priest.

Stick a 7 health stealth (tiger + PW: shield)

Next turn:

Injured blademaster + circle of healing + star aligner

There are plenty of other ways you can manipulate a 7 hp to stick and then its just ac3 card combo that you run 2 copies of.

And then what do you do to win? Yeah, you just swept your opponent's board and dealt them 7, but you haven't won and they can probably answer it. Meanwhile, how many resources have you devoted to the clear?

But hey, it's still war golem in the worst of cases.
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Aviana Kun could do it

But then again Aviana Kun can do anything, especially with a cheaper sprint that tutors
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Need to watch a friend win in spectator mode for a quest. Who wants to show off them skills?
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Also I've gone 7-1 with a crappy thrown together deck in Casual so far. Do people just not care in casual or is this crappy Murloc deck somehow not crappy?

### Murloc Madness
# Class: Shaman
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 1x (1) Deadscale Knight
# 2x (1) Grimscale Oracle
# 2x (1) Lightning Bolt
# 2x (1) Murloc Raider
# 2x (2) Bluegill Warrior
# 1x (2) Earthen Might
# 2x (2) Flametongue Totem
# 2x (2) Ghost Light Angler
# 2x (2) Murloc Tidehunter
# 2x (2) Rockbiter Weapon
# 2x (2) Rockpool Hunter
# 1x (3) Far Sight
# 1x (3) Healing Rain
# 2x (4) Hex
# 2x (4) Tidal Surge
# 2x (5) Bloodlust
# 2x (6) Fire Elemental
#
AAECAaoIBLIGp80C8+cCsPACDb0BvwHvAfkD/gPjBf4F0AfwB5MJncICscQC8PMCAA==
#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
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I'm 99% sure the deck is garb. Kinda want to put together a murloc deck now though.
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So I had a game as control warlock versus a bsm. Its a matchup I should be favored in. To make me even more favored I discovered rin off of stone hill and just got seals off super fast and azaried when she still had like 10 cards left. Still had Jaina though.

So Im winning even with Jaina and guldan Not drawn. She plays syndrogosa and a turn later PLAYS MORABI. Freezes my azari (which not been able to attack for several turns) and plays it the turn after. Killing my deck.

(I lost btw)
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In my first match of the season, I got beat in a mirror where my opponent got Shudderwock off of their Sindragosa, and also played 4 Stonehill Defenders, if you're wondering how my ladder experience is going.

I might have actually won that game, too, but I can't help hitting the concede button at the first sign of Shudderwock.
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I hit legend. Used mostly miracle rogue. Entered in as 30.

Apparently someone lost and now Im 29
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KokoroAkechi posted...

I hit legend. Used mostly miracle rogue. Entered in as 30.

Apparently someone lost and now Im 29

Oh good, only 28 more people need to lose!
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Also this is the quickest Ive ever hit legend. Im not sure how many games it took (I play almost exclusively on mobile now as it helps me focus and practice things like hand tracking) but I do know I hit the gold limits on both days. I know I lost like 7 in a row at one point but also ended the run winning 9 of 10.
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I just got so savagely wrecked by Auchenai in arena. I never drew removal and this dude got to play Squashling (2x), Earthen Ring Farseer, and Shroom Brewer.

Wow. And I took complete control of the game at 1 HP and established an extremely solid board, but he drew a giant wasp just in time to stick it and finish me.

fuck

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KokoroAkechi posted...

Also this is the quickest Ive ever hit legend. Im not sure how many games it took (I play almost exclusively on mobile now as it helps me focus and practice things like hand tracking) but I do know I hit the gold limits on both days. I know I lost like 7 in a row at one point but also ended the run winning 9 of 10.

what's your decklist?
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### Miracle
# Class: Rogue
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 2x (0) Backstab
# 2x (0) Preparation
# 1x (0) Shadowstep
# 2x (1) Cold Blood
# 2x (1) Fire Fly
# 2x (2) Eviscerate
# 2x (2) Sap
# 1x (3) Edwin VanCleef
# 2x (3) Fan of Knives
# 2x (3) Hench-Clan Thug
# 1x (3) SI:7 Agent
# 2x (3) Void Ripper
# 2x (4) Elven Minstrel
# 2x (4) Fal'dorei Strider
# 1x (5) Leeroy Jenkins
# 1x (5) Vilespine Slayer
# 1x (6) Mossy Horror
# 2x (7) Sprint
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thanks!
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KokoroAkechi posted...

2x (7) Sprint

Nani?
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trdl23 posted...

KokoroAkechi posted...

2x (7) Sprint

Nani?

Sprint has replaced Auctioneer in Miracle builds for a while now
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Oh, huh.
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Well it's interchangeable, but the thing is Sprint is faster at getting your spiders and now you don't have to hold your backstabs and preps
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There were stats and in almost all matchups auctioneer was one of the lowest win rate cards in the deck.
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MECH TIME:

Goblin Bomb
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/goblin-bomb/
1 mana 0/2
Deathrattle: 2 damage to enemy hero
Rating: low
Comment: Blizzard seems to be pushing this goblin bomb thing, but I don't think it's gonna work. You summon these leper gnomes that can't attack, and then have to trigger them. Yes, hunter can run a bunch of deathrattle triggers, along with the double deathrattle dude, but in the meanwhile, you can just punch them in the face. I think the goblin bomb tactic is only going to work in a control deck that doesn't have healing...and there aren't many of those.

Skaterbot
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/skaterbot/
1 mana 1/1
Magnetic. Rush.
Rating: low
Comment: He was a skater bot. She said see ya later, bot. Don't want no cards that just buff rush. Now he's a magnet buff, on a 9 mana tough, getting its divine shield to crush.

Faithful Lumi
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/faithful-lumi/
1 mana 1/1
Battlecry: +1/+1 to mech
Rating: low
Comment: Well, it's better than Skater Bot since it gives the 1/1 and remains its own card. Most of the time the rush is unimportant. But there are times where the smallest of buffs is enough to make the difference, so even though this is worse than some of the paladin buffs that never see play, maybe an aggro mech deck will want this, if there is such a thing. (I'm not thinking there will be, TBH.)

Mecharoo
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/mecharoo/
1 mana 1/1
Deathrattle: Summon a 1/1 mech
Rating: High
Comment: This is the best mech for a zoo-like deck. Dunno there'll be a mech zoo deck, but this is Possessed Villager 2.0.

Scorp-o-Matic
EXISTING
2 mana 1/2
Destroy minion 0 or 1 attack

Galvanizer
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/galvanizer/
2 mana 1/2
Battlecry: Reduce cost of mechs in hand by 1
Rating: Low
Comment: Meh, you'd have to have a pretty critical mass of mechs or something you *really* wanted to play on curve. I don't see many high cost mechs outside of warrior, and even the warrior mechs don't strike me as benefitting massively.

Whirliglider
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/whirliglider/
2 mana 2/1
NOT a mech. Battlecry: Summon a goblin bomb.
Rating: Low
Comment: So when a Murloc Raider and a Leper Gnome love each other very much...see Goblin Bomb. However, these battlecries make me laugh at the thought of summoning a zillion goblin bombs with Shudderwock, and then killing them with Hagatha's battlecry.

Spark Engine
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/spark-engine/
2 mana 2/1
Battlecry: Add a 1/1 with rush to hand.
Rating: Medium-low
Comment: This is another decent mech rush card for controlling the early board. However, the fact that the 1/1 goes to hand makes it far less good. Getting the effect for 2 mana is solid. For 3 is not.

Unpowered Mauler
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/unpowered-mauler/
2 mana 2/4
Can't attack unless you cast spell this turn
Rating: Low
Comment: Outclassed by the next card.

Upgradable Framebot
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/upgradeable-framebot/
2 mana 1/5
Vanilla.
Rating: Very High
Comment: If ever you needed a sticky minion, this was it. I predict this will get run in decks that aren't mech decks if they need bodies on board early. It's also a fantastic target for low-cost magnetics, ilke...
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Bronze Gatekeeper
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/bronze-gatekeeper/
3 mana 1/5
Taunt. Magnetic.
Rating: High
Comment: Talk about a potential aggro killer. Get this on a Framebot, and 2/10 taunt. Or on anything, really. Even solo, it's not bad, although obviously you'd rather have a Tar Creeper.

Kaboom Bot
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/kaboom-bot/
3 mana 2/2
Deathrattle: 4 damage to enemy minion
Rating: Medium
Comment: Not sure how I feel here. It's like Bomb Lobber, but cheaper. That's either going to make it great, or terrible, because at 3, four damage might be overkill...but it's also likely to take *something* with it, at least.

Spring Rocket
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/spring-rocket/
3 mana 2/1
Battlecry: Deal 2 damage
Rating: Medium-low
Comment: C'Thun panda in mech form. The fact that it's a mech honestly probably matters little. It's a worse version of Fireplume Phoenix.

Alarm-o-Bot
EXISTING
3 mana 0/3
Start of turn: Summon random minion, return to hand.

Demolisher
EXISTING
3 mana 1/4
Start of turn: deal 2 randomly

Harvest Golem
EXISTING
3 mana 2/3
Deathrattle: Summon a 2/1

Meat Wagon
EXISTING
4 mana 1/4
Deathrattle: Summon minion from deck w/ less attack
Comment: Suddenly not useless with magnetic! I'm kinda curious what *could* happen with Meat Wagon now.

Steel Rager
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/steel-rager/
4 mana 5/1
Rush
Rating: Boo!
Comment: Who wants a four-mana rager? I don't care if it was done for balance. This is a loss for aesthetics. And incidentally, pay 4 deal 5 is probably done better by most classes with another card.

Coppertail Impostor
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/coppertail-imposter/
4 mana 4/4
Battlecry: Stealth 1 turn
Rating: Medium
Comment: For when you need a card to stick to the board for your Wargear.

Explodinator
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/explodinator/
4 mana 3/2
Battlecry: Summon 2 Goblin Bombs
Rating: Low
Comment: See Whirliglider.

Piloted Reaper
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/piloted-reaper/
4 mana 4/3
Deathrattle: Summon 2-drop from your hand
Rating: Medium-low
Comment: Okay for tempo, but it's no Piloted Shredder since PS got you a free minion, and this one costs you a card. OTOH, *maybe* there's a strategy here with some overstatted 2 drop like Millhouse. Doubt that's worth the trouble, though.

Replicating Menace
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/replicating-menace.png
4 mana 3/1
Deathrattle: Summon three 1/1 mechs.
Rating: Medium
Comment: So 4 mana for 6/4 is good. But there's also a good possibility the 3 mechs just get mopped up. However, this is potentially good in a token deck, so I'm going to give this the benefit of the doubt.

Weaponized Pinata
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/weaponized-pinata/
4 mana 4/3
Deathrattle: Add random legendary to hand
Rating: Medium
Comment: Flashy, but not great. A free legendary is no guarantee of getting a good card. Still, it is *a* card, should value be relevant in this metagame.

Clockwork Automaton
EXISTING
5 mana 4/4
Double damage/healing of hero power
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Rusty Recycler
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/rusty-recycler/
5 mana 2/6
Taunt. Lifesteal.
Rating: Medium
Comment: This is a tough one to call. It's as good for healing as an Applebaum if it attacks twice (but with less damage), but the magnetic potential means this thing could be a monster. The question is if that's Timmy-bait.

E.M.P. Operative
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/e-m-p-operative/
5 mana 3/3
NOT a mech. Battlecry: Destroy a mech
Rating: High?
Comment: This expansion's going to be a bit of a fail if there isn't one good mech deck, but will it be worth teching in a 5 mana 3/3?

Wargear
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/wargear/
5 mana 5/5
Magnetic.
Rating: High
Comment: I've heard some people crap on this card, but I think this card is solid. 5/5 for 5 is okay if you can't do anything else with it, and being able to get 5 damage of "charge" makes this about as good as Leeroy if you've got a mech on board.

Zilliax
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/zilliax/
5 mana 3/2 Legendary
Magnetic, DS, Taunt, LS, Rush
Rating: Medium-high
Comment: I like Al'Akir. I don't like Zilliax as much. The Rush is only really useful if you're playing it naked, and as a naked card, a 3/2 rush with all those keywords for 5 probably isn't horrible, though I'd rather have it for 4. As a buff, though, giving a minion taunt, lifesteal, and divine shield could be incredibly brutal. The question is if 3/2 is the right distribution of stats. For the DS/LS, you'd want more attack. For the taunt, you'd want more life. 5 stats is equivalent to a 2-drop, so being that light on stats means you need to get real mileage out of those effects. At times this card could be amazing, but at others, I think it will come up short massively. I'm personally not in favor.

Missile Launcher
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/missile-launcher/
6 mana 4/4
Magnetic. At EOT, deal 1 to the rest of the board.
Rating: Medium-high
Comment: 4/4 for 6 isn't great, but this is like a Dreadlord buff attachable to any minion. Blessing of Kings, with an extra 2 mana for the Dreadscale effect. Come to think of it, why doesn't this have "Dread" in the name?

Spark Drill
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/spark-drill/
6 mana 5/1
Rush. Deathrattle: Add 2 1/1's with rush to hand.
Rating: Low
Comment: So pay 8, deal 7 damage? It does have the potential to clear one big threat and ping a couple more, but unless you're playing this with something like a Flametongue Totem, this really isn't going to be that good.

Damaged Stegotron
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/damaged-stegotron/
6 mana 5/12
Taunt. Starts with 6 damage.
Rating: High
Comment: Witchwood Grizzly 2.0. There's no ways to cheat out a mech, specifically, but all the cheat-out strategies still apply, or this can be good in a healing deck. I imagine priest in particular will love this card for the DS-IF potential.

Mechanical Whelp
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/mechanical-whelp/
6 mana 2/2
Deathrattle: Summon a 7/7
Rating: High
Comment: Risky card, since the 7/7 isn't up front, but in a deathrattle deck, this has strong potential. Put this in hunter, trigger it a few times...what's a Devilsaur Egg? (Egg is still better because it costs 3, but hey, this is a nice back-up plan.)

Bull Dozer
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/bull-dozer/
9 mana 9/7
Divine Shield.
Rating: Low
Comment: Force Tank Max is back!
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