Job Shadower
A couple of 4/3’s for 3 mana seems strong, but the setup required to activate this card disinterests us. It’s very difficult to trigger Job Shadower on curve, while it requires significant support to be consistently useful. Without that consistent activation, it’s a terrible minion at its baseline. Compare this with a card such as Hot Coals, which is already serviceable at its baseline.
This won’t make Priest want to play a Pain package in its aggressive decks, as it needs to spend mana to activate Shadower. Demon Hunter can technically trigger Shadower on curve with a weapon, but the card becomes significantly worse beyond turn 3, especially in lightning-fast decks such as Pirate DH. We don’t think it makes the cut.
Score: 1
Envoy of Prosperity
A strictly worse version of Bibliomite. One less attack, with little control over the shuffled card. It will always be our highest cost card, and it will be drawn the turn after, so we don’t even “get rid” of the weakest card in our hand. Basically, Envoy denies us a draw, which is a terrible drawback without compensating synergies.
We can’t see why we would want this card in an aggressive deck. Consider that Bibliomite was only good enough when we had Magnifying Glaive, which dramatically helped us offset the drawback. Envoy is not even good with Twilight Medium, since we need to play both cards in the same turn to get our desired hit. This is a hard pass.
Score: 1
Silvermoon Brochure (Gilneas Brochure)
Both sides of the Brochure are weak cards. A 2/2 buff for 2 mana is underwhelming, while immunity is only relevant if we’re using the buff to trade, rather than push face damage. This is also a bad card to keep in the opening hand with a 1-drop, as it will switch off by the time we want to play it.
A -2/-2 silence is basically Deafen with double the cost. Considering the nature of it switching from turn-to-turn, it might not even be available when we want to use it. We don’t see why we would ever play this card over Deafen in a defensive deck, or why we would run both cards. This spell is simply awkward, with each version fitting into a different kind of deck.
Score: 1
Final Thoughts: We expect Priest decks to remain the same, while Demon Hunter will see no reason to tap into the Priest set further than it already has.
