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The reveal season for Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is in full swing, with 132 cards set to be revealed in Hearthstones next expansion. Will Priest be a playable deck? Will Midrange Shaman stop making us cry? Will we finally get a Control Hunter? Why does Harrison Jones destroy things he thinks belong in a museum?With 132 cards to review -- 131 after our Grimestreet Pawnbroker card reveal -- we better skip the exposition and get moving with the first big chunk.Lets start out with the class that needed the most help: Priest. I doubt it was coincidental that Blizzard very quickly showed off some powerful Priest cards, given how little-used the class has been in competitive Hearthstone in the past six months or so.Suffice it to say, both Control and Dragon Priests get a lot to bite into here.Potion of Madness is a cut-rate Shadow Madness, which does the same thing for a minion with three or less attack, but one mana vs. four mana is a very serious discount. Control Priests have trouble in the early game and ramming an enemys 2/3 into a 3/2 or stealing a Loot Hoarder and drawing a card for one mana can be quite useful. Probably not a two-of.Pint-Size Potion is another utility card, one that manipulates the board to give interaction with other key Priest cards, such as Shadow Word: Pain, Cabal Shadow Priest, Potion of/Shadow Madness, or the little-played Shadow Word: Horror.Kabal Talonpriest gives Priest a strong three-drop that buffs health, similar to the Dark Cultist, a 3/4 that gave a minion the health after it died. Here you get the health up front and while Dark Cultist wasnt always played it was never poor.Drakonid Operative and Dragonfire Potion are essentially love letters to Dragon Priest. A five-mana 5/6 is playable on its own, but being able to Discover a card from your opponent is a valuable effect up until you hit fatigue. Most Discover cards give you some sort of random selection while selecting from your opponents deck ensures a higher quality of card. Else they wouldnt have put the card in their deck in the first place! Dragonfire Potion gives Priest a truly powerful board clear thats been missing since Lightbomb rotated and its even playable in Control Priest, which needs a catchup mechanism and is happily playing Excavated Evil as it is.And here were have three defensive tools for Warrior. I Know a Guy isnt the sexiest effect, but there are a lot of times early on against very aggressive decks in which a Warrior really needs a Taunt card early so they can start building up the armor totals. A one-of when the meta commands it.Stolen Goods gives a Warrior using Taunt minions an additional tool to buff them early. Non-aggressive builds of Warrior dont always have Fiery War Axe on Turn 2 (I swear Im not lying) and rather than just taking the two armor, activating a Fierce Monkey into a 6/7 on Turn 3 is a worthwhile turn.One of the cards it can enable is the Alley Armorsmith, expensive for the stats but a great stalling tool that will either block attacks and restore health or eat a removal spell. The latters not so bad for a Control Warrior since those builds tend to run giant threats; youll come out ahead in the long run if your opponent is spending resources to remove this card rather than Ragnaros or Grommash Hellscream.One new mechanic in MSG is the tri-class cards, cards that can be played by three of the games nine classes, keeping with storyline theme of three competing factions.Grimestreet Smuggler is a bit understated as a three mana 2/4 and while the effect gives a de facto 3/5 worth of stats if you have a hand, its a bonus thats a bit difficult to control and when you cant control an effect, it has to be extremely overpowered to be worthwhile (hello, Yogg-Saron). This one isnt.The Grimestreet Informant, Lotus Agents, and Kabal Courier have a lot in common in that theyre straight Discover cards for the three classes in which you can play them. I think the Informant is the most likely to see play, simply because its early enough that the tempo loss to Discover a class card is hardly fatal. Its about equal to the Jeweled Scarab, which discovers a three-drop - class cards tend to be better, but Scarabs ability to guarantee an on-curve play on three is quite underrated.The Kabal Courier is trickier to play on three, though will probably see some Arena play in Priest and Warlock (the Mage is less inclined since it already has access to Mage class cards, which are the best of the three). Lotus Agents? Probably not at all. By Turn 5, playing a card that can be dealt with by many two-drops isnt worth the Discover. Youd have to flip the stats for this to be playable.Kazakus is an interesting card and one thats hard to evaluate due to its novel effect, similar to Reno Jackson in League of Explorers. Essentially, you make your own spell, first choosing whether to make a one-cost, five-cost, or ten-cost spell and then Discover two effects out of the ten offered. The spells are less valuable than the mana; the benefit is, however, that you get to tailor the spell to the exact situation. Im already thinking of a Kazakus/Renolock deck. Wholesale Shoes From China . Following a lopsided 5-2 loss against the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night, Paul MacLean told reporters that "theres a lack of focus, theres a lack of leadership and theres a lack of preparation" with his struggling team. That came on the heels of Bryan Murray taking the unusual step of going into the locker room at the Prudential Center and addressing the players himself. Wholesale China Shoes Free Shipping .ca look back at each of the Top 10 stories of 2013. Today, we look back at Boston Strong - a citys recovery from tragedy. http://www.wholesaleshoes.us.org/ . 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Owen Farrell has been Englands standard-bearer and is the spirit of the team that has won 14 matches on the bounce, according to Eddie Jones.As Jones reflected on Englands 37-21 win over Australia and a year which has seen his side win all 13 of their matches, he singled out Farrell as the player pushing the standards in the squad. He hailed Ben Youngs and outstanding Courtney Lawes as the players who have impressed him most from the autumn Tests, but it is Farrell who has emerged as their key player.Owen Farrell is the spirit of the team, Jones said. Hes an absolute competitor and always wants to do things well.He hasnt been at his best this autumn -- its quite clear hes still recovering from his back injury, Id say hes probably been at 80 per cent of his total fitness.To win those four Test when your inside centre is nowhere near his best is a pretty good effort. Hes enormous for us. Hes the standard-bearer.Jones knows him well having handed the then 16-year-old Farrell his debut during his time in charge of Saracens. The England coach remembers being impressed by the way Farrell dealt with big hit from Sonny Bill Williams in a trial match between Saracens and Toulon.Sonny Bill Williams was making his debut for Toulon, Jones continued. Owen got the ball and Sonny Bill Williams whacked him and stood over the top of him. He just bounced up on his feet and continued on like nothing had happened. You could tell he was going to be a good player.Farrell started all four of Englands end-of-year Tests with his goal-kicking, communication and work-rate integral to their unbeaten year. The 9-10-12 axis with Ben Youngs, George Ford and Farrell is continuing to develop and winger Marland Yarde also impressed Jones in their win over Australia.I remember going to a Quins game about eight months ago, sitting in the crowd and the Quins supporters were going: Hes crap. This guys hopeless. I dont know why they play him all the time, Jones said. And hes really worked hard at his game and had a storming game today, really good game.Jones singled out their win over Argentina - a match they won despite being down to 14 men for 75 minutes - as their performance of the autumn Tests and said they went through a growth spurt in that game. On-field leadership has been a constant theme running through the series with Jones impressed by how they rectified their dreadful start against Australia to get a foothold and then push on in the second-half to win convincingly.Central to that was Dylan Hartley but even he is not guaranteedd a place in Jones England side as he says no one, not even Farrell, can take their spot for granted.ddddddddddddDylans been absolutely outstanding, Jones said. Physically hes not at his best for this series, hes probably 80-90 per cent mark.He needs to rectify that for the 6Nations. But his leadership has been enormous. Hes one of these guys who give added value.He leads from the front, hes proactive. If he senses things are wrong, he fixes them. He has really driven this side. The credit he deserves is enormous.Jones gave individual feedback to the players on Sunday and will meet the coaches on Monday as attention shifts to the Six Nations where England will be chasing back-to-back grand slams. He says the championship will be an altogether different challenge to the end-of-year Tests and is expecting the players to come into camp fatigued.But he has already prioritised one area for England to focus on and improve: the scrum.The only thing Im interested in now is winning the Six Nations and to win the Six Nations we need more consistency in our set piece, Jones said. I want to have the most dominant scrum. The scrum in the Six Nations is enormously important so we want that dominance.Jones says he has already picked his Six Nations squad but it will be fascinating to see how he integrates those players who missed the autumn Tests through injury. Maro Itoje and Manu Tuilagi have made their returns to club rugby at while Anthony Watson, Jack Nowell, Billy Vunipola and James Haskell are all set to return in the coming months.The England coach is expecting players to be left disappointed if they miss out on selection but is predicting as many as 15 players may be picked for the British & Irish Lions tour. And it is this battle to make the England team and ultimately the Lions tour which he feels will ensure his team stay on this upwards trajectory.If players arent hungry and you see it in their performance straight away, then they wont be here, Jones said. We have enough depth to change the squad if we need to. You want intrinsically the players to want to do it.Were developing players like that. Theres a tipping point in the team when you get six, seven, eight players with that absolute desire to want to do well then if youre not in that group, you tend to fall out. Thats how great teams keep on getting better. We havent got that tipping point yet but were moving towards it. ' ' '