These look quite interesting. Looks as though the goal of the deck is not to reach fatigue but to ramp fatigue up with these cards, similar to how relics work.
Baritone Imp
2 mana 2/2 demon (imp, presumably)
Battlecry: Take fatigue damage. Gain that much attack and health.
Crazed Conductor
5 mana 4/5
Battlecry: Take fatigue damage. Summon that many 3/3 imps.
Crescendo
3 mana spell
Take fatigue damage. Deal that much damage to all enemies.
Felstring Harp
2 mana 0/3 weapon
Whenever your hero would take damage on your turn, restore 2 health instead. Lose 1 durability.
The imp comes out as a 2 mana 3/3 at base, which is pretty strong. Opening with 2 of these on the coin is very powerful.
The conductor seems like a reverse-power crept Rafaam. Not convinced but probably necessary if you are playing this deck.
Crescendo could be pretty powerful. Scaling asymmetrical aoe that hits face is nuts if you can ramp up the fatigue enough.
The weapon is busted, even outside of the fatigue deck. Removes the biggest weakness of Hellfire and enables healing with life tap. The little guy that adds durability to weapons could actually be useful with this.
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I love them SO much. They look really fun. But I am not really convinced this is very competitive. It is hard to imagine exactly how this all comes together but I am here for it regardless.
Unpopular opinion: I am excited to try out these new warlock cards, and to experience the expansion/rotation in general. This is not to say the expansion is without its problems. We are, however, overdo for some change up.
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So Baritone Imp and Crazed Conductor will allow Implock (and Curse Implock) to potentially continue after rotation. Crescendo is a finisher.
HOWEVER!
That’s damage straight to the face that the Warlock is taking, and Touch of the Nathrezim is rotating out. Aggro decks and MC Blingtron won’t have any problems capitalizing on Warlock hurting themselves. The weapon greatly alleviates that, and I think helps Control way more than Implock.
Crescendo could be a great clear and finisher for Control Warlock, but if you use it you basically have to include the two minions because how else will you actually beef up your Fatigue damage?
Finally, it really does seem like they intend for Mal’Ganis to see play in Standard again, which means that Jailer could be a legitimate strategy.
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this is amazing
great gameplay, very original and could possibly counter tony warrior.
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I tthink these cards might be broken but i dont care I love them. They are so cool.
Festering Harp looks like the strongest healing Warlock has had in years.
2 mana heal 12 at minimum.
6/5 Star Power. If it’s ever nerfed I really hope its durability to 2. Or Healing to 1. Mana Cost to 3 would suck.
As a package, Crazed Conducter, Baritone Imp, and Cresendo look like they would be good against Aggro or Midrange.
The problem is: will they be enough pressure vs Renathal Blood Death Knight, Armor Druid, ?Warrior?, or Faster Combo decks. It doesn’t look like it will be at all so far. Wicked Shipment x Impending Catastrophe was super fun, but it rotates and Crazed Conducter/Mischevious Imp x Impending Catastrophe is so much slower and takes the whole turn unlike Runed Mithril Rod’s allowing 0-Mana-Mega-Plays. Crescendo is cool, but so far it isn’t dealing mega-fatigue like The Demon Seed chucking out 50 damage in a turn.
Maybe Warlocks defensive tools will be so good relative to the meta game that going slower and lethaling with precise Cresendo damage works. Lining up your fatigue to deal a lot at the cost of taking 5-x fatigue yourself this turn would be really spicey and rewarding gameplay imo. I think it would be reasonably possible against normal 30 card midrange decks like Paladin, but way too hard against 75-Health-40-Cards-NonStopDiscoverstone Renathal Blood Death Knight.
Honestly with the current revealed cards, these fatigue cards look like a skip power-wise and you just insta-jam Felstring Harp. Warlock probably has to run Slime Warlock with Rivendare to beat the Renathal Blood Death Knights, if so they run Felstring harp and skip Symphony, Rin, and these Fatigue Cards.
Package Coolness = 7/5.
I hope so. Playing the two side by side in wild is hilarious. There are plenty of board clears that will keep it from being king of the hill but I love the feeling of “your opponent left” so I’ll definitely be playing some warlock. 
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Obvious The Jailer support.
I feel like putting these cards into the vacancies left by cards rotating from Standard will continue to enable Implock. If these cards work not only with the Harp, but also the new 1-drop demon that makes you immune on your turn, Warlock looks quite powerful in the upcoming meta.
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I am officislly sold on this expansion <3
