I would like to raise two points.

First, while using the card, when it was a promo, my good friend got very good mileage from ut using the old shcool beast master based on the fact that lair is a very strong spawnpoint and that he can summon creatures as a quick action. Instead of swarming with small and the occational mid strength creatures he could play more mid and even high strength ones. It got pretty ugly fast.

Second, I do belive that it will be important for a necromancer who wishes to play alot of reanimate and such. From what I gather he needs to have the mana on hand at the moment of the kill to be able to use reanimate or rise again, a very nice card to play with sectarus, since it gives him the opportunity to gain mana mid trun he can use it if he sees that it will be needed to bring back the minions from the grave. On top of the fact that it boost spawnpoints...

Hello.
Me and a few friends reflected over the fact that some animals has their group name as a catagory keyword (which in most cases is much broader) and others have their species.

For example Firewood fox and timber wolf are keyworded canine and Feral Bobcat, Makunda, and Cervere are not keyworded feline but cat. Also Sosruko has none.

Personally it looks cleaner and better if one used the broader names but if cards are in design that should affect a certain animal from the same broad group but not another in the same name group I can understand the mechanic part of it.

There are a few more examples like the grizzly is a bear and Galador is cervine (CoK).

I can't imagin that one would wanna "fix" this as there are so many cards affected, just a reflection...