I can't believe people are calling the gnomish vampire card bad

This isn't MtG. Hearthstone has 30 card decks, with a limit of 2 cards (1 for legendaries) and the limited space only allows so much removal to fit into a deck. Unless you're playing face Hunter or spam shaman, losing a card can be very detrimental. That's half the amount of whatever it is in your deck- gone. Essentially a removal (for free) that didn't allow your opponents battlecry to take effect. People calling this river croc are just ignorant, did you call arcaneologist and rockpool hunter river croc level too? What about when their effects aren't optimal, they still get played as a well-statted minion. After this card burns your ice block you'll be back on this sub in a month complaining about this card.