New Neutral Minion - Lake Thresher

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A new Common Neutral Minion, Lake Thresher, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    A new Common Neutral Minion, Lake Thresher, has been revealed!

    Lake Thresher Card Image

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I love him, he is precious to me.

    Guess that justifies the 7-mana spell

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    I love him, he is precious to me.

    Guess that justifies the 7-mana spell

    and yet it's only good with it.. played from hand this never survives.

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  • CursedParrot's Avatar
    640 720 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Works with the 7 Mana spell and maybe cards like Animated Broom to give it rush. Without rush it usually won't be very good. 

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Works well with the 7 mana Druid/Hunter spell, but I'm not confident that is enough to warrant running this card.  The times you draw it it becomes too slow and clunky to play.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Not likely to see play, based upon other cleave minions that have been printed. This is the cheapest ever neutral cleave minion though, so maybe I'm missing something?

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Probably not going to be played in constructed. Maybe in arena, but I don't really see any use for him. As 90% of the people on this thread have been very adamant to mention, it has synergy with Guardian Animals, but other than that it isn't good. And you could just as easily find another beast for Guardian Animals that is better to play from hand.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2626 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I'm still waiting for Cleave to become a keyword, and also Elusive for that matter.

    This is going to be really good in Arena, but probably not in Constructed where it's too reliant on surviving a turn for it to be good.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    More like lake trash!
    But not really, as someone posted above, it works well with the 7 mana spell from hunter and druid that summons 5 mana beasts with rush.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5542 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Guardian Animals, certified great with this card.

    Decent stats, cleave, and its a beast. Very good stuff.

    But outside of given rush, this is just an arena card. And I wouldn't put this in my deck just to make guardian animals sometimes work. But the potential is there, and in hearthstone that's already above average for a card.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago
    Quote From DoubleSummon
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    I love him, he is precious to me.

    Guess that justifies the 7-mana spell

    and yet it's only good with it.. played from hand this never survives.

    you forget the 1-mana Hunter/DH weapon that forces minion attacks.

     

    That one's absolutely huge with this.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I realy like the art!

    Decent card but i guess it is only realy good if you summon it from the deck ! played from the hand i guess this will most likely never survive for the next attack.

    Challenge me ... when you're ready to duel a god!

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare
    Quote From DoubleSummon
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    I love him, he is precious to me.

    Guess that justifies the 7-mana spell

    and yet it's only good with it.. played from hand this never survives.

    you forget the 1-mana Hunter/DH weapon that forces minion attacks.

     

    That one's absolutely huge with this.

    But then you don't have the druid spell you are running a card that can't really be played in constructed cause of 2 card combo? It's a good 2 card combo but it's incosistant. Specially cause hunter lacks draw. 

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Need to be played with Guardian Animals to see it potentials. Otherwise it's just too slow for everybody.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Amazing with Guardian Animals, and good in hunter & druid. Mainly in the control variants of the decks. Also we generally don't see cleave cards often, so finally seeing some good cleaves is really nice! I'm looking forward to experimenting with this card already!

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2220 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    You won't mind getting this from Apexis Blast, but you probably won't put it in your deck.

    "Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    The new Hydra is is kinda powerfull...

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I don't think that this card is strong enough to be played in constructed. But this will be a perfect new minion for Bg

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  • linkinboy0's Avatar
    Headmaster 1235 503 Posts Joined 07/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    I never know what to think about this type of cards. Only usable with the DK

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  • Lemushki's Avatar
    Squirtle 1110 1025 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Love cleave effects

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  • Valord's Avatar
    465 281 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Decent with Guardian Animals, but I don't think it will make the cut.

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    The ideal scenario for this is to pull it off of Guardian Animals, but I don't think that spell will be very good in the upcoming meta. Not having a way to immediately activate the cleave makes this minion so much weaker as well.

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  • magmalizard's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 290 145 Posts Joined 03/15/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    It seems that druid is the only viable class to put this in. Without handbuffing or pulling this from your deck you don't really want to play this i think.

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  • melon101's Avatar
    180 47 Posts Joined 06/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Meta definitely!

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  • Janusi's Avatar
    Face Collector 595 225 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Meant to be used with Guardian Animals, as shown on stream. I just don't think that's enough.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3339 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Thats like double the stats from Cave Hydra so I'd call it a powercreep

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • JFK's Avatar
    Curious Pair 1070 621 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    You know, this might not be horrible in duel paladin. Pull this, hopefully destroy the enemy minion and their right-most one, plus it's a midgame body to play that could luckily clear the board if played with Wave of Apathy.

    Nah, not that good.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Meh stats, effect can be nice but nothing exciting

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    The only reason this might see play is because of Guardian Animals, but I don't think it's the best beast to combo with it so I don't think it will see much play.

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  • ChocolateChipCooke's Avatar
    Unicorn Reveler 1160 337 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Will probably see play with Guardian Animals, but that's about it. In fact, without this card, I'm not sure Guardian Animals is playable.

    Outside of big beast Hunter/Druid, I don't see this ever being relevant.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    4/6 are okay stats for 5 mana, and this minion is probably really strong in the arena.

    That said, it's a little slow in standard, since your opponent will have a turn to either remove it or arrange taunts so it doesn't clear 3 minions.

    It works VERY well with the Guardian Animals spell Hunters and Druids have, summoning this and another 5 mana best from your deck and giving them rush, allowing you to use it's cleave ability on the turn it hits the board.

    Druids will be able to buff the minion in deck with Embiggen to make it a sturdy 6/8 for 5, and Hunter's draw spell Scavengers ingenuity grants +2/+2 also if drawn, and scrap shot can make this a 7/9 if played on curve.

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  • Safiron's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 620 156 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Nice cleave effect for arena.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Nice beast that I reckon will see some play.

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  • SavageDrago's Avatar
    300 150 Posts Joined 05/07/2020
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Tried in different sizes and classes already with no success. Don't think making it neutral or this big will solve it.

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    If this one is protected behind a taunt/pseudo-taunt, and your opponent has no boardclear (like rogue, paladin, hunter) this can stick. And then you've won! (But you'd also win with any other card.)

    Since it is neutral, other classes can use it: warrior has the "give a minion rush" (called charge) card, which really fits here. Mage can freeze the board, and play this like a doomsayer for next round. Druid and paladin can hide this behind a taunt. But I guess it is hardly playable for DH,hunter or rogue.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Dragon 2215 2485 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Everyone is saying this will only be played with Guardian Animals but there's also evolve, discover, random card generation and arena xD 

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Basically needs a second card to be remotely playable, and even with that second card it’s not that great

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Nice effect for big enough body especially with the 7 mana summon 2 beasts druid spell

    -=alfi=-

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Too slow.

    Can be good with rush/charge, but that card is bad in constructed.

    By The Holy Light!

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  • theo333's Avatar
    Outlandish Rager 975 876 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Imagine a 4/6 being 'too slow' for today's meta, comparable to Druid of the Claw Card Image

    What a time for meta.

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    With Guardian Animals this card have rush too.

    Easy semi board clear. Good card imho

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  • FaytFFX's Avatar
    405 191 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Good Guardian Animals synergy.

    Thanks to denial, I'm immortal.

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Cleave effects are rare (justifiably), but this could be played in a few decks, but it will probably not be a meta-defining card.

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1713 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    What happens when a Cave Hydra goes swimming?!

    Quick!  Someone give me something clever to write here.

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  • GoliathTheDwarf's Avatar
    980 667 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    A beast with cleave? Looks fun and effective to me. I'll be most interested to see who can use this well besides hunter. 

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Strong Arena card, perhaps Hunter or Druid will have new Beast archetype decks and if so, this would shine there.

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  • Psymon's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1505 371 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Getting this as Zombeast from Deathstalker Rexxar.... yummie :P

     

    edit: wait! which is the current state of this?? Rexxar is getting beasts from differents years than when he was in standard?

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Is it weird that I think it's kind of cute? Don't think it's too strong, but it being a Beats helps immensely, so it may find its way into Druid and Hunter decks.

    Welcome to the site!

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