New Demon Hunter Minion - Vilefiend Trainer

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A new Common Demon Hunter Minion, Vilefiend Trainer, 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 Demon Hunter Minion, Vilefiend Trainer, has been revealed!

    Vilefiend Trainer Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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

    Guess we continue the trend of Demon Hunter just getting cards that do nothing other than being better than everything else

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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

    Again, aggressive even-costed demon hunter cards aren't really likely to see play in wild for a few expansions yet. The card is acceptable, but not amazing.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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

    This card reminds me of Shield of Galakrond in Warlock since they have similar stats and a similar effect.  For 1 mana less you lose Taunt and have a requirement to get the effect, so I'm not confident this will see play.  It might clog up other outcast effects and make some clunky turns, but it might be enough to justify some T2-3 token DH deck.

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

    if you have a use for those tokens it will see play but the current tempo DH won't play it. it's not aggressive enough.

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

    Meh card, there are way more powerful options to place in a deck, may have been better if it were a demon.

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

    Token synergy, check. Strong stats on it's respective turn, check. it's a demon hunter card, check. Okay i'm pretty sure we just found a strong tempo card that will be hated by people. It still has amazing stats if you play it WITHOUT the outcast effect, so i guess this will see play in pretty much every tempo & token DH deck. Solid card.

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

    The 1/1s will probably be fairly underwhelming by turn 4, but if you are playing a deck that cares about wide boards maybe they can be put to good use. If this card sees play I think it will be because you really want a wide board, and the 5/4 will grab the attention of your opponent. So your 1/1s will be able to slide under the radar until your next turn when they can be buffed or whatever you want to do with them.

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

    Fuel for the token synergy they keep getting, though just two 1/1’s seems really underwhelming, like the token synergy cards in general feel

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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

    Combining outcast with a bit of token, eh? Solid body to boot.

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

    Maybe the swarm/sacrifice dh will emerge in this expansion.

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Thank God this is even.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    It says a lot about DH when their weakest card this expansion is a potential 4 mana 7/6.

    Rating cards on coolness factor rather than predicting power because I like screwing up rating averages (and because I suck at predicting real power levels, but we'll ignore that LUL)
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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2220 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

    Okay card, but kind of uninspiring.

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

    Perfectly fair card. It's good if you get the Outcast off, but it's underwhelming if you don't. Even then though, it's not THAT insane, so I don't see this doing too great.

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

    There was a time where Grim Necromancer was somewhat considered in standard and this one's very nearly 2 times as big.

    Its a good card, but in a sea of other good cards I can't find a place for it in any deck. Maybe token dhunters? There's just better cards than this in most decks you'll find, and this has the burden of only being good when outcasted.

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

    Eh.. not very interesting imo, this is a support for token DH i guess.

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

    Only playable in token, and I doubt it's good there either. Fair card, right, but outclassed by other DH cards.

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

    Decent Stats and good support for Aggro/Midrange Demon Hunter.

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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

    It's playable on curve in arena - this minion is essentially a chillwind yeti that's more aggressively statted. 

    If you play with on curve with the outcast effect activated it becomes a 7/6 across three bodies which is VERY strong - 4 mana 7/7 have seen play with Flamewreathed faceless and other minions, there's no reason for this not to see play either.

    Due to HOW it's a 7/6 this could see play in tempo or control decks. Tempo obviously wants to be as threatening as they can and push as much damage as possible, while the control decks look like they want to utilize the tokens DH has for their synergy with Fel Guardian, Blood herald and Netherandamus.

    This card can be drawn with the newly printed Double Jump, if your deck doesn't have a glut of outcast cards to compete with. 

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

    I see no reason you run this over Illidari Felblade. Both need to be outcasted to get their full effect, but Felblade with rush at a base is more tempo driven than Vilefiend Trainer even with the 1-Health difference. With the Outcast, I'd gladly trade 2/3 in stats to be able to remove my opponents 3 or 4 drop for free. Also, Illidari Felblade doesn't even see play in DH right now and the token synergy of Vilefiend Trainer doesn't matter much since Token DH looks terrible going into this expansion.

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

    Someone at Team5 mains a DH
    No other explanation for such a favorable bias

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

    Aggressive card that fill weel with DH identity. Preatty strong in arena, but in standard ladder you want play this card only if you can use also outcast in curve (and that is not so easy). So...probably average card

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

    I don't see it... I'll have to try it and see how it works

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

    Solid card

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

    Solid but not good enough.

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

    It doesn't seem really threatening, but I am sure I will come to hate to see this played.

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

    It's uh, Okay.  You can use it to fuel Blood Herald Card Image

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

    Token DH synergy is what pops up in my mind. BTW the token card art looks amazing looks like a xenomorph from the alien movies

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

    All out ast cards are good

    -=alfi=-

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

    Outcast cards are good, but this has to compete against even better cards. Not going to see play because token Demon Hunter isn't there.

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

    If you can use the outcast it's a nice bonus, the stats are already nice for the cost of the card

    All hail the banshee queen.

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

    Low power level for Demon Hunter standards.

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

    It's a pretty good card, but I don't see it being good enough to see play. It doesn't fit in any current DH deck and doesn't carry any deck by itself.

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

    Seems good, but, generally, stats aren't enough to make a card playable anymore, especially when spread over multiple bodies. Great Arena card, but I don't see it being an auto-include in constructed.

    If the 1/1 Demons had rush or taunt or something, this card is auto-include in DH. Since that isn't true, I don't think this 4 man 7/6 is going to be good enough (I can't believe those words are coming out of my mouth!) since cards like Hyena Alpha are arguably stronger and aren't staples in the meta.

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

    Token DH support but I don’t think it will find a place anywhere else.

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

    Decent midrange minion. Too bad "decent" and "midrange" have no place in DH.

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

    I agree with everyone who's already posted - this is a solid, strong minion, will be a great Arena card, but it's just not good enough to see play in current Demon Hunter lists. What it does is good, but it isn't anywhere near broken enough to warrant including over far better and more aggressive minions.

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

    Glad blizzard is releasing some toned down DH class cards. This card is acceptable and that's good.

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

    Seems like blizz supports token DH with that set.

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

    The most meh DH card from the set, imo.

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

    They are pushing token synergy, but the only good finisher now is Nethrandamus

    Mabe in the last expansion of the year they will add some synergy to it

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

    This is okay.  Not great, but it puts more token minions on the board.  Could be good if you have Nethrandamus or that one card that draws a card per friendly minion that died this turn.

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

    Has solid stats on its own, and with the Outcast effect it looks quite powerful. Might even be included in some of the more aggressive decks, despite its cost.

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