New Priest Minion - Fortune Teller

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A new Common Priest Minion, Fortune Teller, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    A new Common Priest Minion, Fortune Teller, has been revealed!

    Fortune Teller Card Image

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


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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    For this card to be good enough to play you will need to get it to at least 7/7. Not hard to do for a control deck. However, I am not sure if this will be played over of cards like Khartut Defender or Convincing Infiltrator simply because it isn't a good resurrect target.

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  • h0lysatan's Avatar
    Zombie 1065 790 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    It's kinda weird to see Priest getting Mech minion out of nowhere. Is this the start of a new meta for Priest?

    Knowledge is Power

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Not really seeing how this can go into any existing priest deck. I think most control decks would rather have a deathrattle effect than strong stats on a taunt minion, even though this minion can be very large in the right circumstances.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • Echo's Avatar
    Staff Writer Cupcake 860 318 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    As someone who's been jamming control priest in standard a ton recently, definitely can see this card being a very large taunt without much hassle. Issue is just that why would you want to run a taunt like this when the deck cannot really utilize it well. Maybe just as a tool to stonewall out aggressive stuff? I don't know, just feels kinda pointless to me when they can just run stuff that synergies with the deck more.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    In standard: Alright, so we got a 5 mana minion, that will probably be around 6/6 or 7/7 stats when played around turn 5.  Also it's a mech, which is weird to see in a priest deck. HOWEVER that's a good thing for control priest, as this gives them an additional minion to ress with targetted ress cards like N'Zoth, God of the Deep. However despite that, it's still a bad minion to pull with normal ress cards like [Hearthstone Card (Mass Ressurection) Not Found]. Which is good, cause **** single-player ress priests.

    In wild: This card won't see any play. There are way better cards there like Convincing Infiltrator, and most priest decks are either Reno priest, quest (the deathrattle quest) priest or ress/big priest. The only notable synergy it has is that late game you can magnetize Zilliax onto it for a bigger minion. But that combo seems best in a more control priest kinda deck that doesn't ress, which will see no play as there are better options honestly.

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  • PopeNeia's Avatar
    Darkmaster 640 841 Posts Joined 07/06/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    You don’t run this card, you generate it from Galakrond and get a 5 mana 8/8 with taunt quite regularly

    This ain't no place for a hero

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2626 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    These types of effects very rarely see play, and I see little reason to believe that this one in particular will be different.

    At least while Convincing Infiltrator is in Standard, that card is just much better in almost every way.

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  • sinti's Avatar
    Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2774 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This card has a potential to grow in size a lot, but it  cant fit into every deck imho and turn 5 might be too late vs aggro. Look good at first, but might end up not doing so well.

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  • SLima's Avatar
    The Undying 560 415 Posts Joined 08/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I don't think this will see any play in standard. It might see some experimentation in some meme wild priest decks because of Zilliax and SN1P-SN4P. But there's no support left for mechs in standard, this isn't a good resurrection target and committing a 5 mana slot (which is completely overcrowded for this class) for a slightly bigger than average taunt that can easily be silenced, removed or completely ignored by a Kayn Sunfury isn't a good deal. It requires at least three spells to be playable and even then it only surpasses Faceless Lurker in utility. Totally not worth it even with the new N'Zoth card.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Pretty weak overall. I can’t see many priest decks running this because you need a few spells for it to be good, and are priests really wanting to risk summoning a 3/3 mech with their res effects

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    At first glance it's weak, almost feels like a nerf to Galakrond. But if you play priest and use to have at least 3-4 spells in hand... Throw this in and see what happens.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    If you are running highlander or a control deck this can be a good card..

    we need to take notice of different tags of minions for N'zoth.

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Feels a little weak in general.

    To get vanilla value out of this, you need at least 2 spells on hand for a 5 mana 5/5 with taunt.

    Void Drinker feels more powerful than this and that doesn't see play.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5543 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    The problem is not that its weak. You can generally get this to a decent 5/5 taunt no problem, easily 6/6 taunt for 5 which is already above par. The real problem is why would priest ever play something like this? Tempo priest needs early game, and spell priest would prefer to play [Hearthstone Card (cobalt spelkin) Not Found] on 5.

    If the idea is that you can easily get it to a 10/10 for 5, its still just a minion that is easily removed by the myriad of removals around from Sap to just being silenced.

    Just galakrond fodder, honestly, and its not even a very good one.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2220 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Can be a 12/12 taunt for 5 at the most. That is insane value, but getting it so big is really unlikely. I think it's playable.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3339 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From JackJimson

    Feels a little weak in general.

    To get vanilla value out of this, you need at least 2 spells on hand for a 5 mana 5/5 with taunt.

    Void Drinker feels more powerful than this and that doesn't see play.

    Good point - it is probably playable, but won't consistently uses its full potentia

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Unless Blizz reveals some good synergy cards with mechs/taunts/battlecry, that card will not see play, atleast until year rotation.

    By The Holy Light!

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    At least until next expansion and Galakrond rotates.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Another card that is leading us Control Players to like this set.  In this heavy aggro meta, cards like this could spell the return of some control. 

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Pushing spell priest maybe?

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Dragon 2215 2485 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    All you're doing it telling your opponent how many spells you have in hand. Absolute rubbish

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Interesting concept but why would anyone run this?

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Unless the Mech tag will be relevant (which I doubt, the expansion is not about Mechs), I believe this card won't see much play. Even in spell generating decks, priests will prefer Cobalt Spellkin on 5.

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Don't think this will ever be run while Convincing Infiltrator is still around.  It's too expensive and conditional to make the cut in most lists, but might be strong in a dedicated deck.  Whether a dedicated spell priest is strong enough, we'll have to wait and see.

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Why did I think it only said +1 Health? It's much better than I thought. I reckon it will almost always have above average stats, but whether it will have a spot in the current Priest lists is uncertain.

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    You probably need three or more spells in hand to make this decent. While I generally love Spell Priest archetypes, and it seems that's a big part of what they're pushing for Priest this go-around, Fortune Teller specifically is a hard sell for me because this kind of effect requires card draw to be consistent, and that's something Priest lacks significantly. Maybe there's something else in the set that makes this work, but so far I'm not sold.

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  • DescentOfDragonsOp's Avatar
    530 353 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    this could be good in a spell preist with allurah and ohh my theory crafting juices are flowing with this card

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    815 721 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Eh looks useless to me I dont really see a 5 mana 3/3 working even if it does get big sometimes you'll spend a whole turn just for it to be shanked by a silence 

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This card basically checks itself as holding spells in hand is characteristic of Control Priest, but control decks don't care that much about stat payoffs. Convincing Infiltrator fits the slot more consistently if you're looking for a 5-mana taunt.

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  • clawz161's Avatar
    The Undying 825 827 Posts Joined 07/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I got this in a bucket in duels and it was usually a 5 mana 6/6 or 7/7 when i played it on curve, of course i played suboptimally not using spells when i should to make it that way but it's a thing. Won't be played in constructed though.

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I think it's just not good enough.  Even a 5 mana 6-6 or 7-7 is just not worth holding onto all those spells for because that means you're not playing them in earlier turns to help survive.

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2025 1394 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Trash card, moving on... nothing to see here ;-)

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  • VooDooSaurus's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 280 64 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Not sure how i feel about this one. You need 3 spells to get value off of it, which doesn't seem like that much of an ask, however, it has anti synergy with big/resurrect priest. Will see play if a "spell" priest style of deck does. 

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Not bad, it's nice to see a priest mech again.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Combo decks or ones heavy on spells for priest might have play for this as you only need 2 spells to be a 5 mana 5/5

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Way too low in the current game.

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Way too expensive and too slow to be playable outside of very fringe meme decks.

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  • Psymon's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1505 371 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Can work fine in wild with mechanic stuff but for standard seems to be born out of time. It didn't predict pretty well when it should hit meta.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1210 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I'm not sure if even Priest holds on to that many spells in hand for this card to be worth being a pile of stats.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    For the longest time I thought this was a fucking frog. Like, the little tassels were its front legs raised in a gesture of mysticism, and it was standing on a sort of rock or something with the crystal ball in front of it. I glossed over the Mech tag and assumed it read Beast.

    I don't know, I have nothing to say about the card, that's all I can think about.

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  • BigE's Avatar
    Peasant 1175 590 Posts Joined 05/28/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I hate it on gender principle: priest taunt. Boo. 

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Doesn't seem like much, but in things like Galakrond decks it has the potential to scale very quickly

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 785 796 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Blizzard going heavy on the Spells-centric Priest deck, but I don't see any reason that deck would want to run a sometimes big Taunt that costs 5.

    I have spoken.

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    So Priest will often have a decent number of spells in hand, but I feel llike this is a clunky activation effect. I don't know if it is strong enough and consistent enough to fit in the Priest's game plan.

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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