New Druid Minion - Umbral Owl

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A new Rare Druid Minion, Umbral Owl, 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 Rare Druid Minion, Umbral Owl, has been revealed!

    Umbral Owl Card Image

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


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

    was theoricrafting a N'Zoth, God of the Deep + Embiggen druid and this could fit the deck has some spells

    the deck has some spells and need a lot of rush minions..

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3343 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Stats for cost, it sucks, but considering the odds of playing it for free pretty consistently in almost any viable Druid's list - without even considering the possible buffs and summoning cheats ... - think this is good.

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

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

    Casting 7 spells is super easy for Druid. And really, you only need to cast 4 spells to get value from this. This will definitely see play, it is just too easy to get this down to 3 or less mana.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Even with how easy it can be to get the discounts, I don't think this will see play.  Maybe in spell-based Token decks to more keep up board control, but idk, I'm not impressed on initial looks.

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

    Fits really well in Embiggen druid in standard, and it fits in Kael'thas Sunstrider Druid. Seems like a solid card. Weak on first glance, strong when you look at the synergy. (Mainly when buffed by Survival of the Fittest.

    Standard: Kael'thas Sunstrider Druid, and maybe spell based token druid decks? But those prefer little to no minions...

    Wild: Not sure what kinda deck you want to slot this in. Cards like this have always been good in wild, but i'm just unsure as to what kind of deck wants this. OTK druid really doesn't want this, because its bad with Juicy Psychmelon.

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

    0 mana 4/4 with Rush. I don’t think you run this with Guardian Animals because this will get pulled once its cost is reduced enough. Maybe in Quest Druid which loves to play free stuff?

    This ain't no place for a hero

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  • DescentOfDragonsOp's Avatar
    530 353 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    maybe could see this fitting in to a spell druid probably not though 

    TOTAL CORRUPTION

    TOTAL POWAAAAAAA

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2226 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This is a nice useful card. Hard to say how playable it will be.

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

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

    Good as a 2 mana or less creature, otherwise meh.

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  • Este's Avatar
    Bloodfeather 650 162 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Corridor Owl should not be slept on, token druid runs a lot of spells.

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

    In a meta flooded with mana ramping SPELLS and Guardian deck that got a few bonuses to help it survive the Aggro onslaught, this just found a few homes in Druid builds. Malygos Druid may see some come back

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    0 mana 4/4 Rush.... ok Blizzard...

    I am envoy from nowhere in nowhere. Nobody and nothing have sent me. And even though it is impossible I exist. ©Trimutius

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    🐛In the dungeon I go deeper🐛
    🐛in set reviews I was a sleeper🐛
    🐛when minions die I get cheaper🐛
    🐛You guessed it right🐛
    🐛I'm corridor creeper🐛

    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)
    Wins per class (2/6/22): DH-197; Druid-996Hunter-91«60; Mage-1056; Paladin-1126; Priest-746; Rogue-961; Shaman-1095; Warlock-871; Warrior-906

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

    It always flabbergast me why druid keeps getting all these neat potentially 0 mana cards when other classes clearly needs tempo themselves. Druid was supposed to be that late game class, that gives up their early game for fantastic turns later.

    Basically we're looking at a free 4/4 around turn 7. Or otherwise, its usually 3-4 mana by turn 5-6, assuming druid isn't just twiddling their thumbs.

    And before your start thinking that this card will at very least be benign, it has rush, so chances are it will get a nice value trade to loosen the pressure while druid do druid things a few turns later.

     

    So, 5/5 then. What else can there be?

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I'm a bit surprised at the positive reviews here: yes, it's likely to be really cheap but I don't see a 4/4 reliably removing the threats you're wishing it to remove around the turns this finally gets played.

    There's always a good chance I'm horribly wrong but I just don't see the power of this yet.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2629 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Rule number #23 of Hearthstone: Never underestimate the power of something that can potentially cost 0. Casting a lot of spells is already something Druid likes to do, and this gives you a 0 mana 4/4 with Rush.

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    815 721 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Eh I think its gonna be pretty powerful and seen quite a lot like demon said freebies are always dangerous 

    Self proclaimed good at battlegrounds

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2215 2493 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I feel this card is a bit lackluster. If it was a 4/5, then sure it's decent, but I feel the high requirement of casting 7 spells and buffing this minion isn't worth it. There's better cards out there

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Not a build-around card, but seems strong because of Druid's love of spell-slinging.  0 mana cards are always worth looking at.

    "Some inspirational quote from some famous person" - Some famous person

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

    Corridor Creeper on steroids

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

    Druid use to play lots of spells, and that card can be played for 0 mana easily.

    And any card cheated to 0 mana is dangerous.

     

    5/5

    By The Holy Light!

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  • Tetsuo's Avatar
    Magma Rager 840 638 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Even if Druid is a class that plays lots of spells, I don't see why people are getting excited over this card. It's a 4/4 with rush, which is not very good even if you manage to drastically reduce its cost. Best-case scenario is you'll be playing this in the mid-game, with its pitiful 4 attack might not even remove some threats and might not even stick on the board because of its equally pitiful health. The upside of this being reduced to 0 mana doesn't salvage its mediocrity, I'm afraid. Why would you let this take up space in your deck?

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2025 1399 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Bad card, nothing to see here.

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Pretty easy to get this down to 0 in Druid, but might not be good enough. Will have to wait and see.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This is the strangest Giant card i have ever seen

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I think Druid has late game swings covered with Guardian Animals, Anubisath Defender, and now Strongman. The discount with Umbral Owl might be too slow when you compare it to the mentioned cards that provide an immediate discount to 0 mana. Also, Druid wants potentially cheap removal in the early game when they are weakest, which Owl cannot reliably accomplish for the main Druid decks right now.

    For glory, honor, and gold!

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Ever since Corridor Creeper, I try to stay optimistic about "Reduce mana cost by (1) for each...". Not sure the right balance of this and Fungal Fortunes though.

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  • Psymon's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1505 371 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Druid having mana cheating cards is a must in mostly every expansion. Will see play for sure.

    Xbox gamertag - Psymonjet

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1210 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Auto-include for Spell-centric decks, especially easy to knock down to 0-cost with Nature Studies and the Eclipses.

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This might be okay if it were generated from something but not actually put in the deck.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    A decent number of spells is fairly easy for Druid, especially if you're looking for a higher curve on your minions and you run mostly spells at the low end to ramp into it. I don't know that a 4/4 Rush is all that amazing though, even if you manage to get it down around Turn 3 or 4.

    Welcome to the site!

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  • BigE's Avatar
    Peasant 1175 590 Posts Joined 05/28/2020
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    It's no Mulchmuncher. I know, different decks and such, but the same effect: do what your deck does, get free rush minion. 

    Chumbawumba is the worst band name. 

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Not the greatest of cards, even with the discount I'm not sure it'll fit in any Druid deck

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 785 797 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Very good card. Gives slower spell Druids a way to cheat out a cheap Rush minion, and there are probably builds of Token Druid that run this as well. Will see play.

    I have spoken.

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    How many druid decks want to play a 4/4 minion on the turns that it will be before discounting this to a reasonable number? I don't see this as being very viable.

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

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