New Warlock Minion - Neeru Fireblade

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

    A new Legendary Warlock Minion, Neeru Fireblade, has been revealed!

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  • Hawk819's Avatar
    215 22 Posts Joined 03/23/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    ok. Now it's worth destroying one's deck. Somehow I knew there was a purpose to the Shadow Cards and Roame. Now we know. 

     

    However, there is one slight drawback: destroying this card as one destroys their deck in order to use it. I'd say, pray that this card is in hand, or after a mulligan. If not, well, Concede. 

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

    Next expansion will have a Lorekeeper Tleklop which will have lowest to highest cards order shuffled.

    Only way it's viable.

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

    I think this has a serious chance to be a win condition for a Control Warlock. The class has an easier time than most other control decks reaching fatigue thanks to Life Tap. Once they hit fatigue and play Neeru Fireblade, they can play Envoy Rustwix or whatever ways they can duplicate that deathrattle to avoid fatigue damage. A free board of eighteen damage each turn can quickly outpace even the 6/6 Abyssals from Lord Jaraxxus and will be harder for opponents to keep up with than the 6/6 Abyssals. This looks crazy and scary and I can't wait to try this out!

    For glory, honor, and gold!

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

    Team 5 printing Soul Rend makes sense now lol.

    Reminds me of Chef Nomi, which this card essentially replaces.

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  • aposteljoe's Avatar
    COMMENT_COUNT_600_HS 1165 644 Posts Joined 06/18/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Ok, another self mill payoff card. The problem I see, is the same as with the discard mechanic: You don't want to burn your payoff cards. As long as this card is in your deck you can't reliably mill yourself.

    The effect istself is like Nomi with weaker tokens, but it never runs out of gas. I doubt you will survive long enough.

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

    One of those cards that shows potential but is practically impossible to pull off without dying.

    But if team5 really wants this to work, expect plenty of support in the coming 2 expansions. The payoff is certainly nice. Outside of freeze spells, there's just very little you can do to prevent 18 damage incoming, since the imps are summoned every turn.

    On paper it looks nice, but getting there and not die is something else altogether.

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

    I'm getting heavy Chef Nomi vibes from him. 6/6s were more game ending, though this has the benefit of practically making the 3/2s nigh-impossible to remove since they come back at the end of the turn. That being said, you're taking fatigue damage, and I feel like even Control Mirrors will have ways of closing out games in fatigue.

    3 stars, if only because he's the star of the Mill-yourself-lock deck.

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  • darkoprk's Avatar
    Magma Rager 345 151 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Time to drop uncorrupted tickatus lol 

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  • Grumpy000's Avatar
    1880 1159 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    A weaker Nomi. It will find room in some deck ... but not in the meta

    I am 69 years old and still reach Legend

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  • NegativeNemsy's Avatar
    405 206 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    This card is a battlecry so you can put more cheap spells in your deck via Educated Elekk and destroy it yourself to avoid fatigue.  The game should be over after a couple of turns of the portal anyway.

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  • shky's Avatar
    Pirate King 895 196 Posts Joined 06/25/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I like it, can be a new win condition for lock

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  • Topandito's Avatar
    905 478 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I think this won't be very good. It will be rare that you have the chance to even reach this point in a game, and even when you do you will have the chance that you just threw away this exact card during the process of getting there. It could be this is just played without the mill effects and it used as a chef nomi style win condition but even then I don't really think that the consistency of reaching fatigue without dying will be there.

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  • Megasharpie's Avatar
    Mankrik's Wife 360 144 Posts Joined 08/06/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    Very much a similar card theme to chef Nomi, but the every turn demon spawn is definitely something to not sleep on. 

    At this point I have spent too much money on these games to quit. 

    Now pass me another pack, and lets see what I pull. 

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From darkoprk

    Time to drop uncorrupted tickatus lol 

    The synergy is real :D

    As people have pointed out, the biggest issue of the strategy is that you need to have this in your hand or get lucky with what you burn since otherwise...yeah. Might be a bit too inconsistent to be viable.

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

    Like Nomi but much better!

    -=alfi=-

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  • Me0203's Avatar
    Design Champion 750 497 Posts Joined 06/13/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Welp, that's an easy 1 star. This won't even be a fun card to meme with, 'cause the payoff involves (basically) dying. You can't sit back and enjoy your handiwork for a few turns, can you? 

    We've already seen several cards printed this expansion which can kill this whole board outright, and besides, you don't need to kill the imps. If your board puts the Warlock opponent in danger and you can take some damage, he has to trade his imps away and hope you won't be able to repopulate. And, considering you have a full deck left, that seems relatively easy.

    Better call Thrall!

     

     

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  • Daowen's Avatar
    Hero of Warcraft 1000 252 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    pretty sure warlocks will find a way to not die from this.

    I'm not online       cat          it's just your imagination

     

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

    The card looks very attractive, but when you think about it, it's not going to see play competitively. You want to be going face and doing lethal damage to your opponent when you are fatigued, not controlling the board and taking more fatigue damage. Unless there's a new warlock card yet to be printed that makes you immune to fatigue damage. Not to mention, you need a viable way to draw this legendary before destroying your deck.  

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  • bela's Avatar
    335 152 Posts Joined 01/19/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    for this to work there needs to be a consistent way to remove your own decks beside just tickatus

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  • shelkem's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 375 117 Posts Joined 03/23/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Goes well with double Rustwix and Elekks, plus some unrevealed synergy cards

     

    I like the archetype already

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  • louzy82's Avatar
    210 41 Posts Joined 06/04/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Interesting!

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  • Kossrocks's Avatar
    430 145 Posts Joined 11/15/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    This card is just too inconsistent. Remember the old Warlock quest? The quest was hyped too, but then it never saw play. True this card fills your board with imps, but i do not think it will be a good enough win condition

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

    Sadly the albatross has left us, making it impossible to play around this. 

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  • ArrowSh0t's Avatar
    160 142 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    has potential but emptying your deck + creating tempo + staying alive hmm we will see

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

    This card is incredibly trash. Let's start with the stats: 5 mana 5/5 is not worth playing without the effect. So let's look at the effect: you have to have an empty deck. There are two ways to do it: either you destroy your deck yourself, or you draw through it like a madman. With the first option, not only do you destroy valuable resources, there's a very high chance that you'll discard Neeru Fireblade. With the second options, it means that you have to run a ton of cheap cards and draw to get through your deck quickly. That requires a very synergistic deck (think current Zoo with getting a bunch of Hand of Gul'dans), for which drawing a 5 mana 5/5 can be disastrous.

    Let's say we manage to do it: Our entire deck is gone, we still have some resources in our hand (even though there is probably still some card draw in there) and we managed to not burn Neeru. We play it and... get some imps. Our opponent removes them, and builds a board themselves. We use our resources to remove their board, take some fatigue damage, repeat. We start running out of resources, fatigue damage builds up, and it turns out that our opponent's cards are better than some measly imps every turn. They use their resources to deal with the imps, our fatigue damage keeps building up, we die.

    Just play Lord Jaraxxus.

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  • bananenparty's Avatar
    Card Designer Enthusiast 1045 199 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    As it seems that there are no ways to draw your empty deck win conditions reliably, this won't work. It's a really fun concept though.

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From Erodos

    This card is incredibly trash. Let's start with the stats: 5 mana 5/5 is not worth playing without the effect. So let's look at the effect: you have to have an empty deck. There are two ways to do it: either you destroy your deck yourself, or you draw through it like a madman. With the first option, not only do you destroy valuable resources, there's a very high chance that you'll discard Neeru Fireblade. With the second options, it means that you have to run a ton of cheap cards and draw to get through your deck quickly. That requires a very synergistic deck (think current Zoo with getting a bunch of Hand of Gul'dans), for which drawing a 5 mana 5/5 can be disastrous.

    Let's say we manage to do it: Our entire deck is gone, we still have some resources in our hand (even though there is probably still some card draw in there) and we managed to not burn Neeru. We play it and... get some imps. Our opponent removes them, and builds a board themselves. We use our resources to remove their board, take some fatigue damage, repeat. We start running out of resources, fatigue damage builds up, and it turns out that our opponent's cards are better than 6/4 worth of stats every turn. Our imps can't trade into their big boys, we don't have resources to remove them, we die.

    Just play Lord Jaraxxus.

    A board filled with imps is a 21/14 worth stats, not 6/4. That portal isn't the same as Nether Portal.

    By The Holy Light!

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  • Inf4mous's Avatar
    Vampire 570 139 Posts Joined 07/09/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    My brain is too small to think of a deck for this card

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  • bardozan's Avatar
    380 250 Posts Joined 09/12/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    If Soul Rend sees play, it will be due to this card.

    Soul Rend into this is the best scenario. Opponent needs to deal with the board from their hand.

    OBLIVION!

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

    HAHHAHAHAHHAHHA... HAHAHHAA.. IT'S THE Lakkari Sacrifice QUEST REWARD (Nether Portal) on a battlecry! With as a condition that your out of cards! hahahaha. The WORST quest reward from Journy to Ungoro is back hahahhahaha. It's so unfortunate that Archivist Elysiana isn't in the core set, otherwise you could have played her after Neeru Fireblade.

    The worst Ungoro quest: Lakkari Sacrifice hardly ever saw play, because it didn't synergize that well with discardlock. Mainly because Discardlock is an aggro deck, that doesn't want to waste 1 card in mulligan. Neeru Fireblade however needs you to draw your entire deck. We do see some synergy with it in this set, and Tickatus uncorrupted can help destroy 5 of your cards. Control MIGHT slot it in as an alternate wincondition, because playing Neeru Fireblade after/before Lord Jaraxxus can help you turn your control deck into an aggro deck real quick. But still untill then it's basicly just sitting in your hand, useless untill you run out of cards.

    BUT there still are a number of problems with Neeru Fireblade. 1st of all: It's just Nether Portals effect, summon 2 3/2 imps isn't that good when your in fatigue. 2nd reason: you need to have Neeru Fireblade in your hand, otherise you risk milling it with Tickatus, Soul Rend and other stuff. Reminder: Deck of Chaos has the exact same problem of "you don't draw it until late into the game". To me it seems like a deck build around Neeru Fireblade will have trouble with removal and recources, because they will burn most of their own cards.

    I don't think a Neeru Fireblade focussed deck will work that well unless it gets a lot more support. But hey it might be a bad, but really fun to play deck though. And honestly i feel like some more kinda bad but at the same time REALLY fun decks is what HS kinda needs right now.

    OH and in WILD it will see 0 play, because there already is a WAY better card that likes fatigue: Mecha'thun. Why summon imps and slowly kill your opponent when you can OTK your opponent while watching that beautiful animation?

    Edit: Oh it fills your entire board each turn, well still it's hard to trigger. So i still think it wouldn't be that good, the only thing i changed my mind on is giving it 2 stars instead of 1, just because it fills your board. 

    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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  • AmigoGP's Avatar
    250 142 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    first discard cards in hand ,now discard your deck ,future discard your hero .

    This card can be played in a control deck and be your trump card for the late game.A deck that makes you mill yourself fast to get the effect i dont know.

    To bad Archivist Elysiana .Maybe we get some new card/s that can put /shuffle card in your deck after you play this.

    I kind of like this risk high reward card and i can't wait to try it.

     

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

    Whoops, you are right. Makes it a bit better, but my other points still stand.

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

    Good reward for depleting your deck and the method has some actual support. Looks interesting to experiment with!

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  • Apple2016's Avatar
    260 141 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    If Octopus card which draws 8 was in standard, this deck could have seen play.

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  • Hiei's Avatar
    COMMENT_COUNT_200_HS 480 223 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Not sure if its worth it to destroy your deck to have 3/2 imps. You will take fatigue damage every turn for 3/2 minions? They will be destroyed by zone attack or bigger minion that will trade and you'll die by fatigue. I'd rather two 8/8 than this.

    Murlocs <3

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

    This card is insane and the deck burning cards will be played. Polkelt to guarantee you don't burn this and win.

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

    Alright so the most obvious comparison is Lakkari Sacrifice which had the very annoying downside of having to play the Portal after completion and the imps being summoned at the end of the turn, making them very slow.

    This fixes both of those by being summoned alongside a 5/5 while also essentially giving you imps with charge (since they'll just be resummoned at the end of the opponent's turn if killed)

    Essentially this is a ticking clock that will constantly push the opponent off the board and punch him in the face. Basically a juiced up version of Jaraxxus if you will

    The downside obviously is fatigue damage + the fact that it will take a while to get there. Not to mention that you have to find this before you start yeeting your deck.

     

    Personally I don't like this kind of card because it's just a control killer and nothing else. All you need to do is burn through your deck while the opponent watches helplessly because they can't actually burn you down.

    However, it does seem like they are no longer actively pushing pure removal control decks anymore and instead shift towards actual win conditions so perhaps those will keep the deck in check.

    If not, then I'm just going to make peace with the fact that Warlock will be the only relevant control deck for the next two years

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • mayhern's Avatar
    Wizard 355 294 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    It would be good in standard if archivist elysiana was still a thing. In wild it's not worth the effort, better go for Mecha'thun

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  • MarcoHS's Avatar
    Scholomance Surveyor 325 97 Posts Joined 06/02/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Seems difficult to destroy the right cards while survive vs aggro deck and then to enjoy the portal. It's a funny deck

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  • Karmin's Avatar
    Zombie 280 142 Posts Joined 02/12/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Playing a discard deck Warlock archetype means you'll need way more win conditions than this, because you'll probably end up discarding it anyway.

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

    A much much weaker Chef Nomi

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  • Fedrion's Avatar
    Zombie 1675 733 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Aggro? Control? Weird...

    Discolock was an aggro oriented deck.

    This sounds like a control tool but... wrong? Not sold at all right now.

    Papa Nurgle wants to share his gifts.

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  • jacob1487's Avatar
    465 218 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    a win condition, but something I feel won't be enough to secure the deal before you die. To get this far the warlock needs to have tapped/taken a lot of damage, how long can they resist the fatigue damage?

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

    Good card... But not good enough if you can't get a deck back

    Lemushki - The one and only since the 2006 rebranding.

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  • serafim's Avatar
    310 137 Posts Joined 06/17/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Fatigue lock!

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

    I don't understand this card. It looks like the winning play for a control deck that's intent on going to the fatigue game, otherwise it's just useless at all other times of a game. I wonder what archetype Blizzard was thinking for this card when they printed it. Maybe there's more upcoming support for it. 

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

    It's a thing you can do now. It'll be fun to try... For someone else. I don't want to open this. 

    Chumbawumba is the worst band name. 

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  • Nevin's Avatar
    525 393 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I hope this doesn’t work out. I’m not a fan of empty deck win conditions. Running out your deck should be a bad thing. It’s not fun to grind your opponent to fatigue and then realize they WANTED that. 

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

    Sure makes Lakkari Sacrifice look stupid. The big question is "how easy will it be to stave off fatigue after this?"

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  • burgoskid's Avatar
    210 218 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Now warlocks can play uncorruptedTickatus with no worries as long as you don't discard this.

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

    Maybe this can be an alternative win condition for some Control Lock like Chef Nomi was for some deck. If the opponent don't kill u in 1-2 turn (or u died for the fatigue damage) this card set the game

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  • KingMicahhh's Avatar
    Banned 375 282 Posts Joined 11/30/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    good card

    Kenny's little poet. 😇

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  • Sirgeekalot's Avatar
    Rexxar 225 139 Posts Joined 01/24/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    fatigue and tickatus protection? not sure it works great, but its certainly interesting. need to see it in action. reserving judgement

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

    In a control match-up, activating this will probably win you the game, as there will be no way to remove the portal. But you'd still be taking fatigue (unless you jam Envoy Rustwix or something AFTER playing this). In most other matches, this is just a dead card. 

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

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  • williethesmurf's Avatar
    155 159 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    A meme card for meme decks, it's always fun to see a couple of those

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  • Thendes's Avatar
    350 140 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    You have to draw this while destroying your whole deck and not die. This is a dead card sitting in your hand the whole time and  you also die to fatigue. To many variables to be good enough.

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  • KanzakiGin's Avatar
    Lion's Guard 745 208 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    self-destruction warlock? 

    Rogue DH

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  • Osh92's Avatar
    505 224 Posts Joined 07/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Useless meme legendary...

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From Sparkinarius

    I think this has a serious chance to be a win condition for a Control Warlock. The class has an easier time than most other control decks reaching fatigue thanks to Life Tap. Once they hit fatigue and play Neeru Fireblade, they can play Envoy Rustwix or whatever ways they can duplicate that deathrattle to avoid fatigue damage. A free board of eighteen damage each turn can quickly outpace even the 6/6 Abyssals from Lord Jaraxxus and will be harder for opponents to keep up with than the 6/6 Abyssals. This looks crazy and scary and I can't wait to try this out!

    I like the Rustwix Idea, so I think just Rustwix is better since if you have Neeru and did not have an empty deck it becomes a dead card for a pretty long time.

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  • ArcyroX's Avatar
    Ghost 955 214 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    now this is a card that you wanna build a deck for it

    I really wish warlock would get its own Academic Espionage someday.

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  • Psychopomp's Avatar
    Agamaggan 495 176 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    This card has potential, but we've seen the Portal before, and if discard had more synergy than deck emptying, I don't think this will be a popular card

    4 Mana 7/7

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  • Lookwedont's Avatar
    Taurajo Innkeeper 415 152 Posts Joined 01/19/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    Old quest warlock on a stick. By itself, still not impressive. Needs another good payoff to go with it like burn or opponent deck destruction

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  • DrunkDonuuut's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 195 158 Posts Joined 03/01/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Actually a strong effect for deck burning warlock...

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

    An interesting last ditch effort... But kinda mediocre

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

    Now this card is SUPER cool. This is a pretty cool (and strong) payoff for destroying the deck, although there are a lot of issues with this. Still though, it'll see play just because it's a cool card and people will try to make it work.

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  • Alleria's Avatar
    Eevee 1275 863 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Nether Portal on steroids. Not sure if it´s worth it, Lakkari Sacrifice looked good on paper too, but it wasn´t very played.

    ♡ u 4ever 2008 - 2022

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  • FortyDust's Avatar
    Pumpkin 1190 1897 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Leave it to Warlock to be first in line with a weird alternative win condition.

    There are a LOT of taunts and board clears in the game this time around, so imps are not beating that. It's too slow to beat aggro. I have to wonder what kind of opponent this thing is meant to beat. I feel like we're just going to have to wait for a memer to get lucky and watch it play out on YouTube.

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

    I"m skeptical.  Filling your board with 3/2's is great.  Doing so as a win condition in a class where it beats up your own health to gain advantage and then still taking cumulative burn each turn?  I'd like to think this will be awesome, but I'm remaining skeptical. 

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  • dembro's Avatar
    Peon 375 317 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Can't wait to destroy this card every time I cull my deck. But seriously, I think Warlock can Life Tap its way to an empty deck without needing to destroy any of its cards, so this could be a useful finisher. 

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  • Synnr7's Avatar
    Winter Whisperer 1040 624 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Don't know if 3/2s are enough but unlike Nomi they come back every turn is a threat.  Even without self mill he's decent in long matches. I'm sure he'll see some play.

    Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast. 

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  • JoeyJojo48's Avatar
    Peon 630 230 Posts Joined 06/11/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    It'll be really sad when you destroy this card in a deck about deck self-destruction.

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

    An interesting card if nothing else. The issue I see with this archetype is needing to get Neeru before you start turbo milling, but maybe Free Admission to tutor it becomes the answer.

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  • PetiteMouche's Avatar
    75 32 Posts Joined 03/18/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Can a board of 3/2s kill your opponent faster than fatigue kills you ? I doubt it.

     

    Reminds me of Nether Portal, you work so hard to activate it and then, your opponent easily deals with the imps cause it's just too late and too small to really benefit from the infinite value.

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  • PetiteMouche's Avatar
    75 32 Posts Joined 03/18/2021
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From ArcyroX

    now this is a card that you wanna build a deck for it

    I really wish warlock would get its own Academic Espionage someday.

    Impbalming

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

    I think this will require some actual knowledge of how to play whatever decktype it enables. This will not be one of those autopilot kind of decks. The real question will be can you keep your health high enough that a few turns of fatigue damage won't kill you while you try to finish off your opponent with a bunch of 3/2 minions. It says that it fills the board each turn, I presume that means start of any turn, yours or your opponent's.

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

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

    It's Chef Nomi and Lakkari Sacrifice fused in one.

    Very powerful effect, and gives you something to do at late game when warlock is out of gas.

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

    I am intrigued, but skeptical. I don't think this is meant to be competitive unless there is a lot more support. And even as a silly meme card it still seems awful. I think we are going to get more support for a "Fatigue Warlock", but right now this and the pig won't be enough.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Mawryk's Avatar
    605 131 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I dunno.  Still not feeling destroy-your-deck Warlock.

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

    This reminds me of the Ungoro quest for warlocks which was not played. Maybe this will be better?

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  • darkoprk's Avatar
    Magma Rager 345 151 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From FrostyFeet
    Quote From darkoprk

    Time to drop uncorrupted tickatus lol 

    The synergy is real :D

    As people have pointed out, the biggest issue of the strategy is that you need to have this in your hand or get lucky with what you burn since otherwise...yeah. Might be a bit too inconsistent to be viable.

    I agree seems too inconsistent for the most part. Might be better in wild with Hemet, Jungle Hunter but will still be inconsistent at times.

     

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Splendiferous 2145 1903 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Wasn't a portal that spits out imps the quest reward from Un'Goro? Aside from Soul Rend and uncorrupted Tickatus, I'm not sure what ways there are to quickly burn through your deck. You probably don't want to destroy it too quickly because you opponent will have more ways to destroy you. This might work, especially if you still have cards in hand to buff the imps like Wicked Whispers.

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  • omelette's Avatar
    235 138 Posts Joined 12/04/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    could be good... a better onyxia?

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  • Thraxus's Avatar
    1060 339 Posts Joined 05/08/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    Meme card, might be the worst legendary in the set

    English is not my native language, so please excuse occasional mistakes

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  • frenzy's Avatar
    COMMENT_COUNT_200_HS 945 474 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Appatrnylu he's not abad in the kitchen eother.

    by frenzy 3 years, 6 months ago
    1 1380 1380 1141 0
    by frenzy 3 years, 10 months ago
    1 1640 1640 1070 0
    3 1440 1440 1961 0
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    4 3400 3400 1180 0

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  • Ethardoth's Avatar
    Harpy Lieutenant 435 389 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    If it's at the end of each turn, opponent can never remove it, and you get full board of ready to attack minions next turn.
    If at the start of each turn, you actually can't summon any more minions nor attack with your board, basically you block yourself.
    Which one it is?

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  • R217's Avatar
    Bulbasaur 340 139 Posts Joined 07/27/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Card with some potential. IMHO hard to play with this kind of deck, but it will be great idea, to make sth with it and Barrens Scavenger.

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  • Tumbleweedovski's Avatar
    Protector of Elwynn 1470 598 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Really cool package, but I've got no clue how strong it'll actually be. Could go either way, so 3 stars to be on the safe side.

    Arena > Wild > Standard

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  • TkGuardian's Avatar
    Salty Dog 480 153 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Easy warlock quest? And it fills your entire board without any draw back? Sign me in o/

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

    Goes well with double Rustwix and Elekks, plus some unrevealed synergy cards

     

    I like the archetype already

    I'm also excited to see where this is going - seems pretty strong and fun to pilot 

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

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  • johnyap11's Avatar
    220 136 Posts Joined 03/04/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Wow a very new idea - but I doubt it'll really see play as the condition is too hard to achieve

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  • calipsis's Avatar
    Nightfall 825 152 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Good in control

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

    Interesting card for sure but right now i only see this working as some sort of Last Resort - not sure if a deck that would be build around this would be strong enough for the meta.

    Could work, but right now im not that convinced. 

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

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  • AngryShuckie's Avatar
    1705 1735 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From Ethardoth

    If it's at the end of each turn, opponent can never remove it, and you get full board of ready to attack minions next turn.
    If at the start of each turn, you actually can't summon any more minions nor attack with your board, basically you block yourself.
    Which one it is?

    The portal fills your board at the end of each of YOUR turns (see the token at https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/cards/63219-neeru-fireblade?order=desc&set=forged-in-the-barrens), so if the opponent removes them you'll have board space.

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  • kkiiuu's Avatar
    340 169 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    nomi but every turn, i se a word where this might be good

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  • Ethardoth's Avatar
    Harpy Lieutenant 435 389 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From AngryShuckie
    Quote From Ethardoth

    If it's at the end of each turn, opponent can never remove it, and you get full board of ready to attack minions next turn.
    If at the start of each turn, you actually can't summon any more minions nor attack with your board, basically you block yourself.
    Which one it is?

    The portal fills your board at the end of each of YOUR turns (see the token at https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/cards/63219-neeru-fireblade?order=desc&set=forged-in-the-barrens), so if the opponent removes them you'll have board space.

    Thanks, forgot to check the token. Text on the card itself got me confused

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  • OverLord2109's Avatar
    135 141 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    good

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

    While the condition to activate Chef Nomi is similar, the cards are insanely different. Chef Nomi is all about a 1 turn burst of stats to end the game, Neeru Fireblade is about a consistent board presence. Not only that, thanks to Envoy Rustwix, the drawback of burning your deck isn't as severe.

    Please, T5, don't print more deck destructio Warlock, it's more annoying to play against than Priest.

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

    Lakkari Sacrifice meets Chef Nomi. Like the sacrifice, this seems to fit into decks that burn away a lot of their cards in pursuit of "infinite value." I like that it doesn't have to be run in those kinds of decks (you could just run it in an ultra-control Warlock that naturally reaches fatigue, if such a thing ever exists) but it's highly unlikely this sees play in anything other than Toss Warlock. My personal feeling is that Toss Warlock will be too inconsistent and too heavy on getting rid of its own cards to be any good.

    I have spoken.

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

    So apparently this doesn't fill the board at the end of every turn but just yours....which makes it actually worse than Lakkari Sacrifice.

    Well, at least it Warlock won't rule the control game all alone

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Arenekhert's Avatar
    Taurajo Innkeeper 160 104 Posts Joined 02/28/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    i'm not sure if this is worth burning through your deck, but not a bad a card to throw out when you've emptied your deck 

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  • greenfrog100's Avatar
    Pikachu 200 140 Posts Joined 03/03/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Very nice finisher

    Ribbit

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  • erickcross's Avatar
    Charmander 180 144 Posts Joined 03/16/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Nice

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  • Inconspicuosaurus's Avatar
    Pirate King 795 228 Posts Joined 03/30/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Seems like a better Chef Nomi

    ~ An expertly disguised dinosaur

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

    Really cool card, can't wait to see it in action! Altar of Fire will work great with this

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  • GreatTichu's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 370 234 Posts Joined 03/06/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Tleklop lol!

    Blizz please listen to this guy!

    For The HORDE!

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  • Swoglin's Avatar
    135 136 Posts Joined 03/23/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Very fun card

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  • l4chsnacken's Avatar
    340 180 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Very interesting card that makes the Tickatus mirror a lot more luck-based.

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  • Darkthistle's Avatar
    380 144 Posts Joined 06/16/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I think this can be solid in several warlock control decks. Obvs, will such vs aggro unless their is some solid stabilization, but I think we'll see this show up more than we'd like. 

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  • Doomer22's Avatar
    Gul'dan 405 51 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Questlock never worked, even though the reward seemed so good. This doesn't make you play bad cards to get the reward, but it comes way too late to be good

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  • ImmWolf's Avatar
    Hero of Warcraft 420 75 Posts Joined 04/03/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    Reaching fatigue will probably take way too much time and you risk destroying this with cards like Altar of Fire in the process. When it works it probably wins the game by itself but it won't happen too often.

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

    Only good in the archtype, and this archtype will likely be a bust, but only time will tell.

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  • DottyIs0p's Avatar
    Bloodfeather 660 81 Posts Joined 12/01/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I think 3/2s are still too easy to deal with. Lakkari Sacrifice didn't really do it for me. Granted this is much better, but it's so hard to accomplish and survive long enough to do this. There's also the high chance of destroying this card with Soul Rend. I don't have faith in this deck.

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  • tzdevil's Avatar
    145 84 Posts Joined 03/24/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    I def will play Fatigue Warlock.

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  • spy2395's Avatar
    800 174 Posts Joined 08/22/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    once the fatigue starts ticking, not sure this card will be enough to win the game

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  • Sunman222's Avatar
    140 136 Posts Joined 03/24/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Warlock deck shenigans!

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

    Honestly, I don't think the self Mill Warlock will take off. As a straight finisher should your Control match run to Fatigue... I guess a repeatable (if weaker) Chef Nomi is good.

    Welcome to the site!

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  • Car's Avatar
    185 226 Posts Joined 03/31/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    Amazing value for burning your own deck. You monster. (8 mana destroy half of both decks. CoUgh.)

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  • TheDarkLord's Avatar
    Planeswalker 1045 249 Posts Joined 02/02/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    So much value if you wait until the end of the game to play this.  The only problem is that you have to wait until the end of the game to play this.

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